Gut wrenching to see four young people jailed for direct action against an arms supplier to Israel.
Years in prison for protesting to save lives in Gaza, with 'terrorism' used despite no jury convicting them of it.
A truly dangerous attack on the right to protest.
@theiaincameron@GaryMacdon35360@Starkey_Comics In my 50s, brought up in Cumbernauld, no-one said ken except as a pisstake. My parents’ generation overwhelmingly moved there from Glasgow.
The paper's political editor has departed following a recent scandal involving a think tank, a public affairs company and her husband
✏️ Rats in a Sack 🐀
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The young have typically tended to vote on the left, seeing it as a vote against the status quo and the establishment, before gradually moving to the right as they got older.
But things are changing. In France’s latest elections, Marine Le Pen won more youth votes than the left, while Donald Trump’s youth vote in the last US election was a third higher than in 2020.
Should these new rebels be listened to as a challenge to a failed establishment? Or does this signal a breakdown of the traditional left–right divide?
Join House of Lords member Thangam Debonnaire, Reform UK politician Matt Goodwin, critical theorist Louisa Munch, and politics professor Eric Kaufmann in Hay-on-Wye this Spring to debate what this shift means for the future of left-right politics.
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If Aristotle is right and happiness is the state of the soul in an activity of excellence, then off loading all our creative and intellectual work to AI will make us supremely miserable.
A huge embarrassment too for the hundreds of MPs (Labour, Liberal Democrat and SNP) who voted for, or abstained, on the Palestine Action ban despite knowing it was wrong.