Nigel Farage har vunnit ett brittiskt fyllnadsval med 63 procent av rösterna mot bland annat satirkandidaten Count Binface. Valet har kritiserats som ett jippo för att avleda uppmärksamhet från parlamentariska utredningar mot Farage.
Rappers Fenix Flexin and Tyga face accusations of using the generative AI music app Treblo for their ’80s-style tracks, a claim bolstered by a new AI detector built by the app's creators.
Denys Kazanskyj, en ukrainsk journalist med över en miljon följare, analyserar rysk propaganda och dess misslyckanden. Han menar att Kreml inte kan anpassa sig och att ukrainska drönarattacker mot Ryssland nu tvingar ryska propagandister att erkänna motgångar, vilket avslöjar regimens lögner för många ryssar.
Estlands underrättelsechef Kaupo Rosin menar att tiden börjar rinna ut för Rysslands krig i Ukraina. Han ser en förändrad stämning i Ryssland, med problem på hemmaplan och svårigheter att rekrytera soldater. Även Ukraina har personalbrist, men tar mer territorium.
Norge säkrade en plats i slutspelet i ishockey-VM efter en 4-1-seger mot Tjeckien. Detta är första gången på tolv år som Norge når slutspelshockey, och segern innebär att de kan sluta tvåa i gruppen.
Sơn Tùng M-TP sẽ phát hành ca khúc "Come my way" hợp tác cùng rapper Tyga vào tối 28/5. Đây là bước đi mở rộng hoạt động quốc tế của Sơn Tùng M-TP.
Emily Thornberry says foreign affairs committee already looking into issue and more documents are due to be publishedGood morning. Kemi Badenoch is trying to get Lindsay Hoyle, the speaker, to give MPs a vote on a proposal to get the Commons privileges committee to investigate allegations that Keir Starmer lied to MPs in statements he made to them about the vetting of Peter Mandelson. Other opposition parties may be backing her, but we don’t know for sure because the process is relatively secret; MPs have to write a private letter to the speaker, who then decides whether this is a serious request that should be decided by the Commons as a whole, or a frivolous complaint that should be ignored. (We do know that Karl Turner has written to the speaker about this too, but only because he was daft enough to post his letter on social media last week.) Today we are likely to find out whether or not Hoyle is agreeing to a Commons vote.Boris Johnson was referred to the privileges committee over allegations that he lied to MPs about Partygate (allegations the committee concluded were justified). Badenoch wants to make the case that Starmer is just as dishonest as Johnson. He isn’t, by any stretch, and the claims that Starmer lied to MPs about Mandelson are spurious; they relate to contest intepretations of political language of the kind that are commonplace in parliamentary debate. But the fact that this has even become a live consideration for the speaker is a big win for the Tories.The fact that Kemi Badenoch has changed the accusations she is levelling against the PM on an almost daily basis as her claims have failed to stand up to scrutiny shows what this is really about. This is a nakedly political stunt with no substance ahead of the May elections.Any comparison with Boris Johnson is absurd. When parliament referred that matter to the privileges committee, a police investigation had directly disproved his categoric statements that he knew nothing about the breach of lockdown rules.I suppose our constituents might ask [if a privileges committee goes ahead], have we got the balance right between holding the government to account and seemingly squabbling amongst ourselves when there is so much else going on that perhaps parliament ought to be focusing on as well.I have to say, a really truthful position is, why the rush at the moment? Has it got anything to do with local elections? Continue reading...
