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The most telling moment of Donald Trump’s meeting with Cyril Ramaphosa was not the cynical screening of footage promoting false claims of “white...
Donald Trump’s pledge to end the war in Ukraine on the first day of his second term as US president was a sign of his unsuitability as a peace...
“Courage is seeking the truth and speaking it,” Jean Jaurès, the French philosopher and Socialist party leader, told a group of high school...
On Wednesday, Keir Starmer indicated he may U-turn on last year’s winter fuel payments cuts. The prime minister announced in the Commons that he...
A house divided against itself cannot stand, warned Abraham Lincoln. The United States’ later descent into civil war over slavery would prove...
Whenever I see a signed this or that for sale, I ask myself why anyone would want it. Apart from anything else, unless you were standing next to...
There’s a new formula for punishing women who speak out about abuse by high-profile figures, and it usually goes like this: woman alleges abuse,...
Watching from the western Pacific, we saw many describe Australia’s recent election as a decisive moment for climate and energy policy. If that was...
Sir Keir Starmer’s U-turn on winter fuel payments did not just represent a policy reversal. It was the moment when the prime minister, elected on...
Thirty years after writing Bowling Alone, the famous essay in which he diagnosed a dangerous crisis of social cohesion in the United States, Robert...
Many years ago, as part of a school homework project, I asked my grandparents what the most significant social change had been during their...
On Monday, Israel launched an intensive ground offensive named Operation Gideon’s Chariots as part of its plan to cause as much pain and damage as...
Now, when Israel is executing a “final solution” in Gaza, when it is far too late for dissent to make any difference, the tide is slowly starting...
With Donald Trump pushing hard to give big tax cuts to the rich and do huge favors for crypto billionaires, it was jarring to see a photo of a...
The ghost in my house is called Henry. I only found this out after naming my cat Henry, at which point one of my kids said, “Oh, like the ghost”,...
It’s been a lonely week for the Nats. Personally, I am on Team Split. I think it’s high time they put the grunt back into the country party. Yet,...
The dust is still settling from Donald Trump’s latest “ambush” in the Oval Office. What started off as a series of pleasantries about golf...
The Coalition came unstuck over four policy areas: nuclear power, the $20bn regional Australia future fund, strengthening the universal service...
‘The boys are alt-right.” This seems to be the new consensus on far-right politics propagated in numerous articles and podcasts. But the media’s...
In the outer reaches of the Magasphere, it would be fair to say the advent of the first pope from the US has not been greeted with unbridled...
On Friday, the credit rating of the United States was downgraded. Moody’s, the ratings firm, announced that the government’s rising debt levels...
When we look at what causes poor mental health, we often think of stress, genetics, poverty or loneliness. These are all contributing factors, but...
I have a foolproof way to make millions. It’s a little tricky to execute, but hear me out, OK? Step one: find a time machine. Step two: travel back...
For the last several months, the Trump administration’s reckless use of executive power, trade policy, gutting federal agencies and defying court...
Six months ago, it was a stirring, a mood felt in many workers’ meetings, on picket lines and doorsteps. What started as disappointment in Labour...
The humanitarian situation in Gaza has reached a breaking point, with 2.1 million Palestinians trying to survive human catastrophe on the strip....
The decision by the Reserve Bank to cut rates on Tuesday was welcome and well overdue. While all signs point to more rates cuts to come,...
When the pandemic hit in early 2020, organizations pivoted overnight to remote and hybrid models to survive. Nearly five years later, Amazon,...
You might hear the clink of bottles into recycling bins this morning, the sounds of Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours pumping out of a tinny phone speaker...
Nineteen months on from the 7 October Hamas attacks and the war in Gaza, Israel is under a new wave of international pressure and increasingly...
Amid the controversy around Gary Lineker’s exit from the BBC, a couple of points need making, entirely unrelated to the circumstances of his...
Ask any one of the 187 female Labour MPs whether they would have made it to the House of Commons without an education and you would probably get...
The UN humanitarian chief Tom Fletcher fears that thousands of babies are at imminent risk of death in Gaza unless aid reaches them. Benjamin...
The artificial intelligence (AI) giant OpenAI recently announced that its ChatGPT platform now provides free image generation, prompting an online...
On 21 April 2019, I was on Waterloo Bridge in London with my younger siblings. Around us were planters full of flowers where there were once cars,...
When you book your kid on a university open day, places tend to have a pretty strict specification: no more than one guest. Me and the middle teen...
To Cannes, in the country of France, where last night Jeff Bezos’s fiancee, Lauren Sánchez, got what she deserves: a philanthropy award. Lauren was...
“Every minute of your delay costs me money,” a patient grumbles, brandishing a parking ticket. “I am sorry,” I sympathise. “Let’s finish...