This week, Waterstones are offering 25% off all preorders of my new book, ‘How to Lay an Egg with a Horse Inside’, which publishes in April: https://www.waterstones.com/book/how-to-lay-an-egg-with-a-horse-inside/brian-bilston/9781035085729 Alternatively, signed copies are available to order through your local indie bookshop. Waterstones are also promoting 25% off for preorders of the paperback edition of my poetry collection…
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A long-promised bill to clean up the funding of British politics and protect against foreign interference has failed to deliver, argues Sergei Cristo
“Everyone knew we didn’t need them.” Air Force maintainers have been on a decadelong knife-ordering spree.
The post Air Force Maintenance Staff Can’t Stop Buying Fancy Knives With Tax Dollars appeared first on The Intercept.
The number of people in the UK without work that want it
Chapter 11 of my open access textbook has just been released. This chapter focuses on homelessness experienced by 2SLGBTQIA+ individuals. A ‘top 10’ summary of the new chapter can be found here: https://nickfalvo.ca/homelessness-among-2slgbtqia-individuals/ All material related to the book can be found here (free of charge): https://nickfalvo.ca/book/
Russell T Davies on when The War Between the Land and the Sea was first pitched, and Pete McTighe on how Disney+ viewers can watch it.
Less, but better? Not this week.
The post The salad bar theory of UX professionalism appeared first on Jeffrey Zeldman Presents.
The far-right former Trump adviser told Jeffrey Epstein that "we are overthrowing May right now" as he worked with Boris Johnson to remove the then Conservative Prime Minister from office
A ‘bond crisis’ is upon us, apparently. Break the usual framing and the opposite emerges: borrowing costs have fallen, and the ‘crisis’ is seen for what it is - manufactured panic serving particular interests.
How do you teach a child reverence for nature? This filmmaker takes his son on a search for the ever-changing snow line
- by Aeon Video
Our planet was once a harsh, alien, icy world. Yet this deep freeze may have shaped you, me and all life on Earth
- by Graham Shields
The government wants to make it illegal to possess literature it deems dangerous — a familiar tactic to this incarcerated writer.
The post Prison-Style Free Speech Censorship Is Coming for the Rest of Us appeared first on The Intercept.
I am the last in a long line of shark hunters. As the ocean fades, so too does our way of life
- by Bharath Thampi
Note: I have not published blog posts about my academic papers over the past few years. To ensure that my blog contains a more comprehensive record of my published papers and to surface these for folks who missed them, I will be periodically (re)publishing blog posts about some “older” published projects. It seems natural to …
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The US is now a rogue state. One example is the conduct of the US Health Secretary who has been working to destroy the scientific basis for health care since his appointment last year but exceeded his own hubris when he told a podcast on February 12, 2026 that “I’m not scared of a germ.…
The world’s second-largest tech company just acquired a military-linked Israeli startup that uses “facial skin micromovements” to anticipate what users will say before they speak. This article was originally published by ¡Do Not Panic! Tech giant Apple has quietly paid nearly $2 billion for a “pre-speech” tech company whose employees helped Israel commit genocide in Gaza. In the second-biggest deal in its history, Apple paid this money for a company that doesn’t have a product, doesn’t have any revenues and whose website […]
The post Apple buys Israeli ‘pre-speech’ tech firm implicated in Gaza genocide first appeared on The Grayzone.
The post Apple buys Israeli ‘pre-speech’ tech firm implicated in Gaza genocide appeared first on The Grayzone.
Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – February 15, 2026 by Tony Wikrent They’re not capitalists — they’re predatory criminals Why The Epstein Scandal Is Really A Billionaire Scandal – Barry’s Economics (YouTube) Barry Ferns, Feb 8, 2026 [YouTube] Everyone thinks Jeffrey Epstein was an aberration. The science says he was inevitable. This video breaks down […]
Activists are urging New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation to cut ties with the ICE contractor.
The post Palantir Gets Millions of Dollars From New York City’s Public Hospitals appeared first on The Intercept.
The link between income distribution and aggregate demand is central to post-Keynesian and heterodox economics, yet largely sidelined in mainstream policy debates. The logic is simple: lower-income households have a higher marginal propensity to consume than the wealthy. An extra euro in the hands of a poorer household is mostly spent; in the hands of […]
Pete McTighe has the vibe of being the showrunner-in-waiting for Doctor Who, based on his work over the past decade. Is he the best choice?
~by Sean Paul Kelley The Chinese rail network now carries 23 million passengers a day. Multiply that by 365 and it carries 8.365 billion passengers a year. And does not account for the increase in passengers during major holidays. Now consider these two facts. First, India’s rail network carries 23 million passengers a day also. […]
Currency Collapse is Codswallop. Why the Currency Crisis Crew have it backwards, yet again.