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“This dialogue is all the more urgent in the context of present-day France, where the people of differing cultural and religious backgrounds are called to live together,” the pontiff continued. Standing in front of…
Read moreIt emerged after Ukraine had to bring forward state defense spending originally planned for the second half of the year, as Hungary delayed the EU’s €90 billion loan to Kyiv. Purchases made included "fiber-optic drones…
Read moreThey are a play without a plot, a chorus line of seemingly endless "don't knows". Their leader, Ed Davey, recently warned that "we're in the fight of our lives" to defend the values of liberty and equality. Really? How…
Read moreStarmer’s departure capped a turbulent final period in office in which domestic political problems increasingly dominated his government’s attention. The change in leadership came less than a year after Starmer and Merz…
Read moreHe fought a parliamentary seat in 2024 and is back on the Approved Candidates list. He leads the Conservative group on Cornwall Council. Pubs, cafes, restaurants and dare I say it, fish and chip shops, are the beating…
Read more"It's like a firewall against actually thinking: 'My God, I mean, what are we living through?'" On the publication of her new book, What a Time to Be Alive! , The Guardian's award-winning columnist talks to Nosheen Iqbal…
Read moreSunak does; Braverman does not, though she is proud to be British. Both have contributed greatly to British public life, and each has every right to describe themselves as they choose. Their disagreement made me think…
Read moreThe comments shine the spotlight on the European Commission's Artificial Intelligence Office, which was put in charge of enforcing the AI Act in August. Voss also said the Commission's overall response to the fast pace…
Read moreJust as surely, Conservative governments pull back and reverse the good done. Here we go again: despite the social devastation caused by George Osborne's cuts last time, Kemi Badenoch announces that she wants to impose…
Read moreNow the stopped clock challenge is to be expected when claiming accurate prediction, and it was almost fair exactly a decade ago when I declared Donald Trump would become President, which anyone tempted by hindsight to…
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