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The reason I ask that question is because I read in the UK Guardian article yesterday (published August 11, 2025) – As dark financial clouds gather, Labour has to heed its past: when it chooses austerity, it loses elections – that “Britain is in danger of going bankrupt. It may happen slowly or quickly, but…

Last year, a TV listing in The Guardian described the glossy Second World War drama series Masters of the Air as ‘an addition to the Band of Brothers universe’. Intentionally or not, the phrase was oddly penetrating. Masters of the Air is instantly recognisable as the product of a franchise, one taking place in a […]

44 year old Accounts payable officer Mark James has proudly strode into his office wearing his city-to-surf medal, after taking three and a half hours to complete the race yesterday, allowing for a 20 minute stop for a beer at... Read More ›

Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – August 10, 2025 by Tony Wikrent   They’re not capitalists — they’re predatory criminals UNLOCKED: The Epstein/Trump/Israel Connection Unpacked (w/ Whitney Webb) (YouTube Video) Briahna Joy Gray interviews Whitney Webb, July 30, 2025 [Bad Faith podcast] [TW: Webb does an extraordinary job detailing the organized crime backgrounds of Trump and […]

. Postmodern identity politics always makes yours truly come to think of  Wolfgang Pauli’s famous quip — “Das ist nicht nur nicht richtig, es ist nicht einmal falsch.”

One evening last week, having woken up earlier and, as usual, turned on the Jeremy Vine show (with guest host), I turned, again, to BBC Sounds to find… nothing. They’ve been threatening to turn it off for non-UK listeners for months, pretty much without explanation, and telling users that there is an exciting new and […]

Big Brother in the sky, Wall Street's retirement fund, and more from The Lever this week.

. At the heart of the Dunning-Kruger effect is the recognition that overconfidence in ignorance makes people with low ability or knowledge believe they are more capable than they are …

Mainstream economics has sadly made economics increasingly irrelevant to the understanding of the real world. Trying to contribute to making economics a more realist and relevant science, yours truly launched this blog in March 2011. Now, fourteen years later and with millions of page views, yours truly’s blog is ranked on Top 100 Economics Blogs […]

You may argue that theory is secondary: of course woke activists seek solidarity, justice, and progress. Their struggles against discrimination are animated by those ideas. But they fail to see that the theories they embrace subvert their own goals. Without universalism there is no argument against racism, merely a bunch of tribes jockeying for power. […]

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Lawmakers’ stock portfolios are on shaky ground, corporate polluters pay up, Meta loses on a very personal privacy trial, and states check up on doctor contracts.

Christopher Eccleston and Billie Piper discuss first working together on the Doctor Who revival and reuniting for Big Finish Productions.

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David Sirota’s full interview with former federal regulator Ted Siedle on Trump's order allowing 401(k) plans to invest in alternative assets.

Flush with Trump connections, Ballard Partners is D.C.’s new lobbying powerhouse — and its clients are reaping the benefits.

The National Institutes of Health are (still, again) trying to create a registry of autists,...

When vaccine research funding is cut, people will die

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The State Department was told to cut from its human rights reports info on election integrity, corruption, and the expulsion of refugees.

The post Trump Orders State Department to Overlook International Human Rights Abuses appeared first on The Intercept.

Israel’s military leadership has acknowledged that full occupation of Gaza will cause the killing of the remaining captives. But Netanyahu’s government seems to want them dead. In June 2024, after Israel’s army slaughtered over 200 civilians in Gaza’s Nuseirat Refugee Camp, including several execution style killings to extricate a hostage, Noa Argamani, the Al-Qassam Brigades announced a new policy: if Israel soldiers came too close to areas where captives were held, the prisoners would lose their lives. Israel’s refusal to […]

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