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Should previous Doctor Who showrunners return if/when Russell T Davies leaves? That's not as good an idea as you might think, and here's why.

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A private investigator who offered to help the family of missing rugby and reality TV star Levi Davis is accused of taking possession of his iPhone and then failing to return it

My Lords, first, I distance myself from the Opposition’s onslaught on Rachel Reeves. To my mind, she is a tragic figure rather than an incompetent one. She is trying to do her best for her people and the country but is in hock not just to the bond markets but to mistaken academic orthodoxy which, … Continue reading Budget Speech 2025 November

Somalis are fighting back, from homemade sambusas for protesters to foot patrols on the lookout for ICE.

The post Inside the Somali-Led Resistance to Trump’s Assault on Minneapolis appeared first on The Intercept.

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När riksdagen 1998 beslutade om ändringar i regeringsformen och riksbankslagen gjorde man Riksbanken formellt och konstitutionellt oberoende från regering och riksdag i penningpolitiska beslut. Tanken var att man beslutsmässigt skulle ha mer eller mindre vattentäta skott mellan finans-och penningpolitik. Detta har också inneburit att Riksbanken har en nästintill oinskränkt makt över en politik som i […]

In November 2022, any residual feeling that Silicon Valley represented a clear-cut boon for humanity vanished like a fart in the wind. In an act of breathtaking arrogance, OpenAI released GPT-3.5, a free preview of its chatbot ChatGPT. Confronted with a technology that could synthesise humanlike text in response to prompts from actual humans, journalists and commentators rushed into print to weigh its likely implications, often using the chatbot itself to generate the first few paragraphs of their articles (which is a bit like a caveman ostentatiously sporting a bronze medallion towards the end of the Stone Age) ...

The British journalist and activist Ash Sarkar is one of the most engaging members of the group of leftwing radicals who make up Novara Media. Established in 2011, in the long wake of the GFC, and at the dawn of Prime Minister David Cameron’s savage reign of austerity, Novara now has over a million subscribers, not least because of Sarkar’s ambassadorship in the otherwise solidly centrist world of mainstream UK political commentary ...

There is a video clip somewhere of Dennis Altman on the ABC’s Monday Conference program, a forerunner to the late (and unlamented) Q&A ...

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Canada has cut a trade deal with China. This is what I have been suggesting for ages, and it’s finally happening. (Not, of course, because Carney reads me, but because it’s the obvious play and of all Western leaders he’s been the most resistant to Trump’s threats and blackmail.) Canada cuts a deal: Chinese leader […]

Dark-money groups want a look at the Chicago Teachers Union’s finances. The Trump administration could help them get it.

The post Trump Is Helping Right-Wing Groups Target Chicago Teachers Union appeared first on The Intercept.

When in mathematics the unknown becomes the unknown quantity in an equation, it is made into something long familiar before any value has been assigned. Nature, before and after quantum theory, is what can be registered mathematically; even what cannot be assimilated, the insoluble and irrational, is fenced in by mathematical theorems. In the preemptive […]

Trump claims he wants to lower credit card interest rates. His regulators are doing the opposite.

From NGO casualty counts to diaspora propaganda, the same forces that destroyed Iraq and Syria are exploiting unrest inside Iran.

The post The Regime Change Machine Is Turning on Iran Again appeared first on MintPress News.

Black seadevil anglerfish
Twenty-five-years-old, monogamous, wants children

What I’m looking for: A confident, independent female roughly twenty times my size with a dangly, glowing orb attached to her forehead.

Don’t hate me if I: Latch on to you and permanently fuse to your body until my head dissolves and our circulatory systems become one

This year, I want to: Delete this app <3

Giant squid
Fifteen feet long, Catholic, figuring out my dating goals

Give me travel tips for: Two-thousand feet below sea level off the west coast of Norway—Spring break 2026 gonna be a movie!

If loving this is wrong, I don’t want to be right: The Office

My love language is: Physical, tentacle-y touch

Hexactinellid sponge
Software engineer, nine thousand years old,
twenty-eight centimeters tall

I bet you can’t: Pronounce my name

Videos of agents falling down and dropping their guns feel beyond parody. But under-trained law enforcement officers are a real danger to the public.

The post ICE Agents Are Even Worse At Being Cops Than You Think appeared first on The Intercept.

I was recently a guest on the On the Way Home podcast. We discussed: the importance of researchers working collaboratively with practitioners; insufficient federal funding for homelessness across Canada; and the importance of operating funding for affordable housing. People can watch or listen to the episode here:

The simplest ideas are often the best. How about a new left party that appeals broadly enough to challenge for power? That, after all, was the prospect that excited people when Your Party was launched last summer. It’s why 750,000 people signed up to the mailing list. They wanted a party that might actually be […]

Attacking asylum seekers and refugees has long comprised the strategic core of the far right. Physical, verbal, and political harm waged on communities who have migrated to the UK can be traced across British history back decades, if not centuries — from the overtly racist legislation predating the Race Relations Act, the era of Powell’s […]