I enjoyed this recent @mattpolprof.bsky.social piece on Habermas, which makes the sympathetic observation that Habermas *wanted* philosophy to be dull and difficult, if by that you mean modest and respectful of the arguments of others www.liberalcurrents.com/also-a-revie...
Here is a tale of ordinary misogyny.
Except it isn’t. This man is a barrister who has been warned before, and who feels so secure, that he provides his chambers contact in his Twitter profile.
Here is the Tweet, please follow the thread:
even in a "history is written by the victors" sense, theres no alternate story here. neither nation believes it needs any kind of cover story where this savagery is justified or moral. they haven't even bothered to try and put together a rough draft. just wanton and gleeful butchery
the united states is fundamentally a party to these actions, and many of its own actions are also completely and totally out of control. any credible chronicle of world events would conclude that these two nations have gone so rogue that they are imperiling much if not all of the planet. malign
under the plain terms of any known and accepted moral framework, the nation of israel is definitionally completely and totally out of control. rampaging horde type shit at this point
The center-right Le Monde editorial board this morning:
“Farage has said he wishes the party "hadn't bothered" to take minority control of Worcestershire County Council, because of its financial problems”
V much summing up his approach to power.
Grifting and gobshiting - yes please.
Hard work and responsibility - god no.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
A more honest and accurate headline would be:
"Trump assured massive profits to fuel Putin's war on Europe while simultaneously paying off oil execs who bankrolled his campaign."
Fascinating that the US is burning down its own regional system for really just nothing at all
No, I am not worried about 'declining' birth rates, I accept them as post-modern birth rates, the birth rates that naturally happen once the conditions are set that children can be expected to survive to adulthood reliably and that women are allowed to be educated and become full citizens.
Jürgen Habermas, whose work on communication, rationality and sociology made him one of the world’s most influential philosophers and a key intellectual figure in his native Germany, has died. He was 96. https://to.pbs.org/4bbc9gw
6th March/14th March BBC lead stories.
"The cause of the blast isn't immediately known but it has come very shortly after Israel warned people to clear the area as it was planning a strike"
"isn't immediately known"
Sky reporting a large explosion in Tehran in a square packed with people on the Al Quds day march
I wrote a book called 'Butler to the World' about the UK's post-empire business model of selling kleptocratic services to baddies. I worry that butlerism has entered the soul of our political class, and they're geopolitically incapable of doing anything but donning white gloves and bringing drinks.
I would like to vote for a party that said: "we keep being buffeted by forces outside our control. This is because we've allowed our capabilities to degrade. We're going to build them up again so some moron can't just bankrupt us with a stupid idea. It will take a while but here's the plan".
The reason the media are going after Zack Polanski:
His opposition to Israel's genocide & Iran war
The media is not your friend
Not even the Nazis expressly announced they were committing war crimes. Indeed, at Nuremberg war crimes were denied.
But here, openly, the US Secretary for Defense is explicitly admitting to committing war crimes.
The British government gave watchdogs fewer than two days to vet the country’s new Investment Minister Poppy Gustafsson — despite dozens of mentions of her name in two complex fraud cases. 👉 www.politico.eu/article/unit...
BREAKING: ITV News uncovers first known photo of Andrew, Mandelson and Epstein together
www.itv.com/news/2026-03...
It’s almost like Putin and Netanyahu control our foreign policy.
We just learned that 6,000 companies have contracts with ICE. Not just a few hundred. SIX THOUSAND.
We have a lot of boycotting and demands to make, folks.
If you haven’t heard from Sienna or Jeremy before, then you’ll find this one very helpful in a way that newspaper and magazine politics podcasts almost never are. They are quite blunt about the situation and why it is like this.
Thought this was unusually clear-sighted on those doing perfectly well in current political climate not willing to accept UK needs anything beyond mild tinkering at the edges then being bewildered they're not more popular.
We have awarded these people contracts in the Ministry of Defence. What the fuck are we doing.
You've all heard of the Resource Curse: countries are impoverished by rich resources in their territories, as these trigger colonial looting.
Now we see the Base Curse: if you host a US base, you don't enhance your security. You make yourself a target.
It's depressing that this project is even possible, because the premise of it is 'give us some of your land and resources, we don't want to live like you'. www.ft.com/content/c733...
A company being awarded UK Government contracts👇🏻
Interesting how all the right-wing and pro-Israel accounts here remain obsessed about Mamdani and his wife but barely a peep about the Manhattan Institute poll that revealed a majority of young Republicans are Holocaust deniers and love Nick Fuentes, who praises Hitler and is an open anti-semite.
DOGE canceled research grants because they mentioned LGBTQ.
The person making the call had no experience reviewing grants and admitted no research informed the decision.
And this is the incompetence making federal funding decisions.
#SheShed #Voices4Victory
The number of legal abortions in Poland doubled in 2024, while complaints to Polish authorities over conscience clause refusals in the country have apparently ceased. The government had told hospitals they are obliged to provide abortion on the legal grounds of a woman's mental health.
