内容摘要：Their candidate was the estimable Susan Kramer, who was subjected to condescension and mansplaining throughout the campaign - this was a time when female Labour MPs were referred to as "Blair's Babes" by tabloid and broadsheet newspapers alike.

Their candidate was the estimable Susan Kramer, who was subjected to condescension and mansplaining throughout the campaign - this was a time when female Labour MPs were referred to as "Blair's Babes" by tabloid and broadsheet newspapers alike.

Musk's announcement left many unanswered questions, including when he will actually leave the administration and what will happen to Doge, which stands for Department of Government Efficiency.When asked by the BBC on Wednesday, President Donald Trump reinforced the message that the administration was preparing for Musk's departure.

"We have to, at some point, let him go and do that. We expected to be doing it about this time. I'll talk to Elon about it," Trump said at the White House.The president also said Tesla will "be taken care of" once Musk returns and alleged that Musk was being "treated very unfairly, I guess, by some of the public"."He's a great patriot, and [that] should have never happened to him," Trump added.

However, under government rules, spending fewer days at Doge could actually prolong Musk's stint in government.Musk has been designated a "special government employee" (SGE) – a label that allows him to work at a paid or unpaid government job for 130 days each year.

, cited in an October 2024

from the Office of Government Ethics, any day on which an SGE performs any work for the government counts as a full day towards that limit.Traoré attended commemorations in Russia last week to mark the 80th anniversary of the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany in World War Two. He posted on X that he, along with military leaders from neighbouring Mali and Niger, were inspired by it "to winning the war against terrorism and imperialism at all costs".

Thanks to his rhetoric and pushed by a slick social media campaign, his appeal has spread around the world, including among African-Americans and Black Britons, Ms Ochieng noted."Everyone who has experienced racism, colonialism and slavery can relate to his messages," Ms Ochieng said, pointing out that African-American rapper Meek Mill had posted about him on X late last year, saying how much he liked his "energy and heart" - though he was ridiculed for mixing up names by referring to Traoré as Burkina Faso and later deleted the post.

But France's president is not a fan, describing Traoré as part of a "baroque alliance between self-proclaimed pan-Africans and neo-imperialists".Emmanuel Macron was also referring to Russia and China whom he accused,