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5 days ago |
observer.co.uk | Giles Whittell
The Pentagon showed satellite pictures yesterday of six neat holes in the mountain that hides Iran’s Fordow nuclear enrichment plant. So what? That’s the extent of the evidence made public so far of what Donald Trump called a spectacular military success.
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2 weeks ago |
observer.co.uk | Giles Whittell
When the world’s most powerful man fell out with the world’s richest man, it was always going to be loud and ugly. Giles Whittell watched, with a large bowl of popcorn When Germany’s new chancellor flew to Washington last week he was concerned he might be ambushed in the White House as Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky and South Africa’s Cyril Ramaphosa had been before him. He needn’t have worried.
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3 weeks ago |
observer.co.uk | Giles Whittell
It’s now proven that you can race up Everest and back inside a week by acclimatising with xenon gas, but most people still have to do it the old-fashioned way. That means bottled oxygen, long queues up the Hillary Step – deep in the death zone – and costs that can exceed £100,000 a climber on high-end commercial expeditions. Fees don’t normally include the removal of spent gas canisters or the bodies of the roughly 1% of climbers who die on the way up or down.
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3 weeks ago |
observer.co.uk | Giles Whittell
Elon Musk thought he could shrink America’s mighty federal bureaucracy. The signs are that he simply wasn’t thinking straight Ten years ago Elon Musk’s first biographer described in riveting detail how Musk took on the most successful agency in the history of the US federal government – Nasa – and made it look bloated and feckless. Nasa had been used to paying $10 million and waiting years for a new set of computer systems for a rocket, Ashlee Vance wrote.
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1 month ago |
observer.co.uk | Giles Whittell |Catherine Neilan
The prime minister and Ursula von der Leyen are poised to sign a deal in London that marks a turning point for Labour’s hopes of reset on closer cooperation Five years after Brexit, Britain and the European Union are poised to sign a security and defence pact that could lead to the broadest, deepest set of repairs to the EU-UK relationship since the 2016 referendum. Progress towards a new deal on trade could take months.
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