Top GOP groups scale back North Carolina spending

Kennedy Center Honors To Move To Capital One Arena Amid Closure Of Arts Complex. The Kennedy Center Honors will move to a new location for the first time in its history, as it will be held at Capital One Arena in Washington, D.C. The ceremony will take place at the new venue on Dec. 7, a center spokesperson said. The honorees have yet to be announced, and a broadcast […].

French Culture Wars Erupt Over Municipal Cinema As Right-Wing Mayor Removes Name Commemorating Anti-Colonial Director. France’s growing culture wars have its hit arthouse circuit after a right-wing mayor in the small town of Elne in southwest France rebaptized the municipal cinema theater, previously named after late radical anti-colonial director René Vautier. Elne Mayor Steve Fortel said he was renaming the theater to “La Bobine Illibérienne” for the sake of “neutrality” […].

Greens can move Labour in the right direction, says Polanski. The Green leader tells his autumn conference that a vote for his party can force changes from Andy Burnham.

At Brighton, Polanski raised his arms in triumph. It felt more like a wave goodbye. The Greens’ leader seems long on agitprop but short on ideas – and one byelection away from losing his job The Chronicle of a Death Foretold. It must be weird to realise that you have in effect made yourself obsolete inside a year. Worse, that you have actively accelerated your demise. Even AI doesn’t work at that speed. But that’s precisely what it looks as if Zack Polanski has done. Maybe he should just look on the bright side. He’s managed eight Liz Trusses. Not.

Kennedy Center Honors Moved To Capital One Arena Amid Trump Naming Dispute. Trump and his administration have threatened to demolish the Kennedy Center if he cannot have his name inscribed on the building and have renovations completed.

The Guardian view on the Conservative conference: a party still searching for a purpose | Editorial. Kemi Badenoch has a lot to say about Labour and Reform UK but none of it amounts to a coherent alternative programme for government The Conservative party is far from the margin of British politics, but it has yet to recover the relevance to which it feels historically entitled. The Tories are flattered by their status as the official opposition in parliament. In the wider country, Reform UK has set the agenda on the right, overtaking Kemi Badenoch’s party in opinion polls and poaching.