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The UK faces significant challenges, including rising homelessness and personal debt, with 354,000 people homeless and personal debt reaching £1.9 trillion. Despite slight improvements in mortgage arrears and inflation, high living costs persist, leaving many households financially strained. Overall, the situation remains precarious, with recovery still elusive. Continue reading The State We’re In 2024–25
The CAAT report highlights a troubling global arms trade, revealing that despite public condemnation of violence, governments, including the UK, maintain complicity by enabling conflict through arms supply. It underscores the failures of the Gaza ceasefire, escalating violence in Venezuela, and the suppression of anti-arms campaigners while profits from warfare surge globally. Continue reading Unpacking the CAAT Report: Britain’s Role in Global Arms Trade
Before the panel shows, before the campervan and before she became one of Britain’s most recognisable voices of gentle mischief and observational delight, Calman was a international corporate lawyer operating in the austere world of the United Nations. I’m an … Continue reading Susan Calman – From Lawyer to Comedy Icon and World Explorer Guide
San Francisco police arrested a 20-year-old man early Friday morning after he allegedly threw a Molotov cocktail at the home of OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman, setting fire to an exterior gate before fleeing. Officers responded to the property in … Continue reading MAN ARRESTED AFTER ATTACK ON OPENAI SAM ALTMAN’S HOME
Tonight around eight PM Eastern, NASA’s Artemis II mission wraps up after ten days in space. The four astronauts—Commander Reid Wiseman, Pilot Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen—launched April first, flew around the Moon, and set a new record … Continue reading ARTEMIS II RETURN TO EARTH FROM THE DARK SIDE OF MOON
When Dallas first appeared on television screens in 1978, produced by Lorimar Television, it introduced viewers into a world of power, oil, and money. It opened a window also of ruthless ambition that felt both distant and strangely magnetic. Across … Continue reading “DALLAS”: THE OIL, THE AMBITION, AND THE GUNSHOT THAT STOPPED THE WORLD
A new front has opened in the long-running digital informаtion war between Iran and the United States, and it does not roar like a jet engine or flash like a missile strike. Instead, it clicks together piece by piece, rendered … Continue reading THE LEGOGANDA FRONT: IRAN’S AI PROPAGANDA MACHINE TAKES AIM AT THE WEST
