The 10 days Artemis was in space felt like, if you’ll excuse the metaphor, an airlock

16 April 2026, The Tablet

I wanted The Guardian to demote Trump down the homepage so that, just for once, he would rant on Truth Social and the response would be: who cares?

Saying vaguely positive things about humanity can still be enough to rile the Trump administration, as we discovered when news broke about a politely hostile meeting between the apostolic nuncio and the Pentagon following Pope Leo XIV’s address to the Vatican’s diplomatic corps.

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