Official US social media accounts posted about rise of ‘violent radical leftism’ after killing of Quentin Deranque in Lyon last week The French foreign minister, Jean-Noël Barrot, has said he will summon Charles Kushner, the US ambassador to France, over comments related to the killing of the French far-right activist Quentin Deranque. Deranque was beaten to death in Lyon last week during a fight ...
Official US social media accounts posted about rise of ‘violent radical leftism’ after killing of Quentin Deranque in Lyon last week The French foreign minister, Jean-Noël Barrot, has said he will summon Charles Kushner, the US ambassador to France, over comments related to the killing of the French far-right activist Quentin Deranque. Deranque was beaten to death in Lyon last week during a fight with alleged hard-left activists. Continue reading...
Passengers walk through the entrance of a TSA PreCheck in Terminal One at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago on Feb. 1, 2017. Armando L. Sanchez | Chicago Tribune | Getty Images A grouping of major U.S. airlines said the U.S. Department of Homeland Security gave travelers scant warning ahead of the temporary suspension of its PreCheck and Global Entry programs from Sunday, amid a shutdown of...
Passengers walk through the entrance of a TSA PreCheck in Terminal One at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago on Feb. 1, 2017. Armando L. Sanchez | Chicago Tribune | Getty Images A grouping of major U.S. airlines said the U.S. Department of Homeland Security gave travelers scant warning ahead of the temporary suspension of its PreCheck and Global Entry programs from Sunday, amid a shutdown of much of the agency. The halt in the programs run by the DHS will begin from 6 a.m. ET (1100 GMT), after the partial shutdown began last week, following the failure of Republicans and Democrats to clinch a deal on immigration enforcement reforms. "Airlines for America is deeply concerned that ... the traveling public will be, once again, used as a political football amid another government shutdown," Chief Executive Chris Sununu said. News of the suspensions came at "extremely short notice to travelers, giving them little time to plan accordingly," he added in a statement, urging Congress to "get a deal done." A similar shutdown last fall caused losses of $6.1 billion across the travel industry and related sectors, he said. "TSA and Customs and Border Protection are prioritizing the general traveling population at our airports and ports of entry and suspending courtesy and special privilege escorts," Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said. "We are making tough but necessary workforce and resource decisions to mitigate the damage," she added in a DHS statement to Reuters. The pause in programs is among the emergency measures DHS is taking to redirect staffing more than a week after Congress failed to send it more money, the Washington Post said. PreCheck had more than 20 million active members, the TSA said in 2024, while total vetted airline passengers in the DHS's traveler programs, including Global Entry, exceeded 40 million. The PreCheck program allows approved passengers to go through a dedicated, faster security lane at U.S. airports and is designed to...
It’s tempting to dismiss the proliferation of labels as a fad, but there’s more to this phenomenon than a simple culture-war reading allows My psychological research rarely makes good comedy material, but in a standup show in London recently, those two worlds collided. One of the jokes was about how everyone is getting diagnosed with ADHD these days – about the social media videos that encourage v...
It’s tempting to dismiss the proliferation of labels as a fad, but there’s more to this phenomenon than a simple culture-war reading allows My psychological research rarely makes good comedy material, but in a standup show in London recently, those two worlds collided. One of the jokes was about how everyone is getting diagnosed with ADHD these days – about the social media videos that encourage viewers to identify common human experiences, like daydreaming or talking a lot, as evidence of the condition. The audience laughed because everyone got it – they’ve all witnessed how common it seems to have become in the last few years. When something becomes this prevalent in society, and this mystifying, it’s no surprise it ends up as a punchline. Part of my work as an academic involves trying to solve the puzzle of why so many more people, especially young people, are reporting symptoms of mental illness compared to even five or 10 years ago. (ADHD is a form of neurodivergence, rather than a mental illness, but both have seen an increase, so they are related questions.) Whenever I talk about this – to colleagues, school staff, parents – it doesn’t take long until someone brings up that judgment-laden, hot-button word: overdiagnosis. Continue reading...
Self-declared sleuths have inserted themselves into the search for Nancy Guthrie, compromising the investigation for views and clicks On the 10th day of the search for Nancy Guthrie, reporters camped outside of the missing woman’s home noticed a strange man strut right up to the front door. It had been more than a week since the mother of Today show host Savannah Guthrie had disappeared, and autho...
Self-declared sleuths have inserted themselves into the search for Nancy Guthrie, compromising the investigation for views and clicks On the 10th day of the search for Nancy Guthrie, reporters camped outside of the missing woman’s home noticed a strange man strut right up to the front door. It had been more than a week since the mother of Today show host Savannah Guthrie had disappeared, and authorities had just announced they had a new lead from Ring footage of what looked like a “potential subject” attempting to tamper with the doorbell camera on the morning of her disappearance. So now who was this unknown person, clad in a gray top and black pants, carrying a large black bag and striding to the door? It was a Domino’s delivery driver. Continue reading...
An exclusive extract from her memoir • ‘She did kill. There’s no grey area there’: read an interview with Naz Shah On 11 April 1992, Uncle Azam died of complications from gastroenteritis. He was always kind and generous towards me, and his death was a terrible shock. Although he was married and we knew his family, without ever being told about it, I knew there was “something” going on between Azam...
An exclusive extract from her memoir • ‘She did kill. There’s no grey area there’: read an interview with Naz Shah On 11 April 1992, Uncle Azam died of complications from gastroenteritis. He was always kind and generous towards me, and his death was a terrible shock. Although he was married and we knew his family, without ever being told about it, I knew there was “something” going on between Azam and my mum. I hadn’t been raised to ask questions, so there was no way I would have ever challenged Mum on what she was doing. I had no idea of the horrific reality that lay behind that “something”. Everything changed with Azam’s sudden death. Before long, strange rumours began to circulate within the community about Azam, Mum and the relationship between them. I had no idea, and wouldn’t know for years, that Mum was in a coercive, abusive relationship with him. Much more shocking were the terrible rumours swirling that Azam had behaved badly towards me – and Mum had killed him. Continue reading...
They’re often compassionate good listeners who focus on their clients’ needs – so is it any wonder many patients find themselves with a crush? A writer, who is in exactly this position, talks to people on both sides of the couch I was half-watching the latest series of the Netflix romcom Nobody Wants This when suddenly things got interesting. Spoiler alert: it had just been revealed that one of th...
They’re often compassionate good listeners who focus on their clients’ needs – so is it any wonder many patients find themselves with a crush? A writer, who is in exactly this position, talks to people on both sides of the couch I was half-watching the latest series of the Netflix romcom Nobody Wants This when suddenly things got interesting. Spoiler alert: it had just been revealed that one of the characters (Morgan) was in a relationship with her newly ex-therapist (Dr Andy). While some of the characters freaked out, declaring the relationship very concerning, I felt a frisson of excitement. Because I, too, have harboured the desire to date my therapist. As it turns out, this fantasy is neither unusual nor unexpected. “Psychoanalysis almost insists on transference,” explains psychotherapist Charlotte Fox Weber, using the term coined by Sigmund Freud, the founding father of psychoanalysis, in his 1895 work Studies on Hysteria. The basic premise is that the patient projects old feelings, attitudes, desires or fantasies on to their therapist. This can manifest in numerous ways – often at the same time – covering the whole gamut of emotions and relationships, from love to hate, maternal to erotic, and everything in between. Continue reading...
Weak connections known as ‘bridge ties’ cross the boundaries that normally structure our lives. We must restore this connective tissue The first time a woman I’ll call Shoshana went to Brandi Carlile’s music festival , she arrived alone. She had just been through another unsuccessful round of IVF. During one of the songs, about motherhood, she began to cry in the middle of the crowd. Then two wome...
Weak connections known as ‘bridge ties’ cross the boundaries that normally structure our lives. We must restore this connective tissue The first time a woman I’ll call Shoshana went to Brandi Carlile’s music festival , she arrived alone. She had just been through another unsuccessful round of IVF. During one of the songs, about motherhood, she began to cry in the middle of the crowd. Then two women she had never met stepped closer and wordlessly wrapped their arms around her until her breathing slowed. “That’s when I realized,” Shoshana told me in an interview, “this place isn’t just about music.” Eva M Meyersson Milgrom is a social scientist and professor emerita from Stanford University, where she was affiliated with the department of sociology, the Institute of Economic Policy, and the Graduate School of Business. She is working on a book on the importance of diversifying our social networks Continue reading...
Two south-westerners shared a love of boats, but how would they fare on tuition fees and NHS funding? Grant, 61, Yelverton, Devon Occupation Retired: restored properties Continue reading...
Two south-westerners shared a love of boats, but how would they fare on tuition fees and NHS funding? Grant, 61, Yelverton, Devon Occupation Retired: restored properties Continue reading...
Battle-tested Ukrainian startup that advertises a ‘Killbox’ drone recruited Prince as non-executive chair After multiple sources previously told the Guardian that Erik Prince – Maga ally and founder of the now defunct mercenary company Blackwater – was looking to work with Ukraine ’s invaluable drone sector, recent Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) documents confirm he now is . Swarmer, whi...
Battle-tested Ukrainian startup that advertises a ‘Killbox’ drone recruited Prince as non-executive chair After multiple sources previously told the Guardian that Erik Prince – Maga ally and founder of the now defunct mercenary company Blackwater – was looking to work with Ukraine ’s invaluable drone sector, recent Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) documents confirm he now is . Swarmer, which bills itself as a battle-tested Ukrainian startup specializing in autonomous drone software, filed for an initial public offering and has recruited Prince to help sell the company as non-executive chair. Continue reading...
I have made the leap from literary fiction to fantasy – for those who think it’s mere wish-fulfilment, here’s why we need that thing with the dragons Fantasy doesn’t need defending. It is one of the great cultural forms at the moment, all-pervading, ubiquitous. Maybe even the dominant form of writing just now, in line with the bookseller’s joke that contemporary publishing divides into A: romantas...
I have made the leap from literary fiction to fantasy – for those who think it’s mere wish-fulfilment, here’s why we need that thing with the dragons Fantasy doesn’t need defending. It is one of the great cultural forms at the moment, all-pervading, ubiquitous. Maybe even the dominant form of writing just now, in line with the bookseller’s joke that contemporary publishing divides into A: romantasy and B: everything else. But it might need explaining a little bit, for those who don’t get its pleasures; who still see it as wish-fulfilment, or as a low form that literary fiction gets to look down upon or direct a puzzled tolerance towards. As a writer of literary fiction who has borrowed and rejoiced in fantasy tropes for years, and has now himself written an out-and-out fantasy, I’m beyond embarrassment. I’ve been reading and loving fantasy all my life, and for me its best creators stand comfortably alongside the greats of any genre. And yet, I’m still encountering a faint sense that there is something to be accounted for in writing fantasy. That I ought to have reasons for wanting to do that thing with the dragons, no matter how culturally pervasive it is. Continue reading...
In an edited extract from her latest book, Hazel Sheffield sets out a new blueprint for community stewardship It was a Saturday in February 2020 when the flood came. It had been a wet winter, so wet it seemed that before the month was out, the brown trout of the River Taff might be washed clean out into Cardiff Bay before the fishing season had even begun. But this is Wales. People are used to a s...
In an edited extract from her latest book, Hazel Sheffield sets out a new blueprint for community stewardship It was a Saturday in February 2020 when the flood came. It had been a wet winter, so wet it seemed that before the month was out, the brown trout of the River Taff might be washed clean out into Cardiff Bay before the fishing season had even begun. But this is Wales. People are used to a spot of rain. No one realised how bad it would get. For two days, it hammered on the windows of the houses at the top of the South Wales Valleys, where people tucked in their children before a sleepless night. It poured into the rivers at the bottom. By the time the rain departed again, many people would be standing in water up to their knees. Continue reading...
Research shows that having a sense of purpose can lower stress levels and boost our mental health. Finding meaning may not have to be an ambitious project. (Image credit: Bojan89)
Research shows that having a sense of purpose can lower stress levels and boost our mental health. Finding meaning may not have to be an ambitious project. (Image credit: Bojan89)
2026-02-22 | ORCL INVESTOR ALERT: Bronstein, Gewirtz and Grossman, LLC Announces that Oracle Corporation Shareholders with Losses Have Opportunity to Lead Class Action Lawsuit! | NYSE:ORCL | Press Release Stockhouse
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Ukraine's Fast-Tracked EU Membership Would De Facto Advance EU Federalist Goals Authored by Andrew Korybko, The approval of “reverse enlargement” to Ukraine and other candidate states would institutionalize a three-tiered Europe between the “E6”, Central Europe, and the new partial members from Eastern Europe and the Balkans for facilitating Germany’s divide-and-rule federalist plans. Politico rep...
Ukraine's Fast-Tracked EU Membership Would De Facto Advance EU Federalist Goals Authored by Andrew Korybko, The approval of “reverse enlargement” to Ukraine and other candidate states would institutionalize a three-tiered Europe between the “E6”, Central Europe, and the new partial members from Eastern Europe and the Balkans for facilitating Germany’s divide-and-rule federalist plans. Politico reported on the EU’s plan to grant Ukraine partial membership by next year at the earliest as part of a comprehensive solution to that country’s conflict. An unnamed official described this as “reverse enlargement” and explained that “It would be a sort of recalibration of the process — you join and then you get phased in rights and obligations.” This modus operandi would enable all the other candidates to join too and thus complete the bloc’s expansion in Eastern Europe and the Balkans. If Orban isn’t ‘ democratically deposed ’ during next month’s parliamentary elections, then the EU plans to appeal to Trump to pressure him into agreeing to this, absent which they’ll remove Hungary’s voting rights. Left unsaid is the assessment from early November when this general idea was first reported about how “ Poland Might Impede The EU’s Push To Speedily Grant Ukraine Membership ” if this compels it to open its agricultural market to another deluge of low-cost and low-quality Ukrainian exports. Per the preceding hyperlinked analysis, “neither half of its ruling duopoly wants to be blamed for the domestic consequences of Ukraine joining the EU, especially not ahead of fall 2027’s next parliamentary elections. Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s ruling liberal-globalist coalition is already facing an uphill battle and would torpedo any hope of keeping control if they supported this, while President Karol Nawrocki from the conservative-nationalist opposition would betray his base if he went along with them.” It’s therefore possible that the EU’s “reverse enlargement” to Ukraine doesn’t include ...
Bridget Phillipson says government is ‘not taking away support’ as she prepares to announce changes UK politics live – latest updates Bridget Phillipson has pledged that under the government’s overhaul of the special educational needs system it will take weeks for children to get access to support, not months or years – as she prepares to announce the controversial changes. Speaking before publica...
Bridget Phillipson says government is ‘not taking away support’ as she prepares to announce changes UK politics live – latest updates Bridget Phillipson has pledged that under the government’s overhaul of the special educational needs system it will take weeks for children to get access to support, not months or years – as she prepares to announce the controversial changes. Speaking before publication of the white paper on the overhaul, the education secretary said children with special needs would be treated as “integral to the school system” rather than as a carved-out issue. She said the changes would be brought in as part of a “decade-long shift” to give schools and families time to adjust. Continue reading...
Upping tariffs may have lifted the president’s mood but it is a headache for the Federal Reserve and its next chair Donald Trump and Denis Healey don’t have much in common. One of the greatest prime ministers Britain never had shares little of his famous hinterland with what some historians see as one of the worst occupants of the White House . But Trump would be well advised to remember Healey’s ...
Upping tariffs may have lifted the president’s mood but it is a headache for the Federal Reserve and its next chair Donald Trump and Denis Healey don’t have much in common. One of the greatest prime ministers Britain never had shares little of his famous hinterland with what some historians see as one of the worst occupants of the White House . But Trump would be well advised to remember Healey’s first law of holes – when you’re in one, stop digging. Continue reading...
sankai/iStock via Getty Images Market Brief – War With Iran On Friday, the Supreme Court struck down Trump’s signature tariffs. The ruling affects tariffs levied under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) which includes the so-called reciprocal tariffs at various levels against nations all around the world to address trade imbalances, as well as ones on China, Mexico, and Canada...
sankai/iStock via Getty Images Market Brief – War With Iran On Friday, the Supreme Court struck down Trump’s signature tariffs. The ruling affects tariffs levied under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) which includes the so-called reciprocal tariffs at various levels against nations all around the world to address trade imbalances, as well as ones on China, Mexico, and Canada ostensibly over flows of fentanyl into the U.S. It doesn’t impact tariffs on products including automobiles, steel, aluminum, and copper under a separate authority known as Section 232. Unsurprisingly, the Administration said it would immediately impose a 10% global tariff under Section 122 of the Trade Act of 1974. As President Trump noted, the Trade Act allows the president to impose tariffs for up to 150 days. During that time, the administration will also investigate using Section 301, which could result in more permanent tariffs. Much uncertainty remains around tariffs, what happens to the tariffs already collected (i.e., refunds) , and the implications for future trade. We will continue to monitor accordingly. The other big news this week is rising concerns over Iran. Whenever tensions rise between the US and Iran, the “perpetual purveyors of doom” quickly start posting clips stating that “WWIII is imminent.” Such is unlikely, but let’s discuss what is happening and what it means for the markets. The Iran story the market is pricing right now is less about ideology and more about energy chokepoints and escalation math . In the past two weeks, reporting has centered on a sharper U.S. force posture in the region, including a meaningful buildup of air and naval assets, alongside continued indirect diplomacy and Iranian signaling around the Strait of Hormuz. That mix is why crude has caught a bid: Hormuz is a “single-point-of-failure” for global oil flows, and even temporary disruptions can quickly reprice inflation risk. (However, notice that even with the recent spike,...