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After another scrappy week for the faltering Coalition, Bridget McKenzie on Thursday called for the National party to stop talking about itself. No...
There is no shortage of reasons to dislike and dismiss Robert Jenrick. He is, after all, the former immigration minister who ordered that a centre...
I can’t believe that Elon Musk is leaving Doge, the government department he named after a tired and basic meme that most of the internet had moved...
In 2017, watching a two-hour Bastille Day procession, Donald Trump told the French president that we’d have one too, only better. That time, the...
Before the war, students in Gaza were surrounded by books, not bombs. They woke each morning to the voices of their mothers urging them to get...
“This doesn’t sound good at all.” The message flashed up on a group chat I am in with other journalists in Liverpool and Merseyside. My blood...
If Nigel Farage has a secret weapon, it is his seeming refusal to take things seriously. His habit of repairing to the pub at any opportunity –...
Much has been made this week over Anthony Albanese’s strongest comments yet criticising the Netanyahu government’s ongoing blockade of humanitarian...
On Thursday, the new environment minister, Murray Watt, approved an extension for the North West Shelf liquefied natural gas project. The gas plant...
The government of Israel is currently waging a war without purpose, without goals or clear planning, and with no chances of success. Never since...
European consciences have started waking up to the Israeli government’s crimes in the occupied Palestinian territories – and it is about time. What...
I grew up as the daughter of an imam in a conservative British-Pakistani community in Bradford. Our early years were spent in a large Victorian...
Nothing is going according to plan for the Trump administration. The big, beautiful bill, originally vaunted to save the US taxpayer at least $2tn,...
In case you aren’t related to me and didn’t know, it was my dad’s birthday last week. Looking through photos and various paraphernalia to make the...
Turning children into capitalists – that’s the purpose behind the new “Trump account”, which will give every new baby born in the US during the...
Two days ago, Israeli soldiers fired on a massive crowd of starving Palestinians who just wanted to eat. Some of them had walked more than 10km to...
A picture says a thousand words. And the imagery slowly seeping out of Gaza tells a story that many politicians and media figures are still doing...
In his 1971 novel The Day of the Jackal, Frederick Forsyth renders a rich plot to assassinate Charles de Gaulle, the French president. The...
It may come as a surprise to many, but racial segregation in schools exists today in several countries in the EU. In Slovakia, more than 60% of...
It requires an effort to keep reminding yourself of the sheer historical oddity of monarchy’s healthy survival into the modern democratic age. Yet...
Science is under siege. On Friday evening, the White House released an executive order called Restoring Gold Standard Science. At face value, this...
The Trump administration’s agreement with Nayib Bukele to detain US immigrants deported to El Salvador without due process seems to have emboldened...
I joined the Labour party 50 years ago. Back then, as a young man, I was proud that I was becoming part of a movement motivated by the highest...
With the most authoritarian and lawless president in history sitting in the White House, the US supreme court is no doubt worried about looking...
I learned a lot driving to Hinckley in Leicestershire. I had some work there. That’s showbiz, folks. I didn’t do the journey as I’d normally do...
It was mid-winter when I found myself shivering on a slippery rock, staring out to sea. The waves in front of me were growling and my gut responded...
The unhinged criticisms to changes in superannuation make more sense when you realise that Australia’s entire tax debate is geared to ensure rich,...
It’s unwise to drill too deeply into the exact questions that come up in a GCSE paper. You can’t get a proper sense of proportion when: you most...
Channel 4’s latest attempt to straddle the line between televised humiliation and light titillation came to an end this week. Virgin Island...
The viability of private healthcare in Australia has been thrown into doubt after Brookfield’s decision to place Healthscope, the operator of 37...
You’re likely familiar with the term “carbon footprint”, which measures an individual’s environmental impact. The concept communicates to consumers...
The meeting at the White House between Donald Trump and the South African president, Cyril Ramaphosa, was, at its heart, about the preservation of...
I imagine students at the US Military Academy at West Point are trained to handle unexpected situations, but I’m not sure anyone could have...
A historic journey took place this week, when the first renationalised South Western Railway (SWR) service departed from Woking for Waterloo. Yet...
The French president’s plane has just landed in Hanoi. Its door is open and Emmanuel Macron is standing looking at his wife, Brigitte, who is still...
Thoughts and non-denominational prayers to all the anti-woke warriors out there. It may seem as though everything is going their way now Donald...
Due to a chaotic toddler, it has been many months since my partner and I have had more than two consecutive nights of solid sleep. Given research...
As Labour continues its inquest into the reasons for its local election losses, attention has focused on the pensioners’ winter fuel allowance and...
Rest assured that the residents of Canada are vulnerable to the same strand of lazy republicanism that tends to afflict most other constitutional...
The great energy transition is happening before our eyes. You can see it on our roofs: more than one in three Australian homes now have solar. You...
This feels terminal. The breaches of trust have been so frequent, so vast and so decisive that the voters Labour has already lost are unlikely to...