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The ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas has now entered its second week. Over the past two weekends, Hamas has handed over seven Israeli...
Starmerism has proved a political calamity, and this should be a moment for the left. Yet it is the radical right, in the shape of Nigel Farage’s...
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has trodden a fine line between the west, Russia and China for more than two decades. Turkey has profited from helping both...
I was minding my own business on the tube the other day, but that’s maybe not the most precise description of what I was up to. I’m curious on...
In 1919, at the height of a global crisis that resulted from the turmoil of the Russian Revolution, the devastation of the first world war, and the...
Last September, I received an email from a reader called Rosy. At just 53, motor neurone disease meant Rosy was losing her body as she knew it,...
Amid a very real and terrifying rise in antisemitism, the opposition leader, Peter Dutton, and the Coalition – prior defenders of the “right to...
The arrival of DeepSeek R1, an AI language model built by the Chinese AI lab DeepSeek, has been nothing less than seismic. The system only launched...
They say your enemy’s enemy is your friend. Sometimes, however, your enemy’s enemy is a little twerp who is almost as bad as your enemy. Rather...
Who are the lovely dictators? You might find yourself wondering if generation Z has access to a historical cache of great guys who just didn’t want...
My father has a photograph of Albert Ransenberg taken in the yard of the railway station in Wiesbaden, Germany, in 1942. It was secretly taken by a...
An increasing number of Australians struggle to access and afford dental care, and many experience dental disease with consequences that extend...
Late last year, before Nigel Farage fell out of Elon Musk’s favour, the technology writer William Cullerne Bown asked a question that has since...
Those rapid-fire presidential executive orders did so much within so few hours that if you’d looked away briefly you’d have missed another burst...
Since the announcement of a ceasefire in Gaza, much of the world has focused on the immediate impacts of destruction in the strip. The discussion...
After the balcony fell off and crushed my girlfriend’s car – which we assumed was a kind of annual tradition for the house, like a tree shedding...
As someone who lives with a degenerative neuromuscular condition, I am thrilled by the announcement that Neale Daniher is the 2025 Australian of...
If you feel there are not enough people in your life making bizarre pronouncements on your character, might I suggest deciding to be childless. At...
For the past week, Palestinians in Gaza have been returning to their homes, now mostly reduced to rubble – and to their dead who still lie beneath....
When my mother died, I didn’t think my stepfather would ever find someone else to love. She met him when visiting New York and he moved to Paris...
Yesterday, I watched A Real Pain in the cinema. The film is a beautiful representation of two cousins, united in love and grief for their grandma,...
“When I go to see him, love to see him. When it’s time to leave, bye-bye, see you soon. Life is good.” That’s actor Sheryl Lee Ralph, who...
Trump’s vengeance machine is even more dangerous than it was before. The Biden administration had given security protection to Trump’s former...
Less than a week in office, Donald Trump gagged all public communications from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National...
After years of strife over what his rise means, Donald Trump’s inaugural address on assuming the presidency a second time clarified everything: he...
The most sacred ceremony conducted at the Trump inauguration undoubtedly for Donald Trump personally, with its mystical meaning elevating him to...
Mussolini once said that “any power whatsoever is destined to fail before fashion. If fashion says skirts are short, you will not succeed in...
Build baby, build. That’s about the intellectual limit of the government’s housing strategy. Millions are under-housed, so let’s “bulldoze”...
When I was 16, a good friend of my older brother was killed in a car accident. The vehicle he was driving had slid into a parked truck on a country...
I note, wearily, that the work culture wars grind on. We are in the midst of yet another push to get staff back in to the office, with Amazon,...
The Trump TikTok flip-flop continues as the 47th president has shoved his finger into the eye of Congress. With scant legal authority, he has...
Over the decades, research has chipped away at our most cherished ideas about human specialness: it turns out that we share such things as theory...
Who are we? It’s the hardy perennial, but insufficiently parsed, question looming over this polarising day that ever more contentiously continues...
Five years since Brexit, the UK wants to reset the EU relationship. A simple question of sitting down with the EU and negotiating, surely? Sort of,...
An old Slovenian proverb has always been so precious to me. “Roast chickens don’t fly into mouth by themselves.” Or chicken cooked any way that...
‘Britain faces a new threat,” Keir Starmer claimed last week after Axel Rudakubana pleaded guilty to the murders of three young girls in a...
I’ve been sitting here for the last few hours Looking at you Stretching my imagination through my form of work And maybe get my hands on you Oh,...
We can list those people who expect to profit from the second coming of Donald Trump. They include the billionaire tech tycoons who were on...
It has been a tough beginning to the year for Rachel Reeves. The chancellor has found herself in the spotlight as debt interest costs spiralled,...
In the wood-panelled courtroom, with low winter light filtering through high windows, our barrister sat down after making his final submissions,...
It was only 11 years ago that Prof Stephen Hawking declared that explosive and untrammelled growth in artificial intelligence could menace the...
‘ Abba, selach ’ethon la nakhru mah h’mon pelalin! ” Flood the zone with shit. Police investigators that pore professionally over horrific...
Late on Saturday 18 January, TikTok, the short-video app beloved of millions of users mostly aged between 18 and 24, went dark in the US. This was...
I often find myself thinking of a sentence by the American novelist Nicholson Baker about the size of thoughts: “Most are about three feet tall,...
Europe is in trouble. Multiple, long-simmering external and internal challenges are coming to the boil. Taken together, they comprise the modern...
The art of the stroke used to be a hallowed practice in Irish politics. To pull a stroke meant wiping the other fellow’s eye, by fair means or...
West End theatre is in a weird and unsettling place. It feels as though something that might once have been good and exciting is coming to an end....
You may not have paid attention to the UK government’s decision this week to replace the chair of a regulatory body, the Competition and Markets...
Donald Trump’s macho populism is catching on. The prime minister, Keir Starmer, has caught it bad. His mission for the economy is to grow, baby,...
In light of Trump II’s predictably cruel and bonkers beginning, many people are asking: “What can I do now?” Here are 10 recommendations. This...
It’s hard to see in a blizzard. When so much is coming at you, one thing after another, it becomes impossible to discern anything but a blur. You...
Last November, my wife Elizabeth planted a great many tulip and daffodil bulbs in the cold autumn soil, so that in the spring, even more flowers...
How can people say we can’t build anything in this country any more? Listen: our parliament is literally falling down, has caught fire 45 times in...
My father, Oded Lifshitz, was taken hostage on 7 October 2023. My mother was taken hostage, too, but was released two weeks later. But my father...
As news of the ceasefire ripples my way, my memory mocks me. Your face glides into focus from my mind’s abyss, where I had buried it. You come into...
In my 20 years of being a reporter, I have rarely come across anything that feels so important – and yet so widely unnoticed. I’ve been following...
Unless those complicit in the Gaza genocide are held to account, the brutal consequences will be felt far beyond that shattered land. The ceasefire...
Occasionally in this difficult life, during times of extended bleakness, we are blessed with something that comes along and captures our collective...
Sky News Australia wasted no time trying to put at least one of Donald Trump’s executive orders on the local political agenda. On Thursday a Sky...
Why? Why us, why here, why that day of all days; but most of all why our girls, our tiny excited girls, happily making bracelets for each other in...
O God, you made us in your own image and redeemed us through Jesus your Son: Look with compassion on the whole human family; take away the...