PM’s effort to take heat out of Greenland situation is yet another humiliation in his relationship with The Donald UK politics live – latest updates Toady, or not toady? That is the question. When even Piers Morgan has taken his head out of Donald Trump’s bum far enough to see […]
Memo on how ex-Tory should act after Reform defection seems to channel Ricky Gervais character from The Office The fallout from Robert Jenrick’s abrupt and chaotic defection from the Conservatives to Reform UK on Thursday continued over the weekend, with the leaking of a memo prepared by his aides for […]
The real world is way worse than Westeros – so why not let this heartwarming underdog tale of a simple soul and his ethereal squire be your safe space ‘Bless their little cotton socks!” is not a response one expects to have to any of the inhabitants of Westeros, the […]
Carl Freedman Gallery, MargateMunch, Bourgeois, Gormley and Baselitz go shoulder to shoulder with up-and-coming artists in an exhibition that revels in its stygian gloom Tracey Emin catches me looking from her self-portrait to her as I try to assess the closeness of the resemblance. Not that close. This inky screenprint […]
Traders have learned to live with the US president’s rhetoric, but the EU’s measures could go beyond tariffs and into capital markets That’s how the chancellor’s luck runs these days. You arrange to open the day’s trading on the stock exchange to hail a “new golden age” for the City […]
Next few weeks will show if Trump has finally pushed too far with Greenland levies, as calls grow for bloc to take tougher action As the sun set over the port of Limassol in Cyprus, the head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, last Thursday used a tried […]
The US president’s trade war for Greenland tells us that the time for fence-sitting or wishful thinking is over One way or the other, President Trump said, he will have Greenland. Well, at least now we know it’s the other; not an invasion that would have sent young men home […]
Prada says its tailoring opposes US ‘corporate masculine power’, while D&G’s all-white cast causes controversy in Milan Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons, the two designers behind Prada, are well aware that fashion is about more than clothes. However, backstage after their menswear show in Milan on Sunday, the duo said […]
AI is asbestos in the walls of our tech society, stuffed there by monopolists run amok. A serious fight against it must strike at its roots I am a science-fiction writer, which means that my job is to make up futuristic parables about our current techno-social arrangements to interrogate not […]
Big tech treats our attention like a resource to be mercilessly extracted. The fightback begins here In the last 15 years, a linked series of unprecedented technologies have changed the experience of personhood across most of the world. It is estimated that nearly 70% of the human population of the […]