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Informed by impeccable sources that the federal election would be held on 12 April, I booked a holiday to Italy, departing on the 14th. Then...
Who might be the next pope? The question is famously difficult to answer. But we can be reasonably confident that if the successful contender comes...
Sometimes a political backlash doesn’t take the shape you expect. Though there are times when it goes off like a firework, as young men’s TikTok-...
Inspiration on how to beat back authoritarianism is in short supply, but those searching for hope in these dark times might consider Latin America....
Labour won last year’s general election on a promise to reverse the damage done by the previous Conservative governments, offering a politics that...
At next week’s local elections, few will be voting on how their council is run. They will be passing judgment on Keir Starmer, Kemi Badenoch and...
Let me start with a statement that should be obvious: deliberately starving 2 million people – half of whom are children – is indefensible. It is...
To see the true face of Donald Trump, look no further than Ukraine. Laid bare in his handling of that issue are not only his myriad weaknesses, but...
I always knew my parents operated on a different wavelength than most. For one, they are both exceptionally smart. My mother is a former...
War teaches you to believe only in what happens, rather than what is merely said or promised. A day after the “peace talks” in London, which the US...
On 1 April, Brazilian couriers organised a day of action in which thousands of workers engaged in pickets and protests in at least 60 cities, with...
In May 2018, Donald Trump unilaterally withdrew the US from the Iran nuclear deal and reimposed American sanctions that crippled the Iranian...
This is not a happy time to be on the one-nation wing of the Conservative party. The final round of last year’s leadership election was between two...
Enfeebling universities or seizing control is an early chapter in the authoritarian playbook, studied eagerly by the likes of Viktor Orbán in...
Joan Didion entered the fray on the publication of Ernest Hemingway’s unfinished final manuscript in an essay titled Last Words in 1998: “You think...
The Conservative party is braced for a beating in local elections next week and the conversation has already turned to potential pacts with Reform...
In keeping with the humble style of his papacy, Pope Francis did his best to dial down the pomp and ceremony that would mark his passing. In St...
If President Trump invited you to the White House, would you go? This is the question US hacks and other media personalities have been asking...
My cousin Ziyad was too young to die. He was sleeping at home in Khan Younis refugee camp when the bombs fell just before midnight on Friday. After...
Those of us who try to defend wildlife are horribly familiar with bad laws. But we’ve never seen anything like this. The government’s planning and...
Labour has been determined to negotiate a new partnership with the EU. The benefits it could unlock are clear – reducing barriers to trade, driving...
“I am a gay woman who is moderately pro-choice – I know that there are some people in this room who don’t believe that my marriage should have been...
In less than a year, US courts have ruled that the world’s most powerful tech company broke the law – twice. In August, a federal judge in...
The European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, had some tough words for big tech this week, but it seems that at the last minute, the EU...
There is magic in the invention of new towns. Who wouldn’t want to plan out their ideal urban community, like Sim City and its many video game...
When I was 16 I eagerly auditioned for our high school musical, singing a verse and the chorus from the Irene Cara song Flashdance … What a...
Whether you’re into sport or not, there’s wisdom to be mined from it. Once you’ve picked your way through the platitudes, banalities and cliche...
The official commemorations for Australian military personnel who’ve died on the battlefield or whose lives were marred due to war service have...
We might never quite know what Pope Francis said to the US vice-president during their very brief meeting on Sunday. In the widely shared video...
The Finns say “spring comes in swinging” – when winter gives way to spring, and green shoots meet the final flurries of snow, often well into...
Some observers were surprised at the depth of emotion that Anthony Albanese showed when delivering his statement responding to the death of Pope...
In a landmark ruling, the UK supreme court has found that, under the Equality Act 2010, “sex” means biological sex – an unambiguous legal position...
There could hardly be clearer evidence than Donald Trump’s latest attack on Volodymyr Zelenskyy, and the US administration’s last-minute snub of...
A superpower in the fight against global heating is hiding in plain sight. It turns out that the overwhelming majority of people in the world –...
Politicians do not do irony well, especially when they are on the ropes. How else can one understand the Coalition’s invertebrate media release two...
Pope Francis died hours after meeting the US vice-president, JD Vance. If that wasn’t a bad enough omen, the Republican congresswoman Marjorie...
Do you reach for your phone first thing in the morning as soon as you wake up? Me too. Only, for the past week, it’s not my WhatsApp, email or...
An estate on Martha’s Vineyard. A nine-bedroom house in DC. A family home in Chicago. Barack and Michelle Obama own about a gazillion dollars’...
Poor Rachel Reeves. The economy is weak. Government borrowing has just come in higher than expected. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has...
On Anzac Day I like to post on social media a list of birthdates in the national service lotteries from 1965 t0 1972. I do it because the March...
Malcolm and Simone Collins, the pro-natalist couple who are reportedly consulting the Donald Trump administration on how to encourage American...
Pigeons. Appalling things. I looked them up on the bird charity RSPB’s website and snorted when I came across the Where to See section. The answer...
In the grand scheme of things, the deportation of two German teenagers, Charlotte Pohl and Maria Lepere, from Hawaii is not the most alarming thing...
Opinions about the protests this month keep oscillating between two extremes. Optimists point to the larger-than-expected numbers (larger than...
Inflation is, at base, a tax on consumption – and it hits the poor the hardest, since they consume more of their incomes and the rich consume less....
It was a hot day in Texas when I visited in 2018. Hotter still inside the walls of the Eastham Unit, the men’s prison near Huntsville where I spent...
Astrobiology has entered an exciting new phase in recent decades. Since the 1990s, but accelerating in recent years, researchers have begun...
It was entirely predictable that Donald Trump would go after public media in America. Harming the reality-based press – in every form, whether...