Toby Helm A clear majority of the British public now believes Brexit has been bad for the UK economy, has driven up prices in shops, and has hampered government attempts to control immigration, according to a poll by Opinium to mark the third anniversary of the UK leaving the EU single market and customs union. The survey… Read More Brexit has completely failed for UK, say clear majority of Britons – poll
South Africa has launched a case against Israel at the UN’s international court of justice (ICJ) accusing the state of committing genocide in its military campaign in Gaza. Israel responded to the allegations “with disgust”, calling South Africa’s case a “blood libel” and urging the ICJ to reject it. Any case at the ICJ is likely to… Read More South Africa launches case at UN court accusing Israel of genocide
NB: The rebellion against reason, the cults of nostalgia or particularity are not new, these ways of thought have been with us a long time; and are a consequence of the divorce of reason from goodness, virtue, beauty and justice. Romanticism is a consequence of the elevation of scientific reason to a status above the… Read More The zeitgeist is changing. A strange, romantic backlash to the tech era looms
The desperate smear campaign to defend Israel’s crimes highlights the toxic brew of lies that’s been underpinning the liberal democratic order for decades. An injured Palestinian woman hugs an injured girl child in hospital following the Israeli bombardment of Khan Younis in the Gaza Strip on 15 November 2023 (AFP) Live statistics: over 21,000 dead,… Read More Indiscriminate slaughter of innocents
Extreme wealth is becoming the narrative preoccupation of our times. The obscenely rich entrepreneur, or sometimes the heir to an immoral fortune, has been all over television in 2023, from Beef to Dead Ringers, Succession to The Fall of the House of Usher to The Morning Show. In A Murder at the End of the… Read More A Murder at the End of the World: Emma Corrin is the ‘Gen Z Sherlock Holmes’
The notion that the war would end if Hamas was overthrown or surrenders is as ahistorical as it is false…We should end the charade that this is an Israeli war against Hamas. We should call it what it is: a joint U.S.–Israeli war against the people of Gaza. Indeed against Palestinians as a people. Jeremy… Read More This Is Not a War Against Hamas / Top ten US Politicians taking Israel Lobby Cash
The tragic relationship between Israelis and Palestinians is not a hurricane or earthquake. It is a human-made problem, and it can have human-made solutions. Indeed, we humans are the only ones who can solve it… Well said, and happy Christmas, Santa. May God bring peace to Palestine I criticized the war in Gaza. Then I… Read More I was fired from my job as Santa / Jesus the man
Aryaman Jain The oil corporations and the government wanted to build the world’s largest oil refinery in Ratnagiri. First they tried to build it at Nanar. The people resisted and the refinery was not built in Nanar. Then they tried to build it at Barsu-Solagaon. The people resisted and the refinery was not built in… Read More The Economy is broken. Let’s start again.
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced: James Baldwin Jon Schwarz Israel prefers endless conflict to a Palestinian state. ISRAEL HAS BEEN widely condemned for its brutal response to the October 7 terrorist attacks by Hamas. With the coming expiration of the ceasefire, this will only… Read More All the Times Israel Has Rejected Peace With Palestinians
Despite the violence it has unleashed on Palestinians, Israel is failing to achieve its political goals. TONY KARON and DANIEL LEVY It may sound daft to suggest that a group of armed irregulars, numbering in the low tens of thousands, besieged and with little access to advanced weaponry, is a match for one of the world’s most… Read More Israel Is Losing This War
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