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My time is very important, and therefore when I am choosing a TV show to watch, I need to know that it will make me feel more depressed than I have ever been. In fact, I want it to make me feel so bad that I see hell itself.
Prestige TV shows are my unique way of momentarily escaping from the harsh realities of this world, and when I escape, well, frankly, I like to feel even worse. I want to be very, very upset, to the point where not only am I watching a sudden and very jarring scene of a television show involving something horrific happening to a character I have grown fond of, but also I can clearly see hell, the actual place, with my eyes.
Listen to me: I want to feel terrible—and not just regular terrible—but more terrible than I have ever felt before, even though this is a “fictional situation” that “has nothing to do with me.” Because if a show is any good, it’ll make me feel like it’s happening to me, inside my body. Just how I like it.
When my dad grew up in Luton in the 1970s, many of the roads I walk through today were a no-go for British Pakistanis. They were places where racist attacks were commonplace, and it was only sustained campaigning by an older generation that turned them around. Sadly, however, that fight endured. When I was eleven […]
A controversial parliamentary group failed to disclose its list of 'active members' among other potential breaches, Josiah Mortimer reports
Politically motivated consumer boycotts have played a central role throughout U.S. history.
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Contrary to what many have claimed, wage growth in the fourth quarter of 2022 was actually in line with what a standard Phillips curve model predicts.
With the police ever better funded (just as the U.S. military is), war has come home to roost in our streets, no less disastrously than it did abroad in the years of this country’s war on terror.
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By Caitlin Johnstone / Substack Things are escalating more and more rapidly between the US-centralized power structure and the few remaining nations with the will and the means to stand against its demands for total obedience, namely China, Russia, and Iran. The world is becoming increasingly split between two groups of governments who are becoming […]
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New research has found that non-consensual sharing of intimate images bear many of the hallmarks of domestic abuse
The hotter weather pattern might push the Earth into unprecedented territory next year.
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- by Katherine Harvey
- by Kevin Berryman
RADHIKA DESAI: Hello everyone. Welcome to the fourth Geopolitical Economy Hour, our fortnightly show on the political and geopolitical economy of our times. I’m Radhika Desai. MICHAEL HUDSON: And I’m Michael Hudson. RADHIKA DESAI: Today we are continuing our discussion of de-dollarization. As many of you know we have structured our discussion around some Continue Reading
The post Trade Theory: No Room for Gunboats first appeared on Michael Hudson.An update on Uber financial fakery and continued lack of bona fide profits.
A year after the Russian invasion, Manasa Narayanan reports on the 'Homes for Ukraine' scheme and the challenges still being faced by hosts and refugees alike
The start of the COVID-19 pandemic had a significant impact on immigrant employment, but it recovered to pre-pandemic levels by 2021.
Football’s unique place in people’s lives and communities means we have to sort out mismanagement of the clubs we love, reports Shamik Das
Britain is now a land in which a Tory away day is seen as the panacea to years of abject government failure, writes Iain Overton
Does Stabucks CEO Howard Schultz deserve the title of labor enemy #1?
Trans people are just trying to live their lives in peace.
How I found the joy in making art.