Keir Starmer's Government must learn the lessons of history, or risk paving the way for an authoritarian future under Nigel Farage and Reform, argues Neal Lawson
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October 27, 2025 Seeing What Isn’t Out There A Meditation on Various Forms of Projection By Alfie Kohn We’re all familiar with the way some people attribute their own problematic traits or feelings to others. Projection, as described by Freud and his followers, was originally conceived as a defense mechanism that operated unconsciously. Think of the perpetually angry person who ... Read More
This morning, over 300 PCS members at the British Library are due to start 14 days of consecutive strike action to protest the employer’s below-inflation pay award for a second consecutive year. On the surface, this may seem like a routine labour dispute. But a closer examination reveals a startling trail of scandals that have rocked […]
From storing Palestinian data to fueling A.I. kill lists, Microsoft’s Azure cloud has become a key weapon in Israel’s Gaza war.
The post Hi-Tech Holocaust: How Microsoft Aids The Gaza Genocide appeared first on MintPress News.
Iain Overton travelled to Tashkent, where cranes rise over Soviet relics and Chinese cars fill the streets, to see how Uzbekistan has become the lodestar of Central Asia’s quiet pivot away from Moscow
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From poison spikes to fake snake eyes, caterpillars employ many clever strategies to survive to their dazzling adulthoods
- by Aeon Video
Enter a world between dream and reality in this stop-motion animation on the science – and horror – of sleep paralysis
- Directed by Carla MacKinnon
We’re told that facing our fears can help us overcome them – but this misses the other intoxicating part of the equation
- by Muhammad Badarnee & Mohammed R Milad
The magnificent Altar of Peace celebrates the imperial order of Augustus’ Rome and his place in the fabric of the cosmos
- by John Weeds
The first published detailed breakdown of Air Force suicide data shows that the crisis is particularly acute among aircraft mechanics.
The post Newly Released Data Reveals Air Force Suicide Crisis After Years of Concealment appeared first on The Intercept.
Clearly, the lessons of the 2008 banking crash have not been properly learned. The government’s approach to the finance industry is too laissez-faire. Events in the US banking and finance sectors echo some of the processes we saw prior to the crash, and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has issued a clear warning. We recall […]
The so-called Nobel Prize in Economics (technically, the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel). This year’s award went to Philippe Aghion, Peter Howitt, and Joel Mokyr for their contributions to what’s broadly called “Schumpeterian growth theory” — work that connects innovation and technological change to economic growth … Aghion and […]
This blog post continues my exploration of the available productive resources in Japan which would allow a nominal fiscal expansion to be accommodated without adding to the inflationary pressures. People consistently point to the low official unemployment rate as a proxy for a shortage of labour in Japan. It is good that the official unemployment…
Billions of pounds were wasted by successive Conservative Home Secretaries on a chaotic and costly system that left vulnerable people at risk, according to a new Parliamentary report
Interim Opposition leader, Sussan Ley, has reached out to her rebellious colleague, Barnaby Joyce, to invite him over for a lovely beef wellington dinner. ”Teams squabble from time to time but what good teams do is they always settle their... Read More ›
Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – October 26, 2025 by Tony Wikrent Trump not violating any law ‘He who saves his Country does not violate any Law’ Trump Stuns By Saying ‘I Don’t Know’ When Asked Directly NBC’s Kristen Welker ‘Don’t You Need to Uphold the Constitution?’ Joe DePaolo, May 4th, 2025 [mediaite.com] ICE […]
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A self-driving car ally takes the wheel in D.C., the master planners face new foes, and more from The Lever this week.
Beneath the civic ideal of taxation as a collective, equitable endeavour lies an entrenched hypocrisy: the architecture of modern tax codes serves not the public good but the consolidation of private wealth. The progressivity of income tax is hollowed out at the uppermost tiers, where income is largely derived from capital — taxed at preferential […]