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Four ways it may get harder for first-time buyers
UK house prices are predicted to fall but a report spells out why property may remain out of reach.
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James Bloodworth
Fall in UK house prices will not help first-time buyers, think-tank predicts ft.com/content/c34c6c… via @financialtimes
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Nick Cave: 'cancel culture is bad religion run amuck'
Australian musician criticises people’s refusal to engage with ‘difficult ideas’
The UK's GDP figures are proof there is no trade-off between lives and growth | Jonathan Portes
The dire economic stats reflect a perception that the government’s Covid strategy is at best confused and at worst chaotic, says economics professor Jonathan Portes
Julian Assange Got What He Deserved
Don’t continue to fall for his phony pleas for sympathy, his megalomania, and his well-established promiscuity with the facts.
Lady Second
Have you heard the tragic story of a mother and her two sons? One of the boys, we are told, took ship to parts unknown. The other, despite…
James Bloodworth
“Yet it is Kamala Harris herself who stands to be worst served by a Biden-Harris ticket, precisely because she possesses that most valuable of all political resources: time.”
Interesting by my favourite doubter @peterawolf >>
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Cuba's 'Hail Mary' plan to rebuild the economy not so radical
Dumping the restrictive list of self-employment occupations shows just how sick covid 19 has made Cuba’s economy.
James Bloodworth
“What I saw in Cuba while I was reporting for my new book... is a barely functioning system, mismanaged by officials and hampered by the U.S. embargo, that could not even provide essentials before the covid shutdown.” - @depalman
uni.vi/mUQX102kaOM via @Univision
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In Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko will do anything to cling on to power | Katsiaryna Shmatsina
The implausible results of Sunday’s presidential elections have triggered a pushback like never before, says Belarusian political analyst Katsiaryna Shmatsina
Uber and Lyft must classify drivers as employees, judge rules, in blow to gig economy
Preliminary injunction in California follows state’s lawsuit against companies over new labor law
Bolivia protesters bring country to standstill over election delays
Demonstrators allied to Evo Morales say authorities are using Covid-19 to delay vote
Boris Johnson says crossing Channel in small boats 'dangerous and criminal'
Prime minister hints at law change to make deporting migrants easier
Why is the BBC airing a Castro hagiography in 2020? - The Post
Portrayals of Cuba as a revolutionary theme park have become such a cliché over the years that even writing critiques of these mechanical depictions of the island has come to feel rather tiresome and passé — all bearded guerrilleros, cadillacs and...
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James Bloodworth
The strongest criticism of Castro mustered over the course of two hours in a new @BBCTwo documentary is that the late dictator “has only one defect, that he doesn’t know how to do anything by half measures”?
Which was a bit odd, so I wrote about it
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BBC Two - Cuba: Castro vs the World
The story of how Cuba has challenged the world for 60 years.
James Bloodworth
Watched this on @BBCiPlayer last night. Was on @BBCTwo last week and the second part is on on Tuesday. Fairly hagiographic. Strongest criticism of Fidel Castro in the entire thing was that he “doesn’t do half measures”. Included all the familiar cliches
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The housing market that wouldn’t die - The Post
A quarter of the economy has disappeared. Millions of people are out of work. The Government sinks ever deeper into debt. But look on the bright side — at least house prices are holding up! Indeed a report from Hometrack shows that Covid-19 has...
Writer who caught the reality of war | Robert Chandler | The Critic Magazine
From August 1941 until 1945, Vasily Grossman was a correspondent for Red Star, a daily military newspaper as important during those years as Pravda and Izvestia, the official newspapers of the…
One in three Brits has no 'financial safety net' as economic disaster looms
EXCLUSIVE: The worrying figures come as experts warn UK teeters on the brink of the worst recession in a century as 20 million can't afford savingd
Confirma Cuba 59 nuevos casos positivos a la Covid-19 (+Vídeo)
Para COVID-19 se estudiaron 3 mil 657 muestras, resultando 13 muestras positivas. El país acumula 293 mil 069 muestras realizadas y 2 mil 888 positivas (0,99%). Por tanto, al cierre del día de ayer se confirman 59 casos nuevos, con un acumulado de 2...
Dr. Anthony Fauci says chance of coronavirus vaccine being highly effective is 'not great'
Scientists are hoping for a coronavirus vaccine that is at least 75% effective, but 50% or 60% effective would be acceptable, too, Dr. Anthony Fauci said.
Liverpool need to learn valuable lesson after mistake with Suso and Alberto
Liverpool need to learn a lesson from their mistakes with Suso and Luis Alberto. The duo went on to succeed in Serie A after leaving Anfield.
Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938: Maximum Struggle for a Minimum Wage | U.S. Department of Labor
By Jonathan Grossman
When he felt the time was ripe, President Roosevelt asked Secretary of Labor Perkins, 'What happened to that nice unconstitutional bill you had tucked away?'
James Bloodworth
"Do not let any calamity-howling executive with an income of $1,000 a day ...tell you... that a wage of $11 a week is going to have a disastrous effect on all American industry." -
Franklin Roosevelt, 1938
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