‘The multiculturalism of our area is just one of the amazing things about it, as well as Arsenal, our lovely parks, and all the Turkish restaurants on Holloway Road. But the best thing by far about our area is our MP.’ Junior doctor and Palestine activist Rohi Malik addressed the crowd at Crouch Hill’s Brickworks […]
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An inside look at how a corrupt billionaire butcher family ended up controlling the country’s meat supply.
Farage would be cancelled if he said the same things about Jews as he does Muslims - yet he gets endless airtime
Why is a party with so few elected representatives and even fewer ideas being given such an easy ride?
Experience Builder (XB) must be able to render single directory components (SDC) … but really any component. Furthermore, to achieve the compromiseless UX we want, we’ll need both client-side and server-side rendering (to avoid network latency): isomorphic rendering. So on Monday May 20, Ben “bnjmnm”, Mateu “e0ipso”, Lee “larowlan”, Théodore “nod_”, Pierre “pdureau” and Tim met in a truly global meeting (from Lee’s Australia to Kris’ U.S. West Coast), with very interesting conclusions.
These are not current concerns for XB, but they will eventually be — this was early alignment to avoid wasting time.
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MPs who stoke "culture wars" face on-the-ground campaigns and targeted ads from Hope Not Hate
All over the country, architecture firms make the case for bigger jails — then get hired to design them.
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The European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) seems more interested in sweeping the story under the carpet — and shutting down other investigations — than uncovering the truth. Read here.
An increasingly desperate establishment is cracking down on dissent, both on the right and on the left.
The WikiLeaks founder remains in a potentially never-ending legal limbo. Assange himself spoke of “punishment as process”: subjecting enemies of the state to lengthy detentions without trial. Read here.
America’s embrace of protectionism is an admission of weakness — an emblem of the US’s demotion to no-longer-hegemonic status. Read here.
The measures purportedly undertaken in response to the pandemic have accelerated the trend towards increasingly concentrated, oligarchical and authoritarian forms of capitalist power.
Militarism, censorship, authoritarianism — the EU is turning into everything Remainers feared Brexit would bring to the UK.
We are in the midst of yet another “great transformation” — but the future it heralds couldn’t be farther from the democratic, co-operative international order he envisioned. Read here.
The US is using the same gaslighting tactics used to justify the post-90s NATO expansion towards Russia to justify the deepening of anti-China military alliances in the Asia-Pacific.
The British establishment’s aggressive posturing against Russia is based on a deeply distorted self-perception of the UK’s power — and national delusions about the US-UK “special relationship”. Read here.
“Green” policies are simply the latest cover to pursue a specific agri-food model: an increasingly centralised, concentrated, globalised model centred around a few mega-farms. Read here.
In a word, Economics is an Impossible Science because by its own definition the determining conditions of the economy are not economic: they are “exogenous.” Supposedly a science of things, it is by definition without substance, being rather a mode of behavior: the application of scarce means to alternative ends so as to achieve the […]
BELLO Youth Hub’s Wednesday drop-in program is partnering with OzGREEN for a free event in celebration of World Environment Day on 5 June. The event will rally local youngsters to take care of trees at Bellingen Skatepark during the ‘riveryouthfest’ event in April. Advertise with News of The Area today. It’s worth it for your...
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NESTLED into the Emerald Beach foreshore in the mid-morning sun a small group of avid artists test their skills. The regular Tuesday morning field trip of the Coffs Coast Artists group upholds a well-established tradition. Advertise with News of The Area today. It’s worth it for your business. Message us. Phone us – (02) 4981...
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BELLINGEN Shire is set to benefit from a significant investment in community sports facilities, thanks to the latest funding announcement made by the NSW Government. Member for Oxley Michael Kemp surprised attendees at the Connell Park netball court’s official opening on Saturday 18 May, with news of a substantial allocation towards further improvements in the...
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THE Open Day for the North Coast Regional Botanic Garden Coffs Harbour welcomed hundreds of visitors, sharing its grounds with All One Under the Sun cultural festival on Sunday 26 May. “It was a wonderful day,” President of the Friends of the Botanic Garden, Graham Tupper, told News Of The Area. Advertise with News of...
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