Until this facility was taken away, I’d never realised how often I looked things up on my phone. How cold is it going to be this evening? What time does that shop open? What has that actress been in before? During one discussion, Jeremy asked me the origins of Bonfire Night – why, in this…
For Trump, the performance of the stock market is seen as validation of his own achievements, and he will not want it to stumble. He needn’t worry, at least for now. History shows that financial and business deregulation is like rocket fuel for speculative stock market activity, and with more money in people’s pockets from…
Ms Alinejad, meanwhile, had a distrust of authority at a young age, reportedly being expelled from secondary school for challenging its religious teachings before she headed to Tehran to become a journalist. She was catapulted to fame as a reporter in the Iranian parliament, questioning powerful men in a country where women do not have…
Mr Trump has previously said he will end the Russia-Ukraine war on his first day in office, but has provided few details on how he will achieve this. One plan that he is thought to be considering involves using British and European troops to enforce an 800-mile buffer zone between the Russian and Ukrainian armies. Ukraine…
Elon Musk dispatched an “emergency squad” to Pennsylvania to secure last-minute votes on Election Day. The billionaire tech mogul’s America PAC is targeting would-be Trump voters who filed their initial ballots with errors, meaning they would be rejected in the final count. It is a highly expensive and unusual tactic, but could yield the small…
Both the SNL and Fallon skits featured the real and mock politicians staring at each other through a mirror. Ms Harris used the primetime appearance to poke fun at Trump, days after a viral video showed him struggling to climb into a garbage truck in Wisconsin while wearing an orange fluorescent safety vest. In a pep…
A hunky Vladimir Putin poses alongside China’s Xi Jinping in the latest edition of Russia’s FSB security service annual calendar. The FSB calendars have become something of a staple over the years, often producing artwork that triggers wry laughs and mockery in equal measure. The 2025 edition is, just as it was in 2023 and…
France has reached a “tipping point” on drug-related violence, the country’s hardline interior minister warned on Friday, after hundreds of people took part in a massive shootout. The gunfight, which left a teenager fighting for his life and four others seriously wounded, erupted overnight in the western city of Poitiers. Police intervened at around 10.45pm…
The White House later pushed back, issuing a transcript of Mr Biden’s remarks that included a longer quote and an apostrophe that suggested he had misspoken. The White House later said that Mr Biden was specifically referring to Tony Hinchcliffe, the individual who made the “garbage” comment, releasing a transcript which put an apostrophe between…
H5N1 bird flu has been detected in a pig in the US for the first time, sparking concern that the virus could become better at infecting and spreading between humans. The animal was found in a backyard farm in the US state of Oregon that was also home to H5N1-infected poultry, the US Department for…