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Australians should be appalled by the rise in antisemitism, including arson, vandalism, assaults, abuse and threats. Every person in our country...
After 125 years of practice, Labour ought to be good at saying why resources should be redistributed from the rich to everyone else. Its founding...
I’m a simple girl. My idea of fun is an annual event in which people are crushed in pursuit of half-price Christmas decorations. But those days...
Today will be a hard day for Sydneysider Mirela Muratovic, a survivor of the only recognised genocide in Europe since the end of the second world...
Grok, Elon Musk’s X-integrated AI bot, had a Nazi meltdown on Tuesday. It’s useful to recap it fully, not because the content is varied –...
Good news and bad news for the NHS this week. Waiting lists are falling a bit faster: May’s figures, out yesterday, show the lowest waiting list...
I was born in the year 1964, which means I am exactly on the cusp between boomer and generation X. This is more than a fascinating fact about me –...
Donald Trump’s so-called “big, beautiful bill”, which will eviscerate the living standards, healthcare and aspirations of his white, working-class...
In the global attention economy, one titan looms over all others. Donald Trump can command the gaze of the world at a click of those famously short...
Do no harm, a principle that many associate with the medical practice, has become a fundamental ethical principle of global solidarity the Boycott,...
Before the elections next year, Sweden’s conservative government has been eager to avoid accusations of racism or xenophobia. So it’s unfortunate...
The media were constrained in what they could report during Erin Patterson’s 10-week trial. But after the mushroom trial guilty verdict was handed...
I have watched all six series of Girls at least four times. I watched it as it was castigated for its unlikable characters, lack of diversity,...
One must acknowledge the remarkably effective Jewish community organisations in Australia behind the latest antisemitism report. Collectively, with...
Elon Musk has stepped away from Doge with very little “efficiency” to show for it. While it may have been more of a showpiece than real policy,...
When you attach profit to caring, you create a problem. We don’t need yet another series of reviews and reports to tell us that when you rely on...
Handing down his ruling in the case of racist and antisemitic speech by the Muslim cleric Wissam Haddad earlier this month, Justice Angus Stewart...
To use a football analogy that he might appreciate, the first year of Sir Keir Starmer’s premiership has been a game of two halves. Domestically,...
“All autobiographies are lies,” George Bernard Shaw wrote in 1898. “I do not mean unconscious, unintentional lies: I mean deliberate lies.” The...
Eric Adams, possible resident of New Jersey and mayor of New York City, is a man of many talents. He is the city’s “most famous vegan”, albeit...
For years, human rights campaigners have been calling for safe routes to the UK for asylum seekers to prevent them from taking dangerous journeys...
CNN reported this week that Grok – the AI-powered chatbot on billionaire Elon Musk’s “X/Twitter” platform – has gone Nazi. Unforgivably,...
I love flying. I’ve wanted to be a pilot since I was young. I grew up in Chichester, West Sussex, under a flight path used by Gatwick airport...
When you have a baby, especially if you’re in an antenatal class, or friends or family members have a child of about the same age, there is a...
When it comes to best-practice examples in the housing debate, Vienna is a common reference. Indeed, the Austrian capital features prominently in...
Imagine the furore if a Guardian columnist suggested bombing, say, the Conservative party conference and the Tory stronghold of Arundel in Sussex....
European leaders gathered in Rome on Thursday for a conference on Ukrainian recovery, but endurance remains the priority. Russia has intensified...
The year 2025 should be a time of celebration, marking eight decades of the United Nations’ existence. But it risks going down in history as the...
The Green party leadership election – by far the highest-profile in the party’s history – has largely been seen through the traditional lens of...
Britain, this summer at least, is going ballistic for the biggest bands from back in the day. The jubilance for the coming-back-together of Oasis...
Riding through the southern fringes of the city of Worcester a couple of days ago, I passed a sign with an arrow pointing in the direction of...
In mid-March 2025, I sat quietly in the back of a small, crowded room at the Asian Refugees United center in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, surrounded...
“Benjamin Netanyahu nominates Donald Trump for Nobel peace prize”– that headline seems to have been pulled straight out of the satirical news...
It was only a handful of “middle-class women of a certain age”. That’s how the MasterChef host Gregg Wallace originally dismissed his accusers,...
My first part-time job was in a small continental delicatessen at the Ringwood Market. I worked Friday nights and Saturday mornings and was paid...
In 2022, Liz Truss’s mini-budget collapsed under the weight of its own ideological haste, destroying her government’s credibility in days. Whether...
Wish you were here? In recent years the fate of coastal towns has emerged as one of Britain’s most pressing social issues. Both the fishing and...
If nobody stopped me, I could talk about urban sanitation for hours on end. Unfortunately, somebody (normally my wife) always stops me – usually in...
One consequence of the recent debate on disability benefits should be the acceptance of a shared responsibility across the Labour family to support...
Last month, new figures showed that one in four young people in England have a mental health condition. An unwillingness to examine the challenging...
Following a spate of soft data, financial markets had priced in a near certainty that the Reserve Bank would cut interest rates this week – so it...
The second world war ended with an agreement of coexistence that included the creation of the UN multilateral system and a development model that...
Gilded carriages and royal banquets are not essential tools of modern diplomacy, but nor are they obsolete. In a digital age, when...
Three years ago, in Zurich for the first time, I crossed a bridge over the Limmat River and saw people floating down it in rubber rings on their...
Only a tiny minority of criminal cases in England and Wales are decided by a jury – as few as 1%, once guilty pleas and judge-directed acquittals...