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After more than 1,000 days without a response to the landmark Murphy report into the harms of online gambling, and growing pressure from advocates,...
Dear clean energy industry, this is your moment. Cease your frowning at the roadblocks that have been put in your way. Exit your industry conferences...
One of the many people my husband’s clan and I invite to family celebrations isn’t related to us by blood or marriage. He isn’t dating one of...
Oh dear, it looks like Jesse Watters’ mother needs to give him a good talking to again. The Fox News host regularly spouts so much deliberately...
After Donald Trump returned to the White House, his son-in-law and former senior adviser Jared Kushner declined to take a job in the new...
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Science is an infamously dry endeavour. The noble practice seeks to answer humanity’s most inscrutable questions. How did life begin? What is...
More than a century after he was marched to the gallows, there is still something radioactive about Roger Casement, a name that continues to emit a...
That combative old hymn, Onward Christian Soldiers, is not much heard these days, though it was once a favourite with church congregations and school...
A couple of weeks ago, just before my 70th birthday, I completed the Mooloolaba standard distance triathlon (1500m swim, 40km cycle, 10km run). There...
When the Women’s Library opened a century ago, the movement it documented appeared triumphant. Most British women had gained the vote in 1918, and...
“She had no more surprises for him; the unexpected in her behaviour was the only thing to expect,” Henry James wrote in his novel Daisy Miller....
Going anywhere nice this summer? No, me neither, judging by the warning from the Ryanair boss, Michael O’Leary, that a global shortage of jet fuel...
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In another one of those strange and unprecedented moments of the Trump years, the president of the United States showed up at the supreme court the...
It was only a matter of time. The writing has been on the wall for months for Pam Bondi, Trump’s attorney general, who was unceremoniously fired on...
While the UK is only marginally involved in the war in the Middle East in military terms, the ramifications for this country are still potentially...
Lizzo’s ascent to mainstream stardom was the type of fairytale that pop dreams are made of. She was a long-hustling musician, Houston-raised then...
Six weeks ago, I was doing what I’ve always done – working as a plumber in people’s houses. I’d just completed a plastering qualification and...
A purple cloth alien to remind me of my daughter’s love Space scientist and CEO of Science Innovation Ltd The item I would take with me to the moon...
There are many worse ways to start your day than with eggs royale. The contrast in textures between a soft poached egg and a coarse, toasted English...
Donald Trump’s self-congratulatory speech on Iran on Wednesday night was as puzzling as it was divorced from reality. I had hoped he would declare...
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The US is extraordinary. One day it goes to the far side of the moon and revives the space age. On the same day, its president is looking to the far...
Sheffield was still an industrial powerhouse when George Orwell suggested that it “could justly claim to be called the ugliest town in the Old...
Terms of reference for the independent inquiry into grooming gangs in England and Wales have been agreed. The formal process starts in less than two...
I can’t fault anyone for looking around at the state of things on the planet Earth and pondering the existence of aliens. Who wouldn’t want to hop...
Canberra rolled out the red carpet this week to one of the AI overlords whose technology is driving the world down the path of creative destruction....
A year into his role as managing director of the ABC, Hugh Marks has made one thing clear. The Australian newspaper, a notable chronicler of the...
Recently I got down on one knee and presented my boyfriend with some jewellery, and asked if he would commit to caring for a very long, cute, stinky...
In May 2025, Kanye West, also known as Ye, released his single Heil Hitler. It was the logical conclusion to several years of racist, sexist and...
I recently heard an exchange at a playground that should worry the executives at AI companies more than any analyst’s prediction of a bubble. A boy...
The US-Israel war on Iran is expensive. It’s expensive in terms of human lives, first of all. It’s expensive too, in pure currency – about $12bn...
American opponents of birthright citizenship – the right of all those born on the soil of a country to claim full legal rights and political...
Does anyone want some bits of guttering? They’re zinc, I think. Free to a good, or indeed any home! I’ll send them to you or even, to be on the...
This week, Israel passed a law that institutionalises the execution of Palestinians. The country’s courts can now impose death sentences on...
Britain is facing the most severe energy shock since the early 1970s, but have no fear: the government has a plan. Details of said plan are still a...
Look at the front pages or open a news app in the coming days and you’ll supposedly see the big events facing Britain. But here’s one that is...
We could be at the end of the road for the Danish method of democracy. Our style of parliamentary politics has been celebrated and admired...
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After mounting an illegal war with Israel against Iran without consulting traditional allies, Donald Trump, man-baby leader of the free world, is now...
More than 50 years ago, the Apollo astronauts’ photographs of Earth seen from the moon had a jolting effect on a society distracted by division and...
Appointing Matt Brittin, a former Google executive, as BBC director general is smarter than critics admit. Although he was on the board of the...
After meeting European Union foreign ministers this week, Volodymyr Zelenskyy voiced exasperation over the continued blocking of a €90bn EU loan to...
Perhaps the most celebrated writer on oil markets is Daniel Yergin. His work has won a Pulitzer and his advice sought by every president from Bill...
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Now, let me begin by saying: stealing is bad. I don’t think you should steal things. It is a good way to get yourself sent to prison and it is...
This week, it was revealed that despite the Australian government’s world-first teen social media ban, around seven in 10 children remain on major...
Land, it is fair to say, is important. In Australia this is very much the case – and even more so in the past 25 years. Last week the Bureau of...