Blue Origin Rocket Explodes on Florida Launchpad

new video loaded: Blue Origin Rocket Explodes on Florida Launchpad transcript Back transcript Blue Origin Rocket Explodes on Florida Launchpad A rocket built by the Jeff Bezos-owned space company, Blue Origin, blew up during a test at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. “Oh, no, that’s an explosion.” (explosion erupts) “That is crazy.” … Read more

Cuba used to have European friends – there’s a reason why even now they have deserted it too | Paul Taylor

For many Europeans of my generation, Cuba was as much a progressive cause as a country. In our selectively idealistic student days (mine were in the mid-1970s), it was a plucky little country that had overthrown a corrupt regime in cahoots with the US mafia. In a popular revolution led by the charismatic Fidel Castro … Read more

Brexiters peddled ‘nationalistic pish’, said Reform UK’s Makerfield candidate | Makerfield byelection

Reform UK’s candidate for the Makerfield byelection has castigated Brexit as an economically self-harming project promoted by politicians who “peddled the nationalistic pish”, raising more doubts about his commitment to Nigel Farage’s signature achievement. The comments by Robert Kenyon, unearthed on a defunct rugby league forum and first reported by the Telegraph, follow the emergence … Read more

To reverse the ‘greenlash’, Europe’s Green parties should embrace Polanski’s boldness | Tarik Abou-Chadi

European Green parties have been through a phase of stagnation and crisis in recent years. Long gone seem the days of the “green wave” across Europe. Back in 2019, Green parties secured their best-ever result in the European parliament elections, with 74 seats. In the same year, Green parties also scored record results in Switzerland, … Read more

New Mandelson revelations cast doubt on claim vetting decision was borderline, Thornberry says – UK politics live | Politics

New Mandelson vetting revelations make it hard to believe claim that decision was ‘borderline’, Emily Thornberry says Emily Thornberry, the Labour chair of the Commons foreign affairs committee, has said that the latest revelations in the Guardian about why UK Security Vetting did not think Peter Mandelson should be cleared to become ambassador to the … Read more

How the plastic bottle cap became a parable for the value of EU regulation | Alberto Alemanno

In July 2024, a European Union law came into force requiring plastic bottle caps to remain attached to their bottles. The regulation was widely mocked by social-media jokesters and Silicon Valley billionaires alike. This, people said, was Brussels at its worst: bureaucrats micromanaging, treating citizens like children who couldn’t be trusted to recycle a cap. … Read more