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By defending the UK’s draconian anti-protest laws, Labour is laying the ground for an authoritarian government.

By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 22nd February 2025

If the Trump project implodes, it might take with it the far-right European parties to which it is umbilically connected. Like all such parties, Reform UK poses as patriotic while grovelling to foreign interests, and this could be its undoing.

What could $27 billion fund if Commonwealth-state transfers were adjusted to bring revenue and expenses for each level of government closer to balance?

The post Buying better income taxes with better land taxes first appeared on Prosper Australia.

The relationship between older, younger, and future Australians and our tax and spending priorities is based on an implicit generational bargain. Working age taxpayers support older and younger Australians and can expect the next generation to support them in the same way, and economic and social development will enable each successive generation to enjoy rising living standards. At the very least, we should not leave the next generation worse off.

It is that time of year again: Time to look back at information technology in 2024 and make light of it. As with prior year-in-reviews, this one will be arranged like an award ceremony. There are three criteria for the dozen awards given out this year:• The award must be for something involving digital technology.• The key event must have taken place this year, 2024.• The award cannot take itself seriously. The event receiving attention must lend itself to sass, sarcasm, and ridicule. As a reminder, the awards are worth nothing. The only value is fifteen seconds of fleeting fame on this blog post.

It is that time of year again: Time to look back at information technology in 2024 and make light of it. As with prior year-in-reviews, this one will be arranged like an award ceremony. There are three criteria for the dozen awards given out this year:• The award must be for something involving digital technology.• The key event must have taken place this year, 2024.• The award cannot take itself seriously. The event receiving attention must lend itself to sass, sarcasm, and ridicule. As a reminder, the awards are worth nothing. The only value is fifteen seconds of fleeting fame on this blog post.

He looked like a young, freshly sprouting Henry Kissinger, before complicity in war crimes coarsened him, and plagiarism became commonplace in allegedly relevant academic texts.The [...]

The post Concentrated Markets and Iceless Fokkers appeared first on The AIM Network.

Oxfam Australia Media Release Barefoot children forced to search through rubbish for food scraps across Gaza. Of the meagre 34 trucks of food and water [...]

By James Moore   “If we’re the most intelligent things in the universe, well, that’s just depressing.” – Rekha Sharma, Canadian Actress. In a park along [...]

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