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What a perverse act of defiance – two fingers up to government policy by a major company. Bidfood is one of the largest food distributors in the...
Anyone who has a school-age child is aware of the minefield that is the parent group chat. If you’re a parent who is about to enter the school...
Rachel Reeves might give the impression of being someone who’s never late for social engagements, but she is increasingly late to the party. At a...
The only thing we know for certain regarding a Trump Middle East doctrine is that the president-elect has no clear policy regarding that part of...
Amid the chaos of rioting and misinformation that followed the Southport attack last summer, the abject horror of the crime itself almost seemed to...
“Alice? Who the fuck is Alice?” wondered European audiences in 1995 when the Dutch band Gompie landed an unlikely success by adding this risque...
The hullabaloo around “Australia Day” started early this year. It was barely the beginning of December 2024 when outrage columns and Sky News...
Donald Trump’s triumphal return to the White House was American political theatre on steroids. This was, of course, exactly the returning...
It is a strange effect of the second Trump presidency that, where Donald Trump and his allies know the ropes this time round and have grown in...
I’ll never forget my experience of taking my seven-year-old to see. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse in the cinema, and I don’t mean that in a...
I was at the Trump inauguration on Monday, and needless to say, I disagree with almost everything he had to say. What really struck me, however, is...
I have joined more than 370 millionaires from 22 countries in signing a letter calling on our political leaders to tackle the cost of extreme...
Elon Musk has spent much of the past couple of days trying to explain away his offensive antics at Donald Trump’s inauguration. Whether or not it...
In today’s hyper-connected world, where I can have anything from a power drill to a little chocolate pudding delivered to my door the same day,...
The apology is “full and unequivocal”. The damages to be paid are huge. Appearing before the Leveson inquiry in 2011, Rupert Murdoch pronounced...
Australia’s superannuation is a broken system that works to give the richest 10% over $20bn a year in tax breaks, while nearly a quarter of...
After more than a decade working as a psychiatrist in the public mental health system in Sydney, I recently resigned from my position along with...
When all eyes at Westminster are fixed on Washington, it is easy to forget how little attention is paid back in return. Unlike Mexico and Canada,...
From London and other overpriced cities, we often look to Berlin as a beacon of progressive housing politics. Renting in the capital, as some 84%...
Twenty years ago, someone calling the United States an oligarchy would have been labelled a crazy commie or, at best, cuckoo. Now Biden made it...
I am an imaginative person, but I never once imagined I would find myself in a room with the Ministry of Defence (MoD) talking about what the world...
In an unofficial election campaign where we have so far seen very few concrete policy proposals, Peter Dutton’s announcement that the LNP will offer...
April may be the cruellest month – but January is easily the most depressing. The weather outside is frightful and, around this time,...
This week, in East Sussex, a case of mpox was announced, the sixth UK case since October. New cases have also been detected recently in France,...
Compared with other advanced industrialised countries, South Korea is still a young democracy, having only transitioned from authoritarian to...
When I interviewed a nurse practitioner in California about what she cherished most about nursing, it was the “human element” of being present...
I have long thought that each family has its own unique dialect. A panoply of words, references and turns of phrase that would be incomprehensible...
It’s the first day of “big school” and your child is clinging to your leg at the school gate, bawling their eyes out. You’re perplexed. The...
Full American democracy is barely 60 years old, yet seems to be in an advanced state of cognitive decline. At his inauguration yesterday, Donald...
On the surface, Donald Trump’s inauguration looked like the usual transfer of power, with political rivals exchanging polite applause. This was a...
The snow lay in drifts over the railway lines at Auschwitz, when Keir Starmer went to pay his respects last week. His wife, Victoria, the...
Labour’s plans for social security are once again under the spotlight, after the high court ruled that a consultation on incapacity benefit cuts...
As Aussie summers go, it hasn’t been a bad one. No major disasters. The weather’s been mostly good, notwithstanding those storms. The cricket was...
Inauguration day in the US signalled the drum beat of the far right sweeping across western democracies. According to Sadiq Khan, now is the time...
Could Germany go the way of Austria? Could the party of the far right be invited to form a government? What was previously deemed impossible, then...
At noon ET on Monday, the US presidency changed hands, and one of the largest governments in the world rearranged itself in service to the...
It may have been straight after Megxit – when Meghan and Harry decided to “step back” from the royal family in 2020; or it may have been a year...
Politics in the US has had its fair share of stupid moments, but the recent banning and (sort of) unbanning of TikTok may rank as one of the...
Needless to say, a nation capable of sending a man like Donald Trump to the White House twice is not well. It was of course possible to understand...
Donald Trump was sworn in as the 47th president of the US today, promising a slew of executive actions that put America first. Here our columnists...
The defiant appearance of heavily armed Hamas fighters during Sunday’s handover to the Red Cross of three Israeli hostages held in Gaza since the...
No UK prime minister, or indeed any other world leader, has ever been to the inauguration of a US president since the record of attenders began in...
Hadedas are iridescent grey-brown ibises – jack russell-sized birds with long, curved bills and very small heads – found throughout sub-Saharan...
How should Europe respond before Donald Trump’s policies destabilise the global economy? All countries will soon have to take a stand on the new...
Since Brexit, one of the hardest tasks in British politics has been to make accurate predictions. Just when you think you know what is going to...
If you’re feeling despair over Trump’s second regime, which begins today, I understand. Yet I remain hopeful about America. Let me explain why....
A&E nurses thrive in a crisis. That’s why my colleagues and I came into the profession – to do the best for our patients in their moment of need,...
I outsmarted and shamed a nice elderly man named Leo last night, who was only trying to help me. Leo’s a career coach with a trimmed white beard...
What would the ideal leader of the Conservative party look like? Despite the party’s newly developed regicide habit, this question doesn’t...
With his characteristic dyspeptic vitriol, Donald Trump scorns Joe Biden as the “worst president in the history of America”. The historian...
I don’t want to alarm anyone on this, the 95th day of January, but I have just realised that there are still almost two weeks before February...