The Guardian – Trump hits out at ‘witch hunts’ despite pledge to unite nation
Donald Trump’s demands to drop the “witch-hunt” criminal charges against him make The Guardian’s front page.
The former president vowed to bring “the whole country, even the whole world, together” and end the “weaponisation” of America’s justice system.
Trump appears with bandaged ear at Republican national convention
Donald Trump, wearing a bandage partially covering his right ear, appeared in public for the first time since surviving an assassination attempt over the weekend.
Trump made a dramatic entrance to loud cheers on Monday during the first night of the Republican national convention in Milwaukee, emerging on the floor of the convention hall at about 9pm CT to cheers of “USA!” and “fight!” Lee Greenwood played “Proud to be an American” as Trump entered the convention hall.
Trump worked his way across the convention floor before making his way to a box, where he joined several notable Republicans, including Tucker Carlson, congressman Byron Donalds, and JD Vance, whom he named his running mate earlier in the day.
UK and its allies face ‘deadly quartet’ of nations, says defence expert
Britain and its allies are facing a “deadly quartet” of China, Russia, Iran and North Korea who are acting together against the west, according to the newly appointed head of Labour’s defence review.
George Robertson, a former Nato secretary general, said the UK had to be prepared to take on all four if necessary, reflecting western concerns that the grouping are increasingly sharing arms, components and military intelligence.
Flanked by the new defence secretary, John Healey, Lord Robertson told a briefing that: “We’re confronted by a deadly quartet of nations increasingly working together,” and that Britain and its Nato allies have “got to be able to confront that particular quartet”.
Brat summer: is the long era of clean living finally over?
A brat, said Charli xcx – describing not so much her album, Brat, as the spirit of brat – has a “pack of cigs, a Bic lighter and a strappy white top with no bra”. This is “brat summer” – not to be confused with rat girl summer (2023, a TikTok trend centred on living like a rat), which itself was a verbal variation on hot girl summer (which was, according to the journalist Jasmine Fox-Suliaman in 2021, “about embodying self-love, a positive body image, healthy boundaries and relationships, self-actualisation and, of course, sultry style choices”). Brat, neither a social media nor a consumer creation, is different; perhaps because it actually means something. But what?
Today’s news summary – Paper Talk
If you are someone who reads every perspective of a story, here is a news summary of all of today’s front pages from today’s newspapers; summarised in a 2-minute read
Editorial 16 July 2024.
Tuesday’s newspapers mark a shift in coverage as most broadsheets cover the latest from the US presidential race – with a little UK politics on the front page.
The tabloids lead to the discovery of a body in the Jay Slater case. Though not formally identified it is believed the body is that of the missing 19-year-old Brit, with early theories being that he slipped into a ravine and died. The papers note that rescue workers had to use a helicopter to reach the ravine and it’s believed specialists found Slater’s possessions.
A handful of the front pages leave space to assess the England football team and whether Gareth Southgate will be replaced. The speculation around Southgate’s future dominates the back pages.