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John Bolton & Abuses of the Espionage Act Chip Gibbons says the Trump administration should not be using the Espionage Act against Bolton, who himself used the overly broad, archaic law as a tool for political persecution.  By Chip Gibbon...

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Trump's Military Occupation of America Nick Turse covers the U.S. president's push in the direction of a genuine police state as he deploys armed forces in U.S. cities and proclaims he is waging a "war from within." By Nick Turse TomDi...

Trump’s Military Occupation of America consortiumnews.com/2025/10/17/t...

Trump Admits Complicity in Genocide In his speech to the Knesset, Trump told Netanyahu: "We make the best weapons in the world, and we’ve got a lot of them. And we’ve given a lot to Israel ... [And] you used them well," writes Marjorie ...

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UK Free Zones are the most underreported transformations of democratic governance in modern British history. I think what’s happening in the UK with free zones represents one of the most significant, and underreported transformations of democratic governance in modern British history.

UK Free Zones are the most underreported transformations of democratic governance in modern British history.
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The Far-Right ‘Brain Rot’ Radicalising the British Press Elon Musk's X is pushing politicians and journalists in Westminster into an increasingly dark place

The Far-Right ‘Brain Rot’ Radicalising the British Press
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When will the Trump bubble burst? Donald Trump has built his entire political project on hype and delusion — the same ingredients that fuel every economic bubble. But belief cannot defy reality forever. When cruelty replaces competenc...

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It’s time for democracy to topple those who would be king As The Guardian notes this morning: Millions are expected to show out for protests on Saturday at more than 2,500 locations across America, from small towns to large cities, to speak against the Trump...

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Quantum(ish) Essay: What if Darwin was wrong? The case for the survival of the wisest I had hoped to post chapter 4 of the Quantum Biology series this morning. However, for all sorts of good reasons, we have decided to refine it before doing so, mainly because we see it as pretty funda...

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Rachel Reeves’ nasty prejudice is coming into play As the Guardian notes this morning: Rachel Reeves has said she “can’t leave welfare untouched” this parliament, with the Treasury understood to be considering axing up to £1bn in tax breaks for a sch...

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Red Tractor Ad Banned for Misleading Environmental Claims Badges are a convenient way to switch off thinking.

Red Tractor Ad Banned for Misleading Environmental Claims
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A tale of two chants: Why Starmer now casts even the British police as antisemitic Starmer wanted punk band Bob Vylan prosecuted for chanting 'Death to the IDF!' Four months on, he's bullying the police to let Israeli football thugs into the UK to chant 'Death to the Arabs!'

A tale of two chants: Why Starmer now casts even the British police as antisemitic
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Why do I still do this at 67? People keep asking why I still make these videos every day at the age of 67. The truth is simple: our economy is still deeply unfair. I’ve seen inequality, prejudice, and the injustice created by priv...

Why do I still do this at 67? www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/10...

The Chinese have worked it out: stablecoins are the privatisation of money The FT reports this morning that: Chinese tech giants have paused plans to issue stablecoins in Hong Kong, after Beijing raised concerns about the rise of currencies controlled by the private sector. ...

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The difficulty of building political economic narratives based on metaphors I spend a lot of time thinking about metaphors. It may not sound like the work of an economist, but if you want to build a political economy that people can believe in, you have to. Because economics,...

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Question Time, and more It is only three weeks since my elder son, James, joined the Funding the Future team, but my thinking on a great many issues is developing as a result of his arrival because of the significant extra c...

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Genomics Has Revealed An Age Undreamed Of The genomics revolution has shown us our barbaric past. It now also forces us to decide our future.

Genomics Has Revealed An Age Undreamed Of
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Bearded Dragons Aren’t Pets, They’re Prisoners Bearded dragons are one of the most commonly kept reptiles in the United Kingdom, with over a million reptiles in households as of 2024.

Bearded Dragons Aren’t Pets, They’re Prisoners
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Israel Flipped Out And Killed 45 Palestinians After Running Over Their Own Bomb Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley):

Israel Flipped Out And Killed 45 Palestinians After Running Over Their Own Bomb
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Genesis and madness of the big tech billionaire From Dot-com revolution to AI bubble and the "antichrist"

Genesis and madness of the big tech billionaire
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The Corporate Carve-Up: How Brexit Enabled the Systematic Privatisation of Britain An investigation into the network of over 140 enterprise zones transforming Britain into a patchwork of corporate sovereignties

The Corporate Carve-Up: How Brexit Enabled the Systematic Privatisation of Britain
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US Politics Is Just Nonstop Fake Revolutions Now Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley):

US Politics Is Just Nonstop Fake Revolutions Now
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Kair Starmer hopelessly confused after Maccabi Tel Aviv fans banned from football match... in Tel Aviv It’s a matter of days since the most sensible prime minister ever declared it is antisemitic to ban Israeli hooligans from a football match.

Kair Starmer hopelessly confused after Maccabi Tel Aviv fans banned from football match... in Tel Aviv
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Goodness me, this news about crumbling NHS buildings is *terrible*... Hello, Firstly, thank you *so much* for all of your support last week.

Goodness me, this news about crumbling NHS buildings is *terrible*...
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Labour's Planning Bill: pro-growth changes disastrous for wildlife Protect the Wild says there is no justification for sacrificing nature to “get Britain building”.

Labour's Planning Bill: pro-growth changes disastrous for wildlife
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Straight Outta Richmal Crompton The 'Just William' books were read by a generation who also grew up with the security of a functioning social contract. Today's young people are facing a very different future.

Straight Outta Richmal Crompton
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New Painting: Medea Benjamin One of my favorite anti-war heroes.

New Painting: Medea Benjamin
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Trump Admits Complicity in Genocide In his speech to the Knesset, Trump told Netanyahu: "We make the best weapons in the world, and we’ve got a lot of them. And we’ve given a lot to Israel ... [And] you used them well," writes Marjorie ...

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Chris Hedges: Edward Said Lecture, 'Requiem for Gaza' Journalist Chris Hedges delivers the 2025 Edward Said Memorial Lecture, "Requiem for Gaza" in Adelaide, Australia. https://youtu.be/MGqtPIR8rFU Chris Hedges gives the second talk of his 2025 Australi...

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AS'AD AbuKHALIL: A Return to the Balfour Declaration Donald Trump's twenty-point plan offers nothing political for the Palestinians. It creates a joint U.S.-Israel occupation.  By As`ad AbuKhalil Special to Consortium News The highly touted picture...

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Israel's Untold Environmental Genocide All my investigations are free to read, thanks to the enormous generosity of my readers.

Israel's Untold Environmental Genocide
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