Monthly Archives: May 2025

Left-wing politicians, commentators and activists have increasingly become divided into a number of groups, all equally useless from the point of view of real social change. One group has replaced class politics with politically correct incantations on the rights of … Continue reading →

Like a lecturer making his first appearance before the public, he saw everything that was before his eyes, but apparently only had a dim understanding of it (among physiologists this condition, when the subject sees but does not understand, is … Continue reading →

Guardian: Climate breakdown and wildlife loss are deepening the EU’s “chocolate crisis”, a report has argued, with cocoa one of six key commodities to come mostly from countries vulnerable to environmental threats. More than two-thirds of the cocoa, coffee, soy, rice, wheat … Continue reading →

Drop Site: Microsoft has quietly implemented a policy blocking employee emails containing the words “Palestine,” “Gaza,” or “genocide” on its internal Exchange servers, according to No Azure for Apartheid, a group of pro-Palestine Microsoft employees. The automated filter, which silently … Continue reading →

Guardian: Israeli troops have fired “warning shots” at a group of 25 diplomats who were visiting Jenin in the Israel-occupied West Bank on an official mission organised by the Palestinian Authority to observe the humanitarian situation there. … The delegation comprised ambassadors … Continue reading →

I am fairly sure I didn’t read the city names other than Moscow when I was here in 2018, or if I did it was via Google Translate. I didn’t think about the hierarchy.