James Meek
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There is an imagined working class, that largely no longer exists and a modern working class that the political class rarely interact with outside of service provision.
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Elizabeth Warren
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Today, I'm introducing my wealth tax â and more than 50 members of Congress are joining me. Itâs time for the government to start working for American families, not just the ultra-rich.
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Iain Mansfield
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There is something profoundly unserious about demanding the country spends vast sums on reducing its carbon emissions and then calling for a massive fossil fuel subsidy to consumers the moment gas prices rise.
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George Monbiot
9 days ago
These people have a funny way of saying "Environmentalists have been proved right yet again."
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Bob Hawkins
9 days ago
Donald Trump is still continuing discussions with an unnamed Iranian leader.
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It is given to few to draft their own epitaph
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Albert Pinto
25 days ago
Yep, largest TACO. The enemy gets a vote. Iran delivered PAIN to Trump via multiple paths: (1) Hormuz Chokehold (2) Gulf Kings (3) Financial meltdown Domestic politics of war termination then requires Trump to sell strategic defeat as Iran "crying uncle" & US "winning"
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Danish state broadcaster reporting how, after Venezuela, Denmark sent transfusion blood for combat casualties and explosives for runway demolition to Greenland. (American-made) Danish fighters sent for âexercisesâ carried war loadouts of weapons
www.dr.dk/nyheder/indl...
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Danmark forberedte sig pÄ muligt angreb fra USA: FlÞj poser med blod til GrÞnland og gjorde klar til at sprÊnge landingsbaner i luften
NÞglekilder i Danmark og Europa fortÊller nu for fÞrste gang, hvad der skete i de mest kritiske dage, hvor Donald Trump truede med at tage GrÞnland "pÄ den hÄrde mÄde".
https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/indland/groenland/danmark-forberedte-sig-paa-muligt-angreb-fra-usa-floej-poser-med-blod-til-groenland-og-gjorde-klar
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan
18 days ago
They said it would take 193 years to clean Londonâs air. We did it in nine. đš London has now met legal limits for nitrogen dioxide air pollution.
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London, San Francisco and Beijing achieve âremarkable reductionsâ in air pollution
Cycle lanes, electric cars and other interventions have helped 19 global cities slash levels of pollutants by more than 20%
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/mar/12/london-san-francisco-and-beijing-achieve-remarkable-reductions-in-air-pollution
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Quinn Slobodian
18 days ago
Reminder to avoid the Thiel distraction. A point weâve been hitting on tour is the temptation to apply intellectual history methods to a regime of accumulation (digital capitalism) is misguided. You wonât understand the Tech Right by reading books (they donât read). Look at how they run their firms.
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The Secretary of War of the United States of America, ladies and gentlemen. Book now. Must close soon.
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John Reed
24 days ago
Why aren't Iranians rising up to challenge their regime, as they did in January? Many answers here in this insightful report by the FT's Teheran correspondent Najmeh Bozorgmehr
as.ft.com/r/6e31d260-f...
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David Whitley
23 days ago
They should put a monkey on the ÂŁ50 note and a pony on the ÂŁ10 note to confuse the hell out cockneys.
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Jeremy Smith
26 days ago
Lebanese are just dead. Israelis are killed.
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Paul Laity
26 days ago
www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
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Marthaâs rule may have saved 400 lives so far in England, figures show
Exclusive: System brought in after death of 13-year-old is helping âtransform cultureâ of NHS, says patient safety director
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/mar/08/marthas-rule-may-have-saved-400-lives-so-far-in-england-figures-show
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Norm Charlatan
26 days ago
I think this is about the temperature but honestly it works for decades as well
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London Review of Books
28 days ago
âMy father and I went to hand in our empty cylinder and returned with eight kilos of cooking gas. Other men were carrying cylinders home with children walking beside them as if they were guarding treasure.â Hassan Ayman Herzallah in Gaza, new on the blog.
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ma...
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Hassan Ayman Herzallah | Eight Kilos of Gas
For months, I had watched our pile of firewood shrink. We didnât burn it to keep warm but reserved it for cooking....
https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/march/eight-kilos-of-gas
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The war of theocracies
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On being in Kyiv in 1991, and now
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âA woman screams from a high balcony: âHelp me! Iâm freezing to death!ââ â novelist James Meek returns to Kyiv
Stepping off the night train, full of memories of his life there three decades ago, the writer finds a changed city fighting for survival
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/28/novelist-james-meek-returns-to-kyiv-ukraine?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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pickwick
about 1 month ago
Remember when parties who lost elections used to be like "This is a strong message from the electorate and we will listen and learn and change" rather than "Fuck everyone who didn't vote for us, you're all extremists trying to destroy Britain"
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Kate Watson
about 1 month ago
I do feel like our national responsibility to evacuate UK citizens in the Middle East who went there on purpose to avoid paying UK tax is fairly limited.
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Ukraine Has Passed a Point of No Return
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/22/o...
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Opinion | Ukraine Has Passed a Point of No Return
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/22/opinion/ukraine-russia-war-four-years.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
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Casey Stegman
about 1 month ago
The Supreme Court:
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White museumgoersâ dismay at the restoration of ancient sculptureâs true colours
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James Austin
about 1 month ago
Okay, this is quite outstanding from Bedford Council.
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Very much looking forward to this - do come along
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Nash Is Here For It
about 2 months ago
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Sarah B âż đđđđđđđ
about 2 months ago
The caliber of person that Goodwin has campaigning for him in Denton and Gorton, via
@manchestermill.bsky.social
- 'I wouldn't touch a Jewish woman': Meet the Reform team in Gorton and Denton
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'I wouldn't touch a Jewish woman': Meet the Reform team in Gorton and Denton
Members of Reform's campaign team shared racist content online and aligned themselves with far-right groups
https://share.google/SJZ1GeUkW524PqYDf
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Finally someone in Kyiv talking sense about the mad cycle of rebuilding mega plants the Russians are just going to destroy again
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Kyiv combined heating and power plant stops again after new Russian strike, district head proposes alternatives
Kyivâs combined heating and power plant 6 in the Troieshchyna neighbourhood stopped again after another Russian strike on 12 February.
https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2026/02/12/8020728/
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London Review of Books
about 2 months ago
âGeorgescuâs political programme is based on the need to heal Romania by creating a synthetic medieval country, agrarian, artisanal, patriarchal, self-sufficient in organic food, purged of chemicals, purged of modernity, purged of everything and everyone he dislikes.â
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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James Meek · Far-Right Wellness Product: Romaniaâs Far Right
CÄlin Georgescuâs entire political programme, in so far as he has one, is based on the need to heal Romania by...
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n03/james-meek/far-right-wellness-product
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London Review of Books
about 2 months ago
Issue 48.03 is now online, featuring: Seamus Perry on pluralism and poetry James Wolcott on John Updike
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on the Romanian right Claire Hall on Archimedes John Gallagher on early modern news
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on the US Special Forces Read online at
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Jim Waterson
about 2 months ago
Re-upping this for the Monday crowd... I think my favourite, most revealing detail is that the guy seems to not realise he's in trouble because London Centric's reporting didn't hit anything like his view counts, so therefore it can't really matter.
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The best Epstein account Iâve read so far: about the place of the women in those menâs world
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Sex and snacks, but no seat at the table: the role of women in Epsteinâs sordid menâs club
Files reveal a world of flattery and fratboy tones, where rich men are cultivated and women provide services
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/feb/07/sex-and-snacks-but-no-seat-at-the-table-the-role-of-women-in-epsteins-sordid-mens-club?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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London Review of Books
about 2 months ago
On Wednesday 18 February, journalist, novelist and đđđ contributing editor James Meek will be at the
@londonreviewbookshop.co.uk
to discuss his latest novel, đ đ°đ¶đł đđȘđ§đŠ đđȘđ”đ©đ°đ¶đ” đđŠ, with Lara Pawson. Tickets here:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/james-meek...
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James Meek & Lara Pawson: Your Life Without Me
James Meek & Lara Pawson: Your Life Without Me
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/james-meek-lara-pawson-your-life-without-me-tickets-1976443825687?aff=oddtdtcreator
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Also grateful to Stuart Kelly for this, with I think a ten year old photo?
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Your Life Without Me, by James Meek review: 'his most ambitious work to date'
James Meekâs latest novel manages to combine the cerebral and the sensitive with great elegance, writes Stuart Kelly
https://www.scotsman.com/arts-and-culture/books/your-life-without-me-by-james-meek-review-his-most-ambitious-work-to-date-5495733
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Thanks to Catherine Taylor for this thoughtful and insightful review in the FT
www.ft.com/content/e88b...
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Your Life Without Me by James Meek â uneasy aftermaths
Strained family relationships, grief and the tension between heritage and modernity come together in an engrossing and provocative novel
https://www.ft.com/content/e88bdcee-a33e-477f-b58e-7bd06f86f35c
about 2 months ago
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This has come out into the world
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Robert Hutton
about 2 months ago
HOW? HOW DOES THE BBC "UNDERSTAND" THESE THINGS? Ouija board? Cup attached to a piece of string?
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Paul Mason
about 2 months ago
My cover story for this week's The New World
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Emma Jacobs
about 2 months ago
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Amazing insight into the tawdry detail of snouts in the trough favour peddling that hardly died with Epstein
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Banned Wikipedia entry from 2027: The former democracy known as the United States of America lasted for 250 years, fewer than four lifetimes. Long after the end, residents would still describe themselves as living in a democracy, and as part of, even leaders of, âthe free worldâ.
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Trump, in an Escalation, Calls for Republicans to âNationalizeâ Elections
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/us/politics/trump-nationalize-elections.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
about 2 months ago
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Highlighting the limitations
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Dan Waterfield
2 months ago
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London Review of Books
2 months ago
âEver since Trumpâs obsession with Greenland emerged, he and his underlings have been coming up with reasons why it should become part of America, not one of which makes much sense.â
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in Greenland, from last year:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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James Meek · âEverything is possibleâ: In Greenland
Greenland has considerable powers to run its own affairs and on paper Greenlanders have the same rights within the...
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n07/james-meek/everything-is-possible
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James Hawes
2 months ago
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From the ever sound Owen Hatherley
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How the Soviet Union got over Stalin â or thought it did
His successors proclaimed a more liberal socialism. But was it ever real?
https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/book-of-the-day/2026/01/how-the-soviet-union-got-over-stalin-or-thought-it-did
2 months ago
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Nesrine Malik
2 months ago
On passing through the veil into fascism
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