There are many victims in the story of twentieth-century literary censorship in Ireland. Contrary to popular belief, Ulysses was not banned in Ireland, but that may have owed more to the fact that the Censorship of Publications Board had not yet come into being. Established in the aftermath of the published findings of the ludicrously […]
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They were all buddy-buddy for the cameras, going for a joy ride in a deluxe limo and toasting each other at a gala dinner. In June, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un was determined to welcome Russian President Vladimir Putin in grand style on his first visit to Pyongyang in 24 years. A red carpet, flowers, and champagne: it was a veritable romance of rogues. In reality, the two autocrats make a very odd couple. Kim is still a youngish man with a few extra pounds on his frame, while Putin is in his seventies and loves to appear shirtless on horses, the better to showcase his judo-trained body. Kim is the dynastic ruler of a small, isolated, homogeneous country that... Read more
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American: I am out of the office between 10 p.m. and 4 a.m., I am so, so sorry.
European: I am out of the office from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. (for tapas).
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American: I am in the bathroom, and will respond to your email from the toilet.
European: I am taking my government-mandated eight-week summer vacation and will reply when the autumnal Mediterranean breeze kisses my cheeks.
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American: I am out of the office for the next thirty minutes at a biopsy, but because I live in constant fear of unemployment I have pre-scheduled thirty-seven emails and Slack messages so that my boss thinks I am at my desk.
European: Désolé! Taking a mental-health year.
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American: I will be slow to respond to your email, as I was suspended without pay for opening an unsolicited email promotion for CBD oil.
A stone’s throw from the British Museum’s imperial plunder stands a monument to an opposing source of power. Congress House, which has served as the headquarters of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) for over half a century, is one of the great physical testaments of the British labour movement. Opened in 1958, the building was […]
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A decade later, activist and politician Feleknas Uca is still seeking justice for her community.
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Language is meant to bring meaning to discourse. That means we want to use terms that convey information that is of use to us in making our way in the world. The problem is that economists have perverted that process and introduced a metaphorical language that is intended to persuade the reader/listener to accept a…
Trump spent the 2016 campaign saying that Hillary Clinton didn’t have the “strength and the stamina” to be president, which was his thinly veiled way of saying that a woman can’t do the job. He’s doing the same thing to Harris: Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump suggested thatVice President Harris wouldn’t be able to stand up to world leaders because of her appearance, adding that he didn’t want to spell it out but viewers would know what he meant. “She’ll be like a play toy,” Trump — who has a history of using sexist attacks and stereotypes in campaigns against women — said in a Fox News interview with Laura Ingraham, a portion of which aired on Tuesday night. “They look at her and they say, ‘We can’t believe we got so lucky.’ They’re going to walk all over her.” Trump then turned to look directly at the camera and added: “And I don’t want to say as to why.
How an old dictionary is revealing new perspectives on an Indigenous culture.
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The Opposition’s spokesperson for numerology and using tax payers cash in order to purchase investment properties, Sussan Ley, has denied that it is weird that she added an extra S to her first name. ”Numerology has added so much more... Read More ›
David Graham at The Atlantic looks at the way Harris and Trump are portraying themselves in the race and I think his analysis is right. Harris says she’s the underdog and she is. The Democrats have been trailing slightly all year and the media has, until now, had Trump as the clear front-runner (even though the polls haven’t really shown that clearly at all.) Trump, meanwhile, is still a juvenile whiner, which his pathetic cult followers can’t seem to get enough of: Biden and other Democrats argue that he has been an underrated president, but that hardly matters if most voters don’t agree. By painting herself as an insurgent, Harris can try to shake off the despair and ennui that have plagued much of the party in recent months. Doesn’t everyone love an underdog? Harris’s messaging tells Democrats that they shall, or at least can, overcome. That is appealing to American progressives, who see themselves as perpetually fighting to change the nation for the better. Trump’s approach comes from the opposite direction: a sense among him and his supporters that they used to control the country and no longer do.