The Gaza Tribunal is a vital step on the path to justice and accountability, writes RAMZY BAROUD
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The marketing of experience and the consumerism of culture
Why we are allowing ourselves to be transformed into guinea pigs of capitalism, asks JULIAN VIGO
A protest against AirBNB in Edinburgh. The firm is marketing 'experiences' to its customers
As six out of 10 Argentines don’t vote for Milei LEONEL POBLETE CODUTTI looks at the country’s real crisis that runs far deeper than just the ballot box
ANDREW MURRAY looks back on the ignominious career of the former US vice-president, who died earlier this week
STEPHEN ARNELL wonders at the family resemblance between former prince Andrew and his great-uncle ‘Dickie’
After Zohran Mamdani’s electoral win, BHABANI SHANKAR NAYAK points to the forgotten role of US communists in New York’s radical politics
The Labour leadership’s narrow definition of ‘working people’ leads to distorted and unjust Budget calculations, where the unearned income of the super-wealthy doesn’t factor in at all, argues JON TRICKETT MP
AIRBNB sent me an email the other week with the subject line: “Experiences you don’t want to miss this week in London.”
It is one of many such emails from Airbnb which has expanded over the past year from the business of people renting out their homes as holiday spaces to the wholesale marketing and selling of experience. Yes, you read correctly, now you can pay Airbnb to live life. How novel!
The old expression,“I have a bridge to sell you” is actually a reference to George C Parker in addition to many other conmen from the bridge’s completion in 1883, such as Reed C Waddell, William McCloundy and the Gondorf brothers, Charles and Fred.
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