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I did not make a submission to the royal commission on antisemitism and social cohesion. That is not because I have nothing to say. It is because I...
For more than a decade, Britain’s acrimonious politics has included a fundamental but often misunderstood battle. Sometimes it is fought out in the...
Once upon a time there was a boy called Baron Trump, who was growing weary of his privileged life at Trump Castle. Then, one fateful day, Baron found...
Some people are naturally drawn to writing – scribbling notes in the margins, jotting poems and little stories, mostly for themselves, sometimes to...
The Reserve Bank of Australia has delivered its third rise in official interest rates for the year, taking the cash rate up another 0.25 percentage...
Ladies, gentlemen, cineastes: our long nightmare is over. The It Ends With Us legal drama has finally Ended With Us. In a first-person-plural...
An event that ruined lives, degraded the citizenship of hundreds of millions, and permanently lowered the status of American women came and went four...
What began as a spat between Friedrich Merz and Donald Trump over the Iran war is rapidly turning into a historic rupture between Germany and the US....
If you’re looking for sound, practical advice on what happens when an elderly parent dies – the so-called “sadmin” – then you shouldn’t...
You never welcome an email from your landlord, or in my case, my landlord’s agent. I happened to be in an airport waiting for a flight when...
Reduce your calories. Eat more vegetables. Limit soft drinks and junk foods. For years, even decades, this has been the advice for those wanting a...
In the summer of 1987, as life in Britain was being steadily reshaped by Margaret Thatcher, I landed a temporary job as an electrician’s mate in a...
The fallout of the Albanese government’s proposed News Bargaining Incentive feels predictable. The tech oligarchs will likely urge Donald Trump to...
“I thought I was never supposed to come off these tablets!” my patient exclaims. “Except when you no longer need them,” I say. His doubt...
As we mark the 81st anniversary of the end of the second world war in Europe this Friday, 8 May, it’s clear that Germany will again soon be the...
All parties struggle to invest local elections with meaning, because no party can alter the consequences of what is coming up to two decades of...
I’m trying to “touch grass” more these days, to embrace embodied experiences and introduce analogue “friction” – and fun! – into my...
Let’s play a fun game of Will This Get Me Deported? The first contestant is myself: a British-Palestinian green card holder in the US. I’ll start...
All told, Democrats already seem as though they’re headed for a great midterm election. Voters already troubled by the state of the economy now have...
As Scotland prepares to elect a new parliament on 7 May, immigration is dominating the political discourse as never before. Reform UK, a party whose...
By some estimates there are almost 3 million pigeons residing in London, which has the highest pigeon population in the country. Known as “rats with...
A feature of living at the end of an era is that some events in the present already feel like future artefacts – things you expect to see in a...
If Donald Trump represents the backlash against the liberalrules-based order, then we may now be seeing the backlash to the backlash. In a recent...
I quickly discovered two important things when recently taking a three week drive over several thousand kilometres in an electric car. The first is...
Mum was kind and gentle in a way that felt so natural. She raised all five of us pretty much on her own after Dad passed away. Those were not easy...
Jewish people are living in fear – a fear that has been building for years but has become acute in recent weeks. It now seeps into every part of...
Republicans rejoiced when far more young voters than expected backed Donald Trump in 2024, with many of them moved by Trump’s grandiose promises,...
In the 1980s, a friend of my father navigated through Europe in a camper van with his family using only the map in the back of a pocket diary. He...
Six supreme court justices handed down a ruling built, ostensibly, on the belief that the US has changed so much as to render the protections of the...
I nearly drove into a wall the other day, because I couldn’t take my eyes off some spectacular wisteria. Ten years ago I doubt I would have even...
A clip from Before Sunrise. A woman joking that she won’t date men with flat heads because their lack of tummy time as babies betrays parental...
In 1997, when I was presenting the Country Hour on the ABC, I was sitting in an outside broadcast van at an agricultural field day in Northern...
Who would you rate as the world’s most unlikeable tech tycoon? Elon Musk is obviously a major contender. The digital warlord Palmer Luckey is also...
“One day, this terrible war will be over. The time will come when we’ll be people again and not just Jews.” I keep coming back to those words...
The so-called “special relationship” between Britain and the United States has never seemed more tenuous. At times, it looks like the US-UK...
During the two-month endurance test that was The Devil Wears Prada 2’s global press tour, Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway hinted that the...
When you think of retirement, what comes to mind? Perhaps it is images of older people enjoying a well-deserved period of leisure and comfort in the...
Of the many jokes cracked by King Charles during his visit to Washington, the one recalling the definitive 18th-century Anglo-French contest for...
For me, it’s mostly sadness. Among others, the overriding emotion is fear. For some, it’s anger. It was certainly anger that was most vividly on...
Tennis is hard. To succeed you need to be fast, strong, have deft hands and joints of steel. It’s also a solo sport against a single opponent so you...
The supreme court justices John Roberts, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito have made it their life’s work to unravel the Voting Rights Act and undo...
Consider the following screed: “If any other President had the ability, foresight, or talents necessary, to build this ballroom, which will be one...
If I were living in Wales, next week I would vote Welsh nationalist, for Plaid Cymru. But I would do so for what its leader claims to support but...
This month’s splashdown of Artemis II was rightly celebrated as a technical achievement. Four astronauts traveled farther from Earth than any humans...
Shortly after sitting for a televised interview with CBS News in January, Donald Trump conveyed a threat through his press secretary: air the...
On Friday, more than 3,000 May Day protests will take place across the United States – more than double last year’s number. Workers, students and...
It’s hard to make sense of the events of the last 24 hours – or the last five days. The only thing we know for sure is that a family is...
In the end, it was a royal triumph, as King Charles and Queen Camilla managed to avoid all the mines in their path (the strait of Hormuz is not the...
One thing Britain is exceptionally good at is collecting and using health data for research, studying cohorts of people over many decades. A shudder...
Seven o’clock on a Monday night and I am standing in the House of Commons, nursing a glass of vinegary white wine. All around me are people doing...
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