When West Midlands Police announced that Maccabi Tel Aviv supporters would be banned from their clash with Aston Villa, our establishment immediately decried this as an attack on Jews. But as a Jew who attends football weekly, I know this is a lie. This is about the British Government using Jews as a shield — […]
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For Simone Weil, attention was akin to prayer.
Readers may remember the following chart. Bear it in mind. Here’s a summary from Chris Brunet of the cuts: According to the Crimson report, which quotes five anonymous faculty sources, the reductions are as follows: Science PhD admissions slashed by more than 75% Arts & Humanities cut by about 60% Social Sciences reduced 50–70% History […]
Fossil fuel interests are colluding with billionaire-owned media companies to block the UK's transition towards a cheaper and greener future, argues Donnachadh McCarthy
Marcuse identifies several mechanisms for how society creates the one-dimensional man: The system generates a vast array of artificial needs (for specific brands, consumer goods, lifestyles) that keep people in a state of perpetual consumption. Satisfying these ‘false needs’ creates a feeling of comfort and contentment, making people unwilling to challenge the system that provides […]
Twenty-four crystal champagne flutes: I love entertaining, so these beautiful champagne flutes are a must-have for the elegant sit-down dinner parties I’ll be hosting. I considered asking for thirty-six, but decided to cut down the guest list. Everyone loves being invited to an exclusive event.
Ten years later: In the attic, wrapped tightly in the very bubble wrap they came in.
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Salad spinner: My husband and I will cook and enjoy nutritious meals together. A healthy lifestyle leads to a healthy marriage.
Ten years later: This gadget stays front and center in the kitchen cabinet, because the inner basket works as a perfect strainer to drain the kids’ Kraft macaroni and cheese.
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His and hers coffee mugs: A cornerstone of marital bliss, these mugs will become a staple of our morning routine. We’ll sit together in our sun-drenched brunch nook and enjoy the quiet early hours together, doing the crossword and watching a family of foxes frolic in our backyard.
‘If they weren’t there, to whom would I talk?’ In a support group, ‘voice-hearers’ share their unique, inward experiences
- Directed by Tristan Thil
The evolution of tarot cards through the centuries, from a game for the Italian elite to the fortune-tellers’ toolkit
- by Aeon Video
Upgrade your ability to recall dates, names or other details with an ancient trick of the memory trade: the ‘method of loci’
- by Lynne Kelly
How confidential informants like LeBron Gaither, recruited by police as a teen and killed by a drug dealer, are seen by the criminal system as disposable.
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The key factor isn’t his ads or charisma — it is a public campaign finance system that can be replicated across the country.
On a grey and blustery day outside the Old Bailey Court in October 1989, Gerry Conlon, Carole Richardson, Paddy Armstrong, and Paul Hill walked free, almost fifteen years to the day of their wrongful conviction. Known as the Guildford Four, they were sentenced to life in jail on October 22nd 1975, after being found guilty […]
What started as an idea among a couple of people has rapidly expanded into something with global interest. There are now educators teaching Drupal at higher education and universities, which is amazing. It means new people are being introduced to our beloved open source project.
“What if we could open source the teaching materials themselves, and teach others how to teach Drupal?”
A lot has happened since then. People from around the world have been collaborating on the teaching materials created by Hilmar Kári Hallbjörnsson, who is now in his fourth year of teaching Drupal at Reykjavík University. But the idea has grown, it’s become an initiative with the goal of reaching, introducing, and welcoming new Drupal enthusiasts into the community.
The government is trying to set us against our ecosystems. We must resist this Trumpian gambit. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 16th October 2025 Crucial to the government’s war on nature is the “cauldron principle”. If a species is to be blamed for “holding up development”, it must be one you might find […]
Niche cable TV channel, Sky News Australia, has demanded that their viewers, all 6 of them, write to the Prime Minister and demand that US Ambassador Kevin Rudd be relieved of his duties. ”Kevin Rudd’s position is untenable,” said Sky... Read More ›
Graham Platner, a candidate in the Democratic senate primary in Maine, has been making headlines...
The U.N.I.T. HQ section of the Doctor Who website has been active with constant emails between the characters working there.
An anti-amputation mandate for table saw safety was recently withdrawn by the defanged Consumer Product Safety Commission.
Hey, it’s me, the closest trail to the metropolis, and I’m begging you to take your midlife crisis elsewhere.
Every week, a fresh crop of you forty-something corporate marauders comes on pilgrimage like I’m your personal Annapurna.
I’m a two-mile gravel slope with a play area, Carl.
You haul up to my “trailhead” (a.k.a. the Jiffy Lube parking lot) wearing six hundred dollars’ worth of tactical nylon, looking like you’re about to audition for Outward Bound: The Musical.
The sippy straw of your inevitable hydration bladder quivers next to your budding jowl.
What is it, can’t risk twisting off a bottle cap at this altitude?
There are ZARAs taller than me.
And put those hiking poles away. It’s a 5 percent incline. You could have done this in Crocs.
You inhale richly and muse aloud that you love being off-grid, as the lights of a 7-Eleven glitter in the near distance.
You’re about as off-grid as the Times Square T-Mobile.
Did you know Uber Eats delivers here?
Consumers may actually be paying more through rewards programs, thanks to surveillance pricing.
We’re about 3 weeks into our annual fundraiser. Our goal is $12,500 (same as last year). So far we’ve raised $8,180 from 72 people out of a readership of about 10,000. If you read this blog, you’re usually ahead of everyone else. You know, years in advance, much of what’s going to happen. The intelligence […]
Doctor Who star Millie Gibson on the "horrific" experience of not being able to defend herself from rumors, even when she knew the truth.