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After spending $220m of taxpayer money on an advertising campaign in which she demanded migrants self-deport, Kristi Noem is now being forced to make...
This week, I sat in the gallery of the House of Commons and watched a historic moment unfold: Hannah Spencer was sworn in as the MP for Gorton and...
Late last month, a Minnesota federal court judge, Patrick Schiltz, issued an opinion detailing hundreds of instances in which the Trump administration...
There comes a time in every middle-class or upwardly mobile person’s life when they will hear the following six words: “Would you like to come...
I was at work last Saturday when I heard the blast. Since that moment, the world has been turned on its head. The school called asking me to come and...
When Yitzhak Rabin became the prime minister of Israel in 1992, he debated which regional power would be the Jewish state’s stronger enemy – the...
Spain’s prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, called his 2019 political memoir A Manual for Resistance: a fitting title for a centre-left leader known for...
Artificial intelligence is en route to artificial life. Exhibit A: “Moltbook”, an online platform designed for AI systems to communicate with one...
“Impressive” isn’t usually a word used to describe speeches to the Australian Parliament. Descriptors like “straightforward”,...
Despite health and fitness being more in vogue than ever, childhood obesity rates continue to rise. A new report from the World Obesity Federation...
When the US defence secretary announced on Wednesday (US time) that a US fast-attack submarine had sunk an Iranian ship off the coast of Sri Lanka, it...
Have you heard enough pant-wetting about Britain’s “reputation” this week? Honestly, I don’t think any of us can bear the social embarrassment...
The day that will be remembered as one of the darkest days of the long and troubled US-Cuban relationship is 29 January. That was the day that Donald...
America’s main streets are a warzone. This should trouble every American, irrespective of their political leaning. Life, liberty and the pursuit of...
Keir Starmer’s immediate response to the Israeli-US attack on Iran last weekend was sensible and correct. Donald Trump had lied that the US was at...
The BBC may have a over one and a half years before its charter expires in December 2027, but the public consultation on its renewal closes next week....
Was it the blanket that did it? On Thursday, Donald Trump announced he fired Kristi Noem, the secretary of homeland security, in a post on Truth...
To be fooled by a mirage, you needn’t be lost in the desert. Sometimes, the illusion is strongest just when you thought you were safely home,...
My guess is you keep across the news. You know Andy Mountbatten-Windsor has just had the worst birthday ever; that tall hotels in Dubai don’t make...
European governments have quietly begun adapting their policies for the hitherto unthinkable prospect that France, a founder member of the EU, may...
On 25 February, in her opening remarks at her Senate confirmation hearing, Casey Means, Donald Trump’s nominee for surgeon general, called on the US...
When the US and Israel launched coordinated strikes against Iran on 28 February, the campaign was structured like a textbook air war: destroy...
The 1951 Labour government proudly signed the refugee convention. Today’s Labour government is now in danger of consigning it to history. Why and...
What makes the independent inquiry set up to examine the UK’s response to, and the impact of, the Covid-19 pandemic unlike any other in British...
A few days ago, after a weekend of partying at Mardi Gras, I was in my garden at 2am in the quiet night air, trying to recover enough to be able to...
Last week, my ex-wife texted me. She usually does that when my son falls off his skateboard or learns a new expletive to say on the playground. This...
I’ve got some good news and some bad news for you today. The bad news is, well, everything. As you may have noticed, the world is on fire. The good...
The joint US-Israel military strikes on Iran have forced a reckoning that American political culture has been approaching for years, but has perhaps...
The bombs fell in our name before any of us knew. Then the president saw fit to inform us. Legal scholars and politicians alike began debating whether...
World Book Day dawns once more, with its morning chorus of swearing and sticky tape. This year, it falls shortly before we’re throwing a Harry...
A TikTok comedian recently launched a fake ICE tip line and received dozens of calls – including one from a teacher suggesting agents look into a...
It is usually assumed that young people are more liberal than older generations. Not according to startling new research carried out in 29 countries,...
Our political memory fails us. We treat government policies as if we’re seeing them for the very first time. But much of what appears to be novel...
“Bitterfeld, Bitterfeld, where dirt falls from the sky,” went a popular saying. Located in the intensely industrialised Chemical Triangle of the...
Despite the blatant obfuscation by the Australian government and the opposition, the US-Israel war on Iran is illegal. To have legal grounds for the...
“More Labour.” These two words sprang from the postmortem into last week’s Gorton and Denton byelection loss. But what do they mean when applied...
If you are looking for a break in the clouds from this terrible news cycle, can I direct you towards Love Story, the nine-part series...
As Donald Trump assaults the legal foundation of America’s ability to regulate global warming emissions, climate deniers have been privately...
Last summer, I found poo in the wheelie bin. Nothing unusual there: you can’t blame dog walkers for a reluctance to tote warm sacks in a heatwave....
Many of us have been there: in the driver’s seat on a tricky hill start, when the engine cuts out and the car judders to a halt. Since the EU-UK...
The latest GDP figures showing Australia’s economy grew 2.6% last year is good news, but the data also reveals an economy boosted by people chasing...
After the US supreme court overturned Donald Trump’s global tariffs, he had two options: do what’s best for the US economy or do what’s best for...
It took me nine months of 20-hours-a-week French language instruction, and the mycelial network of a year spent in Strasbourg, to feel courageous...
How well do any of us really know our friends? You may be confident of the answer to that, feel secure – smug, even – but be warned. One day, a...
Since Saturday, my mind has been torn between the place I live, Abu Dhabi, and Tehran, which has been the focus of my work and research for more than...
OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, is on track to lose $14bn this year. Its market share is collapsing, and its own CEO, Sam Altman, has admitted it...
At home and abroad, Labour and its leader are under siege. Though the Gorton and Denton result is history now, the repercussions roil his party and...
One evening in Tehran in 1980, my grandfather got an anonymous tip that the Islamic Republic of Iran wanted him dead. That night, he, my grandmother...
The chancellor is stuck in the same bind as her Tory predecessors – by choice Diane Abbott has been the Labour MP for Hackney North and Stoke...
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