The former party leader told Byline Times that Labour will not 'not sign up' to Conservative budgets if the party wins the next general election – a contrast to 1997
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Into your life it will creep Is anyone keeping a list? A list of the “I know you are but what am I?” behaviors of which the right accuses its adversaries while indulging in same with gusto? Indoctrination? Extremism? Propaganda? Intimidation? There must be a listing somewhere, but I’m too tired of the BS to go looking just now. The breaking news Thursday night was a photo of an upside down American flag flown outside the home of Supreme Court Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr., in Alexandria, Va. on January 17, 2021. Days after the violent assault on the U.S. Capitol by MAGA extremists on January 6 and three days before Joe Biden’s inauguration as Donald Trump’s replacement. Alito blames his wife. Election rigging? Death threats? Political violence? Hating America? Upside down display of the American flag is a considered a signal of distress. Donald Trump’s Stop the Steal cult appropriated the signal as a sign of alarm that a Democrat was about to occupy the Oval Office in his place. It is unclear how many days it flew outside Alito’s home, The New York Times reports.
“In response to the controversy surrounding Harrison Butker’s commencement speech at Benedictine College, the NFL distanced itself from the ideas expressed in the speech, saying the league doesn’t share the beliefs the Kansas City Chiefs kicker voiced while addressing the graduating students. During the commencement speech, Butker referred to Pride Month as an example of the ‘deadly sins.’ He also addressed gender ideologies and said a woman’s most important title is ‘homemaker.’” — The Athletic
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1. “Men set the tone of the culture, and when that is absent, disorder, dysfunction, and chaos set in.”
2. “The spectacles women used to make of themselves. Oiling themselves like roast meat on a spit, and bare backs and shoulders, on the street, in public, and legs, not even stockings on them, no wonder these things used to happen.”
Pulitzer Prize winner Nathan Thrall details life in the Gaza Strip and West Bank since Oct. 7 and explores what’s motivating Benjamin Netanyahu.
Andrew Raw, the Reform UK candidate for Darlington, is the latest member of the party to be criticised for his social media posts
The Bibby Stockholm, docked on the island town of Portland, Dorset, has been embroiled in controversy since the announcement that it would be used to house asylum seekers by then-Home Secretary Suella Braverman in early 2023. The barge witnessed the initial boarding of 50 male asylum seekers on Monday 7 August 2023, only to be […]
Campaigners call for electoral laws to be tightened after an Israeli billionaire and an Australian hedge fund boss use their companies, which made minimal UK profits, to donate £40,000 to the former Immigration Minister
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A Louisiana sheriff’s department has been testing the drone system, which is already used by the Israeli police and many settlements.
The post An Israeli Company Is Hawking Its Self-Launching Drone System to U.S. Police Departments appeared first on The Intercept.
While one can understand that some of the elements in DSGE models seem to appeal to Keynesians at first sight, after closer examination, these models are in fundamental contradiction to Post-Keynesian and even traditional Keynesian thinking. The DSGE model is a model in which output is determined in the labour market as in New Classical […]
The Prime Minister and his wife's personal wealth rose to £651 million amid the biggest fall in living standards for British people since records began
Max von Sydow (1929-2020) medverkade i över ett hundra filmer och TV-serier. Han gjorde många minnesvärda roller, men den som har berört mig mest är som fadern i Pelle Erövraren — baserad på Martin Andersen Nexös episka mästerverk. Bille August regisserade. Stefan Nilsson skrev musiken. Max von Sydow gjorde sitt livs prestation. Och det skär […]
The Conservatives' domestic extremism adviser Lord John Walney is accused of conflicts of interest over a proposed ban of groups such as Palestine Action and Just Stop Oil
The latest episode of the hit Media Storm podcast focuses on how journalists have covered ULEZ, often politicising the issue rather than exploring it through a health lens
Israel has begun its long-threatened assault on Rafah. Hundreds have already been killed, thousands more will likely die as Israel’s savagery continues.
The post Albanese aids Israel and smears protests as horror unfolds in Rafah first appeared on Solidarity Online.
The spread of student encampments for Palestine around the world has been an inspiration for all those fighting to end Israel’s genocidal slaughter in Gaza.
The post Encampments show spread of solidarity with Gaza first appeared on Solidarity Online.
ANU management in Canberra is demanding a number of students leave their encampment in solidarity with Gaza, threatening them with disciplinary action if they refuse.
The post ANU threatens to discipline students and disperse Gaza solidarity camp first appeared on Solidarity Online.
Labor’s budget is about making it look like the government is acting on the cost of living, in the hope of dampening the anger workers feel about it in time for an election in the next year.
The post Labor’s cost of living band-aids in budget leave real problems ignored first appeared on Solidarity Online.
In the run-up to the budget, Labor unveiled its new National Defence Strategy, announcing over $330 billion in spending on new weapons and military hardware over the next decade as it gears up for war on China.
The post Labor backs more money for weapons in $330 billion plan first appeared on Solidarity Online.
Thousands of workers downed tools to march through Sydney on 1 May, with construction and maritime unions making May Day an annual stop work rally.
The post Unions support Palestine at Sydney 1 May rally first appeared on Solidarity Online.
To sit and listen to a nightingale is to be transported to somewhere that is both quintessentially English but also impossibly rich and exotic, writes John Mitchinson
Labor’s new gas strategy pledges its support for a massive fossil fuel expansion, going all out to back mining industry profits.
The post Labor locks in gas expansion in new crime against the climate first appeared on Solidarity Online.
New environmental protection laws promised before the last election have been put indefinitely on hold, in another effort by the Albanese government to serve the coal and gas industry.
The post Approval laws delayed in further effort to do the bidding of coal and gas industry first appeared on Solidarity Online.