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In practical terms there is not a huge difference between proving your identity online with a passport and using a government-issued digital ID....
On X, a woman posts a photo in a sari, and within minutes, various users are underneath the post tagging Grok to strip her down to a bikini. It is...
A few years ago, towards the end of the second Obama administration, a friend and her wife flew back to New York from a holiday in Mexico, landing...
A PE teacher from Cardiff called Tony is frozen solid after being caught in an avalanche in 1979. There he remains until global heating sees to his...
It’s garnered less attention than the other events of our already wretched new year. But to understand why Renee Nicole Good was killed on...
Last Wednesday, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent shot and killed Renee Good, a 37-year-old American mother. Already, the federal...
So far this month Donald Trump has ordered a military incursion into Venezuela and the capture of its leader, announced he is ready to “take”...
When a camera records an act of lethal violence against someone in official custody, the state cannot hide what it typically keeps in the dark....
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...
‘He keeps encouraging me … to choose between Europe and the US. That would be a strategic mistake for our country,” Keir Starmer said in...
Unpopular politicians take consolation in the thought that opinion polls are sometimes wrong and often describe the wrong thing. They capture the...
Australia’s history of banning political groups gives pause for thought as to whether we really want to go down this route again. During the first...
Ten years ago, a postie delivered eight packages to my door. Each one contained something for me to photograph and promote on social media, and the...
Last week Kai Trump, Donald Trump Jr’s daughter and the president’s eldest grandchild, publicly declared she had no plans to run for office. The...
When I told people I was taking more than eight months of parental leave, the main reactions I got were: “What are you going to do with all that...
In the 18 months since I became energy secretary, the government has made a simple argument: that if we want to bring down energy bills for good,...
What is wrong with resurrecting the prerogative of major powers to claim a sphere of influence in which they dictate and others must follow? That...
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...
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