Democracy means sharing space with people whom we find annoying, and who sometimes deliberately annoy us. But like it or not, we have to have the right to get in each other’s faces.
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The letters page from London Review of Books Vol. 46 No. 3 (Friday 26 January 2024)
There’s no boredom in Samantha Harvey’s Orbital and no pulse of adrenaline either. To be in orbit, after all, is to be held in a balance of forces. Any acceleration would nudge things out of kilter.
Table of contents from London Review of Books Vol. 46 No. 3 (Friday 26 January 2024)
Alasdair MacIntyre drew a conclusion he has stuck to ever since: that philosophy takes time. Instead of choosing an opinion that appeals to you and forsaking all others, you need to take on different arguments and give them time to sort themselves out.
Popular Conservatism is registered to a company whose director used to be the Director General of the Institute of Economic Affairs
Details have updated. Make sure to look at the Conference Page for the latest information. The University of Leeds July 15-17, 2024 CALL FOR PAPERS (Submissions Deadline: Friday March 1, …
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The EU and the UK are supporting Ukraine at a crucial juncture in its war against Russia, argues Mark Temnycky.
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AIPAC, which tried to recruit challengers to the Squad member, dropped $5 million on her last race.
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A law granting immunity to perpetrators during The Troubles was passed despite overwhelming opposition from parties in Northern Ireland and the Irish Government
This month, I lodged my final proposal for a members’ bill to reform Freedom of Information (FOI) in the Scottish Parliament. Access to information has been long recognised as a human right in domestic and international law. But it’s a right which we must continually fight for. Freedom of information laws require public bodies, such […]
Mohammed Al-Bukhaiti, senior political officer and spokesman for Yemen’s Ansarallah movement, explains the objectives behind his movement’s naval blockade of the Red Sea in this interview with The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal. Al-Bukhaiti also responds to military threats from the Biden administration and allegations that Ansarallah is controlled by Iran’s IRGC. Translation by Hekmat Aboukhater
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If proven true, claims of safety problems and falsified records could breach a deal that shielded Boeing from prosecution after two deadly crashes.
My blog will return to posts on Monday. In the meantime, I will be speaking at various functions in London on Friday and Saturday.
In a falsehood-filled attack, the Washington Post’s ardently pro-Israel Elizabeth Dwoskin attacked The Grayzone’s factual reporting with “research” from a spook-infested outfit closely tied to the Anti-Defamation League. Dwoskin also relied on an Israeli special forces vet heading a “Digital Iron Dome” campaign to censor social media criticism of Israel’s assault on Gaza. On January 21, The Washington Post published an article purporting to expose a terrifying and “spreading” phenomenon: so-called “Oct. 7 truther’ groups” who “say [the] Hamas massacre […]
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Mitch McConnell believes in nothing. Not one thing. A quandary? Trump is going to push his party, his country and the world over the abyss and Mitch doesn’t want to do anything to undermine him. This is the GOP at its core. They are a death cult.
