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Emma BrockesThe Guardian |
There are lies, evasions and manipulations by politicians that, when they come to light, can make the politician in question seem even less relatable...
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 the...
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,...
For the past month, every woman I know has been having versions of the same conversation, roughly opening with: for the love of God, how rapey is the...
Among the many unedifying aspects of the fall of Huw Edwards has been a possible glimpse into how the man sees himself. At the hearing on Monday, the...
Short of sticking two pencils up his nose and muttering the word “wibble”, Trump’s appearance on the debate stage on Tuesday night was never...
There are lots of differences between the presidential candidacies of Kamala Harris and Hillary Clinton, but, rhetorically at least, there’s one...
“He looks perkier,” said my nine-year-old, passing the screen as I watched footage of Joe Biden speaking on the first day of the Democratic...
Earlier this week, I dropped my kids off at a day camp in a park in London and then congratulated myself all the way home. The summer holiday is long...
There were a lot of things in Tim Walz’s favour to propel him on to the Democratic ticket as the pick for VP. A former teacher, former football...
A funny thing happened in the hours after the exit of Joe Biden from the US presidential race and the entrance of Kamala Harris in his place: a huge...
Reports from the first two days of the Republican national convention in Milwaukee suggest that the mood of the room isn’t merely energised but...
Last year, 200 composting bins were rolled out in New York City, with a unit on every other corner you could open and close via an app. This was...
In the wake of Joe Biden’s disastrous performance in the US presidential debate last week, the national tone shifted from shock and horror to fury....
Who could have foreseen that the scariest thing about the presidential debate on Thursday night wouldn’t be the lies, the bombast or the threats to...
No election involving Donald Trump can be considered normal, but, in among all the breaches and oddities of this uniquely strange presidential race,...
If you didn’t know better, you might think the jury that found Hunter Biden guilty this week knew precisely what they were doing. The evidence...
Not to diminish the capacity of the British for public disorder, but there is something darkly comic about watching, split-screen style, the contrast...
Last Friday, I took four nine-year-old girls to their favourite after-school hang-out, Tea Magic, a place that is distinct from, and in their view...
There’s no justifying it, but I have a sneaky soft spot for Michael Cohen, the former lawyer, fixer and – as Fox News is keen to remind us –...
The spectacle of Stormy Daniels on the witness stand in a Manhattan courtroom this week sent one back to the image of Trump’s last female...
There is a familiar moment in Republican electoral politics when an obscure politician thrust into the limelight during election season comes under...
‘I know the name,” texts a friend when I ask if she knows who Liz Truss is, but like most Americans can’t quite put her finger on why. “Like...
As the supreme court heard arguments relating to the 6 January riot and Donald Trump sat in a criminal court in Manhattan, cinemas across America have...
It is a mark of the bleakness of expectations among American Democrats that, this week, President Biden’s slight rise in the polls has been seized...
I’m spring cleaning and last week filled eight huge boxes with clothes during a once-in-a-decade pass through my wardrobe. We put these things off...
There is a joke in the first season of the HBO show Hacks, pitched by Hannah Einbinder’s gen Z character, Ava, to her boomer employer, Deborah...
I have lived for long enough in the US to be acclimated to most of the cultural differences, starting with 20% tipping and ending with the customary...
There was a snowstorm in New York this week, triggering the shutdown of schools, the excitement of children and, in my case, a flurry of activity on...
The first thought I had, as I put on the Apple Vision Pro headset, was that I was somehow going to fail at virtual reality. For 20 minutes I’d...
It is a mark of just how low are the expectations one brings to the Republican primary race that Nikki Haley, the last woman standing against Donald...
A big topic of conversation in our house is how much stricter English schools are than their American equivalents. What if, one of my children will...
It hadn’t snowed in New York City for 701 days – a record – so when it started to come down on Tuesday, children’s jaws dropped like kids...
“All I know is that it’s time to leave this country, and go very far away.” Those words, from a staff member at the TV station attacked by...
With storms battering the US and Donald Trump back in court claiming immunity this week, light relief comes in the form of a news story we didn’t...
The vogue in self-improvement this new year is for leaning out, that is, for giving yourself permission to relax on the understanding that some...
Western European politics is suddenly sprouting some very odd couples. Last weekend, Rishi Sunak flew to Rome and posed for pally photos with...
It has long been a paradox that the rich countries whose professional services firms are responsible for most of the world’s cross-border tax abuse...
Ten days out from the end of the year, and who could have foreseen the latest Trump plot twist? On Wednesday morning, Americans woke to absorb the...
My first instinct was to avoid the TV show Squid Game: The Challenge, for highly pleasing reasons of self-righteous disdain. The original Squid Game,...