[The] method to the madness is the fact that we do need austerity to enforce a certain organisation of society which is a classist organisation based on wage labor and …
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It’s another Torchwood ghost story for Christmas, with a trilogy of spooky tales that are slightly less than the sum of their parts As none other than Queen Victoria herself remarks during The Empire Man, Christmas is a time for gathering around close together and sharing ghost stories. Torchwood has developed its own yuletide tradition […]
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Lyle Jeremy Rubin’s book on Afghanistan wrestles with how to write about war without encouraging readers to follow his footsteps into battle.
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Most policy areas are toxic for the prime minister, but his education gambit is on a par with my idea of a free cactus for all
Continue reading...This week in the United States of America, a former British colony on the North American continent, long-brewing political and social problems culminated in a messy speaker election in the lower chamber of the bicameral national parliament.
The Republican party, by far the more conservative of the two major parties in what effectively is a two-party political oligopoly, gained narrow majority in the chamber in November elections, but was unable to effectively execute on its new-found power. A small far-right splinter group within the party blocked the election of the speaker — a procedural position that has gradually become heavily politicized — demanding political favors in return for their votes. This resulted in four days of heated and often chaotic proceedings, at one point devolving into a brawl.
