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The Tories took years of Westminster turmoil to reach their Liz Truss moment. It has taken Labour only two. Britain has a weakened prime minister, a...
On the website’s landing page, a photo of a heavily pregnant white woman is cropped below the head, so that she is faceless, anonymous, cradling her...
In democratic countries at least, government is often about getting things done in time. Sooner or later, voters always turn on national leaders and...
On 9 May, Russia held its iconic annual Victory Day parade to honour the sacrifices of its soldiers and civilians during its four-year war against...
If this were a poker game, Thursday lunchtime was the point when players were finally forced to show their cards. Was Wes Streeting holding all the...
Laura Tingle’s analysis of the killing of journalists by Israel has been found to be “duly impartial” by the ABC ombudsman after a coordinated...
Australia’s migration debate is obsessed with the wrong question. The question is usually: are too many people coming to Australia? But that framing...
Until recently, I was a landlord. And I support Labor’s proposed changes to negative gearing and capital gains tax. A decade ago, I booked...
xWhat’s most shocking about the latest accounts of sexual torture of Palestinians in Israeli custody is not just their inherent horror. It is that...
Labour is in the deepest trouble. A juicy leadership drama ignites all Westminster-watchers, another spellbinding live-action theatre of rising and...
Is the war in Iran over? Within hours of secretary of state Marco Rubio’s assurance that “the operation is over” last week, Donald Trump used...
In the last few weeks, there has been a lot of discussion around the new Michael Jackson biopic. It is a film that has seen huge success at the box...
A few weeks ago I wrote a lengthy email to Jeremy Bamber, who has been in prison for nearly 41 years after being convicted of murdering five family...
Every time Donald Trump has run for president, he has vowed to drain the swamp in Washington. But ever since he returned to the White House, not only...
If it wasn’t already clear, Elon Musk and Sam Altman hate each other. While the two men were once cofounders of OpenAI, they’re now locked in a...
One of the least pressing yet most irritating aspects of Donald Trump’s US is the reintroduction of a bunch of people we never thought we’d have...
Are you there God? It’s me, Arwa. I’ll be quite honest, I’m afraid I’ve never been a believer. I agreed wholeheartedly with Richard Dawkins,...
The media’s message appears to have cut through. At the crucial rally against antisemitism in London on Sunday, Zack Polanski, the Jewish leader of...
Ten years on from the referendum, Brexit still shapes British politics. It has smashed the two-party duopoly and continues to divide the country. Keir...
A few years ago, during the turmoil in Afghanistan, a friend of mine and his family were offered a humanitarian pathway to Australia by the Coalition...
While I welcome many measures in the king’s speech, an alternative might look something like this. My lords, and members of the Commons: my...
It’s mid-afternoon in Fujisawa. Schoolchildren, rucksacks on their backs, bound into a room where a group of pensioners welcome them boisterously,...
Wages are growing at a much slower pace than inflation, according to the latest data. This fits the story of the budget: that those earning a living...
“Westminster is a cocoon. Lots of people in lovely jobs, so it becomes easy to forget the world outside.” Catherine West should know. She’s been...
Let us all rise to acclaim the local shop, the little independent establishment that always seems to have exactly what you went in for. These places...
Many years ago I rage-quit from my editor job at a digital youth media publication. It was the beginning of the pandemic, my team had been slashed to...
There are certain states whose reputations in the global community are tainted. For habitual violations of international law, they are shunned,...
The hottest new read of 2026 may well be The Secret Diary of Greg Brockman, Aged 38¾. It’s got everything: feuding billionaires, scheming CEOs and...
The excesses the capitalist system has brought us have got to be curbed somehow. Ordinary people worldwide are beginning to realise that greed does...
Labour has spent much of the past year paralysed by competing fears. MPs’ dread of facing voters with Keir Starmer as prime minister has been kept...
Nothing prepares you for the shock that is the Cannes film festival: the adrenaline, the fatigue, the elation and the emotion, but also the hunger,...
Finally, a budget of economic reform. It has been too long coming. At this stage of the economic cycle, the budget should be in surplus. It should not...
If last year’s federal budget was a fairy floss-like pre-election sugar hit, then this year’s is more like a seven-course degustation. But, while...
No one can dispute that, today, the news industry is once again experiencing a revolution; a revolution that is reshaping news for a new generation of...
Hantavirus: the disease you wish you’d never heard of, as visions of the Covid pandemic flash through your head. I’ve seen lots of breathless...
Won’t anyone think of the poor, poor, billionaires? Their endless money can buy them political power, but it can’t buy them love. Instead of being...
I, for one, am partial to a bath: what’s not to love about a dim room, candles and nary an electronic device in sight? But a wellness trend that has...
A masterpiece new entry for the dictionary of political quotes, as a Labour MP told the Guardian yesterday of the party’s leadership options: “We...
Writing in 1943, the historian Henry Steele Commager delivered both a stern history lesson and a warning about the United States supreme court. The...
The madness has to end. The progressive side of politics in the UK faces two crises. The first is the possible decimation of the Labour party after...
Want to Google your symptoms, join an ICE watch group on Facebook or scroll Reddit? You might need to show ID. Age verification is coming to platforms...
Last week, the New York Times and Washington Post reported yet another troubling case of data suppression at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)....
For reasons purely related to vanity, I’ve had to give up coffee. It’s not for ever, unless it takes me for ever to get my teeth whitened, so...
By his own assessment, Jim Chalmers’ fifth federal budget is the most important and most ambitious from an Australian government in decades....
A news report last week described how growing instability means millions of Britons are building up a stash of cash, tinned food and torches at home....
James IV, King of Scots, never had to worry about elections. This freed him up to satisfy his voracious curiosity with strange experiments: according...
There is no sugarcoating the fact that on the basis of last week’s elections, Reform UK is now the largest party in British politics, if only by...
There comes a time, in the dying days of a relationship, when you start to become irritated merely by the sound of your partner’s breathing. It’s...
Friedrich Merz’s criticism of Donald Trump last month reflected more than a moment of personal candour or a split between Berlin and the White...
On Saturday, when observing the booth results reported in Farrer, what came to mind was the opening line of Kipling’s poem ‘If’. To paraphrase,...
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