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The scriptwriters of Trump: the Soap Opera are slipping. The latest plot development – the epic falling-out between the title character and his...
Watching the TV coverage of the conflict in Gaza with increasing dismay this week, my mind went back to the banks of the Suez canal in October 1973....
I’m not much for horror movies, but I have just read that the film Black Phone 2 “will creep into cinemas” in October and that, compared to the...
Among the layers of life in Paris that energise me, I might list: peeling back the city’s music scene all the way to figuring out where, and when,...
Ever since the world’s richest person, Elon Musk, threw his financial weight behind Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign and appeared hopping...
After less than a year in power, Labour has reached a familiar place. Keir Starmer’s troubled government is at a fork in the road, wondering which...
The feud between Elon Musk and Donald Trump is a godsend for Democrats, a headache for the president and a problem for Mike Johnson, the Republican...
It is, according to no less an authority than the romcom king Richard Curtis, destined to be “one of the greatest British films of all time”. But...
On 11 June, the government will unveil its long-awaited spending review, laying out how it wants to spend more than £600bn annually on public...
Before Samantha Maiden was the Gold Walkley award-winning political editor of news.com.au she was editor of the student newspaper On Dit at...
I’ve heard from a very wise friend that something she hadn’t previously considered, which she read in my “tiny house” article, was that the housing...
If you paid attention during physics class you will remember the third law of ego-dynamics. Namely: when two egos of equal mass occupy the same...
In the space of one week, Labour-run Wales has been short-changed by Labour-run Westminster on projects from rail funding to national insurance...
When Hurricane Helene walloped North Carolina last fall, residents were hit by a second threat at the same time: the dire need for accurate...
If you were doubting that Nigel Farage had a serious chance of heading a hard-right British government in 2029, the people of Hamilton, Larkhall...
Throughout his business career, Donald Trump sought new ways to leverage his name to make easy money. He ran an airline, a university and a winery....
I’ve moved from the city to Melbourne’s outer east, where everybody knows how to garden. Blundstoned parents swagger in for school pickup with...
Yet another attempt to inject sanity into Britain’s archaic drug laws has failed. The mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, last month accepted Lord...
Good news. Free school meals for all children in England on universal credit is rightly being celebrated by schools, nurseries, further education...
Differing attitudes to women’s and transgender rights activism are often said to be generational. One poll, published a month on from the supreme...
Defence reviews and foreign policy resets seem to turn up almost as often as the Sussexes’ lifestyle brand relaunches these days. Labour’s...
If there was a single feeling that defined my 20s, it was a generalised allergy to the very concept of home: I learned it’s a myth that you only...
When I first moved to Italy in 2012, I had no idea that more than a decade later I’d still be here. Back then, being British I had the luxury of EU...
The Donald Trump administration has billed itself as taking unprecedented steps to crack down on illegal immigration. While the total number of...
The intrusion of politics into personal relationships has been an eagerly documented feature of the Trump-Brexit era, which this week found its...
One day in my late teens I found a pair of jeans that fitted me nicely. This was at the newly opened Merry Hill shopping centre in the Black...
Organising a women’s networking event in the US has become an act of defiance. Companies with equality-driven agendas risk losing government...
Donald Trump’s trade war has become his quagmire: legal, economic and political. On 28 May, the court of international trade ruled his tariffs...
In one of his recent Truth Social posts, Donald Trump appeared to fire Kim Sajet – the fearless and utterly brilliant director of the Smithsonian...
There were early signs that the March GDP figures were not going to be good. To start with, the Bureau of Statistics’ new measure of household...
Sir Keir Starmer is pledging to make Britain “battle-ready” by spending billions of pounds on arms factories, drones and submarines. Rachel Reeves...
In Denmark, we like to think of ourselves as being in the vanguard of freedom of expression. We were the first country in the world to legalise...
Five years ago thousands of Australians defied Covid restrictions to pour on to the streets of our cities and towns as part of the global Black...
It is hard to take this Labour government seriously or literally. In presenting its much-heralded strategic defence review and calling for a new...
We need to talk about Liz Truss, although there are reasons not to bother. The prime minister who failed faster than any previous holder of the...
Is there going to be a recession this year? Economists have been umm-ing and ahh-ing and crunching the numbers, but the answer could be at the tip...
In the Uganda of the 1980s, my family lived in Kampala. We did not own a car, so walking was part of daily life: to school, to church, to the...
This must stop. Two incidents of political violence, both targeting groups of Jewish people, are two incidents too many. Less than two weeks ago, a...
In Shakespeare’s Henry VI, Part II, a messenger breathlessly announces to the king that, “Jack Cade hath gotten London bridge”. Hold this late...
It’s hard to keep track of all the temper tantrums that Donald Trump has had because he’s so ticked off that one judge after another has ruled...
In recent weeks, various nature groups and newspaper columnists have promoted claims that the government’s flagship planning and infrastructure...
A friend held a controversial opinion about something, which he shared with me on WhatsApp. He insisted he wasn’t being an edgelord. A what? I took...
Government guidance documents rarely feature soaring prose to fire the imagination. But a recent Department for Transport policy update contained...
Europe’s latest presidential election appears to have delivered not a statesman but a slogan – “Poland first” – and with it, a rebuke to the...