Amen’s jumper by the all-American preppy label J Crew has sent thousands of Maga Americans into meltdown. From a fashion point of view, it couldn’t be more innocuous. It’s got a crew neck. It’s made from wool. It has a Fair Isle pattern at the upper yoke. There’s nothing asymmetric about it, no fringing or tassels, no slogan blasted across the front; no “Make America Kind Again”. So what’s the big deal? Reader, the jumper is pink.
If the Greens are serious about redistributing unearned wealth, they should widen their focus from Mr and Mrs Megabucks to well-to-do families across the country who, just by dint of being sufficiently old and/or lucky are sitting in houses that have rocketed in value since the late 90s. But chance would be a fine thing: next May, Polanski and his troops will be marching on inner-London councils such as Hackney, where an ordinary terrace house now fetches just shy of a million pounds, over three times the average across England. Far easier to claim the problem is all a few billionaires.
OK, houses are too expensive. Let’s fix that.
or cheering on the bulldozing of our planning system
That would wpork, yes. Except, of course, Aditya rejects that solution to the very problem he outlines. And it’s also the only answer to the problem he outlines – build 1-0 million more houses is what is needed to bring house prices down.
Fun how he always misses, no?
It’s one outrage in days full of outrageous material.
“Quiet, piggy,” Donald Trump told a female reporter in a press gaggle, pointing his finger at her angrily.
It wasn’t the first time – not even the hundredth time – the US president has attacked the media. And it’s hard for any storyline to break through the administration’s “flood the zone” strategy, much less one like this. Nothing seems to stick. But the “quiet, piggy” clip has taken off, several days after the admonishment occurred on Air Force One last Friday, and without much help from the media itself.
….The anger he displayed in the clip could be a sign of someone on the back foot, overreacting to a question Bloomberg correspondent Catherine Lucey was asking
Anyone asked whether Ms. Lucey’s nickname is, in fact, “Piggy?”
The dossier alleges BBC Panorama doctored a speech by Trump, making him appear to support the January 6 rioters, that its Arabic coverage privileged pro-Hamas views, and that a group of LGBTQ employees had excessive influence on coverage of sex and gender.
Seem well founded complaints. So what does out Guardian journalist say in response?
As someone who has spent years dealing with the issue of impartiality told me, this is an entirely wrongheaded and now discredited view of impartiality, the sort of view that led to airtime being given to climate denial.
Oh, right, well there we are then.
The long-term implications of this are dire. A report in the Lancet tells us that US aid alone prevented more than 4 million deaths – one third of them children – in every year of the first two decades of this century. That support has gone.
If folk had turned around and said thank you – rather than what everyone always did do, which is snarl at the global hegemon for being, well, successful – then it might not have been so easy for someone to turn off that tap.
But the US always, always, was the baddie in social discourse. Even while saving those 4 million a year from death.
Austen makes passing reference to slavery in Emma and Mansfield Park; in the latter it is clear that this is where the Bertram family have made their money. So why not show scenes making this explicit? Why not show Sir Thomas and Tom brutally quashing a slave revolt on their plantation in Antigua? Contemporary readers will probably have inferred this as the purpose of their trip in the novel.
Jesu.
The crossing was 30 days (a v fast one) to 8 weeks. So, news of slave rebellion takes two months to get to England, it takes them two months to get to Antigua. 4 months. By which time either the rebellious slaves have all been hanged or the entire island is in flames.
It’s the stunning ignorance that’s so painful, eh?
Almost 55,000 children in Gaza are estimated to be acutely malnourished, far more than have so far been identified as victims of the potentially lethal condition, a study published in the Lancet, the respected international medical periodical, has revealed.
You know, given those other claims that 380,000 children are dead already – that is, all the children under 5. Or those other other claims of starvation in droves – and no, malnutrition is not the same as starvation.
This isn’t to say that maulnutrition is good, nor that there isn’t suffering etc. Rather, just to point out that we are subject to all sorts of claims at present and they do not seem to actually agree with each other. Therefore at least some of those claims are wwrong.
It has also emerged that he appears to have had Islamic marriages to three women in towns across the north of England at the same time, fathering two young children to one of them.
Farthering on, farthering with but fathering to?
Britain badly needs a grownup party of the centre right. It won’t come from Badenoch – it may come from a new generation of one-nationers
The thing is, one nation Tories are no longer the centre right. That’s the centre left these days. Which explains why Polly likes ’em but not much else.
Leavitt’s words did little to explain Trump’s thinking as to why he might have posted the fake video. But, in truth, it was only the most recent example of increasingly odd behavior from Trump, who has – like his predecessor Joe Biden – been subject to questions over his mental acuity in recent months.
But because R then it’s all v important this time, right?
Liverpool out of tune but Arne Slot working on finding better rhythm
Or is it a synonym.
Beat and melody are entirely different things in music. You don’t correct the tune – or tuning – by changing the rhythm…..
The TikTok deal puts even more media in the hands of the super-rich
Margaret Sullivan
Biden era law of course.
And apparently it’s $14 billion (plus continuing royalties and not for all of it either, and US only).
So, who else has $14 billion other than the rich?
If Europe keeps placating its own far right, how can it possibly stand up to Trump?
Thu Nguyen and Jannik Jansen
As in, if the people, the demos, suffer from false concisouness then it is the duty of the vanguard to correct them, no? To deny the demos what it desires because it shouldn’t want that.
Democracy is only for those with the correct ideas that is.
Wholly middle of the road, reflecting the nation’s will!
The US right has appeared to increase its influence on mainstream media in America in recent weeks, especially in television news which has been a major target of the Donald Trump administration.
All that’s good and holy will be undermined if the MAGA minority has any say at all!
But not every US media business is heading that way – when Mark Guiducci, Vanity Fair’s new editor, reportedly recently floated the the idea of putting Melania Trump on the cover, it prompted backlash from some staffers whose outrage quickly leaked out into the press.
How could anyone think that the US media is institutionally left-leaning?
Adolescence triumphs at the Emmys while The Studio breaks records
Netflix drama dominated limited series categories while first season of Apple TV+ satire became most awarded comedy ever
“Most awarded“? Is this another of those dread Americanisms? No, I do now know what is happening there grammatically – I know no grammar. It’s not an adverb or adjective, so it’s nowt wi’ that. You can award something, it can be awarded. So, erm, turning an active verb into a passive one? Mebbe?
But it jolts to this eye anyway.
‘We took the gloves off’: ex-IDF chief confirms Gaza casualties over 200,000
The usual crowd are now insisting that this shows the Gaza Health Ministry numbers are underestimates. Loudly, in unison.
A former Israeli army commander, Herzi Halevi, has confirmed that more than 200,000 Palestinians have been killed or injured in the war in Gaza, and that “not once” in the course of the conflict were military operations inhibited by legal advice.
Note killed or injured.
The Gaza Health Ministry – Hamas, of course – says 68k killed, 168k injured. Which is, when added together, the number of “casualties”.
The Hamas number is higher than the Israeli one. And yet the Israeli one is being used as proof that the Hamas one is too low. This is also happening in unison from all the usual people.
Isn’t it lovely when people expend so much effort to tell us, bring us, the truth?
The Telegraph paywall seems to be tightening. The normal turn off Java etc now only seems to work for a certain number of pages.
Anyone else seeing this?
The contempt and outrage of the rightwing media towards relatively effective ministers such as Ed Miliband comes from a similar place of entitlement.
The delusion is strong here, no?
Woody Allen rebuts Ukrainian condemnation over Moscow film festival appearance
Somebody uses the right word.
If this was a lefty disputing a claim then the word usually used would be “refutes”. Refutes means “disprove” not “argues back against”.