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Various houseplants in a shrimp pan sauce

The bottom half of a mouse with pizza grease

Rubber bands and hair ties in whole milk

Raw chicken juice reduction, from garbage

Window condensation, fish tank water, and one piece of kibble

Something crunchy we found on the floor at 3:00 a.m.

Whatever it is that the people eat

House flies and tuna au jus

Prescription food for a cat that isn’t you

One bite of a giant loaf of bread

Wooden table corners

The top half of a mouse, gently shredded

The cream cheese off a bagel

Moth

People skin after they just worked out

Plastic bag in gelatin and fish aspic

Sour cream and ground beef from a Taco Bell nacho bowl

Preprocessed dry kibble (vomited up by another cat)

Just gravy

Somehow even wetter gravy

A teaspoon of each of the six assorted traditional flavors of regular cat food

Få lobbyorganisationer i landet är mäktigare än Svenska Bankföreningen, som satt i system att rekrytera ex-politiker till vd-posten. Denna organisation och dess inhyrda lakejer har systematiskt motarbetat alla försök till ökade krav på branschen, inte sällan med hjälp av domedagsscenarier där Sverige påstås regrediera till bronsåldern om inte samhället värnar storbankernas lönsamhet. Det är en […]

To the Editors: Fintan O’Toole is a brilliant writer, and usually a sharp-eyed observer of things cultural and political, here and abroad. In his latest piece, “Bump and Grind” [NYR, May 11], he again excels as a writer. Regrettably, however, he falls short as a legal observer, and in a way that is unhelpful to […]

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There can be no denying that, over the last several years, there has emerged a broad economic consensus in favour of a fundamental transformation of the UK economy.   In 2019, a poll from the Institute for Public Policy Research and YouGov found that 60 percent of people wanted the government to introduce significant changes […]

What if massive ocean worlds – ‘Hycean’ planets – are a better bet in the search for life than terrestrial exoplanets?

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All countries must balance the freedom of individuals with the demands of the community. Sweden’s solution is unique

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The St. Louis Fed’s 2022 annual report examines U.S. and world trade, including factors that may be slowing the process of globalization.

“He was a warm friend, not to liberty merely, but to English liberty.” – Lord John Russell, grandfather of Bertrand Russell, writing of his ancestor, William Lord Russell, executed by Charles II on 21 July 1683 My first introduction to Bertrand Russell occurred when someone at Oxford gave me a copy of his book, The […]

Now that the US and WHO have both declared an end to the Covid health emergency, one might be tempted to think that the pandemic nightmare is truly, finally over. Indeed, for most people, it had already been overtaken by more pressing issues, ranging from inflation to war. But for those of us who maintained that …

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I’ve got a new piece up about how austerity is returning to Europe, but with a perverse twist: while the EU is devising a plan to get states to cut their overall budgets, it is also calling on governments to increase their defence budgets to at least 2% of their GDP to comply with NATO’s spending target. In other …

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I’ve written for UnHerd about the new scramble for Africa — the struggle between Western countries, China and Russia for influence over this immensely resource-rich, young continent predicted to be the next frontier of growth. In this game, Russia is particularly well-positioned. More so than the West, it enjoys strong historical and ideological ties with many African nations, …

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I’ve written for UnHerd about the most important economic story since Bretton Woods: de-dollarisation — or the world’s gradual disengagement from the dollar. The dollar’s demise has been endlessly — and wrongly — predicted since the Sixties, so scepticism here is justified. This time, however, there is good reason to believe that it’s happening for real. De-dollarisation comes …

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I’ve got a new column up at UnHerd about what is shaping up to be the new geopolitical paradigm that will dominate European politics in the coming years: the shift of the EU’s centre of gravity to the East and the return of the East-West divide — and why it matters. Until recently, the turn towards “illiberal” or “post-liberal” …

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Look closely—very closely—at a Sunday comic strip in a printed newspaper.

My grandma insisted on packing red dirt on her cemetery plot. I never asked her why.

Treating gun violence as public health issue.

Disaster preparedness and recovery is a growing issue for urban fringe suburbs and social connection is key to building community … More

So, to reiterate how this works, each Covid infection has a good chance of doing damage to your body, especially to your brain, cardiovascular system and to your immune system, which does not become stronger, but rather disregulated and weakened against future infections, not just of Covid but of other diseases.

This damage may not be symptomatic, in which case you don’t have “Long Covid”, but it’s real. Each time you get re-infected there is a chance of more damage, and I’m almost entirely certain, an increased risk of Long Covid.

Long Covid itself can be mild, or it can be crippling. Millions of people now can’t work as a result and others are suffering and less able to work or to enjoy their lives.

Whether or not we find beauty in rhetoric, its eloquence depends on its power to persuade.

Yesterday we had the wages data. Today the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) released of the latest labour force data (May 18, 2023) – Labour Force, Australia – for April 2023. The April result is the second consecutive month that the data is weaker. Employment fell by 4.3 thousand, participation fell by 0.1 point, and…

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Experts on why trusting artificial intelligence to give us the truth is a foolish bargain.

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