The veteran Labour peer and lifelong campaigner for child refugees, Alf Dubs, tells Byline Times that the Home Secretary's plans are "bitterly disappointing coming from a Labour Government"
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In early March, Israel reinforced its blockade of Gaza, preventing the entry of even the limited amount of food aid distributed by the UN and multinational NGOs during the previous weeks of the ceasefire. With these agencies still facing severe restrictions, the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) then initiated operations in late May, having recently registered […]
After consistently avoiding answering whether or not Australia has been supplying F-35 fighter jet parts or other military hardware for Israel, in early November the Albanese government quietly imposed a ban on the export of some defence goods to Israel. According to The Nightly “a small number” of Australian companies have been told they can […]
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The Nazi National Socialist Network rally outside NSW Parliament in November was a sign of their growing confidence following the racist March for Australia rallies.
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A wave of strikes has hit universities across the country, as NTEU members begin the latest round of enterprise bargaining, and fight back against management restructuring.
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Unions NSW has sponsored a new report, “We Stand With Gomeroi: Trade unions oppose the Santos Pilliga Narrabri gas project”.
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The Queensland government’s ban on puberty blockers and hormone treatments for children was overturned in October, with Supreme Court Judge Peter Callaghan ruling it unlawful.
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Administration’s control of the CFMEU ratcheted up further in November with Zach Smith, the Victorian Branch Executive Officer, putting all 30 Victorian organisers’ jobs on the line.
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Venezuela is under fire from US imperialism and Trump’s attempts to reassert US hegemony over Latin America.
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The capture of the city of El Fasher in Sudan in late October by the Rapid Support Forces, following an 18-month siege, produced horrifying atrocities.
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Senator (yep, really) lil’ Malcolm Roberts from One Nation has not taken the news of Barnaby Joyce’s upcoming defection to the party well. With reports emerging that he was seen at Tuggeranong shopping centre screaming, crying and shouting at Pauline... Read More ›
Hitting the UK on December 7th, here's a new trailer for Doctor Who showrunner Russell T. Davies's The War Between the Land and the Sea.
To be ‘analytical’ and ‘logical’ is a quality most people find commendable. These words carry a positive connotation. Scientists are thought to think more deeply than most because they employ ‘logical’ and ‘analytical’ methods. Dictionaries often define logic as “reasoning conducted or assessed according to strict principles of validity” and ‘analysis’ as concerning the “breaking […]
The misunderstandings packed into this little bit of writing are stupendous: Over the past few years, China has been in deflation, while the US has been in inflation. Yet despite this stark divergence, the CNH has still depreciated more than 10% against the US dollar. This combination — falling relative prices in China and a […]
With Christina Chong playing characters in Doctor Who and Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, we take a look at how a crossover could work.
“I am especially to speak to you of the character and mission of the United States, with special reference to the question whether we are the better or the worse for being composed of different races of men.” — Frederick Douglass, Composite Nation, 1869 Today is Thanksgiving Day in the USA. So, here’s a Thanksgiving cartoon […]
The starting point for any discussion about a united left should be to foreground why we want unity. The reason is this: we need to block the formation of a government of the radical right in Britain, and we need to create a government that can defend its people against austerity and profiteering, the worsening […]
When CoRy developed chronic illnesses as an adult, he moved in with his dad. Through mutual care, their bond has ‘blossomed’
- by Aeon Video
You have to sit down somewhere, unhurried and unbothered, to really hear yourself. But where?
- by Atar Hadari
Contemplating the world requires a body, and a body requires an immune system: the rungs of life create the stuff of thought
- by Anna Ciaunica
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOnja-m5Mms
The Chancellor's measured statement was quite different from what the weeks of media hype about it had suggested, argues Simon Nixon
Ethel Carnie Holdsworth should be as famous as Jane Austen. Born in Oswaldtwistle in Lancashire in 1886, she began working part-time in a textile factory at the age of eleven, and full-time from thirteen. She wrote poetry, the rhythm of the looms caught in her metre. A second edition of Rhymes from the Factory (1907) […]
I think a fair bit about how generative AI can help our everydays. (I also think a lot about its challenges, but this post is not about that.) Here is a good example for how it can be useful with a complex meal prep situation for which Thanksgiving is the ultimate case (which I’m celebrating […]