For years he had performed under the alias D-Sol, playing electronic dance music. Some other unlikely side hustles:. Government borrowing came in lower than expected in September. How does that compare with department budgets? In other words, we could close every school and dismantle the armed forces β and still we would have a deficit.
Are the poor spending more of their money feeding themselves than they used to? Per cent of total spend on food and drink by lowest 20 per cent of households by income:. Parts of Scotland were forecast to have mm of rain in a day.
In the event, mm was recorded in Angus in 24 hours. How does that compare with the records? The two-day record is mm , also on 4 and 5 December, at Thirlmere, Cumbria. When two planes flew into the World Trade Center on 11 September , the world stood in solidarity with the United States. In Berlin, , people took to the streets to express their sorrow.
Major news outlets were strangely reluctant to dwell on the horror before jumping straight to the Israeli response. Was this an expression of a desire to protect Palestinian civilians from the likely Israeli reaction? Were the protests in Cairo and Islamabad concerned with the plight of fellow Muslims?
That is the most charitable interpretation. Where are the mass protests about the millions of Uighurs oppressed by the Chinese government in Xinjiang? Why did no one seem to care when, only last month, Azeri forces expelled , Armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh? The simple, sobering truth is that the international left has barely paid attention to any of those conflicts. Instead, it has reserved its rage for the actions of the only state in the world that happens to be Jewish. Part of the reason is the genuine complexity of the Middle East conflict.
