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In the summer of 2024, as polls suggested that Marine Le Pen’s far-right Rassemblement National party would win a snap legislative election rashly...
Three moves in the last week have exposed the limits of Donald Trump’s economic bullying. The US slapped 50% tariffs on another $20bn of Canadian...
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Patriotism is always stubbornly absent in me on days of official national commemoration. Australia Day – Invasion Day – has always left me cold...
Despite being a card-carrying member of the International Order of Confirmed Homosexuals, I have spent quite a lot of time lately thinking about Abdul...
How reassuring to learn that police investigating claims of sexual assault against Mohamed Al Fayed have handed a file to the Crown Prosecution...
Earlier this month, about 40 top mathematicians gathered at OpenAI’s offices to discuss the future of their profession. The meeting was...
As a doctor, I have spent much of my professional life caring for people at some of the most vulnerable moments they will ever face. I have seen the...
A recent office of legal counsel memo on executive privilege maintains that private advisers to a president can avoid responding to a subpoena by...
Lewis Bassett is a young sociologist and chef who I first encountered through his podcast, The Full English, where he thinks about the cultural...
Every few months, there are more shocking headlines about the behaviour of England’s water companies. The latest are about the ever-increasing pay...
‘Interesting cities can’t be quiet”, runs one of grime DJ and music industry thinker Elijah’s epigrams – and in its essential spirit, he is...
The Canadians are exceedingly angry. I realise this can sometimes be difficult for foreigners to deduce, given our national struggle to express the...
The public response to the Sydney Swans scandal has been fascinating. Before we knew very much at all, people were ready to be outraged. Perhaps...
There have been multiple high-profile alleged incidents of sexual violence against women and girls in news headlines this month. Some of them involve...
For decades, Hong Kong mourned when the mainland could not. Its huge annual Tiananmen vigil kept alive the memory of the 1989 pro-reform protests in...
The events of the past few days on Europe’s borders may mark a turning point in Russia’s war on Ukraine. While the political skies in Kyiv have...
GCSE results day was marked with the usual front pages filled with pictures of beaming students. What you didn’t see was the invisible third of...
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As it is August, and everyone with stronger opinions is currently on holiday, last week I went on Any Questions?, the BBC Radio 4 panel show. I had...
When a friend finally arranges the chat we were meant to have some weeks ago, she apologises profusely for the lack of contact. I tell her she...
“El-Sayed and Stevens Project Party Unity After Divisive Race,” announced the New York Times on 5 August, the day the democratic socialist Abdul...
On 11 August, the Associated Press reported that the Homeland Security Agency will spend up to $20m to equip its agents with gloves that can deliver...
Of all the questions this year’s freshers may be nervously asking themselves as they prepare for this next phase – did I pick the right course?...
The British government must soon decide whether it should give consent to two oil and gasfields, Rosebank in the North Atlantic and Jackdaw in the...
The woman I used to be died the day I gave birth to twins. That life – full of spontaneous travel, impulsive decisions and a decorated social...
France loves a battle-scarred survivor. Charles de Gaulle, François Mitterrand and Jacques Chirac clawed their way back from political failure to...
Where once a byelection for a state seat would have attracted little national attention, the remaking of the Australian political landscape in recent...
Some elections are more important than others. Since taking office in May, Hungary’s new prime minister, Péter Magyar, has embarked upon the...
A run of volatility in domestic British politics in recent years has tracked a period of global turbulence, and yet foreign policy over the same...
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When I was a kid, I had a designated “junk food drawer”. I remember a particular kind of joy in choosing what I felt like eating: chips,...
This is a vulnerable confession, but I spend way too much time on the social media of the New York City mayor, Zohran Mamdani. Whether he is seemingly...
A fortnight or so ago, my two teenage kids and I set out on a three-night visit to the Peak District where temperatures were hovering at a...
Happy spooky season, everyone! Get those jack-o’-lanterns out, because Halloween is just around the corner! Just kidding, no, it’s not. It’s...
Scottish people have always been known for their friendliness. “We’re not like the south of us,” they say, referring to England. The official...
They know what they’re doing when it comes to kissing, toast and horns, so get ready for a French Sunday. A new theory suggests that embracing this...
If you need any more evidence that the two-party system is cooked, look no further than the not so grand coalition that came together to preference...
Jon Ossoff is quite the miracle worker. Perhaps the Democratic senator can’t turn water into wine, but he has managed to turn whining conservatives...
The abortion pill is a miracle. Mifepristone, then called RU-486, was synthesized by a French lab in the 1980s; in combination with misoprostol,...
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Who’d be a farmer? Clarkson’s Farm on Amazon is great entertainment but it also gives some indication of the stresses and challenges behind the...
Here in Silicon Valley, the experts think that within the next couple of years we’ll see an extraordinary takeoff for artificial intelligence....
As Sir David Attenborough has observed, “there’s nothing more magical than finding a shiny shell and knowing you’re the first person to have...
Barely a month into his premiership, Andy Burnham is already taking the lessons of Manchester’s buses national. This week his government backed the...
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This week, the Australian public has borne witness to another devastating string of sexual assault allegations. While the alleged perpetrators vary in...
In the early hours of last Friday morning, a video was posted. It showed Nigel Farage among his team of volunteers, before the votes had been counted,...
The Trump administration has taken another step in its crusade against the international criminal court by imposing sanctions on two more senior ICC...
Wednesday night brought an absolute cloudburst of psychic rain for our parched land, as it emerged that Prince Harry and Meghan were reversing their...
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