It’s good knowin’ she’s out there Sam Elliot has had lots of memorable film roles, but perhaps none more memorable than the The Stranger in The Big Lebowski (1998). The Lincoln Project recruited the voice of that icon of manliness to pitch Kamala Harris to the dudes out there who need to hear it. “I can’t believe we’re having this conversation again,” Elliot begins. “Are we really going back down that same fucking, broken road? Or are we moving forward? Towards hope? Towards freedom? Towards change?” “It’s time to be a man and vote for a woman,” made me burst out laughing. That’s pretty damned unsubtle. Hope it has an impact with the target audience.
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Yesterday, Angela Rayner gave her first speech to the Labour Party conference as Deputy Prime Minister, with legislation to ban ‘no-fault’ evictions being touted as a central commitment. Ending no-fault evictions could not come sooner. Repossessions through no-fault evictions are currently at a six-year high, and half a decade has passed since this policy reform […]
Forty years ago this month, the great Tina Turner’s “What’s Love Got to Do with It?” was the number one song in the United States.
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If I tend to look dazed, I’ve read it someplace that it’s been forty years since that song hit number one. Four decades! Hard to believe. We’re Sheryl and Roger. We lived in a one-bedroom apartment on Seventeenth Street. Our apartment was great. We had several Nagel prints and a waterbed—because, of course, we did. We lived above a pizza place that made an excellent thin-crust pie but burned its garlic knots with alarming frequency. The smoke from those charred knots was a part of our daily life, seeping through the floorboards and making everything smell like burned garlic knots. The smoke inhalation often made my pulse react. Which is why we often had to go outside to quarrel. I realize now those garlic knots are a metaphor for our relationship. The shiny brushed-egg-white sheen on the surface—but perpetually charred underneath.
Campaigners plan civil disobedience outside courts, demanding meeting with Attorney General over harsh sentencing of peaceful protesters
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- by Roger Tredre
- by Carina Remmers
An estimated 30,000 foreign-born soldiers are fighting for Israel - and many are leaving a questionable trail of evidence on social media
Gas and oil firms operating in the North Sea have expressed 'grave concerns' about the Government's decision to raise the Energy Profits Levy
The Centre for Women's Justice has released a damning report based on the testimony of more than 200 women who allege attacks by their police officer partners
‘Ideally controlled experiments’ tell us with certainty what causes what effects — but only given the right closures. Making appropriate extrapolations from (ideal, accidental, natural or quasi) experiments to different settings, populations or target systems, is not easy. ‘It works there’ is no evidence for ‘it will work here.’ Causes deduced in an experimental setting […]
How climate change is breaking down the global safety net for handling life’s risks.
There is renewed debate in Britain at present on the use and design of the new government’s fiscal rules, which many people are now saying will force expenditure cuts which will “damage the ‘foundations of the economy”, according to the Financial Times article (September 16, 2024) – UK spending cuts would damage ‘foundations of the…
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