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Mother’s Day has restored my hope in 2025 – but my kids had nothing to do with it

Mother’s Day has restored my hope in 2025 – but my kids had nothing to do with it
yesterday 40

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How to fight a fascist state – what I learned from a second world war briefing for secret agents

How to fight a fascist state – what I learned from a second world war briefing for secret agents
previous day 2

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Reeves’s Sabrina Carpenter freebie furore proves today’s politicians should avoid one thing: fun

Reeves’s Sabrina Carpenter freebie furore proves today’s politicians should avoid one thing: fun
24.03.2025 7

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Badenoch’s attack on net zero is ridiculous. But so were the right’s Brexit claims, and look where they left us

Badenoch’s attack on net zero is ridiculous. But so were the right’s Brexit claims, and look where they left us
20.03.2025 20

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My beloved tube station book-swap has gone. Who’s to blame for its passing?

My beloved tube station book-swap has gone. Who’s to blame for its passing?
18.03.2025 5

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Labour is gaslighting disabled people – and that should terrify us all

Labour is gaslighting disabled people – and that should terrify us all
17.03.2025 5

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I loved the Crufts dog show – apart from Clare Balding and the winner who was 50% cat

I loved the Crufts dog show – apart from Clare Balding and the winner who was 50% cat
11.03.2025 20

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How did Reform end up in such a mess? Is that a serious question?

10.03.2025 10

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Crap jobs, fewer homes, less money, toxic politics. And peak happiness eludes the young: who knew?

06.03.2025 30

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Someone left a strange wheelbarrow in my kitchen. Now what do I do?

04.03.2025 4

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There’s no denying Trump’s true nature any more. But what will it take to stop another visit to the UK?

03.03.2025 6

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Welcome back Billy McFarland and a new Fyre festival. Shows you can’t keep a good fantasist down

27.02.2025 10

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Welcome to Britain in 2025 – where there is a heist in my local shop and no one is surprised

25.02.2025 6

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The fight at the heart of the German election is simmering everywhere

24.02.2025 7

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James Murdoch has spilled the beans, and the reality is more miserable than we – or Succession – ever imagined

19.02.2025 10

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What I learned from a lovely woman on a packed ward in hospital

18.02.2025 6

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The new world order is exactly what it looks like. Are we too frozen with fear to name it?

17.02.2025 30

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Who wants to look a million dollars, these days?

11.02.2025 40

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Trump is driving political debate to ever new lows. The left must hold on to its values

10.02.2025 10

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The idea of ‘welfare’ has lost all meaning. Just look at the cruel state of women’s prisons

06.02.2025 3

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Who started the culture war between cyclists and drivers?

04.02.2025 10

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Bridget Jones is a welcome reminder of a much more comfortable era

03.02.2025 6

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A stranger offered me a seat on public transport – and it’s thrown me into crisis

28.01.2025 9

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The term ‘Blairite’ is meaningless. So why do people continue to use it?

27.01.2025 20

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What’s the point of Davos when even the rich are fed up with the super-rich?

23.01.2025 20

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The great Harry and Meghan debate rages on – but I’m staying out of it

21.01.2025 10

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Braverman, Truss and Fox – we have sent the worst of British public life to Trump’s inauguration

20.01.2025 7

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Why I have finally quit Facebook (it’s not just about fact-checking)

14.01.2025 40

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DIY rape kits at universities are a welcome sea change – but they can only offer a hologram of justice

13.01.2025 7

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This 77-year-old climate activist should never have been jailed – and now faces a Kafkaesque struggle to get out

09.01.2025 100

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I know how to fix new year’s resolutions – and it could change everything

What’s the right age to realise new year’s resolutions are trash that won’t last until February? By about 12 years old, the data should be in:...

07.01.2025 10

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Elon Musk loves to provoke – and Nigel Farage is his latest victim

In fiction, when a billionaire supervillain mobilises himself and his nefarious army of dollars against British democracy, we send a secret agent...

06.01.2025 20

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Romcoms are clearly fantasy – but divorce sequels aren’t the answer

In 2003, I wanted to write a column about why Love Actually encapsulated everything bad about Britain, not just our culture, but our entire self-...

24.12.2024 10

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The ‘quad-demic’ is here – and with it I have become a disease detective

Neologisms may have the excitement of the strange, but there is nothing exciting about the “quad-demic” if you’re afflicted by it. Even if the...

17.12.2024 4

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I went to see two very different pantos this week. Here’s what I learned

They call the Palladium Christmas pantomime “the glitziest show in town”, which basically means “most expensive”. I feel moved to point out that I...

17.12.2024 10

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Succession showed us the rich are largely miserable – and the Murdochs are living proof

Rupert Murdoch has lost an epic legal battle against three of his children: he wanted to wrest control of his media empire back from them, settle...

11.12.2024 10

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‘Loaded for bear’? Online puzzles are puzzling enough without all this American lingo

When Wordle first landed, more than three years ago, a lot of Britons complained, bitterly, about the American spellings, taking to social media to...

10.12.2024 40

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Rebecca Hendin on the fall of President Assad – cartoon

09.12.2024 5

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They ‘didn’t look the type’: how the media was fooled by Bashar and Asma al-Assad

As Bashar al-Assad is ousted as Syria’s brutal president, his wife Asma and children having fled to Russia shortly before, the scenes are too...

09.12.2024 4

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DIY advent calendars are way too much work – but I don’t know how to stop

Advent calendars are a nightmare when you’re divorced. The kids come back from their other house with days’ worth of unopened Toblerone, which is...

03.12.2024 5

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As a middle-class woman of a certain age, all I can say is: ‘Thank you, Gregg Wallace’

Gregg Wallace, accused of “inappropriate behaviour”, had stepped away from MasterChef and was keeping his head down while lawyers were engaged – on...

02.12.2024 7

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Women are fed up with waiting – and they’re taking fertility into their own hands

The number of women without a partner having children by IVF or sperm donation has trebled in the past 10 years. IVF itself is not unproblematic;...

28.11.2024 3

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I used to think I could adapt to most things – then they rearranged my local Lidl

What they always say about cats – indeed, one of the reasons I prefer dogs – is that they don’t like moving house. You have to trap them inside for...

26.11.2024 5

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On a 17-hour train journey I glimpsed our future – and it was ugly

The concept of “enshittification” was invented by the American sci-fi writer Cory Doctorow, only last year, to describe online platforms and the...

25.11.2024 10

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760,000 women in the UK waiting for a gynaecological appointment? That’s just the tip of the iceberg

The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists has landed on an arresting image to illustrate the waiting-list crisis in its field. If all...

19.11.2024 10

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If you can’t trust the voice of David Attenborough, what can you trust?

It sounds too fanciful and too outrageous to be true, but nothing is too outrageous for the world the tech bros have bequeathed us. The BBC has...

18.11.2024 8

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A British export the US didn’t need: a cosy relationship between editor and proprietor

Postmortems continue for who lost Kamala Harris the US election, and these will be consequential for the left in the UK. However many times the US...

15.11.2024 5

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That’s the fireworks over for another year. Phew!

Near my house, there are some incredible firework enthusiasts. In November 2020, when I’d just moved in, I thought it was an optical illusion...

12.11.2024 10

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Billionaires like Elon Musk don’t just think they’re better than the rest of us – they hate us

Nearly three years ago, I started working on an idea for a book. It started out with the pretty mild proposition: we’re in a class war, but it’s a...

11.11.2024 30

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It’s taken me 20 years, but I’ve finally updated my to-do list

My time management is quite old-fashioned, mainly consisting of a to-do list. Three columns if I’m feeling particularly efficient: work; admin;...

05.11.2024 4

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