Just a casual reminder that Germans who “didn’t bother to vote” in 1932 didn’t get a chance again until 1946, after Hitler’s death. — There’s a lesson there.
Truly awful from a “free” press. And don’t expect the BBC to tell you this either.
"CNN journalists “couldn’t call air strikes in Gaza air strikes unless we had confirmation from the Israelis”. “We would not be doing this in any other place. We would not tolerate the need to ask, say, the Russians whether they bombed a hospital in Kyiv.”" "
Journalists at CNN and the BBC expose the inner workings of their newsrooms, a year into Israel’s war on Gaza.
I’m genuinely fascinated by the extent of fascination with the whole Sue Grey story. UK journalists seem to bother with v. little else. Who cares about what’s going on in the world, as long as you are an insider on who is up or down in Westminster? Honestly.
I have accepted Sue Gray's resignation, in a misguided attempt to placate the right wing media, who will simply move on to their next fabricated outrage about fuck all.
Fascinating look at the rise and rise of Jane Street, the trading firm that has become huge on Wall Street. “The amount of money they make is almost obscene. And that comes from handling instruments that many other people don’t want to touch,” according to Larry Tabb. www.ft.com/content/f7cb...
Predict and provide is built on the faulty assumption of ever increasing vehicle traffic growth This exaggerates future traffic problems and roadway expansion benefits, and undervalues investments in alternatives. It is a self-fulfilling negative feedback loop that planners must break away from
‘Irregular migration into UK and large European countries is same as 2008, research shows’ All that howling & manufactured outrage, irregular migration at the same levels as 2008. www.theguardian.com/world/2024/o...
Despite hostile political discourse about migrants, the numbers are steady, at less than 1% of total population