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How much gambling do you want in your high street? Are you happy with all the betting shops, the problems they cause, the effect on your environment?...
History has shown us how much dictators and aspiring dictators love building monuments to themselves. They enjoy reminding the world that they can do...
I wrote my first column for Guardian Australia in August 2016, when the winds of chaos were sweeping the globe, the forces of division were finding...
I gave birth to a second child a few months ago. I don’t think I will ever get over the fact that this is the way people come into the world. It’s...
In anticipation of the coming school year, the president of Tuskegee University, Dr Mark A Brown, sent welcome letters to students and their parents...
Disturbing news about our water resources is now constant and unrelenting. In just the past few weeks, media have reported that Puerto Rico is...
It is fashionable in certain circles to dismiss the catastrophic risks of AI. One often hears that “the real experts” who work on the technology...
In one of the most poignant vox pops I ever did, I wasn’t even looking for Neets, AKA young people who aren’t in education, employment or...
“This is based on what I feel.” That was the president last September, explaining why he wanted the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine...
Before most people have finished their morning coffee, an MP’s staffer might have already dealt with a suicidal caller, a victim of domestic abuse...
Andy Burnham is off on his travels this week, aiming to reconnect No 10 and the government with voters and communities across the UK. But just weeks...
When you go to the dentist, what do you expect? That they will check your teeth, see if you need any fillings, give you some advice on oral hygiene?...
The UK could be forgiven if, like Brenda from Bristol, it feels it has had too much politics of late. The long death rattle of the Starmer government...
The other day, I made a mistake at work. It was the end of a long day. I had already run an outpatient cancer clinic with dozens of unwell patients...
Western media outlets cannot seem to get enough of Gadi Eisenkot. Israel’s former military chief and the leader of the newly formed Yashar party has...
Andy Burnham is going on a “listening tour”, travelling the country on a bus to find out what real people are concerned about. I’ve heard...
Recently I found myself thinking about slug-like aliens that crawl through people’s ears and into their brains, with the ultimate purpose of global...
In healthcare, there’s growing concern over doctors becoming less clinically adept as they increasingly rely on AI tools. But what about the...
In January 2015, Tommy Nicol told his family that he was suffering “psychological torture of a person who is doing 99 years”. Nicol had been given...
Strapped up in his navy suit, blue tie and charmingly nerdy glasses, Andy Burnham entered No 10 newly appointed as our fifth prime minister in four...
I sent my first postcard, as a six-year old, to Olympian Mary Lou Retton, who returned an autographed black and white photo of herself in a wide smile...
One of the greatest failures of my life to date (along with my sons’ shameful inability to eat apples correctly, down to the core) is my inability...
Like the rest of us, Anthony Fauci is far from perfect. His influential guidance, as the country’s top infectious-disease specialist during the...
The biggest sales of poetry since records began are expected this year. The reason? The movies, of course. UK print sales of The Odyssey increased by...
Abdul El-Sayed’s win in the Michigan Senate primary was a historic breakthrough. Not only because he is a Muslim son of immigrants who broke with...
It’s remarkable how much of modern life can seem designed to wear us down. Every “sale” seems to come with an asterisk. Consumer contracts often...
As a child, I was taught we are inherently unworthy of God’s love. “Forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us,” I...
Amid headlines about the UK’s drought, Europe’s wildfires and impossible global temperatures, it was 28C when I arrived in Slough last Monday. I...
Debates on the left are typically framed as a division between moderates and progressives, with the two sides wrestling over how best to form a...
As the new season of Ted Lasso started, I was reminded of one of the show’s stranger storylines. When Dani “Football is life!” Rojas gets...
Er, excuse me. Hello? I’m sorry, but would you mind taking your … I SAID, WOULD YOU MIND TAKING THOSE EARPHONES OUT FOR A SECOND, PLEASE? I try,...
Readers of a certain age will recall the Hogan’s Heroes TV series with affection and the implausibility of the Sergeant Schultz defence: “I know...
Robert F Kennedy Jr’s new cooking show isn’t the only big news out of the public health world this week. On Wednesday, Dr Erica Schwartz was...
Imagine what would happen if a British prime minister in London told the Scots they could not have their own parliament, national football team or fly...
What job in our world is less lucrative than being a parent? A Hollywood internship? Volunteering at a soup kitchen? Professional writer? Parenting is...
Europe is burning. This summer, an unprecedented series of heatwaves has swept through the continent and across many parts of the globe. The...
The night belongs to Lime bikes in the capital this summer. Buses and tube carriages are boiling, cars crawl between low traffic neighbourhoods and...
The Keminaissance will be delayed. For nearly a year, Conservative optimists and a clutch of supportive pundits have been forecasting an upturn in the...
Stand down Stacey Solomon; hush, quiet luxury: mess is back, though in this household, and I suspect many others, it never went away. “Messiness in...
The Australian Bureau of Statistics reported last month that the marriage rate is declining. As someone who champions marriage, is married and thinks...
When I started my training in 1980, we accepted an arithmetic that would now be indefensible. Central lines, the catheters we threaded into the great...
When my late wife Jo Cox was killed by a far-right extremist 10 years ago, the phrase “more in common”, taken from her maiden speech in...
The Trump administration is waging an unprecedented war on institutions devoted to research and higher learning. While plenty of countries have harmed...
It is unbelievable: unconscionable. Westminster Council is moving against “vertical drinking” in pubs, starting with Soho. It claims drinking...
It is rare for people to drop dead holding the incriminating packaging, but there is no longer any serious doubt that consuming a diet of...
Something is afoot. The bookies can feel it. “Badenoch overtakes Farage as favourite to be next prime minister,” was the word from betting website...
The population of Firminy, south-east France, has been dwindling for decades. Its recent history is one of factory closures in a region built by...
Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk predicted in July that legions of AI-powered robots would dominate the physical world and that AI might not take...
On the third day of being in labour with my first child, I entered a new state of being. It was time to dig deep. This is what I had learned in all...
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