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Nov 13, 2026 - World

This blog is now closedHungary’s Péter Magyar is also here, looking very elegant as always…… but it looks like he took a slight detour on the way back to hotel last night to try and pour a perfect pint of Guinness. Continue reading...

Nov 13, 2026 - World

Kurt Gödel left 1,009 pages of densely written text – much of it in an obsolete shorthand – which is now said to contain hundreds of proved theoremsThe Austrian logician Kurt Gödel was one of the most original thinkers of the 20th century. His two incompleteness theorems, published in 1931, transformed mathematics and paved the way for the digital age.After his seminal results of the 1930s, Gödel published only a few papers. His unpublished work, however, runs to tens of thousands of pages, and is of great interest to historians of science. Continue reading...

Nov 13, 2026 - World

Senator Chris Van Hollen’s policy credentials allowed his quick rise to roles usually reserved for the more tenuredUS politics live – latest updatesUS senator Chris Van Hollen’s challenge to Chuck Schumer’s leadership of Senate Democrats presents an ideological and biographical contrast to the party as it takes control of Congress in two months.Though only about eight years younger than Schumer, Van Hollen is seen as a more progressive senator who has drawn attention for his opposition to the Trump administration’s abusive immigration practices – visiting his constituent Kilmar Ábrego García after an unlawful deportation to El Salvador – as well as opposition to federal corruption and US support for the Israeli government’s war in Gaza. Continue reading...

Nov 13, 2026 - World

Police say allegations of sexual misconduct are separate from those made by multiple women in Guardian and ITN investigationThe Metropolitan police have announced a criminal investigation into David Walliams over alleged sexual misconduct.In reports by the Guardian and ITV News, Walliams, 55, has been accused by multiple women of using his power and celebrity status to prey on young women and teenagers for sex. Continue reading...

Nov 13, 2026 - World

Gunman killed one person and injured at least five others in and around condo building not far from the White HouseMore details were emerging on Friday about the previous morning’s shooting in north-west Washington DC, as a manager at the shooter’s residential building shared how he was angry over living conditions there and confessed to the killings.The gunman killed one person and injured at least five others on Thursday in and around the condominium building in the Logan Circle neighborhood of the capital, not far from the White House, where he lived. Continue reading...