Saturday marks 100 days since Reform UK won 57 of the 81 seats at Kent County Council. The Greens' local leader looks at how it's going so far
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When an investment tanked and buried us in debt, we had to face the truth of how we’d gotten there
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A dying glacier harbors mysterious species and ecosystems yet to be understood
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Some of us might be innate biodiversity detectors
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For millennia, artisans have been trying to capture the mystique of the human eye
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The UK economy is heading into a malaise. The latest news – UK construction activity in July falls at steepest rate since Covid (August 6, 2025) – and – UK services sector has biggest fall in orders for nearly three years (August 5, 2025) – confirms that there is a slowdown underway. That was prefaced…
What Delta Air Lines’ ticket pricing controversy reveals about the growing threat of “surveillance pricing.”
Johnny “Taz” Mulford, who works for a security contractor in Gaza, has tattoos of Crusader-style crosses that have been co-opted by the far right.
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ingredients:1 plump 4-pound duck (cleaned, singed, and washed)7 Tablespoons butter1 canned or fresh trufflesalt, pepper30 pitted prunes½ pound foie gras (goose liver mousse)1 envelope unflavored gelatin instructions:1. Stuff the duck with a walnut-size piece of butter, the sliced truffle, salt and pepper. Sew up the openings.2. Brush the duck with butter and season with salt […]
Black, 69, was killed by lethal injection in Tennessee for the murder of his girlfriend and her two daughters.
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There’s a meme I think about all the time: a grainy picture of a huge vertical brush, the kind you see in a drive-through car wash, first stationary and drooping, then spinning and puffed-up. ‘To be a woman is to perform’, it reads — an absurd medium reflecting the absurdity of the feminine act of performance. […]
Long-time viewers of Adam Curtis’s BBC documentaries might see a trailer for Shifty, his new five-part online-only series, and wonder if it is saying anything new. ‘There come moments in societies when the foundations of power begin to move’ reads the caption, and we see Margaret Thatcher, Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, Stephen Hawking, Ian Curtis, […]
The final defeat of the Spanish Second Republic at the hands of Franco’s Nationalist rebels in 1939, after almost three years of bloody fighting and brutal repression, not only presaged the global conflict into which the world was about to sink, it also set the stage within Spain for what would come after the war. […]
In 1961, at a bus station in Montreal, a young poet was waiting to meet an esteemed writer. The writer’s second novel, published the year before, had gained positive notices from William Burroughs and Norman Mailer. But now he was on the run from a death penalty notice, his heroin prescription having been found in […]
In a contemporary Britain where pubs and clubs are closing at an accelerated rate, politicians are trying to ban band appearances, living costs are curbing consumption, austerity has become not just an economic regime but a way of life. Keir Starmer’s government is constitutionally joyless, his Grey Labour the overseer of austerity and the punisher […]
Here’s a classic early episode of The Simpsons, in which Bart bunks off school to eat ice cream and sneak into the cinema, leaving his hapless school principal to trail him around Springfield. Arriving at the town’s youth club only to find the building empty and derelict, Principal Skinner utters the immortal words: ‘Am I […]
What does life in Britain today feel like? What sensations and sentiments predominate, and how should we characterise them? While it is true that the country is now defined by a deep sense of decline, of conditions getting inexorably worse, there are other prevailing feelings which fit a narrative of decline less well. For many, […]
Come with me on my daily walk with my baby around Grangetown, Cardiff. At the bottom of Clare Road, heading south from Riverside, we pass a former night shelter (abandoned for five years now) obscured by mountains of rubbish dumped into its rotting shell. Further up the road, I recently passed a house in which […]
Over the past four decades, neoliberal economics and globalisation have systematically dismantled the security once afforded to the working class through its own efforts. Through the privatisation of public services, the offshoring of manufacturing, and the outsourcing of what remained, wealth has been funnelled upwards, leaving behind hollowed-out communities reliant on failing public infrastructure and […]
I was outside a museum, in the suburbs of a large capital city. The museum had closed; there were very few shops or cafes nearby, and there was a park on the edge of the museum site. I had a sensation which, as someone with Crohn’s disease, I’m very familiar with — that is, the sudden […]
Life, it’s just life. What is that? It’s nothing. It’s like being stuck in the queue at Alton Towers. Do you wanna be in the queues? Or do you wanna be on the rides? — Omar (Riz Ahmed), Four Lions When did you last go to Alton Towers? It’s been a while for me, but […]
Last summer, we dreamed of Trojan horses. It was never going to be a revolution, but there remained some optimism, articulated through gritted teeth. Dull, politically unimaginative, rarely going far enough: when Keir Starmer was elected, it was clear that all of the above would probably continue to apply — after all, dreary politeness had tainted […]