Politics

2025-04-14

ā€˜Electoral wake-up call’: dozens of Labour MPs risk losing majorities over welfare cuts: ‘…almost 200 Labour MPs have a majority smaller than the number of recipients of personal independent payments in their constituencies’

2025-04-13: The White House refuses to talk to journalists who have pronouns in their email signatures

2025-04-13: Previously impossible new levels of incompetence achieved as the US administration accidentally invites famous journalist to their secret chat group

2025-04-13

Federal Workers Told to Remove Pronouns From Email Signatures After Trump Order

Trump White House Won’t Respond to Some Journalists Who Display Their Pronouns: ‘refusing to answer a straightforward request to explain the administration’s policies because of the formatting of an email signature is both a concerning and baffling choice’.

Print Media to Mass Protests: ā€œPlease Turn to Page 18ā€: ‘When print outlets bury one of the largest nationwide protests in recent memory, they’re not being neutral arbiters.’

Musk’s Latest Fraud Finding Isn’t What It Seems: So-called genius finds the results of other people’s successful fraud investigations.

2025-04-12

UK takes control of British Steel under emergency powers: Once again, the state needs to step in and save what the capitalists will not.

2025-04-12: Never let it be said that the Trumpistas are not creative in their cruelty. The Trump …

Trump administration lists thousands of living immigrants as dead to prompt them to leave

2025-04-11

Apple said to be flying iPhones from India to US to avoid Trump tariffs: It’s estimated that iPhones would cost $3500 if they were made in the US.

2025-04-10

In the face of fascism, climate activists tell a better story: ‘A new network named ‘The Surge’ called a series of joint rallies for climate justice, anti-fascist and peace activists in January 2025, and were pleasantly surprised by the level of response.’

2025-04-09

Two Chinese nationals caught fighting for Russia in Ukraine, Zelenskyy says: Happenstance or Autocracy Inc.?

2025-04-07

Trump tells UK to buy chlorinated chicken from US if it wants tariff relief

How the Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg got added to the White House Signal group chat: Mike Waltz saved his number under the wrong contract on his phone.

2025-04-06: šŸ“šFinished reading Hillbilly Elegy by J D Vance.

2025-04-06: šŸ“š Want to read: Abundance by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson. …a once-in-a-generation, …

2025-04-05

Leaked Memo Reveals Insane Ban on Words Agriculture Department Can Say: The phrase ‘safe drinking water’ may never again be uttered.

Reciprocal Tariff Calculations: The official methodology behind those bizarre numbers, in my to-read pile.

Has the Trump administration used AI to calculate tariffs?: Well, probably , but either way their claims as to other countries' tariffs on the US are absolutely ridiculous.

2025-04-04

Global markets in turmoil as Trump tariffs wipe $2.5tn off Wall Street: Self-proclaimed great businessman doing what self-proclaimed great businessmen do.

Vilified, arrested, held incommunicado: that’s the price of protest in Britain today: On the heavy-handed and biased policing of dissent in the UK.

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 ā€˜personal liberties and free markets’: Bezos refuses to let any opinions other than his own be published in the paper he bought.