The Billionaires’ Empire of AI
The New Empire Artificial intelligence is sold as liberation. Journalist Karen Hao has already likened today’s AI giants to the East India Company. It is not a throwaway line. It is a warning. The...
The New Empire Artificial intelligence is sold as liberation. Journalist Karen Hao has already likened today’s AI giants to the East India Company. It is not a throwaway line. It is a warning. The...
Atmosphere and Key Moments Right Now • Peaceful but charged: Drums, anthems, and chants like “Patriotism is the future” and “Borders are the future” are echoing through the streets. Robinson just addressed the crowd...
Under the banner “Unite the Kingdom,” Robinson (Stephen Yaxley-Lennon) has mobilised a mass of supporters, casting the demonstration as both a free speech crusade and an anti-immigration revolt. What the crowd actually looks like...
Tommy Robinson has been laying the groundwork for months. The rally that London is seeing today did not appear out of thin air. It was seeded in encrypted chat groups, cultivated in livestream rants,...
The Artificial Intelligence mania has dressed itself in the language of inevitability. We are told this is the new railroads, the new internet, the new electricity. But look closer at the economics and you...
Introduction: A Murder Becomes a Meme The sniper’s bullet that killed Charlie Kirk on September 10 did more than end the life of a conservative firebrand. It detonated across X, the platform formerly known...
The arrest of Tyler Robinson, a 22-year-old Republican voter from Utah, is more than just another entry in America’s calendar of political killings. It is a fracture line running straight through the conservative base...
Charlie Kirk is gone; the questions he animated remain. As investigators sift evidence from the Utah campus where he was shot, the larger story is not the crime scene but the audience that rose...
Days after Charlie Kirk was shot and killed at a Utah Valley University event, investigators continue their work while a sharper public question takes hold: how the Christianity he professed aligned with the policies...
Israeli Military Police on Duty. Image represents law enforcement capacity in Israel. Source: Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0). TEL AVIV — According to a 2009 U.S. diplomatic cable later published by Wikileaks, American officials...
Londoners woke up Friday to a city edging back toward normal after a week of stoppages that turned the Underground into a patchwork of shuttered gates, sporadic services and crowded alternatives. The Rail, Maritime...
An Israeli airstrike in Doha has cast a long shadow over the latest round of ceasefire diplomacy. Hamas negotiators, assembled under Qatari protection, became the targets of a strike that killed the son of...
Yiddish translation of the Sabbath hymns (1829), page 1. The images sear the conscience: children crushed beneath rubble, families irreparably torn apart, neighborhoods transformed into haunting voids. The dead count in the thousands—many of...
Geoffrey Hinton at the 2025 Nobel Lectures The greatest danger of artificial intelligence may not be “killer robots” or machines rising up against us, but something far more subtle: persuasion. Geoffrey Hinton, the Nobel-winning...
The Tube strike entered its second full day on Tuesday, intensifying disruption across London as commuters grappled with packed buses, long walks and overloaded journey planners. With negotiations stalled, the capital is facing a...
Prince Harry during an Invictus-related engagement, 2019. Source: Wikimedia Commons. Prince Harry’s return to the United Kingdom this week is more than a diary of engagements. It is a reminder of his commitment to...
The City Ground — Forest’s home, and a reminder of roots amid today’s instability. Source: Wikimedia Commons. The City Ground — Forest’s home, and a reminder of roots amid today’s instability. Source: Wikimedia Commons....
Broadcasting House, the BBC headquarters in London. Photo: Oxyman, via Wikimedia Commons. LONDON — 8 September 2025 Yes, a widely respected organisation’s report suggests that the licence fee — which is sold as a...
Birmingham residents paint the St George’s Cross on mini-roundabouts. Descriptive footage of the street-level flag campaign. “Operation Raise the Colours” footage: flags painted and flown in Birmingham neighbourhoods. If your theme blocks iframes, link...
Jeremy Corbyn, 2019. Zarah Sultana, official parliamentary portrait. The start of this new political realignment comes as Britain drifts headlong into an economic crisis. The divide between rich and poor is widening, with wealth...
Exterior of an Aldi supermarket. Photo via Wikipedia/Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0). Exterior of a Morrisons supermarket. Photo via Wikipedia/Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0). Aldi has taken the crown as the UK’s cheapest supermarket...
Hannah Hampton with the Women’s Super League trophy after Chelsea vs Liverpool at Stamford Bridge, 10 May 2025. Photo: Katie Chan / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0). The Women’s Super League enters its new...
Londoners faced one of their most chaotic mornings yet today, as a London Underground strike entered its first full day in force. With almost no Tube service before 08:00 and journeys advised to be...
KYIV — The claim landed like a hammer blow in a war already defined by attrition and exhaustion: “142,000 servicemen deserted.” In a few words it compressed two and a half years of fear,...
Russian accounts describe custom malware, a OneDrive trove and a casualty ledger; Kyiv rejects the story as information warfare NY-Style Enhanced — Excerpt (No Headline) MOSCOW — The story began with a single post...
Carolyn Gelenter, daughter of a Holocaust survivor, being arrested by police in Parliament Square. Video courtesy of Novara Media. London — Stephen Kapos, 87, survived the Holocaust as a child. This winter, he laid...
LONDON — Jeremy Corbyn’s inquiry has shifted the debate back onto the government, forcing ministers to confront allegations of complicity in Gaza that will now circulate in public reports and international forums. Last week...
Angela Rayner said she resigned over a £40,000 underpayment of stamp duty when she bought a flat in Hove. But this was not a crime. It was a mistake that could have been rectified...