During an energy crisis.
When politicians get into “building a legacy” mode, that’s when they’re at their most dangerous to their colleagues.
That is the whole point of these sessions, at the end of the day: They are intended to train you how to think, and how to behave.
It is becoming a drearily familiar experience for me to receive emails from social media platforms informing me that my content has been removed for violating “community guidelines” prohibiting the dissemination of “dangerous or misleading information.” Usually, this is shorthand for any piece of evidence or analysis contradicting an official statement by a public health […]
Government incompetence is no match for religious fanaticism
I remember a colleague recounting an anecdote about an election in England. During the campaign period the Labour candidate accused his Conservative counterpart of going around the constituency “whipping up apathy”! Well there’s no need to whip up any apathy among a recent mission area of mine: it lies thick on the ground and the […]
More than 2100 abortions went unreported to the Irish Department of Health in 2021
No war in Georgia either
Time to say we are full
Slap on the wrist for soldier who joined IS
Almost all political energy these days is expended not on serving people, but on fixing them.
This is an example, frankly, not of some great conspiracy to do away with cash, but of a bank making a short-sighted business decision.