Labour’s Historic Victory Belies Deep Fault Lines in British Politics
05 Jul
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Labour’s Historic Victory Belies Deep Fault Lines in British Politics

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Politics tamfitronics Keir Starmer has won a huge parliamentary majority—despite a fall in the Labour vote.Labour leader and incoming Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and his wife, Victoria, Lady Starmer, enter 10 Downing Street following Labour’s landslide election victory on July 5, 2024, in London.(Carl Court / Getty Images)Britain’s general election saw the Labour Party achieve its biggest majority since 1997, yet it did so with less popular support (9.69 million votes) than in the last election in 2019 (10.27 million) when it suffered its worst defeat—in terms of seats in Parliament—since 1935. Even allowing for the usual vagaries of the first-past-the-post system in Westminster elections, this mismatch between votes and seats is extraordinary.So, what happened? The electoral arithmetic is that Labour made huge gains primarily because Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party split the right-wing...
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Joe Biden to blitz media over weekend to counter claims of mental decline
05 Jul
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Joe Biden to blitz media over weekend to counter claims of mental decline

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Politics tamfitronics Joe Biden was gearing up on Friday for a three-day public relations blitz aimed at salvaging his floundering candidacy from the seven days of disarray sparked by last week’s disastrous debate performanceeven as further revelations emerged that are likely to fuel concerns about whether he is suffering a mental decline.In what is likely to be the most decisive set-piece event of his presidency, aside from the debate itself, Biden will give a television interview with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos in which he will aim to dispel the growing perception that he lacks the acuity to continue in office for another four years.The interview, scheduled to last between 15 and 25 minutes and conducted on Friday afternoon, will be aired in full at prime time on Friday evening, having been moved from its original scheduled...
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‘Canada’s standing in the world has slipped’ under Trudeau, Marc Garneau says in autobiography
05 Jul
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‘Canada’s standing in the world has slipped’ under Trudeau, Marc Garneau says in autobiography

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Politics tamfitronics Former foreign affairs minister Marc Garneau says Canada has lost its standing in the world under the tenure of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, whom he criticizes as an ill-prepared leader who prioritizes politics and makes big pronouncements without any follow-through."I believe Justin Trudeau has overestimated Canada's impact abroad," Garneau writes in his autobiography, A Most Extraordinary Ride: Space, Politics and the Pursuit of a Canadian Dream, which is scheduled to be released in October by Penguin Random House.While much of the book is a trip down memory lane for Garneau's pre-politics career in the military and as an astronaut, the final third is devoted to his time as a member of Parliament.Garneau, now 75, was first elected in 2008 as the Liberal MP for the Montreal riding of Westmount-Ville Marie, a riding that later...
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Philadelphia, PA Author Publishes History Book
05 Jul
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Philadelphia, PA Author Publishes History Book

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Politics tamfitronics <a rel="image" href="https://media.prleap.com/image/98550/full/gongadze_3D.png" title=" Download Full Size Image"> Paranoid Systems of History, a new book by Bachi Gongadze, has been released by Dorrance Publishing Co., Inc.Structured similarly to the writing styles of ancient and medieval texts, Paranoid Systems of History explores basic ideas and principles which cannot be argued or disputed by anyone in a Cartesian way-the idea of something that is evident and obvious in itself. Bachi Gongadze writes in an honest, almost confessional way, to evoke provocative new ideas and theories on the state of the world and the phenomena within it. The concepts and ideas are shaped by the thoughts of one man, Gongadze, and the philosophers and great writers of the eras, and written during the assumed last days of Gongadze's life, providing...
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