Reading

The release of the shooting script for the Doctor Who season 2 finale, "The Reality War," raises more questions about the alternate endings.

As rumors of a U.S. war on Venezuela swirl, military documents show plans to feed a buildup of troops in the region for years.

The post U.S. Military Documents Indicate Plans to Keep Troops in Caribbean Through 2028 appeared first on The Intercept.

Critics say "Orwell would have enjoyed the irony" of the former Conservative minister's appointment

Here’s how this is gonna go: First, you will step up to the rental counter only when I give you The Look. The Look is not markedly different from my resting face. In fact, it’s no different at all. But it’s your job to recognize The Look, so pay attention. If, upon your turn, you hesitate for one single second, I will call out “Next,” in a way that strikes fear into the hearts of God, everyone in line behind you, and this cardboard cutout of Hertz brand ambassador Tom Brady.

When you get to the counter, do not ask how I’m doing—I’m stuck inside a Hertz location for eight hours a day. How do you think I’m doing?

What you do need to do is give me your driver’s license and credit card within the first three seconds of approaching the counter. This is not something I’ll ask you verbally. This is something you must understand innately, while I stare at my computer and hold out my hand just enough to suggest I might be waiting for something, but not enough to make it clear what I’m waiting for. And I swear to god, if you start reading me your reservation number out loud, I will shut you down and send you out of here on a bicycle.

Reform UK’s vow to scrap thousands of nature laws risks pushing Britain’s depleted countryside into irreversible decline, argues Stuart Spray

The photographer Rob Clayton is one of the most astute chroniclers of the British built environment. Since his 1990 series Estate, a heartfelt documentation of the Lion’s Farm Estate in Oldbury in its final decade, he has used photography to capture the changing face of towns and cities. In his new book, Provision, published by […]

The aid group oversaw relief in Gaza during a period defined by the killings of Palestinians seeking food during famine.

The post Gaza Humanitarian Foundation Calls It Quits After Thousands Die Seeking Its Aid appeared first on The Intercept.

Only a radical approach to our broken privatised energy system can make British bill-payers genuinely better off, argues Donnachadh McCarthy

Jury trial is one of our most cherished democratic rituals and a cornerstone of public confidence in the criminal justice system. Twelve citizens, drawn at random from the ordinary fabric of life, sit together and weigh the state’s evidence against the accused. Their pivotal role, a feature of English law from the very earliest times, […]

Cory Doctorow reveals more unexpected ways that Big Tech has become "enshittified."

Author and activist Cory Doctorow has a grand unifying theory of why everything sucks now — and how to fix it.

This Tuesday report will provide some insights into life for a westerner (me) who is working for an extended period at Kyoto University in Japan but who over the years of working here has increasingly began to understand the language and local cultural traditions. Sadly, this is my last Kyoto Report for 2025. My time…

Australia’s racist Aunty, Pauline Hanson, has been sent home from work early after hitting the Christmas sherry a little hard at lunch and then heading to work dressed up in a burqa. ”Aunty went to lunch with Uncle Barnaby and... Read More ›

Documentos publicados por una corte federal ofrecen detalles nuevos y perturbadores sobre el intento de figuras relacionadas con Trump de orquestar un golpe contra un gobierno que claramente no entendían. Esta es una mirada sin precedentes a los actores y sus conspiraciones -desde terrorismo hasta banderas falsas- que pudiera ilustrar la naturaleza el asalto militar estadounidense en ciernes contra Venezuela.  El hombre al que el gobierno estadounidense culpa de todo, Jordan Goudreau, proveyó evidencias a The Grayzone de: Que firmó […]

The post Funcionarios de la Casa Blanca sabían de antemano del golpe de Estado Venezolano de 2020, según archivos first appeared on The Grayzone.

The post Funcionarios de la Casa Blanca sabían de antemano del golpe de Estado Venezolano de 2020, según archivos appeared first on The Grayzone.

Making popcorn again, huh, Snoopy? Keep it up. Sounds like pure nostalgia, especially with the way this year’s been going.

I bet Linus would’ve called those popping kernels “little pangs of painful joy,” or something equally poetic, but of course, he’s not coming this year. Not after his meaning-of-Christmas bit took a turn to the right last winter. I guess the community access TV video went viral, and he’s booked solid through the spring with CPAC.

Good grief. This year feels heavier, doesn’t it? Heavy in the air, in the bare grocery aisles, in the empty pit of our stomachs. Heavy in the way people say, “It’s okay, we’ll make do,” but their eyes say they’re ready to boil their best friend alive for sustenance.

Sorry. We’re not there yet. Although I do wonder why we haven’t seen Frieda’s cat, Faron, in a while. And sometimes I look at Woodstock and think, just academically, “Rotisserie ready.” Lucy charged me ten cents to work through that one.

A dark money foundation led by conservative operative Leonard Leo is boosting collegiate swimmer Riley Gaines’ anti-trans empire.

Corporations are asking the Supreme Court to help them dismantle a groundbreaking California transparency law requiring emissions disclosure.

Nigel Farage's flagship Kent County Council, which promised to "reduce waste and cut your taxes" is set to raise bills on local taxpayers, after spending tens of millions of pounds over its budget

Ann Goldstein’s new English translation of Italian-Cuban author Alba De Céspedes' debut novel, There’s No Turning Back (Nessuna Torno Indietro, 1938), is the first since…

One of the predictions I made many years ago was that Long Covid would slowly cripple workforces. Covid still exists, and that we deliberately don’t try to count cases any more doesn’t change that. This is typical of our handling of all problems. We just pretend they don’t exist and won’t have serious consequences if […]

The BBC released deleted scenes from the Disney+ era Doctor Who Season 2. Unfortunately, the one everyone wants to see isn't one of them...

I’ve been bred fine, Mr. President. Finer than the rest. When the light comes up over the pens, it strikes my feathers like a torch, and I know it is not the sun but the world itself come to see me. They say a bird cannot understand destiny, but they never met a bird with mirrors for eyes. I have looked upon my own reflection in the metal of the trough and seen greatness staring back.

The others think of corn. I think of legacy.

They cluck and gossip about the day’s feed. I think of the table. Of the silver laid out like a promise. Of the man whose name rings in the air like thunder over dry land. Donald J. Trump. I say it slowly, like a prayer. There is power in the syllables, heavy and shaped by history. The handlers speak of him as if he were weather itself, vast and inevitable, and I reckon that’s true enough. You can’t fight the weather. You can only rise into it or be buried by it.