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Corridors are no place to die, but that is what is happening in British hospitals now as the worst winter crisis in years crams every corner and...
More than 400 newsroom staffers at the Washington Post pleaded with the paper’s owner, Jeff Bezos, this week to do something about their beloved...
Last month, I was working with a young homeless family on England’s south coast. The local council had found them a privately rented flat with an...
Was it just for the PR? That’s what many who care about fairness in the workplace have been asking since Meta, headed by Mark Zuckerberg,...
The BBC is still in the premier league of great British institutions – just. Other countries have public broadcasters, but none has the BBC’s...
Draw near, allies, for these are dark days for “kink-shaming”. At best, this is one of the whiniest, most pathetic and least helpful phrases to...
Last week, I swam in the sea, slowly wading in until the water reached my hips, and then diving under the softly rippling waves. Clear jellyfish...
As we watch the horror of the Los Angeles fires, Australians are painfully reminded of our own vulnerability to climate change, which continues to...
Well, finally. Only eight years on from kneecapping the economy and crowing “you lost, get over it” at anyone impertinent enough to notice, a...
Earlier this year, I finally climbed Mount Anne. This has taken an unlikely amount of time – I’ve been climbing Tasmanian mountains for years, but...
A settled British relationship with the European Union has become an increasingly pressing part of Britain’s unfinished national business. Labour...
In the six decades since the release of The Times They Are a-Changin’, Bob Dylan’s success has turned out to be one thing that doesn’t change...
What the 2024 election results made clear is that the Obama coalition is dead. If Democrats are to have any shot at reclaiming power, so too must...
The ceasefire news came suddenly, with an agreement we had heard before, surrounded by bureaucracy, hope and death. People all around me in Gaza –...
When news of the ceasefire and hostage-release deal between Israel and Hamas first broke on Wednesday, a friend offered the kind hope that now, at...
Last October, tens of thousands of people marched through Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia and other big Spanish cities demanding affordable housing....
Britain’s centre of power is stalked by a zombie. Across Westminster, the mere mention of her name summons up a grim past, but she remains ever...
As a child of the 90s, my summers were spent splashing in the neighbours’ overly chlorinated pool and flicking through the back-to-school...
In the quaintly upsetting era of George W Bush’s presidency, there was something people liked to pompously call the “cultural opposition”. This...
Aristocrats are “the most difficult Animals to manage, of anything in the whole Theory and practice of Government. They will not suffer themselves...
It’s possible that you have seen far more of Donald Trump’s face than you’d like in recent months. But if you haven’t, then I’ve got great...
Recent days of market turmoil have elicited some extraordinary responses. The fact that investors are demanding higher rates to lend to the UK...
I don’t know if anyone else has noticed this but everything seems to be going down the tubes quite fast. And not fun tubes, like at a waterpark. The...
Last week, as the Sunset fire was bearing down on her Los Angeles home, Allison Agsten approached a group of television news crews gathering in her...
At last! The yearned for Israel-Hamas ceasefire-for-hostages deal is finally happening. It is welcome. Like thin ice covering deep waters, it is...
In some ways, the secretary of Defense nomination of Pete Hegseth was always meant as a domination exercise, a way of making Senate Republicans...
How many times in your life can you say that one of the culture-defining platforms of your era is being forcibly removed? This is what will happen...
It was unusual to see Muhammad Yunus, a widely respected Nobel laureate and the chief adviser of the unelected interim government of Bangladesh,...
There was a group of blokes cleaning the streets with big hoses and whatnot. These streets were in Zagreb, late one evening in the 1980s, well into...
Hollywood would struggle to come up with a better plot. On Monday, as Donald Trump returns to the White House, the World Economic Forum’s (WEF)...
When I look back at some of the opinion pieces I wrote and the art I made in the 2010s, I can’t help but cringe at the conviction with which I...
Hope has rarely felt so fragile, or so inadequate. A moment long sought and prayed for will nonetheless be met with fear and apprehension as well...
In the German city of Karlsruhe, a police investigation has just been launched into the distribution of 30,000 flyers designed to resemble...
2025 has not started well, and you should be bloody angry. We are less than five months from the federal election and both major parties’ climate...
My house in Altadena burned down in the wildfires on Wednesday. It all happened quickly. On Tuesday around 7pm, my wife and daughters went to a...
This week, the city of Glasgow opened the first legal drug consumption room in the UK. Users at the Thistle can inject drugs in a safe and clean...
Last week, as flames began tearing through greater Los Angeles, claiming multiple lives and forcing more than 100,000 people to evacuate, JP Morgan...
Forget Greenland. A UK pizzeria, Lupa Pizza in Norwich, rendered itself the No 1 place on Earth most deserving of hostile annexation this week when...
Several years ago, I tried to impress a new girlfriend (now my wife) with my cultural credentials by dragging her to an off-off-off-off-Broadway...
I met Jake in prison. He was a lifer and I was an officer. By the time I began working with him, he’d already served 15 years. Unsurprisingly,...
I have come away without a laptop so, for the first time in 35 years, I have been forced to write something using pen and paper. My last attempt,...
In theory, Tulip Siddiq’s resignation as a junior Treasury minister ought to be a political bump in the road for Keir Starmer, not a pothole...
Donald Trump wants to revive American imperialism. For weeks, the president-elect has threatened to seize Greenland and the Panama Canal, possibly...
There’s a scene in the film Mad Max: Fury Road where the evil ruler Immortan Joe, gazing down from a cliff upon his parched, emaciated subjects,...
I first encountered Alaa Abd el-Fattah 11 years ago, as a disembodied whisper of reassurance from outside the bars of my grubby prison cell in...
On Monday morning, a couple of hours after the UK government’s AI opportunities action plan was published, I started getting messages from artists....
Keir Starmer made two predictions at the start of his week. He said that artificial intelligence will transform Britain’s economy in the coming...
For many women I know, contraception is a kind of decades-long quest. The goal: to not get pregnant unless we want to. The tools: limited,...
I’ve been working in New South Wales’s public mental health system for 15 years. I’ve cared for some of the most unwell people in our community,...
When returning US president Donald Trump eyes up Greenland, Panama and Canada, as Vladimir Putin once eyed Crimea and Xi Jinping eyes Taiwan, he is...
Peter Dutton’s speech in the marginal seat of Chisholm a few days ago was supposed to sketch the terms by which the opposition leader would fight...
You would be hard-pressed to find a single positive side-effect of the pandemic. If there is one, it is the growing numbers of people who now work...
My children and I have been sleeping in the same bed to stay warm for the past week. In the day, we layer up and put the heating on for short...
Democracy is dying across the globe. This may sound alarmist and generate a follow-up question: what does that actually mean? Will there be no...
Elon Musk’s latest attempts at direct political interference illustrate the grave danger that Europe is facing. He has suggested overthrowing the...
Jaron Lanier was chief scientist of the engineering office of Internet2 back in the day, which is to say, definitely one of the godfathers of the...
Over the past month, we’ve learned that Donald Trump’s inauguration fund has received million-dollar donations from, among others, Google, Meta...
At this very moment Luigi Mangione, who is accused of shooting UnitedHealthcare’s CEO last month, is sitting in a federal jail cell in Brooklyn....
‘The desire to be a politician should bar you for life from ever becoming one,” the comedian Billy Connolly once said. Never has this been...
Rachel Reeves’s decisions don’t warrant her departure, but her missteps are steadily eroding her credibility. She entered office with public...
More than 11,000 people crammed into Bradford’s City Park last Friday, on a frigidly cold January night. Hats were on, coffees were in hand and...
As the public wake up to the risk of “forever chemicals”, or PFAS, the industry is fighting back with a campaign researchers have compared with...
Looking back on my 25 years in medicine, one of my earliest realisations was Australia’s penchant for alcohol. A routine part of taking a...
In the 1990s, a trend took hold among evangelical Christians – wristbands with the letters “WWJD”. “What Would Jesus Do?” Anthony Albanese,...
Digital technology companies have reshaped our world and will continue doing so. Sir Keir Starmer knows his government must seek a role in shaping...
Different year, same direction of travel. The likely formation of the first far-right-led government in Austria’s postwar history, after the...