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In spring 2004, Gen Anthony Zinni uttered about Iraq the dreaded words in US politics: “I spent two years in Vietnam, and I’ve seen this movie...
Fifty years ago, I started thinking about the demand for women to look a certain way and the rebellions against the narrow ways in which we were...
For all Donald Trump’s bluster about restoring American strength, his attempt to bully European allies over Greenland reveals a deeper weakness:...
It is true that science is self-correcting. Over the long term this means that we can generally trust its results – but up close, correction can be...
Soon after becoming president in 2017, Donald Trump ordered an attack on an Islamic State (IS) underground complex in Afghanistan’s Nangarhar...
New year’s resolutions are catnip for perfectionism. Each January we are invited to reinvent ourselves as fitter, more productive, more virtuous,...
One way or the other, President Trump said, he will have Greenland. Well, at least now we know it’s the other; not an invasion that would have sent...
The Birmingham reggae band UB40 began as a quintessential product of the troubled era when Margaret Thatcher was the UK’s prime minister, archly...
Let’s get this out of the way, because I’m itching to tell you (again): I’m vegan, and this is our time, Veganuary! Imagine me doing a weak,...
On 7 January 2026, Renee Good was killed by ICE agent Jonathan Ross; video captures a man’s voice calling her a “fucking bitch” afterwards. Kristi...
The very idea that all human beings have inalienable rights, and that humanity is distinctive and precious, is under serious assault. This year...
I’ve got a sneaking suspicion that, somewhere in a makeshift situation room in Mar-a-Lago, there’s a whiteboard with “very high IQ strategies to...
It’s important to state that I am the most insufferably sentimental person I know. There are old birthday cards collecting dust in my jam-packed...
Donald Trump’s blitzkrieg since his 3 January seizure of the Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro has been guided by his triumph of the will, as he...
On 14 January, the Trump administration announced a stop on issuing immigrant visas for applicants from 75 countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America...
A stag or hen do should be a straightforward, fun night celebrating a good friend moving into a new chapter of their life. Instead, thanks to films...
When I was a little girl, there was nothing scarier than a stranger. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, kids were told, by our parents, by TV...
It was a bad start to the new year. Slipping on ice, I fell and broke my right wrist, so now I can’t hold a pen with my writing hand. But my...
“In life, there’s the beginning and the end,” John Carlos, the African American sprinter who raised his fist in a black power salute from the...
Once again, France’s farmers have been blocking motorways with their tractors in protest, this time at an impending EU trade agreement with a group...
It is difficult to think of another area of government policy that has weathered as much legislative hyperactivity as asylum and migration. I have...
Are we being injured and killed by ubiquitous, teeny-tiny shards of toxic plastic? Or aren’t we? For many months, the Guardian has reported a...
There’s something particularly dystopian about watching the mute headlines of daytime television play at the gym. It feels like a movie montage;...
It was an infamous night in football. More than 5,000 Dutch police officers had to be deployed to contain hundreds of Israeli fans embarking on a...
Last weekend, as the world wondered whether Donald Trump would swipe Greenland, Keir Starmer made his own big geographic intervention: he published...
It is axiomatic to many of his critics that the US president, Donald Trump, is a fascist. Indeed, some have seen echoes of the work of the Nazis’ “...
The Middle East was braced on Wednesday night, but the anxious petitioning of Gulf states and Iran’s attempts to appease the US president appeared...
After refusing to walk, in a manner reminiscent of Stuart Broad batting against the Australians in the 2013 Ashes, the West Midlands chief...
Like a 1970s rust-belt serial killer, Nigel Farage is painstakingly assembling around him the political corpses of Boris Johnson’s final, terrible...
Is Greenland Donald Trump’s 25th-amendment moment? Last time around, this was when the Washington “grownups” debated his capacity to be president,...
There is one political problem from which all others follow. It is the major cause of Donald Trump, of Nigel Farage, of the shocking weakness of...
Did you notice history being made this week? I am not referring to what may have been the most pathetic moment in recorded time – Donald Trump...
Will Donald Trump order a US military attack on Iran? That question captivated the world for the past two weeks, as the US president issued...
There aren’t many escapes from the grim onslaught of terrible news these days. You can stare at a blank wall, obsessively count the hairs on your...
In late December, Iran experienced the beginnings of an uprising driven primarily by economic pressures, initially emerging among merchant bazaaris...
In Minnesota, armed and masked agents are ripping families apart. They are seizing parents while they wait with their child at a bus stop, going...
Conservative party leader Kemi Badenoch’s decision to sack her shadow justice minister, Robert Jenrick, due to his impending defection was not so...
I hate my glasses. I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again. Not just these I’m wearing now, but whichever spectacles I’ve been cursed to...
As an American of mixed Danish and Indian heritage, who is also a citizen of France and, therefore, of the EU, Donald Trump’s contempt for the rule...
What is the name for the grief of losing a restaurant? Surely the Germans have a word for it. Many Sydneysiders will be keening and lighting...
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