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One of the problems beleaguering political opponents of Donald Trump has been finding a form of protest that, given the scale of his outrages,...
Donald Trump and the Republicans ought to be wary of a possible blue wave in next year’s midterms. On Tuesday, voters in Florida and Wisconsin...
“Life is like a box of chocolates,” said Forrest Gump, who had clearly never looked at the label descriptions on the box. “You never know what...
I’ve been lucky. I’ve enjoyed a rewarding career in education, including almost 15 years as a principal in the Northern Territory and the ACT. I’ve...
The verdict is in: the National Rally (NR) and its leader, Marine Le Pen, have been found to have employed fictitious European parliament...
Upsetting backbench MPs is an occupational hazard for prime ministers. Government is an endless sequence of messy compromises. Incumbency is a drag...
If anything is going to get me to turn on BBC One early on Eid morning, it’s Eid prayer being televised on a UK terrestrial channel for the first...
Everything is moving too fast. The Trump-Musk administration is tearing through US government, universities and health organisations, firing tens...
The Guardian reports that Israeli troops “killed 15 Palestinian paramedics and rescue workers one by one”. “One by one” is another way of...
Jokes have a specific relation to Trumpian politics: they are the tip of the spear for introducing illegal or once-unacceptable ideas to the...
There are a few people to blame for the fact that JD Vance, a staggeringly unlikable man with a supremely meme-able face, has been thrust into such...
On 29 January, the second Trump administration held its first White House press briefing. “Of the 3,500 arrests Ice has made so far since President...
My husband died of a fentanyl overdose. Leading up to his death, Cleve had been prescribed all sorts of pain medications. He was a war-wounded...
If the antibiotics we use to treat infections ever stopped working, the consequences would be catastrophic. It is estimated that the use of...
Every generation looks at the next generation, and the one after that, with bafflement and concern. There’s probably a name for this phenomenon....
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...