Volcanic drama reminds us that nature remains in charge
Anjana Ahuja for the Financial Times
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The resurrection of Cornish mining
Fred Skulthorp for UnHerd
As a resurrection of sorts takes place in Cornwall, Britain "has a strange relationship with its mines", notes Fred Skulthorp for UnHerd. "Dirty, exploitative, abundant" mines were "the Petri dish for both our industrialisation and our first revolts against capitalist excess". But they are also a "catalyst for the history-making seams that run through the nation: pride, self-sufficiency, rebellion". "Romantic tosh, perhaps, but it's a mood you can unearth quite easily" in somewhere like Cornwall.
Time to end Tories' ruinous clown show
Daily Mail leader article
In order to avert catastrophe at the ballot box "the Tories must offer a credible alternative" to Labour, says the Daily Mail in its leader article. The parliamentary party "needs to park its internal differences and start behaving like a government rather than a clown show". In her letter to the PM, Suella Braverman "scornfully" said Sunak "was averse to rocking the boat". "To avoid a shattering electoral defeat, boat-rocking now becomes a must," the paper urges.
Overturning Roe Changed Everything. Overturning Affirmative Action Did Not.
Thomas B. Edsall for The New York Times
The responses to the US Supreme Court overturning Roe vs. Wade and the ruling that ended race-based affirmative action were "strikingly different", writes Thomas B. Edsall for The New York Times. The former saw a "hostile reaction" while the latter "provoked a more modest outcry". Clearly it shows "there has been a steady leftward movement on issues of equality when they are described as abstract principles, but much less so when the equality agenda is translated into specific policies, like bussing or affirmative action".
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Political cartoons for January 19Cartoons Monday's political cartoons include Greenland tariffs, fighting the Fed, and more
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Spain’s deadly high-speed train crashThe Explainer The country experienced its worst rail accident since 2013, with the death toll of 39 ‘not yet final’
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Can Starmer continue to walk the Trump tightrope?Today's Big Question PM condemns US tariff threat but is less confrontational than some European allies
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‘The economics of WhatsApp have been mysterious for years’Instant Opinion Opinion, comment and editorials of the day
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Three consequences from the Jenrick defectionThe Explainer Both Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage may claim victory, but Jenrick’s move has ‘all-but ended the chances of any deal to unite the British right’
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‘It may portend something more ominous’Instant Opinion Opinion, comment and editorials of the day
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‘The security implications are harder still to dismiss’Instant Opinion Opinion, comment and editorials of the day
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