Truss runs out of credit in real-life Monopoly
As a child, Liz Truss had to win at Monopoly or she’d quit. Looking at her career, it’s now clear there was always more promise than delivery, more image than substance.
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Invasion of Taiwan possible this year
Admiral Mike Gilday, chief of US naval operations, has raised the prospect of China invading the self-governing island as soon as the next few months.
Johnson weighs return to power as Truss quits
Boris Johnson is attempting to make an extraordinary political comeback by challenging Rishi Sunak and Penny Mordaunt.
Tories must slow down or they’ll crash again
Whoever wins the Tory leadership race should govern at a slower pace. Liz Truss’s premiership was doomed by her decision to have a budget by any other name at breakneck speed.
WHO Syria boss spent thousands on dining, luxury cars
The WHO investigates claims its Syria office funded gifts to Assad, organised a $17,500 dinner party and forced staff to dance.
Starmer must show there’s a point to UK Labour
Britain’s voters still want a vision of how Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour opposition would shape the future, even in straitened times.
Truss on the ropes after sacking second minister
British Prime Minister Liz Truss was clinging to power on Thursday after she sacked her home secretary and was forced to deny her chief whip had quit.
Floyds sue Kanye for $400m
The rapper suggested the black American was killed not by an officer who knelt on his neck, but an overdose of fentanyl.
Pence’s pitch as GOP’s saviour
Donald Trump’s former deputy hopes his brand of religious conservatism will appeal to sections of the Republican right the former president has alienated.
Putin struggles to hold occupied southern Ukraine
Russia is preparing for all-out battle in a southern Ukraine region after Vladimir Putin declared martial law and evacuations began.
Sweden’s conservative government drops ‘feminist’ foreign policy
In a sign of changing priorities, Sweden’s new Foreign Minister has dropped his centre-left predecessor’s ‘feminist’ foreign policy and will focus on NATO.
Editor who made her imprint
Carmen Callil was a fiery and inspirational maverick who revolutionised the male-dominated publishing world when she founded Virago Books in 1973.
Return our Java Man and looted jewels, Dutch told
The items sought by the former colony includes scientific discoveries not directly linked to colonial plunder.
Berlusconi crushed by Meloni
The former PM’s backtracking symbolises his surrender of the leadership of the right to some he once nicknamed ‘Little One’.
‘Bring back Boris’: buyers’ remorse grips the Tories
Tory MPs’ concerns that any attempt to replace Liz Truss could trigger a membership revolt have been put to bed by a devastating new poll.
This is the beginning of Xi’s great unravelling
The Chinese leader has become the world’s first techno-autocrat, but his next term in power will see growing dissent lead to infighting.
Blackouts as Russia strikes Kyiv’s neighbour
After sharing its electricity with Ukraine’s capital, Zhytomyr has felt the Kremlin’s wrath with two Russian missiles slamming into its only power station.
Iranian climber sent home ‘in disgrace’ for not covering hair
Elnaz Rekabi went missing in Seoul before it emerged she had been flown back to Tehran, where she is expected to be jailed.
Macron faces revolt amid wave of strikes
Transport and public services were thrown into chaos across France overnight as unions and the left-wing opposition attempt to stir a revolt against President Emmanuel Macron.
Time running out for China’s stalled birth rate crisis
The growing reluctance of young people across China to have babies is exacerbating a demographic crunch emerging as one of the biggest long-term challenges facing the country’s ruling party.
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