Showing posts with label US Politics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label US Politics. Show all posts
Friday, October 16, 2026

The Joy of Six 1592

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Thom Hartmann says Trump is teaching America what every dictator knows: "When we think of strongman dictatorships we often imagine tan...
Saturday, October 10, 2026

The Joy of Six 1589

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Chaminda Jayanetti on successive governments' failure to grasp the nettle of social care: "As far back as 1997, Tony Blair’s New L...
Thursday, October 08, 2026

The Joy of Six 1588

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"Tony Blair once observed that the first step from opposition to government is an honest analysis of why you are in opposition. Kemi Ba...
Wednesday, September 30, 2026

The Joy of Six 1584

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"The judge told him he did not qualify for asylum and asked the 13-year-old to make a choice: a promise of a $3,000 stipend from the De...
Thursday, September 24, 2026

The Joy of Six 1581

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Tom Gordon , Liberal Democrat MP for Harrogate and Knaresborough, argues that we must stop avoiding the subject of student finance if we are...
Friday, September 18, 2026

The Joy of Six 1578

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"In the days that followed RNLI crew members found pictures of themselves strewn across social media. Online posts described the search...
Wednesday, September 09, 2026

Pennsylvania's Kids for Cash Scandal shows the danger of the profit motive in the juvenile justice system

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If you want to see the danger of introducing the profit motive into the detention of young offenders, watch this video on Pennsylvania's...

The Joy of Six 1574

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Liz David-Barrett argues that, by making rule-breaking a selling point, Reform UK is signalling it's open for influence trading: "...
Thursday, September 03, 2026

The Joy of Six 1571

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"This is Britain at the end of the hottest summer on record. So, it beggars belief that the Conservatives have chosen this time – or wo...
Thursday, August 13, 2026

The Joy of Six 1561

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"My husband, son, and I have been locked up for months – despite being permanent residents with no criminal record. It is an unendurabl...
Wednesday, June 24, 2026

We have no idea what history will say about Keir Starmer and it may not be right anyway

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I see a lot of people saying that history will be kind to Keir Starmer - much kinder than commentators have been in recent weeks. Three poin...
Saturday, June 13, 2026

The Joy of Six 1532

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About 1 million 16- to 24-year-olds are not in employment, education or training – and the obstacles they face are bigger than ever. Sammy G...
Wednesday, May 27, 2026

The Joy of Six 1524

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"You will know them. They are in every policy working group, every conference fringe, every strategy call. They are the people who hear...
Tuesday, May 19, 2026

When the United States worried about migrants in small boats

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Here's a short passage from Roger Greaves's book Reading Madeleine that describes one of the British writer Robert Henrey's adv...
Monday, May 18, 2026

Penile implant specialist with history of far-right comments led hantavirus presser

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CNN wins our Headline of the Day Award. The judges chose this one because of the clear picture it paints of the Trump administration: Befor...
Sunday, May 10, 2026

The Joy of Six 1516

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"The scale of the beating handed to Labour in these local elections is difficult to convey just in words. You need to see numbers and m...
Monday, May 04, 2026

The Joy of Six 1513

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"The taboo around the word 'membership' has been maintained not by principle but timidity. Farage built his project on lies. Th...
Tuesday, April 28, 2026

How the Guardian flattered Morgan McSweeney and why it did so

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Those hoping to be impressed when Morgan McSweeney made a rare public appearance, courtesy of the Commons' foreign affairs select commit...
Monday, April 27, 2026

The Joy of Six 1510

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Charlie Young, Carole Cadwalladr and Ian Tucker have discovered "a 'revolving door' that has led to dozens of highly experienc...
Monday, April 13, 2026

The Joy of Six 1503

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Marcus Hughes  on the many problems the Welsh government must overcome in achieving its laudable aim of removing private profit from the car...