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Andy Burnham’s EU reset ‘doomed to fail’ as PM ‘panics’ | Politics | News

Andy Burnham’s EU reset ‘doomed to fail’ as PM ‘panics’ | Politics | News

Published by Sam Flores

Andy Burnham’s reset with the EU is “doomed to fail”, the Tories have warned. Alex Burghart, Shadow Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, accused the Prime Minister of having “panicked” meetings to undo Sir Keir Starmer’s EU promises. The Prime Minister pushed for deeper ties between the UK and the European Union during a meeting with his Irish counterpart, Taoiseach Micheál Martin, on Friday. Meanwhile, on Friday, Chancellor John Healey pressed for the UK not to be shut out of the EU’s “made in Europe” plan during a meeting with EU finance ministers in Dublin. Mr Burghart said: “It is clear that Labour’s so-called ‘EU reset’ is not going as planned, with Andy Burnham having to hold panicked meetings with European leaders to row back on the red tape and regulations that Keir Starmer has happily ceded to the European Union. “This ‘reset’ is doomed to fail. It will not grow the economy and will harm industry and businesses across our country. But it doesn’t have to be this way.” Mr Martin became the first …

Tidal forces may have doomed an ancient moon around Venus

Tidal forces may have doomed an ancient moon around Venus

Published by Jenni Sidey

A hypothetical moon around early Venus could initially have migrated outward, only for tidal evolution to reverse its path and send it crashing back toward the planet. The moon’s fate depends strongly on Venus’s original spin, the satellite’s mass, orbital eccentricity and how the planet’s rocky interior dissipated tidal energy. The models do not show that Venus ever possessed a moon, but they demonstrate that its absence today does not rule out an ancient satellite that was destroyed billions of years ago. Venus has no moon today, but that emptiness may not tell the whole story of the planet’s violent youth. A new theoretical study finds that a substantial satellite created by an ancient impact could have spent millions or even billions of years orbiting Venus before tides reversed its migration. The moon could then have spiraled inward, crossed the planet’s Roche limit, broken apart into a temporary ring and eventually rained much of its material onto Venus. The work, led by University of California, Riverside astronomer Stephen Kane with Franck Selsis, Jeremy Leconte and …

The Strange Case of a Nearly Doomed Looney Tunes Movie

The Strange Case of a Nearly Doomed Looney Tunes Movie

Published by Daniella Wilson

Perhaps the starkest sign that Coyote vs. Acme isn’t your typical children’s movie is that it’s based on a New Yorker article. Yes, it features many Looney Tunes characters that multiple generations know and love, interacting alongside real-life actors in a style similar to prior big-screen efforts, such as Space Jam or Looney Tunes: Back in Action. But the director Dave Green’s film—which opens August 28, after a protracted saga that almost saw it kept from audiences forever—draws from a slyly funny “Shouts & Murmurs” story from 1990. Written by the humorist Ian Frazier, “Coyote v. Acme” has a wry and self-aware premise: What would happen if Wile E. Coyote, the Looney Tune on a constantly unsuccessful hunt for the ever-chipper Road Runner, filed a lawsuit against the (fictional) Acme Corporation for selling him faulty products? “I thought the baseline idea for the movie was just, like, the funniest thing in the world,” Green told me in a recent interview, reminiscing about when he first signed on to direct the film, back in 2019. He …

Is Romance Doomed? – The Atlantic

Is Romance Doomed? – The Atlantic

Published by Sam Flores

About 90 seconds into a three-minute hug with a stranger, I began to think that dying alone might not be so bad after all. I’d come to a candlelit loft in Manhattan for a “mindful singles event” called The Feels, which was designed to be the opposite of the disembodied experience of dating apps. Participants, phones tucked away, paired up and attempted a series of “somatic awareness” exercises, including staring into each other’s eyes, hugging, and holding a hand over each other’s heart. Explore the September 2026 Issue Check out more from this issue and find your next story to read. View More We’d been warned that discomfort is part of the process. A facilitator had reminded us that, as long as consent and respect are involved, a little uneasiness opens the door to vulnerability. Having paid $100 for a process advertised as “better relating”—informed by Carl Jung and the Buddha and the body’s “infinite wisdom”—participants were motivated to agree. And many of us, more by circumstance than by choice, were already experts in exiting …

The Kardashians have revealed themselves as undercover tech bros – are we all doomed?

The Kardashians have revealed themselves as undercover tech bros – are we all doomed?

Published by Daniella Wilson

Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more I’m looking out at the Calabasas hills from my multi-million-dollar mansion. Two delivery men are wheeling my new sculpture through the hallway, while my product developer swatches a sample from my makeup line on the back of my hand for approval. No, I’m not having a hyper-realistic dream nor have I been reincarnated as a nepo baby: I’m Kylie Jenner, or at least I’m living inside her head, thanks to the first-person content filmed on her new Meta glasses. The end is, somewhat, nigh. Although smart glasses have been around for a while, nobody but tech bros wanted to wear them. When Google released Glass in the UK in 2015, it pulled the model just seven months later due to backlash over the price …

The doomed quest for a perfect map of political ideology

The doomed quest for a perfect map of political ideology

Published by Jenni Sidey

Why do we grade politicians on a spectrum from left to right? Blame the French. On September 11th, 1789, France’s newly formed National Assembly voted on whether to grant the king a veto over its laws. This was no arcane point of procedure. As a direct challenge to Louis XVI’s absolute power, it was a hinge moment in the French Revolution. Defenders of the monarchy, pro veto, gathered to the chairman’s right. Radicals in favor of clipping the king’s powers drifted to his left. From that fateful seating arrangement — in a meeting now more than two centuries past — comes the most powerful shorthand in democratic politics: left versus right. La gauche, the left, became synonymous with pro-revolutionary forces who wanted to abolish privilege and empower the common citizen. La droite, the right, were the anti-revolutionaries — conservatives scrambling to prop up an old order that was crumbling around them. Within a year, the terms were common parlance in French politics. Over the next century, “left” and “right” colonized conversations across the world. This …

Keir Starmer looks doomed. But does anyone really want his job?

Keir Starmer looks doomed. But does anyone really want his job?

Published by Sam Flores

Britain’s embattled prime minister, Keir Starmer, faces a worsening political crisis that may force him from power, days after his ruling Labour Party suffered crushing losses in local and regional elections throughout England, Scotland and Wales. You could call this a startling reversal, given that Labour won an enormous parliamentary majority in the British general election less than two years ago. But Starmer’s popularity cratered almost as soon as he took office, and he has looked doomed, haunted and fatally indecisive for at least the past year. As I wrote a few days ago, the inevitable comparisons to Joe Biden are deeply unfair (to Biden). While there’s no way to match the worldwide chaos created by Donald Trump’s second presidency, Britain’s domestic political turmoil is, if anything, worse than America’s. If Starmer leaves office before the middle of July, the U.K. will have had seven prime ministers within the last 10 years. Late last week, it appeared likely that Starmer might survive in the medium term, not least because no plausible challenger seemed ready to …

Spirit Airlines doomed by sky high fuel prices due to ‘recent geopolitical events,’ court docs say

Spirit Airlines doomed by sky high fuel prices due to ‘recent geopolitical events,’ court docs say

Published by Sam Flores

Spirit Airlines said in court papers filed Monday that it was forced to ground its fleet for good over the weekend because “recent geopolitical events resulted in a massive and sustained increase in fuel prices.” Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. While the court papers did not specify the nature of those geopolitical events, jet fuel prices have soared in the two months since the start of the war in Iran. “The Debtors and their advisors searched for increased capital and any sources of savings or liquidity, leaving no option unexplored,” the airline stated in records filed Monday in federal bankruptcy court in the Southern District of New York. “It became clear on Thursday that sufficient incremental liquidity would not be found, and that there were no longer any viable paths to a restructuring or continued operations.” But Spirit waited until early Saturday to pull the plug on its operations, stranding thousands of travelers midtrip and forcing countless others to rebook on other airlines. Many passengers …

Things You Told ChatGPT or Claude My Have Already Doomed You in Court

Things You Told ChatGPT or Claude My Have Already Doomed You in Court

Published by José Betancourt

Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech Most tech industry products are easily accessible by the US government. Ring Doorbells have given the Los Angeles Police Department warrantless access to their customer’s camera footage. The FBI can extract your iPhones metadata to peep the content of your Signal messages. Google will happily comply with administrative subpoenas issued by Department of Homeland Security apparatchiks. A new ruling by a New York federal judge now definitively includes AI chatbots in that list. As part of a protracted legal battle involving Brad Heppner, former chair of financial service company GWG Holdings, US District Judge Jed Rakoff ruled that AI chatbots aren’t subject to attorney-client privilege. Maybe that sounds like a no-brainer, but evidently some people need the reminder. In preparing background materials for his attorneys, Heppner made the wise decision to enter various reports into Anthropic’s flagship chatbot Claude. The AI then spat out the preliminary reports, which his lawyers used to prepare his defense related to charges …