"Many of the jobs performed by immigrants are best understood as a kind of mirage. They exist only because immigrants are available to perform them."

I expect if we just left the ocean alone for 100 years there would be a lot more to discover.

The shift is: A lot fewer black and hispanic people in top schools. The power structure reasserts itself.

Amongst the curses of the world, how big a curse is the "out of office" email?

You just know that every word of this review is true.

Strange headline. I don't believe anybody is questioning Amazon's motives.

Like the days of Woody Guthrie.

Thought this was just a joke when I saw the meme. Well or course it is in one sense, but nonetheless someone has written a book with this thesis. This will no doubt put the Shakespeare authorship "controversy" to rest for some time

I feel that we do not take enough cognizance of how Trump encouraged the Iranian protestors and promised help was on the way. What an incredible betrayal.

Resistance and obeisance

I wrote this yesterday about the hero city of Minneapolis www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKOW...

Every sentence of this article is embarrassing. And hilarious. It is the most Susan Alexander Kane thing that has ever happened.

Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has agreed to join the "Peace Board" — but could not attend today’s signing ceremony as he’s wanted by the ICC for war crimes.

This is great

In any other context, requiring a high-productivity sector to offshore the production of its highest value-added exports would be seen as the economic illiteracy it so obviously is... www.ft.com/content/a23c...

So interesting that Trump's favourite film is supposed to be Citizen Kane. He seems to have missed the central theme and took it as a guide to life. What does Melania think?

Fortunately this was not about personal ambition.

Time for a Labour/Tory coalition. Least bad scenario I fear.

This is not going to happen and no one believes it is going to happen.

"The UK is the country with the steepest year-on-year losses on the index, now having visa-free access to 182 destinations, eight fewer than it had 12 months ago."

Depressing article about the massive class differences in the USA that make the lives of almost everyone much worse. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/o...

If this is true it means that Greggs is a public health menace, like tobacco and gambling companies.

Nicolás Maduro Charged With Felony Oil Possession

Francesco Gino will soon become a victim of "woke Harvard" with a Trump pardon on the way.

✍️ Please sign and share my latest petition! In November, the government announced plans to amend the British Nationality Act to make citizenship harder to obtain. So after migrants meet new ILR requirements, they'll wait longer, pay more, jump through MORE hoops. 🧵 Here's why this is unfair… /1

"A Tamil-language version of the 2013 film Raanjhanaa was re-released in August 2025 – with its tragic ending rewritten as a happy one by AI."

This is a good obituary. Such an iconic figure. Even her grumpy later years are intriguing. "Bardot was in court so often that, in 2008, the prosecutor declared that he was "weary" of charging her."

And unlike nearly all of the people he is now locked up with, Mr. Schoonwinkel is white — a fact that has led to some bewilderment among his fellow detainees. “They all ask me, ‘What are you doing here?’” he said.

Conservation isn’t about saving the most threatened, it’s about saving the most popular. A $2B system protecting mascots while entire species vanish. If you care about biodiversity loss, you need to read this.

Since it's a tense time of year 🫠

One very brave person.

Le regard de notre caricaturiste Chloé sur l'actualité du 22 décembre 2025 👉 bit.ly/4pWz0RY

This article starts with "Hindsight makes experts of us all ..." but what it evidently does not make us experts in is in the hindsight bias since (like so much journalism) this is what the article is displaying for us.

Gunning for that Nobel peace prize.

The BBC reliably bring out this nonsense article with its clickbait title. Answer is unequivocally yes. I like how they say "apart from the lack of booze, are they healthier..." What does that even mean?

Zone of Interest II. Coming soon.

This is my cyclical reminder that there's really only one consistently reliable source of info in the public record that isn't owned by right wing billionaires, who really want to put an end to it. Please give at least the $2.75 minimum they request if you can. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

If you randomly select an option for this question, the probability that your answer is true will be A. 0% B. 25% C. 50% D. 25%

Read the details of this and discover an astonishing scam.

I think the number one priority of every American should be to do what they can to rid themselves of this evil.

If the Lords can actually block legislation why did they not block Brexit? Obviously the House should be abolished.

Rockstar developing a new title in which the Pinkertons are the heroes.

“Dutch people cycle an average of 2.6km each per day. If this pattern was replicated worldwide, annual carbon emissions would drop by 686 million tonnes. This mammoth figure exceeds the entire carbon footprint of most countries, including the UK, Canada, Saudi Arabia and Australia.” @euronews.com

One of the terrible things about the culture wars is how the older generation is harming the prospects of the younger. The recent Brexit poll, showing how so many Brexit voters have died, underlined this for me.

Nice Sankey diagram. Hope it is accurate. Hope it guides policy.

Stop organizing international conferences in the US. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Just as the British flag is now the racist flag, so Times New Roman is now the fascist font. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

When my kids were growing up I always asked them why Santa gave better presents to rich children than poor children. For similar parents, this video could be shared with your children. Although there is a good chance they have already seen it.

Aujourd'hui, nous nous rappelons les quatorze jeunes femmes dont les vies ont été volées à Polytechnique Montréal il y a 36 ans. Leurs noms nous rappellent les conséquences dévastatrices de la violence fondée sur le sexe et la responsabilité qui accompagne notre souvenir.

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