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When I stood for leader of the Greens in 2025, our party was at a crossroads. The transformative leadership of Carla Denyer and Adrian Ramsay had...
To-do lists are done, apparently: the latest tactic to motivate and galvanise yourself is a “CEO hour”. The rationale for this method, courtesy of...
Some of the most successful people I meet as a psychiatrist are also some of the most dissatisfied with life. They don’t necessarily look unwell....
Back in late 2025, when Keir Starmer’s grip on the Labour party was loosening and Reform UK was still in its pomp, the then health secretary, Wes...
There’s been a disturbing development in the surveillance capitalism space for me and other Amazon users: we can now find out exactly what the site...
I went to a party recently. A fancy one, filled with expensive people and interesting clothes. You might find this surprising, as I expend hundreds of...
Humankind has fearfully and sometimes joyfully anticipated the end of the world ever since it began. The Bible’s Book of Revelation speaks of “end...
It’s getting earlier every year, that first meme about golden leaves and pumpkin-spiced lattes. This year, I swear, I spotted one in early August,...
Sometimes it’s extremely hard to mind your own business. However, we all know that ideally we should, and most of us give it a bloody good go. So...
The drive north from Sydney along the Pacific Highway is lined with towns that are potentially prey for One Nation. For years, handmade roadside signs...
If she really was raped, why didn’t she speak up earlier? Why did she get drunk? Why was she wearing such a short skirt? Why did she walk home by...
There was a world before 7 October, 2023, and now there is a world after. For Gaza, for Israel, for the wider Middle East, and for everyone else too....
Vladimir Putin is escalating both his full-scale war against Ukraine and his shadow war against the rest of Europe. His main purpose in the shadow one...
Young British people have plenty to be angry about. Crushing student debt, private-school privilege, a housing market they can’t enter. Yet unlike...
I don’t know where Andy Burnham found his magic lamp, but I hope he’s taking good care of it. In the early hours of Friday morning, the genie...
Should you be able to take money out of your super to pay for housing? One Nation has recently suggested you should. Liberal senator Andrew Bragg has...
Everybody wants the Jewish vote. As if there were one. Jews are educated, generally liberal. Although they comprise only about 2% of the electorate,...
When adolescents protest that the government is failing to uphold their right to an education, and the government’s response is to send in riot...
The most basic function of government is to protect people from harm. Two growing phenomena – the climate crisis and AI – pose escalating risks of...
Infrastructure sends politicians berserk. Propose more money for the health service or reopening youth clubs and frowns break out all round. Can we...
Christa Pike had asked to be hanged. In the weeks before her botched execution by lethal injection on 30 September, in which she survived two lethal...
Werner Best, a senior SS official and jurist who helped organize the Nazi death squads that murdered hundreds of thousands of Jews, is also known for...
As ever, among all the noise triggered by Labour holding the seat of Holborn and St Pancras, the most plain-spoken and undeniable analysis was...
In the field of global health, we often talk about each generation living longer and healthier lives than their parents. We’ve seen this in the...
The coming 10 years are almost certain to be the decade that sees the greatest scientific breakthroughs in a century. The question is whether advances...
More fool me! Here I was thinking nothing that America’s Trump administration could do or say, no matter how politically and morally bankrupt, no...
The first time the window-rattling roar of a B-1 bomber woke me up this summer, I thought for one crazed second we were under attack. By the second...
The new Living Planet Report is out. Published every two years, it assesses the health of the natural world and, historically, it’s made for gloomy...
I have been dwelling on what it means to live well. Not because I have mastered it, but because I have become very comically bad at it. I have spent...
Lewisham council, in southeast London, is developing ambitious plans to transfer millions of pounds’ worth of public land to community groups in an...
Elections have consequences. So do the Trump administration’s exhaustive efforts to undermine them. Voters will be confident in their choices, but...
When you hate the mainstream press as much as Donald Trump does, nothing gets in the way of the punishment fantasy. Not court rulings. Not public...
Sam Altman, the chief executive of OpenAI, has some words for you about his company and the future of artificial intelligence. “One of the...
Every day’s a school day, honestly. How on earth did I get to just short of my 60th birthday before finding out that you could eat the skin of...
If the past is another country, and there is nothing so poignant as the innocence of recent history, then there is a third category of engagement with...
Would you mind fixing the NHS? And while you’re at it, could you please build an anti-missile system in your garden? Then regulate the banks,...
When the German chancellor, Friedrich Merz, visited the White House earlier this year for a high-stakes meeting with Donald Trump, he invited a...
Fossil fuel producers across the country are shifting uncomfortably, after the high court of Australia handed down its first climate case decision in...
Stuck in traffic in the Wiltshire town of Chippenham, I chanced upon a road sign to Christian Malford and Sutton Benger. Placenames that could be...
Donald Trump was in Nebraska on Monday, and though his long rally speech had elements of a performance, this was no Bruce Springsteen album. He...
On paper, the traditional role of the journalist at a British party conference boils down to some simple questions: what was the mood of the assembled...
Darker nights are drawing in, there’s a hint of a chill in the air and the supermarket’s seasonal aisles are groaning with spooky paraphernalia....
The latest series of data on housing and building activity has been released, showing residential building is growing strongly but also that the...
No one disproved Hunter S Thompson’s infamous indictment of television more than Richard Morecroft. Richard was the antithesis of Thompson’s...
Only a few months ago, in the spring, there was a sense of giddy possibility about the Greens. Zack Polanski’s radical new leadership felt fresh and...
A lot has been written recently in an effort to understand the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) and how we’ve risen to such prominence in a...
“I have the best advice for women in business,” Kim Kardashian told Variety in 2022. “Get your fucking ass up and work. It seems like nobody...
On another anniversary of the 7 October attacks, the lasting impact on Britain’s Jews is found in the essential daily decisions we now have to make....
It would be tough to argue that the demands of France’s protesting high school students are not reasonable ones, worth taking to the streets for:...