Brexit-regretting ex-pats are ready to punish the Tories
Paul Waugh in The i Paper
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Is Emmanuel Macron secretly hoping for a Trump victory?
Gavin Mortimer in The Spectator
A Donald Trump victory in November "would hasten Emmanuel Macron's ambition for a United States of Europe", writes Gavin Mortimer in The Spectator. "So reviled is Trump by the European elite that they would regard a 'disengagement' from his America as a merciful release." When they need to elect a president for a federal Europe "there will be only one contender: the globalists' golden boy, the darling of the Davos set" – Macron, of course.
From bot reporters to the loss of a legendary editor, the Daily Mirror is hanging by a thread
Jane Martinson in The Guardian
"The decline of newspapers is not new, but it will still feel bleak until a reliable source of funding for proper reporting is more readily found," writes Jane Martinson in The Guardian. After swingeing cuts at many papers in recent years, it's "hard not to worry about the future of mass market news that isn't from just one plutocratic viewpoint and local news that isn't provided by a machine".
From Windrush to the Post Office, I find a Britain losing its faith in fair play
Anoosh Chakelian in The New Statesman
A "murmur is rumbling across the country", with "angry beads sweat gathering on the nation’s stiff upper lip", writes Anoosh Chakelian in The New Statesman. "Suspect Covid contracts, the hypocrisy of partygate and poor conduct in public office" are compounding a sense of a loss of faith in fairness. Even a change of government "risks simply running the same machine – stuck in its centralised-globalised muddle of shoddy outsourcing, false economies and groupthink".
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Grok in the crosshairs as EU launches deepfake porn probeIN THE SPOTLIGHT The European Union has officially begun investigating Elon Musk’s proprietary AI, as regulators zero in on Grok’s porn problem and its impact continent-wide
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China’s Xi targets top general in growing purgeSpeed Read Zhang Youxia is being investigated over ‘grave violations’ of the law
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Iran cuts internet as protests escalateSpeed Reada Government buildings across the country have been set on fire
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How Bulgaria’s government fell amid mass protestsThe Explainer The country’s prime minister resigned as part of the fallout
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