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A self-declared “secretary of war” keeps committing war crimes; people are dying in Africa because of Musk’s cuts to USAid; farm bankruptcies in...
The supreme court on Wednesday paved the way for racial discrimination in voting, 60 years after Martin Luther King Jr and thousands of other movement...
A few days before the alleged assassination attempt on Donald Trump last weekend, one comic’s joke on his late-night show sounded routine enough, if...
Is America a democracy? The term implies an equality of rights and dignity among citizens, a collective and uniform right of individuals to...
If you are in your 50s, 40s or even late 30s and feel as though things are rapidly heading south, might I point you in the direction of Apex, the...
The days of two-party politics are over. When voters go to the polls in England next week, they will have five main contenders to choose from. In...
Over the week to come, journalists will repeat three things until they, and you, are sick: that local elections fall next Thursday; that the results...
We like to imagine that injustice announces itself loudly. That when something goes wrong in the public system, alarms go off and someone takes...
At a time when his party has a real opportunity to throw out the playbook of the past, Angus Taylor seems woefully ill-equipped to lay out a vision...
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The prorogation of parliament on Wednesday signals the end of the road for the terminally ill adults (end of life) bill. The proposal to allow some...
Opec appears to be the latest casualty of the Iran war. On Tuesday, the United Arab Emirates announced that it was leaving the oil cartel after...
I have identified my worst character trait. In such a crowded field, this has been no easy task. This one wins out because it’s two equally...
With the release of the March inflation figures on Tuesday showing a big jump, the likelihood of a rate rise next week has become all but certain....
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In February 2025, the body of journalist Viktoriia Roshchyna was finally returned to Ukraine after months of uncertainty. She was one of 757 Ukrainian...
That the king’s arrival in the US was preceded by gunfire at the White House correspondents’ dinner set the tone for a visit that was built on the...
In the spring of 1826, two extraordinary things occurred in central London. The first was the death of Chunee the elephant. On 1 March at Cross’s...
What do you do when it feels as if the world has lost the plot? There are various answers to that question, but one of the more wholesome (and legal)...
In June 1981, I was a young pulmonary fellow at one of the three Los Angeles hospitals where the first five cases of an unusual pneumonia in...
Last week saw the passage of the tobacco and vapes bill, which has a very ambitous aim: to create a “smoke-free generation” and eventually end...
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Donald Trump is not impressed by soft power. He respects hard men with military muscle. But he can be moved by pageantry, which is the purpose of King...
Many avalanche accidents occur just after a storm, when blue-sky conditions return and people head to the backcountry to enjoy fresh powder. These...
The Farrer byelection looks as though it will be a contest between the local independent, Michelle Milthorpe, and the One Nation candidate, David...
While the treasurer puts the finishing touches to a budget that was to be the lodestar of Labor’s second term, he could be forgiven for thinking he...
We should applaud the release of the Australian government’s exposure draft legislation for the news bargaining incentive (NBI). The government is...
Péter Magyar’s historic defeat of Viktor Orbán in Hungary’s recent election was rightly celebrated in progressive circles and beyond. For the...
Whether a prime minister misled parliament is a serious matter. The pattern of statements made by Sir Keir Starmer about appointing Lord Mandelson as...
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Have his enemies done it? Have the rebels managed to find a thermal exhaust port in the Death Starmer that would enable them finally to destroy it?...
With people getting everything from salmon sperm to plasma injected into their faces in the name of beauty, it is difficult to be surprised when new,...
On 13 May 1966, a US Senate subcommittee questioned a former Harvard clinical psychologist, considered by many to be “the most dangerous man in...
A few years ago, Tucker Carlson was sleeping peacefully alongside his wife and four dogs when, all of a sudden, he was “physically mauled” by a...
‘An establishment whitewash … a blooming disgrace. And I promise you that our democracy is not in a healthy state.” Nigel Farage was furious....
In 1992, a group of rebel doctors published a radical idea in the prestigious Journal of the American Medical Association. They argued that the...
For boomers, old age begins at 75, according to a new survey, while gen X considers the start date of decrepitude to be 70, and millennials are a...
In the early hours of Sunday, I awoke to check the time on my phone and learned that there had been a shooting – apparently, an assassination...
We are at war. Four words that sound ludicrously melodramatic on a sunny spring day, when all may not be exactly right with the world – but when you...
If pre-budget rumours and press speculation are to be taken with less than the usual grain of salt, the budget which the treasurer, Jim Chalmers, will...
The news last week that the Trump administration sounded out Fifa, world football’s governing body, about replacing Iran with Italy at this year’s...
Recent remarks by the opposition leader, Angus Taylor, including comments describing Iran as a “bad country” and suggesting migrants from such...
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A new law banning mobile phone use in schools in England, which ministers reluctantly agreed to last week, is on one level the result of political...
When King Charles’s mother became the first British monarch to address the United States Congress in 1991, she spoke in the aftermath of the US-led...
If not Keir Starmer, then who? That’s altogether the wrong question. What matters is not who but what comes next. A black cloud of near terminal...
At what point, as you consider the prime minister’s shortcomings more in sorrow than in anger, as you size up likely successors and try to wonder,...
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My grandfather, who I have always called Pa, is dying. He grew up working class in the north of England and went on to have a spectacular career, life...
It’s Gatwick airport, mid-afternoon, and on the runway there is turmoil. Public policy playing out in full view of the public. Voters, citizens,...