If you want to know what happens next in the UK, you'd be better off flipping a coin than listening to most political pundits, argues Adam Bienkov
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Earlier this month I hosted my annual Christmas party, The Holly Ball (a.k.a the Ball Party). At the Holly Ball, all the food is ball-shaped. This was the 4th Holly Ball*** (5th if you count the inaugural party, A Very Manny Christmas–a celebration for my friend Manny’s 50th birthday). Speaking of Manny, I am usingContinue reading Holly Ball 2022
It has reached Wales. (Thanks to pharmaross)
The Satisfaction of Mathematically Efficient Christmas Cookies (Thanks to Allen at Division)
After receiving the call, a dispatcher described the scene to responding officers as “a male standing outside. He is naked. He has a robe covering part of his body. He is exposing himself, and he has a hose between his...
Gisele Bündchen's witch powers, the reason for Tom Brady's terrible year? (Thanks to Asher Scheiner) Apparently she also has it in for the Jets.
Salman Butt comes hard on Pant and wants him to focus on fitness (Thanks to Unholy Slacker)
3:52 p.m. Some strange men entered a laundromat and began to play Disney movies. (Thanks to pharmaross)
FCC proposes record $300M fine for ‘auto warranty’ robocalls (Thanks to pharmaross)
Prolific academic Vijay Prashad joins "The Most Censored News With Lee Camp" to discuss empire, coups, censorship and his latest book co-written with Noam Chomsky, “The Withdrawal: Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, and the Fragility of U.S.”
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There is no alternative. Once again, that is the mantra coming from Tory ministers. This time it’s about pay cuts for working people. It’s the same Thatcherite excuse wheeled out during every one of neoliberalism’s deep crises this century. There was no alternative to austerity after the banking crisis. There was no alternative to handing […]
This piece has been adapted from Covid Year Three, an episode of Death Panel released earlier this month. It presents an incomplete timeline of the sociological production of the end…
I will be off until early January. Merry Christmas, and a Happy New Year!
This year’s Christmas arrives amid freezing weather and widespread hardship. For many, the cost of living crisis that’s been a fundamental part of our national landscape for almost a year means scaled-down festivities, perhaps dependent on what’s been donated to the local foodbank recently. Years of stagnant pay and growing inequality that go beyond that […]
in his editorial from the December print edition of Byline Times Peter Jukes says the tumultuous events of the last year may have been shocking, but not a complete surprise
From Partygate to Trussomics, the death of the Monarch, and the humiliation of Vladimir Putin, OttoEnglish's review of the year takes us on a roller coaster of major fails and meteoric falls
Exeter University announces new, five-year funding arrangement with Shell, as students urge campuses to divest from fossil fuel interests, reports Max Colbert
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky outside Kyiv, on April 4, 2022.
This live performance remains unequaled to this day. Jussi Björling — the greatest of them all.
Welcome to The Weekend Quiz. The quiz tests whether you have been paying attention or not to the blog posts that I post. See how you go with the following questions. Your results are only known to you and no…
I had to drop something to Re at work early on a Sunday morning. On the way home I thought I’d go sit in a cafe with my laptop like one of those fancy-shmancy people. I rarely do this but the house is a mess and I wanted to …