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Lunar New Year: Lord Mayor of Dublin Clir Ray McAdam with Lingqian Zheng, 7 and Yuheng Chen, 9 with Garda Peter King and Horse Bradan Rollingnews Rollingnews

Japan's Reira Iwabuchi competes during the women's snowboarding big air finals at the 2026 Winter Olympics, in Livigno, Italy Alamy Stock Photo Alamy Stock Photo

#UK: Pressure continued to mount on embattled UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer after a second close aide quit and the leader of Scottish Labour called on him to resign. 

#USA: The USA team at the Winter Olympics has found itself in the political spotlight while drawing the ire of President Donald Trump.

#EPSTEIN: Jeffrey Epstein’s accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell refused to answer questions put to her by a US congressional committee.

#USA: Bad Bunny angered US President Donald Trump with his halftime Super Bowl show, which emphasised unity over division.

HAVING JUST SUFFERED another 300 newsroom layoffs, the closure of sections and bureaus, the exodus of many of its most venerable journalists, and the “moral infirmity” — in the words of a former editor — of transforming its editorial page into a Trumpist mouthpiece, The Washington Post is a dead newspaper walking.

It is far from alone in the graveyard.

In the US, most newspaper chains are controlled by hedge funds milking them dry, or by billionaires — The Post’s Jeff Bezos or the Los Angeles Times’ Patrick Soon-Shiong — harpooning their souls.

You can read Jeff Jarvis’ full Voices article here.

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