Linklog

2025-05-11

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

‘Outdated and unjust’: can we reform global capitalism?: There is little hope if not.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

‘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 ďťżglobe 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

Trump lets the press know exactly what kind of questions he considers ‘good’: ‘He has certain expectations about what quality journalism looks like, and it involves asking him how awesome his awesomeness is’

ICE Can Now Enter Your Home Without a Warrant to Look for Migrants, DOJ Memo Says: ‘…anyone labeled an “Alien Enemy” is “not entitled to a hearing, appeal or judicial review.”’ - plus all police officers are basically immigration officers now.

2-Year-Old U.S. Citizen Deported ‘With No Meaningful Process,’ Judge Suspects

2025-04-25

We Are at Peak ‘Yep’ and It’s Wonderful: Word.

Elon Musk and DOGE’s Savings May Be Erased by New Costs: Not only have they saved only a tiny fraction of what they promised but also there’s ‘a rough estimate that firings, re-hirings, lost productivity and paid leave of thousands of workers will cost upward of $135 billion this fiscal year.’

Trump’s Crimea Proposal Would End a Decade of U.S. Resistance: Officially recognising Crimea as being Russian would break the principle ‘that no country can change the borders of another by force’.

Farage sparks furious backlash after claiming children with special educational needs are ‘over diagnosed’

2025-04-24

The Government Has Already Won the Meta Case: ‘Facebook is being watched, and it cannot be as cavalier about its efforts to monopolize markets.’