Himm.. annuling the current immigration policy would be a good start.

Himm.. annuling the current immigration policy would be a good start.

A tweet from Pope Leo XIV that reads: “When simulation becomes the norm, it weakens the human capacity for discernment. As a result, our social bonds close in upon themselves, forming self-referential circuits that no longer expose us to reality. We thus come to live within bubbles, impermeable to one another. Feeling threatened by anyone who is different, we grow unaccustomed to encounter and dialogue. In this way, polarization, conflict, fear and violence spread. What is at stake is not merely the risk of error, but a transformation in our very relationship with truth.”

Apparently the Pope has read Baudrillard.

novels I enjoyed them. I also loved the posters. I need to find them.

My return to the classical noir films has been replaced by the classical spy movies this week. Here are two of them. I'm always a bit wary about spy movies because usually they end up being poor adaptations of very good novels. I read same comments for those movies too. But since I didn't read the+

…Our government has no clue about this of course. It thinks they’re just great entrepreneurs. Anti-ideas, it doesn’t attend to the ideas of those it courts.

But rescuing the thinking Karp wants to wipe out & creating other concepts of the future is a vital task now: politically & culturally.

I’m glad Palantir has summarised Karp’s book in a ‘manifesto’. In this country it didn’t get the sustained attention required.

It’s also necessary to know that much of it is an expression of subcultures formed online - some ‘New Atheist’ and so-called Rationalist sites - over decades…

Palantir should be nowhere near NHS..

* Not 'tomorrow' obviously - 'yesterday.'

* Not 'tomorrow' obviously - 'yesterday.'

Then, today, Modi gave a speech apologising from women and accusing the opposition by being against expanding women's rights in India as if he's the champion of women's rights! Indeed, incredible!

expand Parliament from 543 to around 850 seats, which the opposition argued would shift the political balance in favour of Modi's BJP. Everybody is taking their lesson from Hungary.

India Parliament blocks Modi’s bid to redraw voting boundaries alongside seat quota for women A bill to reserve a third of seats for women lawmakers failed to pass in the lower house of India’s Parliament on Friday, along with a separate, linked proposal to expand the national legislature by r...

In the meantime, in India today and tomorrow - amazing! Apparently, Modi proposed a bill reserving 33% of seats for women in Parliament and state legislatures. It's rejected. Because the bill was tied to a contentious plan to redraw voting boundaries and+
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expand Parliament from 543 to around 850 seats, which the opposition argued would shift the political balance in favour of Modi's BJP. Everbody is taking their lesson from Hunagry.

A Widening Gulf | Adam Hanieh, Nawal Arjini “It would be a mistake to treat the Gulf as politically homogeneous. The war has clearly shown the weight of Saudi Arabia and the UAE, but it has not eliminated the different calculations of other Gul...

“Authoritarianism should never be treated as a purely political phenomenon, as though it were simply a matter of strong rulers, weak institutions, or some supposed cultural predisposition.” —an interview with Adam Hanieh

I think he's telling the truth. But the thing is this doesn't help him because of various reasons like he's already so unpopular; his poor judgement is still an issue etc..

will not stp them. Their crackdown on the opposition will increase. And they'll invent new ways to guarantee their rule.

Erdoğan tightens grip on Turkey in latest moves against rivals [FREE TO READ] Government’s relentless crackdown on dissent is among the worst in modern times, say analysts

This is important because we can all be sure that those autocrats will take their lesson from Orban's defeat as we also do. Orban isn't a model for Trump anymore, and Erdogan knows that it's more possible for him to lose in the elections than the thought. But this+
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So much of the Mandelson affair involves people making objectively insane decisions and thinking, well, this surely will not blow up in my face -- despite substantial precedent that, where Mandelson is concerned, it really will definitely blow up in your face.

It continues remarkable that the Labour ministry is pissing away the opportunities presented by its once-in-a-generation 174-seat majority in the House of Commons on the twin altars of pretending that Peter Mandelson wasn't a wrong 'un and appeasing elderly racists.

Don't worry; it's not as scary as Saw or even Home Alone..

How to Defeat the Authoritarian Message | Journal of Democracy If democracy’s defenders want to push back against authoritarianism, they must learn to tap into patriotic language and a sense of national identity. Such emotional appeals shouldn’t be left to…

This article correctly identifies that fight for democracy needs to beyond institutions and include fighting with words. But it gets rhetoric and its relation with politics so wrong that it ends up merely suggesting using more patriotic language.
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Local election debate in Norwich, on 21 April.

I think this is true. I know coolness is popular but personally I do believe in immersing yourself in what you're doing, and enjoying it.

It shouldn't have left it in the first place. Lots of young people missed this opportunity. Better late than never I guess..

Also, whoever came up with the idea of Succession theme at the background, he/she is genious!!

Note how he doesn't just define himself against an enemy but personifies the enemy by naming Ken Griffin and how much he paid for his penthouse.

This is how to create definition about what you stand for.

In order communicate your politics, first you need to have a politics. But communicating them clearly really matters. Also, it's amazing how he turns the idea of 'city' sth into political. Very ancient Greece, isn't it?

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