It’s Tuesday Night at Labour Party Conference and I have just walked past the drinks reception held by Progressive Britain, one of the leading organisations of Labour’s Blairite right, formerly known as Progress. The group have much to celebrate: polls are in Labour’s favour, Conference is getting positive press, and Starmer’s latest re-shuffle cemented Labour’s […]
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For almost all of its thirty-year duration, it seemed quite natural to think of the conflict in Northern Ireland, unfolding just a few dozen miles away from my hometown of Dublin, as an anachronism. The local joke was that when planes landed at Belfast airport, the pilot announced, “Welcome to Belfast. Put your watches back […]
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1. People are talkin’
2. Talkin’ ’bout PEOPLE
3. I hear ’em whisperin’
4. You won’t believe it
5. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
6. They think we’re lovers… kept undercover
7. Uh-huh
8. I’ll just ignore it
9. But they keep sayin’
10. [twang twang twang guitar noise]
11. Maybe they’re seein’… somethin’ we don’t?
12. Darlin’
13. Let’s give ’em something to talk about
14. Whooooo waaaaannnnts kitty treats?!? Who’s a good kitty?!?
15. Turn down these voices in my head!
16. Just hold me close, don’t patronize
17. DON’T PATRONIZE ME
18. Cuz I can’t make you love me if you don’t
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Bonnie Raitt: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15, 16, 17,18
Paranoid recluse talking to his cat: 14
The Government has talked tough on crime while creating the scandal of violent criminals now being let free, writes Josiah Mortimer
As the long-running quagmire erupts into more bloodshed and destruction, we need to stop dehumanizing the conflict and acknowledge both sides’ pain and suffering.
Robin Boardman, co-founder of Extinction Rebellion, says we need solutions to a knotty unintended consequence of moving to renewables.
Things couldn’t stay as they were — and so, they didn’t. After almost a year of escalation, which was largely ignored by the international media despite near-daily death tolls, Israel and the Palestinian territories have erupted into a brutal and devastating war. The political backdrop to this war was stark. After more than fifty years […]
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An analysis looks at where the idea of ‘long and variable lags’ in monetary policy originated and offers some reasons for why they might occur.
I was meant to write a post this week, but then Hamas’s horrific assault on Israel happened, and now the civilian inhabitants of Gaza are once again living in fear (some of them have put themselves in the firing line; many have not). Since I have Arab friends and family, and have fond memories of […]
The ripple effects of this latest upsurge in violence will go far beyond Israeli and Palestinian territory, writes former British diplomat Alexandra Hall Hall
The British Labour Party officials and politicians have all been cock-a-hoop over the last week in Liverpool as they participate in their Annual Conference with the latest modelling suggesting they may win a “landslide 190-seat majority” at the next national election leaving the miserable and incompetent Tories with only 149 seats (currently 352) (Source). The…
The left must hang on to its moral authority This piece by Eric Levitz brilliantly examines all the complexities I imagine many of you are feeling about the war in Israel. I know I am. It’s very difficult and social media has made it almost impossible to express any nuance about any of it. (I’m reeling from being buffeting in all directions.) Anyway, this is the most honest, most mature analysis of how we should be thinking about this if we have a conscience: This weekend in Israel, a far-right Islamist group perpetrated the largest mass killing of Jews since the Holocaust, murdering entire families, including babies, in their beds and slaughtering 260 concertgoers. More than 1,000 Israelis were killed in all, and over 100 others taken hostage. Israel’s far-right government predictably responded by choking off all food, electricity, and fuel to Gaza’s 2 million residents and then preparing a military assault more untempered by concern for civilian casualties than ever before.
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