2026-01-30 14:00:26
Poor Europe. That continent embodied the loftiest visions of peace and integration in the post-Cold War period. It has become the poster child for weakness in the rougher age that followed.
2026-01-30 13:00:28
UK Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood is shaking up the police service with plans to create a “British FBI.” Don’t hold your breath for an elite corps of glamorous, technically brilliant and morally serious agents who will uncover vast conspiracies and save the nation from catastrophic threats in the mythical, TV-version manner of the US Federal Bureau of Investigation. This is at least the third time in two decades a UK government has proclaimed a British FBI. The label may stick no better this tim
2026-01-30 13:00:27
Nigel Farage has a dilemma. In some ways it’s a happy one. He boasted this week that there have now been 200 consecutive opinion polls putting his Reform UK party ahead in the battle to win the next UK general election. That’s the good part.
2026-01-30 12:00:27
If you could safely implant a chip in your brain to enhance your intelligence, would you?
2026-01-30 05:45:00
The Trump administration’s crackdown was never about undocumented immigrants, since 90% of Minnesota’s Somali community are US citizens.
2026-01-30 05:00:29
The world’s biggest program of deforestation is being made superfluous before it’s really begun. Thank electric cars.
