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I’m a big napper. World class, in fact. I can go from awake to the bottom of the ocean in five minutes flat, like a high diver off a cliff. It’s a...
Every few years, the grind of modern life inspires calls for a radical rethink. We have seen this most recently in Iceland, where the rollout of a...
For the almost two decades I lived in the US, my approach to medical bills was always the same. First invoice, ignore. Second invoice, ignore....
One of the conventional pleasures of the American shopping experience has been buying more than you need while telling yourself you are being...
I have spent most of the last week on Zoom calls with accountants in New York, trying to figure out the personal finance implications of moving to...
There are lies, evasions and manipulations by politicians that, when they come to light, can make the politician in question seem even less...
So here we are, back to the era of waking up to headlines that trigger audible “ughs” and a desire to act out being violently sick. On Wednesday...
“It’s bitter in the mouth, the racial and gender dimension of this.” This was Van Jones, the CNN political analyst and a Black American,...
What are you going as, this Halloween? The discussion in our household starts in the spring, takes in many twists and reversals over the course of...
I remember when “fascist” became a word we all used, right around the time we first learned what it meant in adolescence. It had the kerb appeal...
The singular piece of publicity most helpful to The Apprentice, a film about Donald Trump that opened in the US last week and opens in the UK this...
There was something almost poignant about Donald Trump’s tweets in support of his wife, Melania, on the occasion of her memoir being published this...
The overriding and at times darkly comic impression, watching JD Vance’s exchange with Tim Walz in the vice-presidential debate on Tuesday night,...