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Emma BrockesThe Guardian |
I’m a big napper. World class, in fact. I can go from awake to the bottom of the ocean in five minutes flat, like a high diver off a cliff. It’s...
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...
For the almost two decades I lived in the US, my approach to medical bills was always the same. First invoice, ignore. Second invoice, ignore....
I have spent most of the last week on Zoom calls with accountants in New York, trying to figure out the personal finance implications of moving to...
There are lies, evasions and manipulations by politicians that, when they come to light, can make the politician in question seem even less...
So here we are, back to the era of waking up to headlines that trigger audible “ughs” and a desire to act out being violently sick. On...
What are you going as, this Halloween? The discussion in our household starts in the spring, takes in many twists and reversals over the course of...
The singular piece of publicity most helpful to The Apprentice, a film about Donald Trump that opened in the US last week and opens in the UK this...
The overriding and at times darkly comic impression, watching JD Vance’s exchange with Tim Walz in the vice-presidential debate on Tuesday night,...
For the past month, every woman I know has been having versions of the same conversation, roughly opening with: for the love of God, how rapey is...
Among the many unedifying aspects of the fall of Huw Edwards has been a possible glimpse into how the man sees himself. At the hearing on Monday,...
There are lots of differences between the presidential candidacies of Kamala Harris and Hillary Clinton, but, rhetorically at least, there’s one...
“He looks perkier,” said my nine-year-old, passing the screen as I watched footage of Joe Biden speaking on the first day of the Democratic...
There were a lot of things in Tim Walz’s favour to propel him on to the Democratic ticket as the pick for VP. A former teacher, former football...
A funny thing happened in the hours after the exit of Joe Biden from the US presidential race and the entrance of Kamala Harris in his place: a...
Reports from the first two days of the Republican national convention in Milwaukee suggest that the mood of the room isn’t merely energised but...