Artificial intelligence (AI) fascinates and repels, frightens and seduces, and is, above all, fundamentally mysterious, the ultimate reason for the fear it inspires in a large majority. It has landed in our lives, and everything indicates that its impact will be decisive in the world…

Rarely have municipal and regional elections been described as “historic” without it being an exaggeration, like when a football match is dubbed “the match of the century,” or a film, a work of art deemed essential and momentous, that would be a sin to miss. But referring to yesterday’s elections in Scotland, Wales, and England in this way is no hyperbole, because they will symbolize the end of the two-party system, the decline (terminal or not, we shall see) of Labour and the Conservatives, the emergence on the scene of the far right (Reform) and far left (Greens), the rejection of the technocratic centrism represented by Keir Starmer, and the sharp condemnation of Jacobin centralism, with three of the four nations that make up the Kingdom possibly in the hands of nationalists.

The Israeli opposition closes ranks to defeat Benjamin Netanyahu in the upcoming elections, scheduled for this October. Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid, who have already held the position of Prime Minister of Israel, announced the merger of their parties, in a coalition that aims to surpass Netanyahu’s Likud party in the vote.