Barack Obama endorses Kamala Harris as Democratic candidate for president Barack Obama has endorsed Kamala Harris as the Democratic nominee for US president, meaning the vice-president has now won the backing of all the party’s politically active high-profile figures for her White House bid. The former president had conspicuously withheld his endorsement in the immediate … Read more
Members of Israel’s rightwing government have hit back at Kamala Harris over her demands for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza after she met Benjamin Netanyahu during his US visit. After a brief meeting with the Israeli prime minister, which Harris described as “frank and constructive”, the US vice-president and presidential candidate said it was “time … Read more
Rachel Reeves is preparing to announce Treasury analysis of Labour’s spending inheritance from the Conservatives in parliament on Monday to highlight why she will need to make “tough decisions” in her autumn budget. The chancellor’s audit is expected to show £20bn in commitments left unaccounted for by the previous government, building on a narrative that … Read more
It’s going to be ugly, that much is already clear. In the few days since Kamala Harris began her 2024 campaign for president, the media has shown us where some of their coverage is headed: no place good. Both the rightwing and traditional media are making some predictable blunders. Add in the swill that circulates … Read more
Kevin Roberts, the Heritage Foundation president and the architect of Project 2025, the conservative thinktank’s road map for a second Trump presidency, has close ties and receives regular spiritual guidance from an Opus Dei-led center in Washington DC, a hub of activity for the radical and secretive Catholic group. Roberts acknowledged in a speech last … Read more
There is no such thing as a universal leader. Leaders always represent a specific social group: a political party, a religion or a social movement. The more they are loved by insiders, the more such adulation seems bizarre and inexplicable to outsiders – to the extent that we often dismiss adoring followers as deluded or … Read more
Monday Getting to the Left Bank is easier said than done. Actually it’s fine by metro, but crossing the river by any other means is, temporarily at least, a bit of an ordeal: innumerable detours for closed bridges, and cops as confused as you are. There are two Parises this week. In one, life feels … Read more
Samsung’s latest clamshell fold has a lot going for it. The Galaxy Z Flip 6 boasts some notable improvements over previous models. It’s the first phone in the line to come with 12GB of RAM as standard and a vapor chamber cooling system to keep temperatures under control. The Galaxy Z Flip 6 also features … Read more
PA Media The singer’s hits include Miss Me Too, Black Hole and Head On Fire In the space of three years, Griff has gone from recording songs in her bedroom to touring the world with Coldplay and Taylor Swift. The speed of her ascent has been dizzying. So much so that she called her debut … Read more
Display of a collision event recorded by the ATLAS detector at an energy of 13.6 TeV, with two candidate displaced electrons each represented by a track (blue line) indicating an energy deposit in the ATLAS calorimeter (green). The inset shows an axial view of the detector, illustrating the electron tracks displaced from the interaction point … Read more