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It’s time to be blunt: the government is about to expose hundreds of vulnerable women to the risk of death or serious injury. Survivors of domestic...
The Trump administration has quietly abandoned the poisonous deal it tried to foist on American universities. Under its so-called Compact for Academic...
Should we destroy all the books in the world? An answer to this question can be found in the court documents of Bartz v Anthropic PBC. The northern...
The US health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr has got his work cut out for him. A cyclosporiasis outbreak linked to iceberg lettuce has the entire...
On Thursday, 23 July, after weeks of escalating attacks between the US and Iran, Donald Trump told a reporter that Iran hadn’t received “enough...
When I am woken by the sound of my dog whining, I understand that she is hungry and wants me to get up. When my alarm clock goes off, I don’t...
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Can’t you leftists understand? Mass death is good for you. Reject the woke love of life! Welcome civilisational collapse! Watch it all burn, then...
Last week, 186 passengers had to be evacuated from the cruise ship Viking Ullur, after it ran aground on a sandbank in the Danube. Others have been...
In significant news for budget travellers, Jetstar will charge its passengers up to $52 to put carry-on baggage in the overhead locker. Will the new...
Residential property prices in Australia’s eight capital cities have fallen by an average of 2.5% from their most recent peak in March, according to...
“I do not believe it is yet realised what an important thing has happened,” the economist John Maynard Keynes wrote in The Listener in July 1945....
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After early statements of intent on homelessness and social care, Andy Burnham capped his opening two weeks in office by addressing what one might...
Democracy’s lifeblood is information. But like any bloodstream, the more gunk that flows through it, the less healthy the system. For public debate...
Sexual enhancement supplements have always been a bit of a joke: you walk into a supplement store (or chuck a search into Google) and voilà –...
Lisa* has used her local glazier so many times that he gives her a discount. For months, when care workers arrived at her mum’s home, they would...
I’ve been to two weddings where the bride and groom refused to play the Killers’ pop-rock hit Mr Brightside, and both ended in divorce. Well, not...
You should keep your friends close, your enemies closer, and Stephen and Katie Miller as far away from your general vicinity as humanly possible. Many...
My son is 12 years old. No matter how many Legos we get him, he will only build robotic mechs. He draws haunting pictures in pen and ink but refuses...
I went to a market recently in the Cévennes, in southern France. It was piled high with things that in principle I’m interested in, but wouldn’t...
Far beyond the fires raging across Europe and North America, the smoke, dangerous to breathe, hangs in the air, dimming the view, changing the very...
We are constitutional law, civil rights, and human rights scholars and practitioners who have spent decades litigating government abuse cases in the...
The live streams are still running, training their cameras on the beach at Ceuta, where nothing is happening. The self-styled citizen journalists are...
Next weekmarks the fifth anniversary of the takeover of Afghanistan by the Taliban as US coalition troops were evacuated from the country. That’s...
How can Europe defend itself against Russia without the US, or with much less of it? This question sums up the existential challenge now facing the...
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There are few more vulnerable moments in life than the days before and after the loss of a loved one. The rituals of farewell surrounding a funeral...
At least 72 people are believed to have died late last week, most of them drowned or crushed as they joined tens of thousands of others in attempting...
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There is so much talk of all the lonely people in the world right now that the pervasive state of loneliness is being called an epidemic. I don’t...
‘I’ve seen no evidence of Andy being anti-London,” the capital’s mayor, Sadiq Khan, told the Evening Standard last week, which is quaint and...
For the European hard right and the White House, it seemed almost too good to be true: left-liberal Spain punished with a migration crisis of its own...
I had not read The Odyssey since I was a student. Stories change when we return to them later in life, or perhaps we are the ones who change....
‘Are we living in an “era of microsnobberies”? Writing in the Washington Post last week, the lifestyle influencer Victoria Wolff asserted that...
The pattern is by now all too familiar: with every power grab Trump tries – from a fraudulent speech about voter fraud to appeals to his supreme...
With all our grumbling about trains – and it is close to a national pastime – it is easy to forget the successes. There is a tale to tell, for...
The latest age signifier has nothing to do with knowing what music the kids are listening to, or whether your socks are showing: it’s all about your...
For years, a small but vocal corner of the extremely online right has looked to the ancient world to justify its polluted brand of politics. The...
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Andy Burnham is having a good time. I can’t remember the last time a prime minister (or indeed any high-profile British politician) actually looked...
The first person Maria* called when she found out she was pregnant was her doctor. The second person was a lawyer. The single mother of one was in...
The Uluru statement from the heart was our prayer to the Australian people. There was hope in its words. The statement was written with love. It...
Governments are told that public services must shrink because money is tight. Yet a new Tax Justice Network report says that countries could capture...
Compared with rising heat-related deaths, and devastating wildfires in the Cairngorms and Suffolk, the announcement that the Royal...
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When Annie* started pacing around her house at 3am and struggling to find words during work meetings, she put it down to stress and perimenopause. She...
Unfortunately for hairdressers, “How’s your summer going?” is a loaded question this year. Even basking lizards and barbecue obsessives are...
It’s five years this month since the chaotic retreat of US forces from Kabul. The Nato-backed invasion and occupation of Afghanistan, launched after...
Anyone who enjoys memes (who doesn’t?) has surely by now accumulated a mental menagerie of internet-famous animals. Mine include: Grumpy Cat, the...