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UK politics
fromwww.theguardian.com
14 hours ago

Peter Mandelson is fleeing the House of Lords: now let's throw out all the other rogues and idlers | Jenny Jones

The House of Lords allows peers to retain titles and influence despite misconduct, revealing patronage, corruption, and cash-for-access links between politics, business, and foreign interests.
History
fromMedievalists.net
3 months ago

New Medieval Books: The Formidable Women Who Shaped Medieval Europe - Medievalists.net

Over forty Burgundian royal and noblewomen wielded political, religious, and cultural power through governance, negotiation, patronage, estate management, and ecclesiastical appointments (14th–16th centuries).
fromwww.amny.com
4 months ago

La Resilience: A night of badass women at the Angel Orensanz | amNewYork

The Angel Orensanz Foundation shimmered like a secular cathedral on Sept. 29th, when Project for Empty Space convened its fifteenth Badass Art Woman Awards. This was not a gala in the predictable sense. It was ritual, a liturgy of resilience, a convocation of women who have made it their life's work to cultivate beauty, sustain truth, and preserve the radical power of art in a world increasingly hostile to difference.
Arts
US politics
fromwww.theguardian.com
5 months ago

Why Trump built a staff of incompetent sycophants | Robert Reich

Many senior Trump appointees and nominees lack relevant qualifications, display unprincipled or incompetent behavior, and attain powerful positions through nonmeritocratic channels.
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