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Is it becoming illegal to support Palestine? Last week, [America] watched one of the biggest escalations in campus unrest this year unfold, when dozens of New York City police officers clad in riot gear entered the grounds of Columbia University and, on the orders of university president...

Recent discussion reminded me of the classic sci-fi movie 'Dark Star'. If you've seen it, you'll know what i mean by 'Alien Beachball' - if you haven't, here's a short clip to show what you're missing... The bomb, having learned Cartesian doubt, trusts only itself. It is convinced that only it...

German Deli in east London is known for its wide variety of traditional sausages, but the post-Brexit border changes brought in last month means stocks are running worryingly low. It has not received a delivery of sausages at its warehouse in Walthamstow since 31 January, when the government...

Rish! Sunak is promising to cut the national debt. But the Tories never eliminated the deficit, and the national debt (the sum of every annual shortfall) has steadily risen from 64.7% of gross domestic product (GDP) in 2010 to 96.5% currently – the highest level since the 1960s. Rish! Sunak has...

Albany, N.Y. (AP) — A New York City man who admitted to smuggling three pythons in his pants through a U.S.-Canadian border crossing was sentenced Wednesday to a year of probation and fined $5,000, federal prosecutors said. Eric Idle; Michael Palin and John Cleese were unavailable for...

...Russia has presided over a massive ramping up of industrial production over the last two years that has outstripped what many western defence planners expected when Vladimir Putin launched his invasion. Total defence spending has risen to an estimated 7.5% of Russia’s GDP, supply chains have...

For the umpteenth time, my son, with an Ikea stuffed ball he has had since infancy, is playing football in the living room. He is joined by one of his best friends, an equally football-obsessed 10-year-old who, before slide-tackling in what can only be described as a deliberate attempt to knock...

If y'all got nuthin' better to do waitin' on the game to kick orff tonite, then take time to watch these guys in Big Bear Valley, California.

Erik Jan Hanussen. Never heard of him, right? I'm not surprised. The NSDAP did a good job of erasing his name from their records after his influence was no longer required and the fact he was Jewish became an awkward subject for them. He was only one of the Jewish influences on Herr...

Liz Truss reveals the 'Popular Conservative's' manifesto. Marina Hyde@the Gurdiana.comedy

The mobile phones of more than 30 people in Jordan, including journalists, lawyers and activists, were hacked with the Israeli-made Pegasus spyware over several years, a new investigation has found. The joint investigation, conducted by the Access Now internet advocacy group, the Citizen Lab...

...Six The weather's on the change, Ice clouds invading - Pressure lines joint in faint discord and the stormwatch brews - A concert of kings as the white sea snaps - At the heels of a soft prayer whispered... Short n' sweet.:mrgreen:

On December 5th, for over five hours, lawmakers grilled the presidents of elite universities in a congressional hearing about antisemitism on college campuses. In one of the testiest exchanges a Republican congresswoman, Elise Stefanik, asked whether “calling for the genocide of Jews” violates...

WITNESS, in the English, usually carries connotations of criminal court. A witness is one who speaks to the veracity of an alleged event. Perhaps the motivations of Gazan reporters, at this later point in the genocide, might be read more through this frame. Despite their professed feelings of...

In his forthcoming book, Superyachts: Luxury, Tranquility and Ecocide, Grégory Salle calculates there were 1,835 superyachts measuring 30 metres or more at the start of the century; within two decades that was over 5,200. Each new one boasts more luxuries than the last: Imax cinema rooms...

Following the news that 'Rock band Green Day altered the lyrics of their well-known song American Idiot to criticize Donald Trump during a televised New Year’s Eve performance; [when] the lead singer, Billie Joe Armstrong, replaced the line “I’m not a part of a redneck agenda” with “I’m not a...

No, it isn't a new fad for a Peloton device... What to do when surrounded by people who are losing their minds about the Newest New Thing? Answer: reach for the Gartner Hype Cycle, an ingenious diagram that maps the progress of an emerging technology through five phases: the “technology...