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Telegraph
a day ago
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- Telegraph
The Daily T: Why it matters that Britain is becoming less white
A stark new report suggests the white British population could become a minority in the UK within the next 40 years. 73 per cent of the British population is white, but is predicted to drop to 57 per cent by 2050. Camilla and Gordon are joined by Professor Matt Goodwin, who led the research, to unpack what the data tells us about the UK's changing demographics, why these shifts are happening, and what they could mean for the country's future. Elsewhere, Donald Trump's administration has renewed their attacks on the BBC over its coverage of Gaza, with press secretary Karoline Leavitt accusing the corporation taking 'the word of Hamas with total truth', an allegation the broadcaster denies. Camilla and Gordon speak to former BBC director of television Danny Cohen, who agrees with the US President, saying that the broadcaster's coverage is 'driving hate' towards Israel and Jews, and that there are 'two tiers of racism at the BBC'.
New York Post
a day ago
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- New York Post
Famed lawyer Alan Dershowitz publishes his ‘magnum opus' — but fears people won't read it for this reason
Alan Dershowitz calls his new book his 'magnum opus.' It's the culmination of the legendary legal mind's 60-year career — and he's written nearly that many books. But though he's had multiple bestsellers, including one atop The New York Times list, America's most famous lawyer worries people won't read this tome. Blame Donald Trump — it's a popular pastime these days. Remember the 2002 Tom Cruise sci-fi thriller 'Minority Report'? 'The Preventive State: The Challenge of Preventing Serious Harms While Preserving Essential Liberties' is the new book version, its author tells The Post in an exclusive interview. Advertisement Walking into his Manhattan apartment and seeing a framed Benjamin Franklin letter on the wall, one immediately recalls the founder's famous line: 'Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.' 'That's the theme of my book,' Dershowitz says. 'There's no free lunch, and every time we act to prevent great harms, we take away a little liberty. There's no doubt about that. There's always going to be a trade-off. And the key is to make the trade-off based on principles. And it's OK, as I say in the book, to give up a little inessential liberty to gain a lot of security but not to give up basic liberties to gain a small amount of security. We do too much of the latter and not enough of the former. And so what I've tried to do is create a jurisprudence which weighs when it's proper and when it's not proper to take preventive actions and erring always on the side of liberty rather than security but giving weight to security.' It's a colossal and contentious topic. 'I have been writing and teaching about 'the preventive state' (a phrase I coined during my teaching in the 1960s) over my entire career,' Dershowitz writes. Advertisement 'So finally, after all these years, at 86 I decided to put it all together into one book,' he tells The Post. That's after challenging others to do it at the end of a 2008 book. 'I wasn't ready. I didn't have the answer. I had the problem, but I didn't have the solution,' he explains. 'I really had to have the time to work through, and I finally created a jurisprudence. Now I've figured out how to solve these problems.' And these problems constantly arise. 'Why do we deport people? To prevent them from committing crimes. Why are we thinking about bombing Iran? To prevent them from developing a nuclear weapon. Why did we require people to wear masks and be inoculated during COVID? To prevent it from spreading. Why do we lock people up pending trial? To prevent them from fleeing or committing crimes. So prevention runs through our legal system, but there's no systematic attempt to either define it or create a jurisprudence. That's what I've done.' Advertisement It's the career capstone of the man who at 28 became the youngest-ever Harvard law professor granted tenure. 'I'm hoping this book will have an impact on legislators, on courts. It's the most important book I've ever written. It'll be probably the least recognized because of the cancellation issue. But if I'm going to be remembered 50 years from now, it's going to be because of this book,' he says. 'I was the first academic to basically discover prevention and start writing about it, 60 years ago, and now I'm the first academic to write a major whole book on this.' That's a bold statement from someone whose work has created a seemingly unceasing supply of memorable moments. His bestselling 1985 book 'Reversal of Fortune' was turned into a 1990 film that earned Jeremy Irons an Oscar for his portrayal of Dershowitz's client Claus von Bülow, who was acquitted on appeal of attempting to murder his wife, Sunny, played by Glenn Close. Dersh approves Ron Silver's portrayal of him — mostly. 'He was very, very, very good. The only thing I objected to is as a kid, I was a really, really good basketball player. I played Madison Square Garden. I guarded Ralphie Lifshitz, who became Ralph Lauren.' Silver's dribbles were dreadful. Advertisement Of course, a place in Hollywood history doesn't exempt one from cancel culture. Dershowitz himself brings it up. 'I've written 57 books. The vast majority of them were reviewed by The New York Times. I had seven New York Times bestsellers. One a front-page number-one bestseller, 'Chutzpah.' Since I defended Donald Trump, The New York Times will not review my books,' he says. 'They will not review this book.' A lifelong Democrat until last year's party convention featured Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Sen. Bernie Sanders 'and all those rabid antisemites,' Dershowitz supported Hillary Clinton in 2016 — but joined Trump's legal team in January 2020, defending the president in his first impeachment trial, without payment. The Gray Lady isn't the only institution that's canceled him. The historic Temple Emanu-El has too, despite Dershowitz's prolific work supporting Israel and Jews. The 92nd Street Y 'won't allow me to speak, even though I used to draw the biggest crowds,' he says. 'If you've defended Trump, you can't speak. You can't be part of the mainstream.' It's even gotten personal. 'I used to have a good relationship with Chuck Schumer. He doesn't in any way talk to me anymore. He used to confer with me about cases,' he reveals. 'My former students, people like Jamie Raskin, they used to always confer with me, but not since I defended Donald Trump. Martha's Vineyard, people stopped talking to me. Wouldn't allow me to speak in the library. Wouldn't allow me to speak at the Jewish center. The synagogue in Martha's Vineyard wouldn't allow me to speak there about Israel or anything else. So what do you think we did? We fought back. We founded our own synagogue on Martha's Vineyard' — 'which now has more people going than the synagogue that banned me.' He continues, 'Barack Obama invited me to the White House, invited me to the Oval Office, invited me on Martha's Vineyard. Well, now he won't.' Personal friends like comedian Larry David also quit speaking to him after the Trump defense. Is he certain it's all about the liberal bête noire now occupying the Oval Office? Dershowitz worked on the late financier Jeffrey Epstein's first criminal case over victimizing underage girls — and one, Virginia Giuffre, claimed the lawyer abused her. She eventually walked back that claim, which he wrote about in The Post. 'It all started before Jeffrey Epstein. It started with Trump. And the Jeffrey Epstein thing, when it happened, never had any effect on me, on Martha's Vineyard, especially now that I've been, of course, exonerated,' he says. Advertisement Dershowitz's banishment for defending a president from impeachment comes after a lifetime of defending unpopular clients — including accused murderers. 'O.J. Simpson, Claus von Bülow, Leona Helmsley, you name it. I defended Nazis marching through Skokie,' he says. 'And that's never been a problem. I defended Bill Clinton. I defended Ted Kennedy for driving a car off the bridge, and nobody objected to that. And that was the Vineyard. That was the first time I ever set foot on Martha's Vineyard. I'll tell you a wonderful story about that.' He was seated next to Ted's niece Caroline at a dinner party a few years ago. 'Caroline Kennedy looks at me when I sit down and says, 'I'm polite, so I'm not going to get up and leave, but if I knew that you had been invited, I never would have come to this dinner party. This was right after I defended Trump. So I said to her, 'Is this because I defended Trump?' She said, 'Absolutely.' I said, 'But I defended Ted Kennedy, your uncle. Did you object to that?' And she walked away,' he recalls. 'I've had 18 murder cases, and I've won 15 of the 18 murder cases. Not all of them have been innocent, I can tell you that right now, not all of them have been innocent. And nobody objected. It was only Donald.' Yet Dershowitz's influence cannot be denied — besides the signal lawsuits, his students have been making their own history in powerful positions, from NYPD commissioner (Jessica Tisch) to secretary of state (Mike Pompeo). Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan would sit next to CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin in Cambridge. 'They flirted with each other all the time,' Dersh reveals. 'They were too cute with each other in class.' Advertisement The Harvard professor emeritus says, 'I love teaching, but when I turned 75 I decided I want a new career. I figured at that time I have 10 good years left — it's been 11 so far — I wanted to do something different. And so I am.' What is that new career? 'Provocateur. I love that word,' he immediately responds. He adds he's a 'meritocratic egalitarian, constitutional libertarian and constructive contrarian' — and even a 'classical liberal.' His insights in 'The Preventive State' aren't limited to law; the book is filled with economics, philosophy and politics too — just like his apartment. He has an early copy Congress made of the Declaration of Independence, with all the original signers and letters by Abraham Lincoln, Albert Einstein, John Stuart Mill and many others. Advertisement 'This is my most valuable letter. It's signed by George Washington. It's written to the troops in the middle of the Revolutionary War. But the text was not written by George Washington. It was written by his obscure secretary named Alexander Hamilton,' he chuckles. 'It talks about how all soldiers have to get inoculated against smallpox.' America has been a preventive state since the beginning. 'Just good stuff,' the genial writer concludes after proudly showing part of his collection. 'It inspires me every day.'
Yahoo
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Off the Grid: Sally breaks down USA TODAY's daily crossword puzzle, Poetry in Motion
There are spoilers ahead. You might want to solve today's puzzle before reading further! Poetry in Motion Constructor: Amanda Rafkin Editor: Amanda Rafkin MINORITY REPORT (34A: 2002 cyberpunk Spielberg film) Steven Spielberg's movie Minority Report is based on a 1956 novella by Philip K. Dick. The movie is set in the year 2054 in the Washington metropolitan area. Tom Cruise stars as the chief of a specialized police department known as Precrime, which apprehends criminals based on knowledge learned from psychics. Several of the futuristic technologies in the movie – such iris scanners, personalized advertising, and autonomous cars – now exist. OMW (14A: "Heading over now," for short) OMW = on my way BILLY PORTER (15A: Actor and singer who starred in "Kinky Boots" and "Pose") In 2013, BILLY PORTER originated the role of Lola in the Broadway musical Kinky Boots. For that role he won a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical. In the TV series Pose (2018-2021), BILLY PORTER portrays Pray Tell, an emcee of New York City's balls and a fashion designer. For this role, he won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series. FUTON (19A: Foldable couch) and COTS (21A: Foldable beds) This is a fun duo of foldable furniture clues. RAT (31A: Remy, Rizzo or Templeton) Remy is a RAT in Disney's 2007 animated movie Ratatouille. Rizzo the RAT is a Muppet character who often appears with Gonzo the Great. Templeton is a RAT in Charlotte's Web. This is a nice trio of RAT characters. Solvers only need to be familiar with one RAT in order to be successful. LEIS (33A: Garlands that might be made using hala fruit) LEIS made using hala fruit – the fruit of the Pandanus pectorius tree – are traditionally used for special occasions, particularly the celebration of the end of an era (graduation, e.g.) or the transition to a new era (celebrating a New Year, e.g.). ORA (40A: "The Masked Singer" judge Rita) The Masked Singer is a reality singing competition that features celebrities vying to be the favorite singer. Contestants perform in costumes and masks that conceal their identities. Rita ORA has been on the show's panel of judges since its eleventh season. KERI (50A: "The Diplomat" actress Russell) On the Netflix TV series The Diplomat, KERI Russell stars as Kate Wyler, U.S. ambassador to the U.K. TED TALK (54A: Lecture that's around 18 minutes long) TED TALKs originated at the TED Conference in 1984. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design. TED TALKs present an idea in 18 minutes or less. Since 2006, TED TALKs have been available to view online, with the tagline "Discover ideas worth spreading." TED TALKs cover a variety of topics, such as "The power of vulnerability" (Brené Brown), "Magic and wonder in the age of AI," (David Kwong), and "The Black history of twerking -- and how it taught me self-love" (Lizzo). EMU (64A: LiMu ___ (rhyming insurance mascot)) LiMu EMU has been a mascot for Liberty Mutual insurance since 2019. REPUTATION (4D: Taylor Swift album with a snake aesthetic) and NAME (53D: "Say my ___ and everything just stops") REPUTATION is Taylor Swift's sixth studio album, released in 2017. The imagery of snakes associated with REPUTATION was inspired by (and a response to) online criticism of Taylor Swift that referred to her as a snake. REPUTATION includes the song, "Look What You Made Me Do." The album also includes the song "Dress," which includes the lyric "Say my NAME and everything just stops." ACT (6D: Perform in "Redwood") The musical Redwood opened on Broadway earlier this year. Idina Menzel portrays Jesse, a mother grieving the death of her son. She impulsively starts driving away from her east coast home, and ultimately finds herself in a redwood forest on the west coast. I was excited to see this clue, as my husband and I were fortunate enough to see Redwood on Broadway last month. The show has received mixed reviews, but I really enjoyed it. Getting to see Idina Menzel ACT and sing (sometimes suspended in the air while climbing a "redwood") was incredible. The set was amazing, using projection to make you feel as if you're in a redwood forest. I did cry through much of the show (it's an emotional topic), but there were also a few funny moments. One of my favorite moments was when one of the other characters said to Idina Menzel's character, "Just a minute ago you were a Disney princess." DRUM (13D: Djembe or conga, e.g.) A djembe is a goblet-shaped DRUM, and a conga is a tall barrel-shaped DRUM. Both of these DRUMs are played with bare hands. TAILOR (20D: Make alterations to) My first thought here (before I looked at the letter count) was "edit." After all, we see EDIT in the puzzle on a regular basis. "Aha!" These are different kinds of alterations. That's fun. SHAPES (45D: The Tetris tetrominoes come in seven different ones) Tetris is the second-best-selling video game franchise. (The Mario franchise is the first.) There's just something about those falling SHAPES that makes this game a classic. As the clue informs us, the Tetris tetrominoes come in seven different SHAPES. It occurs to me that this fact could also be used to clue the word "seven." (I'm tucking that thought away for future use.) DESK (55D: Tiny ___ Concert) A Tiny DESK Concert is exactly what it sounds like, performers give a concert behind a desk in the NPR offices. Recent Tiny DESK Concerts feature performances by Madison McFerrin and Grupo Frontera. A few other clues I especially enjoyed: ERR ( Play an F♯ in a C major scale =, say) I'M INTO IT (9D: "Love that, love that!") AT MY AGE (23D: "When you get to be this old...") BILLY PORTER (15A: Actor and singer who starred in "Kinky Boots" and "Pose") MINORITY REPORT (34A: 2002 cyberpunk Spielberg film) PARTY PEOPLE (57A: They're always ready for a good time) POETRY IN MOTION: Each theme answer contains an anagram of the word POETRY: BILLY PORTER, MINORITY REPORT, and PARTY PEOPLE. This is the second day in a row for a hidden anagram theme, and it's another fun one. We have the following anagrams of POETRY hidden in the theme answers: Y/PORTE, TY/REPO, and RTY/PEO. I think it's especially fitting that BILLY PORTER is a theme answer. As a performer, his movements could be described as POETRY IN MOTION. Thank you, Amanda, for this delightful puzzle. USA TODAY's Daily Crossword Puzzles Sudoku & Crossword Puzzle Answers This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Crossword Blog & Answers for May 3, 2025 by Sally Hoelscher
Metro
27-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Metro
Mission: Impossible suffers crushing box office defeat to hit Disney remake
Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning has suffered a devastating defeat at the box office. The eighth and most recent Mission: Impossible film was released last weekend, and sees death-defying stunts as action star Tom Cruise dives 500 feet underwater in arctic conditions and dangles off the wing of a biplane 10,000 feet in the air. Despite the impressive stunts from Tom, 62, who has played Ethan Hunt for decades, starting the role in 1996, the movie has been pipped at the box office. Variety reported that Lilo & Stitch launched to $341 million (£252 million) globally, while Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning made $200 million (£148 million). Lilo and Stitch is now the second biggest opening weekend of 2025, after A Minecraft Movie made $313 million worldwide over three days when it was released in April. Bizarrely, this isn't the first time that Tom has gone up against Lilo in Stitch, as in 2002, Steven Spielberg's Minority Report also came head-to-head with the animated original movie. In fact, this could be sweet revenge for Lilo and Stitch as the movie lost to Minority Report, which made$35.67 million while the cartoon made $35.26 million, just losing out on the winning title. The movies both opened as two of the biggest films in the year, as Lilo and Stitch had a budget of $100 million (£74 million) and Mission: Impossible with an estimated $300 to $400 million (£223 -£295 million) budget. Lilo and Stitch is a live-action remake of the animated 2002 Disney film of the same name, but it has been divisive among critics. The film has earned just a 68% ranking on Rotten Tomatoes, and critics have suggested that the remake loses some of the magic that was present in the original film. The Guardian commented: ' None of it really tracks unless you've already watched the cartoon.' They also added: 'With a running time expanded by more than 20 minutes (as these things so often are), there should at least be room for a substantial round of brand-new Stitch antics. 'Yet the bits and pieces of new material barely seem to understand Stitch's initially malevolent personality, recoding him as the untrained party animal he's pretending to be. Occasional new ideas, like a ray gun that opens up shortcut portals, are squandered with first-idea-best-idea roughness.' Sales for the movie have been the third most successful of the Disney remakes behind 2017's Beauty and the Beast and 2019's The Lion King, both of which made over $1 billion (£738 million) during their overall release. To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video Like Lilo and Stitch, reviews for the eighth Mission: Impossible movie have been varied. More Trending Metro's Tori Brazier commented: 'Sometimes the dialogue – always taking a second seat to the stunts, as freely admitted by tight-knit collaborators McQuarrie and Cruise – is so basic, clunky and on the nose that it's funny by accident.' She then added that there is still something special about the franchise: 'After nearly 30 years making these films, it feels like the point at which Ethan Hunt starts and Tom Cruise finishes is virtually non-existent – but I'm not sure that really even matters? 'Now more than ever, Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning proves Cruise is the last of a dying breed, so utterly committed as he is to his calling as a movie star to thrill audiences. If this is the end of the road for this franchise, I don't see anything like this coming around again.' Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning and Lilo and Stitch are in cinemas now. Got a story? If you've got a celebrity story, video or pictures get in touch with the entertainment team by emailing us celebtips@ calling 020 3615 2145 or by visiting our Submit Stuff page – we'd love to hear from you. MORE: Top Gun producer reveals status of highly anticipated Tom Cruise sequel MORE: 13 of the best and most blood-curdling shark movies streaming right now MORE: Viewers have unsettling Final Destination experience after life imitates art in cinema
Business Insider
24-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Business Insider
Tom Cruise climbs between two planes in the new 'Mission: Impossible.' Here are his best stunts, ranked.
He started to do a lot of his own stunts when appearing in action blockbusters like " Top Gun," "Mission: Impossible," and "Minority Report." Now, stunts have become Cruise's calling card. His ambitiousness also bled into real life at the 2024 Paris Olympics ' closing ceremony when he jumped off the roof of the Stade de France. Now, the actor has added another stunning aerial sequence to his list of feats, in his latest movie: "Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning." Here are the best stunts of Cruise's career, ranked. When you see Cruise and the cast looking like they are battling G-forces in the jets, complete with distorted faces, it's because they really and the cast went through training so their dogfight scenes could look as realistic as possible — which meant sitting in the F/A-18 jets as they were spun around and took dramatic dives. 8. Cruise climbed a 2,000-foot cliff in "Mission: Impossible 2." In the opening scene of 2000's "M: I 2," Cruise is seen climbing a cliff. And yes, that's really scaled the cliff in Utah with nothing but a safety rope. He also did a 15-foot jump from one cliff to another. Tom Cruise loves to run in his movies; it's become his trademark. But his ability to continue running came into question after a stunt went wrong on the set of "Fallout."While jumping from one one building to another, Cruise hit the wall of the building the wrong way and broke his accident halted production for months and doctors told Cruise his running days might be over. But, six weeks later, Cruise was back on set doing sprints. 5. Cruise climbed the tallest building in the world for "Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol." The Burj Khalifa in Dubai is the tallest building in the world, and Cruise climbed "Ghost Protocol," the actor's climb got him up to 1,700 feet in the also fell four stories down by rappelling on the surface of the building. Rebounding from the so-so performance of "Jack Reacher," McQuarrie jumps on the "Mission: Impossible" franchise and ups the action stakes. Yep, this is the one where Cruise hangs from the side of a giant plane taking off. The movie also got an extra jolt with the inclusion of Rebecca Ferguson in the supporting cast. 2. Cruise navigated between two flying planes in "Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning." In the climax of "The Final Reckoning," Hunt holds on to a biplane during takeoff, before eventually punching its pilot, throwing him out of the vehicle, and climbing into another plane being flown by the villain, Gabriel (Esai Morales).The ambitious nature of the scene is what we've come to expect from Cruise, but seeing him cling on for dear life above the valleys of South Africa is nothing short of he was strapped to the two different vehicles during multiple takes to achieve the sequence, but watching it unfold on the big screen is still breathtaking. While Cruise was healing the broken ankle he sustained earlier in the "Fallout" production, he went and pulled off the most amazing stunt he's done in his career so the movie, Cruise's character and CIA tagalong August Walker (Henry Cavill) decide to do a HALO jump — a high-altitude, low-open skydive, in which you open your parachute at a low altitude after free-falling for a period of time — out of a giant C-17 plane to get into Paris did this for real by executing the jump 106 times over two weeks, many of them done during golden hour, a very brief period of perfect lighting that occurs just before sunset.
