Showing posts with label US Society. Show all posts
Showing posts with label US Society. Show all posts
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

Woman ‘posed as substitute teacher to insult students because she hates kids’

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Metro wins Headline of the Day and may just have identified a phenomenon that explains some of my own school experiences.

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...
Tuesday, October 06, 2026

The Joy of Six 1587

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Cathy Mongaghan says Essex County Council's Operation Vanguard shows what can happen when a party built on amplifying fear and division...
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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...
Monday, September 28, 2026

The Joy of Six 1583

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The New World warns that Rupert Lowe is coming for your parents: "Lowe’s success exemplifies how Facebook has weaponised the anxieties...
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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...
Thursday, September 17, 2026

Whatever happened to Connie Converse?

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Connie Converse provided my music choice on Sunday. YouTube being YouTube, there are any number of videos about her disappearance in 1974 a...
Wednesday, September 16, 2026

Coyote vs. Acme: "A warm and witty and weirdly moving film"

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I went into Leicester yesterday to see Coyote vs. Acme – or "Coyote and Acme" as the lawyers are no doubt calling it. As to my ver...

The Joy of Six 1577

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Sam Bright says the government's indecision on how to meet the threat of Nigel Farage has cost us all: "Labour has been dismally s...
Sunday, September 13, 2026

Connie Converse: Roving Woman

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From an article on the BBC website by Thomas Hobbs : Centring on an edgy, city-dwelling female protagonist unapologetically owning her sexua...
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...
Saturday, September 05, 2026

The Joy of Six 1572

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"How did a former lawyer-turned theologian become Reform UK’s lead ideologue and political heavyweight on so many issues? To understand...
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...
Friday, August 28, 2026

The Joy of Six 1568

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Tom Perry links to a review of the duty to report child sexual abuse brought in by the Crime and Policing Act 2026. It finds that because o...
Monday, August 17, 2026

Olly Lambert's The Devil in the Family: The Fall of Ruby Franke

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Olly Lambert's three-part documentary The Devil in the Family: The Fall of Ruby Franke , which is currently on the BBC website , is a br...
Saturday, August 15, 2026

The Joy of Six 1562

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"Every large fire has two causes, the spark that lights it and the conditions that let it become so severe. Naming the fire, though, ca...
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...
Sunday, August 09, 2026

The Joy of Six 1559

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"Violence has prevailed against the freedom of the press. I was denied the right to report on the disgraceful acts which later unfolded...

The Coasters: Yakety Yak

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Isn't this brilliant? It has everything, from a situation every Fifties American teenager would have been familiar with to an irresistib...