The Conservative candidate for London Mayor has been very vocal about council tax hikes – but in 2023 she voted to raise Harrow’s by more than 5%
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He’s exceeded my low expectations Joe Biden was not my first pick for president, but that’s how it goes. Remember: This is politics. If you want a soul mate, try Match dot com. Even then, ever had an argument with your spouse and stayed married? There you go. President Biden has chalked up quite a record going into this November. I hate flying. Hate it. If a desination is within 600 miles or so, I drive. It’s not worth the headache and expense to fly. By the time I drive to the airport (which, depending on the destination, could take 1-1/2 to 2 hours) with enough lead time to park, get cleared through security, and to the gate with time to spare, I’m already partway there if I just drove. The last time I got on a plane, I missed a 1 p.m. connection because of a weather delay, waited hours for the next flight out, then sat on the tarmac for another hour in the late afternoon during another weather delay. By the time I got to my hotel after 11 p.m. it was like 12+ hours from the time I left the house. I could have driven (with gas/food stops) in 10-1/2. For less. Joe Biden’s administration means to address that customer-unfriendly experience.
A veteran Indian political organiser has been banned from entering India and labelled a threat to the state for writing an article for Tribune, it can be revealed. Amrit Wilson, the Indian-born journalist who wrote the groundbreaking Finding A Voice: Asian Women in Britain (1978) and was prominent in the Organisation of Women of Asian […]
“You MUST see The Lion King.”
The last time you were in New York, Michael Bloomberg was mayor and nobody knew what a cronut was.
“Why not try kayaking on the Hudson?”
You do not actually like living in New York City.
“Corner bodega bacon, egg, and cheese sandwich.”
You haven’t been north of 23rd Street in seven years.
“Go to a poetry slam in the East Village and then spend a few hours just getting lost in The Strand.”
You do not have, nor have you met, children.
“Try the steak frites au poivre at La Bonne.”
You work in finance. What you know of the world is not applicable to 97 percent of the population.
“Go to Max’s Kansas City and order a beef shish kebab.”
You are Fran Lebowitz in 1978.
“Museum of Ice Cream!”
You have children between the ages of five and nine. The last time you tried to go to The Strand, you forgot the ziplock of Cheerios and had to spend $24.95 on a sticker and jewel mosaic set to avoid a public meltdown.
Kianna Shore, Mellow Brown and Mariano Taibo are launching a new Blade Runner comic book series from Titan Comics in their July 2024 solicits
The Irish Government must tackle growing inequality if extremist politics is not to take root, writes Emma DeSouza
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The poll comes as broadcasting regulators give the green light to Nigel Farage and other senior politicians to keep presenting on news channels during the general election
IPP sentences were abolished more than a decade ago - but despite legislative changes hundreds of inmates remain in jail indefinitely and many are taking their own lives in despair
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Dr. Mohammed Khaleel recounts his experience serving patients, mostly children and young adults with blasts injuries and bullet wounds.
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Culture wars have two main functions. First, to split an existing, dominant social or political coalition apart by the clever use of wedge-issues. (Not all wedge-issues are a part of a culture war.) So, a culture war reveals a latent or induces real divergence in a pre-existing coalition. So, for example, how to think about trans-issues […]
In mainstream economics, there’s — still — a lot of talk about ‘economic laws.’ The crux of these laws — and regularities — that allegedly exist in economics, is that they only hold ceteris paribus. That fundamentally means that these laws/regularities only hold when the right conditions are at hand to give rise to them. […]
It’s all about them, remember? During every presidential campaign the media starts kvetching that the Democrat isn’t giving them enough attention. (They don’t do it as much with Republicans because of the “play the refs” tactic.) Remember this from 2015? It was the big story on Beltway Twitter over the weekend: The Hillary Rodham Clinton campaign, at a Fourth of July parade in New Hampshire, kept reporters behind a moving rope line so as not to get too close to their candidate. The images were striking and quickly earned snide comments from reporters who have long been frustrated with their access to Clinton’s campaign, as well as from others who saw the effort as heavy-handed. And it’s not hard to see why people are frustrated. We would hardly be the first to suggest that it looks like the media are being herded like cattle or sheep. Clinton spokeswoman Jennifer Palmieri took to “Morning Joe” on Monday and gamely tried to defend the tactic, with limited success.
Marko Suprun, an influential NATO state-funded Ukrainian ‘fact-checker’ with close ties to Nazi activists, was taken into police custody in Washington, DC, after assaulting a contributor to The Grayzone at an event hosted by a neocon Beltway think tank. The Ukrainian-Canadian host of a self-styled ‘anti-disinformation’ outfit — which receives thousands of dollars from the US and UK governments and works with Facebook to censor content — was arrested on Capitol Hill last week after assaulting a contributor to The […]
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Australia’s cats have been warned to treat the strange bag that is sitting in the middle of the lounge room with caution and suspicion. “Its intentions and purpose are unknown at this present time and it wasn’t there this morning... Read More ›
Yeah: Also, he also whined about being kept off the campaign trail. Yesterday, court was not in session. He could have gone somewhere to campaign. Guess what he did? I’m feeling crazy today. How in the world is it even possible that this imbecile is possibly going to be exonerated for the crimes we’ve all seen with our own eyes, win the presidency again and be given carte blanche to abuse his power with total immunity. Check out this BS: He’s South Asian, by the way.
Physicist Claudia de Rham on her 3 greatest revelations while writing The Beauty of Falling: A Life in Pursuit of Gravity.
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As state supreme courts consolidate power and corporate money, shoddy oversight allows justices to hide their financial conflicts of interest from the public.
Today’s Supreme Court argument on presidential immunity was profoundly depressing. It really sounded like the majority is persuaded that they must protect criminal president Donald Trump (and any like him in the future) from any kind of accountability for his crimes. I don’t know if they will think better of it as they deliberate (probably over a period of many months) but it appears that this court has not been chastised at all by the country’s reaction to their radical actions in Dobbs or anything else. So, if they do what it looks very likely they will do, which is to at least give Trump the delay he seeks and possibly upend the constitutional order at his behest, he could get off scott free whether he wins or loses. But there are further ramifications that I don’t think any of us have contemplated in light of this case. Greg Sargent has and it’s chilling: But there’s another way to understand Trump’s move: It’s about what comes next.