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Wellington House is in north Brighton, and known to the people who frequent it as Welly. It has the austere look of an old Victorian school, but what...
It should have been a great week for Ed Miliband and his mission to decarbonise the UK economy. Western Europe has experienced one of its worst ever...
When JD Vance spoke at the Richard M Nixon presidential library last week about his new book on his journey from atheism to an allegedly devout...
If political coverage has you never wanting to hear the word “pothole” again, let me spice things up with an entirely new symbol of decline –...
As Keir Starmer stands down as prime minister and attention turns toward Andy Burnham, the current moment should not be reduced to a story of...
The answers to some little questions are hugely revealing. We pass it off as small talk, but asking about somebody’s first anything often reveals...
Like many people, I unfortunately watched Pauline Hanson’s National Press Club address last week. When I told my mum I planned to watch it, she...
I knew Karl before he was famous. He came into the Nine Sydney newsroom as a young man who’d paid his dues: Rockhampton, Auckland, Brisbane. The...
Michelle Obama should feel honoured, apparently. Do you know what the greatest compliment you can give a woman is? It’s not telling her she’s...
When you hear the word “pool” in these sun-baked days of summer, you might think of taking a cheeky dip in the water to cool off the skin that is...
Over decades, battles have been fought to win the rights that victims of domestic, sexual and physical violence can expect in a UK court. Separate...
Two weeks before Josh Simons stood down as the Makerfield MP for his benefit, Andy Burnham was at Salts Mill in Shipley celebrating the life and work...
When I first moved to England, nearly two decades ago, I was invited to attend a talk in London on “the future of British identity”. It was a...
Humans are vulnerable in water. Beaches have red flags; swimming pools have flashy warning signs to remind us of our vulnerability when we just want...
It was hardly a perfect film, but I keep thinking of Don’t Look Up. In its depiction of a world that stubbornly refuses to heed the warnings of an...
Thanks to the Hobart gardening legend Hannah Moloney sharing a video about the green tomatoes in her greenhouse, I went outside in the glorious winter...
Finally, some part of our struggling state is getting a massive budget increase – and it’s not even the welfare bill, like normal. Or maybe it is?...
To most grocery shoppers, rotisserie chickens look like a mouth-watering and easy option for dinner. But whenever I pass by the rotisserie case in a...
Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson and former Republican representative Marjorie Taylor Greene – once among Donald Trump’s most prominent...
As Keir Starmer bid a brief and emotional farewell at that pillory of a lectern, there was a moment for some to ask: what have we done, and why?...
It’s been the refrain of the week. Why can’t the country hold on to a prime minister – and how can it be that Larry, the Downing Street cat, has...
The creation of hope is a vital but risky part of democratic politics. Leaders or would-be leaders who arouse hope attract supporters, motivate...
We are used to mapping the world by continents, dividing the globe into rigid geopolitical blocks. But to understand the complex reality behind each...
Zali Steggall and Allegra Spender, now political partners, are quite different people. One is a former Olympic skier and family law barrister who...
This week’s soaring summer temperatures have put a spotlight on our schools and their ability to cope, with one in Hertfordshire telling me that it...
As a married mother of two, the best moment of my life so far was 16 November 2005. I was 17 years old and lucky enough to be in the stadium at Moore...
The findings of Donna Ockenden’s report on maternity services at Nottingham University hospitals NHS trust (NUH) are horrifying. Such is the scale...
On 18 June, JD Vance stood in the White House press briefing room and tore into Israeli critics of the Iran deal that his boss, Donald Trump, had...
“The thrill of victory, the agony of defeat,” went the tagline for the long-running TV show The Wide World of Sports. We’re all familiar with...
You’re probably enjoying long, hot summer days less than you used to. Apart from the roads and the rails melting and the sleepless nights, there’s...
The Trump administration quietly declared frozen embryos to be children last week. In a call for grant applications related to a nearly 20-year-old...
Current state of British democracy: the guy who puts out the resignation lectern in front of No 10 is now so familiar that he has become a meme. On...
A Labour leader arrives, shirt and smile ironed into place, in his hands a big idea. He has polished one slogan, prepped three anecdotes, memorised...
How much of our political agency have we sacrificed on the altar of imagined constraints? That question has been troubling me since last week, when I...
A tectonic shift has occurred in American politics over the last month, beginning with Chris Rabb’s victory in Pennsylvania and now culminating in...
What a pleasure it was to sit through a tedious football match in which a thoroughly underwhelming England and a resolute Ghana managed not a single...
Has a policy ever worked as quickly as the changes to the capital gains tax (CGT) discount? It hasn’t even become law yet and already it is having...
You can look at house prices and hemlines, or prime ministers and presidents, but for my money, the quickest shortcut to evoking an era is its tennis...
Pauline Hanson says Australia cannot be multicultural and must exist as a “monocultural society”. And yet Australia has never been monocultural,...
The robotaxis are coming! The robotaxis are coming! Well, actually, they’re already here. Until now they’ve been the stuff of science fiction, but...
What would happen if roughly 200 members of the global elite gathered every year for a top secret retreat? What would they do? What would they talk...
Earlier this month, a German court ruled that Google is liable for its AI search summaries. Rejecting defenses like “users can check for...
Donald Trump has told many stories and denied many others about his ties to Jeffrey Epstein. But those questions center on Epstein’s actions and...
First they came for your children. As Donald Trump has claimed without evidence (because facts are woke), US schoolkids have been getting...
Over the weekend, as evening fell on the hilly (and, crucially, shady) Parc des Buttes-Chaumont, one of Paris’s most popular green spaces, the...
Britain is not ungovernable, but the chalice of high office has been spiked with unusually fast-acting poison. Six prime ministers down in a decade....
Let’s imagine you’ve been dumped by someone you were expecting to stay with for the rest of your life. The breakup is bitter. The logistics,...
As a society we are constantly looking for ways to look, feel and even act younger. From nasal sprays filled with stem cells to useless supplements to...
Bogglingly, Andy Burnham didn’t even wait to become prime minister before organising yesterday’s ludicrous photo of him standing in Westminster...
Has JD Vance been injecting Barron Trump’s new energy drink straight into his veins? It would explain a few things, including how the man manages to...
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