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Jan 10, 2025 | 
bookanista.com | Norman Lewis
Ian Fleming, then Foreign Editor of The Sunday Times, sent Norman Lewis to Cuba in December 1957. Fleming had recently met Lewis, and became a fan of his writing. Having been sent a proof-copy of The Volcanoes Above Us, he wrote to Lewis’s editor, ‘Volcanoes is a wonderful book… showing a fascinating mind and really startling powers of description and simile.
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Oct 15, 2024 | 
spiked-online.com | Norman Lewis
Want to read spiked ad-free? Become a spiked supporter. ‘A day for the engineering history books.’ That is how Kate Tice, a senior engineering manager at SpaceX, characterised her company’s achievements this weekend. She’s not wrong. On Sunday, Elon Musk’s SpaceX managed a remarkable feat. It caught the massive booster stage from its Starship rocket in a pair of giant robotic arms as it fell back to the company’s ‘Mechazilla’ launchpad in southern Texas.
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Aug 24, 2024 | 
spiked-online.com | Norman Lewis
Neil D Lawrence’s The Atomic Human forgets that mankind is the driving force of its own history.
Share Topics Books Science & Tech World Want to read spiked ad-free? Become a spiked supporter. Nothing exemplifies our anti-human age better than the fears over artificial intelligence. AI is expected to take our jobs, dominate the world and redefine what it means to be human.
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Jul 9, 2024 | 
spiked-online.com | Norman Lewis
Share Topics Politics World Want to read spiked ad-free? Become a spiked supporter. In all moments of human strife, it is natural to hold on to a sliver of hope. South Africa’s General Election in May is a case in point. According to much of the media, the election outcome showed that South African democracy is alive and well. The process ran relatively smoothly, with little pre-election violence and only the occasional bureaucratic foul-up.
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Jun 3, 2024 | 
spiked-online.com | Norman Lewis
The party of Nelson Mandela has turned South Africa into a failed, kleptocratic state.
Share Topics Politics World Want to read spiked ad-free? Become a spiked supporter. The South African elections have delivered a momentous result.
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May 27, 2024 | 
spiked-online.com | Norman Lewis
Share Topics Free Speech World Want to read spiked ad-free? Become a spiked supporter. There is another war going on in Europe outside of Ukraine. It is one being waged by the EU elites, over what can be said, heard and thought. This is a war against ‘hate speech’ and ‘disinformation’, which the EU claims pose an existential threat to democracy. In truth, it is the Eurocrats’ censorious designs that are the real danger to Europeans’ liberties.
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May 13, 2024 | 
brussels.mcc.hu | Norman Lewis
Reading time: 3 minutes A package of laws, regulations and agreements between EU institutions and Big Tech represent an attempt by EU elites to determine what Europe’s 448 million people can or cannot say online. Further sweeping regulations on online speech are planned. The justification they give is the need to protect European democracy from hate speech and misinformation. But behind these invocations of democracy in fact lies a profoundly anti-Democratic attitude towards European citizens.
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Feb 5, 2024 | 
unherd.com | Norman Lewis
We Jews have an old joke about the Holocaust: Abie Cohen, after being gassed and burnt in Auschwitz, goes to heaven. After a few weeks of waiting patiently, he eventually gets to see God and demands to know if the Jews are still the chosen people.
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Dec 19, 2023 | 
spiked-online.com | Norman Lewis
X, Elon Musk’s ‘free speech’ social-media platform, could soon be reined in or even banned in the EU. The European Commission has announced that it has launched an investigation into on disinformation and illegal content. The formal infringement proceedings against X will focus on its supposed failure to comply with the EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA), which came into force in August.
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Nov 23, 2023 | 
spiked-online.com | Norman Lewis
Share Topics Free Speech Politics World When it comes to hypocrisy and doublespeak, the EU is in a class of its own. Last week, the European Commission loftily announced that it had decided to stop advertising on social-media platform X (formerly Twitter). It cited ‘widespread concerns relating to the spread of disinformation’ on the platform, particularly in relation to the Israel-Hamas war.
