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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...
Four people have joined the tiny percentage of humans who can say they have come back to Earth with a bump, literally. Welcome home, Artemis II crew:...
Donald Trump is not a big believer in alliances or the mutuality principle. Life for him is a zero-sum game of winners and losers. That’s the...
I never ate at Oxley’s on the River; the restaurant that hung weightless over the Brisbane River on a web of poles like it was floating. But if you...
You’ve probably heard of the Barbra Streisand effect: the phenomenon where attempts to censor information end up drawing more attention to it. Now...
Trump threatened to commit genocide and Iran came to the table. A little threat – plus the deaths of thousands of Iranians and 13 Americans, the...
Donald Trump has hung nine glowering portraits of himself throughout the White House, each one projecting a variation on the theme of intimidation....
The 2020s has seen a revival of the “Apollo spirit”. The US and China are seemingly in a race to send humans to the moon by the end of the decade...
When wages have stalled for nearly 20 years and I recently came face to face with a tube of toothpaste that was nearly £7 in my local Sainsbury’s,...
Imagine your house is on fire, and when you dial 999 the call handler suggests you try putting the blaze out yourself. Resources are tight, you see,...
In the second week of March, the nature vlogger Ilie Cojocari went out to film the arrival of spring on the Nistru (Dniester) river, 70 metres away...
It is a record of abject failure. I am not speaking of Donald Trump, though I could be. Instead, I am talking about his partner in this terrible war....
On 29 November 1781, Capt Luke Collingwood faced a decision. He was in command of a ship called the Zong, which departed Accra with 442 Africans to be...
Ben Roberts-Smith has been charged with war crimes. Good for Australia, in a world where the greatest war criminals go scot-free, (if that phrase is...
“Security, will you let me in your pub?” pleads Amy Taylor in the opening lines of the song Security. “I’m not looking for trouble, I’m...
Yes, the world is getting hotter, and yes, Britain should produce more renewable energy. But what should be the price of that principle? The Cambrian...
Were you bullied as a child? If so, congratulations. You are probably pretty interesting, or maybe you have an extreme body odor problem. Either way,...
The president of the United States threatened this week to commit genocide against Iran. As Israel engages in continued bombing in Lebanon, killing...
With his jawline firm and his hair coiffed, Pete Hegseth was a good fit as a Fox News personality. As the defense secretary – or Secretary of War,...
The joke on the internet asks: “What are the seven most terrifying words in the English language?” The answer: “Ronan Farrow’s been asking...
What’s the off-ramp? When I ask one of the negotiating team close to the health secretary, the bleak answer is, “I don’t know.” Resident...
Does life, of late, feel just too easy? Are you keen to make it harder than it already is? If that sounds like a genuinely demented question in the...
On Sunday, Hungarians will go to the polls to decide on their country’s direction for the next four years in an election that looks as if it will be...
Occasionally the Murdoch commentator Andrew Bolt defies the party line. In 2021 he said News Corp Australia’s editorial campaign for net zero...
When Pakistan’s prime minister, Shehbaz Sharif, announced that the US and Iran, along with their allies, had agreed to an immediate ceasefire on...
Britain has been buffeted by crises for nearly two decades now. And from the 2008 financial crash, through austerity, to Brexit, Covid, the Ukraine...
Avowed ukulele lover George Harrison once wrote in a note to a friend “Everyone I know who is into the ukulele is ‘crackers’... you can’t play...
An hour before Trump said he’d cause the death of a “whole civilization” if Iran didn’t open the strait of Hormuz, an Iranian official said...
A harrowing recent ProPublica report tells the stories of two Black women in Florida who were forced to have cesarean sections despite clearly stating...
The British state has form on food security. It ignores it until there’s a crisis – and then it’s forced to do rapidly what could have been done...
Ed Miliband is facing a dilemma, apparently. Reform UK is suggesting new oil and gas licences in the North Sea as a way to cut fuel bills and...
On 23 June 2016, the British voter changed. Before that day, they picked a party, usually red or blue. By that morning, only two tribes mattered:...
Europeans are on what might be called “a journey” when it comes to the US-Israel war against Iran, now apparently in a ceasefire after Donald...
When a madman calls out your name you have two choices – pretend you didn’t hear him and hide, or try to reason; explain he had you confused with...
Donald Trump styles himself as a peerless tough guy who never backs down. But he doesn’t always make good on his threats. Consider his demand that...
Easter weekend marked one of the most intense moments so far of Israel’s war on Lebanon. At around 2pm on Sunday, the Israel Defense Forces bombed a...
I was sitting with Mrs Patmore from Downton Abbey in my car outside Langley station in Berkshire. This wasn’t a dream – this was real. To be fair,...
The ceasefire announcement between the US and Iran has been met with understandable relief. Talks are now set to take place in Islamabad on Friday,...
As I write this, I sigh and realise that despite the president of the United States dropping his threats to commit war crimes and destroy Iranian...
There are few things which reveal the worst instincts in Australian politics more clearly than accusations of war crimes. And this is on full display...
A corollary of the truism “don’t sweat the small stuff” is, by implication, “do sweat the big stuff”, but it can be hard to pick which big...
Saint-Denis is just over 9km from the centre of Paris but is in the poorest department in all of metropolitan France, a region marked by unemployment,...
Gas has topped $4 a gallon for the first time since 2022. The president’s approval rating just fell below 40%. The war in Iran is entering its sixth...
The seafood industry is trying to tackle a slippery problem: the US has never developed a taste for fish. Americans will eat canned cheese product and...
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