A British view of parliamentary sexual behaviour and other news and views of the day

Complicity in the sexual abuse of women is built in to the heart of our politics - The Guardian
The archaic ways of the Palace of Westminster are well-known. Many become so institutionalised, including the embedded lobby journalists, that they are not questioned. So researchers, staff, assistants are all subject to harassment by men whose “wives don’t understand them” or with whom they don’t live most of the time.
... For a long, long time certain men have taken such complicity for granted. But something is changing. Women are speaking out. These men are not sex “pests”, they are elected representatives exploiting their positions of power. If disrespect for women is tolerated at the heart of government, it will be tolerated everywhere. Who wants to live in such a place?

How Russian Propaganda Spreads On Social Media - NPR

Nations waged campaigns of influence against each other for centuries before Russia's interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, and nothing is likely to stop them anytime soon.
You Will Lose Your Job to a Robot—and Sooner Than You Think - Mother Jones
Until we figure out how to fairly distribute the fruits of robot labor, it will be an era of mass joblessness and mass poverty. Working-class job losses played a big role in the 2016 election, and if we don’t want a long succession of demagogues blustering their way into office because machines are taking away people’s livelihoods, this needs to change, and fast. Along with global warming, the transition to a workless future is the biggest challenge by far that progressive politics—not to mention all of humanity—faces. And yet it’s barely on our radar.
Yes, the BBC is biased - Stumbling and Mumbling
... the BBC does have a bias – a bias against radical questions. This corroborates Tom Mills’ point, that “the BBC will aim to fairly and accurately reflect the balance of opinion amongst elites.” Or as Cardiff University researchers put it (pdf):
The paradigm of impartiality-as-balance means that only a narrow range of views and voices are heard on the most contentious and important issues.

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