June 8, 2023

The special relationship gets recharged

Caitlin Allen | Daily Briefing

Rishi Sunak has announced a new economic alliance with US president Joe Biden during his first trip to the White House.

Urban migrant camp on the ring road in northern Paris.

France battles with itself over what to do about immigration

Walter Ellis | France

As the country deals with the aftermath of a knife attack by a Syrian immigrant, debate swirls around the hot button topic.

Obscured sun as smoky haze covers New York on Wednesday, June 7, 2023. Smoke from Canadian wildfires is spreading south throughout the Northeast causing unhealthy air quality issues.

Yes, the New York wildfire smoke looks apocalyptic – but let’s not overreact

The Hound | Environment

Jumping on the climate apocalypse bandwagon ignores the bigger picture.

Young people carrying the flags of the Commonwealth depart Westminster Abbey after the Commonwealth Day Observance (via Michel DunleaI/ Alamy)

Britain’s Commonwealth narcissism

Sam Bidwell | UK

Critics of the Commonwealth conflate a voluntary twenty-first century organisation with an exploitative twentieth century one, ironically erasing the agency of the developing world in the process.

Emmanuel Macron in London for a reception with foreign leaders ahead of the NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation) in 2009.

No rapprochement with voters for Macron, just the sound of pots and pans

Walter Ellis | France

The French president is throwing everything at the wall to avoid becoming a lame duck.

A crowd gathers around the Apple Vision Pro headset as it is displayed in a showroom on the Apple campus Monday, June 5, 2023, in Cupertino, Calif.

Apple has done it again… and again

David Waywell | Technology

The launch of the Apple Vision Pro will be the biggest since the iPhone.