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Dec 17, 2024 | 
spiked-online.com | Austin Williams
Share Topics Books Science & Tech Want to read spiked ad-free? Become a spiked supporter. In March 2011, there was a massive earthquake off the eastern coast of Japan. It caused a tsunami to engulf the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. Ultimately, however, very little radiation actually leaked out from the damaged reactors.
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Oct 7, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | Sean Thomas |Alexander Larman |Amber Duke |Austin Williams
It’s a well-known psychological phenomenon: that time seems to slow down if you experience lots of new and unusual events. For example, if you are traveling across Asia, a week can seem like a month, and a month like a year, as you encounter so many different landscapes, peoples, climates, languages, cities, and that deep-fried algae you ate in Laos. All the events packed together somehow dilate the sense of time’s passing. The same goes for technology, especially rapidly advancing tech, like AI.
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Sep 30, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | Sean Thomas |Juan P. Villasmil |Austin Williams |Laurie Graham
In Cambodia, everybody is looking forward to Bon Om Touk. If your Khmer is a bit rusty, this means the mid-autumn New Moon Water Festival, celebrated in late October. This fervent, noisy, firework-banging festival has multiple, colorful meanings. For a start, it marks the end of the endless summer rain — which turns everyone’s laundry moldy and gets a tad annoying.
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Sep 25, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | Ian Williams |Freddy Gray |Sebastian Shakespeare |Austin Williams
It was presented as a bold stimulus to boost China’s ailing economy — but while it excited stock markets in Asia, Western economists were underwhelmed. At a rare press conference in Beijing on Tuesday, the usually gnomic governor of the People’s Bank of China, Pan Gongsheng, unveiled a range of measures designed to “support the stable growth of China’s economy” and see that it hits this year’s target of 5 percent growth.
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Sep 17, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | Anne De Courcy |Daniel DePetris |Freddy Gray |Austin Williams
Vice President Kamala Harris met with the National Association of Black Journalists for an interview this afternoon. Instead of going back-to-back with Donald Trump for his explosive interview with the NABJ in July — she spoke to a historically black sorority instead — Kamala rescheduled for September. And bless Politifact’s heart, they partnered with the NABJ, per a tweet before the interview, to fact-check her.
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Sep 17, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | Daniel DePetris |Freddy Gray |Austin Williams |Ben Domenech
Again? That was the immediate reaction I had when the Associated Press bulletin popped up on my phone as I was watching copious amounts of football on a Sunday afternoon: “BREAKING: Trump was the subject of an ‘apparent assassination attempt’ at his Florida golf club, FBI says.” The second question immediately followed: how on Earth could this happen again?
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Aug 14, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | Justin Marozzi |Austin Williams |Eliot Wilson |Michael Evans
Nouakchott in Mauritania is often referred to as the “worst capital city in the world.” That may be a little harsh, but it is difficult to recommend it to Spectator readers as a must-visit destination. The heat is savage, the poverty endemic, corruption is off the scale and this west African country is one of the last on Earth where you can still find hereditary slavery. Which is why I’m here. Troubles begin on arrival. A succession of three police officers grill me in the airport.
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Jun 10, 2024 | 
spiked-online.com | Austin Williams
Share Topics Politics UK Want to read spiked ad-free? Become a spiked supporter. Speaking in Llandudno, north Wales, in 2022, Labour leader Keir Starmer said that the Welsh Labour government provided a ‘blueprint for what Labour can do across the UK’. If so, the prospect of a Labour victory at next month’s General Election should worry us all. Welsh are in dire straits, educational standards are and a third of children in Wales are classed as living in poverty.
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Jan 30, 2024 | 
complex.com | Shawn Setaro |Kiana Fitzgerald |Russ Bengtson |Ben Westhoff |Anslem Samuel Rocque |Brendan Dunne | +12 more
Rap lyrics pop into our heads at inappropriate times, end up as our yearbook quotes, and work their way into our everyday conversations. But very few bars would be as memorable if not for the music that accompanies them. Great production can make even the most objectionable or cheesy lyrics sound great. The producers who create these beats may not be as glamorous as the rappers who spit over them (at least, most of the time), but they are equally important.
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Sep 25, 2023 | 
spiked-online.com | Austin Williams
Share Topics Politics UK During the Covid-19 pandemic, Welsh first minister Mark Drakeford was always vying to outdo the UK government in the authoritarian stakes. He would regularly sneak out a press release ahead of the Tories, announcing some new form of restriction on everyday life – all to show that he was proudly leading the illiberal attacks on civil liberties. It seems he’s at it again.
