In self-driven learning, performance is its own reward
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A TikTok experiment led me into a strange world of cyborg cockroaches, imposter fish, and the ethics of care
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This delicate copepod species joins the ranks of a unique and fragile underground ecosystem
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The future of UK politics is a fight between the Greens and Reform and its clear which Green candidates are the best placed to lead that battle, argues Rupert Read
The U.S. launched 16 jets from the USS Harry S. Truman to drop 125,000 pounds of bombs on a cave complex in Somalia, killing 14.
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After the dwindling of the Catalan independence movement, a new force has emerged in the region: Aliança Catalana, a far-right party mixing Catalan nationalism and anti-immigration rhetoric. Led by Ripoll town councillor Sílvia Orriols, the party is gaining traction and reshaping the political conversation in Spain. The rise of this tendency is yet another example […]
“Fixing Medicaid”
“Deficit reduction”
“Fiscal responsibility”
“Wealth redistribution (direction undisclosed)”
“Cutting waste, fraud, abuse (and some health insurance)”
“A big, beautiful social welfare cut”
“Classic Reaganism”
“Undoing Biden’s budget mess”
“Operation Keep the President from Saying Mean Things About Us on Social Media”
“Tightening Medicaid”
“Not cutting Medicaid”
“Boosting emergency rooms with more business”
“Enforcing work requirements”
“Bipartisanship (we’ve considered Mitch McConnell a Democrat ever since he voted against Pete Hegseth)”
“Cutting entitlements like spending for entitled people. Who likes entitled people?”
“Prioritizing the border”
“Slashing spending across the budget”
“Blame Grok (it wrote the bill)”
“The opposite of Obamacare”
In their budget bill, Republicans prohibited Medicaid funding for all “gender-transition procedures” for adults and minors.
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Australia’s latest favourite laughingstock, the National party, have updated their relationship status to ”it’s complicated” after their on again, off again relationship with the Liberal party appears to be maybe on again. ”Look, it’s complicated, we do still love the... Read More ›
A poll sent to Omar’s district tested the waters on a Democratic candidate backed by “a right-wing, pro-Israel group that is funded by Trump-supporting billionaires.”
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In late 2008, Dr Peter Harbour, a retired physicist, found out that he’d been listed by the police as a ‘domestic extremist’. Harbour had recently been involved in a campaign to save an Oxford lake. Energy company RWE npower wanted to use the lake for fly ash disposal. The Save Radley Lakes group marched and […]
‘The world as we knew it has gone’, declaimed Keir Starmer in The Telegraph in early April, with all the acuity of someone who, having slept through an earthquake, wakes up amid the ruins. But though he recognised the redundancy of ‘old assumptions’, his register granted to the new world a familiarity — a hint of […]
Eighty years ago, the British Labour Party shocked the world. To the horror of the privileged classes, the socialists seized power in a landslide election victory. Britain had chosen to dump its wartime leader Winston Churchill for a government that promised to change society for the benefit of the many, not the few. It was to […]
I really don’t know what he said at the end of that sentence. I don’t think he knows what he said either.’ While Donald Trump often reached for sleepy metaphors to make hay of his opponent’s incognition, the question of whether Joe Biden was really awake in the dwindling days of his presidency is surely […]
The state is back, and it’s building guns. With the Trump administration railing against European ‘freeloading’ on US military spending, European politicians have announced plans to spend billions on rearmament. The US economy has taken a beating as the tech bubble has burst and Trump’s tariffs have raised the spectre of slower growth and higher […]
Last year, a TV listing in The Guardian described the glossy Second World War drama series Masters of the Air as ‘an addition to the Band of Brothers universe’. Intentionally or not, the phrase was oddly penetrating. Masters of the Air is instantly recognisable as the product of a franchise, one taking place in a […]
The warning lights have gone from amber to red. The far right is rapidly gaining ground in mainstream politics and in social movements across Europe. The response in Britain? The Labour right and the political centre have run out of ideas — their sole prescription yet more austerity. Across the Atlantic, a failed real-estate developer and […]
In the crisis-ridden autumn of 1936, the communist poet and critic Edgell Rickword wrote an editorial for the magazine Left Review: The sincerity of our protests at fascist brutalities can only be measured by the strength of our efforts to secure the right of the colonial peoples to govern themselves. And, as practical people, let […]
On 25 and 26 June 1955, the Congress of the People was held in Kliptown, South Africa. Proposed two years previously by Z. K. Matthews, a prominent academic, it was organised by the National Action Council. This later became known as the Congress Alliance — a coalition consisting of the South African Indian Congress, the South African Congress […]