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Thu, 09/05/2024 - 23:00
It was good enough for British loyalists “By what right does a judge put a former president in prison?” asks former House Speaker Newt Gingrich. Why … why, that judge was appointed! Donald Trump appointed nearly twice as many judges in four years as Barack Obama did in eight, but who’s counting? Newt’s on a roll. Juan Merchan, the judge overseeing Trump’s criminal trial in Manhattan, was born in Columbia. And we know what Team Trump thinks of immigrants and immigrant judges, even if they’re not immigrants. Now this Columbian-born, immigrant judge appointed by that notorious yankee state of New York may send Trump to jail for contempt of court. The effrontery! “By what right?” asks Gingrich of Georgia does a judge dare apply the same law made for commoners to the MAGA king? Jon Stewart recently suggested that if Republicans are going to insist on such “monarchy shit” they should at least signify by wearing red coats. Gingrich is hardly alone in assailing the heirs of Blackstone and equal justice.
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Thu, 09/05/2024 - 22:01

Nobody noticed it, but the funniest thing happened when Hugo Chavez visited Britain in 2006. At the Camden Centre, a large art deco town hall in Central London near the British Library, the event hosted by then London Mayor Ken Livingstone was packed out with young people, suddenly more curious and more left-leaning thanks to […]

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Thu, 09/05/2024 - 20:42
May 1 2024 William White is right (Letters, April 29) to say that John Maynard Keynes regarded the rate of interest as ā€œhighly conventionalā€, but he should have quoted the whole sentence from chapter 15 of The General Theory: ā€œThe difficulties in the way of [full employment] ensue from the association of a conventional and … Continue reading Letter: The reason Keynes argued for an active fiscal policy
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Thu, 09/05/2024 - 20:32
Robert was recently interviewed by Martin Burckhardt, the German cultural philosopher, about his new book The Machine Age in Germany. Below is a link to a video of the interview: Link: https://martinburckhardt.substack.com/p/talking-to-robert-skidelsky Below are some AI generated visualisation ideas extracted from the transcript of Robert and Martin’s conversation.
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Thu, 09/05/2024 - 19:45

Meet Natalie Elphicke, Labourā€™s newest MP. She arrived in Parliament in 2019, having replaced her then-husband Charlie Elphicke after he was charged with sexual assault. On his conviction, she told the Sun he was being punished for being ā€˜charming, wealthy, charismatic and successful ā€” attractive, and attracted to, women.ā€™ Two years later, Elphicke had to […]

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Thu, 09/05/2024 - 16:47

THE 2024 Australian Surf Lifesaving Championships in April was the most successful campaign in the history of Coffs Harbour Surf Life Saving Club (CHSLSC) surf boat rowers. Rachel Smyth, the Events Coordinator at CHSLSC, shared how the national event unfolded. ā€œThe 200ā€™s Masters crew the ā€˜Trainwrecksā€™ kicked off our campaign with an outstanding performance in...

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Thu, 09/05/2024 - 16:43

THE Woolgoolga Wildcats secured their second victory of the season in style, with a 3-0 win over Sawtell last Saturday in the HIT105.5 North Coast Premier League clash at the Coffs Coast Synthetics. Kicking off Female Football Week with gusto, Chloe Webb broke the deadlock just six minutes into the game, dribbling through the defence...

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Thu, 09/05/2024 - 12:56
In the last week, as the Federal government comes towards next Tuesday’s annual fiscal statement (aka ‘The Budget’ although we don’t use that terminology around here, do we?) and the State Government’s are progressively delivering their own Budget Statements (they being financially constrained) we have witnessed the absurdity of the system of public finances that…
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Thu, 09/05/2024 - 10:00
He was whining. Of course. Here’s the whole comment: Q: You were with World War II vets in their 90s today. Did you consider wearing a mask when you were with them? Trump: The wind was blowing so hard in such a direction that if the plague ever reached them, I’d be very surprised. It could’ve reached me too. You didn’t worry about me, you’re only worried about them He is a monster.