8 h. ago Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez’s wedding won’t cause ‘abnormal disruption to anyone,’ Venice mayor says

The couple are reportedly planning a summer wedding in Italy

Politics

30 h. ago Italian city moves to reassure locals and tourists over Jeff Bezos wedding disruption

The city claimed only 200 guests would be invited

Society

60 h. ago ‘A great big nuisance’: Venetians divided over plans to host Jeff Bezos wedding

Concerns over three-day nuptials with Lauren Sánchez come decade after Clooneys brought city to standstill When George and Amal Clooney tied the knot in Venice in 2014, bringing the lagoon city to a standstill by blocking off the Grand canal and filling its narrow alleys with celebrities and paparazzi, Venetians embraced the spectacle, proud to once again flaunt their hometown’s beauty and romance.But news this week that Venice will host the nuptials between Jeff Bezos, the billionaire founder of Amazon, and Lauren Sánchez, a former TV journalist, has not quite been met with the same reception. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Donald Trump is moving fast and breaking things, but that may result in a better US | Simon Jenkins

The chance of the president succeeding in his radicalism is small, but amid the chaos are challenges to convention that were overdue“Move fast and break things” was Mark Zuckerberg’s motto in launching Facebook 20 years ago. It seemed the antithesis of management-school custom and practice. But it worked, to be imitated after a fashion by Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and other digital tycoons with similar success. Donald Trump is now seeing if it works in government.The smart money in Washington was that after the fiasco of Trump’s first term, his second would see a more emollient president, one careful of his reputation. He would reach out, consult, become a peacemaker, in his desperation to become a Nobel president like Barack Obama.Simon Jenkins is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Jeff Bezos' unfiltered rant to Trump about 'crazy' staff at his newspaper revealed

Donald Trump said that Jeff Bezos believes his staff at the Washington Post are 'crazy' as the owner of the leading liberal paper works to make sure he's 'more fair' to the president.

Politics

7 d. ago Lauren Sanchez's cryptic message to Jeff Bezos after wedding reveal

Lauren Sánchez is keeping fans guessing. The journalist posted a cryptic message on Instagram just as news broke that she and Jeff Bezos reportedly sent out wedding invites.

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7 d. ago Jeff Bezos and fiancée Lauren Sánchez send out invites for ‘summer wedding in Italy’

The pair got engaged on the Amazon CEO’s $500m yacht in May 2023

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7 d. ago Lauren Sanchez and Jeff Bezos FINALLY send out wedding invites as location is revealed at last

Lauren Sanchez and Jeff Bezos have reportedly sent out invitations to their upcoming nuptials - with the wedding destination also officially revealed.

Society

2 w. ago If you’re reading this column, Elon Musk has messed up | Stewart Lee

Social media is lurching to the right like a tapeworm scenting offal – and X’s algorithms make it hard to find opposing opinionWake up grandad and put your opinions in the pedal bin! If you even think you are well informed you are living a lie. What the world believes today depends on who is controlling legacy media’s last feeble news fronts, like the head-bobbing slaphead Jeff Bezos’s supine Washington Post, and on who programs digital social media sluices, such as Ketamine Ken’s Twitter, currently X, essentially an ape with a megaphone standing in a crowded marketplace shouting unsubstantiated rumours at babies, and showing pornographic photographs to children.But was it ever thus? Did it just take the unalloyed unpleasantness of Elon Musk to make us see ourselves as we always were, toilet paper people fluttering on the whims of wealthy men’s media outlets, 8 billion dogshit golems, Frankingsteins made of farts? Continue reading...

Events

2 w. ago Ross Noble: ‘The weirdest place I have been recognised? During my vasectomy’

The British comedian on being shot into space by Jeff Bezos, his nightmarish run-in with a fan and the thing he loves most about AustraliaRead more 10 Chaotic QuestionsGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailWould you rather die at the bottom of the ocean or out in space?I’ve actually just learned how to dive, so I’m a bit obsessed with being at the bottom of the ocean! But I don’t know that I want to die underwater. It’s very peaceful and serene down there. I think I’d like to be fired out to space in a massive cannon.Ross Noble is touring his new live show, Cranium of Curiosities, around Australia until September, then the UK from October; check here for all dates. He is also a guest on Memory Bites with Matt Moran on SBS Food. Continue reading...

Politics

2 w. ago What to expect from the wedding of the year! Lauren Sanchez and Jeff Bezos will tie the knot this summer 'in Europe with an A

The Amazon billionaire and his American former journalist bride revealed their engagement in May 2023 after the businessman popped the question on board his $500million superyacht.

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2 w. ago Former Washington Post writer unveils rejected Bezos column that led to her resignation

Ruth Marcus also claimed that another column by the Post’s media critic that criticized Jeff Bezos’ opinion edict was also killed

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2 w. ago Washington Post columnist quits after her opinion piece criticizing owner Jeff Bezos is rejected

A columnist who has worked at the Washington Post since 1984 quit on Monday, after she said the publisher Will Lewis killed her column criticizing owner Jeff Bezos' edict that the newspaper's editorial section concentrate on issues of personal liberties and the free market

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2 w. ago Top Washington Post columnist quits after piece critical of Bezos is scrapped

Ruth Marcus dissented from paper’s new opinion policy of supporting only ‘personal liberties and free markets’Washington Post associate editor and top political columnist Ruth Marcus is reportedly resigning following the decision by the CEO, Will Lewis, to kill her opinion column critical of the billionaire owner Jeff Bezos’s latest changes to the paper.“It is with great sadness that I submit my resignation as columnist and associate editor of the Washington Post,” Marcus wrote in a letter addressed to Lewis and Bezos and posted on X by a New York Times media reporter. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Man who worked at Amazon when it was just starting reveals what Jeff Bezos was REALLY like

Steve Yegge, 56, from Washington, started working at Amazon in 1998 as a technical program manager, four years after Jeff launched the company out of his garage.

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3 w. ago Lauren Sanchez and Jeff Bezos set the date for wedding of the CENTURY... as insiders reveal plans for her dress, the elite guest list and a jaw

Almost two years after they got engaged, Jeff Bezos and his fiancée Lauren Sanchez have finally put their plans for a wedding into place.

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3 w. ago ALISON BOSHOFF: It's a summer wedding for Jeff Bezos and his high

ALISON BOSHOFF: Jeff Bezos and his fiancée Lauren Sanchez were the most visible couple on Oscars night - and I hear that they have finally put their plans for a wedding into place.

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3 w. ago James Bond: Longlegs director swears off directing 007 film after Amazon deal

Filmmaker let his feelings known in blunt response

Economics

3 w. ago Lastminute.com founder warns of ‘peril’ for tech sector amid Trump DEI crackdown

Baroness Lane-Fox of Soho told the House of Lords’ International Women’s Day debate that there has been a ‘degradation’ in tech industry culture.

Events

3 w. ago Movie director swears off directing Bond film after Amazon deal

Filmmaker let his feelings known in blunt response

Economics