(after visiting The World of Stonehenge at the British Museum)For Ange MlinkoWhen did museums devolve to the didacticSpelling out our wonder? Not enoughTo show us something wonderful...
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Table of contents from London Review of Books Vol. 45 No. 22 (Friday 03 November 2023)
In recent years the UK government has become increasingly hostile to Freedom of Information requests on arms, but there is enough publicly available data to be certain that the planes currently flattening apartment blocks and refugee camps in Gaza rely on components engineered and manufactured in Britain.
In contrast to feudal society, where everyone, lord or serf, remained rooted to the land, and words were ‘passed on from generation to generation’, life in the democratic age was unmoored, indeterminate, even meaningless. Tocqueville refused to accept this anarchic new world at face value.
Rather than complacently celebrating Poland’s ‘return to Europe’, we should be trying to understand why self-declared anti-liberals succeeded in the first place, and in what ways their politics might endure even if they lose at the polls.
Pleasure is supposedly more valuable today than it will be tomorrow; deferral has a cost. But to the canonists, unlike the capitalists, this made no sense. Time wasn’t something that could be bought or sold.
The self-appointed guardian of our streetstands all day in the doorwayof the house opposite,glaring at everyone who passes.His job is making sure the sun never shineson his side of Raleigh...
Alexander Baron was an atheist from a young age, telling his parents that if they insisted on having him bar mitzvahed he would hide a ham sandwich in his pocket and place it on the Torah scrolls during the ceremony. His character’s humour and diction was ‘as much native East End as it is Jewish’. But there are times when, however remote your connection to an identity might seem, the world refuses to let you forget about it.
Doctor Who has many fascinating unofficial corners, including this don't-miss Kickstart for The Lost Doctor Annual 2023 with Ken Campbell.
What we are witnessing in the UK and the US is a weaponizing of the situation in Israel and Gaza to justify pre-existing right-wing or left-wing goals
The apartment felt too “lived in.”
You hosted a Friendsgiving two years ago and didn’t invite him.
You left a heartfelt thank you note on the counter that he was forced to clean up.
The place felt weird with no stuff in it.
You took the heart and soul of the place with you when you left. Your security deposit doesn’t even come close to covering those losses, but it’s a start.
He wanted to keep the money for himself. What? Why is that so bad to say?
He walked through the place after you left, and there was no dishwasher. There never was one, but he wants to buy one now. You understand, right?
He loathes those couples that constantly send menial amounts of money back and forth in the name of equity, and doesn’t want the two of you to turn out like that.
There was way more dust when you moved in than when you moved out. Your lease specified that alterations to the apartment were strictly prohibited.
Andrew Kersley examines why new figures obtained by Byline Times show there has been a surge of injuries inside care settings
David Oliver gives a physician's view of the Covid-19 Inquiry evidence and what it reveals about the Conservative Government
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Records obtained by Byline Times show large numbers of residents being injured by staff inside care
Jean-Pierre applauded Democrats for skipping the AIPAC convention back in 2019, calling out its “racist, Islamophobic” rhetoric.
The post Before Joining White House, Karine Jean-Pierre Slammed Netanyahu For Alleged War Crimes Against Gazans appeared first on The Intercept.
The opaquely-funded group has close links to the Prime Minister
David Sirota speaks with the former head of the American Constitution Society about the shortcomings of liberal legal activism.
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Using an economic model, researchers find that racial wage disparities, the amenity externality and racial barriers to moving could help explain the Black-white gap in college attainment.
The greatest disjuncture in the social sciences is between the image that economists have of their discipline, and its reality. A decade before David Graeber published Debt: the First 5000 Years (Graeber 2011), the future chief economic advisor to President George W. Bush published a paper with the confronting title of “Economic Imperialism” (Lazear 2000), … Continue reading "Puncturing the Hubris of Economics"
(This is second in the series promised during the 2022 fundraiser. For #1 (imperial collapse) read here.)
I’m going to keep this one brief.
This year has seen the constant shattering of temperature records. Temperatures in the high thirties, in winter, have been common.
The majority of the Mediterranean is going to be uninhabitable without air conditioning for months every year. This includes North Africa and the European areas. The same will be true of most areas of the tropics. Time scale is ten to fifteen years.
Because climate change includes weather instability, it will become impossible to get property insurance in increasing areas, starting with the coasts and areas prone to wildfires.
The IMF regularly conduct ‘missions’ to member countries, where a group of highly paid economists trot out to a capital city somewhere, hole up in some luxury hotel, and have a few meetings with Treasury officials and the like and then shoot through after the short visit back to whence they came and produce their…