16 minutes ago About sharing By Michael Race Business reporter, BBC News Discounts will be offered to some households to use less electricity at peak times on Wednesday in a bid to ease demand amid the cold weather snap. Suppliers signed up to the National Grid ESO scheme will offer money back to customers with…
Politics / November 28, 2023 Kevin McCarthy’s Empire of Lies The former House speaker is currently spouting a wildly inaccurate take on the history of American empire. John Nichols Ad Policy Former speaker of the House Representative Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) listens during a press conference with members of the House Select Committee on the Chinese…
Video shows relieved workers finally exiting a tunnel that partially caved in after a landslide.
2 hours ago About sharing Marianna Budanova has a masters degree in psychology and worked several years ago as an adviser to the Kyiv mayor By Jaroslav Lukiv BBC News The wife of Ukraine’s spy chief, Lt Gen Kyrylo Budanov, is being treated in hospital for suspected poisoning with heavy metals, a Ukrainian intelligence source…
Ru Freeman “A statement from millions moving as one affirming a single truth: that what is done to one, must be felt by us all.” —Ru Freeman The post A Historic March in London appeared first on The Nation.
37 minutes ago About sharing Wintry weather on the way later this week By Simon King & George Wright BBC Weather and BBC News Snow and ice are set to sweep across large parts of the UK in a series of wintry showers. The Met Office says people should get ready for potentially “hazardous conditions”…
Books & the Arts / November 28, 2023 A Future Called Europe Can the European Union be salvaged? Can the European Union Be Salvaged? New books by Timothy Garton Ash and Loukas Tsoukalis document the moral and political exhaustion of the “EU” generation. Mark Mazower Ad Policy Berlin, December 22, 1989. (Bernard Bisso / Getty)…
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Activism / November 28, 2023 Revolution? Hell Yes! Remembering Amber Hollibaugh The writer, who died last month, spent a lifetime breaking silences around sex. JoAnn Wypijewski Ad Policy Sexual desire had no better advocate than Amber Hollibaugh. If that sentence lands strangely now, it is because Amber, a self-described “lesbian sex radical Marxist ex-hooker incest…
World / November 28, 2023 The Humanitarian Pause Is a Chance to Pull Back From a Mindless War The extended hostage exchange offers the opportunity to move from war to cease-fire to negotiations. Jeet Heer Ad Policy An adult entertains children while waiting for the handover of Israeli hostages who have been held in Gaza…