Any civilian government that wants to unify Myanmar society will face a conundrum: how to deal with the crimes committed by its own side without turning the groups that have joined together to fight the junta against one another.
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Spiritual guidance is rare in Vernon Lee’s stories. Her ghosts are usually the undoing of those who encounter them; they represent compulsive desires rather than fears, and the glamour of history more than the anxieties of modern life. Lee’s tales speak for those who are in love with the past.
Byron took from Milton the idea that the mind, being ‘its own place and time’, could be its own hell. Torment in the tales and other ‘dark’ poems may be both a physical space – a dungeon, a set of chains – and a mental environment, built out of the dominant images within which Byron’s figures live.
The invitation said ‘black dress for Ladies’. ‘You’re not allowed to be whiter than him,’ my husband, Jason, instructs. ‘He has to be the whitest. And you cannot wear a hat because that is his thing.’
If we loosen our grip on suffering, discard any claim to own it, then perhaps we can ask a different question: how much pain can anyone hold in their mind at once? Must my pain always be greater than yours for it to count?
The letters page from London Review of Books Vol. 45 No. 23 (Friday 17 November 2023)
The BBC released stills from the Doctor Who remaster of "The Daleks" in colour and wow, the floors are blue. Like... really, really BLUE!
The Lever speaks with cryptocurrency critic Molly White about the criminal trial of former cryptocurrency titan Sam Bankman-Fried.
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Details about the rapid U.S. military buildup since the start of Israel’s war on Gaza are largely unknown to the public and risk war with Iran, experts say.
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If the UK's First Past the Post electoral system can’t deliver its supposed advantages, why we are continuing with it?
Alicia Clegg reports on how Britain’s employment tribunals are not providing fair and equal access to justice
Gabija Zemaityte and Danny Walker Inflation has been high in many countries since 2021. Some have said that companies have increased their profits over that period: so-called ‘greedflation’. We use published company accounts for thousands of large listed companies to look for signs of increased profits in the data. Consistent with previous analysis of aggregate … Continue reading Profits in a time of inflation: what do company accounts say in the UK and euro area?
The government, under its own new definition, is an extremist organisation. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 19th November 2023 As good citizens, we are told, we should report extremism to the authorities. It hasn’t always been clear what this term means, so we should be grateful to Michael Gove’s levelling up department, which […]
THE 2025 SOCIAL JUSTICE KITTENS CALENDAR HAS ARRIVED! It’s 2025, and the Social Justice Kittens are back with twelve inspiring new months, each one a stern, colorful reminder that while you enjoy a life of privileged comfort enabled by oppression, these defiant darlings continue their selfless fight for real progress! Never in human history has…
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Today (November 16, 2023), the Australian Bureau of Statistics released the latest – Labour Force, Australia – for October 2023. Employment rose by 55 thousand and unemployment rose by 27,900 on the back of a 0.2 points rise in participation – usually a sign of a healthy situation. But the special monthly factors (referendum and…
