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Last week, Donald Trump issued another executive order, this one aimed directly at the Smithsonian Institution, and called for “Restoring Truth and...
Progressives have plenty of bad ideas that should be axed, but populism without an economic promise is a bloodless bleat. It wasn’t long ago that...
Straight faces, please, as we try to look charitably at the toxic row engulfing Prince Harry’s charity. Are you up to speed with this everyday...
A progressive sentencing guideline that was due to come into force today has been shot down in the crossfire of the culture wars. This is...
Hell is empty and all the devils are in Washington DC. And, what with devils being immortal and all, it looks as if they might stay there...
If any workers are still holding on to the notion that Donald Trump is pro-worker or pro-union, his move last week to terminate union bargaining...
The fountain of youth is an enduring legend. Different iterations of the fabled spring – which is said to give anyone who drinks or bathes in its...
A turquoise Koenigsegg Jesko, the world’s fastest car and worth about £2.3m, zipped through central Bucharest at nearly 100mph on Monday 24 March....
While Australia may not be holding a presidential election, the leaders of the major parties carry the disproportionate burden of personifying the...
The prime minister may pretend to “like and respect” Donald Trump, but elsewhere in parliament anti-Americanism is running hot. In a Lords debate...
The worst job I had was in a bank in Sydney, dealing with a life insurance policy called Lite Life Direct. It was tedious, repetitive and oddly...
A few months ago I visited a school in my constituency and took part in a question-and-answer session with young pupils. One girl raised her hand...
I like to uphold my children’s privacy and respect their wishes, the foremost of which is: “Please respect our privacy by not writing about us.”...
Late on Friday evening, the trustees of Columbia University announced that its interim president, Katrina Armstrong, was leaving her post. Six days...
A few weeks ago I told my friend – a good friend – that I was considering having a third kid. The colour washed from her face, and before her...
Should you have the world’s tiniest violin to hand, prepare to play it. This week, English councils gain the power to double council tax on second...
Emmanuel Macron’s troubled second presidential term was already set to go down as one of the most turbulent in the history of France’s Fifth...
The French justice system chose courage over surrender. The law was clear, and so was the court in its sentencing: no special treatment for Marine...
The SOE Syllabus was a series of lectures given to prospective secret agents in Britain during the second world war. These “lessons in...
The world is running out of time to halt deforestation and forest degradation. Yet instead of stepping up, the United States is dismantling forest...
It has come to this: we are now in Ministry of Truth territory. In Washington DC, the Smithsonian Institution, the US’s ensemble of 21 great...
I was talking recently to a friend who’s a professor at Columbia University about what’s been happening there. He had a lot to say. When he needed...
The first thing a friend did when I told her the title of my book was laugh. “The Sex Lives of Married Women?” She asked. “You mean The No Sex...
Peter Dutton says his policies would reduce the wholesale price of gas on Australia’s east coast from $14 a gigajoule to $10 a gigajoule by...
The “Signalgate” scandal confirmed what Europeans already knew. The Trump administration’s disdain for Europe is deep and the transatlantic...
How is the ideal heterosexual girlfriend supposed to behave? This played on my mind after I watched Companion, a film about a loutish millennial...
Ten days ago, in a major turning point in almost two years of war, the Sudanese army reclaimed the capital city from the Rapid Support Forces (RSF)...
No one would allow that he could not see these much-admired clothes; because, in doing so, he would have declared himself either a simpleton or...
It’s taken Deliveroo more than a decade to do it, but this month, the company made an annual profit for the first time. This might come as a...
What disgusts you? I hope it’s not inexpertly summarised research, because I have been intrigued by the recently reported finding that men get more...
The defining feature of American democracy, you could be forgiven for having thought, is that you can say what you think without having to fear...
The first months of the new Trump administration have been dizzying with the breadth of executive actions to slash the social safety net, further...
On the 17th night of Ramadan – a time meant for prayer, reflection and mercy – Gaza burned. Once again, our screens fill with images too harrowing...
What has just happened, and where are we now? Three long weeks ago, the government began to announce all those cuts to disability and sickness...
“You’ll never eat a good meal in a restaurant that puts caviar on scrambled eggs”; “Your dining companions should have a say in what you order”; “...
I once told a colleague that I was going to Amsterdam on a solo trip to wine and dine alone. “Do you not have any friends to go with?” she replied....
Alex* was positively seething at his friend’s suggestion to “be a bit more resilient” in the face of a recent setback at work. “I wonder what they...
Lauren Laverne says she loves her life more now that she’s had cancer. I know exactly what she means. Imagine you’re diagnosed with cancer. Do you...
It is possible to have too much trust in a marriage. The mythic Welsh warrior Lleu Llaw Gyffes, who appears to have been bigger on brawn than...
‘Gold, mister, is worth what it is because of the human labor that goes into the finding and getting of it.” It’s a line spoken by Walter Huston in...
After her jaunt to the O2, Rachel Reeves may be aware that the musical oeuvre of Sabrina Carpenter includes I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking...
In terms of Reeves’ family values, the chancellor of the exchequer can hardly be faulted, she has been explaining, for snagging box tickets to a...
During the Brexit era, it became obvious many comments under these columns were being placed by Russian trolls, with slightly strange grasps of...
More than 50 years after John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s 1969 bed-in, protesting against war, Ono finally gets her love-in. David Sheff’s biography...
Not for the first time, JD Vance, America’s outspoken vice-president, has made a public fool of himself. He insisted on visiting Greenland despite...
As much as I have the general vibe of a luddite (strange hobbies, socially maladjusted, unfathomable fashion choices, etc) I have to hand it to...
The news that Wigmore Hall in London is to turn its back on an annual subsidy of £345,000 from Arts Council England (ACE), after a successful...