‘The immense popularity of “A People’s History” revealed an embarrassing vacuum in the way American history has long been taught — something that will still be worth pondering and repairing long after the fractious commemoration of our 250th birthday is behind us.’ www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/b...

Book Review: ‘The People’s Historian,’ by Dave Zirin (Gift Article)

Dave Zirin traces the radical career of Howard Zinn, whose “A People’s History of the United States” has sold millions of copies.

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‘This was the beginning of what I call A.I. wishing: the belief by company leaders that A.I. is magic, that you can wave its wand toward a hard problem and skip the work of solving it. It is sincere, and that is what makes it dangerous.’ www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/o...

Opinion | I Helped Run Lululemon. The A.I. Revolution Is a Hot Mess. (Gift Article)

The A.I. revolution is stalling because companies don’t want to admit that integrating the technology is expensive and slow and requires human effort.

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‘The starry-eyed picture they all painted was of a mesmeric bulldozer who could reduce all in his presence to putty or puddles. Reinhard Spitzy, Ribbentrop’s private secretary, “loved being in his aura”.’ A chilling account of Hitler’s rise, by those who knew him www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/28ebed2...

A chilling account of Hitler’s rise, by those who knew him

Channel 4’s exemplary documentary, Dictator: The Hitler Interviews, feels terrifyingly relevant to today

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89 apartments in Paris, with timber roller shutters to keep out the heat By Parc Architectes

More Renewables 🤝 Cheaper Energy

‘You have to go back to the refugee flight from Normandy in the bombing and artillery battles of 1944 to surpass the mass evacuation of 220,000 people seen last week in Aquitaine. It is frighteningly new and dystopian to see fires beyond human control…’ www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/ae375a7...

Badenoch must reverse course on net zero before she destroys the Tories

Runaway climate change is threatening the conservative way of life: Kemi must end her green purge

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++BREAKING++ The Daily Telegraph has... *rubs eyes* ...published something sensible about climate change: "I’m coming to the view that the Online Right is going wrong, eschewing compassion or charm, talking itself into corners of angry irrelevance. Take climate change."

England water companies have breached official guidance on discharging sewage at 65 popular swimming sites since May. All water companies have criminal convictions, violated terms of their licence. All defended by govts, allowed to trade, inflict harms.

Water companies have breached official guidance on discharging sewage at 65 popular swimming sites in England since May

WATER firms discharged more than 100,000 of hours-worth of sewage at 65 popular swimming sites in England since May.Sewage overflow pipes released a total of 117,001 hours between mid-May and July 21,...

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‘Bordeaux…is considering a total evacuation of the city of 270,000 people, with fires just 30 miles away. ‘France has already launched its largest peacetime evacuation.’ www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/c6ffeee...

Bordeaux faces evacuation over ‘apocalyptic’ wildfires

France launches largest peacetime exodus as blaze threatens city of 270,000 people

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Under a Binface government, anyone who doesn’t accept human-made climate change as fact will be sent back to school, from Year 1 right the way to A Levels, to see if anything goes in the second time round. #VoteBinface

‘This is a new era of American pant-wetting and I need to understand absolutely everything about its conventions.’ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Football, golf … behold the future of world sport: Donald Trump as referee-in-chief | Marina Hyde

After his dubious intervention at the World Cup, the president is now an arbiter of high-level fairway disputes. There’s one word for that: SAD! says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

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AB getting on with it…

Oh wow, I bet the millionaires who designed this system are super embarrassed about their mistake… can you even imagine?

ABC News Australia@news.abc.net.au · 2w ago

Australia's jobseeker system fails workers and enriches millionaires, report says

The announcement came two years after Nine Entertainment cut 200 jobs, including 90 positions from the legacy mastheads and the AFR.

Nine to axe 30 jobs at the Age and SMH due to ‘extreme’ AI disruption

Staff told positions will be cut via voluntary and targeted redundancies as part of ‘evolution’

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'The UK will not have enough water for future datacentres, the water industry has said in stark criticism of the government’s AI growth plans.' 1/2

Not enough water for UK’s datacentre plans, trade body says

Industry says government’s failure to address cooling demands means AI growth plans are ‘fatally flawed’

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‘Americans are spending an average of more than six hours daily watching their screens’…’willing to stare at their phones & watch short-form, user- & AI-generated videos for extended durations that would have made Sam Goldwyn plotz.’ www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/o...

Opinion | I’m a Screenwriter. Hollywood Is in Trouble. (Gift Article)

A scriptwriter’s lament about Hollywood’s decline

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With 57% of its electricity now coming from renewables, including 22% from solar & 21% from wind, Spain built one of Europe's most impressive electricity systems. Solar is now the country's fastest-growing source of power & has helped drive some of the lowest wholesale electricity prices in Europe.

Londinium.

It’s morning in Britannica.

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... There needs to be a RC into the mis named Services Australia.

Robodebt whistleblower was told her royal commission evidence ‘could cost you your job’, court hears

Exclusive: Jeannie-Marie Blake is suing the Australian government over alleged threats, which her department denies making

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The Pickerel Inn, Cambridge.

The Mitre, Cambridge.

Crickey. Scomo only had 5.

Chris Wallace@chriswallace.bsky.social · 4w ago

Susan would be a good candidate for the Clacton by-election, don’t you think @ledbydonkeys.org? youtube.com/shorts/H-QkT...

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World Cup Updates: Why the Rest of Latin America Loves to Hate Argentina (Gift Article)

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The English Channel QF1 today.

Can confirm, Fatty’s nuclear chicken is nuclear. www.straitstimes.com/singapore/tr...

Susan would be a good candidate for the Clacton by-election, don’t you think @ledbydonkeys.org? youtube.com/shorts/H-QkT...

Many MPs describe being overrun with work. Nigel Farage has found time for another 12 jobs.

YouTube video by Led By Donkeys

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Brazil to impose strict advertising rules on online betting firms reut.rs/4h5capq

Brazil to impose strict advertising rules on online betting firms

Brazil's government will impose strict advertising rules on online betting ​companies starting next week, Finance Minister ‌Dario Durigan said on Thursday, requiring health warnings and banning claims that betting ​offers easy money.

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Twelve modern, stealthy, air independent propulsion subs for Canada for a reported cost of AUD$33B. And there’s a good chance Germany will delivery them. #AUKUS #auspol

Canada awards Germany major submarine contract

Canadian PM Carney said the deal of up to 12 German-built submarines will be the "largest in Canadian history." Germany had pushed hard for the order, which comes as Canada seeks stronger ties with E...

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