It is therefore unlikely that Putin or Netanyahu will ever appear in front of the ICC in The Hague. But the warrant affects their mobility.

🖊️ Wolfgang Munchau
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The vocal ensemble the Gesualdo Six on the Renaissance composer’s arresting and daring works.

🎸 Edward Docx
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“His voice fills the hall, smokier and more powerful than it sounded in middle age.”

🎸 Kate Mossman reviews Eric Clapton newstatesman.com/culture/music/…

“The attempted global energy revolution is starting to play out as a conflict between China and the US over metal resources in the Western Hemisphere, leaving Europe for the most part a bystander.”

🖊️ Helen Thompson POLIS
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The Apprentice, a new fictional biopic based on Donald Trump, features scenes of “rape, erectile dysfunction, baldness and betrayal”.

🖊️ Kara Kennedy Clairmont
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“Politicians and global celebrities are the people we spend the most time saying are at risk of deepfakes. But another demographic is being targeted more than any other: social media influencers, particularly women.”

🖊️ Sarah Manavis
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“The Conservative Party today is very different to the Conservative Party I was elected into.”

🗣️ Phil Whitaker meets doctor and Tory defector Dan Poulter
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About two hours before his drenched announcement in Downing Street, I was assured by one of his senior ministers: “Andrew, of course we’re not going to do it now. We’re not that silly.”

🖊️ Andrew Marr
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He asks what he has in common with Jews, replying, “I have scarcely anything in common with myself.”

📖 Book of the Day: John Gray on Kafka newstatesman.com/culture/books/…

“They want your phone in your hand all day and all night. ... “They’ve really got us, good and proper. No distinction between work and play. No life offline. No way out.”

🖊️ Ed Smith
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“Political parties don’t win big without raising the country’s heart rate.”

🖊️ Andrew Marr
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One staffer remembered when Morgan McSweeney, the party’s campaign chief, told colleagues the Tories don’t whine when things get tough and that “this is the campaign in which we have to learn to cry alone”.

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“Our children, now grown up, were the last generation who played outside together on the street.”

🖊️ Jonathan Rutherford newstatesman.com/ideas/2024/05/…

“Labour won day one; 41 more to go.”

📫 Today’s Morning Call with Freddie Hayward newstatesman.com/politics/the-s…

This stage adaptation turns the film into a dazzling theatrical production.

🎭 Zuzanna Lachendro
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“You should make sure to seek on the biggest, loudest screen possible. And then look forward to seeing it again.”

🍿 David Sexton reviews Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
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“So it starts; and sweet Lord, it’s going to be tetchy.”

🖊️ Andrew Marr
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Britain Predicts finds more than half of the 100-150 seats the Tories are currently forecast to hold will be with majorities of 5pts or less.

In other words, if the polls do not change, the government is an error margin away from near annihilation.

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“Political rewards await leaders who transcend the limitations of both sides and merge the correct half of each. Call them left conservatives or conservative leftists.”

🖊️ Sohrab Ahmari
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The Apprentice, a new fictional biopic based on Donald Trump, features scenes of “rape, erectile dysfunction, baldness and betrayal”.

🖊️ Kara Kennedy Clairmont
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