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I know there's other stuff going on, but in this week's column I commend the protesters hoping to shut down Heathrow. It's also important. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
Through their frequent, thoughtless flights, the rich are destroying the lives of the poor. And look how crazy it's getting, in the midst of climate emergency. theguardian.com/commentisfree/… @GretaThunberg
Comments are now open on this very controversial article. I expect a battering, but a basic rule of thumb in these areas is that if it's not painful, it's not worth doing. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
Here's the comment I've just posted below the line, in response to people lamenting the inconvenience passengers will face:
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Never forget: #JulianAssange, currently in Belmarsh maximum security prison, remains under threat of extradition to the US, where he faces life imprisonment for the "crime" of releasing crucial information withheld by governments from the public.
If Assange is successfully extradited and prosecuted by the US for performing this critical democratic service, journalists and whistleblowers everywhere should feel a chill wind blowing down their necks.
We can state this clearly, and strongly contest his extradition to the US, regardless of what we might think of his character, politics etc, or of the Swedish case. It's a matter of principle. If we don't stand up for his rights, we don't stand up for other people's.
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Loath as I am to say "I told you so", well ... I told you so.
The years I spent railing against PFI were the most frustrating of my life. The case against it was so clear, but no one in government would listen. Now we are picking up the bill. theguardian.com/politics/2019/…
The toxic PFI legacy Blair and Brown have left us is arguably a greater threat to public services than all the terrible impacts of Tory austerity. Hospitals, schools, prisons and other services are now collapsing under the weight of payments they must make to private operators.
The Iraq War was the worst thing Blair and Brown did. But the Private Finance Initiative comes second. It allowed them to fudge the figures on public borrowing and keep the corporations and the billionaire press onside. But it has saddled public services with unapayable debts.
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I really hope this film doesn’t do for alligators what Jaws did for sharks.
It seems extraordinary to me that, in the midst of mass extinction, such 1950s style schlock is still being made.
Hundreds of horror films have been made, premised on the idea of too much wildlife (The Birds, The Swarm etc etc). But as The Road showed, the real dystopian horror is too little.
The Road (well the book at least - the film flinched) is a brilliant thought experiment about what would happen to us if the biosphere vanishes. It is far more chilling that any nature-out-of-control narrative.
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