@kcarruthers@mastodon.social2024-04-11 10:35:49
Doesn’t sound like it will help with negotiations: Israeli strike kills 3 sons of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/joe-biden-ap-israeli-gaza-hamas-b2527011.html
@cdarwin@c.im2024-02-11 18:37:08
British playwright James Graham is forthright, arguing that politicians who attempt to “ride the tiger of fame and populism” are doomed to fail “because it is going to eat you in the end”.
“At some point, we are going to have to decide whether to reverse that culture. That is what Biden was trying to do in the US.
“The problem is Donald Trump is a more compelling storyteller than Joe Biden. His narrative has taken root and it is impossible to uproot it. You get real-world consequen…
@phillipdewet@mastodonapp.uk2024-03-11 08:00:12
Survé – who insists on being referred to as Doctor Survé and tells some pretty tall tales – took over the Independent Group in #SouthAfrica when the eponymous UK group of Sir Tony O'Reilly – one of the richest people in Ireland – felt it could no longer extract enough cash from it.
What followed was essentially a purge of independent-minded editors, making the Independent newspapers a mouthpiece for the owner.
The whole time, Survé insisted he is a champion of media freedom.
@lornajane@indieweb.social2024-03-11 14:14:22
It's cool that you're involving the community in this thing (subtooting yes, but it's a general #a11y point) but when the voting interface is "Drag next selection here" and there's no keyboard prompt or alternative, I realise that you meant the other parts of the community, not me.
@keithwilson@fediphilosophy.org2024-02-11 21:43:36
“The darker side of humanity exists in all nations and cultures and is always closer to the surface than we think. We have a responsibility not to inflame those forces.” https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/trump-johnson-james-graham-politics-…
@servelan@newsie.social2024-02-11 22:50:14
It certainly wasn't #Osteen shooting the lock off a locked church door in a hurricane to let folks in...
Police report possible shooting at Texas megachurch run by celebrity pastor #JoelOsteen | The Independent
@incurablehippie@verified.mastodonmedia.xyz2024-02-11 12:30:14
Disabled people deserve better than being housed together in a Dickensian institution https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/disabled-care-home-bristol-residential-dickensian-institution-b2493558.html
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot2024-03-10 10:00:07
"In 2011, the government’s Prevent strategy defined extremism as the 'active opposition to fundamental British values, including democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty and the mutual respect and tolerance of different faiths and beliefs'."
Which party is it that wants to subvert democracy by requiring #VoterID in order to exclude the young and poor from voting?
@lornajane@indieweb.social2024-03-11 14:14:22
It's cool that you're involving the community in this thing (subtooting yes, but it's a general #a11y point) but when the voting interface is "Drag next selection here" and there's no keyboard prompt or alternative, I realise that you meant the other parts of the community, not me.
@cdarwin@c.im2024-02-11 16:29:06
The Hawaii Constitution has a provision that is the same as the 🔹Second Amendment🔹 to the U.S. Constitution.
[Hawaiian] Justice Eddins said: Even though the provisions are the same, we will not interpret them the same way, because we think the 🔸U.S. Supreme Court clearly got it wrong in Heller when it said the Second Amendment creates an individual right to bear arms.🔸
Justice Eddins then pored over the immense body of scholarship and historical research that has shown, beyond a…
