Josh Glancy

Succession in Singapore: a bungalow row and a brother in London exile The city state has been scandalised by a battle between the two sons of Lee Kuan Yew, the founder of modern Singapore. One brother has fled to the UK for his and his wife’s safety. The source of the r...

In June 2022, Lee Hsien Yang and his wife Fern received an early police knock at their Singapore apartment. They flew to London and claimed asylum.

But why had the son of Lee Kuan Yew fled his own country?

They tell their full story here, for the first time

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‘It’s not an excuse but I was distracted’: Keir Starmer on the benefits U-turn and his toughest week yet A year into the job and foundering in the polls, can the prime minister convince an impatient electorate to stick with his steady approach to fixing Britain? Josh Glancy meets him in No 10, Ipswich an...

The PM tells Josh Glancy it is "total bollocks" that Morgan McSweeney (not Keir Starmer) is in charge of the Starmer project
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The Long Goodbye Time, at last, to write about Agnes.

It'll be two years, this Monday night. Time, at last, to write about Agnes.

Killer drones are changing war — and may soon think for themselves Ukraine’s destruction of expensive warplanes with simple flying bombs was Russia’s Pearl Harbor moment. The technology is changing faster than you think

Ukraine’s destruction of expensive warplanes with simple flying bombs was Russia’s Pearl Harbor moment. The technology is changing faster than you think

‘An existential crisis’: can universities survive ChatGPT? Students are using AI to cheat and professors are struggling to keep up. If an AI can do all the research and writing, what is the point of a degree?

Is ChatGPT destroying the university degree as we know it? Or can it be harnessed for good?

On the cover of this week's News Review is an excellent if terrifying report, by @louise-eccles.bsky.social and @lottiemayhayton.bsky.social

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OPINION: Eilat 2001: Innocence on the edge of a storm - Jewish News Josh Glancy looks back to when Jewish Londoners relaxed in paradise, oblivious to a darkening future just beyond the desert hills

Wrote my column for @jewishnews.bsky.social on the strange phenomenon of Eilat at the turn of the millennium, when half of Jewish north London decamped each Passover to a tiny seaside town in southern Israel

Halcyon days. But there were clouds on the horizon

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Oh this is awful - Pembrokeshire Council are trying (successfully so far) to close down this wonderful restaurant I reviewed only last Sunday. If you have visited, think you might want to, or just care about good restaurants, please do write to the address they advise.

China holds the cards over Trump — and a united Europe could too The economist, winner of a Nobel memorial prize, says rejecting America’s trade war is about far more than business and the state of the stock market

My op-ed yesterday in @thetimes.com Tariffs, of course. www.thetimes.com/article/8e80...

After 100 days, Trump’s presidency feels like a vengeful monarchy The conservative thinker Andrew Sullivan backs Trump’s sentiment on immigration and diversity but says his second term is already challenging the very essence of American democracy

On the cover of today's News Review, Andrew Sullivan reflects on 100 days of Trump's "vengeful monarchy"

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Trump’s chaos is a stress test of western values. If we pass, we’ll be stronger

"By questioning so many of the assumptions and arrangements that underpin our international order, America’s current president is holding up a mirror and forcing us to examine our own souls" | ✍️ @joshglancy.bsky.social

Yorkshire is the Texas of Britain. Correct opinion from @charlotteivers.bsky.social

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Trump’s chaos is a stress test of western values. If we pass, we’ll be stronger The US president is trashing many of our deeply held assumptions. It gives us a chance to define who we are

Trump's chaos is stress testing our entire way of life. But if we can pass the test, we may yet emerge stronger

My Sunday Times column

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OPINION: Jewish-Muslim relationships have been torched. How do we put out the fire? - Jewish News Gaza has exposed painful truths. But amid rising tensions, the path forward lies in refusing to abandon dialogue – even when it seems futile and fraught

For my @jewishnews.bsky.social column, I've written about how relations have collapsed between Britain's Jewish and Muslim communities, why this is a problem and what might be done about it

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OPINION: Jewish-Muslim relationships have been torched. How do we put out the fire? - Jewish News Gaza has exposed painful truths. But amid rising tensions, the path forward lies in refusing to abandon dialogue – even when it seems futile and fraught

For my @jewishnews.bsky.social column, I've written about how relations have collapsed between Britain's Jewish and Muslim communities, why this is a problem and what might be done about it

www.jewishnews.co.uk/opinion-jewi...

Revealed: Putin’s secret war in UK waters Russian sensors trying to track nuclear submarines have been found in a campaign of ‘greyzone’ warfare that also targets our energy and internet. Even oligarchs’ superyachts are in on it

Russian sensors trying to track nuclear submarines have been found in a campaign of ‘greyzone’ warfare that also targets our energy and internet. Even oligarchs’ superyachts are in on it

Who is the real JD Vance?

A man who could ' deliver on the promise of Trumpism' better than Trump, says @joshglancy.bsky.social ⬇️

🎙️ The Story podcast
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Wingmans restaurant review: ‘I’d take a 16-hour flight for this chicken’ Charlotte Ivers falls for a quintessentially British success story: posh chicken wings

In pursuit of Britain’s favourite food: the chicken wing (no paywall)

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Facebook’s secrets, by the insider Zuckerberg tried to silence Careless People author and former Meta director Sarah Wynn-Williams reveals what it was like ‘babysitting’ her boss

Today's News Review cover is a fascinating interview with Sarah Wynn-Williams, discussing her explosive Facebook memoir with Ros Urwin.

The interview was conducted just before Meta injuncted Sarah and prevented her from speaking. It is free to read.

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Mad About The Boy: meet my teacher who inspired Bridget Jones’s crush The diarist’s latest flirtation, Mr Wallaker, is not just any fictional character — he was based on a Sunday Times writer’s former history master

If you liked Chiwetel Ejiofor's Mr Walliker in Bridget Jones, meet the man behind him, my favourite history teacher as a young kid and someone who lifted me out of a deep childhood slump. Teachers really can do remarkable things

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Dominic Cummings on Boris Johnson. From @joshglancy.bsky.social’s riveting interview. Too good.

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Dominic Cummings on Johnson’s fall: Obviously I orchestrated it The Trump-Musk project? ‘Basically all great’. Badenoch? ‘Complete useless dud’. Britain’s disruptor in chief doesn’t answer questions often, but when he does…

Fascinating interview with Dominic Cummings from @joshglancy.bsky.social today

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The night ‘Mad Max’ hare coursers ran riot and police did nothing

Dozens of men in balaclavas rampaged through farmland and threatened villagers to create an arena for their illegal blood sport — so why didn’t officers respond?

Livia Firth: Betrayal, breast cancer and co-parenting with Colin Let down in life and business, the actor’s ex-wife explains why her eco company collapsed and she’s happy selling £13 pasta sauce from Italy

Love this Roisin Kelly interview with Livia Firth, who is remarkably chipper for someone whose business got hacked, scammed and liquidated, had breast cancer and a divorce and a stalking issue, and yet is somehow still smiling

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Thank you!

I interviewed Dominic Cummings about Musk, Trump, Brexit and William Pitt the Younger.

He also spoke publicly for the first time about why he brought down Boris Johnson, comparing it to "cleaning the sewers"

(Free to read)

www.thetimes.com/article/5177...

🙏

Superb interview with Dominic Cummings by @joshglancy.bsky.social includes this par which i cannot stop reading www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Dominic Cummings confirms he advised Jeremy Corbyn's team on Brexit – revealed in GET IN – via Josh Glancy in the Sunday Times

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I interviewed Dominic Cummings about Musk, Trump, Brexit and William Pitt the Younger.

He also spoke publicly for the first time about why he brought down Boris Johnson, comparing it to "cleaning the sewers"

(Free to read)

www.thetimes.com/article/5177...