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Every Labour government forges ahead with life-changing liberal reforms, and this one will be no exception. Expect the right to die to be one of...
The presence of the Nine TV personality Scott Cam in Paris to promote The Block was the final provocation for print journalists contemplating...
The new political dawn, when the BBC might have hoped for at least a brief period of tranquillity, came to an abrupt end with the double whammy of...
A week has always been a long time in politics, but this might have been the longest week in Kamala Harris’s life. While Joe Biden is still...
It’s going to be ugly, that much is already clear. In the few days since Kamala Harris began her 2024 campaign for president, the media has shown...
To put it bluntly - Benjamin Netanyahu is the enemy of the Israeli people, the Palestinian people, and of every person on this earth who values...
As I arrange my timetable for the next two weeks to allow plenty of space to cheer on our Olympians in Paris I feel a strong sense of nostalgia. It...
There are reshuffles and there are reshuffles. The first kind of ministerial redesign occurs after an election. In that situation, the frontbench...
Natalie Fleet was only 15 when she got pregnant by an older man. At the time, she says she didn’t really know how to describe what was happening;...
The police killing of Sonya Massey, the 36-year-old Black woman who was shot in the face by a white sheriff’s deputy in her own home after she...
There is no such thing as a universal leader. Leaders always represent a specific social group: a political party, a religion or a social movement....
Every Thursday at noon, outside the west door of Valencia’s cathedral, nine black-cloaked figures – one wearing a banded cap and with a...
Could you name the 18 public inquiries currently open in the UK? I will start you off: the deadly fire at Grenfell Tower; the overreach of...
Like a warm compress drawing pus from a wound, the Democratic presidential candidacy of Kamala Harris immediately brought out the misogyny and...
Keanu Reeves says that, at 59, he’s thinking about death all the time. We’ve a lot in common, Keanu and I. I’m 57 and I, too, think about death...
The fact that Black mothers in England are almost twice as likely to have their births investigated for potential NHS safety failings is shocking...
It’s a safe bet that no leader outside the United States is following its current election more closely than Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr...
When he was still the nominee, Joe Biden’s preferred euphemism for abortion was “Roe”. He would talk about “upholding” Roe v Wade even after...
The contest to succeed Rishi Sunak as Conservative leader may seem like an argument between corpses in a tomb. The candidates are yesterday’s...
The Republican party of the United States remains the party of denying women fundamental human rights. The US press as a whole remains the...
The public voted for change at the general election. Perhaps nowhere more than when it comes to energy. Every person and business has paid the...
As long as there have been deepfakes, there has been political deepfake panic. Concerns about the use of deepfakes – that is, artificially...
Boring. That was the universal response to Wednesday’s first prime minister’s questions of the new parliament. Where was the screaming,...
In his first speech to the new parliament, Sir Keir Starmer told MPs: “The fight for trust is the battle that defines our political era.” It...
It’s hard to know where to start if you are a brand new government taking on a mega-survey of risk and potential emergencies in the UK. Beyond...
Few schooling practices elicit a polarising reaction among Australian adults quite like the pen licence does. If you don’t know what is, it’s...
Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech before a joint session of the House and Senate may look like a political victory: the prime minister of a foreign...
The Labour leadership has told you who it is, over and over again: it is time to believe it. Keir Starmer has suspended seven Labour MPs because...
If you teleported me to a foreign city for a day and gave me a choice between a trip to the supermarket or a museum, I’d almost always choose the...
The United States and our federal government love to portray ourselves as leaders in peace, diplomacy and human rights. In the eyes of the world,...
It seems as though a lot of people have forgotten how to be tourists. As a travel writer, I can’t quite believe some of the behaviour we’re seeing...
Now that Kamala Harris is the presumptive Democratic nominee, you’ll be hearing a lot of speculation about how she might poll against Trump. What if...
Home ownership has always been deeply embedded in the Australian psyche. For decades, it has been considered the ultimate emblem of financial and...
Gareth Southgate had a “genuine desire to unite people around a particular project rather than divide people and cause upset,” said British...
It is a delusion to believe that the world’s climate is being pushed to the brink solely by undemocratic petrostates such as Russia and Saudi...
While Kamala Harris has restored some hope for Democrats in November, the likelihood of a Trump presidency still remains very strong. And if that...
On a calm and beautiful morning off the coast of south Devon last week, I was watching a small pod of dolphins from my kayak. I had spotted them...
Among many other challenges in dealing with the failure of urban policy in Australia, the Minns government is faced with the task of renegotiating,...
President Vladimir Putin and his authoritarian regime are peddling the false narrative that the Russian economy is strong, and that its war machine...
A funny thing happened when Dr Robert Califf, the Food and Drug Administration commissioner, delivered the keynote address to the American Diabetes...
Forget the politics; relish the spectacle. That was, in essence, Emmanuel Macron’s hopeful message this week, as he called for a domestic...
For many years I’ve argued that the consolidation of great wealth in the hands of a few undermines our democracy. Elon Musk is the poster child...
‘You are bloody useless,” the erection manager said to me. He was referring to my proficiency at scaffolding. His name was Alan and that was his...
What is it that drove, on Tuesday night, seven Labour MPs to vote for an amendment tabled in parliament by another party, with the virtual...
So it’s goodbye to the unloved Bibby Stockholm barge, which has been referred to by its critics as a “floating prison” and has accommodated...
It feels a little embarrassing to be a grown adult excited for the Olympics. I am not sure why. Perhaps it’s the unequivocal joy. That feels...
It won’t surprise anyone to know that I’m not the sort of person who’d choose to go to tourist attractions that keep animals in captivity for...
If I were a city, I almost certainly would not want to host the Olympics. So my thought last summer was that I would put my Paris apartment on...
I don’t want to undermine my international standing as a gourmand (you are, after all, looking at the woman who once ate the entire Bella Italia...
Ding. The microwave beeped. I grabbed the bowl of bright orange macaroni and cheese and slid it in front of my daughter, alongside an apple and...
When Keir Starmer promises that his new government will “bulldoze” through the planning system as “the builders not the blockers”, there is...
Miscarriage is fairly common: it is estimated that approximately one in four pregnancies end in miscarriage – but equally common has been the lack...
When Teamsters president Sean O’Brien spoke at the Republican national convention on opening night, it seemed to hint that the Republican party –...
When we first wrote The Spirit Level: Why Equality is Better For Everyone, we had no idea it would become a bestseller. The book was filled with...
Over the past 57 years, Palestinians in the West Bank such as myself have suffered the rise of Israeli settlements taking over our land,...
On a late summer day in 2019, I packed up my life into an old Nissan Altima and drove across the country from San Francisco to Waterloo, Iowa, to...
Kamala Harris will likely be the next president of the United States – and that’s overall good news if you care about democracy, justice and...
On Wednesday, Benjamin Netanyahu is having the red carpet rolled out for him in Washington DC. The Israeli prime minister, who is propped up by...
“The point of comedy is to make fun of everyone,” a Berlin friend told me recently. What matters, he argued, is that you make yourself look silly...
George Clooney can now play Joe Biden in the movie. After he urged the president to quit the race, the penultimate scene became greater than any...
Before children, I would have never thought to do a will. Even as I acquired some assets, I figured the state could work out what to do with all...
DIY smear tests for women in England may be imminent, after a pilot scheme produced promising results. In London, 27,000 undertested or untested...
When British farmers protested outside the Houses of Parliament earlier this year, they sent 49 scarecrows, after a survey had found that 49% of UK...
To borrow from Shakespeare, “Nothing in his life became him like the leaving it.” Joe Biden might have clung on. He could, in his pain and pride,...
The 2024 US presidential election is proof that in America nothing succeeds like excess. The standing down of President Biden is just the latest...
Two years ago, in a session with my therapist, I suddenly found myself saying, “I want to talk about my relationship to my body sometime.” Just...
For a politician who has usually avoided high-flown rhetoric, Keir Starmer is suddenly sounding remarkably ambitious. As he addressed the House of...
A short while ago, a screenwriter friend from Los Angeles called me. “I have three years left,” he said. “Maybe five if I’m lucky.” He had...
Kamala Harris is now the frontrunner to be the Democratic party’s candidate for the most powerful job in the world. She appears sorely...
Friday’s international court of justice (ICJ) ruling was a wholesale repudiation of Israel’s legal justifications for its 57-year (and...
How do you build back trust in government and politicians? Globally, the trust crisis is blamed for the rise of populism. In the UK, the new...
There is a particular summer weather that I – and perhaps I alone – love. Hot, overcast and damp. The days when the air feels like the breath of...
The Paris 2024 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games will unite the world’s best athletes, each facing unique challenges in their quest for gold....
Joe Biden has never been the greatest orator or had the strongest political backbone, but he has always displayed one important skill throughout...
Joe Biden’s announcement on Sunday marked the beginning of the end of an American political life filled with second acts. None was more...
The renowned social historian David Kynaston observed at the weekend that multicultural Britain has made huge progress compared with 60 years ago,...
Joe Biden’s resignation has left the party with two clear options. The first and easiest is for the convention to be a rally for Kamala Harris as...
It was the right move. Joe Biden’s dropping out of the race at this late stage is unprecedented and risky. The risks of a Trump presidency are...
The best time for Joe Biden to drop out of the presidential race would have been several weeks ago, in the panicked days after his disastrous...