Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party was criticized for misleading British voters on Tuesday night, after one of its political Twitter accounts masqueraded as a fact-checking service during an election debate. During the first TV debate ahead of the Dec. 12 election, between Johnson and the opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn, the Conservative account @CCHQPress changed…
IDEAS Waheed is a novelist and the author of The Collaborator, The Book of Gold Leaves, and Tell Her Everything. A military siege is like a chokehold on an entire people. I was a teenager when I lived through a long curfew in Kashmir in the 1990s when the rebellion against Indian rule was at…
On Monday, the Trump Administration broke with decades of U.S. precedent to redefine America’s policy on Israeli settlements in the West Bank. Since President Trump took office in 2016, he has overturned long-held U.S. positions on several of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict’s most contentious issues, to the dismay of the Palestinian leadership. The White House’s latest…
Anti-government protesters have been holed up in a Hong Kong university for days, surrounded by police. Photographer Bing Guan has spent the last five days with them, documenting the siege—and at the time of publication of these images he remains on the campus. The occupiers originally numbered in the hundreds. But around 800 protesters who…
The banana has been the subject of Andy Warhol’s cover art for the Velvet Underground’s debut album, can arguably be the most devastating item in the Mario Kart video game franchise and is one of the world’s most consumed fruits. And humanity’s love of bananas may still be on the rise, according to data from…
McLaren racing director Eric Boullier says Fernando Alonso’s good performance on Friday was exactly what the doctor ordered before heading Down Under. McLaren’s pre-season testing was dogged by reliability issues which emerged in almost every session, throwing back the team to its painful period with engine partner Honda. Fernando Alonso had completed no more than…
McLaren’s Zak Brown believes Haas’ technical relationship with Ferrari should be “looked at closely” following the early impressive performance of the US outfit’s VR-18 car. Since its arrival in F1 in 2016, Haas has relied on a technical partnership with Ferrari for the supply of specific authorised parts in addition to its power unit, as…
FIA race director Charlie Whiting says the governing body has no plans of intervening over the issue of Ferrari’s smoking SF71-H. The unusual phenomenon started over winter testing, when every time Ferrari fired up its new SF71-H, the car expired a heavy cloud of oily smoke, engulfing the Scuderia’s garage and those of its neighbors….
The Pew Research Center is out with the findings of a new global survey which shows that—in contrast to nearly half the nations surveyed—those in the U.S do not see climate change as a top threat. Forty-two percent of respondents in the U.S. said they were very concerned about global climate change. Ranking higher were…
Formula 1’s director of motorsports Ross Brawn says that he objects to comments that Liberty Media is dumbing down the sport. Talking to Radio Sport New Zealand this week, Brawn said that he was personally offended by such suggestions. “Formula 1 has a long history of incredible competition,” he responded. “It’s the pinnacle of motorsport….