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The two-year decline in healthy life expectancy in Britain, set out in new analysis from the Health Foundation thinktank, is devastating. In a wealthy...
China senses opportunity when Donald Trump visits later this month. A nakedly transactional US president in need of a trade deal, and hoping that...
Mum was kind and gentle in a way that felt so natural. She raised all five of us pretty much on her own after Dad passed away. Those were not easy...
Jewish people are living in fear – a fear that has been building for years but has become acute in recent weeks. It now seeps into every part of...
Republicans rejoiced when far more young voters than expected backed Donald Trump in 2024, with many of them moved by Trump’s grandiose promises,...
In the 1980s, a friend of my father navigated through Europe in a camper van with his family using only the map in the back of a pocket diary. He...
Six supreme court justices handed down a ruling built, ostensibly, on the belief that the US has changed so much as to render the protections of the...
A clip from Before Sunrise. A woman joking that she won’t date men with flat heads because their lack of tummy time as babies betrays parental...
I nearly drove into a wall the other day, because I couldn’t take my eyes off some spectacular wisteria. Ten years ago I doubt I would have even...
In 1997, when I was presenting the Country Hour on the ABC, I was sitting in an outside broadcast van at an agricultural field day in Northern...
Who would you rate as the world’s most unlikeable tech tycoon? Elon Musk is obviously a major contender. The digital warlord Palmer Luckey is also...
The so-called “special relationship” between Britain and the United States has never seemed more tenuous. At times, it looks like the US-UK...
“One day, this terrible war will be over. The time will come when we’ll be people again and not just Jews.” I keep coming back to those words...
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During the two-month endurance test that was The Devil Wears Prada 2’s global press tour, Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway hinted that the...
When you think of retirement, what comes to mind? Perhaps it is images of older people enjoying a well-deserved period of leisure and comfort in the...
Of the many jokes cracked by King Charles during his visit to Washington, the one recalling the definitive 18th-century Anglo-French contest for...
Launched by King George VI on 3 May 1951, the Festival of Britain was conceived as a “tonic” for a nation battered by war, debt and rationing. At...
When the Bank of England warned this week that food inflation could reach 7% by the end of the year, it revealed how little stands between a...
For me, it’s mostly sadness. Among others, the overriding emotion is fear. For some, it’s anger. It was certainly anger that was most vividly on...
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Tennis is hard. To succeed you need to be fast, strong, have deft hands and joints of steel. It’s also a solo sport against a single opponent so you...
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The supreme court justices John Roberts, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito have made it their life’s work to unravel the Voting Rights Act and undo...
Consider the following screed: “If any other President had the ability, foresight, or talents necessary, to build this ballroom, which will be one...
If I were living in Wales, next week I would vote Welsh nationalist, for Plaid Cymru. But I would do so for what its leader claims to support but...
This month’s splashdown of Artemis II was rightly celebrated as a technical achievement. Four astronauts traveled farther from Earth than any humans...
Shortly after sitting for a televised interview with CBS News in January, Donald Trump conveyed a threat through his press secretary: air the...
On Friday, more than 3,000 May Day protests will take place across the United States – more than double last year’s number. Workers, students and...
In the end, it was a royal triumph, as King Charles and Queen Camilla managed to avoid all the mines in their path (the strait of Hormuz is not the...
It’s hard to make sense of the events of the last 24 hours – or the last five days. The only thing we know for sure is that a family is...
One thing Britain is exceptionally good at is collecting and using health data for research, studying cohorts of people over many decades. A shudder...
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Seven o’clock on a Monday night and I am standing in the House of Commons, nursing a glass of vinegary white wine. All around me are people doing...
The car is perhaps the closest thing Germany has to a national symbol. For this reason, the success of the auto industry and the happiness of...
The interim report of the royal commission into antisemitism and social cohesion is in, and offers more questions than answers, as expected. An April...
When the federal court lifted a restriction on access to Kyle Sandilands’ full $100m contract it gave us a rare peek into the minutiae of the...
Donald Trump’s war on science has been vicious and hugely damaging, but it is worth noting that he has lost some of its biggest battles. Last year,...
The stabbing of two men in north-west London on Wednesday by an attacker described as seeking anyone “visibly Jewish” would be horrifying under...
Another week, another attack on British Jews; and rather than synagogues being petrol-bombed in the middle of the night, now it is ordinary Jews being...
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Westminster politics is currently consumed by the fact that the May elections are next week. On Tuesday night Labour MPs voted down a Tory proposal...
How do we know whether political funding is corrupt? Mostly, we don’t. A plutocrat delivers a sack of cash to a political party. A few weeks later,...
Last week, Parks and Recreation star, and most importantly Megan Mullally’s husband, Nick Offerman, was asked on Amy Poehler’s podcast what he’s...
As the US midterm elections approach, voters are voicing concern about AI. According to an NBC News poll of registered voters, 57% believe the risks...
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...