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We need an Ozempic for cars. They are growing at a phenomenal rate, wreaking havoc on the roads, squeezing out smaller vehicles in car parks and...
Rumi’s magnum opus, the Masnavi, is often read as a profound exploration of sacred love. That, of course, is true. But it is much more than that....
Am I, a middle-aged woman, invisible? There’s a picture of me near these words; can you see it, or am I a blur, like a perp on Traffic Cops who...
Graham Platner is out of the Maine Senate race, burdened by controversies that include a troubling rape accusation, which he denies. His departure is...
This coming Tuesday, the government’s representation of the people bill comes back to the House of Commons for its third reading. It bundles up a...
The second Trump administration is systematically eroding the institutional foundations of competitive elections without formally abolishing them....
Neither of the supreme court majority opinions in Trump v Barbara, the 5-4 decision upholding the constitutionality of birthright citizenship, mention...
It’s hard to pick a favourite PG Wodehouse line, but the one I’m perhaps most fond of is this: “Into the face of the young man who sat on the...
The first time I came face to face with a great white shark I felt something shift inside me. One look into those eyes darker than a planet-sucking...
A politician who aims to gradually privatize and ultimately destroy an institution funded by tax dollars – say, a public school system or public...
Is Mitch McConnell dead? This shouldn’t be a difficult question to answer. The response is either “yes”, “no”, or something along the lines...
Rejoice, cinema lovers. Tilly Norwood is back! Not familiar? I don’t blame you, as she’s not exactly a household name yet – though a fleet of...
It is said that there can be no truer revelation of a society’s soul than the way it treats its children. The Bar Council of England and Wales has...
Of all the outrageous things Donald Trump has done, from bombing other countries to appeasing dictators, his sneaky interference in last week’s USA...
It’s seven years since I stopped presenting the Today programme and started listening to Radio 3 instead. Or at least, that was the plan. On the...
It’s all starting to feel very real now. Or so Andy Burnham said on the day he in effect became Britain’s official prime minister-in-waiting; a...
Krissy Barrett was a young Australian federal police intelligence officer back in 2003, when years of ethnic tensions and thuggish anarchy pushed...
A cricket scorecard is pretty straightforward. It shows you how many runs you scored, how long you played and whether your team won or lost. Cricket...
Quick look at the Clacton byelection field as it stands: Nigel Farage, Count Binface, Piers Corbyn, Laurence Fox, some bloke who’s been on Married...
Ana Marie Cox’s New Republic profile of the Maine oyster farmer and former Democratic senatorial candidate Graham Platner begins with an encounter...
Nato leaders survived another nerve-racking summit with Donald Trump and the 77-year-old defence alliance lives to fight another day, proving its...
At the Nato summit just ended, Trump lashed out at other Nato members, saying he was “very disappointed with Nato” and asking: “Why are we...
Graham Platner was accused of rape on Monday, and it quickly became clear that he will never be a United States Senator. After days of delay, he...
It is sobering that Count Binface’s potential victory in the Clacton byelection seems be one of the few ways we can restore any confidence in the...
Maine’s US Senate race was blown wide open by Graham Platner dropping out of the race. Thankfully, a suitable populist is at hand to fill the...
Of all the many prime ministers who have walked through the doors of 10 Downing Street in the past decade, the one Andy Burnham resembles most is Liz...
Shock ricocheted around the world of social research this week with the sudden news of the imminent closure of the High Pay Centre (HPC). Founded in...
The Australian Jewish News has removed an article which decried the treatment of the executive officer of the Jewish Council of Australia, Sarah...
Let’s get two things clear right from the start. Firstly, antisemitism is a real and significant issue, and there has been an increase in incidents...
Opposition to AI datacenters has emerged as a primary theme in US politics, one that – surprisingly – doesn’t fall along party lines. We applaud...
It has taken more than seven decades, but the grievous wrong done to Ruth Ellis has finally been recognised. Ellis was the last woman to be hanged for...
Generative AI has gone too far. Many have said it, but I need to add my human voice to the cacophony. There are many reasons I dislike the growing use...
Another year, another telecommunications failure. In 2025, it was Optus whose network failed, leading to hundreds of triple zero calls failing to get...
Finally, after decades, I have something in common with Taylor Swift. It feels great to say that out loud, in public. No, I’m not famous, rich,...
And so to war. Again. After a ceasefire and a hiatus, Donald Trump is now into the second day of a new phase of bombing Iran, with the US military...
In an old, often anxious and conservative country, the perception of risk is a potent political weapon. If a policy or a project for reforming the UK...
School’s almost out and the holidays are here, which means for millions of Britons we have arrived at the start line for what might be called our...
As the judge read out the verdict in Marine Le Pen’s appeal trial for embezzlement, the same conversation was playing out in living rooms and...
What’s wrong with people? I don’t mean ordinary people. I mean the superpeople. The excessively talented, the wildly successful, the world-famous,...
It really hasn’t been a very good week for Harry. Our fifth in line to the throne will retire to Montecito, his gated California fastness – not,...
The two great existential threats of our time – the climate crisis and AI – come hurtling together in the explosion of datacentres across...
Britain’s politics was never so weird. First, the people of Makerfield choose who should be the new prime minister. Now the people of Clacton are to...
At 5am on Saturday morning, I found myself jogging across a field with a few hundred strangers, on my way to block a highway. We were just outside the...
“Chat told me I should break up with him.” I instructed my face to remain therapist-neutral, but I must have smirked. The truth is, I was annoyed....
It’s satisfying when one word sums up an entire philosophy or feeling – think hygge, schadenfreude – and there’s a new kid on the block that...
The new prime minister will be looking for money? Well, here’s £21.7bn lying on the ground. The government could cancel its deranged, disastrous...
Every new government – at least for the past decade or so – has come into office with a promise to build more homes. New ministers don a hard hat,...
When the final whistle blew just before dawn, and England had beaten Mexico in that encounter now hailed as a World Cup classic, glasses were raised...
Most people who closely follow British politics probably know the basics about Jaywick, an enclave of Clacton, on the Essex coast. A sprawling tangle...
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