Johnny Flynn, the 43-year-old actor cast as Lucius Malfoy in HBO's upcoming Harry Potter series, told an interviewer that every private school in Britain should be destroyed, a remark rooted in his own boarding school days but carrying a familiar whiff of elite hypocrisy. Flynn made the comments in an interview with Radio Times while […] The post HBO's new Lucius Malfoy says private schools should be 'burnt to the ground' appeared first on American Almanac .
Johnny Flynn, the 43-year-old actor cast as Lucius Malfoy in HBO's upcoming Harry Potter series, told an interviewer that every private school in Britain should be destroyed, a remark rooted in his own boarding school days but carrying a familiar whiff of elite hypocrisy. Flynn made the comments in an interview with Radio Times while promoting the second season of the Paramount+ crime drama MobLand and discussing his approach to the villainous Malfoy patriarch. The South African-born British actor, who attended the Pilgrims' School, a cathedral school in Winchester, England, on a music scholarship as a young child, described his time there as deeply damaging. He wants the entire institution abolished. Not reformed, not improved, razed. "I…Open
Reported by: Cherry Meigh TimbolNews Content Editor Published August 22, 2026 A newly circulated video featuring a national leader of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) has intensified America’s already heated political divide after remarks [...]
Anthropic just dropped the most granular data yet on who's actually using AI and how — and the findings should rattle anyone thinking AI's gains will be evenly distributed. - It won't. In fact, it's creating a new form of economic inequality: AI fluency. Why it matters: The Anthropic data , out Tuesday, reveals something subtler and more consequential than the "robots take your job" narrative. - The real divide isn't between people who use AI and people who don't. It's between experienced AI users and newcomers to AI. Watch our "Behind the Curtain" YouTube , "The AI Gap." (Executive producer: Jimmy Shelton) ... AI continues to pose a serious risk to any automatable jobs, which Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has warned could wipe out half…
Data: U.S. Commerce Department ; Chart: Jacque Schrag/Axios The United States is experiencing an investment boom from AI and the infrastructure that makes it possible — but much of those economic gains aren't reaching workers. Why it matters: Job openings have become scarce and workers' wages are no longer rising that rapidly. The big picture: That disconnect between strong growth and comparatively anemic results for workers may sound like a unique challenge of 2026, but in fact, it is part of a longer-run phenomenon. - Since the 1980s, the share of national income accruing to labor has fallen markedly, and the share going to capital has risen. - There are technological and structural reasons for this, which the current AI boom looks…