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In Life on Air: A History of Radio 4, the former BBC reporter and producer David Hendy describes the attempts of ex-BBC reporter and producer Geoffrey Bridson to pitch a set of documentaries to the Home Service (the forerunner to Radio 4). Hendy says Bridson offered his bosses a ‘series of trenchant documentaries’ to do […]
Con and On #2 (With Preview Pages!) The second issue of my satire across decades of the comics industry and its biggest conventions continues today when Con and On #2 arrives in your comic stores and in digital form via Amazon US and Amazon UK (at those links). You can see the first few pages of the issue […]
The same corporate lobbying groups blocking action on climate change are fighting efforts to protect workers from its intensifying effects.
FRED maps can help us visually compare data across geographic regions, such as GDP by U.S. county and the median listing price of homes for sale by state.
Late July, The Wall Street Journal published five short pieces under the title, “Have We Ruined Sex?” Among the five pieces was one by Mary Harrington. In her contribution she argues that the sexual revolution has mainly benefitted the “entrepreneurial class.” Since this appeared not in The Nation but WSJ, I was amused, so I decided to read her (2023) Feminism […]
Sometimes everything comes together in unintended ways. That has happened to me this week. I am moving office tomorrow, and I am also moving home, and if that wasn’t enough, I received a call from a union I help out with advice who wanted some urgent work done. The major employer had presented a sort…
VFX workers at Marvel have unionized.
Makeover for a takeover.
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August 9th, 2023: There's a MUCH more interestin 2023 Wheelwright Lecture Speaker: Professor Heidi Norman, 'Not Going Away: First People and the Australian Economy'. The post The 16th Annual E.L. ‘Ted’ Wheelwright Memorial Lecture: Heidi Norman ‘Not Going Away: First People and the Australian Economy’ appeared first on Progress in Political Economy (PPE). A true leader: Former President Donald Trump mocked Chris Christie, one of his rivals for the Republican presidential nomination, over eating habits and weight Tuesday. “Don’t call him a fat pig,” Trump playfully admonished an audience member who shouted out during a speech at a high school gym in Windham, N.H. “You can’t do that.” Trump was apprising the audience of recent polls that show him leading when he first mentioned the former New Jersey governor, who was once one a close adviser. “Christie, he’s eating right now,” Trump said. “He can’t be bothered.” That’s when a man in the crowd shouted out to prod Trump. “Sir, please do not call him a fat pig. I’m trying to be nice. Don’t call him a fat pig,” Trump said. “You can’t do that.” Isn’t he cute? There’s more: He seems to think that he will be “proving” that the Big Lie was actually the truth in his trial. I doubt the court will allow that but in the event it does, he will regret it. Cheap, amateur propaganda like that is very easily rebutted.
It really is the big mystery. We know that Mike Pence testified before the Grand Jury. He’s now speaking out much more straight forwardly than he did before. But Mark Meadows is still missing in action and he doesn’t appear in the indictment.( He almost certainly should be an unindicted co-conspirator since he was on the horn to numerous people on the other end of the plot(s).) Is he cooperating? As much as we know from Jack Smith’s two criminal indictments of Trump and the forthcoming indictment in Georgia, we still know relatively little about the facts behind these indictments. That includes the vast amount of information and evidence gathered from the House select committee that investigated Jan. 6 (but had no subpoena power) as well as that gathered by Smith and Atlanta District Attorney Fani Willis that almost certainly will not be shared with the American public until Trump faces a courtroom trial. For example, to this point we do not know how many individuals and groups were involved in the coordinated efforts across seven states and the District of Columbia to steal the 2020 election from the American people.
The NY’er just published a cartoon of mine in their Daily Humor section. I’m selling off the original at a bargain basement price of $500 on my Etsy shop. While you’re there, check out my various books, shirts, and other merchandise. You heard it here first kids. I wrote back in 2021, not long after J6 that they would impeach Biden. Trump would demand it. If there was time he would have them impeach him three times so that Biden would be the most impeached president in history rather than him. Look at the excuse their telling themselves: Republicans say if they don’t move forward with an impeachment inquiry now, it will create the impression that House Republicans have essentially cleared Biden of any wrongdoing over his ties to his son Hunter Biden’s business entanglements, allegations they say show a pay-to-play scheme when the elder Biden was vice president, even as they have yet to corroborate that provocative allegation. The real reason, as I said, is that Trump is demanding it. That’s all they need because they’re all sycophantic twats. But this is a good one too. They are telling themselves that if they don’t impeach it will somehow make people think that they were unable to prove he is corrupt. Which he isn’t. So they will impeach him instead? What?
It is dispiriting that the Public Service Act Amendment Bill now before the Parliament says so little about ‘merit’. Nothing about secretary appointments and terminations and only a minor grammatical change to clarify that ministers are not able to direct agency heads about individuals’ employment. Yet we have: the Robodebt Royal Commission highlighting ‘the lengths Continue reading »
Australia’s Pacific neighbours deserve much better from our foreign minister. Australia is becoming a de facto nuclear armed state. Australia has allowed US nuclear propelled—and quite likely nuclear armed—submarines free access to Australian naval bases, US Air Force nuclear weapons capable B-52 bombers have access to at least two RAAF air bases, and more than Continue reading »
The astonishingly expensive tie-up between Australia and the US military deal is NOT about defence of the country, nor is it about bringing stability to Asia. The opposite is true, and Asians know it. Australians stand to lose a great deal, not just in terms of money, but in the great relationships that they have Continue reading »
AUSMIN 2023 has further surrendered sovereignty and tightened the US military grip on Australia. The integration of the ADF with the US military, insertion of US intelligence staff in our defence intelligence organisation and the increased military presence of the US including command facilities in Australia has locked us into any war plans of the Continue reading »
Views of China – and its soft power – are more positive in middle-income countries. Views of China are broadly negative across 24 countries in a new Pew Research Center survey: A median of 67% adults express unfavourable views of the country, while 28% have a favourable opinion. Negative views extend to evaluations of China’s Continue reading »
The Florida governor’s team is compiling a list of people who are more likable than he is, a roster that runs into the hundreds of thousands.
US-driven fast-track negotiations to develop secure strategic critical minerals supply chains from Australia risk jeopardising our mining industry links with China, and locking down our own industrial development based on our critical minerals. First, necessary context. The Global South is enthusiastically engaging with multipolarity, through BRICS, SCO, Belt and Road, new reserve currency systems etc. Continue reading »
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