Between 1968 and 2024, not a single Labour MP had the whip withdrawn for voting against their own party. In the past year alone, that number has risen to eleven. After suspending seven MPs in July 2024 for voting to abolish the two-child benefit cap, Labour confirmed this week the suspension of four more: Neil […]
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The Short and Disastrous Life of the World’s Biggest Newspaper
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I hesitate a moment at Stanford University’s Special Collections desk. “I got in touch about seeing the Constellation? The newspaper from 1859?” I ask Tim Noakes, the library’s head of public services.
“Oh”—he motions toward the front of the room, where a newspaper sprawls over an entire reading table—“the big one?”
“The Pentagon has signed a multi-million dollar deal to begin using Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence chatbot, Grok, as part of a wider rollout of AI tools for government use, the Department of Defense confirmed… it comes just days after Grok sparked backlash for spouting antisemitic posts, including praise for Adolf Hitler on X, the social media platform owned by Musk.” — BBC
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You know our chatbot? The one that responded to your mom’s question about a pasta recipe with “White genocide is real and happening as we speak”? Yeah, that’s going to be in charge of the military now.
Yesterday we talked about AI: how business has been adopting it wholesale even though so far most of the evidence is that it performs worse than humans on almost all tasks. They do this because bosses don’t want to deal with employees: they want drones that just do what they’re told, and hope that AI […]
Trump's shift from betraying Ukraine to turning on Putin reveals a lot about the man and his Presidency, argues George Llewelyn
From birthright citizenship to reproductive rights, SCOTUS is dismantling the legal limits on executive power.
The post Executive Lawlessness: Leah Litman on the Supreme Court Enabling Presidential Overreach appeared first on The Intercept.
A metaphor for depression became a catalyst, and I started to reinvent my approach to suffering
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Labour must find a solution to the divisions being exploited by Reform UK and the Conservatives – a broader cohesive idea of our nation needs to be consciously created
New microscopes are giving scientists a better understanding of human biology and disease
The post The Inner Lives of Cells appeared first on Nautilus.
These additions to the tree of life look positively scrumptious
The post New Sea Slug Species or Gummy Candy? appeared first on Nautilus.
What is 0.999 …, really? Is it 1? Or is it some number infinitesimally less than 1? The right answer is to unmask the question. What is 0.999 …, really? It appears to refer to a kind of sum: .9 + + 0.09 + 0.009 + 0.0009 + … But what does that mean? That […]
. As argued by Susan, the universalist ideas of the Enlightenment are still relevant, despite the numerous criticisms that have been levelled against them. The Enlightenment was characterised by a spirit of exploration that led to new discoveries in both science and culture. Rather than promoting a narrow worldview, it encouraged people to question assumptions […]
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July 18th, 2025: T-Rex is working on himself and he's trying his best!! – Ryan Since its inception in 2018, Jeune Garde (Young Guard) has been France’s most prominent anti-fascist youth organisation. However, the group may not exist for much longer. In June 2025, the French government issued a decree dissolving the group and declaring it illegal. This decision, presented as a measure to protect public order, has ignited fierce […] 1. Were Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein friends? A. I don’t know. B. If by “friends” you mean that the two men partied together at Mar-a-Lago, that they hung out repeatedly, that Trump called Jeff a “fun” and “terrific guy” who liked women “on the younger side” and compared himself to Epstein, and that Epstein said he was Donald’s “closest friend”, who he sent bawdy letters to on his 50th birthday—then, sure, I guess you could say they were friends. One of the world’s largest private security firms is poised to rake in millions from the Trump administration’s historic deportation spending blitz.
The Coalition’s shadow minister for home affairs, Barnaby Joyce, has told his missus to not wait up for him this weekend as he’s just heading out to a Coldplay concert. ”I’m a big Coldplay fan, I love all their stuff,... Read More ›
Israel’s bombing of Syria and US-backed reconstruction deals are being sold as humanitarian efforts. In reality, they are part of a calculated campaign to fracture Syria, fuel sectarianism, and preserve Western dominance in the region. The post Crisis Theater: How Israel and the US Are Orchestrating Syria’s Collapse appeared first on MintPress News. This week, the Supreme Court ruled that the Trump Administration can go ahead with its ambitious, ruinous...
Although somewhat critical of its reductive elements, Foucault found certain attractive features in the ideal or programmatic form imagined by American neoliberalism, namely, that it envisages a kind of regulation outside sovereign, disciplinary, and biopolitical forms, that it regulates without the fabrication of subjectivities and in a manner that optimizes difference and tolerates minority groups […]
Whatever Norman Tebbit hoped to achieve by asking Asian immigrants which cricket team they would support to determine their 'Britishness' has failed spectacularly, argues Shamik Das
Photojournalist Motaz Azaiza joins MintCast host Mnar Adley to recount surviving Israel’s assault on Gaza, his rise to global prominence, and why documenting genocide is more urgent than ever. The post Documenting Israel’s War Crimes with Motaz Azaiza appeared first on MintPress News. Josiah Mortimer investigates whether the Government's new reforms will stop the likes of billionaire X owner Elon Musk from funnelling millions of dollars into British politics
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