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The new series of Time is not an easy watch. The opening seconds of Jimmy McGovern’s prison drama show a normal woman on a normal bus, as it drives...
Marco Rubio was once adamant that the US had to do everything in its power to end what he described as the “ethnic cleansing” of the Rohingya in...
It’s hard not to wonder how James Acaster feels at the moment. On the one hand, everybody suddenly fancies him, which must be flattering. On the...
In two weeks, Donald Trump faces his moment of truth; transformational midterm elections that will drastically influence the rest of his presidency,...
You may be familiar with rule 34 of the internet, which states that if something exists or can be imagined, there will almost certainly be online porn...
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Do you remember the last time you were lied to? I certainly do. I was tricked by the North Finchley Vue, which sold me and my boyfriend tickets to a...
Watch the full episode with Michael Gove here. Aditya’s suggested reading: To read the fruits of Michael Gove’s dalliance with the Marxism Today...
I have been Lucy Letby’s barrister for the past two years. I have spent thousands of hours going through the evidence, speaking to experts and...
As a secondary school pupil in 1994, I took part in protests against a reform that would have allowed French employers to pay young people below the...
I’ve spent the morning doing Shane Gillis’s work: checking out women in the gym. If you’ve avoided Gillis thus far, apologies for enlightening...
“Pooh, promise you won’t forget about me, ever. Not even when I’m a hundred,” Christopher Robin implores his bear in the final chapter of AA...
John Healey is planning to tax British banks, the Guardian revealed, in the forthcoming budget. It’s about time for the chancellor to act. Banks...
Donald Trump must find it oddly frustrating. He keeps showing the world exactly who he is, and yet the world keeps refusing to believe it. As clearly...
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It’s citrus season, and the trees of my streets are heavy with the bright balls of fruit. My son sometimes picks me a lemon or two on his way home...
When Anthony Albanese jets to Florida for the G20 leaders summit later this year, he could come face to face with the architect of Russia’s invasion...
I watched the extraordinary new Guardian-produced documentary from Oscar-winning Israeli film-makers Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor the other night,...
At last the fourth R is born. Articulation – speaking – is to join reading, writing and arithmetic in the education canon. What has become the...
Big tech companies pose an immeasurable threat: socially, politically, militarily and ecologically. They are also causing a profound crisis of...
Public services need more investment across the board. Every day, another wretched story. Look at the Institute for Government’s (IFG) Public...
Back in 2009, months before the coalition government unleashed sweeping austerity, the then Conservative backbencher Iain Duncan Smith produced a...
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What’s worrying French supermarket bosses should be prompting British ministers to action. On Sunday, hackers forced up the temperatures of...
Late last month, protesters deposited a sizable amount of foul-smelling green water on the steps of Stormont to draw attention to the appalling state...
Ask a straight question, get a straight answer. It’s how politics is supposed to work but almost never does, which is why on the rare occasions it...
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Every Friday night on a community sports field in Melbourne’s inner north, a few hundred nerds dress up in historical armour and attack each other...
For the greatest account of the BBC’s finest hour, one must turn to Penelope Fitzgerald’s novel, Human Voices, written in 1980 and set 40 years...
HBO’s Girls is coming back, Lena Dunham and her fellow cast members announced this week, and the internet is already abuzz. Women of a certain age,...
Not much has gone right for the global economy this year, and plenty has gone wrong. Two big regional wars are destabilising prices and supply chains...
For three painful years, Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza, in retaliation for the Hamas terror attacks on 7 October 2023, has killed more than 74,000...
As an engineer I see the climate problem simply. We have a collection of machines – some burn fossil fuels, others don’t. We need to stop buying...
At some point, though it’s hard to pinpoint precisely when, the language of supposedly civilised public discourse started to become imbued with a...
When it comes to risk-taking, Spain’s prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, has a formidable track record. In 2018, the Socialist party leader swept to...
When Donald Trump pledged to end the war in Ukraine within 24 hours of re-entering the White House last year, no one with any depth of insight into...
The future of Green politics is under constant discussion after the Holborn and St Pancras byelection, but a much heavier clash – in meaning,...
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I hate golf. A good walk spoiled? The whole day spoiled, more like. As with many cases of hate, it has its roots in love. You see, I just love the...
Feeling fatigued and listless? Searching for an energy boost? Want to improve your mood and motivation? The solution may be, according to a...
Great news for everyone who is soon to fly via a US airport: the Trump administration has just elevated the travel experience. You still risk getting...
I work for a major insurer, assessing the risk posed by natural disasters on properties around the world, from family homes to schools, government...
That chill in the air you are feeling is not the weather, it is the Republicans freaking out about this 2026 midterm elections. Midterms are always...
What’s your “(p)doom” – the percentage chance that rogue AI will create an existential catastrophe? Judging by their recent warnings, it is...
On Monday, federal agents from the Department of Homeland Security raided the Washington DC area home of Ilhan Omar, a Minnesota congresswoman and a...
Kapow! In a warmly received conference speech, Kemi Badenoch turns her fire on Reform UK, describing it as “weird”, and ruling out an electoral...
With Labor under acute pressure from One Nation’s surge in opinion polls, backlash over a series of major economic policies and unhappiness at the...
What a world we live in. Imagine: gangs dragging civil servants off commuter trains and beating them up because they handed government data jobs to...
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There is one experience we in Germany can all find mildly satisfying this autumn, as we watch the dark and terrifying final season of the hit TV...