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The US government’s authoritarian and vexatious attack on Jerome Powell, the chair of the Federal Reserve, should be seen in the light of America’s...
Long delays in processing personal independence payment (Pip) claims have become one of the most damaging and least defensible failures in the UK’s...
The day before Christmas Eve, just as France readied itself to slip into the holiday slowdown, something abruptly shook me out of any festive...
Have we ever seen a year in recent memory begin with as much deliberate turmoil as 2026 has? Less than two weeks into 2026, we have witnessed...
On the last day of 2025, an old friend and I lament that the usual resolutions like exercise more, work smarter and be a better parent are...
Sorry to call it early, but the worst trend of 2026 is politicians who are graciously doing us all a favour. “He doesn’t need to be here,” declared...
If you want to understand what’s happening in the US right now, and what is likely to happen next, don’t just focus on Donald Trump. Rather, pay...
Iran is once again convulsed by protests that are threatening the Islamic Republic’s stability and future. What began as demonstrations over a...
In the early hours of 3 January, Caracas and other cities in Venezuela were bombed and the Venezuelan president, Nicolás Maduro, was kidnapped...
The Adelaide festival board’s decision – despite my strongest opposition – to disinvite the Australian Palestinian writer Randa Abdel-Fattah from...
Donald Trump’s intervention in Venezuela is not a one-off shock. It epitomises his approach of interventionist isolationism based on a revisionist,...
It’s the world darts championships on the first day of the year, and a well-lubricated early-afternoon audience at London’s Alexandra Palace is...
Another week, another set of dilemmas for Europe’s beleaguered political class to deal with. On Wednesday Brussels is due to outline the terms of...
The unleashing on X (formerly Twitter) of a torrent of AI-generated images of women and children wearing bikinis, some in sexualised poses or with...
What does it take to shake illusions in western intervention? This is not a question designed to deflect from the barbarism being unleashed by...
I’m trying to move house; so are more than one pair of friends. We spend a lot of time trying to get on the insurance for each others’ cars,...
News that Donald Trump’s justice department has launched an investigation of Jerome Powell, chair of the Federal Reserve, is the latest example of...
We are now more than a week into 2026, and it might shock you to know I’m feeling quite cheery. All the professional emails I’ve waited a month to...
Kemi Badenoch is evolving into one of those politicians who, whatever she says, it’s not just likely to be wrong, it’s likely to be the opposite of...
It was my first week in the freezing German city of Bonn, on my first-ever international trip – shivering from the cold and bewildered by culture...
Some wars can’t be won. It can be hard to come to terms with this fact when you’re still on the battlefield, but if somehow you manage to step out...
Defections always pose a messaging dilemma for political parties. Heap too much ordure on the turncoat, and you invite the question of why you were...
What do James McAvoy and my three-year-old son have in common? Very little, you might think, notwithstanding their shared awareness of the book The...
If there has been a bright red thread running through my career, it’s the importance of freedom of speech. It underpinned my life as a journalist...
Last year, something extraordinary happened in London. As the conversation about crime got even louder, London quietly reached the lowest per...
The new year is still young, yet Donald Trump’s fixation on expanding his homeland signals a troubling geopolitical shift. From Venezuela to...
There’s much about becoming a new mother that could be filed under “maddening”. The phrase “sleep when the baby sleeps”. The way people stop asking...
“Ladies and gentlemen, we got him!” Paul Bremer, the US proconsul in Iraq, memorably declared at a press conference in Baghdad on 14 December...
The new year has delivered a new position from Nigel Farage on the multiple and detailed accounts of his alleged racism and antisemitism during his...
Donald Trump wants CNN sold. He has said so repeatedly and publicly, demanding it “should be sold” in any deal involving Warner Bros Discovery. Now...
‘I grow old … I grow old … I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled,” wrote TS Eliot in 1915, in his seminal poem The Love Song of J Alfred...
I once heard that a journalist, stunned by the horrors they’d witnessed while on assignment as a foreign correspondent, was almost equally shocked...
Donald Trump made 30,573 “false or misleading” claims during his first term, according to calculations published in 2021 by the Washington Post....
Over Christmas, thousands of people must have had much the same experience: a trip to see friends or relatives somewhere familiar, and the...
In the wake of the killing of Renee Nicole Good, Congresswoman Robin Kelly has announced the filing of three articles of impeachment against Kristi...
An end to Russia’s war against Ukraine is still not in sight. The frequency of high-level meetings of Ukrainian, US and European representatives in...
When my daughter first started kindergarten many years ago, she’d walk into the room and head straight for the puzzle table. While other kids would...
Returning home after an exhausting day, I open my letterbox to find a colourful creature on a thick white postcard. There is a short message with...
I think we all need a little cheering up, don’t you? So allow me to interrupt the steady stream of violent authoritarianism and state-sponsored...
It’s been 25 years since I started working for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, an American nonprofit dedicated to preserving and promoting...
A Cambridge college’s plan to target students from some of the country’s most elite private schools has struck a nerve. As reported by the...
Picture the scene: you enter a lovely clean hotel room. There are newly laundered crisp sheets and fluffy fresh towels. But as you sit on the bed,...
There is a saying in Trinidad and Tobago: “Cockroach should stay out of fowl business.” It captures a hard truth. Small states that stray into...
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