Of the 2,636 councillor elections across 107 English councils, Labour and the Conservatives are each defending around 1,000 seats each.
PBS has posted on YouTube – for free – a documentary on the life of William F Buckley, the thinker who defined and popularised Cold War conservatism. Now that’s what I call public service broadcasting! Conservatives say the feature is too critical; liberals, too polite. I think it’s pretty darn good; a well-balanced biopic that captures the man and his times. One of its triumphs is to explain how conservatism, the philosophy of snobs, evolved into the politics of the working-class.
Songs by artists such as Adele and Ariana Grande are to return to TikTok after the video-sharing app agreed to crack down on fake recordings generated by artificial intelligence (AI).