Karam Bales examines the close links between the FSU, the Office for Students and the Government's drive to legislate on freedom of speech
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Imagine a landscape with some of the richest wildlife habitats in North America. Settlements are scarce and water is plentiful. Birds dot the skies, mammals abound on the ground, and fishes fill the rivers and lakes.
That’s Tippecanoe County, Indiana. In 1800.
The county’s transformation over the past two centuries would make it unrecognizable to its original inhabitants. Today, much of Tippecanoe consists of flat plains of fertile soils.
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A defense like you’ve never seen Looks like Donald Trump picked the wrong week to quit snorting Adderall (ABC News): There are multiple Jeremy Rosenbergs in New York City, as former President Donald Trump’s attorneys found out Tuesday after they sent a subpoena to the wrong one. Last month, Trump’s attorneys in his criminal hush money case [Ed: falsifying business records, to be correct] in Manhattan sought to subpoena the Jeremy Rosenberg who was a supervising investigator in the Manhattan district attorney’s office. Instead, according to court filings revealed Tuesday, the subpoena went to another Jeremy Rosenberg living in an $8 million Brooklyn home. A crack team of attorneys Trump has there, and I mean that crack. It’s led by one Todd Blanche. The Independent continues: “I don’t have any files for you,” the apparently bemused Brooklynite wrote back, according to a filing from the former president’s legal team. He added: “PS – The phone number you provided was disconnected.
In this briefing, we explain how the proposed changes to the UK data protection framework that would be introduced by the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill would weaken legal safeguards around the use of personal data for political purposes, in particular by: WHY DATA PROTECTION MATTERS The use of personal data and data analytics […]
US State Department documents show just how involved America is - and how they coached Israeli officials on how to undermine findings and defend themselves
When I was in the U.S. military, I learned a saying (often wrongly attributed to the Greek philosopher Plato) that only the dead have seen the end of war. Its persistence through history to this very moment should indeed be sobering. What would it take for us humans to stop killing each other with such vigor and in such numbers? Song lyrics tell me to be proud to be an American, yet war and profligate preparations for more of the same are omnipresent here. My government spends more on its military than the next 10 countries combined (and most of them are allies). In this century, our leaders have twice warned of an “axis of evil” intent on harming us,... Read more
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Callie Siskel’s Two Minds is neither minimalist nor maximalist, but the spareness and efficiency speak volumes—and sometimes speak in long lines, sometimes short—making an art of saying as little as possible, but crucially no less. What’s left out presses upon what remains, and what remains is both substantial and hard as stone. Here’s the beginning of “Invitation,” which begins with an invitation:
My initials curled inside the oval like three robins
crowding a tree hollow.
The cardstock was beveled, the envelopes lined in airy pink paper.
My father was dying
quietly like the sound of his pen lifting
then touching down again.
Biden launches ad blitz after Arizona abortion ruling Perhaps you’ve noticed. The Democratic president Donald “Now 88 Counts” Trump once called “Sleepy Joe” is hammering MAGA Republicans over their post-Roe revocation of women’s reproductive freedoms in state after state. Biden “plans to pummel Trump on abortion” (Politico): Joe Biden’s campaign plans to hammer Donald Trump for his role in erasing abortion rights largely by enlisting ordinary American women who have suffered from restrictions on the procedure, elevating their voices in place of the president’s own. This approach was immediately on display this week in a Biden campaign video featuring the story of a Texas woman released after Trump announced he would defer to state-level abortion laws, some of which impose draconian limits on women and physicians. Biden himself made no appearance in the ad, except to deliver a standard campaign finance disclosure line. As the reporters frame it, Biden is taking a back seat here because of his “complicated history” on abortion.
Mark Gatiss writes and tackles the lead role in Bookish, a new mystery series for Alibi set after WWII about a closeted consulting detective.
Social realism is about more than misery. Work centred on effects, rather than causes, runs the risk of suggesting that poverty is a tragic yet somewhat unavoidable reality. What makes artists like Ken Loach, Ronan Bennett, Lynn Ramsay and David Peace so valuable is their ability to tell stories of policy failure through the close […]
Millennials mill around a circle of chairs and a coffee station. They settle into seats and begin the weekly meeting of people whose friends have all moved to Los Angeles. This group is known as “We Have Yearning (for Those Who Moved to) Los Angeles” or WHYLA.
FACILITATOR KERRY: Good morning. Thank you all for coming—and for continuing to support one another as we pine for friends who have decamped for West Hollywood, Silver Lake, Culver City, or another area in LA for opportunities in the film industry, or simply because they like the sun. I say “area in LA” because I heard that some parts of LA are actually their own little cities, but they feel like neighborhoods, so I’m being vague because I don’t really understand.
VARIOUS GROUP MEMBERS: (overlapping) Me neither! Same!
FACILITATOR KERRY: Our guest speaker today is Jenny, who, as some of you know, has lost three friends to Los Angeles.
In an exclusive interview, Mukhtar Yassin explains how "a normal working-class bloke from the Ends" took on the millionaire-backed Reclaim Party leader
On 18 March, the Metropolitan Police’s cyber-crimes unit announced it had launched an investigation into the Labour Party’s selection process for the new seat of Croydon East. The contest had been suspended following allegations that members’ details had been tampered with — allegations since confirmed by party sources. Joel Bodmer, a candidate on the party’s […]
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Big Mac inflation appears to track CPI inflation, but its path can diverge from overall U.S. inflation because of price deviations relative to other items in the consumer basket.
Överskottsmålet är ett hål i huvudet. Riksbanken kommer inte att nå sitt inflationsmål. Euron är dysfunktionell och eurokrisen kommer tillbaka vid nästa recession. Se där tre bra utgångspunkter för den som vill förstå hur ekonomin kommer att utvecklas det närmaste året. Låter det både stolligt, alarmistiskt och populistiskt? Möjligt, men det finns en röd tråd […]
Tom Sargent is a bit out of touch with the real world up there in his office … Certain people have a capacity for ignoring facts which are patenty obvious, but are counter to their view of the world; so they just ignore them … Sargent is a sort of tinkerer, playing an intellectual game. […]
Natalie Burr, Julian Reynolds and Mike Joyce Monetary policymakers have a number of tools they can use to influence monetary conditions, in order to maintain price stability. While central banks typically favour short-term policy rates as their primary instrument, when policy rates remained constrained at near-zero levels following the global financial crisis (GFC), many central … Continue reading To the lower bound and back: measuring UK monetary conditions