Madonna’s free show at Rio de Janeiro’s Copacabana Beach broke the record for biggest standalone concert for any artist in history, male or female, with 1.6 million people.

Madonna makes history with her free show in Rio de Janeiro marking the biggest standalone concert for any artist ever.

Over 1.6 million people attended the show.

🚨Breaking: NYPD finds bike locks AND history books at a university.

this album cover was always weird, but it might get even weirder.

meet the grahams
youtu.be/2QiFl9Dc7D0

'They're not coming from dangerous countries, they're coming from France.'
'How do you think they got there? They didn't teleport.'

Jeremy Corbyn's former advisor, Andrew Fisher, tells minister Mark Harper the Rwanda bill is a 'disgusting policy' and he should be 'ashamed'.

Lars von Trier

Universities' customers pay a fortune for an education, and they're getting a good one - the lesson that the powerful sustain their position by force, not reason. theguardian.com/us-news/2024/m…

Hypothesis: the UK's acute lack of management ability (across most industries) means that the railways will be poorly run whether in public or private hands.

A nice demonstration of two things:

1) De-funding the police is bad, actually, and results in more crime, disproportionately harming the poor.

2) Short-term cost-saving exercises often end up resulting in negative impacts that cost far more to fix than they initially saved.

Can you imagine the response from talking heads in the U.K. if this was happening with Trump in the White House?

It would be fascism, end of American democracy, end of America, end of the world…

But Biden is in office, so no big deal.

Biden has sparked a wildfire.

If you’ve been listening to Macrodose over the last 12 months or so, you’ll be well ahead of the curve on inflation.

The big lurking menace here remains climate change, which will prevent economies stabilising at 2% inflation Mehreen Khan

thetimes.co.uk/article/8a3556…

Lots of replies calling this Iranian man an economic migrant (I’ve no idea about his case).

I find it utterly outlandish if someone supports sanctions on Iran’s economy, which are purposefully designed to destroy it, then also complains people are…leaving for economic reasons.

What is this? How much money does Rishi Sunak's wife make every minute? So what?

Adolf Hitler made this same argument about German and Austrian Jews. He taunted the West that its refusal to accept them as refugees was proof of their deviousness, paving the way for the Holocaust.

'Incorrect' is when you misspell someone's name.

What Julia means is that on this particular occasion her attempt to use a horrible incident thousands of miles away about which she (and us) knew nothing in order to stir up racism, hatred and division backfired.

The U.S. & U.K. perennially go on about the ‘rules based international order’. But they believe in it less than anyone else.

13 Iranians died in the bombing of the consulate in Damascus, a *massive* escalation by Israel. The fact is Arab & Iranian life is simply less valuable.

Blogged: Labour needs less Keynes and more Schumpeter: stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/stumbling_and_…