The Cold War between FTX’s Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) and Binance’s Changpeng Zhao (CZ) went nuclear this week. Crypto was the biggest loser in the ensuing radioactive fallout. However, in the battle between two biggest players in the “digital” “asset” “industry”, there was a clear winner and loser. By Tuesday SBF was tweeting that he had … Read more
Portugal’s Cristiano Ronaldo, the world’s star footballer, has made a comeback for Manchester United. He scored a brilliant goal against Moldova’s club Sheriff Tiraspol in the UEFA Europa League on Thursday (27 October). Ronaldo was dropped from England’s club Manchester United against Chelsea. There was disciplinary action against him. Ronaldo did not start for Real … Read more
Senator Ted Kennedy (D-MA) boards an elevator after walking off the floor of the U.S. Senate after a roll call vote to achieve cloture on the nomination of Judge Samuel Alito to the US Supreme Court passed 72 to 25 January 30, 2006 in Washington, DC. Chip Somodevilla | Getty Images Supreme Court Justice Samuel … Read more
Like many Western conservative parties, the Tories are going through a period of deep division Liz Truss was finally compelled to resign as UK prime minister late last week. The radical “New era” that she had promised to usher in had lasted a mere 45 days. Her downfall came as no surprise to observers of … Read more
While politicians love to divert attention from their rivals, a “WTF?” message from the IMF was not the way Conservatives wanted to overshadow the Labour party conference. Sir Keir Starmer’s speech in Liverpool was drowned out by the “glug glug glug” sound of a Tory government losing control of the debt markets. But the turmoil … Read more