She told me she’d be ten minutes late, which was fine. But when it was nearly twenty minutes I messaged – where are you? Shall I walk towards you? My daughter sent a picture of a bit of the state library she was in, people at desks etc. We’re here, is this where you are? […]
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The Iran war shows that Trump is loving his military interventions — but they are never what he claims them to be.
The post The Regime Change President Who Won’t (or Can’t) Actually Change Any Regimes appeared first on The Intercept.
Men, guys, dudes, rejoice! After much research and testing, we have found the cure to the cursed male loneliness epidemic that is sweeping our country and our op-ed sections. We know you feel isolated. We know you can’t talk about your emotions. We know you’re looking for male role models in all the wrong YouTube algorithms. But fear not. We have found the solution to all your problems: doing outlandish science projects to prove or disprove commonplace myths.
Men these days are reverting to masculine ideals from yesteryear. They think real men have to be strong, tough, and misogynistic. Listen, boys, you don’t need big muscles, you don’t need creatine powder, and you certainly don’t need to get surgery to gain an extra few inches of height because you’d rather have metal implants in your legs than be 5′4″. All you really need is a curious mind, a pure heart, and military-level access to high-powered explosives. And also a seemingly endless supply of crash-test dummies.
The convicted far-right criminal shared the threat as he was handed extraordinary access to the US State Department by the Trump administration
The Reform UK leader has a long record of blaming his own party's election defeats on "cheating" by ethnic minorities, yet no evidence of it can ever be found
Pitching isn’t bragging.
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An Intercept analysis finds that every single Board of Peace member state has been rebuked for human rights violations.
The post Trump’s Orwellian Board of Peace Consists Entirely of Human Rights Abusers appeared first on The Intercept.
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
- by Aeon Video
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
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
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 […]