The rise of end times fascism: ‘…the most powerful people in the world are preparing for the end of the world, an end they themselves are frenetically accelerating.’
Politics
2025-04-16: Liz Truss re-emerges to tell us how great she and Donald Trump definitely are
2025-04-14
Librarians in UK increasingly asked to remove books, as influence of US pressure groups spreads: Another American import we really don’t need.
‘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
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: “Please Turn to Page 18”: ‘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 …
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
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: 📚Finished reading Hillbilly Elegy by J D Vance.
2025-04-06: 📚 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.