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What a privilege it is to be together to honor the leadership of the Nelson Mandela Foundation. For 27 years, this organization has insisted that...
America’s mad king is spiraling. Donald Trump’s approval ratings are mired in the 30s as the Iran war rages on with no end in sight. As prices...
There are simply too many companies in the world. Apple, Google, Amazon, Ryanair. I’m probably forgetting some. How could I not? There are so many...
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Feckless and clueless, Donald Trump is lost in Iran, unable to find a way out of the disastrous war he started. Once again, the US military is...
Parisian waiters are professionals, providing an excellent service – they are not rude or unfriendly, just sometimes slightly misunderstood. No,...
On Thursday night, Donald Trump did it again, trashing another American tradition with his primetime address from the White House’s East Room about...
It was good to read David Kynaston’s appreciation of Juliet Gardiner’s writing, so widely admired (Juliet Gardiner obituary, 14 July). The school...
There is trouble in Middle-earth – again. So far, all of the actors announced for the latest The Lord of the Rings film instalment, The Hunt for...
Andy Burnham is finally Labour leader. After trying – and failing – twice to be elected by party members, he took the top job on Friday without a...
The first piece of unsolicited advice I would offer to Britain’s incoming prime minister is: don’t take unsolicited advice. Don’t be one of...
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Walk through central Beijing today and one thing quickly becomes apparent: foreigners are back. They are taking photos outside the Forbidden City and...
Are the men of the Trump administration OK? Feels like it’s been a tricky week for some of them. On the one hand, you’ll note the US is already...
Imagine if every time you left the house, you couldn’t be sure that the stranger you met at a bar – or even the person walking by you in the...
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With the World Cup nearly over for another four years, it’s time to reflect on what a strange, sleepless reverie it’s been, and turn our attention...
Ann Widdecombe was never one to hide from an argument. And she wasn’t afraid for her safety either. She scoffed at friends’ suggestions that she...
Pauline Hanson’s capacity to blame others – long her preferred cover for personal incompetence – has suddenly evaporated. Her European excursion...
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Historically, English football-supporting culture has had a well-known darker side. But in recent decades, as the England men’s team’s trophy...
In the next few months, the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) will make one of the highest-profile decisions in its 29-year history: whether to...
This week Britain and Spain agreed to demolish the border dividing Gibraltar from the Spanish mainland. It was good news. Decades of negotiation came...
The compost-grown cherry tomatoes, sitting in a basket on my windowsill, are ripening: little bubbles of brightness in this deep winter fog. As I...
As news started to spread of Yale’s leadership negotiating a deal with the Trump administration, the university’s faculty, students and alumni...
Britain, that small yet once highly influential nation that once proudly ruled over much of you, that “gifted” you the English language as well as...
One day perhaps Pete Hegseth will make the news for doing something worthwhile, something that makes his mother proud. One day perhaps we’ll see a...
Have I done any hang-gliding in the last four weeks? Hang on (no pun intended), let me think. No, not as far as I can recall. No hang-gliding. Will...
A patient arrives after two weeks of relentless watery diarrhea, sometimes 20 episodes a day. She has lost weight and cannot keep fluids down. Her...
With the pointless war of choice in Iran going poorly, the Trump administration has declared a virtual war on the international criminal court (ICC)....
The economic inheritance Andy Burnham will receive from Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves is not, in any meaningful way, a crisis. That is worth saying,...
For many British voters, politicians and journalists, public spending has had a bad name since the late 1970s, when Margaret Thatcher’s government...
Spain’s housing crisis finally came for the tenants of Madrid’s Calle Tribulete 7 when their block was sold to an investment fund. Feeling...
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Expectations were high as the prime minister took the stage at the University of Sydney on Wednesday to outline a pivot in his government’s approach...
Britain has spent the last three decades asking individuals to make healthier choices inside a market that makes those choices more expensive and less...
Mercifully for a prime minister whose defenestration was swift and brutal after Labour’s catastrophic local election results in May, Sir Keir...
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On Monday morning, the water coming out of my tap was but a dribble. Disappointing. I checked the water company website and there was something about...
As a journalist, I have specialised in Wales, Welsh politics and devolution for the past 10 years. Devolution, in particular, could be considered a...
Barnaby Joyce is now the One Nation Treasury spokesperson, which serves as a lovely reminder of his triumphant 15 weeks as shadow spokesperson for...
This summer, much of the media’s attention has focused on record temperatures across Europe and the United States. Television coverage has been...
It’s a story that warms the heart and lifts the soul: last week, Virgin Media was fined a record £28m by Ofcom for repeatedly preventing customers...
Like any good proof-of-life photo, it featured that day’s newspaper. After a nearly month-long disappearance, when it was clear that he had been...
Have we not suffered enough? The US is currently in the throes of a parasite-induced watery diarrhoea outbreak while being governed by a mad king...
In books and movies that pack a wallop you will usually find a “charged object” – an item crucial to the plot and freighted with emotion. The...
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For centuries, humans have been fascinated by the prospect of creating artificial beings in our own image. Of developing synthetic minds and...
Andy Burnham faces a lot of big decisions. But one of the incoming prime minister’s biggest early tests is what he does about the world’s...