I read North Woods over the last week or so, and I really liked it. It’s a generational novel covering European settlement in an area of western Massachusetts from sometime in the late 1600s going forward a few centuries into the future. That sounds like it would be kind of superficial, but the stories of … Continue reading North Woods
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If only … I doubt it will happen, unfortunately. I wish these two were moderating instead of Tapper and Bash.
Amidst cheers and controversy, the rescue of four Israelis unveils a stark reality: U.S. involvement in Gaza's turmoil, as hundreds of Palestinians pay the price.
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It’s never a good bet Well, this is eye-catching from Jeet Heer: “In other words, a significant portion of America’s economic elite are either autocrats, cowards, or so single-mindedly rapacious that they are indifferent to the survival of democracy.” Heer begins: While Donald Trump’s felony conviction for falsifying business documents is hurting him with independent voters, it has only increased his popularity with a demographic cohort that is much smaller in number—but still has an outsize role to play in election outcomes: the super-rich. Axios reports that a Morning Consult poll shows that 49 percent of independent voters think Trump should drop out of the presidential race because he is a felon. This strong negative result is already in evidence in polls showing that Trump’s persistent lead over rival Joe Biden has shrunk and the presidential race is now dead even.
Liberal public culture is a culture of polite separation.
"It did strike me as ridiculous that, given the overt nationalism of the Leave.EU campaign, it was involved in discussions with representatives of the Russian Government"
A few days ago, my partner and I went in search of packing tape. Our sojourn on an idyllic (if tick-infested) Cape Cod island was ending and it was time to ship some stuff home. We stopped at a little odds-and-ends shop and found ourselves in conversation with the woman behind the counter. She was born in Panama, where her father had served as chief engineer operating tugboats in the Panama Canal. As a child, she remembered celebrating her birthday with a trip on a tug from the Atlantic to the Pacific oceans, sailing under an arch of water produced by fireboats on either side. “But that all ended,” she said, “with the invasion. It was terrifying. They were bombing... Read more
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Israeli startups are cashing in on Gaza’s destruction, using the ongoing conflict to showcase and sell their cutting-edge military technologies to a global market.
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Momma always said feral is as feral does Yes, it’s true that just over a third of Republicans are unaware that their party’s nominee has been indicted for conspiring to overturn the 2020 election. But that says more about them than it does about Joe Biden’s and Democrats’ prospects for November. Even most of the third-plus that are aware of Trump’s indictments will vote for him anyway. It’s the slow bleeding of support that’s begun that will doom Trump’s reelection. Why do you think he’s working more systematically than ever to prepare his minions for overturning democracy and instituting authoritarian rule when he loses in 2024? He doesn’t need a majority to do it, just general American complacency and numbness to his nuttiness. Yes, Trump rants like someone you’d cross the street to avoid. But it’s not the unwell, conscious parts of his brain plotting authoritarian rule. That’s his feral instincts at work, the ones that have kept him out of jail into his late seventies.
The Prime Minister accused Keir Starmer of wanting to "change the rules so they're in power for a very long time", despite the Conservatives making a long list of changes to elections designed to keep them in office
A new episode of UK-exclusive Doctor Who spinoff Tales of the Tardis features Ncuti Gatwa and Millie Gibson - but should we get our hopes up?
“As much as dragons or incest or power struggles or even more generalized violence, [season one] has been defined by traumatic birth scenes.” — Kathryn VanArendonk, Vulture
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Princess Rhaenyra screams for ten uninterrupted minutes. The Maester rushes in.
MAESTER: Princess Rhaenyra, forgive me for interrupting your painful childbirth, but your dragon has gone into labor!
PRINCESS RHAENYRA: I didn’t even know she was pregnant! I mean, she put on a few pounds, but I sure as hell wasn’t going to say anything…
Princess goes back to screaming. A raven arrives through the open window with a message.
MAESTER: A note from the dragon pit, Your Highness. The delivery is—how to say this?— NOT GOING WELL.
Cut to ten minutes of dragon-screaming. Dragon doulas run around in a frenzy.
The Prime Minister's penchant for air travel dwarfs that of his predecessors flies in the face of the Government's net zero pledges and comes days after his D-Day dodging shame
. Below you will find a little Python script yours truly made to simulate a betting scenario as a Markov process and visualise how the total amount of money changes over time. This model highlights that, due to a higher probability of losing, the total money will generally trend downwards over a large number of […]
11 Labour, 17 Lib Dem and two Green candidates win Compass groups' backing, and could form pro-reform caucus if elected
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In an earlier post (here), prompted by some writings by Jacob T. Levy, I defended the idea that student protests can fall under academic freedom. My argument for this starts from the fact that while many universities can have mission specific interpretations of the latitude and constraints on how they interpret academic freedom (non-trivially constrained […]
The Conservative manifesto might make a line in an exam paper in 30 years. But voters desperate for change are unlikely to take notice
Excluding China, foreign patent applications have narrowed the gap with domestic patent applications, suggesting a global trend toward cross-border patenting.
Open Rights Group has published its six priorities for digital rights that the next UK government should focus on. The pledges are part of a wider agenda for digital rights that was sent to political parties earlier this year. Executive Director, Jim Killock said: “Digital rights in the UK have been undermined by attacks on […]