Andrew Mueller
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Merle Haggard: “I believe we’ve seen the best of this planet. I don’t think we’ll get any better”
entertainment news 21 hours ago Country Music Legend, 93, Just Announced a New Book Coming This Fall miamiherald.com - Holly Riordan • 21h Willie Nelson, 93, has released over 20 studio albums, created 50 new songs, and performed hundreds of times over the past twelve years.
‘It’s so tempting to cover Trump like a cartoon character’: Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan’s new book exposes an imperial presidency
Enough books have been published on US president Donald Trump during his two terms as president that a reader might struggle to get through them all between now and the 2028 election. One volume recently added to the list is Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan’s Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump. The New York Times reporters have extensively covered and repeatedly interviewed Trump.
Unlikely ambassadors: Six performers and artists who moonlit as diplomats
Finland’s reputation as a heavy-metal hotbed was perhaps a deciding factor in Freddy Lim’s appointment last May as Taiwan’s envoy to the Nordic nation. Lim has an unlikely side gig: fronting Chthonic, the Republic of China’s biggest heavy-metal group. It’s a hinterland that has come in handy as Taipei faces mounting diplomatic challenges from Beijing. “Metal is a universal language,” he says.
Britain’s curious relationship with novelty candidates, from Screaming Lord Sutch to Count Binface
In an episode of the beloved BBC comedy Blackadder, the eponymous character connives to get his idiot sidekick Baldrick elected to parliament. Among Baldrick’s rivals for the seat of Dunny-on-the-Wold is an oppressively jovial figure identified as Ivor Biggun, representing the Standing At The Back Dressed Stupidly And Looking Stupid Party.
Unlocking the potential of high-dimensional quantum communication with scalable photonic entanglement in time and frequency
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Abstract INTRODUCTION RESULTS DISCUSSION MATERIALS AND METHODS Acknowledgments REFERENCES Information & Authors Metrics & Citations View Options References Figures Tables Media Share Abstract High-dimensional photonic entanglement holds substantial promise for advancing quantum communication, computation, and metrology. For example, large-alphabet quantum communication protocols are known to benefit from enhanced noise resilience and information capacity via multibit time-bin encoding.
By Yu Sun, Jie Wang, Haoyu Hu, Kai-Chi Chang, Murat Can Sarihan, Florian Kanitschar, Yujie Chen, Dong-Il Lee, Jin Ho Kang, Andrew Mueller Verified, Matthew Shaw Verified, Boris Korzh, Maria Spiropulu, Paul Erker, Marcus Huber, Kemal Enes Akyuz, Alwaleed Aldhafeeri
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The People’s charter for living well in cities: 13 rules for oafs, oiks and rapscallions
As an idea, the city charter predates even the earliest national constitution. The first was probably the one that William the Conqueror endowed the City of London in 1067. It promises, in part, “Every son shall be his father’s heir after his father’s death and that I will not [let] that any man do wrong to you.
Who is Andy Burnham? The man hoping to be the UK’s seventh prime minister in 10 years
It has been exactly 10 years since British voters chose to leave the EU. The result of that referendum swiftly destroyed the prime minister who called it, David Cameron; while the impossibilities of Brexit were also, to varying extents, the undoing of his four Conservative successors. In 2024, the same electorate awarded a thumping landslide to the Labour party of Keir Starmer, widely interpreted as a plea for stable, sensible, even tedious governance.
Andy Burnham seems on course for Downing Street – but Keir Starmer hasn’t been a total failure
By-elections, in the British context, are constituency elections that occur outside general elections. They are most often occasioned by the death, retirement or resignation in disgrace of the sitting MP and are usually of interest only to the voters of the district in question – unless the reasons for the resignation in disgrace have been noteworthily picturesque. Yesterday’s by-election in Makerfield, Greater Manchester, was an exception.
‘What we are dealing with is a moral trauma’: How NGO Superhumans is helping to rehabilitate battle-scarred Ukrainians
If Russia were to abandon its assault on Ukraine tomorrow, the war-torn country would still face another generational challenge. Though the official numbers of Ukrainian casualties are still unknown, it is certain that at least tens of thousands of Ukrainians, both military and civilian, have suffered life-changing physical and psychological injuries. When the day comes for Ukrainians to properly rebuild their nation, the needs of the impacted must be taken into account.
To catch a thief: The ongoing dilemma for museums after high-profile heists
Stealing irreplaceable pieces of national heritage should be far harder than it looks. In March burglars broke into the Magnani Rocca Foundation in Parma and made off with three paintings – works by Matisse, Renoir and Cézanne. Last October bandits spirited eight items of France’s crown jewels out of a window at the Louvre, escaping by taking the furniture lift that they had used to gain access. The Louvre was built as a fortress.
Sorry to burst the vox-pop bubble but most people’s opinions aren’t news
We owe the very term “vox pop” to a misapprehension of its etymology. It is an abbreviation of the tag “Vox populi, vox dei”: the voice of the people is the voice of God. However, that phrase is cribbed out of context from a warning issued by the eighth-century scholar and courtier Alcuin of York. He was trying to alert Holy Roman emperor Charlemagne to the perils of being distracted and disconcerted by public opinion.
Keir Starmer’s critics are right but it doesn’t mean they should take charge
One might reasonably quibble about some things UK prime minister Keir Starmer has or has not done in office, especially the things that he said he would or would not do before acquiring it. But if there is one thing that Starmer absolutely promised his watch would be blessedly free of, it is what is occurring right now: internecine psychodrama over the leadership of the governing party.
In fear of Ukrainian retribution, Putin bunkers down for a more muted Victory Day
It would be fascinating to know how far ahead Vladimir Putin of Russia was thinking when he ordered his legions across Ukraine’s borders in February 2022.
‘Putin is poisoning generations of Russians’: Mikhail Kasyanov on the future of the nation he once lead
The wrath of Vladimir Putin is not an easy burden to shrug off: he is a man known for bearing grudges. Late last year, Russia’s federal executive agency for financial intelligence, Rosfinmonitoring, added Mikhail Kasyanov to its list of designated extremists and terrorists. When Rosfinmonitoring was established on Putin’s instructions in 2001, Kasyanov was prime minister.
Geopolitics might’ve lost its shock value but the Delphi Economic Forum is a good omen for diplomacy
The Foreign Desk has become a regular visitor to – and participant in – various diplomatic events: the Munich Security Conference, Globsec, the Arctic Circle Assembly, the Black Sea Security Forum in Odessa, the Warsaw Security Forum and a few Nato summits.
'Perfume doesn't have to be French': Why Australia is an untapped source for olfactory brands
Nothing in Australia is quite like anything anywhere else. The trees are different shapes, the flowers are different colours and the animals are just weird. It should not be astonishing, then, that Australia's scents are no less idiosyncratic, but it's perhaps surprising that so few perfumers have sought to capitalise on them. This thought occurred to Dimitri Weber, a Franco-Belgian perfumer, a decade ago.
Trump's disdain for Nato is nothing new
Donald Trump has destroyed the world order and left Europe to fight for itself in the process. How many more red flags does the continent need? On 2 September 1987, readers of The Washington Post, The New York Times and The Boston Globe beheld a full-page advertisement placed by property developer and celebrity blowhard Donald Trump.
Book review: The Revolutionists
A scene from the 2008 film “Der Baader Meinhof Complex”. Credit: Alamy Stock Photo The Revolutionists: The Story of the Extremists Who Hijacked the 1970s (Penguin) by Jason Burke As the subtitle of this book acknowledges, hijacking has a metaphorical resonance as well as a literal meaning. Both describe the garnering of widespread attention by the determined actions of small and reckless groups or individuals.
What Trump, Iran and Ukraine tell us about the future of international relations
The author of Surviving Chaos: Geopolitics When The Rules Fail, Mark Leonard, shares his view on how to navigate a multi-polar world where yesterday's assumptions are quickly becoming out-of-date. Over the past century or so there have been three serious attempts to establish what is generally referred to as a "rules-based order": a framework by which international relations and disputes might be managed by means other than violence.
Balendra Shah: from hip hop to prime minister of Nepal
Pretty much every headline that has heralded Nepal's new prime minister, Balendra Shah, has referred to him as a "rapper". This is not inaccurate - he owed his early prominence to his prowess on the mic - but it is a little misleading. More pertinently, if less picturesquely, Shah is also an impressively qualified structural engineer, and has served a stint as mayor of Kathmandu.
'Trump's mistakes will quite likely result in this failing': John Bolton on why Operation Epic Fury is a bust
You would think that John Bolton would be happier. The former US ambassador to the United Nations and former US national security adviser has been advocating for American military action against the Islamic Republic of Iran for decades. In 2015, Bolton wrote an op-ed for The New York Times entitled "To Stop Iran's Bomb, Bomb Iran".
Who is Mojtaba Khamenei, Iran's new supreme leader?
After the assassination of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei by a US-Israeli strike in late February, his son Mojtaba has been named as the Iranian regime's new leader. What do we know about this mysterious successor? Iran has a new supreme leader in Mojtaba Khamenei, second son of his late father and predecessor, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed in late February as the war between the US, Israel and Iran broke out.
Supremacy usurped: Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei reported dead in US-Israeli strikes
The Islamic Republic of Iran, founded in 1979, was created in the image of its inaugural Supreme Leader: Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the fundamentalist firebreather who encouraged his acolytes to seize the US Embassy in Tehran, offered to underwrite the murder of a British novelist and ordered hundreds of thousands of his country's young citizens to pointless deaths in a war against Iran's neighbour, Iraq.
The US, Israel and Iran exchange violent strikes. But what's the point of Operation Epic Fury?
US-Israeli strikes targeting Iranian leadership and the latter's retaliatory attacks have rocked the Middle East. But is there a method behind the madness of Operation Epic Fury? This fast-changing news event continues to evolve and we will provide updates as new information becomes available. The article was last updated on 28 February at 14.00 (GMT).
Admiral Samuel J Paparo and the future of US-China Strategy
With 1,100 carrier landings behind him, the commander of US Indo-Pacific forces is now navigating a different kind of front line. If the defining contest of the 21st century is to be that between the US and China, then we would do well to learn the names of those who will be calling the shots. Since 2024, Admiral Samuel J Paparo has been the head of US Indo-Pacific Command - about 380,000 US personnel stationed in 38 countries.
The Board of Peace: Inside Trump's global power play and Gaza plans
President Trump's much-ballyhooed Board of Peace offers little indication of being what it purports to be, resembling a clubhouse for the authoritarians he finds most appeasing. When considering any new initiative attached to the name of US president Donald Trump, the first question to ask must always be: is this really what it purports to be? President Trump's much-ballyhooed Board of Peace offers little indication that it is any exception.
Hungarian opposition leader P├ęter Magyar's honeytrap challenge
Hungarian opposition leader Péter Magyar, who is leading in the polls ahead of the country's pivotal April elections, is hardly the first politician to be threatened with the publication of compromising material of an intimate nature. Though if the best that his opponents can do is threaten to release video of a healthy 44-year-old man having consensual sex with an apparently enthusiastic partner, he is entitled to feel confident about the looming vote.
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor's arrest is a good advert for Britain
The Tower of London is calling Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor. While the former prince's arrest on suspicion of misconduct in public office disgraces the British royal family, it paints the United Kingdom in a fair light. It is possibly the most comprehensive downfall of a senior British royal since the arrest, trial and execution of King Charles I in 1649.
US senator Lisa Murkowski on Trump's disrespectful Arctic policy
Lisa Murkowski is the senior US senator representing Alaska, a seat she has held for the Republicans since 2002 - despite repeated efforts by her own party to oust her Murkowski did not endorse - or by her own account vote for - US president Donald Trump in any of his three election campaigns, and she was one of seven Republican senators who voted to remove Trump from office at his second impeachment trial in 2021.
Book review: Jacinda Ardern's 'A Different Kind of Power'
Credit: Alamy Stock Photo A Different Kind of Power: A Memoir (Macmillan) by Jacinda Ardern Jacinda Ardern was the 40th prime minister of New Zealand, but the first to become an internationally recognised figure – certainly, Keith Holyoake and Robert Muldoon never appeared on the cover of Vogue.
Amid the chaos unleashed by Trump, Greenlanders are taking a pragmatic approach
When Monocle Radio's team arrived in Nuuk last Monday, anything seemed possible. Greenland's prime minister, Jens-Frederik Nielsen, was warning his fellow citizens to prepare for the possibility of invasion by the US. Denmark, of which Greenland is a part, had deployed extra troops to the island - and so, by way of solidarity, had several Nato allies. Donald Trump was threatening a trade war with Europe and declining to rule out the prospect of an actual war over Greenland.
Touching down in Nuuk, ground zero for the world's most absurd crisis
An improbable diplomatic situation has turned Greenland into the world's most unlikely flashpoint. Monocle is in Nuuk to see what's really happening on the ground. A team from Monocle arrived in Nuuk on the Air Greenland service from Copenhagen on Monday morning. On the basis of our first few hours here, there are no untoward signs of panic (though people might be panicking indoors, where it's warmer).
The weekend's events in Venezuela were a textbook US intervention. But how long can Trump stick to the script?
We've seen this all before, but is this president patient enough to stick to the playbook of interventionism seen in Panama and beyond? Gunboat diplomacy is nothing new. Armadas have been dispatched to loom menacingly off the coast of one's adversaries at least since the Athenian empire sent triremes to put the squeeze on the Delian League. Gunboat diplomacy isn't even new to Venezuela.
Russian opposition activist Vladimir Kara-Murza on surviving Putin's gulag
Poisoned twice and sentenced to the longest term ever handed down to a Russian government opponent, Kara-Murza details his confinement in a Siberian prison and why he returned to fight for his country. Vladimir Kara-Murza is a Russian opposition politician and Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for The Washington Post. In April 2023, he was sentenced to 25 years in a Siberian prison colony after being convicted by a Russian court of charges related to his criticism of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
In the darkness of the Bondi Beach massacre, a civilian's heroism gives Albanese a clear path forward
The Bondi Beach attack was callous and anti-Semitic but the fallout could provide further ugliness yet. Hopefully the reaction - like the actions of Ahmed al Ahmed, the hero of the hour - will... It is difficult to overstate the shock that will have been felt among Australians at Sydney's Bondi Beach yesterday.
Irish neutrality is a weak spot for Europe that Putin could use to his advantage
It's possible that Europe narrowly missed its 21st-century Archduke Franz Ferdinand moment last week. As Ukraine's official Airbus ACJ319 approached Dublin Airport, the crew aboard the Irish Naval Service craft LÉ William Butler Yeats spotted several drones aloft in the no-fly zone protecting president Volodymyr Zelensky's flight path. It is unclear as of this writing who launched the drones or from where or what their intentions were.
Why the Winter Olympics are better than the Summer Games
The Winter Olympics begin today and you should be excited because these next few weeks outdo the Summer Games for one big reason: the sports are far more dangerous. With the exception of BMX racing, which might have been designed by orthopaedic surgeons working on commission, the greatest risks run by summer Olympians are the sort of strains and sprains that, while doubtless painful for the athlete, are merely tedious for the spectator.
How top politicians dress for winter: Parkas, tradition and power statements
Political leaders' choice of winter wear can signal their priorities and reveal something of their world views. We take a look at five leaders, from Alexander Stubb to Kim Jong-un. As winter descends, it's easy to abandon any ambition of cutting a sartorial dash. When the days are colder, darker and damper, the temptation is to swaddle oneself in a warm coat, a hat, gloves and a scarf, and wait for the sun to return. National leaders, however, do not have this option.
'Empathy is nothing without action.' Jacinda Ardern on compassionate leadership and radicalisation reform
Former New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern discusses what it takes to run a country, from reforming firearms laws in the wake of the 2019 attack on Christchurch to leading with kindness and empathy. Dame Jacinda Ardern was prime minister of New Zealand from 2017 to 2023. She is the author of the recent memoir A Different Kind of Power and the subject of Lindsay Utz and Michelle Walshe's new documentary Prime Minister, which was mostly shot during her time in office.
The US transport secretary is right: airport dress code matters
Travel by aeroplane was once regarded as a special occasion and passengers dressed accordingly. Men wore suits and ties. Women had their hair done. There is, somewhere, a photo of me as a baby that was taken before boarding a long-haul flight with my mother in 1969: we look as though we're about to be presented to royalty.
Why the Epstein files could spell the beginning of the end for Maga and Trump
The release of the Epstein files might not be the end for Trump or even the beginning of the end but, just maybe, the end of the beginning. The decision by US president Donald Trump to acquiesce in the release of government files pertaining to the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein might seem a surprising one. That Trump was an associate of Epstein is beyond dispute. That Trump is mentioned repeatedly in the tranches of Epstein's correspondence that have been made public is equally incontrovertible.
It's high time to hoist new standards for flag-bearing as expressions of unity, not division
Flags are open to many meanings - let's not allow small-minded flappers get in the way. On 14 September 1814, in the dawn's early light, US troops stationed at Fort McHenry in Baltimore harbour hoisted their nation's flag. They did this every morning, as the bugler sounded reveille. At this particular sunrise, though, their routine chore had greater resonance.
How Dick Cheney made vice-presidency dangerous
The vice-presidency of the United States is one of the strangest jobs in global politics. The holder of the office is all at once extremely close to awesome power, yet miles away from any power at all.
'Empathy is nothing without action.' Jacinda Ardern on compassionate leadership and radicalisation reform
Former New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern discusses what it takes to run a country, from reforming firearms laws in the wake of the 2019 attack on Christchurch to leading with kindness and empathy. Dame Jacinda Ardern was prime minister of New Zealand from 2017 to 2023. She is the author of the recent memoir A Different Kind of Power and the subject of Lindsay Utz and Michelle Walshe's new documentary Prime Minister, which was mostly shot during her time in office.
As AI threatens cushy desk jobs, it's time to re-evaluate manual labour
The promise of almost all technological progress is that it will make human life easier. This is understandable enough: there's little sense in devoting time and resources to making things more difficult and annoying (though those responsible for updates to Microsoft Office appear to have formed a different view).
What Macron's Dior habit says about the politics of the presentation and the smell of success
Can a person's use of perfumes be an attribute of dominance? Reports say that the French president certainly thinks so. There's an entire industry of consultants working on what national leaders look and sound like - but the question of how they smell is less frequently pondered. Not many voters get close enough for it to matter. At least one current national leader does reportedly care about scent a great deal, however.
Life on the frontlines
Ordinary People Don’t Carry Machine Guns: Thoughts on War (Seven Stories) by Artem Chapeye The Accidental Soldier: Dispatches from Quite Near the Front Line (Hodder & Stoughton) by Owain Mulligan As Artem Chapeye well understands, the title of his book is wholly inaccurate. Ordinary people absolutely do carry machine guns: indeed, ordinary people carrying machine guns is pretty much the story of modern warfare.
US mayors can keep the White House at bay
The eternal internal conflict of the US is often delineated as between the federal government and the states. "States' rights" regularly serve as a battle cry for the kind of conservatives - including, up until the 1970s or so, conservative Democrats - who wish the US Civil War had gone the other way.
Author Thomas Chatterton Williams on the backfiring of identity politics and the unravelling of America
In his latest release, 'Summer of Our Discontent', Williams warns readers against the risks of identity-centred movements led by both the right and left. Here we speak to him about his book and how... Thomas Chatterton Williams is a staff writer at The Atlantic, a visiting professor at Bard College and a nonresident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.
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