14 minutes ago About sharing Labour Leader Sir Keir Starmer has said there are “grounds for changing the law” on assisted dying. Sir Keir said MPs should be given a chance to vote with their conscience on the matter. A bill to legalise assisted dying in the UK was defeated in 2015, but was backed…
World / December 21, 2023 The Uses and Abuses of Language in Israel’s War on Palestinians Israel and its allies have deliberately crafted language not only to justify their actions but also to persuade taxpaying publics at home and abroad of their moral correctness. Ad Policy An Israeli soldier writes on a mortar near the…
World / December 21, 2023 Eugene Debs, Walter Reuther, Shawn Fain, and Labor’s Anti-War Legacy The UAW president’s high-profile advocacy for a cease-fire in Gaza renews a tradition of advocacy for peace and justice by class-conscious union leaders. And he’s not alone. John Nichols Ad Policy United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain raises his fist…
/ December 21, 2023 A Memoir for the Post-Truth Era In Sarah Viren’s To Name a Bigger Lie, she investigates how conspiracy theories have changed her relationship to the world. Julia Case-Levine Ad Policy Sarah Viren. (Courtesy of the publisher) When Sarah Viren was 15, she spent a good deal of time, like many teenagers,…
World / December 21, 2023 It’s Time to Negotiate With Russia Diplomacy will be ugly, but peace must be the ultimate goal. Ross Barkan Ad Policy Ukrainian soldiers pass by a volunteer bus burning after a Russian drone hit it near Bakhmut, Donetsk region, Ukraine, on November 23, 2023. (Shandyba Mykyta, Ukrainian 10th Mountain Assault…
World / December 21, 2023 A Measure of Justice at Last for Victor Jara Fifty years after the famed Chilean folksinger was murdered by Pinochet’s military, his alleged executioner has finally been deported from the United States to Chile. Peter Kornbluh Ad Policy Victor Jara. (Getty Images) On December 1—just two days after the death…
5 hours ago About sharing R-CPD can be painful and cause “socially awkward” symptoms, researchers said By Aurelia Foster Health reporter People who cannot burp suffer embarrassment, anxiety and depression because of the condition, on top of physical pain, researchers say. Retrograde cricopharyngeus dysfunction (R-CPD) causes abdominal bloating, “socially awkward” gurgling noises from the chest…
19 minutes ago About sharing Sam Ryder’s You’re Christmas To Me is challenging the classic festive favourites By Ian Youngs & Mark Savage BBC News Wham!, Sam Ryder and Mariah Carey are all vying for this year’s Christmas number one, in one of the most open festive chart battles of recent years. Thursday is the…
Banning clubs from joining a European Super League was unlawful and Uefa and Fifa are “abusing a dominant position”, the European Court of Justice has ruled. It had been claimed by the ESL and its backers, A22, that Uefa and Fifa were breaking competition law by threatening to sanction clubs and players who joined the…
Residents in the Parkerville area of Perth were warned to leave the area, due to a threat to life.