What the most narcissistic resignation letter of all REALLY reveals: MAUREEN CALLAHAN mercilessly skewers Claudine Gay's self-pitying farewell to Harvard… where hilariously, she's the REAL victim cruelly dethroned by bigots

Claudine Gay may have resigned, but that doesn't mean she's sorry. The resignation letter she released Tuesday afternoon is a doozy. Truly, it's one for the books, lengthy and self-pitying and utterly shameless, signed by Gay herself - sans irony - as the sole author! Really: Are we to believe she wrote this on her own? Then again, this sayonara is so unoriginal, so predictable in its grievances, it's quite possible. Let's start with the subject line: 'Personal News'. Is it? Is it really 'personal news' when you have been making national headlines for months and dragging the world's top university down with you, first for failing to condemn antisemitism before Congress, then over well-founded accusations of plagiarism, then for a cover-up orchestrated on your behalf by Harvard Corporation, and then for six more instances of plagiarism emerging the morning of your resignation? Most would agree that this story is bigger than Claudine Gay. Except, that is, for Claudine Gay.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12920131/claudine-gay-harvard-resignation-maureen-callahan.html

Why 2024 could be the year of the despots:

ANDREW NEIL reveals what Putin, Xi Jinping and Kim Jong Un’s New Year threats and the West’s woeful leadership crisis REALLY mean

ANDREW NEIL: Even though there will be votes in over 60 countries, 2024 is more likely to be a year of crisis for democracy, which is in greater peril than at any time since the Cold War, perhaps even since the 1930s. Far from this being the Year of Democracy, there is a graver danger it will turn out to be the Year of the Despots. For a start, some of the elections scheduled for 2024 will be neither free nor fair. Who can doubt president Vladimir Putin will be swept back to power in the Kremlin, whatever Russian voters really think? China's President Xi Jinping is rattling his sabres, too, upping the rhetoric against Taiwan, whose 'reunification' with China, forcibly if necessary, he claims is a 'historic inevitability'. Even North Korea's dictator, the ridiculous and rotund Kim Jong Un, is getting in on the act, threatening this week to 'thoroughly annihilate' America and warning that war could 'break out at any time on the Korean peninsula'.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-12920515/ANDREW-NEIL-Putin-Xi-Kim-New-Year-threats-Wests-2024-year-despots.html