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It was an unofficial Supernatural/Doctor Who crossover during Heroes Dutch Comic Con, with Misha Collins and David Tennant checking in.

Thursday afternoon I belatedly fulfilled a promise to post a book to Wilcannia. The school day was just finishing and as I left the Post Office I overheard a child around eight years old: Dad, I was so good today I got FIVE stickers. Dad was a little distracted, navigating cars and pavements and no doubt […]

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It was in a less-than-glamorous lecture hall at Wolverhampton Polytechnic in 1982 that the First National Black Art Convention took place. In attendance were art students and teachers, including Sonia Boyce, Claudette Johnson, and Lubaina Himid, who would go on to become the darlings of the British art world. One of the first to speak […]

How strange. I’ve been going to demonstrations for a long, long while now. I began once upon a distant time in opposition to the nightmarish all-American war in Vietnam. And almost 60 years later, that war, in some sense, has come home. Hence, the other day, I found myself at the “No Kings” demonstration in New York City, one of more than 2,000 (yes, 2,000!) across this country of ours at which millions — yes, again, literally millions! — of Americans reportedly turned out. These days, in New York where I live, such demonstrations are often launched from Bryant Park, right behind the classic 42nd Street library on Fifth Avenue, and the marchers normally walk down Fifth for perhaps 20... Read more

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Australia’s media pack have refused to apologise for confusing known defence lobbyist, Scott Morrison, with an unbiased and balanced commentator when it comes to seeking comments on the escalation of the middle-east conflict. ”Ah, look you know Scott was available... Read More ›

Inside the effort to block the president from getting the United States involved in yet another Middle East war.

. One of the most valuable contributions of Modern Monetary Theory (MMT)—particularly from a European perspective—is how clearly it exposes the fundamental flaws of the euro experiment. The neoliberal dream of a supranational currency detached from national fiscal sovereignty simply does not align with economic or political reality. In times of crisis, a state must […]

Trump’s energy czar’s questionable solar career, investing in Israel’s wars, and more from The Lever this week.

The parallelism between economic laissez-faire and Darwinianism … is very close indeed. Darwin invoked sexual love, acting through sexual selection, as an adjutant to natural selection by competition, to direct evolution along lines which should be desirable as well as effective, so the individualist invokes the love of money, acting through the pursuit of profit, […]