The Civil Service looks after its own. From the Times: The Cabinet Office’s propriety and ethics team broke into a safe and destroyed the department’s copy of a historic bullying investigation into the new head of the civil service. In 2022 Darren Tierney, the then director-general of the government standards watchdog, asked maintenance staff to…

Saying the quiet bit out loud: Rockhill frames higher ed as a tactical site for “counter-hegemonic” work, cites his own Critical Theory Workshop, and then makes the end goal unmistakable. “We need to go in a socialist direction” to build what he praises elsewhere as a socialist “intellectual apparatus” like the ones in Cuba and…

Another day, another public struggle session. Yes, it’s South Korean culture once again corrupting the pure socialist youth of North Korea. From the Daily NK: Pyongyang city police summoned downtown residents on Feb. 1 to a public struggle session in Sosong district, where authorities publicly convicted a man arrested in November for possessing and distributing South Korean videos, music, and television…

….How many are employed and in long term relationships. How many died and why. The research team explicitly rejected this way forward saying the information would not help them. I don’t understand this. It’s a rich mine of information that will certainly indicate what areas require further research. The only reason I can think that…

The latest from Cafe Royal Books, with photographer Joan Piekny: [Photos © Cafe Royal Books/Joan Piekny] Glum faces.

A husband can face up to 15 days in jail if he seriously injures his wife with a stick, but the wife must prove her injuries in court while fully covered and in the presence of the man who beat her. The law also forbids women from seeking refuge with relatives to escape abuse. Those…