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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,...
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...
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