The timing is convenient coming just as Mastercard is piloting a biometric-authenticated payments system in the UK, which will require digital, not physical, wallets.
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I use World Bank data to test Nitzan and Bichler's 'stagflation thesis' --- the idea that inflation in the midst of economic stagnation is the norm.
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First Minister tells Starmer to stop being a ‘pale imitation’ of the Tories and provide some actual opposition Nicola Sturgeon has derided Labour leader Keir Starmer’s ‘pale imitation’ of the Tories after the UK government trampled on Scottish autonomy to overrule Holyrood’s gender reform bill. Starmer has sided with the Tories against the bill, telling […]
What if the press reaction should Russia succeed in Ukraine is a big Emily Litella "Never mind"?
Writing about tragic theatre in 1910, Yeats mused on J. M. Synge’s Deirdre of the Sorrows (along with Racine, Titian, Molière and Japanese Noh theatre) to consider what it is makes the ‘art of the flood’. ‘Tragedy must always be a drowning and breaking of the dykes that separate man from man… it is upon […]
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Law enforcement agencies spent millions in taxpayer funds buying weapons from vendors cited for gun safety violations, a new analysis reveals.
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Superb by Mick Lynch in this clip published by Joe.co.uk from last night’s Parliament Square gathering against the government’s planned anti-union laws: SKWAWKBOX needs your help. The site is provided free of charge but depends on the support of its readers to be viable. If you’d like to help it keep revealing the news as […]
Examining long-term wage growth of male workers, an analysis finds that job mobility can provide insights into the disparities in lifetime earnings distribution.
Benedict shared with skeptics, postmodernists, and existentialists the suspicion of the modern trust in the benevolence of the human will.
In January 1944, Adolfo Kaminsky was up against himself. As a document forger in the French Resistance, the 18-year-old was informed by a contact that the authorities were making imminent plans to raid ten Jewish children’s homes across Paris in an attempt to accelerate the destruction of European Jewry. Anti-fascist militants active in rescue work […]
At the start of each year, the World Economic Forum—organiser of the annual Davos conference currently underway in Switzerland—releases its list of the ‘global risks’ expected to dominate over the following twelve months. This year, researchers at the WEF decided that these risks are so great, and so interwoven, that we are now entering an […]
Parlamentares que defenderam ou minimizaram terrorismo em Brasília editaram e apagaram posts para esconder apoio aos atos de 8 de janeiro.
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An exclusive investigation by Sian Norris reveals the 'national disgrace' of council tenants struggling with mould
The goal of Net Zero emissions by 2050 has had a remarkable rise to the forefront of climate politics. Governments and corporations are falling over one another to commit to it. That in itself might sow some suspicion about how firm or flexible a target Net Zero is. In a recent piece with Duncan McLaren, […]
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As the Online Safety Bill returns to the commons today for its delayed report stage, it appears MPs might introduce prison sentences for tech bosses that fail to censor content harmful to children. Dr Monica Horten, ORG Policy Manager for Freedom of Expression said: “The amendment proposed by some MPs fails to adequately identify what ‘content […]
Gas swan dive due to LNG glut in China?
Q & A transcript from our 4th Patreon event. Please join Michael’s Patreon group as a Patreon Plus member, so that you too can join us and ask Michael any question at our next session in March. Karl Fitzgerald (KF): To start off with our typical end-of-year topic: How have you seen this year’s economic Continue Reading
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NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet has been making headlines recently over a birthday costume scandal, but it's not the first time controversy has tarnished his reputation. read now...