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In 1970, students staged a sit-in in the registry offices of my alma mater Warwick University. There, they stumbled across shocking files detailing extensive surveillance of students and staff as well as the incestuous relationship between the university administration and big business. The protests, rent strikes and student occupations of this era earned the University […]

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Lord Skidelsky  My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Purvis, made an important point about the importance of thinking about a post-Putin future. I have never thought that Putin either can or deserves to survive this adventure on which he has embarked, but I am interested in what is meant by such phrases as “withdraw his … Continue reading Comment in the House of Lords on a post-Putin Russia

Landlords are using AI to screen their tenants, heightening errors and discrimination.

Staff of St Mungo's charity have begun an indefinite strike over pay, following allegations of a ‘25 minute shouting match’ at union reps by CEO Emma Haddad

What do the lives of twins tell us about heritability, selfhood and the age-old debate between nature and nurture?

- by Gavin Evans

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Morell, Donald Trump’s “deep state” enemy No. 1, spoke at a Chamber of Commerce event Monday, highlighting the strange gulf between the K Street titan and the GOP.

The post U.S. Chamber of Commerce Invites Trump Bête Noire Michael Morell to Speak at Major Gathering appeared first on The Intercept.

New research is showing the embodied nature of time perception and how it can fluctuate in tune with the heart’s beats

- by Shayla Love

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The Government has said that, due to the rise in small boat crossings, it has to urgently use hotels to give unaccompanied asylum-seeking children a roof over their heads – but there are safeguarding concerns

The federal government benefits from unexpected bouts of inflation since the real value of its debt falls. However, this also hurts its debtholders.

How Boris Johnson ushered a 'former' KGB agent and his son into the British establishment – while most of the media looked the other way

Danny Walker Many people expect the rise in interest rates over the past 18 months to lead house prices to fall. Average prices have already fallen by 1–2% in the UK and by more in the US. In this post I show that historically there have been large differences in how an interest rate shock … Continue reading How house prices respond to interest rates depends on where they are in the country →

What a nice vacation.

The orcas have some demands.

In the absence of official scrutiny of Washington’s spending spree on Ukraine, The Grayzone conducted an independent audit of US funding for the country. We discovered a series of wasteful, highly unusual expenditures the Biden administration has yet to explain. During a recent discussion with New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof, Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Samantha Power, touted her organization’s push to guarantee transparency for US taxpayer funds sent to Ukraine.  “We are involved […]

The post All aboard the gravy train: an independent audit of US funding for Ukraine first appeared on The Grayzone.

The post All aboard the gravy train: an independent audit of US funding for Ukraine appeared first on The Grayzone.

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The Wagner boss oversees an online army that has pushed disinformation around the globe, including alleged interference in the 2016 presidential election.

The post Information Warfare Was Key to Prigozhin’s Mutiny Against Putin appeared first on The Intercept.

Stevens understood the meaning of ethics. The right wingers never have apparentrly: This isn’t the first time Justices Samuel A. Alito Jr. and Clarence Thomas have faced pressure to recuse themselves from cases over the activities of their relatives, their relationships with involved parties or their financial interests. Newly released and previously unreported court documents that belonged to Justice John Paul Stevens, who led the marble palace’s liberal wing, show just how aware the justices were of charges that the appearance of impropriety could shake the public’s faith in the institution. They also show just how quick they were to push back against these concerns. The Library of Congress opened the papers to the public on May 2. The issues the justices wrestled with back then echo the controversies engulfing the court today. Although the court often puts up a united front in public, the documents provide a rare glimpse into its inner workings and show that at least one justice — Stevens — found Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist’s rationale for not recusing himself from a major case to be insufficient.

The sex stereotypes built into animal research.

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She’s a pariah even among the wingnuts: House Freedom Caucus members took a momentous vote Friday on Marjorie Taylor Greene’s future with the group, according to three people familiar with the matter — but it’s not yet clear whether she’s been officially ejected. The right-flank group took up Greene’s status amid an internal push, first reported by POLITICO, to consider purging members who are inactive or at odds with the Freedom Caucus. Greene’s close alliance with Speaker Kevin McCarthy, and her accompanying criticism of colleagues in the group, has put her on the opposite side of a bloc that made its name opposing GOP leadership. While her formal status in the conservative group remains in limbo, the 8 a.m. Friday vote — which sources said ended with a consensus against her — points to, at least, continued strong anti-Greene sentiment. A spokesperson for Freedom Caucus Chair Scott Perry (R-Pa.) declined to comment on the group’s vote as well as the official status of Greene’s membership.