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This isn’t a defence strategy—it’s a subsidy for the arms industry, a performance of deterrence, and a reaffirmation of Britain’s role as obedient junior partner in the global machinery of capital.
On Larry Alan Busk’s Democracy in Spite of the Demos
Lee Anderson doesn’t want a solution—he wants a stage, and the small boats crisis is just the latest prop in Britain’s long-running theatre of cruelty
Starmer’s weapons pipeline is less about deterring war and more about embedding militarism into the heart of Britain’s economic model.
Ryan’s Second Strike is a taut, post-Brexit techno-thriller in which privatised warfare meets Cold War ghosts, and the real enemy is the story you’re told to believe.
Geoff Dyer’s Homework shows childhood not as innocence, but as class training—plastic toys, unwritten rules, and a welfare state already fraying at the edges.
Italian politicians and health officials joked about Italy’s role in the spread of the coronavirus and attempted to protect the country’s image during the pandemic in WhatsApp messages, leading to an investigation and suspicions of “aggravated culpable epidemic” and manslaughter.
The article discusses the use of WhatsApp by government officials and its implications for transparency and accountability. Oh, and a bit of Hancock.