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This morning, over breakfast, in the course of discussing the week’s news, I happened to say the word “Coachella” in front of my two scornful...
Wanted: politician capable of appealing to the moderate right, centre and moderate left to beat hard-right populist Jordan Bardella in the run-off of...
I am a proud Jewish-American. My father fled Poland in 1921 to escape poverty and antisemitism. Those in his family who stayed were murdered by the...
It’s fair to say that the UK will change after the elections on 7 May. But few places will change as thoroughly as Wales. The polls suggest that...
The IMF’s latest World Economic Outlook has forced it to admit that things have changed since its previous update in January when it blissfully...
If you’ve never seen Jim Carrey’s 2007 psychological thriller The Number 23, then congratulations. It is a film about a man who sees the number 23...
Hungary’s election delivered an unprecedented victory for Viktor Orbán’s challenger. With a record turnout of nearly 80% and a supermajority for...
What an admission. “The threat of terrorism” from the Middle East, an influential US columnist wrote a fortnight ago, “was a consequence of...
Since returning to office, Donald Trump has issued more than 1,800 pardons – to financial fraudsters, drug kingpins, January 6 insurrectionists and...
Poor persecuted Donald Trump has frequently portrayed himself as a modern messiah. Some of his supporters, meanwhile, have compared him directly to...
Today, we have more income and wealth inequality than ever before. New York City’s average household income is $131,000. Without extreme inequality,...
The strongest men I’ve known didn’t behave anything like Donald Trump. They were capable of restraint, first off. They may have spoken loudly, but...
In opposition, Keir Starmer pushed Brexit to the margin of debate. In government, he has learned that Europe is central to Britain’s interests...
“All you need is a five-minute spot on a morning TV show,” a colleague told me recently. “Then everyone will buy your novel.” I tried to...
By labelling migrants “self-serving”, Angus Taylor has shown himself and his party to be exactly that. Desperate to pander to voters deserting to...
“Historic” is an adjective used too often these days, at the risk of trivialising the word and diluting its substance. But Sunday’s Hungarian...
The slow, weeks-long reckoning that followed my son’s birth three months ago was something no book had prepared me for. What crept up on me was a...
Teenagers these days, eh? Instead of having unprotected sex and popping out babies, they’re wasting their time on TikTok, or something. According to...
To be in Budapest last Sunday evening was to see history again being made on the Danube. As rapturous crowds gathered on the riverbank opposite the...
I never thought I’d have to write these words but here I am: my name is Peter and I am human. What seems like a self-evident proclamation needs to...
You hear such a lot from Maga Republicans about how liberals think Trump voters are stupid. But not nearly enough about the far more salient point:...
Because of the way they are trained, large language models capture only a slice of human language. They’re trained on the written word, from...
The Trump administration, dominated by religious anti-abortion conservatives and reeling in money from a new wave of pronatalist tech reactionaries,...
When the Democratic party’s governing body adjourned its meeting on Saturday in New Orleans, supporters of Palestine and an end of the genocide in...
An army dude once told me, “A speech should be like a lady’s skirt: short enough to be interesting, long enough to cover the main points”, and I...
It has never been worse for Labour, at least according to the polls. Some now place it as the fourth party of British politics. The impending local...
The forces of darkness rolled back on Sunday. The mighty combined power of Vladimir Putin’s Russia and Donald Trump’s America were defeated in...
Some Australians might agree in principle with much of Angus Taylor’s recent speech on immigration. Few, for example, would object to the Australian...
Up in the driver’s seat of a lime green CLAAS tractor, a young man called Dylan told me he was the second tractor to arrive on O’Connell Street,...
Even for Afghans like me, the details of what some of Australia’s SAS soldiers had been accused of in Afghanistan came to light very late. They only...
Not our war, not our problem. For weeks now, that has been Europe’s increasingly confident position on the conflict in Iran: that it didn’t ask...
Donald Trump was quick to declare victory over Iran, but this weekend’s negotiations suggest that Tehran has the upper hand. His war of choice has...
The most awkward thing to happen when King Charles visited President Nixon as a young man – it was 1970, the then-prince was 21 – was that...
That funny feeling is back – the one many of us felt at the start of the Covid pandemic, where we had to absorb and accommodate things that once...
Four people are sleeping 19,000 miles from the moon when the voice of Apollo 13’s commander arrives. “Hello, Artemis II. This is Apollo astronaut...
I used to post an awful lot on Twitter. I couldn’t tell you how many times a day exactly – but after discovering the platform in late 2010, I...
There’s money to be made in California this spring, no startup pitch or buzzy screenplay required. Instead, signatures are one of the state’s most...
How bad are secrets in a relationship? That’s what I’ve been wondering ever since I saw The Drama, the slightly silly if slickly entertaining...
We’ve shown that even entrenched illiberal regimes are not invincible Programme director of the CEU Democracy Institute, and author of Tainted...
Much remains unclear about the significance and durability of the two-week pause in the US and Israel’s war on Iran. But one aspect of the conflict...
Why has it taken so long for us to treat misogyny as a political problem? The modern manosphere has been metastasising for many years – and for...
It’s always heartening when people agree with you. I had Keir Starmer down as a non-ideological technocratic centrist dad the moment I first clocked...
The war on Iran, which may still be a long way from over, has triggered an energy challenge that highlights the world’s collective failure to face...
Christine’s* friends and family had been pillars of support after her cancer diagnosis. Her community responded quickly and consistently while she...
It’s noisy outside. I forget over winter how loud the garden gets when the imperatives of shagging, fighting for territory, then raising babies...
Resistance, in physics, is the force that hinders the flow of charged electrons as they zigzag from point to point. Resistance doesn’t stop the flow...
The United States is being murdered, and it’s an inside job. Every department, every branch, every bureau and function of the federal government is...
It will be a definitive moment for King Charles III and the British monarchy. And for better or worse, it could help salvage UK-US relations after...
No, the world isn’t going to hell in a handcart. But yes, a good many items are being stolen – in plain view, with apparent impunity – from the...
Does having children make you happier? Apparently not, according to a new study published in Evolutionary Psychology which, despite involving more...
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