WITH grim predictability, 2025 begins with yet another “stop the boats” idea which avoids the real problem. This one involves slapping “Interim Serious Crime Prevention Orders” on ...

a figure dismissed by Moldova’s pro-Western government as confected for political reasons. "I feel that we’ve entered a crisis that is quite difficult to resolve … which worries me greatly ...

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What’s unfairly stolen all the glory? There’s a lot of ironic cocktails abounding that really are just sugar bombs – we can have fun without bad drinks. Why should we visit your venues next ...

For her first live televised performance in four years, dubbed “Beyoncé Bowl,” the singer put on a meticulously confected and executed show, enlisting Post Malone, Shaboozey and her daughter ...

Houston Texans football game on Christmas Day. For her first live televised performance in four years, dubbed “Beyoncé Bowl,” the singer put on a meticulously confected and executed show, enlisting ...

Step forward, then, Unilever. The red berets had given the owners of the TRESemmé brand of hair care products at the centre of this confected outrage 24 hours “to explain itself” about the advert.

However confected all this froth and fury may be, it is perhaps in recognition that, if the measures announced in this budget begin to make a positive difference in most peoples’ lives, a paradigm ...