Last year, Mark Zuckerberg, Meta’s chief executive, and Tom Alison, one of his top lieutenants, were discussing how they wanted to reshape Facebook for the future of social networking. Mr. Zuckerberg, who had grown Facebook from a dorm room project to a $1.5 trillion company that he renamed Meta, wanted to bring back some of…
Nigel Farage has reportedly met Dominic Cummings, Boris Johnson’s adviser turned nemesis, after the Vote Leave founder suggested voters should back Reform UK at the local elections. Cummings, who was once a sworn enemy of Farage during the EU referendum as he battled to keep control of the leave campaign, is reported to have met…
Australia faces a world more volatile and dangerous than it has known for more than four decades, and “major-power conflict is no longer unimaginable”, a review of the country’s intelligence agencies has found. The prime minister, Anthony Albanese, commissioned the review of the work of the 10 agencies that make up Australia’s national intelligence community…
Labor is still chasing a deal for a contentious overhaul of electoral laws, with the Coalition yet to green-light the legislation ahead of debate in the Senate. But crossbenchers believe a “major party stitch-up” remains on the cards, accusing the government and opposition of conspiring to re-write the rulebook to entrench the political duopoly. The…
NWSL adds Denver as 16th franchise after record expansion fee The National Women’s Soccer League announced Denver as its 16th franchise on Thursday after ownership paid a record $110 million fee. Straight Arrow News The National Women’s Soccer League violated players’ civil rights and must pay $5 million in restitution as part of an historic…
Teal crossbench will ‘never come our way’: Coalition leader Peter Dutton On the prospect of minority government and negotiations with the teal independents, Dutton ruled out a deal with the Greens “particularly given now that we know they’re a racist, antisemitic party” and suggested that the “teals will only ever support a Labor government”. In…