
john f roberts
622 posts







US home sellers slash asking prices as housing market weakness deepens, per Redfin



Last night I did the introduction speech at the 10th anniversary of the International Booker Prize. An honour to speak about books and translated fiction, something I hold very dear to my heart infront of writers, translators, judges and book lovers. Thank you for having me @TheBookerPrizes 🤍📚 @service95


Ghaziabad: In the Indirapuram area near the Hindon Barrage, two children were riding a bicycle carrying a sack. Mayor Sunita Dayal stopped them and, without any evidence, falsely accused them of having beef in the sack and planning to throw it into the Hindon River. After this, Mayor Sunita Dayal called the police and instructed them to take the children into custody, and also threatened the officers that if they let the children go, she would have them suspended. The police seized the sack and took the children and one man into custody.





I recommend this series: a Czech journalist went undercover to work in extractivist Western industries that prey on exploitable East-European labour. She documented her worst experience on a German farm where EE migrant workers were paid €6, half of the legal minimum hourly wage

Dass europäische Regierungen Putins Kriegsverbrechen, das Ermorden von Zivilisten mit Raketen und Drohnen in einer europäische Großstadt hinnehmen, dass das keine Konsequenzen für Putin hat, stellt alles Gerede von “europäischen Werten” in Frage. welt.de/videos/video6a…



EXCL: Sir Keir Starmer is expected to ban social media for under 16s. A government consultation on curbs ends on Tuesday & no final decision will be taken until after that. But I understand No10 policy chiefs have privately said they expect a total ban thesun.co.uk/news/39197313/…




The idea that economic growth is inherently "coupled" with emissions is just so wrong and only looks even vaguely possible if you don't control for population











