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Emmanuel Macron says Europeans should stop relying on social media for their news and turn back to traditional public media. Speaking in Paris on Wednesday, he said people were “completely wrong” to use social networks for information and should instead depend on journalists and established outlets. Social platforms, he argued, are driven by a ‘process
Americans must confront the colonization the British are enduring – or suffer the same fate
They preach environmental sustainability through draconian measures – at the expense of common sense and science
The President says the battleship will return as the centerpiece of his new Golden Fleet
As on the left, there’s a significant number of people on the political right who simply hate the Jews
In this fraught international context, Trump is acting totally sane
Trump’s plan would mean statehood for Washington, DC and Puerto Rico and sweeping firearms restrictions
Christianity is today the most oppressed religion in the world
Forces that mobilized over Gaza have, in the case of atrocities being committed in Sudan, fallen almost entirely silent
Though he received no presents from Xi, Trump clearly enjoyed cavorting abroad and collecting tribute
The British science-fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke, author of 2001: A Space Odyssey, proposed a “law of science” in 1968: “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” Clarke’s proposition had a quality of rightness, of stating the obvious with sparkling clarity, that propelled it into dictionaries of quotations. The timing was perfect: Concorde would
Aside from streaming on an iPad, when riding a stationary bike one of the few entertainments on offer is tracking your heart rate. Breaking 150 beats per minute provides a fleeting (and doubtless misplaced) sense of achievement. Yet the wearable heart monitor that came with my exercise bicycle proved unreliable; one’s BPM never truly drops
When I joined The Spectator in 2000, the office was in Bloomsbury, in a four-story Georgian house, and the further down the building you went, the more stylish, the more Spectator (I thought), everything became. On the top floor, blinds drawn, sitting in the half-dark, was Kimberly Fortier, the American publisher, often in long meetings
In his youth, Emil Lundin became obsessed with the idea of recording the world’s “most evil album.” The lanky, long-haired Swede formed a black-metal band and set to work. He faced an immediate obstacle. In making history’s most nefarious musical creation, he could hardly use Swedish, with its singsong tones. English was also out of
Are you a survivor? We are not, luckily, all Gloria Gaynors. She declared in 1979: “I’ve got all my life to live, and I’ve got all my love to give/ And I will survive.” Gaynor has, so far, made good on her promise. Surviving afflictions unscathed is not always an unmixed virtue. “She would be
The summit with Xi will cap what’s been an absolutely delightful Asian invasion for Trump
A veteran US correspondent quoted a man claiming to the former mayor on his ‘misgivings’ about Zohran Mamdani
Amazon and UPS have each just replaced 14,000 jobs with AI
US air strikes destroyed four more boats allegedly carrying narcotics
Plus: Paul Ingrassia lawyers up
The House Oversight Committee found Biden was ‘incapable of self-functioning’
A large ballroom will let future presidents use the magic of White House invitations to achieve their aims
She is the Democratic establishment’s only bulwark against a rampant left
It was clear from Queens rally that the old neoliberal Democratic party is on its final breaths
He vowed that his victory would enable him to ‘make Argentina great again’
Former Trump White House economist warns patients will suffer
Police in Paris have now arrested two men over the robbery
Carr shrugs when asked if he thinks he was in any way responsible for the name change, others believe he was
One of the new crop of self-made and self-credentialed online evangelists has flamed out in spectacular fashion
No one expects Gaza to establish a stable, comprehensive peace with Israel
Trump has set off on a tour of Asia to meet regional leaders
‘I’ve never done a salon before,’ Graham Linehan said. ‘Maybe this is the way forward’
The court is contemplating big changes to the Voting Rights Act
Changpeng Zhao, who was sentenced to four months in prison, was granted clemency by Donald Trump