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[ad_1] In England, London’s Metropolitan Police investigated reporter Jack Grove after he and others raised questions about possible plagiarism and résumé embellishment by Jason Arday, a professor at the University of Cambridge. Arday, who has since resigned, complained after Grove emailed him several questions about those issues, and police spent four months investigating. They closed the case in February without ever interviewing Grove but still told him to stop contacting the professor because it was harming Arday’s mental health. Grove only found out about the investigation when officers called to say they were dropping it. [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair In a Double Down News (DDN) video report, British filmmaker Richard Sanders begins a summary of a “horrific new [United Nations] report” with a listing of three atrocities committed by Israeli forces against Palestinian children. Sanders tells of an infant who was shot in the head while breastfeeding in his mother’s arms, a 16-year-old boy whose body was mutilated by an Israeli tank, and teenage boys deliberately shot by Israeli soldiers in a game of “target practice.” The UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry released the report on June 23. Titled “The Essence of Childhood Has Been Destroyed,” it…

[ad_1] Since his sudden passing, Lindsey Graham has remained an influential force in Washington. The question, “What would Lindsey do?” has acted as a comforting source of validation for interventionist Republicans, many of whom have doubled down on aggressive foreign policy stances in recent weeks by using Graham’s legacy as a cover. Lindsey Graham was, in the words of President Donald Trump, “extremely hawkish.” At his funeral on July 28, 2026, Trump said that the late South Carolina senator “never saw a war that he didn’t like.” It was this fondness for foreign adventurism that made Lindsey Graham the face…

[ad_1] Image Source: Wikideas1 – Own work made with Numbers for Mac and data from https://portwatch.imf.org/ – CC0 For more than three decades, the United States has treated Middle Eastern diplomacy as an exercise in writing the terms for others. Iran’s emerging regional strategy is challenging that privilege. The immediate evidence is emerging in the Strait of Hormuz. Iran and Oman are negotiating an arrangement under which Tehran could oversee vessels entering the Gulf while Muscat manages outbound traffic. The proposal remains unsettled, but it represents something larger than a maritime agreement: Iran is attempting to move the diplomatic agenda…

[ad_1] There is a lot of Richad Nixon rehabilitation going on these days. Before we get too far down that road, we should note that this month marks the fifty-fifth anniversary of one of the most pernicious acts of monetary destruction by modern presidents. On August 15, 1971, President Nixon announced a sweeping set of economic policies, his eerily Soviet-sounding “New Economic Policy.” Today’s sympathy for the thirty-seventh president has something to do with a welcome recognition of the Deep State’s hand in his removal from office. In June, Vice President J.D. Vance spoke at the Nixon Library, noting that…

[ad_1] Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair “Calling us racist doesn’t work anymore.”  – Brandon Gill “Let them call you racist. Let them call you xenophobes. Let them call you nativist. Wear it as a badge of honor.” – Steve Bannon “Sometimes Minnesotans are so afraid that you’re going to call us a racist, you’re going to call us an Islamophobe, you’re going to call us some name that we just don’t want to get into that fight. You know what, I would argue that I never did care, but I’m done being careful, even the least bit careful.” – Tom Emmer They no…

[ad_1] Just before becoming Britain’s prime minister in July, Andy Burnham revealed his father has late-stage dementia. Politically speaking, so does much of the Labour political class, including Burnham: its impressions of the 1970s and its lessons are foggy. In northwest England, whence Burnham hails, political dementia is a transmissible disease, particularly regarding the legacy of the former prime minister Margaret Thatcher. Local mythology has it that Thatcher “deliberately” destroyed the economy of the entire area, simply because she was from “down south” and a Tory. Southerners and Conservatives are supposedly northern folks’ eternal sworn enemies, for reasons of innate…

[ad_1] Vice President JD Vance has struggled to justify his shifting rhetoric on Iran. Once thought of as the standard-bearer of a right-wing, non-interventionist school of foreign policy thought, Vance has been forced to repeatedly contradict himself in an effort to sell this war to the American public. Once the bombs started dropping, JD Vance folded on his supposed principles. While we were told that he was urging restraint behind the scenes, he was hardly seen in public for weeks following the war’s launch. Whatever his private reservations may have been, he wasn’t willing to make them known to the…

[ad_1] OK, you lazybones out there, read what follows and blush like you’ve never blushed before. Imagine you were diagnosed with autism from age 3. You could not speak until you were 11 years old. Then, at 18, you learned to read and write. This was in 2003. Things got better after that. Out of the blue, you earned a BA in education and PE. Two master’s degrees and a teaching qualification followed, and then, miracle of miracles, you were awarded a PhD by Liverpool John Moores University.  No Hollywood hack would ever dream of passing this off as fiction…

[ad_1] In his crusade to exorcise “wokeness” from the military and imbue it with a new spirit of lethality, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is waging battles on the nation’s storied war colleges and service academies. But is he fighting the wrong war? The American Conservative spoke to several former and current instructors at such institutions, plus retired senior officers who have attended these schools. All said that Hegseth’s reforms may not go far enough and result in worsening a broken system. While no one who spoke to us believes there is a place for intrusive diversity, equity, and inclusion requirements…