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When the anniversary comes, later this month, few will be in the mood to look back. All the political talk will be of the Makerfield byelection, of...
Last month the foreign minister, Penny Wong, called Israeli soldiers’ actions in relation to the Gaza humanitarian flotilla “shocking and...
If the country seems to be slipping away from reason and trust in science, blame usually falls on modern phenomena such as social media and its...
The Department of Justice’s civil rights division was once known as the crown jewel of the agency, but under Trump it has become just another tool...
Which murder victim’s ambulance does the would-be statesman chase? Can you be said to “speak for England” if there are other times you wimp out...
Modern roads in the United States will last for decades. And yet the damage they cause in our national forests is immediate. Since 2001, the Roadless...
The end of the 60 Minutes broadcast as we know it has sickened millions of longtime viewers, colleagues, and all of us who are offended and threatened...
Congress is considering legislation that would embed Israel’s military deeply within the US military-industrial complex. Stunned by the cratering of...
For Jilly Cooper devotees – a motley band that unites me with Queen Camilla and Joanna Lumley, Ian Rankin and ex-footballer Tony Adams – it has...
Bring your suitcase, your bin liner, your dumpy bag. They’re handing out money faster than you can stuff it in a sack. All you need do is join the...
Emma Webber brought one of her son’s old T-shirts to the hearings into how he died. Holding on to Barney’s clothes is comforting, as is sometimes...
For 16 years, Viktor Orbán’s government poured millions of euros of public money into thinktanks, institutions and media outlets sympathetic to its...
This week the British government banned Hasan Piker and Cenk Uygur, two leftwing US commentators with millions of followers, from entering the country...
In August 1967, the activist Stokely Carmichael was banned from entering Britain. An ally of Martin Luther King Jr and head of the Student Nonviolent...
I am not, by nature, an early adopter. There comes a point in our lives where change becomes more irritating than exciting and, I suspect, I reached...
The US-Iran ceasefire is entering yet another round of escalation since it came into effect on 8 April. This week, there have been further strikes on...
Like you, I was horrified when I watched the video of Henry Nowak’s death. I cannot imagine what his family are going through. He was 18 years old....
Journalism is supposed to speak truth to power, as when Walter Cronkite reported, on the CBS airwaves, that the Vietnam war was not progressing as the...
Doom is the prefix du jour. Doomscrolling, doomposting, doomsplaining, doomspreading. Doom joins other recent suffixes -maxxing, -pilled, and -slop...
The first I knew of Rebekah Vardy was when she appeared after more dots than anybody has ever used before, in the whodunnit denouement of Wagatha...
In case you’re not familiar with the concept of the K-shaped economy, it’s an important idea that captures a lot about Trump’s America. Wealthy...
A strong contender for the most satisfying TV clip of the year comes from a recent interview by Oprah Winfrey with the writer Belle Burden, whose...
Imagine a future in which everyone enjoys high levels of wellbeing; where 90% of the world’s population doubles their income but works half the...
Now half term is over, let’s have a quick quiz. Reading these lines, can you spot the common theme? Westminster has been mesmerised this week by the...
Australia’s right-wing populist One Nation party is enjoying a well-publicised poll bump, so it’s time to talk horror movies. We’ll employ our...
Rosamund Pike probably lost a fan last weekend, while simultaneously gaining many more. The secret texter she called out without identifying...
Nine times. As Henry Nowak lay dying in handcuffs, he told police officers that he could not breathe nine times. To recount his final moments: last...
The March GDP figures, not for the first time, showed that the focus on economic growth seems rather foolish when you place it within the context of...
A local row about swimmers and swans in Hampstead Heath has now inspired a government reaction. Environment ministers over the weekend wrote to the...
The line of New Jersey state police blocked every exit on the street. Clear plastic riot shields covered helmet to knee. A few dozen people were stuck...
God, I love paying high prices at the supermarket, don’t you? I walk outside with a bag of basics that cost approximately 500% more than they did a...
Do you remember the early 2000s, when Silicon Valley buzzed with idealism and tech bros told us they were going to save the world? “Don’t be...
Britain is much closer to tyranny than you think. Consider a recent social post by Zia Yusuf, one of Reform UK’s leading figures. “Recent events...
What happens next? Will Andy Burnham win the Makerfield byelection? Will Keir Starmer fight on? Will Wes Streeting run? After that, can Reform win the...
Andy Burnham’s stint as health secretary in the final year of Gordon Brown’s government was not especially memorable, although one observation...
Russia’s war on Ukraine is now in its fifth year and a ceasefire remains elusive. The US’s attention is divided, limiting external pressure for...
For those Australians thinking of voting One Nation, Pauline Hanson is their wrecking ball and truth teller. One of the big conversation points among...
The Shangri-La Dialogue, held in Singapore at the weekend, is a little bit like Christmas for security boys. There’s lots of big talk – of great...
When Matthew Wale won a parliamentary vote to become Solomon Islands’ prime minister last month, the questions came quickly: What does this mean for...
The video of the murder of 18-year-old Henry Nowak at the hands of Vickrum Digwa in Southampton is horrifying. But Nigel Farage’s decision to...
The next governor of deep-blue California will almost certainly be a Democrat. But what kind of Democrat? The establishment favorite for overseeing...
We are in the TL;DR days of Keir Starmer’s government. The latest Mandelson files stimulate nothing so much as an old and now immortally memed...
At Delaney Hall, an ICE detention camp for captured immigrants in Newark, New Jersey, operated privately by the for-profit contractor Geo Group, the...
Do you ever get the feeling that the people running the world are delulu? That the 1% are living in a completely different universe from the rest of...
On a day as hot as hell last week, the only thing I had left to take off without causing offence was my fringe. So I went into a barber and asked him...
Donald Trump called me “crooked as hell” as he spread lies about the fraud that occurred in Minnesota. Any keen observer will recognize the...
“Wouldn’t it be great if Tony Blair kept his mouth shut about the Labour party?” Readers may have cheered that Guardian letter-writer’s...
Should politics always be dominated by economics? Should questions about how governments and voters pay for things – whether by earnings, taxes or...
Wars, these days, target digital infrastructure as well as military installations. The very fact that large chunks of daily life can be knocked out...
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