Category: General
Donald Trump is a pretend populist just look at his economic policy | Michael Paarlberg
He called for repealing an estate tax that affects only him and a handful of his richest peers, a display of self interest that’s so unabashed it’s impressive. When Donald Trump pitched an economic policy platform nakedly contrived to benefit other multi-millionaires to an assembled crowd in Detroit this Monday, it was quite a spectacle. […]
Scream by Tama Janowitz review memoirs of the reluctantly famous
Her debut novel put her in the Brat Pack of the 80s with Jay McInerney and Bret Easton Ellis. Then she faded from view, a process she tracks in her new memoir Tama Janowitzs youth reminds her of the movie Forrest Gump: a series of unlikely brushes with history. At 19, during a year abroad […]
Clinton slams Trump, rebuts his economic proposals
St. Petersburg, Florida (CNN)Hillary Clinton launched fresh attacks on Donald Trump’s business record and temperament on Monday, casting the businessman as a cheat who has repeatedly “stiffed” American workers and a person who appears to take “pleasure” in attacking protesters, journalists and a Gold Star family. With Election Day exactly three months away, Clinton kicked […]
Britons under-report calorie intake, study suggests – BBC News
But the researchers from the Behavioural Insights Team (BIT) say if the calorie counts in these surveys were correct, the UK population would be losing weight overall. The BIT is an independent company but started its life in 2010 as a government policy group known as the “nudge unit” because it was tasked with encouraging […]
How millions of trees brought a broken landscape back to life
After 25 years, the decision to site the National Forest amid derelict coal and quarry workings has borne spectacular fruit Twenty-five years ago, the Midlands villages of Moira, Donisthorpe and Overseal overlooked a gruesome landscape. The communities were surrounded by opencast mines, old clay quarries, spoil heaps, derelict coal workings, polluted waterways and all the […]