Tidöregeringen har i dagarna enats om att — i enlighet med den gängse offentlighetsprincipen — lägga fram ett lagförslag om full insyn i fristående skolor. Som om detta skulle lösa det grundläggande problemet med friskolorna! Ingalunda. Ett flertal undersökningar har på senare år visat att det system vi har i Sverige med vinstdrivande skolor leder […]
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A year long investigation by Katherine Denkinson exposes the Neo-Nazi and far-right extremists operating openly inside anti-immigration protests
Director Peter Hoar ("A Good Man Goes to War," "The Robot Revolution," "Lucky Day") on what he believes the Doctor Who/Disney deal taught us.
The politicians and commentators who mocked those warning about the threat posed by the US President as being "hysterical" need to face up to their own role in the calamity now unfolding, argues Adam Bienkov
Bureaucratic authoritarianism cannot build the party we were promised. Our movement must learn this to advance beyond the failures of broad-front left populism, towards a mass socialist party capable of liberating our class. Such a party cannot be built on personality and platitudes alone, nor can it allow debate over internal structures and party democracy […]
Ride along with New York driving teacher, Shanti, whose potty-mouthed tough-love approach is both amusing and effective
- Directed by Charles Frank
From fluffing feathers to washing skins, a museum taxidermist shows the hidden art behind creating an ‘illusion of life’
- by Aeon Video
Economic republicanism shows us how to achieve authentic freedom: citizens require economic as well as political power
- by Sean Irving
Reckoning with the complex history of dignity reveals its fragility and what Hannah Arendt recognised as its conditionality
- by Christa Teston
Staffing problems caused by DOGE resulted in the Defense Information Systems Agency warning of “extreme risk for loss of service” across the military.
The post DOGE Cuts “Unexpectedly and Significantly Impacted” Critical Pentagon Unit appeared first on The Intercept.
The Prime Minister once said to me that there is no such thing as ‘Starmerism’. It’s true that there appears to be no doctrinal body of ideas but after eighteen months in office, we have seen the shape of decision making. Judging by Labour’s dire position in the polls, the government’s guiding principles are not […]
My friend Alan Kohler, who is the finance presenter at the ABC, wrote an interesting article today about AI (January 19, 2026) – AI platforms like Grok are an ethical, social and economic nightmare — and we’re starting to wake up – in which he argued that while he thought climate change was “humanity’s biggest…
In recent times, there has been a growing interest in institutionalist trends and research within economics. Traditional explanations and analyses have seemed to have little or no value. Abstract and unrealistic theories have increasingly been replaced by historically grounded ones. Institutional and structural elements in the economy are highlighted, replacing overly short-term and model-based variables. […]
Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – January 18, 2026 by Tony Wikrent Dingbat imperialism and its malcontents Dingbat Imperialism, the Lowest Stage of Capitalism John Ganz, Jan 13, 2026 [Unpopular Front] Germany planning ‘Arctic Sentry’ Nato mission to protect Greenland [Telegraph, via Naked Capitalism 01-13-2025] Tech billionaires behind Greenland bid want to build ‘freedom cities’ [Responsible […]
Greenland fever dreams, paramilitary training for ICE agents, and more from The Lever this week.
Establishment Democrats are rejecting an increasingly popular position by refusing to take a bold stance that happens to be good politics.
The post “Abolish ICE” Is More Popular Than Ever. How Will Democrats Drop the Ball This Time? appeared first on The Intercept.
The Power of Poetry with things falling apartand anarchy let loose, it was only poetry, he found,which had any use, so he reached for his copy of The Complete Works of Yeats and bludgeoned the Presidentof the United States
Sydney’s Phantom Book Shops by Isadore Brodsky was published in 1973, one of Brodsky’s many historical studies of the city. Brodsky was a doctor and a passionate historian, a prolific researcher of what was then called ‘Old Sydney’: its 19th and early 20th-century history. Sydney’s Phantom Book Shops followed the stories of the city’s bookshops […]