Carnival of Self-Harm ( www.lrb.co.uk )
Short-term thinking has been the fatal tendency of the Conservative governments to which Britain has been subjected since 2010.
Short-term thinking has been the fatal tendency of the Conservative governments to which Britain has been subjected since 2010.
There is a discussion on Hacker News, but feel free to comment here as well.
There is a discussion on Hacker News, but feel free to comment here as well.
What are the major wars of our time? Ukraine and Gaza, of course. But what about Syria, Yemen, Ethiopia, Myanmar, Sudan? Most of these are civil wars with very large numbers of fatalities. But they inspire much less interest than Russia’s war of aggression in Ukraine or Israel’s attack on Gaza. The war in Syria received...