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I’ve got a sneaking suspicion that, somewhere in a makeshift situation room in Mar-a-Lago, there’s a whiteboard with “very high IQ strategies to...

Donald Trump’s blitzkrieg since his 3 January seizure of the Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro has been guided by his triumph of the will, as he...

On 14 January, the Trump administration announced a stop on issuing immigrant visas for applicants from 75 countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America...

A stag or hen do should be a straightforward, fun night celebrating a good friend moving into a new chapter of their life. Instead, thanks to films...

When I was a little girl, there was nothing scarier than a stranger. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, kids were told, by our parents, by TV...

It was a bad start to the new year. Slipping on ice, I fell and broke my right wrist, so now I can’t hold a pen with my writing hand. But my...

“In life, there’s the beginning and the end,” John Carlos, the African American sprinter who raised his fist in a black power salute from the...

Once again, France’s farmers have been blocking motorways with their tractors in protest, this time at an impending EU trade agreement with a group...

It is difficult to think of another area of government policy that has weathered as much legislative hyperactivity as asylum and migration. I have...

Are we being injured and killed by ubiquitous, teeny-tiny shards of toxic plastic? Or aren’t we? For many months, the Guardian has reported a...

There’s something particularly dystopian about watching the mute headlines of daytime television play at the gym. It feels like a movie montage;...

It was an infamous night in football. More than 5,000 Dutch police officers had to be deployed to contain hundreds of Israeli fans embarking on a...

Last weekend, as the world wondered whether Donald Trump would swipe Greenland, Keir Starmer made his own big geographic intervention: he published...

It is axiomatic to many of his critics that the US president, Donald Trump, is a fascist. Indeed, some have seen echoes of the work of the Nazis’ “...

The Middle East was braced on Wednesday night, but the anxious petitioning of Gulf states and Iran’s attempts to appease the US president appeared...

After refusing to walk, in a manner reminiscent of Stuart Broad batting against the Australians in the 2013 Ashes, the West Midlands chief...

Like a 1970s rust-belt serial killer, Nigel Farage is painstakingly assembling around him the political corpses of Boris Johnson’s final, terrible...

Is Greenland Donald Trump’s 25th-amendment moment? Last time around, this was when the Washington “grownups” debated his capacity to be president,...

There is one political problem from which all others follow. It is the major cause of Donald Trump, of Nigel Farage, of the shocking weakness of...

Did you notice history being made this week? I am not referring to what may have been the most pathetic moment in recorded time – Donald Trump...

Will Donald Trump order a US military attack on Iran? That question captivated the world for the past two weeks, as the US president issued...

There aren’t many escapes from the grim onslaught of terrible news these days. You can stare at a blank wall, obsessively count the hairs on your...

In late December, Iran experienced the beginnings of an uprising driven primarily by economic pressures, initially emerging among merchant bazaaris...

In Minnesota, armed and masked agents are ripping families apart. They are seizing parents while they wait with their child at a bus stop, going...

Conservative party leader Kemi Badenoch’s decision to sack her shadow justice minister, Robert Jenrick, due to his impending defection was not so...

I hate my glasses. I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again. Not just these I’m wearing now, but whichever spectacles I’ve been cursed to...

As an American of mixed Danish and Indian heritage, who is also a citizen of France and, therefore, of the EU, Donald Trump’s contempt for the rule...

What is the name for the grief of losing a restaurant? Surely the Germans have a word for it. Many Sydneysiders will be keening and lighting...

The year has started out in familiar fashion for Kalaallit – the people of Greenland. The US president has once again threatened to take control of...

The best thing right now would be to read the turmoil in the Tory party as told by the spy novelist Len Deighton. He would give us more detail on...

The raid of a journalist’s home, along with the jailing of their alleged source, are shocking acts of authoritarianism. And they are in line with...

It has been more than 40 years since I was imprisoned in Iran for speaking out against human rights abuses and state executions, and for defending...

A few months ago, I posted a viral video online highlighting the flirting differences between American and Australian men. Prompted by a recent...

Donald Trump is threatening to take over Greenland, the territory of a Nato ally, possibly by military force, as Vladimir Putin is trying to take...

From Greenland’s icy mountains, from India’s coral strand, as the old hymn has it, we seem to inhabit a world that is more seriously troubled in...

Billionaire and career Bond-villain cosplayer Elon Musk has been forced by public backlash into a humiliating backdown over use of his AI chatbot,...

Unpopular politicians take consolation in the thought that opinion polls are sometimes wrong and often describe the wrong thing. They capture the...

When I told people I was taking more than eight months of parental leave, the main reactions I got were: “What are you going to do with all that...

Last week Kai Trump, Donald Trump Jr’s daughter and the president’s eldest grandchild, publicly declared she had no plans to run for office. The...

So far this month Donald Trump has ordered a military incursion into Venezuela and the capture of its leader, announced he is ready to “take”...

In the 18 months since I became energy secretary, the government has made a simple argument: that if we want to bring down energy bills for good,...

Ten years ago, a postie delivered eight packages to my door. Each one contained something for me to photograph and promote on social media, and the...

Australia’s history of banning political groups gives pause for thought as to whether we really want to go down this route again. During the first...

It’s garnered less attention than the other events of our already wretched new year. But to understand why Renee Nicole Good was killed on...

Last Wednesday, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent shot and killed Renee Good, a 37-year-old American mother. Already, the federal...

When a camera records an act of lethal violence against someone in official custody, the state cannot hide what it typically keeps in the dark....