And Now for the Weather Today is set to be agreeably alliterative across an assortment of areas although the occasional metaphor may cause some faces to cloud. Idioms will be coming down like stair rods in northern regions, while the south may experience the odd outbreak of similes, like an unexpected shower of arrows. In coastal, littoral, and…
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This is Part 4 of the short series of briefing notes that arose out of discussions I recently had in London about how a progressive political party might want to break out of the shackles that the British Labour Party has bound itself in with its obsession with fiscal rules and an adherence to the…
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The number of people in the UK without work that want it
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told Fox News that the move to free up 140 million barrels of oil was aimed at preventing China gaining from the situation. “That’s about 10 days to two weeks of supply that the Iranians had been pushing out that would have all gone to China,” he said. “In essence, we will be using the Iranian barrels against the Iranians to keep the price down for the next 10 or 14 days as we continue this campaign.”
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“Right now, the United States is tightening its siege on Cuba,” said political streamer Hasan Piker, explaining his decision to join the convoy, adding: “Fuel shipments are blocked. Flights grounded, critical supplies cut off. Donald Trump has even threatened a ‘friendly takeover’ of the island. For Washington, the message is simple: submit – or suffer.”
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Many stores and markets are empty, not because the island does not produce food, but because there is no way to transport it from the countryside to the cities. The United Nations has warned of a possible “humanitarian collapse,” due to the economic war. Havana-based journalist Luis de Jesus Reyes labeled it an attempted genocide in the making.
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By Robert Cauneau First published on the MMT France website 5 October 2025 Introduction What if everything we thought we knew about government financing was wrong? Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) …
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These paleontologists got crafty
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When’s the last time you thought about your thymus?
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They’re an evolutionary feat all of their own
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An interview with a behavioral economist about cake, climate change, and cooperation
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A common microbe can wreak havoc once inside cells
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“We won. The first hour, it was over.”
— Donald Trump, March 11
“The Pentagon has asked for $200 billion in funding for the war in Iran.”
— The New York Times, March 19
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I am proud to announce that we have won the war—the one we’re fighting right now, indefinitely. We have declared victory, which will help morale during the next few years of battle. In fact, we won this war so well that we need about 200 billion of your tax dollars to keep winning it.
Look, we don’t want to waste your money. That’s why we vowed to make this a quick war, and we’ve followed through on that promise. The first hour, it was over. The second hour too. First week, over again. Next week, we’ll be wrapping up. In a couple months, we’ll have finished this war more times than any war has ever been finished before.
This is a guest post from Prof. Marc Lavoie, emeritus professor of economics at the University of Ottawa and winner of the 2025 Galbraith Prize from the Progressive Economics Forum for his lifetime contributions to heterodox theory and practice in Canada and around the world. Prof. Lavoie was recently invited by SSHRC to provide input to a restructuring of the [...]
A midbrain bypass may have unlocked their abilities to speak
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The Green Party has accused Keir Starmer of enabling the war on Iran, calling on the government to withdraw permission for the United States to use British bases and end its military cooperation with Israel. In a major intervention on Friday, seven Green MPs and peers sent a letter to the Prime Minister denouncing his […]
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Andre Agassi’s longtime racket stringer on seeking perfection and listening closely.
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PART I
THE BELIEVER: What was it like when you first began working as a pro racket stringer? And how did you meet Andre Agassi?
With the Strait of Hormuz closed and US munitions dwindling, it is Iran that will ultimately be able to set the price of peace, argues US defence analyst Brynn Tannehill
Come on in, and please take your shoes off. Here’s my card, and oh, just one minor thing, it’s so funny, but I have to tell you this again: I can’t say another word about the vast system of tunnels underneath this home.
How about a quick overview? It has three bedrooms, two and a half bathrooms, and a four-foot-wide ventilation air shaft, which is completely up to code for below-ground air circulation. It’s for the religious sect living in the network of tunnels. Ugh, sorry. Am I being too technical? I promise not to bore you with any more details about how they obtain fresh air.
What else? The home was built in 1954 and is anywhere from 2,000 to 70,000 square feet, depending on how many of the underground prayer labyrinths you include. Which I can’t and won’t say more about on this tour.
The US President's reckless actions risk destroying the global political order, but could something good emerge from the wreckage, asks Alexandra Hall Hall
Six weeks have passed since Morgan McSweeney, Keir Starmer’s chief of staff and strategic guru, stepped aside in the wake of the Mandelson debacle. Already the air smells fresher in Downing Street. Had McSweeney and Mandelson remained in situ, it is hard to imagine the Prime Minister keeping even a partial distance from Donald Trump […]
The word can morph from noun to verb to adjective, from dog to human, from female to male. What will it do next?
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Donald Trump has unleashed weeks of savage bombing of Iran, threatening “death, fire and fury” as the regime refuses to capitulate.
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