Up to three households can meet up during a five-day Christmas period of 23-27 December, leaders of the four UK nations have agreed. The leaders said 2020 “cannot be a normal Christmas” but family and friends will be able to… Read More ›
Politics
29 hours of Obama
In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly personal detail both his… Read More ›
The nation faces an unprecedented crisis, and the president has left a void.
The nation cries out for leadership, yet amid one of the worst crises to face the country in decades, President Donald Trump is nowhere to be found. He is hunkered down in the White House, not giving interviews or speaking… Read More ›
People just seem to love to hate
Dolly Parton says the reason the country is so fractured is Americans relish in hating one another. “I think we’ve just become so divided because people just seem to love to hate,” the “9 to 5” singer said in a… Read More ›
Staff who work from home after pandemic ‘should pay more tax’
Economists at Deutsche Bank have proposed making staff pay a 5% tax for each day they choose to work remotely. They argue it would leave the average employee no worse off because of savings made by not commuting and not… Read More ›
Time to go sleepy for a while
‘Sleepy Joe’ is an insult that Donald Trump uses against Joe Biden and in a strange kind of way this is just what we need. Think about what the past few years have given us; Putin, China going backwards (politically),… Read More ›
Leading moral, rational people to odd moral conclusions
It’s like one of those magic eye illustrations, where you’re starting at a random dot stereogram, forever, and then finally the embedded 3D image just pops out. And this picture of Trump’s appeal is really best understood in comparison with… Read More ›
Some Humans Ain’t Human
Great song, very timely. Thanks to Tom.
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