Until Keir Starmer's party decides what it really stands for, the question of who leads them will remain a hollow one, argues Adam Bienkov
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When grief and distraction spun my mind out of control, only the strain of my muscles could keep it intact
- by Nancy Uddin
TUC General Secretary Paul Nowak warns that tech and media billionaires are threatening our democracy, as they campaign to destroy the BBC
Speaking to Sky News, Wes Streeting dismissed reports that he was manoeuvring to topple and replace Keir Starmer. ‘Nor did I shoot JFK,’ he protested. ‘I had nothing to do with Shergar, and I don’t think the moon landings are fake.’ Two hours later, however, the New Statesman suggested the rumours were more conspiracy fact […]
When the SNP first took the reins of power in Holyrood, Alex Salmond and his Cabinet promised to heed the words of Alasdair Gray inscribed on the Scottish Parliament’s Canongate Wall. ‘Work as if you live in the early days of a better nation,’ wrote the Glaswegian author, paraphrasing the Canadian poet Dennis Lee. Earlier […]
Misnomers and international trade
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In Israel on the Brink: Eight Steps for a Better Future Ilan Pappe steps away from history to argue about Palestine’s future.
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It’s not the gradual slip into darkness that scientists assumed
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Primary candidates for the 2026 midterms are making the shutdown a campaign issue — and calling for Sen. Chuck Schumer to resign.
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It’s been so long, you sometimes forget that eventually, IT will HAPPEN.
It’s impossible to say when IT will HAPPEN. But it can’t be too long until IT HAPPENS. Looking at the data (age, high-stress job, cardiac history), it is statistically plausible that IT will HAPPEN in the next thirty-six months.
Eighteen, if you factor in hamburger consumption and all the weird bruising.
Of course, it doesn’t feel right to want IT to HAPPEN. And it’s obviously not okay to try to make IT HAPPEN. That’s not what this is ABOUT, just to make things CLEAR LEGALLY as far as VARIOUS AGENCIES are concerned.
But regardless, IT is going to HAPPEN. So you’re allowed to think about IT.
There’s hidden perks inside the deal to fund the government — not for you, though.
Big Power-bought utilities regulators are openly plotting how they’ll get rich after leaving office.
It probably shouldn’t worry us if some pocket of the population saw a decline in IQ as things like education and diet affect IQ and these factors can vary from one group or time to another. But according to this new study it doesn’t appear to be some small segment of the population whose IQ […]
Joel Suss: What is puzzling is the idea that inequality is rising and leading to discontent, but this discontent is being channelled into what you would call the nationalist parties like Trump, Farage, [Marine] Le Pen, et cetera, and not the parties which are typically and historically associated with addressing inequality [through redistribution and the […]
On 9 December 2025, leaders from across the globe will meet in Paris for the Drupal AI Summit, hosted within the Future of Software Technologies (FOST) conference, the world’s largest federated technology event.
The summit brings together engineers, architects, product leaders, and marketers who are putting AI to use in real systems. It explores what happens when AI meets the open-source values that built Drupal: transparency, community, and long-term thinking.
Within FOST, the Drupal AI track will host twelve focused sessions led by leaders in Drupal AI. These sessions will share lessons from real projects and outline the steps toward making Drupal the most AI-enabled open-source CMS.
Arno Hantzsche and Harriet Jeanes Houses account for the largest share of total assets held by the UK household sector. Households’ spending and saving decisions depend in part on the price of these assets. What causes house prices to move can therefore have important consequences for macroeconomic policy and financial stability. Our house price model … Continue reading The keys to house price growth
The time? High summer. The place? Binghamton, New York. My husband and I were there for a two-week stint, and though we weren’t native to the place, we were growing restless. Our Airbnb seemed haunted, with its framed photos of people that looked like ghosts and a decorating motif that could best be described as violently Christian. And we—a Jew, a Buddhist, and a corgi who answered to neither man nor God—longed to escape. But where?
Time and again, our answer to this question was Wegman’s.
The First Grocery Run for an out-of-towner is always overwhelming; there are basics to acquire, meals to plan, and (in our case) mustard packets to swipe from the sit-down café area to hoard for midweek sandwich-making emergencies. Amid this chaos, I espied a logic-defying new popcorn strain from a familiar brand. But the First Grocery Run is no time to get fancy. Watermelon hibiscus-flavored anything cannot be indulged in when one is in survival mode.
Senators, please get OUT of my uterus so my friend Brynn, who is almost finished with nursing school, can get in there STAT. My body doesn’t need to produce a child just because it can. Focus on other ways to ruin the country, and let Brynn and the internet give me Life of a Showgirl takes while deciding if I inhaled enough Drano to warrant an urgent-care run.
Can you jerks do all that? No. So leave me, the internet, and Brynn to our work.
I am a grown woman, and I reserve the right to feel anything, google it for several hours, send Brynn a text that says “lol help,” and receive the gold standard of compassionate medical advice. Brynn just took a final on this sort of patient care. Missouri Governor Mike Kehoe has never taken a final because he did not go to college.
Let’s lay out the big picture for LLM-style AI. It is a statistical prediction of what should be the next word or symbol. That is why it required so much data to train and why, even if we had the tech, we couldn’t have created it 20 years ago: There wasn’t enough data in digital […]
On October 16th, Lewisham’s Labour-led council granted planning permission to begin the redevelopment of Lewisham Shopping Centre, marking a decisive shift for the borough’s future. Lewisham has been undergoing gentrification since the turn of the millennium. Slowly but surely, warehouses and housing estates around Deptford, New Cross, Brockley, and Lewisham Central have been closed, demolished […]
Councillor in flagship Reform council failed to name his firm on his register of interests, or respond to questions about it from his constituent, prompting a formal complaint
How the photographer Justine Kurland reframes utopia in the radical freedom of teenage girls, women and outsider communities
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A filmmaker takes a leap of faith when he decides to risk ridicule and make a serious film about UFO sightings
- Directed by Matthew Salton