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Zohran Mamdani, a democratic socialist, has comfortably won the election to be New York City mayor against the scandal-prone Andrew Cuomo, who was endorsed by Donald Trump. Mamdani made campaign promises of free buses, no rent, fewer cops and higher taxes for the wealthy and big business which resulted in the highest turnout in more…
Maria Riva, the mistreated daughter of Marlene Dietrich, whose memoir revealed a childhood spent as her mother’s ‘handmaiden’ and personal assistant, has died aged 100. “At age three I knew quite definitely that I didn’t have a mother; I belonged to a queen,” she wrote in a searing biography published one year after Dietrich’s death…
Dick Cheney, a dominant figure in US politics, Secretary of Defence under George H Bush and VP under George W Bush from 2001 to 2009, has died. He was a key architect of the “war on terror” after 9/11 and an early advocate of the disastrous invasion of Iraq in 2003. He later became a…
“History Doesn’t Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes” Mark Twain. A new biography of Spain’s dictator for 40 years, General Franco, offers thought-provoking insights. “In times of decline, nations often turn to authoritarians. This gives opportunities to otherwise mediocre men — toxic personalities unsuited to ordinary politics.” “Franco personifies Spain’s final, losing battle with colonial…
Chancellor Rachel Reeves wrestling with the gap between Labour economic policy and fiscal stability let alone growth has tripped into a sinkhole over the mishandling of a private house rental. The details are complex, the assertions, corrections and obfuscations make a small matter hardly worth disentangling – but it is a political disaster, yet another,…
A knife attack on ten passengers on a train in England sent police and security forces into overdrive though they have now downplayed any terrorist connection. There is however an uncomfortable feeling about elevated risk levels in seemingly mundane situations as well as recent street demonstrations of all ideological shades threatening to erupt into violence….
Charles finally acted in the interests of the monarchy stripping his brother Andrew of title and home as status and reputation won out over family. Charles’ 10th house Taurus North Node has an implicit momentum towards career and public life -and with his Solar Arc Pluto conjunct his 4th house South Node exactly this year…
A celebrity break up memorialised in an album of songs about betrayal, heartbreak, public humiliation and bitterness has sent the gossip media into a flutter. Lily Allen, a super-successful singer, talk show host, record label owner and a Laurence Olivier Award nomination actress, has had a riotous life. I confess I had never heard of her…
Prunella Scales, best known for Faulty Towers, has died at 93, a year after her husband of sixty years, Timothy West. She worked constantly on stage, screen and radio from her late teens onwards until dementia halted her ten years ago. In recent times she appeared in Mapp and Lucia, as Queen Elizabeth in Alan…
Hurricane Melissa now a Category 5 hurricane heading for Jamaica has the ‘ingredients to be a catastrophic storm’, meteorological experts warn. There are likely to be a devastating storm-surge, extreme winds and high rainfall. It is likely that no part of Jamaica will be ‘spared from the effects of the monster hurricane, whose deadly combination…
