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Catherine BennettThe Conversation |
When UK fertility rates have fallen to below replacement levels, extended exposure to the home life of Jacob Rees-Mogg and his six children may not...
Share the adventure of a lifetime in this incredible addition to the popular series, Reading with the Stars! It’s almost Christmas and Jamie and his...
The British public remains immensely forgiving of royal failings, understandably when the family is fragile and struggling with serious illness. Huge...
On its bicentenary the chocolate maker Cadbury is keener than ever to remind consumers of its deep connection with the British public: “Yours for...
No worries if you haven’t felt quite up to it: thanks to BBC Sounds, its recent Michael Gove festival, Surviving Politics, should be available for a...
Broadcasters have, understandably enough, been adding content warnings to reports about Sara Sharif, the 10-year-old girl who allegedly died at the...
Women can’t – surely – be the only ones curious to know how, after his well-documented career in sexual incontinence, Boris Johnson has managed...
Diary note: it may seem a while off, but the end of the world is still scheduled for 2030, precise date TBC. After once suggesting that nameless...
Considering how often their profession is associated with venality, it seems only fair to record occasions when lawyers go out of their way, entirely...
Say what you like about Charlotte Owen, Boris Johnson’s pet baroness, but for an accepted nonentity she is doing valuable work. Valuable, that is,...
Elle Macpherson’s gratitude journal must have written itself last week. Most days, any leader in the wellness industry is right to feel gratitude...
News that Jemima Khan’s ex-husband, Imran Khan, has applied to be chancellor of Oxford University will have caused consternation in some quarters,...
Four stone in a year! No disrespect to earlier weight influencers Rishi Sunak, George Osborne, Boris Johnson and the late Nigel Lawson, but even if...
Around 75m years since a mighty intergalactic leader somehow triggered the existence of today’s Scientologists, the interests of their religion and...
Considering how long the cost of living has been a crisis, it’s taken a while to affect the price of one sought-after commodity: home-produced human...
Weird? As contemporary insults go, it feels fairly survivable. In fact, when compared with boomer, bigot, karen, gammon and hag – key concepts in...
After their first full week as national style influencers, some senior Labour women may be wondering what, if anything, could get them recognised as...
At the start of the last Conservative era, David Cameron had something “terribly awkward” to ask his deputy, Nick Clegg. “George has for so long...
Even before Princess Anne’s head injury, with a king and princess both on long-term sick leave, royal family experts were arguing that its...
Vladimir Putin’s visits to North Korea and Vietnam last week caused great consternation among the western powers, which was undoubtedly his...
When he looks back at his catastrophic campaign, Rishi Sunak should be able to console himself with at least one thing: people didn’t publicly...
Those complaining about the tedium and predictability of the UK’s general election must gaze with envy across the Channel to France, a country...
It’s probably not coming up on the doorstep, but with limited material and time the opponents of Keir Starmer were bound, eventually, to alight on...
The archbishop of Canterbury moved with impressive speed when the general election was announced, to remind everyone to behave nicely. He urged...
There is one pressing issue affecting millions of people that has been conspicuous in its absence from the general election campaign so far. The...
Given that the overwhelming majority of people are state educated and receive zero, or less, benefit from private schools, there is something almost...
recalls councillor Pat Karney about informal meetings with Barcelona’s leader, Pasqual Maragall, the charismatic socialist mayor who declared at the...
An organisation called “The Muslim Vote” has invited Labour to satisfy 18 “demands” if the party wants to win back UK Muslim support it has...
If a record of sexual apartheid is not the ideal look for a nation that must still, occasionally, placate progressives, news of an extreme example –...
‘Tonight I’ll be asking the most important question of all – who was St George and why do we celebrate him?” Supposing a UK channel wanted to...
Trotters up, or down? Even if you once admired Danny Dyer’s immortal summary of post-Brexit David Cameron – “He’s in Europe, in Nice, with his...
How have we managed without the expression “sunshine at sunset”? As in, when an older married man is granted sex with a much younger colleague and...
Perhaps it’s down to upbringing, maybe it’s a fault in their education: for whatever reason, struggling high earners are apt to be their own worst...
At a time when more responsible politicians are finally pushing back against expansion by the fast fashion monster, Shein, it feels inevitable that...
How are they taking it at the Garrick? Does tradition still mute responses to revelations about its membership by my Guardian colleague Amelia...
For an organisation so full of surprises – one day on funding, another on restricting free speech – Arts Council England remains remarkably...
For an heir to the throne wanting to secure his future perhaps the first rule should be: do not associate with David Cameron. Last week the foreign...
When you receive a gift like London’s newly named Suffragette line, perhaps it’s ungrateful to cavil. For as long as trains run between Gospel Oak...
If you have tears – that is, any not used up on MPs struggling to get by, parents forced to choose between skiing and private schools, second...
God knows how Rishi Sunak feels on mornings when he’s not eaten for 16 hours and there’s still over half a 36-hour fast to go. Better than I did,...
In a climate that often feels hostile to middle-aged women, maybe it’s a sign of progress that an only faintly convincing contribution on menopause...
A career in misogyny might look like easy work for any man with qualifying levels of resentment. But in an increasingly competitive profession, with...
Ending a lifetime’s rewarding collaboration, Lady Michelle Mone OBE is done with the media. Or its “ridiculous obsession with every tiny detail of...
In his time in office, Rishi Sunak has done much to popularise an intensifier favoured by men wanting to advertise their commitment to women’s...
Considering how quickly “too posh to push” once took off as a way of rebuking mothers who planned to cheat nature with a C-section, current...
Ant and Dec, the hosts of I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here!, have some frustrating news for demagogues. Dec (the shorter one): “I think we do...
Dominic Johnson? Any bells? Nothing? And yet we find Johnson, a party donor now in use as an “investment minister”, playing what he intended to be...