George RR Martin has opened up about experiencing depression during a “stressful” and “overwhelming” year, as readers continue to await the long-delayed sixth instalment of his A Song of Ice and Fire series. The 77-year-old American author, whose fantasy novels shaped and inspired the hit HBO television series Game of Thrones, wrote candidly about his…
George Kurtz, President and CEO of CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc. (), sold Class A common stock valued at approximately $3.71 million through transactions on July 30 and July 31, 2026. The sales involved a total of 19,900 shares, with prices ranging from $178.72 to $191.45 per share. These transactions were executed in multiple trades, with the…
No more resistance in the US. The era of human rights is over, and dissent is once more forbidden. This is what certain billionaires and their concierges want, and this is the model they’re also seeking to project across the world. If we fail to resist, if our new prime minister is as weak and…
Sir George served in Sir Tony Blair’s government, first in the Home Office between 1997 and 1999, and then in the Northern Ireland Office until 2001. He was knighted in the 2019 Birthday Honours for parliamentary and political service. Born in Prescot, Sir George was educated at Huyton Secondary School before working as a fitter,…
Every time you think the idiocy has hit rock bottom, it discovers a new level. It turns out there’s an even deeper hole you can dig for yourself than climate-science denial: heat-stress denial. Across the billionaire press last week, columnists and leader writers minimised the health impacts of the heatwave, particularly in schools. Expect more…
Imagination was not George Orwell’s forte. In each novel the protagonist is to some extent an Orwell surrogate doing things that Orwell did in places where Orwell had been. Here, somewhat unconvincingly, the author’s representative is a repressed young woman, Dorothy Hare, who loses her memory, identity and faith. Orwell considered it “tripe” except for…
Most people have made up their minds, and nothing you can say will change them: that’s the credo of parties such as Labour and the Democrats. Don’t challenge voters on the doorstep. Use focus groups to find out what they want, and give it to them. Follow, don’t lead. But all that’s on them, not…
Tiler Peck has been thinking about George Balanchine a lot lately. It’s not a stretch. He was the founding choreographer of New York City Ballet, where Peck has danced for 22 years. She never met Balanchine, but she knows him through his ballets. And no one made ballets like Balanchine, especially the mammoth ones, with…
Catholic theology informed from Vatican Council II WEST ORANGE, N.J. — Bishop George R. Lucey, FCM, Presiding Bishop of the American National Catholic Church, has released two new books offering timely reflections on faith, community, and the healing presence of Christ in the lives of those often overlooked by institutional religion. Together, Where Else Shall…
Dave Mason, the English singer, songwriter and guitarist who wrote mainstays of the classic-rock canon like “Feelin’ Alright?” and “Only You Know and I Know,” and who was a founding member of the seminal band Traffic before starting a successful solo career, died on Sunday at his home in Gardnerville, Nev. He was 79. His…
