Since the Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan almost three years ago, women’s sport has been cast into darkness there. Afghani women are not allowed to play any sport, and those who were contracted by the Afghanistan Cricket Board in 2020 are no longer recognised at home – or indeed internationally, because the International Cricket Continue reading »
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It’s interesting to see the likes of David Frum recognize the imbalance in the media after all these years. People who read this blog have seen this for about three decades now. A thread: “Donald Trump tried to overthrow an election by violence.” That’s old news, we already reported that. “As president, Donald Trump directed tens of millions of tax dollars to his own pockets.” Old news. “Russian intelligence helped elect Trump by illegal means. Trump welcomed the help.” Russia, Russia. “He was proven in court to have raped a woman.” Civil proceeding, not criminal – and sexual assault, not rape. Besides … old news. (cont’d) “Two dozen other women say Trump attacked them. There’s literally a recording of him boasting about it!” Old news, we litigated all that in 2016. “There’s new news just unsealed about Trump and Jeffrey Epstein!” Salacious gossip, beneath our editorial standards. (cont’d) “You don’t have to focus on the sex stuff.
Originally published July 26, 2023.
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1. Rent one big house together. Working “together” to choose a house, everyone should drag their feet and be overly polite until the bossiest one just takes care of it. The Boss should resent that they had to do everything. Everyone else should resent that The Boss got to make the decision. No one should say anything (yet).
2. Gather funding. This financial component is essential for establishing tension from the start because everyone in your family has different incomes. Even The Boss (who is the wealthiest) says, “Whoa,” upon seeing the price per night.
3. Make sure the house is spacious enough to accommodate everyone (technically) but also no one (comfortably). Some variations to maximize relationship destruction:
The Green Party secured four seats - quadrupling its representation in the Commons - now the real work begins, co-leader Adrian Ramsay says
You thought we’d put this behind us? A reliable feature of our politics is that people from the center to the left, including the press, direct more fire at Democrats than at Republicans. It’s not that Democrats deserve more criticism. It’s that the aggrieved see more chance that their complaints will leave a mark on the left than on conservatives better armored against them. If shamelessness is conservatives’ superpower, giving a damn is the left’s kryptonite. Protecting our freedoms matters. Improving other people’s lives matters. A more perfect union matters. Equal justice under law matters. Just not to our opponents, if ever it was. Joe Biden’s terrible debate performance bleeds, so it leads. The media feeding frenzy is dispiriting in the extreme. Some Democrats tearing out their hair in panic and others circling the wagons around Biden makes quite a messy show. Pixels and ink, eyeballs and clicks.
Doctor Who: The Collection: Season 25 - Sylvester McCoy's second season and possibly the best of the classic era - hits Blu-Ray in October.
One party really missed out on coverage with no page one appearances, interviews, or bylines - and it certainly wasn't Reform
Originally published July 2, 2019
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The full transcript from the CNN Presidential debate between President Thomas Whitmore and challenger Governor Patrick Stevens.
WOLF BLITZER, MODERATOR: Welcome to the CNN debate for the 1996 presidential election. President Whitmore, let me begin by thanking you for saving our country and the entire world from the alien invasion this past July Fourth.
(THUNDEROUS APPLAUSE)
PRESIDENT THOMAS WHITMORE: I just did what any other fighter jet pilot hero president would have done.
(THUNDEROUS APPLAUSE THAT TURNS INTO A STANDING OVATION)
Inflation and a broken supply chain created chaos across the world. Corporate consolidation is the reason it all happened.
The latest episode of the hit Media Storm podcast focuses on how political parities missed a trick on TikTok and connecting with young voters - and how the media must do better
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- by David Wengrow
In the UK, we’re all waking up to the prospect of a new government. The election was an oddity: Labour has converted a modest 35% vote share into a whopping Parliamentary majority; the Tories did somewhat better than suggested, on around 24%, but have lost more than two-thirds of their MPs. (The final figures were […]
Rishi Sunak's historic defeat was a direct result of a decade of ideological hard-right policies that have decimated our political and social fabric
. Two hundred years ago, on 19 April 1817, David Ricardo’s Principles was published. In it, he presented a theory that was meant to explain why countries trade and, based on the concept of opportunity cost, how the pattern of export and import is ruled by countries exporting goods in which they have a comparative advantage […]
Heute scheint unklarer als je zuvor, was das politisch überhaupt genau bedeutet, links und rechts. Die Unterscheidung hat zwar eine lange Tradition, die auf die Sitzordnung der verfassungsgebenden Versammlung in Frankreich im Jahr 1789 zurückgeht, wo die Royalisten rechts vom König Platz nahmen, die revolutionseifrigen Jakobiner hingegen links. Doch mit dieser Klarheit ist es lange […]
Here is a short video about our new book – Modern Monetary Theory: Bill and Warren’s Excellent Adventure – which will be published on July 15, 2024.