Israeli leaders shouldn't neglect the history of fights against terrorism
Fareed Zakaria for The Washington Post
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Rishi's Musk love-in raises more questions than it answers
Tim Stanley for The Telegraph
Was the AI summit at Bletchley Park staged "so Rishi could get Elon's autograph?" asks Tim Stanley in The Telegraph. "It felt like it." In front of 300 "tech boys", Rishi Sunak "was like a kid in a pharmacy" as he interviewed Elon Musk on stage "about his views on computers and such". But "a celebrity should be asking the PM questions, not the other way around".
Thatcherite conservatism is on its last legs. I've had a disturbing glimpse of what might replace it
Andy Beckett for The Guardian
"Where on earth is conservatism going?" wonders Andy Beckett in The Guardian. "In Britain, at least, the simple answer seems to be opposition". But "political disasters, or even just the threat of them, can also create new possibilities", such as "the abandonment of old taboos and assumptions". But the right is "going to need a fresher conservatism" if it is going to "regain its dominance in Britain and beyond".
Dominic Cummings is no Reservoir Dog
Kathleen Stock for UnHerd
In his "white shirt and skinny black tie" Dominic Cummings "put one in mind of an extra from Reservoir Dogs" during his appearance at the Covid inquiry, writes Kathleen Stock for UnHerd. "And with exposure to his profanity-strewn emails and private messaging, spectators were plunged into a retro world of adolescent play-acting." In his written submission he "came across more like Adrian Mole than Harvey Keitel". Unfortunately, he "doesn't seem to have learnt much from the experience".
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