The Tories will pledge to make even further cuts to the foreign aid budget, as the party attempts to regain its reputation for fiscal responsibility in the wake of the Truss mini-budget. Shadow chancellor Sir Mel Stride will unveil plans to cut overseas development aid to 0.1% of Gross National Income (GNI), down from the…
They knew he was going to break. And they leaned into it. Thatβs the only explanation for this weekβs Ryan Gosling-hosted episode of βSaturday Night Live,β which at times felt more like an inside cast joke than a typical βSNLβ episode. But maybe itβs the βProject Hail Maryβ actorβs innate charm or that there were…
On one of her previous visits to Los Angeles, Argentine filmmaker Lucrecia Martel found herself having a smoke on Hollywood Boulevard. There, while she stepped over the famous concrete-embedded stars, an unhoused man struck up a conversation with her. βHe kept explaining to me that he was poorly dressed because he was currently living on…
MEXICO CITYΒ βΒ Mexicoβs secretary of the economy, Marcelo Ebrard, urged βprudenceβ Friday in the aftermath of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling invalidating part of President Trumpβs sweeping tariff regimen. βWe have to see where this is going,β Ebrard told reporters. βWe have to see what measures [Washington] is going to take to figure out how it…
As his USC team slid further off the NCAA tournament bubble, falling flat against its fiercest rival, frustrated coach Eric Musselman couldnβt help but lament what might have been. If the Trojans had Rodney Rice, maybe things would have gone differently in his second season. βI havenβt really talked about it in a long time,β…
Ranting about the decline of comedy specials while releasing a new one at the same time feels a bit like an oxymoron. But somehow it still makes sense coming from alt-comedy pioneer David Cross, who isnβt just complaining; heβs finding his own route to making specials feel special again. The only way to do that…
GUADALAJARA, JaliscoΒ βΒ Before the World Cup, critics and fans of the Mexican national team debated whether Javier Aguirreβs third stint as head coach was the right decision. Two games later, the coach has led Mexico to the tournamentβs knockout round. Thursdayβs 1-0 victory over South Korea at Guadalajara Stadium made the World Cup co-host the first…
Twenty Conservative councillors have defected to Reform this morning – on the Tories’ third day of their conference. This is on top of eight Tory councillors moving to Nigel Farage’s party since March this year, including notable defector Keith Prince, a member of the London Assembly who was a Tory party member for nearly 50…
Kemi Badenoch is expected to mark the 100th anniversary of Margaret Thatcher’s birth after paying a series of glowing tributes to her at the Conservative Party conference. The Tory celebrations, 100 years after she was born on 13 October 1925, include a glittering dinner at the historic Guildhall in the City of London attended by…
Once upon a time if folks wanted to pinpoint the most economically-vulnerable country in Europe – the one most likely to face a crisis – they would invariably point to Greece or to Italy. They were the nations with the eye-wateringly high bond yields, signalling how reluctant financiers were to lend them money. Today, however,…