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President Joe Biden has failed in his most basic task, the leadership of the civilised world. By abruptly abandoning Afghanistan to the rule of the Taliban, he has gravely wounded the people of that country, who had grown used to the civilisation and freedom brought by Western intervention, and reasonably felt entitled to the continued support of those who had made this possible. They will not quickly forget that, when times are hard, America can no longer be relied on. Nor will all those around the world who had assumed that it was still a beacon of freedom. Mr Biden has also delighted the many enemies of liberty and proper democracy, in China, Russia and Iran, who will have noted carefully that the US is not now the stern, tough obstacle to their plans that it once was.  This weekend, they feel stronger and more powerful than they did before. The world has grown perceptibly darker and less safe as a result of this headlong evacuation. US President Joe Biden gestures as delivers remar

A motorist last night told of his horror when he fell ill on the M4 and crashed after workers had removed the hard shoulder to turn it into a new ‘smart’ motorway. Restaurateur Robert Walton said he was unable to pull over and had to drive in agony for four miles because cones blocked off the hard shoulder during construction works. Stuck between two large lorries, the 65-year-old president of the Restaurant Association of Great Britain said he feared for his life and blacked out from excruciating stomach pains while driving his Tesla Model S home to Berkshire from London on Tuesday evening. His ordeal comes as National Highways, formerly Highways England, rolls out 300 miles of smart motorways – which use hard shoulders for live traffic – by 2025. Critics say they are ‘death traps’ and blame them for a spate of fatal accidents. ‘What happened to me was one of the most frightening experiences of my life,’ Mr Walton said as he recovered from the stomach bug at home in Pangbourne.  ‘As t

Britons are preparing for torrential downpours after the Met Office issued a yellow weather warning for thunderstorms across the UK and even predicted flooding in some areas this evening. The worst of the conditions are expected to see around 20mm of rain in one hour and 30 to 40mm of rain over a few hours in a Met Office yellow weather warning covering the Midlands, the North, the South East, the South West of England, and Northern Ireland and Wales. The bleak weather warning lasts from midday until 23.59pm on Saturday, while it has been extended until 6am on Sunday in areas in northern and eastern England as torrential downpours are expected to batter the national. The Met Office has also warned of low risk flooding across areas with a yellow warning and also warned that thunderstorms could even be expected in other areas across the UK, as Cornwall was battered by heavy rain and stormy weather on Saturday morning.  Despite the stormy weather, there have still been balmy temperatures

It SOUNDS like something from the script of The Hunt For Red October, the Hollywood film in which Sean Connery commands a Russian submarine powered by a revolutionary engine so quiet it can pass for a whale. The Royal Navy has revealed its hunt for a ‘unique propulsion system’ – based not on conventional thrusters but on the way fish and other animals move in the sea. In what was immediately dubbed ‘Project Penguin’, the Navy declared it was interested in powering vessels with so-called evolutionary biomechanics, inspired by the ‘flapping fins of swimming animals such as rays, penguins and turtles’.  It added: ‘Examples of this may include, but not be limited to, how a dolphin manoeuvres underwater, or how a snake swims on the surface.’ The project emerged after the Navy asked innovators and entrepreneurs what was available in the commercial sector with a view to adapting it for military use. Companies were requested to give details of their technology in terms of ‘size, weight, payloa

Alta Fixsler is living on borrowed time – and this week it’s set to run out in a heartbreaking case that sees her parents pitted against her doctors in a fight over the sanctity of life. The two-year-old was born severely brain-damaged and has never spent a night out of hospital.  Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust has won the right to withdraw life-sustaining treatment and may turn off her ventilator as early as tomorrow. This is against the wishes of her parents, devout Hasidic Jews, who do not believe their daughter should be allowed to die.  Speaking exclusively to The Mail on Sunday, Mr Fixsler said: ‘There is no reason to kill Alta, she does not need to die because she is not like me and not like you, she should be allowed to live her life like any other child. ‘We know she is different but we love her no less than we love our son, who is a happy, healthy little boy.  'They are both our children, gifts from God, and equal in our eyes. No hospital and no doctor should

To understand what her grandmother was suffering when diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, neuroscientist LISA GENOVA researched the disease and then wrote an emotionally powerful book, Still Alice, about a woman living with the condition. It was turned into an Oscar-winning film starring Julianne Moore. Harvard-trained Genova has now published a fascinating book about how memories are made and how we retrieve them.  Every day your brain performs myriad miracles: it sees, hears, tastes, smells, feels pain and processes a wide range of emotions. It plans things and solves problems. It keeps you from bumping into walls or falling down stairs. It comprehends and produces language. It mediates your desire for chocolate and sex, and your ability to empathise with the joy and suffering of others. And it can remember. Of all the complex and wondrous miracles that your brain executes, memory is king. Indeed, memory allows us to have a sense of who we are and who we’ve been. But for all its miraculous p

Patagonia will no longer sell its products at the Jackson Hole Mountain Resort after one of the hotel's owners co-hosted a fundraiser for the House Freedom Fund featuring Mark Meadows, Marjorie Taylor Greene and other Trump-supporting Republicans.  Corley Kenna, Patagonia's head of policy and communications, confirmed to DailyMail.com that the company officially cut ties with the ski resort Tuesday. It is still sorting existing inventory, but has canceled upcoming orders to the three stores in the resort.   The company's move came a week and a half after Jay Kemmerer, a co-owner of the resort, co-hosted a fundraiser for the House Freedom Caucus, a bloc of conservative Congress members allied closely with former President Trump. The August 5 fundraiser was held at Spring Creek Ranch Resort to benefit the House Freedom Fund, the fundraising branch of the caucus. The MAGA event had a minimum admission of $2,000 a couple, and included Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, Rep. Jim Jorda

Police in Mariposa County have announced that they are treating the mysterious deaths of a British software developer, his wife, their one-year-old toddler and the family dog who were found on a remote hiking trail in California as a homicide. County Sheriff Jeremy Briese said: 'I've been here for 20 years, and I've never seen a death-related case like this. 'There's no obvious indicators of how it occurred.' The bodies of Jonathan Gerrish, 45, his wife Ellen Chung and their daughter Muji - along with their dog Oski - were discovered by search teams on Tuesday in an area of the Sierra National Forest known as Devil's Gulch.  Briese said there was no obvious cause of death and that he had not dealt with a case like this in his 20 years in the area. 'You have two healthy adults, you have a healthy child and what appears to be a healthy canine all within a general same area,' the sheriff explained.  'So right now, we're treating the coroner inve