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Disturbing news this week that Australia’s “misery index” has experienced significant growth. This was even before the Reserve Bank slugged...
C alls are growing for senior officers to be held accountable for the alleged war crimes carried out by some of our special forces personnel during...
T he Bureau of Meteorology this week declared a 70% chance of an El Niño developing this year. It’s bad timing for the electricity sector, and...
After 21 years on breakfast television David “Kochie” Koch said goodbye to Seven’s Sunrise on Friday with none other than Anthony Albanese...
C oming just a day before the world’s media became submerged in the tragic aftermath of the explosion of the Kakhovka dam in Russian-controlled...
O n Saturday 11 October 1975, my dad took me to my first ever football match: Aston Villa (hooray!) against Tottenham Hotspur (boo!). I would be...
I first met the man who has been all over this week’s political headlines four years ago, 300 miles up the A1 from Westminster. It was a bitterly...
N ever mind waiting for Mr Justice Fancourt to produce his findings, the tabloid newspapers were declaring their collective triumph before Prince...
T he premise of You Hurt My Feelings, a new movie by Nicole Holofcener starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus, is deceptively simple: to what degree, when...
W e consider ourselves a middle class Australian family. This hasn’t always been the case. My husband and I come from migrant families and did...
The arc of campaigning for and against the Indigenous voice to parliament is bending towards back rooms and the hard calculus of politics. The...
W hen it comes to cover versions, there seems to be an unspoken rule: be careful if the artist is dead. Sure, some covers surpass their originals,...
It’s over three years now since a visibly chastened Boris Johnson emerged from his near-fatal brush with Covid to declare that he had seen the...
I ndignation fatigue makes it hard to keep track of the many public service failures, so social care has fallen from the public eye since Covid –...
I am probably the wussiest person I know. I almost cried when I somehow found myself on the pirate ship at Chessington World of Adventures. If you...
O ne of the things I missed most during Covid lockdowns was going to the cinema. I’m not a film snob by any stretch of the imagination. I have...
P rince Harry’s war with the tabloid press this week became a courtroom battle, with words as weapons. His antipathy can be traced to his...
It was one of those pieces of news that was simultaneously stunning and utterly expected: Chris Licht was out of CNN. No doubt, the chairman and...
W ith our forlorn sense that politics isn’t working and that democracy is broken, as we feel the impacts of both climate change and the decision...
I t should by now be clear to all vehicle manufacturers and policymakers that the electric vehicle (EV) age is all but inevitable. Most drivers...
M y body has taught me that few things are impossible when you take your time. Sometimes I’m taken aback by how natural this has all felt to me....
T he Americans know how to make a prime minister feel special. It isn’t hard. Saying “you are special” or words to that effect, usually does the...
W hen I was a teenager, I read Genesis for the first and only time. It was quite the revelation. Excuse me, I would say with teenage zeal, to...
A s summer weather begins, and bare arms and legs start to appear across the country, and people start to worry about their “beach body”, maybe...
D uring the GFC the line for how to stimulate and save the economy was “go hard; go households”. The Reserve Bank has adopted the same mantra but...
S uitcases and bin bags full of simple possessions strewn across a central London street have become a powerful symbol of the government’s ramping...
Anyone who has spent any time in the world of Instagram wellness will be familiar with the notion that gratitude can ward off the blues. It’s...
P lacing a speculative price tag on Labour party spending plans is, of course, a time-honoured pre-election manoeuvre by Conservative governments....
I ’m off to see Groundhog Day, the musical, at the Old Vic in London. It’s based on the 1993 film in which Bill Murray’s character relives the...
I f you could drop a pin on the map of your grief, where would you travel to? In the early days of mine, I would have motioned you to the toilet in...
W e are approaching a referendum which will ask if constitutional recognition of Indigenous Australians should be in the form requested by...
T heir contract had expired, so the local teamsters, drivers of concrete-mixing barrel trucks for a firm called Glacier Northwest, in Washington...
Even amid the cacophony of social media, most journalism is met with a shrug or a murmur. But one story the Guardian published 10 years ago...
B y now you may be all over Holly Willoughby’s Hollier-than-thou return to This Morning, given that Guardian readers sent coverage of the event...
R obert F Kennedy Jr likes to talk to dead people. In a recent interview, the anti-vaccine activist, who is challenging President Joe Biden for the...
C ontrary to popular opinion, Britain is a country with few asylum seekers, in contrast with its comparable neighbours. Last year, it recorded...
A ccording to a Washington Post-KFF poll, only 43% of cisgender people (a person whose gender identity aligns with their assigned sex at birth) know...
S tate Farm, the country’s largest property insurer, announced this week that it will almost entirely stop issuing new policies in California,...
F or more than 20 years, the Australian legal system has demonised a grieving mother as a child killer. Kathleen Folbigg was convicted in 2003 of...
I spent most school holidays in primary school hanging off the back of a quad bike while grandma did the afternoon chores. If you clung on tightly...
W hen I first came across Mizzy, now infamous as the “TikTok Terror”, it was in videos of him being chased by security after breaking into...
Decades ago, during a staff shortage, I was promoted to a more senior role where I was responsible for a ward full of sick patients requiring many...
O ver the last few months, there’s been a stream of stories in the media that try very hard to convince us that artificial intelligence – AI –...
I t’s been 10 years since Edward Snowden holed up in a Hong Kong hotel room and exposed Britain and America’s mass surveillance operations to a...
B oris Johnson is a very rich man, even though he suffers from a self-pitying syndrome that afflicts many of the well-off: believing himself to be...
G overning parties in their death throes thrash about, gasping for life rafts and hunting through old lists to recapture the tried-and-tested vote-...
I ’ve worked pretty hard to ban the use of Facebook in the household, not because of the threat it poses to democracy, nor because I’m worried...
1. House MAGA Republicans will be less of a force. It was supposed to be their ace in the hole, their single biggest bargaining leverage. But in...
I don’t really understand why I’m still on Twitter, a mouse hopefully pressing the button that used to dispense treats, but which now only...
I n September 2013, I thought I was the most intelligent person ever to exist. By some masterstroke of family planning, I’d managed to have two...
I t’s what they do, not what they say. All opposition leaders are localists until it matters. Keir Starmer said in January he wanted to “take...
W hen I was a kid, I had a friend who was a smuggler. “You tell anyone about this – our lives are over ,” he threatened, and suddenly...
I n the gloom of a UK economy teetering on the edge of recession, a glittering puff of smoke wafted up last week from the publisher that will for...
W hen our dog died last year, amid the grief was – I admit – a sense of relief. Life was busy with two young kids and their commitments, to say...
T he chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, has been calling for people to get back to work. But there’s one group of people he’s overlooked. Many unpaid...
V iewers of Channel Seven’s interview with Bruce Lehrmann on Sunday were told that this was a special occasion because it was the first opportunity...
A housing revolution is taking place in Spain. On 26 May, a monumental new housing law came into force. It was the culmination of years of work and...
F irst came the sobbing – a great gust of tears that successively overwhelmed my shirt sleeve, an entire box of tissues and an extra-large bath...
O ne of the curious things about marriage is the role it’s played in embedding commonly held views about normality. Married people are generally...