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The last time Mary Bokassa saw her 14-year-old son alive was around lunchtime, on his first day back to school after Christmas. She had no way of...
We’re supposed to believe that it was about a job interview. On Tuesday, President-elect Donald Trump spoke on the phone with the supreme court...
The news that Donald Trump Jr was about to visit Nuuk felt like a flashback to almost six years ago, when his father, Donald Trump, famously...
Even more than other forms of politics, populism needs an audience. Populist politicians want to be famous personalities, to make attention-getting...
‘Guess how much this was,” I say to my partner mischievously, revealing with relish the latest toy I’ve found for our youngest son. It’s...
As the Los Angeles wildfires rage, we are watching a disaster unfold in real time. We knew this would happen eventually. We have moved from...
The worst-timed foreign visit by a politician this week was LA mayor Karen Bass deciding to attend the inauguration of the president of Ghana. The...
When I feel uncertain, I find it’s helpful to write down things I know to be true. Fossil fuels are causing irreversible planetary overheating....
Mick Lynch is the trade union icon who nearly wasn’t. Leaving school at 16 to train as an apprentice electrician, he worked in construction until...
This week Meta announced the elimination of its factchecking program in the US and rollbacks to content moderation policies on “hateful...
The language in a New York Times article was extremely restrained as it described Jeff Bezos’s evolving stance regarding Donald Trump. The Amazon...
Another day, another pledge from the government to smash the people-smuggling gangs. The foreign secretary, David Lammy, has lined up alongside the...
Imagine a politician fighting a general election being granted the opportunity of a publicly livestreamed chat with one of the most powerful...
Flood the zone with shit. So advised Steve Bannon, onetime chief strategist for Donald Trump, who understood long ago that if you want to get away...
Donald Trump will take the office on 20 January 2025 as a convicted felon. On Thursday night, a sharply divided US supreme court declined to ride...
The wildfires ravaging Los Angeles have killed at least 10 people, displaced 180,000 and scorched about 40 square miles – an inferno driven by...
A persuasive case can be made that Magnus Carlsen is the greatest chess player of all time. The 34-year‑old Norwegian is no longer world champion...
What, as they say, is Elon Musk’s deal? There will be a lot of justifiably righteous commentary about his hijacking of the debate around sexually...
Gaie Delap will turn 78 on Friday, in Eastwood Park prison, Gloucestershire. Sentenced to 20 months last August for climbing a gantry over the M25...
They can smell the fear. And they are thrilled by what they can smell. Fanned by a mesmerised media at home and abroad, the thrill excites them...
Heavy with honours, attended by all living US presidents, and swathed in public affection, Jimmy Carter received a solemn state funeral on...
Things can only get worse, as Musk-Trumpery continues to invade British politics. The outrageous smears and falsehoods – Elon Musk posted 200 times...
With so many economic and political challenges looming, the EU nevertheless began 2025 with a little bit of its old magic and a reminder that...
There was a moment, during the long, strange summer of 2020, when it felt like Covid might reshape London, as it seemed set to change so much else....
I was part of a miserable incident on a bus. This was one evening just before Christmas and I had somewhere to be. As I got on, the driver was...
If the US wants to achieve economic growth, empower the best talent and have a fair and just society for all, it must embrace diversity, equity and...
The fires raging in and around Malibu are huge, and they’re terrible, and they’re also the latest in a series of catastrophic fires in Los...
The problem with worrying about megalomaniacs on the web and wildfires in Los Angeles is that we have been distracted from the very real plight of...
I’m not made for heatwaves. If my DNA could talk, it would tell me about how it still dreams of the windswept Scottish island that was home to my...
Inquiries into institutional failures are a vital element in public life. These have three broad purposes, the first of which is finding out the...
Forgive me, I know it’s judgmental, but when I first came across the internet’s latest buzz phrase, “sleep divorce”, the name for happy...
Anthony Albanese is up in arms over some absolutely un-Australian behaviour he’s seen on a Facebook group. People, he’s discovered, own beach...
It’s summer in Australia and that means many of us head out of the city and off to a remote camping site, where the night sky shines bright with...
In the absence of action, politicians can only be judged on their words. This is the perennial problem for opposition parties – how to persuade...
As I returned to work after the Christmas holidays, I checked in on how the economy was going and was rather startled to read the headline “Panic...
How do you do, fellow humans? My name is Arwa and I am a genuine member of the species homo sapiens. We’re talking a 100% flesh-and-blood person...
In January 1946, the foreign secretary, Ernest Bevin, stared into the geopolitical fog. The second world war had only just ended. The cold war,...
Mark Zuckerberg famously boasted that Facebook had a saying: “Move fast and break things”. His product has not just destroyed industry models but...
The House of Commons is built for confrontation, with rows of benches facing each other across an aisle. When the original Victorian chamber was...
When Elon Musk endorsed the far-right Alternative für Deutschland on X as the only party that could “save Germany”, followed by an opinion...
Elon Musk repeatedly asserts, without evidence, that the British prime minister, Keir Starmer, covered up the abuses of young girls by gangs...
I once asked Jean-Marie Le Pen, during 1992 regional elections, about the National Front’s (FN) slogan Quand nous arriverons, ils partiront,...
Mark Zuckerberg seems to have gone full Maga. Just two weeks before Donald Trump assumes power over the world’s most powerful government, the CEO...
What’s the best bit of advice you’ve ever had? It’s a common question to lob in at the end of an interview. I mean the kind of interview you...
There is a paradox to being 20 metres under the ocean. It is a place of calm and wonderment. I am immersed in a foreign world, with a new watery...
I first met President Jimmy Carter at a sports bar in 1996 at the Atlanta Olympics. I was interning for the Carter Center in the same summer class...
For decades, we’ve been told that the modern workplace is a playground of freedom and choice. Flexibility, agility and autonomy have become buzz...
A few years ago, I started looking at the underside of logs and it changed my life. I found a secret carnival of the most bodacious and interesting...
The cost of UK government borrowing is higher than it has been since just before the global financial crisis of 2008. The yield on five-year gilts...
Justin Welby’s last day in post as archbishop of Canterbury, on Monday, was spent privately at Lambeth Palace where he attended two services on...
Social media has always acted as something of a funhouse mirror to society as a whole. The algorithms and amplifications of an always-online...
Can it really be three weeks ago that Nigel Farage and Elon Musk were posing adoringly at Mar-a-Lago, in front of that hilariously naff painting of...
Will democracy survive a second Trump presidency? A change of senior personnel at a social media company involving a former British deputy prime...
Recently, John Healey, the relatively new defence secretary, made a personal confession. He told how his son’s current military service “plays on...
What’s the right age to realise new year’s resolutions are trash that won’t last until February? By about 12 years old, the data should be in:...
My brother held his phone up to my ear. “You’re gonna find this creepy,” he warned. An Instagram reel showing a teenage boy at a rally featured...
In the discombobulation of postpartum, reassurance is what all new mothers need. When sleep deprived and aching, when doubt spirals are common and...
The three largest democracies in the history of the world will soon be ruled by intolerant authoritarians who leveraged celebrity and social media...
For me, becoming a mother was an experience as disorienting and confusing as moving to a new country. I had to learn new behaviours and customs as...
There’s something spectacular happening in movies and television at the moment and it’s not a superhero fight sequence or a motorcycle stunt off...
The Oxford English Dictionary defines a gaffe as a “blunder, an instance of clumsy stupidity, a ‘faux pas’”. It evokes a sense of triviality...
Justin Trudeau has announced he will step down as Canadian prime minister after his successor is chosen, probably by the end of March. Trudeau says...
The new year has commenced as bleakly as the last one concluded in Gaza. As December came to an end, the UN announced that the healthcare system...
Reader, I was wrong. So terribly wrong. It pains me to admit this but, back in the distant past (last year), I wrote some very nasty things about...
As Joe Biden prepares to leave office, he has a chance to do something singularly honorable in the name of American justice and basic human rights....
Look up, despite the bleak midwinter, the flu crisis and this dismal mood of political cynicism. Despite, too, the daily doom that pumps out of the...
On Monday, Sir Keir Starmer rightly defended robust debate but insisted it “must be grounded in facts, not lies”, in response to Elon Musk’s...
By kicking off the first full week of 2025 with a speech in which he called the NHS the “cornerstone” of his government’s plan to rebuild...