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UK politics
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 day ago

Party conference season is here and it's a spectacle beyond redemption | Zoe Williams

Party conferences are largely performative spectacles that rarely change public perception, policy outcomes, or everyday realities.
US politics
fromIntelligencer
5 days ago

A New Era of Political Violence

The modern immediacy of social media amplified the horror of Charlie Kirk's assassination, blending historical political violence with unprecedented, unmediated visual exposure.
fromwww.theguardian.com
4 weeks ago

We criminalise the political stunt at our peril. It is a crucial art form that is impossible to ignore | Mark Borkowski

We must ask ourselves: how would the heroic suffragettes or the remarkable Greenham Common women be regarded if active today? The answer is simple: they would be locked up. Just as they were locked up then. A century ago, women chained themselves to railings, set fires, endured prison and changed the world, and we celebrate their victories without thinking too hard about their methods. Yet today's laws would criminalise them on sight.
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Film
fromConsequence
2 months ago

Trainwreck: Balloon Boy, Streaming Now on Netflix, Covers the 2009 Viral Hoax

Trainwreck: Balloon Boy documents the 2009 balloon boy hoax, where a father's false claim sparked a nationwide rescue effort.
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