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Ten days after Pope Leo XIV’s ‘State of the World’ address, American Cardinals Cupich, McElroy, and Tobin release a joint statement renouncing war and calling for US foreign policy to be based on peace and respect for human dignity and religious liberty. Read all  

La Journée des « jeunes d’autrefois » a réuni plusieurs centaines de personnes ce dimanche. Cette tradition, bien ancrée dans la commune, est toujours très attendue des Carhaisiens.

Episode 1 of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms starts things off with a funeral where we see a young lad on a hill burying someone who seems to have been a father figure to him. He reminisces about all the times he was physically abused by this dearly departed knight, and he promises to take good care of his horses. But then he proceeds to hang around the burial ground for quite a while, trying to figure out how exactly he’s going to start the next chapter of his life. After a lot of pondering, he decides to attend the tourney at Ashford Meadow and become a proper knight. The Game of Thrones music kicks in as the dude looks towards the horizon, as the optimism in his soul fills his body and then comes out his rear end. Once he’s done emptying his bowels near the tree where his mentor’s body lies, a sight that’s witnessed by the poor horses and lonely robin, he mounts one of the three horses and finally commences his journey. This pretty much sets the tone for the series. While GOT and House of the Dragon might have had comedic scenes in them, this seems like a full-blown, Monty Python and the Holy Grail-esque comedy set in the world born from the mind of George R.R. Martin. So, it’ll be better if you keep that in mind before judging everything that follows. Spoiler Alert Dunk Runs Into A Couple Of Targaryens En route to Ashford Meadow, the hedge knight comes across an inn where he’s welcomed by a bald little kid, and he tells the child to take care of the horses and feed them oats as well, while he goes to the restaurant to have some dinner. The place is pretty empty, but the innkeeper requests that he take a seat because he’ll get some food and drink, which looks to be in a really unhygienic state, in due time. She briefly mentions how inflation is affecting everyone’s lives, and yet everyone is busy seeking entertainment through tourneys despite knowing that that’s something that doesn’t make anyone’s lives easier. Before the hedge knight can give his opinion on that, one of the drunken patrons wakes from his slumber, tells our guy to stay away from him because he has been haunting his dreams, pays up, and then goes off to his room. The coin has the Targaryen sigil on it, which might mean that he is a Targaryen or someone who is associated with them. As per the credits, that’s Prince Daeron Targaryen. The innkeeper tells the hedge knight to ignore the intoxicated dude, and he does exactly that, eats his meal, and proceeds to hit the road to Ashford Meadow again. When he goes to the stable, he sees the bald kid is pretending to be a knight by wearing his armor and riding his horse. He reprimands the child and tells him to act respectfully, because he’s standing before a knight. The kid critiques his attire and his demeanor, as they are unbecoming of even a wannabe knight. That said, when the kid learns that the hedge knight intends to go to the tourney, he wants to accompany him as his squire. The knight, assuming that the innkeeper is the kid’s mother, wonders how she’d react to her son roaming around with a stranger, but the kid clarifies that she’s not his mother; he’s an orphan. Which means that he doesn’t need anyone’s permission to go about squiring for random knights. Still, the hedge knight rejects the kid’s offer, pays him what he promised, and heads off to Ashford. As per the lore, this kid is Prince Aegon Targaryen, and is supposedly roaming around with Daeron. Given how Daeron spends all his time drinking, it’s pretty obvious why the kid wants to run away with this random hedge knight. Dunk Searches for Manfred Dondarrion After reaching his destination, the knight meets the gamemaster to enter his name in the tourney, and this is where we learn that he’s called Dunk. He was the squire of Ser Arlan of Pennytree, and he claims that Arlan knighted him with his sword. But, as pointed out by the gamemaster, with the exception of the horses and that robin, nobody really witnessed that knighting ceremony, and he can’t…

The entirety of the 2nd episode of the 4th season of HBO’s finance thriller drama show Industry plays out like a prolonged essay on the decadence of the British aristocracy, with an excess of drugs and sexual exploits at its core. After having introduced us to new characters like James Dycker and an entirely new company in the form of Tender back in the season premiere last week, the series completely shifts its focus to the even more controversial Sir Henry Muck, his new wife, Yasmin Kara-Hanani, and his billionaire media tycoon uncle, Viscount Alexander Norton. There are, of course, overlaps between the two starkly different worlds in Industry season 4 episode 2, as characters like Harper Stern and Whitney Halberstram visit the estate to join the grand party celebrating Henry Muck’s 40th birthday, but it mostly focuses on developments in Henry and Yasmin’s lives. Spoiler Alert What is the reason behind Henry Muck’s erratic behavior? Industry season 4 episode 2 begins a few days before the events of the first episode, at a public event where the results of the general by-election are being announced. We are specifically in the constituency of Wakefield, where a couple of familiar faces are seen among the hopeful candidates. First is, of course, Jennifer Bevan (whom we met in the previous episode as the young new MP), representing the Labour Party, while the other is slightly more unexpected, as it happens to be Sir Henry Muck, who has been representing the Conservative Party. Yasmin is naturally in attendance to support her husband’s campaign, and it almost seems like the couple is expecting an easy win. As revealed later, Wakefield has been voting Conservative for decades now, with Henry’s uncle, Viscount Alexander Norton, and the latter’s close friend, Otto Mostyn, having been heavily involved in the region’s political scene as well. Henry seems to have banked on this overwhelming support for the Conservative Party, and also relied on the influence of his uncle and his associates, hoping to become a MP just for the benefits that the role brings, without any serious interest in public service. In fact, he had already been an MP for 6 months, and now only needed to win the by-election to stay in the position. But things do not go to plan, as he is announced to have secured the second-highest number of votes, with the most going to the promising Jennifer Bevan, meaning that she becomes the new member of parliament from Wakefield. Henry Muck, on the other hand, becomes the first candidate in almost a generation to make the Conservative Party lose at Wakefield. Although we do not see him face any serious repercussions from the party because of this loss, definitely because of his aristocratic roots, Henry is internally bogged down by this failure, and this becomes one of the primary reasons for his crippling depression. Despite Yasmin’s best efforts to encourage him to get up and do something, to fight back against the desire to simply give up on everything, Henry goes down a spiral of apathy and self-doubt. Some of it actually appears to be enforced, though, as it is difficult to completely figure out a character like Henry Muck, who has often done things or been in self-created adverse situations in the past simply because he has wanted to experience how they feel. Similarly, his act of spending days at a stretch in his bed and heavily using alcohol and drugs to deal with his emotional pain does sometimes appear to be slightly exaggerated. This also gives him a chance to grow detached from Yasmin and totally avoid any acts of intimacy with his wife, for he also seemingly has doubts over her loyalty, even though she has not done anything wrong. Either way, Henry simply cannot perform, or has no interest whenever Yasmin tries to get close to him. Something more significant that pushes Henry Muck to a worse mental state happens on the morning of his 40th birthday, when Yasmin gifts him an expensive watch. The watch is not a new…