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I have met quite a few influencers over the years and, to be frank, they’ve mostly been a strange bunch. I remember meeting one at a party a while...
“Humans take a lot of killing,” wrote Frank McCourt in Angela’s Ashes. As bleak a phrase as it is, McCourt was talking about resilience, how...
Beti Hohler is a Slovenian national who lives in the Netherlands. Like tens of millions of other Europeans, she uses Apple’s app store and has an...
When Donald Trump descended the golden escalator in 2015 to announce that he was running for president of the United States, the world laughed. And...
After growing up in a home of atheists and agnostics, it took decades of spiritual searching for me to discover that there are deep teachings in...
The recent frenzy of attempts to redraw electoral districts is ultimately about voice and silence in US democracy. When districts are cut to maximize...
In the fall of 2024, I spotted a middle-aged couple standing on their front lawn in Bucks county, Pennsylvania. I waved and gingerly approached. The...
Keir Starmer teeters. The defence secretary exits, and thereby seems to confirm the prime minister’s demise. Andy Burnham scents a final, belated...
The Lincoln Memorial has always been special. Its siting is perfect, facing the Capitol, across the length of the Mall, as if speaking truth to power....
Imagine we detect a large asteroid heading straight for Earth. We are able to intervene and prevent disaster, but instead we cut the funding needed to...
Sitting in a remote cabin earlier this year on the Hebridean isle of Harris, watching the fishing boats come and go in the little harbour, I felt the...
Just about everyone reckons Vladimir Putin is in deep trouble in Ukraine. Everyone – meaning Volodymyr Zelenskyy, his European backers and western...
The discovery of a black-headed gull in Geraldton, Western Australia, has put Australian birders in a bit of a flap. Normal people might wonder why,...
In honour of Pride I’d like to share some important news: Being Straight is Great, Actually! This public service announcement is brought to you by...
My birthday is coming up next month. I will be, by my count, even more ancient than I was last year. I’ll be far enough from 40 to make it...
Not long after governor Janet Mills had effectively dropped out of the primary race, a storm grew around Platner’s campaign. Rightwing operatives...
I live in the Norfolk countryside, and what irritates me most about living here is the deluge of litter that gets thrown out of car windows in the...
Omar Artan was to be the first Somali to referee at the World Cup finals. A Fifa-certified referee since 2018, Artan officiated at the Africa Cup of...
When voters in Makerfield head to the polls next week, their decision, as is increasingly the case across the nation, may come down to this: whether...
Elon Musk is now the world’s first trillionaire, after his SpaceX exploration and satellite company went public on the Nasdaq today. With shares...
If you’re not a football fan, it’s possible your life online has suddenly become quite alienating. Friends who may once have seemed sensible,...
“This isn’t the beginning of the end,” one senior Labour adviser remarked yesterday. “It has gone way beyond that.” To the middle of the...
Two unfolding outbreaks continue to command global attention. As a hantavirus outbreak tied to a cruise ship appears to be petering out, Ebola cases...
Unpopular opinion incoming: there’s cool stuff brewing in the world. Microbots might one day mend spinal cords, a petri dish of brain cells can...
Yousef, a Palestinian journalist, and I stood on a beach in Gaza during the first intifada – the uprising that began in 1987, defined by popular...
One thing is clear. British politics has yet to rid itself of the torments of the past decade. The resignation of Keir Starmer’s defence secretary,...
“If the government decides, very quickly, to bulldoze the Statue of Liberty – the people whose ancestors that was the first thing they saw coming...
For many years now, Donald Trump has been saying awful things to – or about – the female media figures who have the nerve to ask him questions and...
In the season 5 finale of The Kardashians, the family took a commercially available blood test to discover how fast their bodies were ageing. It came...
Gwyneth Paltrow has built a wellness empire by encouraging people to put questionable things in their mouths and up their orifices. Over the years the...
They flock to Makerfield from everywhere: canvassers and camera crews, MPs, peers and volunteers, from Swansea to Gateshead, 700 a day to help the...
There may be some doubt about whether One Nation has raised more than $2.7m in its Fire the Liar fundraising appeal this week but there is no doubt...
‘They want us to stop seeing each other, to lose contact, to feel alone,” the Icelandic writer Sjón told me. By “they”, he meant the dark...
John Healey is not a rash man. Slow to anger, calm in a crisis, loyal and yet beneath it all, formidably determined. He stuck at it through the Jeremy...
Since the historic Nato summit in The Hague one year ago this month, European leaders have pledged massive increases in defence spending in the face...
I’m not convinced by the old adage that we should never meet our idols because they are bound to disappoint us. I’ve never wanted to approach...
On a sunny Melbourne winter morning, I visited the State Library of Victoria to catch up with a mate and stumbled upon an exhibition of heartfelt...
I began my career as an A&E nurse in 2010, when I was 21. It was a completely different world. If a patient needed immediate attention, there was...
Unemployment is bad for anyone, but really hard on the young. That’s because prolonged periods of worklessness in your late teens or early 20s scar...
The eighth amendment prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment is among the most noble and valuable constitutional protections. It is the only...
By now, it is an event as regular and predictable as the tides: a Democrat wins an election, and Donald Trump says that that election was rigged....
There is a seductive fantasy being floated by AI executives that all the efficiency their products will bring us will lead to humans finally returning...
There is nothing wonderful in the world that men in suits can’t find a way of spoiling. Football World Cups used to be great: massive events to...
My dad and I kept a running list of ways we didn’t want to die. Being buried alive was always No 1. Whenever we learned about unusual deaths –...
A while ago, to amuse myself, I ran a search through my text archive for the phrase “I can’t stand it”, which delivered pages and pages of...
For all their claims to be mould-breaking politicians, the feuding Nigel Farage and Rupert Lowe are in many ways predictable and traditional...
There was a time, not so long ago, when female breasts appeared daily in some national newspapers. It was part of a culture that stripped and...
I sometimes think of the former EU home affairs commissioner Ylva Johansson, who just six years ago spoke of crafting a European migration policy with...
Tim Wilson has thrown himself into fighting the reduction of the capital gains tax discount in Labor’s budget, as well as the abolition of negative...
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