Linklog

2025-05-17

How weight-loss wonder drugs are redefining the way our bodies work: The ups and downs of GLP-1s.

2025-05-13

The Guardian view on Labour’s immigration plan: cohesion isn’t helped by talk of ā€˜strangers’

Starmer accused of echoing far-right with ā€˜island of strangers’ speech: A totally fair accusation.

2025-05-12

Two charts that explain why Reform isn’t being dented by its scandals: Correlations between Reform vote share and either 1) count of spoiled ballots or 2) how many people self-identify as English.

2025-05-11

How the US president and his clan ushered in a new golden age of corruption: ‘…his personal wealth has more than doubled to $5.1bn in the past year.’

ā€˜It’s an illogical job’: Why driving a train isn’t as cushy as it might seem: A lot more training, exams and hours worked than one might have imagined.

Kashmir: how aĀ mountain paradise became a nuclear tinderbox: Key points in the history of Kashmir from 1846 onwards.

9 Rules for New Technology: Wendell Berry’s list of what new technologies should provide for us.

The World’s Largest Search Engine Doesn’t Want You to Search: Google would just love you to stay on its own site.

2025-05-10

The Big Winner of Trump’s Much-Hyped Trade Deal Is … Not the U.S.: Did the UK finally manage to negotiate something worth having?

2025-05-09

ā€˜Outdated and unjust’: can we reform global capitalism?: There is little hope if not.

The Guardian view on Labour and immigration debate: time to change the frame: ‘The way to win an argument with Reform is to bring economic reality and positive stories of migrant contribution back into the picture.’

2025-05-07

Moderation.txt: Some rules for moderating communities.

2025-05-06

This Is the Moment of Moral Reckoning in Gaza: How will the world handle the ever-increasing humanitarian catastrophe?

Trump’s College Research Cuts Could Trim GDP By At Least 3.8%, Study Finds

2025-05-03

Farage claims Reform UK local election gains ā€˜beginning of the end’ for Tories: The election results were pretty horrific in many ways.

2025-05-01

Most parents don’t enjoy reading to their children, survey suggests

A judge just blew up Apple’s control of the App Store: They aren’t allowed to stop apps offering non-app store commission ways of paying elsewhere.

2025-04-27

Gender ruling could ā€˜gravely affect very vulnerable prisoners’ – solicitor

Government will ban trans employees from toilets that reflect their gender, minister says: Implications of the recent Supreme Court ruling.

Brexiteer Ben Habib vows to ‘unite the right’ as he prepares to launch ‘super PAC’: Please no.

Was it the courts, the cops, or The Sun who killed Just Stop Oil?: ‘…the hammer of the state had simply flattened the organisation.’ - certainly some of the prison sentences activists got are pretty outrageous.

ā€˜The message is clear. Trump and Putin want to destroy Europe’: ‘Trump and Vladimir Putin hold a worldview where “mighty” powers get to carve up the globe at will.’

2025-04-26

A week after a major hack brought down 4chan and doxxed all its users, it seems like it may be dead for good

Wisconsin Judge Hannah Dugan Arrested by FBI in Immigration Dispute