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As Donald Trump prepares for his inauguration, many have begun to debate how best to build a committed political opposition. Instead of reviving...
It’s a season brimming with tradition and, as longtime readers may know, my own custom has been to try, in the last column before Christmas, to find...
Elon Musk is, more or less, a rogue state. His intentions are self-serving and nefarious, and his nation-state level resources allow him to flout...
It’s the last fortnight of December, time to reappraise the traditions of shared holiday rituals. Will Australians once more create kitchen-bound...
The winter night I moved to New York, I sat in the back of a cab, two bulging suitcases stuffed into the boot by the driver who rolled his eyes at...
As with many a lame-duck president in the past, it feels as if Joe Biden has already left the national stage even though he has a month left in his...
The UN agency entrusted with the protection and welfare of Palestine refugees for three-quarters of a century, Unrwa, which I lead, was always...
Elon Musk holds no public office. He has never stood for election, passed scrutiny for appointment to public office, nor commanded a political...
The US supreme court surprisingly decided, this week, to hear TikTok’s emergency appeal to its imminent ban in the United States. It may be the...
Lisa Kudrow says being and staying friends with her Friends co-stars was tough at times. “That six-way relationship took some work – and we did...
In her closing statement to the Post Office inquiry this week, Paula Vennells once again added the brutal murder of irony to her list of failings....
There is no need to overcomplicate things: a rise in global temperatures of 3.1C is not compatible with human survival. That is where we are...
Wars are remembered by their iconic images, and finding a triumphal photograph has been a key goal for belligerents striving to leave their mark on...
Keir Starmer’s team can smell the presence of the political grim reaper. Every Friday, the prime minister’s chief of staff, Morgan McSweeney, runs...
I am looking at a colour photo of a woman with auburn hair entering the courthouse in Avignon. Around her, the impassive faces of her lawyers. This...
Women who are raped are in many countries – perhaps in most – violated and abused again by the legal system. And yet during her reckoning with...
Some women born in the 1950s were not adequately warned that they would have to work up to six extra years before drawing their state pension. Some...
While the editor of this hallowed section and I do not always agree, he has conceded that it’s almost Christmas – which is all the excuse I need...
Every few years, the grind of modern life inspires calls for a radical rethink. We have seen this most recently in Iceland, where the rollout of a...
Things are not quite going according to plan for Rachel Reeves. The economy has contracted for the past two months and inflation is proving hard to...
The Tory leader, Kemi Badenoch, recently went viral over her comments on the perfidy of sandwiches and “moist bread” in an interview with the...
One face and name dominated the streets of Paris on 23 November as the annual march marking International Day for the Elimination of Violence...
The assassination on Tuesday of the Russian general and conspiracy theorist Igor Kirillov in downtown Moscow is yet another operation in a string...
Donald Trump has never made any secret of his hatred of the press, which he famously calls “the enemy of the people”. Press watchdogs are...
The fall of the Assad regime in Syria marks the end of Iran’s long-feared “Shia crescent” and the rise of Turkey’s “full moon”, reshaping...
I am under no illusions about this. Compared with Prince Andrew’s latest disgrace or with Keely Hodgkinson’s latest glittering prize, the reform...
Only months out from a federal election, the challenge of truth-telling in Australia seems as daunting as ever. There is undeniable evidence that...
Growing up in the 1980s, all the teenage girls I knew shaved their legs and their armpits as soon as they could. I was 15 when I started. I...
On Thursday, I stood in Gray’s Inn and spoke words I had hardly dared to hope I would say: “This is a victory for women’s rights and free...
All I want for Christmas is the return of yoghurt pot lids. And not just for me, for everyone. In this season of goodwill, I want everyone to get a...
The midyear economic and fiscal outlook (Myefo) released on Wednesday showed a slight increase in the size of budget deficits over the next three...
Antiviral reader Patrick wrote in to us because of the “constant claims” he sees on social media “that retinol (vitamin A) and related compounds...
The biggest shake-up in local government for 50 years – that is how Labour’s white paper, Power and partnership: Foundations for growth, has...
Hungarian politics can sometimes seem like a soap opera that is stuck with the same characters and has run on too long. You have the occasional...
When Keir Starmer met Xi Jinping at the G20 summit in Rio last month he declared that Britain should build a “pragmatic and serious relationship”...
Five years ago, then prime minister Scott Morrison stated on national television: “I don’t know if Australians understand Islam very well.” It...
It’s almost Christmas, and I always like to be the first one to wish my best friend, Yara, a merry Christmas as she’s always the first one to wish...
Air fryers make delicious roast potatoes and, it turns out, pretty decent snooping devices. Last month, the consumer group Which? issued a warning...
My friend called me crying. Homs was liberated, she said. My nerves were about to explode. Liberated, not liberated, liberated, not liberated –...
The Donald Trump vengeance tour is on the road and the media is in its crosshairs. “It should have been the justice department or somebody else, but...
I am more than just aware of the faint outlines of queer history – it is something I see in Technicolour. I immerse myself in lesbian books, films...
It was certainly not one of those rather bland debates the Bundestag, the German parliament, is deservedly known for. On Monday, Olaf Scholz, the...
Congratulations to Elon Musk, a genius of truly galactic proportions, who recently made what might have been the world’s savviest investment. The...
No matter how much you try to digest the implications of the alleged Chinese spy scandal, some details are just comically indigestible. Take the...
Tell me, what else should I have done? Doesn’t everything die at last, and too soon? Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and...
Did you take your kids to see Santa this year? If so, how much did you pay? At one grotto in Winchester, it was £18.50 per child and £6 per adult,...
This is slow government. This solemn and serious cabinet is not one for quick, bright eye-catchers, timed to hit 6 o’clock bulletins. The best it...
As 2024 approaches end of days, I’m taking comfort in a piece of old technology called a book. I’m not sure it’s a great book but it’s got me...
Kim Beazley took over from Mark Latham as federal opposition leader in 2005; the same year nine young Australians tried to smuggle 8.7kg of heroin...
They call the Palladium Christmas pantomime “the glitziest show in town”, which basically means “most expensive”. I feel moved to point out...
I’m not sure when teacher gifts became another hot item on the December stress list. I have vague memories from my childhood of carrying to...
Every parent of a school-age child should watch Swiped, the Channel 4 documentary on smartphones shown last week. It was devastating. It told of an...
The legal battle over the interstate mailing of abortion pills has begun. On Friday, the Texas attorney general, Ken Paxton, sued Dr Margaret...
Representative Nancy Mace is proudly embracing her George Wallace moment. It’s time for dissent. When Vivian Malone and James Hood enrolled at...
The fall of the Assad regime marks the end of a big chapter in Russia’s presence in the Middle East. However, this does not mean that Moscow is...
Neologisms may have the excitement of the strange, but there is nothing exciting about the “quad-demic” if you’re afflicted by it. Even if the...