An Intercept analysis finds that every single Board of Peace member state has been rebuked for human rights violations.
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Veteran war photographer and correspondent Paul Conroy died of natural causes a short time after returning from Cuba with this report of another city under siege. He never stopped bearing witness
Why Ilya Repin’s masterpiece of Ivan the Terrible, first banned in 1885, remains one of Russia’s most controversial paintings
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A prominent architect of decolonial theory, his diagnosis of European colonial ills is both penetrating and flawed
- by Federico Perelmuter
Philosophers debate whether delusions count as genuine beliefs. My father’s storytelling has made the question more personal
- by Matthew Parrott
Any excuses we might give for acting or not acting now are likely to seem much thinner to someone living 250 years from us
- by Matt Huston
The Green Party is becoming everything you might have wanted Labour to be. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 25th February 2026 NB: This article was published before the by-election it refers to. The Greens won by a mile. Every barb Labour has directed at the Greens can now be returned with interest. […]
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I am stuck in London courtesy of the terrorist policies of Donald Trump and his Israeli gang mates. I arrived at Heathrow on Saturday expecting to be home by last evening only to learn that all flights via Doha were indefinitely suspended. Big problem. I was lucky to find a hotel room at the airport…
These problems are like distant locations that you would hike to. And in the past, you would have to go on a journey. You can lay down trail markers that other people could follow, and you could make maps. AI tools are like taking a helicopter to drop you off at the site. You miss […]
Had a discussion about how to pronounce the name of Google’s chatbot. Turns out, we were all wrong.
We have some thoughts on the latest round of Doctor Who Christmas Special rumours: David Tennant, Billie Piper, filming schedules, and more.
Despite the pervasive uncertainties surrounding their assumptions, economic modellers frequently confine their expressions of uncertainty to those generated from within the very assumptions they have chosen to embed in their models — thereby creating a false sense of precision while ignoring deeper sources of ignorance. Econometrics offers a series of cautionary tales in which highly […]
A post-Keynesian discussion of US economic hegemony: resilience or decline? (Part 2) Alan Prout In Part 1 we listed some long-term factors that contribute to…
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Neoclassical economics is known for its illicit use of garbled language which hides and convolutes instead of explains … An interesting example is the chapter by Edward Prescott, titled ‘RBC Methodology and the Development of Aggregate Economic Theory’. Let’s first give the floor to him, mind that ‘leisure’ means ‘measured unemployment’: “What turned out to […]
Wealth taxes don’t go far enough: Let’s transform our economy with public money Sheridan Kates Wealth taxes are crucial to build an economy that works for…
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Kenneth Rogoff Is (almost) right about the importance of inflation -but entirely wrong about its management Susan Borden America’s debt problem is not what Foreign…
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Economics textbooks — scandalous intellectual dishonesty Lars Syll It is well-known that Keynes frequently criticised more traditional economics for committing the ‘fallacy of composition’. This…
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It happened on a weekend. While representatives of the two nations were still negotiating, a fleet of aircraft carriers from one of the negotiating parties approached the territory of the other.
Acting with cold premeditation, early in the morning of that fateful day, the attacking forces did their deed causing devastating damages on the other side.
As it turned out, the negotiations were merely a cover, a deception, to fool de victims.
It was treachery.
But it worked.