Texas AG Declares War On Advertisers Who Snub Musk’s ExTwitter: Ken Paxton seems to want to make it illegal to not give Elon Musk money.
Politics
2024-11-24
2024-11-23
What are the key issues in the assisted dying bill debate?: Things to think about as the UK vote on legalising assisted dying draws closer.
2024-11-22
‘The Apprentice’ actor Sebastian Stan: Hollywood stars fear Trump: It’s not only tech billionaires - certain actors seem to be preemptively afraid to associate with their peers who portray Trump in anything other than the most positive of lights.
2024-11-21
A new era dawns. America’s tech bros now strut their stuff in the corridors of power: ‘This is the fusion of state and commercial power in a ruling elite.’
2024-11-21: Quite incredibly, yesterday was the 1000-day anniversary of Russia’s ongoing invasion of …
2024-11-19: No religious liberty on offer from the Office of Religious Liberty
2024-11-16
Zionism’s long 20th century: And the shifts in the relationship between the British political left and right with regards to Israel.
2024-11-15: Trump's victory added $27 billion dollars to the wealth of the 10 richest people in the world
2024-11-15
The world according to Trump: How Trump is likely to think about Ukraine, the Middle East, Europe and China.
How “YMCA” became Donald Trump’s unlikely theme song: I had wondered.
2024-11-14
Congress About to Gift Trump Sweeping Powers to Crush Political Enemies: A bill which enables the treasury secretary to unilaterally declare that any non-profit supports terrorism.
2024-11-13: I’m reluctant to volunteer my own evidence-free theory into the morass of folk providing …
2024-11-13
I blame the media: for Trump’s electoral victory - by normalising him plus failing to recognise Biden’s achievements.
2024-11-12: Google receives its biggest fine yet. $20 decillion. A decillion is a one with 33 zeroes after it. …
2024-11-12
Regime of Unreason: The US surely couldn’t need any ‘liberalisation’ of its fossil fuel regulations when it’s already a net exporter of energy.
The Podcast Election: Can some of Trump’s victory be explained by the weaponisation of the ‘emerging medium’ of podcasts?
I spent hours trying to persuade US voters to choose Harris not Trump. I know why she lost: Apparently plenty of people believed believed what Trump said.
I moved to Finland believing it was a progressive dream. It hasn’t turned out that way: Are there any decent countries left?
2024-11-11: Trump’s election promises weren’t only meaningless because they were almost certainly …
2024-11-11
Donald Trump should have the easiest presidency ever: Biden’s administration has already accomplished a lot of Trump’s campaign promises.
Finally, the end of ‘the British empire’ – and maybe an honours system a modern country can live with: Soon the E in the OBE might stand for ‘excellence’.
2024-11-11: Changing the E of an OBE
2024-11-11: Who knew that Michael Gove got one particularly foolish part of his political philosophy from a 1967 …
Donald Trump should have the easiest presidency ever: Many of the things he promised to do during his campaign have already been done by the Biden administration.
2024-11-10
taylor derangement syndrome: It reads differently now we know the result of the election, but I had originally enjoyed ‘Taylor is a normal person and that’s why she’s a Democrat’.