Time to Think-the inside story of the collapse of the Tavistock’s Gender Service for Children (Hannah Barnes):

All I could think was… we’re in the middle of what a lot of people consider potentially a massive medical scandal we’re seeing detransitioners talk about how let down they’ve been, how irreversible the interventions are, how angry they are that nobody paid any attention to anything else that was going on in their lives.”

Everybody saw what was happening, but nobody said ‘stop’. Concerns raised are dismissed, complaints attacked. There’s something powerful and disturbing at play” – Dr. Juliet Singer

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Tory Nation – The dark legacy of the world’s most successful political party (Samuel Earle):

The Conservative’s claim over Britain goes even further than this. Beyond fronting their own purported achievements while in power, they seek to absorb the achievements of their political opponents as well – even, or especially, where these were achieved against the Torie’s opposition. The abolition of slavery, the enfranchisement of women and the working class, the dissolution of Empire, the welcoming of refugees from war zones (such as the Kinderstransport during the Second World War) and the creation of the NHS – all these important chapters in the nation’s past often happened in the face of fervent opposition from the Tories somewhere along the way, but they are now celebrated by the Tories as proof of Britain’s – and their – magnanimity and good sense.

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Kamaal Williams, multiple & serious sexual assault allegations, cancelled shows, Gilles Peterson power play, corrupto-Jazz, & London’s fucked up & fabricated Jazz scene:

dear oh dear. A troubling sexual abuse scandal has recently emerged against hipster darling “UK Jazz” artist Kamaal Williams, prompted by some excellent investigative reporting by a group of female journalists – Anu Shukla & Annabel Ross – writing for Resident Advisor.

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Trussterfuck: Basayev Inductions 05 – ten-way Anti-Listener Noisegrind, Gunk, Gratecore, Harsh Noise compilation cassette (886VG, Illusion of Safety, I Trust the Conman, Mourmansk 150, Slime Smile Threemile, Digital Noise Distortion, Kataplasm, Reforester, 走り抜く, Bollock Swine):

Trussterfuck (compilation excerpt MP3)

Don’t worry, I’m relieved its over … At least I’ve been Prime Minister. ” – Liz Truss

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The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory – American Evangelicals in an age of extremism (Tim Alberta):

In fifteen years of political journalism, I had witnessed chicanery and skulduggery of every sort. Nothing could surprise me anymore; I was immune to outrage, bereft of the ability to recoil from iniquity. And then rediscovered the ReAwaken America Tour.

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