Politics

2025-04-02

Useful Renumeration: A work-focused positive potential vision of the future, in stark contrast to anything Curtis Yarvin might have to say.

2025-03-30

What the Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador Experienced: It’s as bleak as you’d expect.

Washington Post opinion editor departs as Bezos pushes to promote ‘personal liberties and free markets’: Bezos refuses to let any opinions other than his own be published in the paper he bought.

2025-03-29

Yale professor who studies fascism fleeing US to work in Canada: So as “to raise my kids in a country that is not tilting towards a fascist dictatorship”.

Trump Demands Social Media Accounts for Immigrants in U.S.

2025-03-28

America Is Done Pretending About Meat: Gone is the dream of a cruelty-free world of vegans; apparently Real Men eat raw beef testicles

2025-03-27

Is it safe to travel to the United States with your phone right now?: It’s worth taking precautions, as a minimum.

Rachel Reeves accused of balancing books on back of UK’s poorest: Based on this year’s Spring Statement.

2025-03-26: Florida to replacement immigrant workers with…child labour

2025-03-26

Florida debates lifting some child labor laws to fill jobs vacated by undocumented immigrants

As the Trump administration purges web pages, this group is rushing to save them: The incredible work of the folk at the Internet Archive.

2025-03-25

The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans: The top US national security brass, VP and all, inadvertently included a journalist in their military ops groupchat.

2025-03-24

‘There was just wave after wave’: Gaza doctors recount horror of the last week: Israel’s airstrikes mark the end of the Gaza-Israel ceasefire arrangement.

Trump administration’s blockchain plan for USAID is a real head-scratcher: insomuch as no one can possibly think of what adding $TRUMP memecoins to the system could possibly do to help the beleaguered.

2025-03-23

All UK families ‘to be worse off by 2030’ as poor bear the brunt, new data warns: Labour need to correct this asap.

2025-03-22: Another week of corruption and probable unconstitutionality from Trump et al

2025-03-22

Trump is abandoning democracy and freedom. That creates an opening for Europe – and Britain

How do Britons feel about Brexit five years on?: Poll shows 55% of us would support a complete undoing of Brexit.

Trump weighs in on report King Charles will offer U.S. commonwealth membership: I did not see this one coming.

2025-03-21

Massive purge of Pentagon websites includes content on Holocaust remembrance, sexual assault and suicide prevention: I’m sure this will please the rabid Holocaust deniers out there.

After Trump DEI order, Navajo Code Talkers disappear from military websites: Not even being a war hero will save you from deletion if you don’t happen to be a White Man.

‘Deplorable’: French scientist denied US entry over text messages criticising Trump: Rapidly approaching the point where it makes sense to take a burner phone if you’re travelling to the US.

2025-03-20

Britain Issues Travel Warning for US: Essentially: be sure your paperwork is perfect if you don’t want to end up in jail.

Reeves to reveal biggest UK spending cuts since austerity in spring statement: Really not something to be proud of.

2025-03-20: 📺 Watched Russia - A Thousand Years of History.