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There is a rise in racist rhetoric surrounding deportation. This is clearly influenced by the increased use of deportation against immigrants and...
Haters be damned: Donald Trump just keeps on winning. He won the inaugural Fifa peace prize last year and was presented with the completely real,...
Midway through this summer, a high-quality poll found that Democrats in California were overwhelmingly in favor of the upcoming ballot measure for a...
You can watch previous episodes of Radical Thinking here Aditya’s suggested reading list for this episode: As we say in the podcast, I’ve...
You join us on a steam train in Scotland as we head to the next episode of the BBC’s hit show Political Traitors. It’s like the celebrity edition,...
Ever longed for your own personal assistant? In the ever quickening tech race, Meta has recently launched Muse, a new AI personal agent. Unlike...
‘British music has shaped me completely’ Singer and songwriter, 26 What book has most inspired you? All about love by bell hooks taught me so much...
Pity Black History Month UK, assailed on all sides. Those on the right seek to end the celebration on the basis that it amounts to special treatment...
On 28 October 1787, Thomas Clarkson pushed through the crowds to reach the pulpit of Manchester Cathedral. A campaigner for abolishing slavery, he...
Gabriel Weston made a mistake at work this summer. It doesn’t define her – she was and is a well-regarded NHS surgeon and author – but it was...
It’s less an election result than a philosophical puzzle: what happens when a win contains a loss, a loss contains a win and the two collide?...
Heating oil may be the clearest warning yet of how the war in Iran is deepening the US’s energy affordability crisis. Families who heat their homes...
Donald Trump successfully campaigned for his second term two years ago promising to reduce prices on day one, but ever since he returned to the White...
Donald Trump’s trip to Alaska earlier this month was a real doozy. Should I be surprised? The previous time he visited my home state, in August...
To save the United Nations from the irrelevance in which it now wallows, the next secretary general will require the concerted backing of the few...
In tight races, any group that shifts a few points can be called decisive. In 2024, however, gen Z voters actually earned the spotlight. Take...
On a recent Saturday morning in Paris, I made a life-changing discovery. It came in the frozen aisle of an Asian supermarket: you can buy premade...
The antisemitic massacre at Bondi exposed a terrifying truth: that Jewish Australians can no longer take their safety for granted. The doxing,...
Andy Burnham’s opening debate on whether Britain should rejoin the EU is divisive, painful and politically risky. That is why it should be welcomed....
It is undoubtedly too early to declare victory, but the recent electoral defeats of Viktor Orbán, Aleksandar Vučić and Flávio Bolsonaro make me...
Sarah Henderson has admitted that she wrongly accused a late Palestinian journalist, Roshdi Sarraj, who filed video for the ABC from Gaza, of holding...
My boyfriend and I invented a game on our recent trip to Italy. We called it “invisible gays”, which might have been an attempt at some kind of...
This is the tale of three cities and the same number of statues, two of them colonial era and one from early this century. All were erected to...
As the allegations mount against Thomas Markle Sr, his daughter, the Duchess of Sussex, has released a statement describing her deep distress, and...
The Michigan senatorial candidate Abdul El-Sayed, a Democrat, occupies a strange but increasingly common place in modern American politics. He’s...
Great hopes were invested in Andy Burnham when he became prime minister in July. He went big on the failings of 40 years of neoliberalism, emphasised...
As the US midterms approach, Donald Trump is abandoning Ukraine’s democracy in a desperate effort to deny responsibility for worsening inflation....
There’s a pub near me with an eye-catching sign outside. I’ve driven past it many times, and it always gives me pause for a little idle thought....
As he criss-crosses the nation, stumping for Republican candidates, Donald Trump keeps asking voters to use their imaginations. “In this election,...
In a crowded country that is short of public money, any expansive public building that seems underused in any way is vulnerable. Professional critics...
In these times of social and political division, it’s worth doing a quick audit of what keeps us together. Where, as we fight over what constitutes...
As polling stations closed across Serbia on Sunday evening, riot police were deploying around the presidency in Belgrade. Many of us feared the worst:...
Recently I made my own envelope out of a sheet of paper and sticky tape, signed it and affixed a sticker. Then I took it to my nearest Australia Post...
Was this Andy Burnham’s budget – the bold vision of a new prime minister who burns with a passion to topple “40 years of neoliberalism”? Fat...
Not for the first time, I got something wrong. As someone who made a living being on camera, I developed theories about what it takes to be yourself...
‘Growth in every postcode’? Not yet, but hope at last First, he did no harm. Then he scattered sprinkles of feel-goods. He told the truth about...
Back in July the June inflation figures killed off chances of a rate rise; yesterday, however, the September inflation figures all but guarantee a...
The Canadian prime minister is a hero around the world for his Davos speech that reckoned with a reconfiguration of power in the shadow of Donald...
A summer of extreme heat, entire villages obliterated in Nepal, a super El Niño breaking records, Exxon publicly saying we may reach 3C by 2050 –...
To Airbnb or not to Airbnb, that is the question. Would you like to help pay someone’s mortgage and clean their house and fork out an extortionate...
For those of us who have spent our lives trying to dismantle this endlessly destructive paradigm of patriarchy, it has become increasingly clear in...
Following Israel’s nail-biting election, nearly every political community in the country experienced triumph and despair. The initial results swung...
Saving the only planet we have makes good economic sense. There is, after all, no money to be made on a dead Earth. There may be costs involved now,...
As another Iran catastrophe looms, one question matters more than any other: how to stop it before it’s too late? Whatever the eventual outcome of...
In 2022, when Anthony Albanese was making his pitch to voters to change the country by changing the government, I was briefly encouraged by one aspect...
In the least surprising news you’ll hear all week, Elon Musk has said he’s not entirely right in the head. “I’ve got a little bit of cyber...
Every morning, I look at myself and my neighbours standing in the queue for water, and remember how each of us once had a life of our own, our...
Midway through its second term, the Albanese government is teetering on the verge of a populist death spiral that is sweeping the globe. To avoid...
If you’ve been online lately, you’ve probably been bombarded with the discourse about seed oils. Once a completely innocuous food that no one...
With election day just a week away, candidates are ignoring millions of young Americans who could still cast a decisive ballot but have not yet...