Politics

‘The truth about Diana’: Charles Spencer to publish book about late sister

Earl says he wanted to ‘write down my own thoughts and memories’ with 30th anniversary of Diana’s death ‘on the skyline’

Moscow threat of ‘consequences’ will not alter UK support for Ukraine, says Burnham

Prime minister responds to Russian anger over Kyiv’s use of British-made drones in ‘deep strike’ campaign

Alan Dershowitz Won’t Forget What Larry David Did to Him

He has new friends on Martha’s Vineyard. But his tales of cancellation have not subsided.

‘Our task is to laugh at these enemies’: the Ukrainian unit posting drone videos of Russian soldiers’ last moments

Creators of chase compilations reject any moral qualms and say they show ‘death is waiting’ for those who join war

Islamophobia Has Corroded American Values

Even in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, Muslims weren’t treated like this.

Jason Arday’s Final Self-Delusion

In the Henrik Ibsen play The Wild Duck, Dr. Relling dispenses a drug that soothes the most profound self-loathing: livsløgn, a “life-lie,” a form of grandiose self-delusion that lets the pathetic figures who take it believe that they are geniuses and noble romantics. The life-lie, it turns out, is a hell of a drug—perhaps the most potent Scandinavian pharmaceutical invention before Ozempic—and keeps the play’s fragile characters from succumbing to “self-contempt and despair.” Against Relling’s advice, another character, Gregers, decides to free these losers from their life-lies and expose them. The play ends with a suicide.

‘Migration has been weaponised’: Italy’s security law criticised after death of Moroccan man in police restraint

Case of Abderrahim Fakir is first in which legal shield giving police greater protection from prosecution has been invoked

Zelensky promises to 'respond' after 10 killed in Russian missile strike in Ukraine

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky vowed retaliation on Tuesday after Russia launched a “brutal attack” in his country. A Russian missile killed 10 people and injured over a dozen more in a village in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region. Zelensky described the area as “surrounded only by residential buildings” and posted pictures of the damage on his social media.

Samira’s story: the Sudanese refugee who has known no peace since she was 10

Since civil war first reached her village in 2003, Samira has been displaced seven times, enduring devastating losses and injuries along the way

What is Venezuela’s opening to Israel really about?

On Aug. 11, Israel and Venezuela announced that they would restore consular relations and establish an official coordination channel, 17 years after Hugo Chavez expelled Israel’s ambassador during the Gaza war. Foreign Minister Felix Plasencia and his Israeli counterpart, Gideon Sa’ar, presented the agreement as an outgrowth of Israel’s humanitarian aid mission following the June 24 earthquakes, which killed more than 6,000 Venezuelans.

Republicans are falling for the data center panic

In July, Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-NY) signed an executive order establishing the nation’s first moratorium on the construction of hyperscale data centers.

Trump Is Putting His Face on Everything

We Americans remember our presidents in all sorts of ways, with monuments and statues, on coins and street signs. Another thing we do is wait—we wait until a president is safely out of office, or dead, before we bestow such honors.