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I awoke recently to one of those galleries of photographic memories curated for me by my phone. This one featured my best friend, M: admiring a...
The heads of beavers, large rodents known for building dams, are their own kind of highly complex dam structure, with various retractable walls...
Today we live in an era defined by crisis. Indeed, we are facing multiple overlapping threats at once: from accelerating climate breakdown to the...
Several years ago, I made a movie called Dark Waters, which told the real-life story of a community in West Virginia poisoned by Pfas “forever...
At the start of the millennium it was widely presumed each successive generation would achieve a higher level of prosperity than the last. Today...
Britain would be a wasteland if it weren’t for immigration. Fifteen thousand years ago, most of the country was buried a kilometre deep in ice –...
I have one primitive but foolproof tool of political analysis. Trying to balance competing claims in any matter of party discipline – unless it’s a...
Whether it’s the front pages or your Uncle Frank’s Facebook posts, you’ll have done well lately to avoid news about upcoming disability benefits...
When Mark Carney took the job as governor of the Bank of England in 2013, he negotiated a five-year term rather than the traditional eight-year...
US tariff policy has dominated headlines in recent weeks. In many respects, this shouldn’t come as a surprise – President Trump has been clear in...
Two days after he met the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, at his Sandringham estate, King Charles was photographed on the bridge of HMS...
It has been just over six weeks since a ceasefire came into effect in Gaza, and it’s clear that it would more accurately be called a “reduce” fire,...
A few Thursdays ago was a wrap. For my brief acting career, that is. One of the benefits of having a writer’s schedule in a city like Paris is the...
I’ll admit it, Carrie Bradshaw in aviators and a fur coat, smoking and drinking beer while watching baseball, spoke to me. It was season two of Sex...
In a press conference on Sunday to mark 100 days since the beginning of her second term as European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen...
One constant of British political life is that Nigel Farage never stays out of the spotlight for long. Having built a political career on railing...
At a press conference for the Sarajevo film festival in the early 1990s, its founder, the Bosnian director Haris Pašović, was asked why he set up...
I rarely have any wisdom to impart, but at this time of year I find myself itching to share one of the few snippets I have gleaned in my 50 years....
I remember the first time I truly felt the power of fasting. It was during the Bahá’í Fast, in the quiet hours before sunrise, when I woke in...
Once, we all respectfully listened to what epidemiologists said. We queued up for vaccines, observed distancing lines and confidently asked...
There was a telling moment at prime minister’s questions last week when a super-keen Labour backbencher used his moment in the spotlight to praise...
I’d say writing comedy about the ever-shifting opinions of Donald Trump, the Speedy Gonzales of on-the-hoof policymaking, is like playing pin the...
Traveling abroad for the first time since November, I saw pity in the eyes of strangers when they heard my American accent. Pity, empathy, and...
Sycophancy is the coin of the realm. In Donald Trump’s court, flattery is the only spoken language. He does not need an executive order to enforce...
In 2009, Tony Blair visited Masafer Yatta, a collection of hamlets in the Palestinian West Bank. He had come to see a school that had gained...
It is the grimmest of roll calls: to mark International Women’s Day, the names of women killed by men over the past year are read out in the House...
Short of emigration, what is the best option for Britain’s dazzled Trump followers now their hero confirms he is not Europe’s ally but Vladimir...
The founding fathers of the USA – James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, Benjamin Franklin and more – were quintessential disciples...
The boys are not all right. That’s the message from a new Centre for Social Justice report, Lost Boys, published last week. It surveys how boys and...
When Narendra Modi’s alliance won a narrow majority in last year’s Indian election, it signalled his waning popularity after a decade in power. A...
In the hands of some of its most gifted practitioners, songwriting is a kind of emotional alchemy. For the past week, I have been returning to a...
For six weeks we watched as Donald Trump – primped with golden hair, bronzer, fat pens and a zigzag signature – played the lead role in his new...
Donald Trump’s sinister affinity for Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, has long been the subject of intense speculation. Former KGB officers...
Andrew Tate is now a free man. The rightwing anti-woman influencer landed in Florida last week after being held detained for over two years in...
The awards season for films ended last Sunday with the Oscars. Though I make absolutely zero claim on having any Mystic Meg capabilities, this time...
So Microsoft has decided to terminate Skype, the internet telephony company it bought in 2011 for $8.5bn (£6.6bn). Its millions of hapless users...
So what is it, exactly, that we want from the Duke and Duchess of Sussex these days? We know what we don’t want, which is, basically: everything...
Feyre Archeron has many talents: she can skin a wolf and track a deer, and in the words of an amorous fairy she looks “absolutely delicious”. An...
Five years ago, we were beginning to face the imminent reality of lockdown. We were confronted with an uncertain future in which our habitual ways...
When I took my seat in the House of Lords almost a year ago, I pledged to campaign for the abolition of my job. Our second chamber has become a...
“A new era is upon us.” Ursula von der Leyen was not holding back. This is a world turned upside down, changed beyond recognition. Leaders across...
On Monday Hugh Marks will arrive at Ultimo for his first day as managing director of the ABC, marking a fresh start for the broadcaster after a...
Australia’s close-knit literary community – from writers and agents through to the Australian Society of Authors – have reacted with outrage. Black...
It’s the love-hate relationship that defined a generation. We think we know all about teenagers and the phones to which they’re so umbilically...
In 1965, the British government blocked the BBC from broadcasting The War Game, a pseudo-documentary film it had commissioned depicting just what a...
While Democrats are dithering and debating with consultants about which anti-Trumpian strategy to adopt, courts are confronted with an...
As I write, Australia’s national icebreaker, RSV Nuyina, is steaming south-west from Hobart, heading to Antarctica on its first dedicated marine...
No one designing a system for delivering public services in a modern democracy would come up with something that looks like English local...
You may well be aware that Backpfeifengesicht is the German word for a face that is worthy of being slapped. Even so, how has this not been...