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Did you notice history being made this week? I am not referring to what may have been the most pathetic moment in recorded time – Donald Trump...
There aren’t many escapes from the grim onslaught of terrible news these days. You can stare at a blank wall, obsessively count the hairs on your...
There is one political problem from which all others follow. It is the major cause of Donald Trump, of Nigel Farage, of the shocking weakness of...
In late December, Iran experienced the beginnings of an uprising driven primarily by economic pressures, initially emerging among merchant bazaaris...
Will Donald Trump order a US military attack on Iran? That question captivated the world for the past two weeks, as the US president issued...
Is Greenland Donald Trump’s 25th-amendment moment? Last time around, this was when the Washington “grownups” debated his capacity to be president,...
It is axiomatic to many of his critics that the US president, Donald Trump, is a fascist. Indeed, some have seen echoes of the work of the Nazis’ “...
Last weekend, as the world wondered whether Donald Trump would swipe Greenland, Keir Starmer made his own big geographic intervention: he published...
There’s something particularly dystopian about watching the mute headlines of daytime television play at the gym. It feels like a movie montage;...
It was an infamous night in football. More than 5,000 Dutch police officers had to be deployed to contain hundreds of Israeli fans embarking on a...
It is difficult to think of another area of government policy that has weathered as much legislative hyperactivity as asylum and migration. I have...
Are we being injured and killed by ubiquitous, teeny-tiny shards of toxic plastic? Or aren’t we? For many months, the Guardian has reported a...
Like a 1970s rust-belt serial killer, Nigel Farage is painstakingly assembling around him the political corpses of Boris Johnson’s final, terrible...
It has been more than 40 years since I was imprisoned in Iran for speaking out against human rights abuses and state executions, and for defending...
The best thing right now would be to read the turmoil in the Tory party as told by the spy novelist Len Deighton. He would give us more detail on...
A few months ago, I posted a viral video online highlighting the flirting differences between American and Australian men. Prompted by a recent...
Donald Trump is threatening to take over Greenland, the territory of a Nato ally, possibly by military force, as Vladimir Putin is trying to take...
In practical terms there is not a huge difference between proving your identity online with a passport and using a government-issued digital ID....
Billionaire and career Bond-villain cosplayer Elon Musk has been forced by public backlash into a humiliating backdown over use of his AI chatbot,...
From Greenland’s icy mountains, from India’s coral strand, as the old hymn has it, we seem to inhabit a world that is more seriously troubled in...
As an American of mixed Danish and Indian heritage, who is also a citizen of France and, therefore, of the EU, Donald Trump’s contempt for the rule...
What is the name for the grief of losing a restaurant? Surely the Germans have a word for it. Many Sydneysiders will be keening and lighting...
I hate my glasses. I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again. Not just these I’m wearing now, but whichever spectacles I’ve been cursed to...
The year has started out in familiar fashion for Kalaallit – the people of Greenland. The US president has once again threatened to take control of...
The raid of a journalist’s home, along with the jailing of their alleged source, are shocking acts of authoritarianism. And they are in line with...
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,...
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