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My name is Aliyah Abdel Majid al-Halaq. I am 33 years old, from the village of ar-Rihiya, south of Hebron, and the mother of five children. My eldest...
Last week I went to Canberra with a group of other people who live by selling our creative work. We make the books, songs, artwork, First Nations...
The question of the UK’s relationship with the EU has resurfaced with Keir Starmer’s premiership drawing to a close and Andy Burnham, his likely...
One of the biggest misconceptions about Naidoc Week is that it’s simply a celebration. While it is a time to celebrate, it grew from an Aboriginal...
It was difficult to reconcile that the mild-mannered young man sitting across from me, neatly dressed and quietly spoken with downcast eyes, had just...
The internet, as we know, is now a depressing hellhole where everything is a terrifying shot of cortisol straight into the eyeballs or AI slop,...
If Donald Trump’s address on 3 July from Mount Rushmore will be remembered at all, it will be because that was the day of competing speeches, and...
There’s a joke doing the rounds about Andy Burnham. It usually goes something like this: a Blairite, a Brownite and a Corbynite walk into a bar....
Knowledge is power, in all cases except this one. I used to think that tales like the one I’m about to relate were urban myths. I was definitely...
As the United States marks the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, marking the official birth of the new nation, it is worth...
In the autumn of 2005, Tony Blair gave one of his most unhinged and fascinating speeches as prime minister. “I hear people say we have to stop and...
What do Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin and Benjamin Netanyahu have in common? Answer: a chronic inability to tell right from wrong. The three leaders...
‘If your name’s not down, you’re not coming in” is a phrase with which celebrity party planner Fran Cutler will be more than familiar....
We must face it. The political system has changed. Playing catch-up won’t bring back the old order. At its heart is an epochal transformation in the...
The mystery of the missing congressman has finally been solved. Almost four months ago Tom Kean Jr, a Republican, vanished from public view. He missed...
Andy Burnham has set out his vision for “good growth in every postcode”. It may seem like levelling up 2.0 – and if so, that’s very good news...
I hate birthdays, especially my own, which is ominously arriving next month. I used to love them, back in those days when I had something tangible to...
The 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence has arrived at a moment of some embarrassment for the Republic. The United States of America,...
My name is Tom, and I am an idiot. I’ve been an idiot almost my entire life, ever since I was old enough to think it was funny and interesting to be...
It shouldn’t feel like a contentious image: a large cross of St George – England’s national flag – being unfurled and laid out on a raked...
Few scenes better capture the essence of a European summer than the terminals of our airports in the early hours of the morning. Britons necking pints...
America’s big birthday has come at a bad time. On Saturday it will be a divided nation that marks 250 years since 13 North American colonies...
This weekend’s conference is a critical moment for New South Wales Labor. It’s a chance for elected officials and members to finally choose to act...
For a long time humanity has dreamed about a life free of toil, spent largely in leisure, learning and pleasure. Now that AI has arrived, what if it...
Not soon after Donald Trump’s 2025 inauguration, there emerged a viral illustration of four Black women sitting at the top of a building while...
It is a cast-iron rule of the comments-section era that there is absolutely no celebrity you can write about without some person dialling in to post a...
I always know someone is going to say something racist when they start a sentence with, “I’m not racist, but …” Nobody likes to think they...
I like to think that I’m not an easily influenced person who chases every trend. But what can I say? It can be hard to resist the power of the...
To call this Saturday the nation’s 250th birthday is to indulge a comfortable fiction. 1776 was a declaration, not a birth certificate – and the...
When the “king of the north” called London “the world’s greatest capital city” this week, it didn’t reassure those who fear that Andy...
On Thursday, the Victorian government announced it was “Keeping Puppy Protection Laws Up To Date”. Free puppies might be the only policy that...
No speculation is too harebrained when it comes to Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s wedding. Are they getting married at the gigantic Madison Square...
When the body of an 11-year-old girl was found in a disused grain silo on a farm in the Gers region of south-west France last month, the news sent...
The Afghan embassy in Canberra has quietly closed its doors, lowering the country’s tricolour flag and dimming one of the last remaining lights of a...
In financial disclosures released on Tuesday, Trump reported earning more than $1bn last year from his several cryptocurrency ventures. All told –...
This week, South Africa has been rocked by protests that have caught the world’s attention. These have been led by anti-immigration civic groups...
After my adoptive father died in November last year, my adoptive siblings found a short story by Enid Blyton among his possessions. The Child Who Was...
The first thing my friend Paul says after he picks up after four dial tones is “is everything OK?” Everything is OK. I was just calling for a...
Thursday will mark the 50th anniversary of the rebirth of the death penalty in the United States. On 2 July 1976, the supreme court handed down...
One reason to celebrate America’s national big birthday – our 250th on the Fourth of July – is to honor the unusual longevity of our democratic...
I’ve found another way of ruining sport for myself. I thought I’d explored every means of turning the stress dial up to 11, but now I’ve chanced...
There is some uncertainty and trepidation in these liminal days before the nomination period for the next Labour leader opens. But it’s not about...
For all the crowd noise and heavy-breathing match analysis, British democracy is a simple sport. We elect politicians to serve our interests. They...
It was the early-morning phone call that so many of us dread. My mother was in the emergency ward of her local hospital. She was struggling to...
As a teenager, I walked through concentration camps in Poland, where the Nazis industrialised the murder of European Jewry. That history has shaped...
Britain should spend less on defence. It is a waste of money and should be reduced so more could be spent on supporting employment, welfare and...
The pandemic changed a lot of things in Australia – and around the world – for better and worse. Two legacies that stand out to me from an...
From certain angles, it might appear as if President Trump is having a tough month. He messed up the renovation of the Lincoln Memorial reflecting...
On the steps of the US supreme court on Tuesday, a group of women celebrated. They cheered and held up signs with phrases like “Girls’ Sports for...
A recent chair of the Democratic National Committee apparently wants democratic socialists to get out of his party. “If you hate the Democratic...
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