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Time to call a spade a spade. One Nation’s rise is the media’s fault. And Pauline Hanson being misunderstood is also the media’s fault. Elements...
Donald Trump loves a construction project. He’s building a ballroom, revamping a reflecting pool, and overseeing the construction of a...
While war and conflict seem to be raging across the planet, the greatest weapon of mass destruction afflicting the United States today is, apparently,...
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In a 1950 essay, the critic AA Phillips wrote of a “cultural cringe” in which insecure Australians looked to Britain for instruction. Today, some...
I recently got into a row on X about the unlikely subject of salad. I want to acknowledge that arguing with strangers on social media is definitely...
Everyone knows how dumb it is to be this person: the one who mourns the film adaptation of a favourite text because it misses out this scene, or...
Frogs; newts; small fish such as minnows and sticklebacks; dragonflies; water boatmen and water snails: these are just a few of the hundreds of animal...
Appropriately enough, Andy Burnham ended a week of political signalling and first impressions back in Manchester on Friday. At the offices of the new...
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One of Andy Burnham’s first policy moves brought back a sharp memory. On Wednesday, he announced that single bus fares across England would be...
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Prior to the release of Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, I’m not sure many of us would have conceived of the Trojan Horse as a kind of...
It’s peak wedding season, and my own divorce is waiting on a judge’s signature. People are being congratulated with Dutch ovens and serving bowls...
Throughout history, many things have been seen by terrified populaces as a harbinger of doom. A comet. A crow on the battlefield. A solar eclipse. A...
I teach public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School and the Munk School at the University of Toronto. And it will come at no surprise to you that my...
Who are we, the people Andy Burnham now governs? He inherits a miserable lot: grudging, angry pessimists, expecting the worst of all politicians,...
As the first congenitally blind member of Congress and a former president of the Bay area Rapid Transit (Bart) Board, I know that the ability to move...
Was this a joke? Andy Burnham claimed on coming to office to be a localist. Not for the new prime minister the hotspots of the capital, of posh...
Barely a month appears to go by without Donald Trump making a fresh attempt to destroy the international rules-based order. The US has pulled funding...
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One of the last things Andy Burnham did before entering Downing Street was to go and see his father. Now living in a nursing home, Roy Burnham has...
Up until last week, Jens Spahn was, by all accounts, a model of political success in Germany. At just 22, he was elected to the Bundestag for the...
There are only three more sleeps until Sky News Australia disappears. But the shouty TV arm of the Murdoch empire will rise again on Monday with a new...
On Monday, while the cameras were fixed on that famous black door in Downing Street, something important was happening 165 miles away. A small team of...
“Our ability to trust that our homes will keep us safe from the outside is under threat,” the geographer Sam Johnson-Schlee writes in Hot House,...
Europe is ageing at pace as birthrates fall and people live longer. A new report by the European Commission, published this month, notes that 2012...
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One of my earliest memories as a child is my little hands plugging in the old electric blanket for my visiting grandmother and then being violently...
Recently, Jonathan Swan – one of the authors of a new tell-all about Donald Trump’s second term – told the hosts of The View that if you had a...
Of the conservative justices on the supreme court, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito have in the current session voted most consistently, at 89 and...
Within days of Mr Justice Johnson’s decision to seek contempt proceedings against Rajiv Menon KC because of that barrister’s closing speech to the...
In 2015, after I won a seven-year battle with the federal government and refused its demands that I reveal my confidential sources for a story I wrote...
When the wind is warm, you know something is up. Naturally, I have been well aware of the awful reality of the climate crisis, but it has taken the...
The stark contrast between Donald Trump’s nuclear deal with Saudi Arabia and his nuclear demands for Iran would be comical if not so tragic. Trump...
Hands down the hottest ticket in London this summer is the musical Pride at the National Theatre, which is booked solid until the end of its run in...
Over the summer months, 5 million people will visit London, with its free museums and galleries, massive events featuring the biggest names in music...
There’s a slightly mean question I often ask British people with an interest in the living world: can you name the environment secretary? I don’t...
Sitting in Brussels, or one of the EU’s 27 chancelleries, one could be forgiven for tuning out the latest psychodramas in Britain’s Conservative...
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On Wednesday, senator Pauline Hanson claimed domestic and family violence is “a two-way street”, blamed the cost of living for perpetrators’...
The hundreds of millions who have built modern China from the ground up – sweeping its streets, labouring in its factories and ferrying its goods...
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Before entering Downing Street, Andy Burnham cited the overcentralisation of power as a cause of Britain’s social and economic malaise. In his first...
In 2021 the leaders of Australia, the UK and the US – Scott Morrison, Boris Johnson and Joe Biden – stood together to announce a plan to co-design...
On Thursday, at its national conference the ALP will vote to change its platform to include a pledge to deliver a fair return on Australia’s natural...
It’s not the worst thing about social media, but something dreadful is happening in short-form videos. At first I thought my phone or my broadband...
If the Democrats hope to maximize their chances of winning in this November’s elections, there’s a subject they need to scream far and wide about:...
Some things never change. Fifty years ago, Britain was sweltering in the long hot summer of 1976. The Labour government was acutely aware that the...
The presumption that US elections are legitimate died last week in Washington. It was 237 years old. It did not die of one wound. It died of three,...
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