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“Real museums are places where time is transformed into space,” Orhan Pamuk, the Nobel laureate, writes in his 2008 novel The Museum of Innocence....
In late 1980s Hungary, courageous environmental protests against an unpopular dam project played a part in the eventual collapse of the country’s...
Strongly worded emails are not doing it. Appeals to MPs are not doing it. Taking to the streets in our hundreds of thousands with banners and...
The government’s policy on obesity, announced on Sunday, sounds as though it’s tough on the supermarkets: they really must do better on the health...
If I hear another well-intentioned person justifying their support for the regulation of AI with the qualifier “I’m no luddite, but …” I’m going to...
When I moved to Amsterdam, I felt incredibly lucky to find an illegal six-month sublet 15 minutes by bike from the centre, secured through a friend...
In the face of growing opposition, the government finally stopped ignoring the warnings from its own backbenchers and made changes to its...
It’s autumn 2024 and I’m talking to an A&E doctor. We’re on the refreshment break at a conference about care. He tells me that he and his...
Zohran Mamdani’s stunning win in New York’s mayoral primary has been a tale of two cities, and two Americas. In one, a young man with hopeful,...
I’ve thought for a while that it would be nice to be an orca. Not because I hate boats and they sink them (though I get it – the briny depths are...
Draw a circle around all the assets in the US now devoted to artificial intelligence. Draw a second circle around all the assets devoted to the US...
Our lesson today is taken from St Paul’s first letter to the Corinthians, chapter 14, verse eight: “ For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound,...
Time dims even the most vivid memory. Like a well-loved family black-and-white album, the memories of my experiences during an assignment in...
I was born in Iran after the 1979 Islamic Revolution, when religion became the architecture of public life. But it was precisely this fusion of...
With temperatures forecast to be as high as 34C, spectators as well as players must arrive at the All England Lawn Tennis Club on Monday prepared...
It’s an irony that the minerals needed to save the planet may help destroy it. Rare earth elements, the mineral backbones of wind turbines and...
In March 2020, when the Conservative government looked like an outlier in appearing to pursue a Covid strategy centring on herd immunity, for the...
This summer’s “rebuild, rebuild, rebuild” campaign by the government feels less like a policy programme than a seance. Promising renewal, Keir...
The facts are not disputed. On 20 June, two activists spray-painted two RAF Voyager aircraft at Brize Norton, where flights regularly leave for RAF...
There’s an accurate, if snide, thing I’ve seen online that reads “No parent on Facebook can believe their child has turned any age”, and yes,...
Reading about the role of artificial intelligence in higher education, the landscape looks bleak. Students are cheating en masse in our assessments...
The war is over! Except it’s not, not by a long chalk. The verbally agreed Iran-Israel ceasefire could be ripped to shreds at any moment. An...
Two years ago this week the Murphy report was delivered to the government, recommending the banning of gambling ads. And for two years the Albanese...
In a tremendous upset of politics as usual, Zohran Mamdani, a 33-year-old brown, Muslim, Democratic socialist who had little name recognition in...
I have a very important public service announcement to make. Do not, under any circumstances whatsoever, make fun of Vice-President JD Vance by...
Those of us who cover the US supreme court are faced, every June, with a peculiar challenge: whether to describe what the supreme court is doing,...
Power hides by setting us against each other. This is never more true than in the countryside, where the impacts of an extreme concentration of...
Let’s attempt something delicate: talking about age without slipping into ageism. Never before in modern history have those with the fate of the...
I did not get out of bed this morning expecting to praise the public use of an expletive, but such is 2025. If any president was going to break...
There’s nothing like a boiling hot summer with an energetic small child to make you acutely aware of the need for outdoor space. We are lucky to...
“You furnish the pictures. I’ll furnish the war,” was the storied response of the newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst to Frederic Remington...
Rules are great. I think most of us over the age of five will agree that having them is preferable to not. Perhaps there are a few stragglers out...
Reading the news you could be forgiven for thinking a week of drama in Westminster had finally concluded on Friday morning, with a deal between the...
How neat that Anna Wintour’s resignation as editor-in-chief of American Vogue should occur bang in the middle of Lauren Sánchez and Jeff Bezos’s...
The Liberal party is facing an existential crisis. In her address to the National Press Club on Wednesday Sussan Ley promised a fundamental review...
Will this disaster bill pass on Tuesday? The dangerous obduracy of the prime minister and chancellor confirms precisely what Labour MPs say: they...
Look at the coverage of any general election opinion polling recently and what you are likely to see is a map of Britain divided into its...
Friedrich Merz’s government has sent a clear message to anyone thinking about coming to live in Germany: don’t. Yet its message to those who want...
Britain, let’s face it, is crap. Crap, I mean, in quite a specific sense: we might not be teetering on the brink of civilisational destruction, as...
There was another source of pressure on the ABC content chief when he hastily removed Antoinette Lattouf from air, the federal court has found....
When I started watching the Disney show Dying for Sex, I was wary that the cancer storyline might hit a bit too close to home, after our teenage...
“Strikes on Iran ease pressure on Israel to end starvation in Gaza.” That, in case you missed it, is a recent headline from the Guardian from...