The anti-growth coalition, Bank of England and the OBR are among those under fire from Liz TrussRaw free-market economics is missing in action. Somewhere between its 1980s ascendancy and today, the media, politicians, civil service and even the corporate mainstream abandoned small government and low taxes.At the heart of Liz Truss’s new book, Ten Years to Save the West, the former prime minister reckons this is the reason for Britain’s economic drift, alongside “unelected technocrats” overruling...
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Video game adaptations can leave a lot of meat on the bone, but Fallout Season 1 on Prime Video is worth leaving your Vault for.
Study of red state resentments that power Trump neglects key factors that help endanger Democrats outside US citiesDon’t expect White Rural Rage to win too many hearts or minds. Under the subtitle The Threat to American Democracy, it’s more likely the book will offend. Thomas Schaller and Paul Waldman profess “not to denigrate or mock our fellow Americans who live in rural areas”, but at times appear to do so.Their first chapter title is Essential Minority, Existential Threat. Chapter six,...
The latest edition of the Beige Book provides far more red flags than silver linings.
“As a policy statement, it’s completely toothless,” State Senator Ghazala Hashmi (D-Chesterfield), who wrote one of the bills, told 8News about the amendments. “It doesn’t address the issues that we were fighting for in the Right to Contraception Act and quite frankly, it’s not worth the paper it’s written on.”
Age 9 plus: When the Wild Calls Nicola Penfold Having escaped their sterile city, Juniper Green and her brother Bear have settled in Ennerdale with their dad and his family but her mission to save her grandmother and beloved best friend will lead her into terrible danger. Travel back to the thrilling dystopian world created by Nicola Penfold in this eagerly awaited sequel to Where the World Turns Wild, a thought-provoking ecological adventure which won the hearts and minds of readers, and was...
Times staff report When looking for a children’s book on a local African American hero, Hailey Mason initially couldn’t find one on Richard Arrington Jr., Ph.D., the first African American mayor of Birmingham, Alabama. “I volunteered at some local [Birmingham] elementary schools and I wanted to do a segment on local Black history figures and […]
The hilarious debut film feature from Vera Drew, The People’s Joker, packs a lot into its 92-minute runtime—action, animation, DC comic parody deep cuts, some truly vicious and necessary jabs at some of SNL’s current stars, and a healthy scattering of blink-and-you’ll-miss-it asides. There's been a lot of hype surrounding the pop culture parody coming of age film, but it's entirely warranted. by Robert Ham The democratization of...
Lizette Epps, a prominent Reading community leader and advocate, won first place at the BookFest awards ceremony on April 6 for her debut book, “Our Voices: Little Stories Through a Latina Lens.” The BookFest Book Awards, an esteemed literary competition, recognized Epps’ work in the Non-fiction Category in Society & Social Sciences on Race, Class, […]
Pyrite, the yellow metal known as fool’s gold, has another trick up its sleeve: it can contain lithium, a crucial element in the world’s quest for greener energy, according to a team of researchers that studied rock deposits in the eastern United States. The researchers examined 15 rock samples that formed during the middle-Devonian, about […]