Hello and welcome to another edition of The Crunch!
In this week’s newsletter we have charts on strangers talking for 30 minutes, the unequal distribution of AI computing, when different European countries go on holiday, how dependent European…

Hello and welcome to another edition of The Crunch!
In this week’s newsletter we have charts on strangers talking for 30 minutes, the unequal distribution of AI computing, when different European countries go on holiday, how dependent European…

Both Europe and Australia are waking up, not only to the challenges of a more antagonistic world order, but to the imperative of working together to address the common problems we face. This has been a long time coming.
The collapse of the USSR in…

Celebrities including Kim Kardashian, Bill Gates and Oprah Winfrey are arriving in Venice to attend the extravagant wedding of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez.
Usher, Kylie Jenner and Ivanka Trump were among those seen boarding water taxis before the lavish ceremony, which is…


White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt refrained from comment on the possibility of transferring additional Patriot anti-missile missiles to Ukraine, referring to the privacy of the agreements reached earlier between President Donald Trump and his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky…

“With tensions in the Middle East at a new peak, stability must be the priority,” thundered Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, just as Trump made a loud “KA-BLAMO!” noise in the White House situation room.
“The situation…

Stocker said he viewed Austria as “a pioneer” in promoting stricter European policies on asylum claims. Germany has long pushed back on some of the tougher European migration proposals, but Merz’s arrival has shifted that paradigm.
Under pressure from the far-right Alternative for…

Another Labour MP put it more bluntly: “I don’t want to have spent four years of my life as lobby fodder for a government I often didn’t agree with.”
Plenty of issues have now arrived where MPs can use that voice. Several cited the recent debate over assisted dying, where MPs had…