Seventy-five years ago, Nuremberg prosecutor David Maxwell Fyfe – an artisan of the European Convention on Human Rights – spoke in Brussels of his fear that the high ideals of the victors would be forgotten. His grandson explores why his legacy matters now more than ever
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Starmeroid Praful Nargun, who runs chain of private clinics with his gynaecologist mother, wants Islington North parliamentary seat A private health boss has thrown his hat into the ring to contest Islington North for Starmer’s Labour in the hope of taking the seat from Jeremy Corbyn at the next general election. Kier Starmer’s acolytes on […]
The Home Secretary's tabloid-pleasing plans to float desperate refugees offshore are designed to distract from the Government's own failings, reports Adam Bienkov
That book is banned, comrade MAGA Floridians fear ideas they find mildly threatening. Heads are not rolling yet, but it’s open season on books. At the slightest objection — outrage-addicted MAGAs are drunk on the power of it — Florida is removing books from its schools. A new measure in the Florida legislature would allow any person raising any objection to any book to disappear it as quickly as an East German neighbor turned over to Stasi. Greg Sargent writes that while the bill seems to have support from Republican presidential hopeful Gov. Ron DeSantis, passage could backfire: “If Florida passes this bill, it may be the first state in the country to institute in every public school a rule requiring the immediate removal of materials following an objection,” Jeffrey Sachs, a political scientist who closely tracks these proposals, told me.
In her eleventh book of poetry, Brenda Hillman has given us an expansive lyric—I want to say epic—of our times. The result: gorgeous and subtle, and the work of a poet at the height of her powers. In a Few Minutes Before Later is part of a sequence of books by the poet that take as their subject the nature of time, and our lives in its hold. Her last book, Extra Hidden Life, Among the Days took the day as its preoccupation, and this one measures our existence in minutes, which is to say it’s concerned with a certain kind of moment, a certain urgency, a certain fleeting eternity. Some of that urgency comes born of an awareness that one kind of ending—death—is closer than ever. Some of that urgency is the urgency of a sick world: a number of lines in the book are occasioned, it seems, by having to pack—having to think about packing—a few essential papers before running out of the house because of wildfires. Some of the urgency, then, is a tuning of the breath, of breathing in the stress and hellscape of a beautiful but troubled planet.
Katherine Denkinson delves into some of the bizarre connections between right-wing student politics, anti-Drag Queen protestors and allegations of smuggling
“When a champion is crowned at the end of the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Tournament, it doesn’t feel official until their highlights are accompanied by ‘One Shining Moment,’ a song that has become synonymous with March Madness.” — The Sporting News
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Player on team that lost national championship game: -100
Player on team that won national championship game: -100
Player on any team in tournament who has weird facial hair: -100
Player on team that lost national championship game crying: -250
Player on team that won national championship game crying: -500
Player on any team in tournament who has weird facial hair and is crying: -1000
Player tipping the jump ball: +100
The only members who voted in favor of investigating the sabotage were Russia, China, and Brazil.
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A High Court judge has agreed with Open Rights Group and the3million that the immigration exemption in the UK Data Protection Act 2018 is incompatible with General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). It is the second time that ORG and the3million have taken the government to court over the immigration exemption, which allows the Home Office […]
Lib Dems are trying to reverse the legislation they fear will cause chaos at the ballot box, while activists warn that trans people may be excluded by photo ID
Defense officials have been required to submit a budgetary “wish list” every year since 2017.
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Patrick McHenry defends Trump’s bank deregulation law days before leading an inquiry into the collapse of Signature Bank — his top donor.
Rep. Tim Burchett's response to the leading killer of U.S. children stands in stark contrast to his zeal for banning drag shows: "Dadgummit, we don't put up with that crap in Tennessee."
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When questioned, The Atlantic refused to correct a basic error about chemical weapons in Iraq.
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On this week’s Lever Time: How General Electric manufactured an ideology
Over the weekend, Biden bragged about his support for even more resources than “MAGA Republicans.” to “secure the border” on Twitter. This is “lesser evilism” in action.
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- by Nathaniel Wade & Marilyn Cornish
The double question implied throughout Herman Daly’s work as an economist is this: “Is the economy for the people, or are the people for the economy?” nomy for the people, or are the people for the economy?”
Children in households with lower income and education levels were less likely to switch to remote learning early in the pandemic and to have computer access, an analysis found.
‘Internationalism is part of the life-blood of the trade unions and from my earliest days in the movement, I had taken a keen interest in the conditions of working people in other countries.’ Jack Jones, socialist trade union leader and general secretary of the Transport and General Workers Union from 1968–1978, recounted the sentiment that […]
Pumping water from one messed-up catchment to another solves nothing. We need to fix our problems at source. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 23rd March 2023 It’s a classic end-of-pipe solution. Rather than addressing the problem at source, it piles one problem upon another. Yet, like so many disastrous schemes, it is now […]
Prisoners can receive compensation if they are injured and the Prison Service is to blame or if their human rights are breached – Iain Overton reports