Emma-Kate Symons

Watch Isabelle Adjani read from Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses in French as she accepted the César award for best actress in 1989. The year Islamists first slapped a (constantly renewed) fatwa on the renowned novelist, stabbed today in New York.

Remarkable

FT Exclusive: A financial group with ties to Donald Trump's family has set up a special-purpose vehicle that plans to raise $200mn to buy a business in Venezuela. ft.trib.al/L1rqc6z

Emmanuel Grégoire soutient Kylian Mbappé après ses propos sur le RN et défend la « légitimité de s’exprimer politiquement » ➡️ l.leparisien.fr/lAir

🚨 BREAKING: The NEC has voted to let Andy Burnham stand as the Labour candidate in the Makerfield by-election [@thetimes]

Thank you Jay Powell for fighting for Fed independence that benefits us all not just now but into the future. Congratulations Kevin Warsh for taking over as Chair. Wish you the very best for what will be a tough role. (Pic from Gridiron Club dinner)

So you come back from your high stakes summit with President Xi and you’ve been discussing world trade, tariffs, Taiwan, war in Iran, the battle for rare earth minerals, and what’s the first thing you post about on Truth Social? 🤷🏻‍♂️

@LeParisien_75 @egregoire Bravo ! Et nous aussi @TheNewWorldmag thenewworld.co.uk/emma-kate-symo…

Emmanuel Grégoire soutient Kylian Mbappé après ses propos sur le RN et défend la « légitimité de s’exprimer politiquement » ➡️ l.leparisien.fr/A5Ii

.Simon Wilson gets it. uk.news.yahoo.com/not-one-woman-…

The Le Pen cabal in French politics+media is going after superstar 🇫🇷 captain Kylian Mbappé on World Cup eve. It's a campaign of denigration and barely-disguised xenophobia reminiscent of the worst race-baiting of Jean-Marie Le Pen. My ✏️ @TheNewWorldmag thenewworld.co.uk/emma-kate-symo…

La visite de Trump à Pékin se voulait un moment de puissance. Elle ressemble davantage à un aveu de faiblesse. Retour sur les 🔟 domaines où se joue la guerre pour le futur — et sur lesquels Washington cède du terrain. Analyse @Grand_Continent ⤵️ legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2026/05/13/…

It's almost World Cup, so Le Pen's cabal has declared war on football superstar Kylian Mbappé, Les Bleus'🇫🇷 captain, arguably the most admired Frenchman in the world. His 'crime'? Daring to restate his opposition to the extreme right. My✏️@TheNewWorldmag thenewworld.co.uk/emma-kate-symo…

BOLTON: Trump thinks if he’s friends with Xi, then US-China relations are in great shape. He calls Xi “king” and “greatest leader in Chinese history.” Trump thinks he’s friends with Xi and Putin. I’ll guarantee you, that’s not how they see Trump. They both see him as easy mark.

🐶 A French toy spaniel named Lazare thought to have been "the world's oldest dog" has died aged 30, his carer said on Friday. ➡️ u.afp.com/SRsZ

Shutting down USAID led to a rise in global violence, study says time.com/article/2026/0…

🔴 The US president arrived expecting wins but left overshadowed by Xi’s choreographed show of power Read @connorstringer's dispatch and take on the US-China summit ⤵️ telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…

Rubio: “I think China's preference is probably to have Taiwan willingly voluntarily join them.” This is the Trump administration laying the groundwork to abandon Taiwan, just like they did with Ukraine. Authoritarians around the world will celebrate.

China and Iran team up to humiliate Trump—while he’s in Beijing. “As Trump meets Xi, Iran lets Chinese ships through the Strait of Hormuz.” nytimes.com/2026/05/14/wor…

Stop saying that Xi wants stability. He doesn't want stability, he wants to increase China's power globally. That is intensely destabilizing. You can love China or hate it, you can feel like the Chinese Communist Party is good for the world or bad: stability in U.S.-China relations does not help Xi Jinping accomplish his international goals. Why do people keep making this mistake? Because they keep taking Xi Jinping's remarks at face value. It's a mistake journalists don't make nearly as often with politicians, but somehow, they decide that Xi communicates what he actually means.

At a time of war in the Middle East, the US has no ambassador in Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar, Iraq or Kuwait. At a time of war in Europe, there is no US ambassador in Russia or Ukraine. Altogether some 115 of 195 ambassador posts are vacant. @RobbieGramer wsj.com/politics/polic…

Unless I missed it, Trump did not say one word about freedom, liberty, democracy, or the rule of law during his two day visit to autocratic China. He didn’t meet with any students, or civil society folks, religious leaders, or private entrepreneurs. Oh well. That’s how he rolls.