Personally, I defend a politics of non-violence, in the knowledge that it cannot possibly operate as an absolute principle to be applied on all occasions. I maintain that liberation struggles that practise non-violence help to create the non-violent world in which we all want to live. I deplore the violence unequivocally at the...
As I write these words, I am sitting at home in Tel Aviv, trying to figure out how to protect my family in a house with no shelter or safe room, following with growing panic the reports and rumors of horrible events taking place in the Israeli towns near Gaza which are under attack. I see people, some of them my friends, calling...
"On September 29, the Fulton County Clerk’s office scanned and uploaded the signatures, names, and full legal addresses of 116,000 civilians. These are the identities of a large number of people who signed a petition to convene a referendum on the future of Cop City. This process is being illegally suppressed by the...
Single people’s invisibility is part of a larger, longer shift in politics towards proving that government is only there for people who deserve support. Families are more deserving than singles, and “working people” are more deserving than people who aren’t in work, cannot work due to disability or illness, or do care...
Reasonably speedy retraction this time, six months from when the problems were first noted on PubPeer (pubpeer.com/…/58E5F4120AB02E9565E3B4DE303EC3). Nine years after publication…...
"In their letter to the Home Office, lawyers for the FBU cited media reports which said the Bibby Stockholm had only 222 single-occupancy rooms, but that additional beds had been placed in each in order to to increase the capacity to 506....
“When a British politician discusses “tough choices”, they invariably reveal whose side they are really on. A tough choice tends to involve emptying the pockets of those with little, or slashing a service ordinary citizens depend on. When Labour committed to retain the Tories’ two-child benefit cap – which drives...
I haven’t seen a lot about the background to this dispute, so I thought people might be interested. This was published soon after the final, before the forcible kiss became a scandal.
“We, the undersigned, are concerned that your current economic programme for government will not transform the economic orthodoxy that has made this country poorer, less cohesive and more unequal than fifteen years ago,” the letter says....
“Angeles Bejar said her strike would last “until a solution is found to the inhumane and bloody hunt they are carrying out against my son with something he does not deserve”, according to EFE news agency.”...
Pluralistic: In defense of bureaucratic competence (23 Oct 2023) (pluralistic.net)
Western Journalists Have Palestinian Blood on Their Hands (www.thenation.com)
Judith Butler · The Compass of Mourning · LRB 13 October 2023 (www.lrb.co.uk)
Personally, I defend a politics of non-violence, in the knowledge that it cannot possibly operate as an absolute principle to be applied on all occasions. I maintain that liberation struggles that practise non-violence help to create the non-violent world in which we all want to live. I deplore the violence unequivocally at the...
JLSA Statement On Events in Occupied Palestine 10/10 (docs.google.com)
October 10, 2023...
‘This is political expediency’: how the Tories turned on 15-minute cities (archive.ph)
More conspiracy nutjobbing from the Tories.
Gaza’s shock attack has terrified Israelis. It should also unveil the context (www.972mag.com)
As I write these words, I am sitting at home in Tel Aviv, trying to figure out how to protect my family in a house with no shelter or safe room, following with growing panic the reports and rumors of horrible events taking place in the Israeli towns near Gaza which are under attack. I see people, some of them my friends, calling...
They Doxxed Us, We Dox Them – Scenes from the Atlanta Forest (web.archive.org)
"On September 29, the Fulton County Clerk’s office scanned and uploaded the signatures, names, and full legal addresses of 116,000 civilians. These are the identities of a large number of people who signed a petition to convene a referendum on the future of Cop City. This process is being illegally suppressed by the...
Are you single or in a ‘hard-working family’? Your answer counts for a lot | Nesrine Malik (archive.ph)
Single people’s invisibility is part of a larger, longer shift in politics towards proving that government is only there for people who deserve support. Families are more deserving than singles, and “working people” are more deserving than people who aren’t in work, cannot work due to disability or illness, or do care...
UK government did not carry out detailed surveys before it bought free schools sites (www.theguardian.com)
Is there anyone moderating this community?
No mods listed and the place is getting overrun by drug spam. Is there anyone there?
Call connection services: 'A 39-minute phone call cost me £119' (www.bbc.co.uk)
The PSA said it had “very strict rules” for connection services, and enforcement action is taken if providers break these rules....
New footage disproves Spanish FA president's World Cup kiss claims (metro.co.uk)
Good bit of science detective work (image manipulation, paper now retracted) (www.pnas.org)
Reasonably speedy retraction this time, six months from when the problems were first noted on PubPeer (pubpeer.com/…/58E5F4120AB02E9565E3B4DE303EC3). Nine years after publication…...
Bibby Stockholm: Migrant barge faces legal challenge over fire safety (www.bbc.co.uk)
"In their letter to the Home Office, lawyers for the FBU cited media reports which said the Bibby Stockholm had only 222 single-occupancy rooms, but that additional beds had been placed in each in order to to increase the capacity to 506....
Abandoning a wealth tax is a ruinous Labour strategy. It’s ‘Blairism without the cash’ (archive.ph)
“When a British politician discusses “tough choices”, they invariably reveal whose side they are really on. A tough choice tends to involve emptying the pockets of those with little, or slashing a service ordinary citizens depend on. When Labour committed to retain the Tories’ two-child benefit cap – which drives...
Spain set gold standard amid cheers for the players and boos for the coach [10 day old context for the Hermoso/Rubiales dispute] (archive.ph)
I haven’t seen a lot about the background to this dispute, so I thought people might be interested. This was published soon after the final, before the forcible kiss became a scandal.
Top economists pile pressure on Keir Starmer to reverse Tory cuts (www.independent.co.uk)
“We, the undersigned, are concerned that your current economic programme for government will not transform the economic orthodoxy that has made this country poorer, less cohesive and more unequal than fifteen years ago,” the letter says....
Luis Rubiales’s mother goes on hunger strike over ‘inhumane’ treatment of son (www.msn.com)
“Angeles Bejar said her strike would last “until a solution is found to the inhumane and bloody hunt they are carrying out against my son with something he does not deserve”, according to EFE news agency.”...
The Dark History ‘Oppenheimer’ Didn't Show (www.wired.com)
The mobile game funding a revolution in Myanmar (www.bbc.co.uk)
Sevilla stars wear t-shirts in solidarity as Iniesta joins support of Jenni Hermoso (talksport.com)
‘Knowledge is power’: new app helps US teens read books banned in school (archive.ph)
The Streisand Effect is a wonderful thing....
Google search is over (mastodon.social)
Via @rodhilton...
Thousands of scientists are cutting back on Twitter, seeding angst and uncertainty (www.nature.com)
Keir Starmer urged to defend lawyers after Tories’ ‘targeted campaign’ (www.theguardian.com)
Liberals ushering in fascism. Again....