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Viktor Orbán’s crushing defeat in last month’s Hungarian election has led to an outbreak of democratic optimism. Across the globe, democrats are...
In the outpouring of community grief that followed Guardian Australia’s story about Bikram Lama, a comment by a colleague really hit home: double...
When my friend, Dina, gave evidence to the royal commission into antisemitism and social cohesion on Tuesday, she made a striking observation. A few...
Some big questions will be asked this weekend – about how Labour fell so far so fast, about when Keir Starmer goes and who takes his place – but...
Angela Rayner, the former deputy prime minister, is the bookmakers’ favourite to be Keir Starmer’s successor. She is also someone who has recently...
How I hate paperwork. Forms to fill, bills to pay, statements to file, receipts to keep, documents documenting things, proving things, explaining...
When it comes to how wealth and high income is taxed in this country, it is not hard to agree with F Scott Fitzgerald’s line that “the rich are...
The surge of the Green party has emphasised an iron rule of British politics: those on the left cannot be treated as legitimate political actors. A...
Strip away the politics, and the climate crisis debate isn’t complicated. We’re changing the planet in ways that are “damaging and dangerous”,...
I don’t mean to vent, but what is up with Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol’s obscenely large compensation package? Niccol, who joined the company in...
Recently, readers have been all a-flutter over the publication of Patrick Radden Keefe’s richly reported new book, London Falling. Reviews of the...
Keir Starmer has neither a heartland nor a stronghold. That is the picture likely to emerge once all the votes in this week’s local and devolved...
The ecological disasters of the US-Israel war with Iran are already bad enough. The noxious smoke from bombed oil facilities, spills in the Gulf’s...
I did not make a submission to the royal commission on antisemitism and social cohesion. That is not because I have nothing to say. It is because I...
For more than a decade, Britain’s acrimonious politics has included a fundamental but often misunderstood battle. Sometimes it is fought out in the...
Once upon a time there was a boy called Baron Trump, who was growing weary of his privileged life at Trump Castle. Then, one fateful day, Baron found...
Some people are naturally drawn to writing – scribbling notes in the margins, jotting poems and little stories, mostly for themselves, sometimes to...
The Reserve Bank of Australia has delivered its third rise in official interest rates for the year, taking the cash rate up another 0.25 percentage...
Ladies, gentlemen, cineastes: our long nightmare is over. The It Ends With Us legal drama has finally Ended With Us. In a first-person-plural...
An event that ruined lives, degraded the citizenship of hundreds of millions, and permanently lowered the status of American women came and went four...
What began as a spat between Friedrich Merz and Donald Trump over the Iran war is rapidly turning into a historic rupture between Germany and the US....
If you’re looking for sound, practical advice on what happens when an elderly parent dies – the so-called “sadmin” – then you shouldn’t...
You never welcome an email from your landlord, or in my case, my landlord’s agent. I happened to be in an airport waiting for a flight when...
Reduce your calories. Eat more vegetables. Limit soft drinks and junk foods. For years, even decades, this has been the advice for those wanting a...
In the summer of 1987, as life in Britain was being steadily reshaped by Margaret Thatcher, I landed a temporary job as an electrician’s mate in a...
The fallout of the Albanese government’s proposed News Bargaining Incentive feels predictable. The tech oligarchs will likely urge Donald Trump to...
“I thought I was never supposed to come off these tablets!” my patient exclaims. “Except when you no longer need them,” I say. His doubt...
As we mark the 81st anniversary of the end of the second world war in Europe this Friday, 8 May, it’s clear that Germany will again soon be the...
All parties struggle to invest local elections with meaning, because no party can alter the consequences of what is coming up to two decades of...
I’m trying to “touch grass” more these days, to embrace embodied experiences and introduce analogue “friction” – and fun! – into my...
Let’s play a fun game of Will This Get Me Deported? The first contestant is myself: a British-Palestinian green card holder in the US. I’ll start...
All told, Democrats already seem as though they’re headed for a great midterm election. Voters already troubled by the state of the economy now have...
As Scotland prepares to elect a new parliament on 7 May, immigration is dominating the political discourse as never before. Reform UK, a party whose...
By some estimates there are almost 3 million pigeons residing in London, which has the highest pigeon population in the country. Known as “rats with...
A feature of living at the end of an era is that some events in the present already feel like future artefacts – things you expect to see in a...
If Donald Trump represents the backlash against the liberalrules-based order, then we may now be seeing the backlash to the backlash. In a recent...
I quickly discovered two important things when recently taking a three week drive over several thousand kilometres in an electric car. The first is...
Mum was kind and gentle in a way that felt so natural. She raised all five of us pretty much on her own after Dad passed away. Those were not easy...
Jewish people are living in fear – a fear that has been building for years but has become acute in recent weeks. It now seeps into every part of...
Republicans rejoiced when far more young voters than expected backed Donald Trump in 2024, with many of them moved by Trump’s grandiose promises,...
In the 1980s, a friend of my father navigated through Europe in a camper van with his family using only the map in the back of a pocket diary. He...
Six supreme court justices handed down a ruling built, ostensibly, on the belief that the US has changed so much as to render the protections of the...
I nearly drove into a wall the other day, because I couldn’t take my eyes off some spectacular wisteria. Ten years ago I doubt I would have even...
A clip from Before Sunrise. A woman joking that she won’t date men with flat heads because their lack of tummy time as babies betrays parental...
In 1997, when I was presenting the Country Hour on the ABC, I was sitting in an outside broadcast van at an agricultural field day in Northern...
Who would you rate as the world’s most unlikeable tech tycoon? Elon Musk is obviously a major contender. The digital warlord Palmer Luckey is also...
“One day, this terrible war will be over. The time will come when we’ll be people again and not just Jews.” I keep coming back to those words...
The so-called “special relationship” between Britain and the United States has never seemed more tenuous. At times, it looks like the US-UK...
During the two-month endurance test that was The Devil Wears Prada 2’s global press tour, Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway hinted that the...
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