Not that this will make much of a difference to the screeching fanatics on the far left and right, but we can now safely say that Russia was responsible for the poisoning of former spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia. Reported the Guardian: The international chemical ...read more
Having satirized British politics (The Thick of It/In the Loop) and American politics (the multiple Emmy-award-winning Veep), Armando Iannucci has now brought his hammer - and sickle - down on Mother Russia in The Death of Stalin, a farce that not only lives up to his previous ...read more
Bloomberg News published a fascinating insight today into the bizarre and apparently deteriorating relationship between Donald Trump and British Prime Minister Theresa May. The story highlights how impossible it is for foreign nations to deal with the White House under the new ...read more
As a born and bred Londoner, this makes me immensely proud. From the Evening Standard: The Royal Borough of Greenwich has "barred" Donald Trump after councillors called for his visit to the UK to be abandoned. Earlier this week, America's ambassador in London signalled that Mr ...read more
“What I use in the battle for the mind Hit it hard like it supposed Pulling no blows to the nose” ...read more
Just when you thought Donald Trump couldn't get any worse, any viler or any more toxic, the President of the United States retweets a fascist's anti-Muslim video to his 43.5 million followers. The president retweeted not one, but three anti-Muslim videos posted by the deputy ...read more
British prime minister Theresa May called a snap election after only 11 months as leader of the Conservative Party in a moment of what many will now call madness. May confidently gambled that she could in one fell swoop destroy what was left of the Labour Party, consolidate power ...read more
Today, global politics is in turmoil with several dangerous heads of major states actively trying to increase the likelihood of conflict. As Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, Rodrigo Duerte and Kim Jong Un ramp up rhetoric against other countries, their own citizens, and even ...read more
by Daniel James How the UK voting public respond to Theresa May's calculated decision not to appear in the leader's debate will give us an interesting insight into how humans more generally might react to the affront of being made irrelevant by artificial intelligence. Le me ...read more
