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Elon Musk said on Joe Rogan’s show last week that social security is “the biggest Ponzi scheme of all time”. Rubbish. In a Ponzi scheme, a con...
After US vice-president JD Vance’s speech in Munich last month, most European leaders came to the conclusion that our world has fundamentally...
So there are two studies, one commissioned by Weetabix, one by the UN, but we don’t need to decide which one is likely to be the more reliable...
The waiting. The constant checking of media sites. Cross-checking against multiple sources as to not get caught out – again. I am hardened to the...
On my 30th birthday an old – and much older – friend said to me, with feeling: “I tell you, son, 30 to 40 goes by in the blink of an eye.”...
Keir Starmer, it turns out, is at his best in a crisis. He has faced two since he became prime minister last year, one domestic, the other...
In February 1945, three world leaders – Winston Churchill, Franklin D Roosevelt and Josef Stalin – met in Crimea for the Yalta conference, to...
In 1994, I joined a march protesting against how the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund – backed by the US – were forcing governments...
Families in the US are exhausted. They deserve a government that chooses them over billionaire donors. The Republican budget plan that passed the...
You will never ever see a living woolly mammoth. While this is an obvious truth to most geneticists, zoologists and mammoth experts, the endless...
Many moons ago, when I was much less cynical than I am now, I wrote a story for a newspaper about a marriage in which the man stayed home to look...
In his speech to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday night, Donald Trump barely mentioned Gaza or the wider Middle East, making only a passing...
Information in the public domain about the undercover policing of protest groups from the late 1960s onwards would not be there were it not for the...
It is two months since Justin Trudeau announced his resignation as Liberal party leader and Canada’s prime minister. After a decade in power, Mr...
In his statement to parliament last week, Keir Starmer pledged £13.4bn more spending on defence from 2027, rising to 3% of GDP in the next...
A couple of years ago I wrote about the nepo baby discourse that had kicked off, arguing that focusing all of our energy on the very rich and...
The most vivid image that comes to mind when I think about cyclones is my uncle Rodney, drenched in his thongs and shorts and tropical shirt,...
Last week, the federal human resources department sent out a seven-page memo ordering agencies to submit detailed plans on how they will work with...
During a dramatic Oval Office meeting last Friday, US president Donald Trump confronted Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy in a move that...
If you want to stir up online controversy, wooden spoons are the perfect tool with which to do so. Every few years, influencers go viral with...
In thinking about the war being waged against life on Earth by Donald Trump, Elon Musk and their minions, I keep bumping into a horrible suspicion....
The past few months have been brutal ones for the readers and journalists of the largest news organization in California, the Los Angeles Times....
Sitting in a cafe in Sydney recently, I heard a line that I would never have expected to hear from Dad, a dull, quiet, introverted Chinese man in...
What was the point of Donald Trump’s address to Congress on Tuesday night? The annual speech – called the “State of the Union” address in...
I was once trying to get a television idea commissioned about a subject or issue that I thought was important. So important that I can no longer...
There are only so many times Donald Trump can be offered a state and royal visit to temper his political tantrums. With his latest attacks on...
And so the corner has been turned. No longer is population the only thing keeping the economy growing. But the still-weak GDP figures of the last...
Israel’s decision to block aid to Gaza, as ceasefire talks falter, is a devastating blow to 2 million hungry, vulnerable civilians in the shattered...
Three days after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the German chancellor, Olaf Scholz, created a £100bn special fund to modernise...
You know we’re in trouble when Fox News emerges as the great defender of freedom of the press. But such was the case when Jacqui Heinrich, a senior...
Here’s a thing: Black and brown people can be born and bred in England, can do and become just about anything in and for England (including making...
The greatest absurdity in Australia’s political discourse about the second Trump administration is the mantra that America perpetually remains a “...
The first time I went to Hanau, I was creeped out by how ordinary it was. This mid-sized city of 100,000 people right in the geographical centre of...
Britain is now on a “war footing”, we are told. Earlier this year, Nato’s secretary general, Mark Rutte, demanded that European nations start...
Donald Trump is busy while the world around him is mired in chaos. Six weeks into his second term, he has reversed the course of US policy towards...
Tropical Cyclone Alfred is predicted to make landfall anywhere between Brisbane and Sunshine Coast this week. The Australian Bureau of Meteorology...
Beyond the electoral contests of party, policy and personality lies a more primal battle: the fight for our attention in an era when democratic...
The truth was written all over the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s face in the Oval Office last week. The US is an unreliable ally. “The...
Even before the shocking treatment of Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the Oval Office, the US had voted with Russia in the UN. Alarm bells about the...
Are peonies a life philosophy? Are “life philosophies” even philosophy? I have to hold on to the idea that they aren’t, even in the face of a...
One step forward, two steps back. Angela Rayner’s employment rights bill is back in the Commons this week, stuffed with ideas for improving...
Fellows of the Royal Society met yesterday to discuss, as they put it, “Fellows’ behaviour”. In light of the resignation of two fellows and an open...
For Volodymyr Zelenskyy, this is no time to grovel. After last Friday’s ambush in the Oval Office – where the Ukrainian president, who has led his...
Is Vladimir Putin another Adolf Hitler? The western world seems to think so. In which case is Donald Trump another Neville Chamberlain and Ukraine...
Some politicians go whichever way the wind blows. Not, however, the US’s esteemed leader, Donald Trump. He is such a force of nature that he can...
Historians and psychologists will study when exactly the meeting between Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy started to descend into political...
A few days before the Munich Security Conference, one of the Ukrainian military officers fighting on the eastern Ukrainian border told me about...
In the run-up to the 2024 election, a lot of people were ringing alarms about Donald Trump’s tariffs. Kamala Harris called Trump’s policies a...