Politics

An Apple executive has issued a scathing attack on the U.S. government’s request for greater access to its software – saying that the FBI’s demands to have a virtual backdoor on its devices is worse than the Chinese government’s demands.  Apple and the U.S. government have become embroiled in the latest privacy debate following a federal judge ordering Apple to assist the FBI in their access of a phone used by a San Bernardino shooter.

In the aftermath of another inverse-whirlwind session in Brussels which has set the date of the UK's EU referendum for June 23, below are comments on the vote from British political and business leaders, courtesy of Reuters:

DAVID CAMERON, BRITISH PRIME MINISTER

"I do not love Brussels. I love Britain. I am the first to say that there are still many ways in which Europe needs to improve – and that the task of reforming Europe does not end with today's agreement.

 

Prime Minister David Cameron has announced plans for an in-out Europe referendum to be held on June 23, 2016.  Amid an emotional plea to the British public to stay in the EU, members of the public and Cabinet Ministers alike have noted that Cameron’s argument for staying in has embarrassingly backfired – saying that upon hearing his speech they are more persuaded to leave.

Many in the markets have seen the worrying analog of 2008 stocks to the current malaise, but for Hillary Clinton, there is a much more horrific deja vu-ness about the collapse in her 'lead' over Bernie...

Real Clear Politics compiles a running average of the polls that come in for 2016, just as it did in 2008.

As The Washington Post reports,

About five months before the New Hampshire primary (which was a month earlier in 2008), Clinton's lead was at about 15.

 

According to Saudi political analyst Dahham Al-‘Anzi, Saudi Arabia has obtained a nuclear bomb. Al-‘Anzi  has told RT’s Arab network that the Saudis acquired the bomb two years ago and that a nuclear test is expected soon.