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27/08/2021
Some listening material
Medea Benjamin: Afghan War Is “Cash Cow” for Pentagon. Biden Must End “Delusional” China Rivalry We look at the situation in Afghanistan, and pressure on Biden to stay longer, with CodePink co-founder Medea Benjamin, who for years has called for an end t...
06/07/2020
Food for thought
Coronavirus: world treating symptoms, not cause of pandemics, says UN Ongoing destruction of nature will result in stream of animal diseases jumping to humans, says report
29/06/2020
Coronavirus IX: Evictions: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) With evictions on the rise due to coronavirus, John Oliver discusses the long struggle with housing in the US, why it’s gotten worse in recent months, and ho...
08/06/2020
Police: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) As nationwide protests over the deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor are met with police brutality, John Oliver discusses how the histories of policing ...
09/03/2020
Idiom: jump through hoops
= to do a complicated or annoying series of things in order to get or achieve something
We had to jump through a lot of hoops to get a loan from the bank.
http://learnersdictionary.com/definition/jump
25/09/2019
Billy Bragg: What the U.K. Supreme Court’s Historic Ruling Against Boris Johnson Means for Brexit The U.K. Parliament has reconvened after the country’s Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that Prime Minister Boris Johnson had unlawfully suspended Parliament in o...
28/08/2019
Latest news
Suspending parliament - a smart move or an unlawful smash and grab? Boris Johnson announces he will suspend parliament, with a new Queen's speech planned for 14 October.
Mexico is stilling the wall ! 🤣