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Emma BrockesThe Guardian |
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,...
I had been quite looking forward to hating Saltburn, the loose Brideshead Revisited reboot and second movie by Emerald Fennell that has been exciting...
We have been here before countless times: prematurely anticipating the end of Donald Trump on the basis of actions or implications that, for anyone...
There is something mythic about the story of Diana Nyad, the first (and, to date, only) person to swim the 110 miles from Cuba to the US without the...
In the opening moments of The Golden Bachelor, the newest addition to the US reality show franchise, a dapper man who could be in his late 50s...
The rollout this week of Britney Spears’s memoir, The Woman in Me, seeks, among all the usual aspirations of the celebrity memoir, to execute a...
I f it is the role of morning telly to soothe and distract us from bad news, then Holly Willoughby, star of ITV’s This Morning, chose quite a week...
O f all the surprising things to have come out of the build-up to the trial of Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder of the now defunct FTX cryptocurrency...
I t was John Fetterman, the Democratic senator for Pennsylvania with a penchant for “unapologetically wearing shorts” while on duty in the Senate,...
P olitical change often follows a change in consciousness; the process of defamiliarisation through which things we once accepted as fine, or hated...
I happen to be reading Evil Angels at the moment, John Bryson’s brilliant account of the case of Lindy Chamberlain and the death, in 1980, of her...