I love how people can breezily be like “so much that divides people” like it’s a brunch menu when the division is over whether people should be dead or not
Ultimately this is the most important story in British politics and much of the world - the Iran war is putting pressure on real wages, which people will blame on the incumbent government.
Strait of Hormuz crisis pushes price growth ahead of pay increases in US, UK and elsewhere
NBA Commissioner Adam Silver on Trump coming to Madison Square Garden
"He's welcome to be here. What makes sports so special, especially when there’s so much that divides people, is it’s something that we have in common."
Stephen Bush
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“The world’s richest 10% account for 47% of total emissions. But that rises to 77% when emissions are attributed to the owners of the companies that cause them, rather than a consumption-based approach”
– @cmohren.bsky.social of @wid.world in our latest blog post #LSEInequalitiesBlog
Wealth inequality determines who causes the climate crisis and who profits from it, so the low-carbon transition offers an opportunity to redistribute wealth
Read this! A short analysis of the media's role in mainstreaming racist far-right discourse, stoking racist violence, that's applicable far beyond the UK.
I wrote about the pogrom in Belfast, with quotes from @hleehurley.com
shado-mag.com/articles/opi...
I wrote about the pogrom in Belfast, with quotes from @hleehurley.com
shado-mag.com/articles/opi...
LSE Inequalities
shado editor Elia Ayoub writes about racist riots in Belfast, press choices the need for media accountability and political cowardice
the sheer gender of this is literally destroying the planet. and also there's an educator in me that wants to sit down with young people and be like "calm down, dude, it's gonna be fine"
The Austrian press, especially but not only the boulevard mediums, consistently centers race-ethnicity although the person in question's (assumed) background has absolutely nothing to do with the story.
You won't want to miss this deep dive into the porno-political memeplex that has colonized the right. Cameron Cummins-Smith gives us essentially an explainer, but one that is so necessary because this stuff is so embarrassing to think about, let alone write about.
shado editor Elia Ayoub writes about racist riots in Belfast, press choices the need for media accountability and political cowardice
