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If the threats of Donald Trump prove anything, it is that the mantra of “shared values” with his administration is as much use as a chocolate...

This month, a judge ordered the University of Pennsylvania to justify its refusal to collect and disclose the names and personal contact...

For a few hundred dollars you can put your poo in an envelope and post it off to a laboratory. In return you’ll get a report (sometimes generated...

There are two tales about the relationship between Greenland and Denmark; both contain truth and blindness. One is the story told by the ruling...

Determined things come in small packages. A five-year-old from Michigan who steadfastly rejected her name all her life has finally won her battle,...

A European-wide chorus of resistance, led this morning by Keir Starmer, has greeted Donald Trump’s plan to take over Greenland, by force if...

Lately, you’d easily believe we’ve travelled back into a sepia-toned, bygone era. Social media has been inundated with grainy images of purple...

Is there a way forward for Australia’s cultural life after the cancellation of the 2026 Adelaide writers’ week and all the other controversies...

I grew up in a hockey town where there was no escaping Canada’s beloved sport. Our suburban streets doubled as rinks; the choppy slap of tennis...

Any assessment of the long-term impact of Robert Jenrick’s defection on the Conservative party must start with what you think he represents – not...

The way 2026 has started, none of us wants to see the word “nuclear” in a headline, so on some level you have to feel glad that last night’s news...

Obviously I’m familiar with the concept of the sauna, because I’ve been to Iceland, where most socialising seems to entail either being unbearably...

At cabinet last Tuesday the prime minister reportedly made a powerful case for a government that serves the interests of those struggling to get...

Iran is caught in yet another round of widespread civil unrest. These lines are written amid an internet blackout and I didn’t know if I’d be able...

Class politics is back, as if it ever went away. Robert Jenrick declares that Tories are toffs and “the divide in British politics has become...

Who, when travelling on the London Underground, hasn’t gone up the escalators with a spring in their step after reading Adrian Mitchell’s Celia...

The fate of the Palestinian people offers a warning about the future of humanity. When I recently visited the West Bank, Palestinians kept...

This week, hundreds of government leaders, heads of state, and business executives are gathering at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum...

My partner died back in 2020 and I still haven’t collected his ashes from the funeral home. I’m not entirely sure why. Perhaps it’s because he died...

I’ve never heard anything more sexist in my life than the (mounting) reasons why women supposedly love the hit TV drama Heated Rivalry. Quick...

A year ago – just a year ago – the Kennedy Center in Washington DC was a world-class centre for the performing arts. It had a resident opera...

There is not much that can still shock about Donald Trump’s second administration. But the killing of Renee Good earlier this month by an...

‘I don’t believe in an interventionist God,” sings Nick Cave in the opening line of his 1997 song, Into My Arms. But Jim Sharma, a football fan...

I have a masochistic interest in catchily named social media self-improvement challenges, so I already knew about “75 hard” – 75 days of drinking...

This year, the Dr Martin Luther King Jr holiday forces Americans to grapple with the crisis and protests that have spread across the country,...

The United States seems determined to turn its back on the rest of our planetary neighbors. The Trump administration’s recent decision to withdraw...

The Birmingham reggae band UB40 began as a quintessential product of the troubled era when Margaret Thatcher was the UK’s prime minister, archly...

One way or the other, President Trump said, he will have Greenland. Well, at least now we know it’s the other; not an invasion that would have sent...

Let’s get this out of the way, because I’m itching to tell you (again): I’m vegan, and this is our time, Veganuary! Imagine me doing a weak,...

New year’s resolutions are catnip for perfectionism. Each January we are invited to reinvent ourselves as fitter, more productive, more virtuous,...

On 7 January 2026, Renee Good was killed by ICE agent Jonathan Ross; video captures a man’s voice calling her a “fucking bitch” afterwards. Kristi...

Soon after becoming president in 2017, Donald Trump ordered an attack on an Islamic State (IS) underground complex in Afghanistan’s Nangarhar...

The very idea that all human beings have inalienable rights, and that humanity is distinctive and precious, is under serious assault. This year...

It’s important to state that I am the most insufferably sentimental person I know. There are old birthday cards collecting dust in my jam-packed...