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Boris Johnson has urged European leaders to hand $247 billion of frozen Russian central bank assets to Ukraine – but says he fears they “lack the courage” to do so, in an interview with The Spectator. The former British prime minister also warned that Trump is at risk of “morally polluting” himself if he caves
It’s been three days since the jihad against innocent Jews at Sydney’s Bondi beach. A nation’s grief is swiftly turning to anger and Australia’s prime minister is floundering. As more is learned about the father-and-son killers who took 15 lives and wounded many more, questions are piling up. How did the father enter the country?
What exactly is the “platinum security guarantee” that Donald Trump is pushing Volodymyr Zelensky to accept? While the full details remain confidential, the deal is described as an “Article 5 style” guarantee after the clause in NATO’s charter that states that “an armed attack against one NATO member shall be considered an attack against all
The FBI Director went on Katie Miller’s podcast with his girlfriend
Freddy Gray speaks to Vanity Fair’s Washington correspondent Aidan McLaughlin about their latest two-part interview with one of Trump’s closest allies Susie Wiles. As chief of staff to the White House, she has given some of the most candid quotes about what really happens inside Trump’s regime.
Ahmed’s cousin, Mustafa, said Ahmed saw an opportunity to tackle the shooter
What else explains his insensitive rant about the late Rob Reiner?
The US has instead turned over control of your dust bunnies to a company based in Shenzen
The 30-year-old president of France’s National Rally said he agrees ‘for the most part’ with Trump’s bleak outlook for Europe
The unhinged hatred for the world’s only Jewish state has reanimated a medieval-like loathing for the Jewish people
The victory of Jose Antonio Kast confirms Latin America’s shift to the right
The Mayor-elect’s transition team plans to change the city
Putin has expressed ‘solidarity with the Venezuelan people’
Holding elections in war-torn Ukraine will be no easy task
The Trump Gold Card is here – but will it turn out to be a generous propaganda gift for Democrats?
Scientists no longer have to mouth DEI shibboleths to garner funding
Losing its ability to win on the ground, the regime is now resorting to unconventional aerial attacks on civilians
The foundation of science is based on the humility to learn, not the arrogance of expertise. When comet experts argued that the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS must be a familiar water-rich comet as soon as it was discovered in July, they behaved like artificial intelligence systems: only able to reflect the data sets they were trained
Queen Camilla loves a book. Almost any book will do. “There’s something so tactile about a book,” she says. “I like the smell of the pages when you open the cover. I like turning the pages and folding down a corner ready for next time…” The Queen, 78, has loved books for as long as
Peter Thiel has been described variously as “America’s leading public intellectual,” the “architect of Silicon Valley’s contemporary ethos” or as an “incoherent and alarmingly super-nationalistic” malevolent force. The PayPal and Palantir founder, a prominent early supporter of Donald Trump, is one of the world’s richest and most influential men. Throughout his career, his principal concern
The Spectator has got a hold of a new protocol used to screen visitors from 40 countries
He needs to show he is still in charge going into the midterms after recent setbacks
The online world is dangerous for under-16s, but barring them could be unwise and unworkable
Somali Americans in Minnesota have falsely claimed funds meant to feed low-income children
Bear hugs and kind words are not enough
Piers took on a prosecutorial mode, but Nick Fuentes made no attempt to hide his beliefs
The President hosted the Kennedy Center Honors and joked about changing its name
His solo trip to the UK in September demonstrated that he’s capable of conducting a quasi-royal visit by himself
For Pyongyang, any opportunity to expound its anti-American worldview is worth taking
Trump is right to warn against mass immigration and the Islamification of Europe
It was months before the difficulty with Marnie and Addison was talked about, or even alluded to. The sight of their names in emails circulated around the department was enough to cause a pall to settle on everything, like ash from fires only just put out. Besides, the nature of the difficulty (that was the
Most of us indulge in mild fortune-telling. We think “If the light changes before I count to five, I’ll get the job” or “If the solitaire hand comes out my tests will be negative’, and so on. We understand prophecy as the ability to foretell the future. But biblically, prophecy was not prediction but castigation.
No writer has done more than Jung Chang to bring the horrors of Maoist China to the attention of western readers. In her monumental memoir Wild Swans (1991), she recounted the Chinese Communist Revolution, the Great Famine and the Cultural Revolution through the stories of her grandmother, her mother and herself. Its influence was enormous:
I grew up in the 1980s but in many ways it was more like the 1880s. We lived with my grandmother on the Northumbrian coast and the routine of our days echoed the routines of her youth, perhaps her mother’s and grandmother’s, too. We were like an elephant family in an African game park, following
