politics

Playing with fire from cassandra05 114 days old

“Undoubtedly the science is changing. Anyone who plots a learning curve – and we have all been plotting these things for years – would be able to tell ...

Guardian's steady flow of greenwash continues from cassandra05 149 days old

From Private Eye (hat-tip): "Panic stations at the Guardian this month where plans to become "the world's foremost media organisation for environmental ...

Beautiful from cassandra05 239 days old

“That’s the beauty of Gaza. You see a man walking, he doesn’t have to have a weapon, and you can shoot him.” - an IDF soldier explains to Danny Zamir, ...

Six degrees, here we come from cassandra05 248 days old

What a five degree global average temperature rise looks like: What six degrees’ global average temperature rise looks like: What business-as-usual ...

A modest proposal from cassandra05 255 days old

Quotes o’t’ day from cassandra05 259 days old

Some fresh thinking on constitutional reform (from the 17th Century): “If the very existence of arbitrary powers take away freedom, because they take ...

“Who elected you?” from cassandra05 262 days old

Nice promotional video from the US-based media reform campaign group Free Press: In the words of Robert McChesney: “The real issue is, ...

“I can confirm that we are a bunch of lawless thugs …” from cassandra05 269 days old

Out of the mouths of babes and British Colonels (hat-tip): “We have exactly the same problem [as Israel] ourselves when, for example, we are fighting ...

Who makes the news? Not journalists from cassandra05 273 days old

An insight, courtesy of the lovely people at pro-aviation lobby group Flying Matters, into a vital outsourced arm of the modern news factory: “Michelle ...

The “new anti-semitism” returns, again from cassandra05 279 days old

There is an unending supply of dubious claims in the British media. Some, however, are rather more easy to discern than others. When Prozac Nation author ...