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Gaby HinsliffThe Guardian |
Handcuffed and surrounded, faces pixelated for the video as if they were dangerous criminals, one by one they were bundled into vans. Doors slammed....
Lucy Kellaway loves teaching. She came to it remarkably late, deciding to retrain at 58 after a long career in financial journalism, but is so...
Is woke dead? Is it over? Has it “peaked”, run its course before we’ve even properly agreed on what this endlessly controversial but somehow...
Meghan Markle has bottled it. Or more precisely, she has been making jam. Branded jars of her strawberry preserves, adorned with one of those frilly...
So it wasn’t just a bad dream, then. Liz Truss really did become prime minister, and that brief ensuing moment of madness really did happen. It must...
Angela Rayner has never, to the best of my knowledge, advocated eating people. Nor has she publicly insisted on her right to wear a colander on her...
There are few things most politicians hate more than a crude yes-or-no question. But when asked last autumn if he was instinctively a yimby rather...
Three-quarters of children want to spend more time in nature. Having spent the Easter weekend trying to force four resistant teenagers off their...
Imagine a beach before the tsunami. Out at sea, the wave is gathering force, yet on the sand people are still sunbathing, blissfully unaware. That’s...
This week, the woman likely to become Britain’s first female chancellor was invited to give a lecture at the heart of the economic establishment....
Charles Spencer was just eight when he was sent away from home. Even before being packed off to boarding school, he was largely raised by nannies, in...
Before the 30-year-old MP Zarah Sultana walks into any public meeting, she pauses to record her location and the time. It’s a security precaution...
Four weeks ago in San Francisco’s Chinatown, an empty self-driving taxi was mobbed and set on fire. It’s still not clear whether the crowd...
Youth is fearless. Or, it’s meant to be, anyway. Half the point of being young is to feel invincible, not ground down like your boring old parents:...
Cliff Mitchell is a serial rapist. He was caught and charged with multiple offences only after attacking a woman at knifepoint last year, blindfolding...
On Wednesday in Rafah, the Gaza border town now transformed in effect into a vast sprawling refugee camp, airstrikes reportedly killed more than a...
When Dr Rachel Clarke first started writing down her experiences of working on a Covid-19 ward, she never meant to make them public. Scribbled at her...
What kind of idiot falls for a conspiracy theory? Somebody gullible, you might imagine: at best someone vulnerable or mentally unwell, and at worst...
Rishi Sunak had been warned that Brianna Ghey’s bereaved mother would be watching. If he hadn’t initially expected Esther Ghey to be in the public...
What is the biggest problem bedevilling universities right now? Talk to academics, students or parents, and there’s no shortage of contenders....
Taylor Swift is many things. But she did not, at least until recently, look like the battleground on which an election could be fought. Though on...
How long could you survive without your mobile phone? Not just for idle scrolling to fill a boring commute, but for the life you carry precariously...
It’s just a flicker of light at the end of a long, dark Brexit tunnel. But in the dead of winter, frankly we’ll take what we can get. Which is why...
Once upon a time, BrewDog used to be cool. That was a while ago now admittedly, but at its peak it rode that punky, vaguely Californian craft...
When Alan Bates ploughed his savings into buying a rural Welsh post office, he was hoping for a quiet life. He would have time to walk the hills of...
Wash your hands. Wrap up warm. If you think you’re coming down with something, kindly avoid spreading it to others. It may sound alarmingly basic,...
Brianna Ghey was a fearless child. In saying so, her parents do not necessarily mean that she was not afraid, but that she was brave enough to pursue...
It was broad daylight, and there were other people in the tube carriage. She should have been safe. She’d fallen asleep, missed her stop, and ended...
On Sunday night, Nigel Farage was buried alive with a writhing tangle of snakes, before losing an election. Or to put it another way, he now has a...
Towards the end, Boris Johnson looked exhausted. He was a marathon runner staggering through the finishing tape, a boxer slumped against the ropes....
There is no such thing as a perfect victim, but a million ways to be an imperfect one. She was drinking. Her skirt was too short. She went willingly...
For months now, Keir Starmer has been at pains to tell the country that there are no easy answers to our problems. There is no magic money tree. We...
You desperately want to say the right thing. The magic thing, the elusive words that will make the unbearable somehow bearable after all – the...
What is the Labour party for in a time of war? The left has struggled with that question for decades, but the conflict between Israel and Hamas...
King Charles has a landmark birthday today. And as one does when one lives in a palace, he will be spending it visiting a food bank. The trip is a...
It reads, with hindsight, uncannily like a prophecy. Long before Suella Braverman became home secretary, when Mark Rowley was enjoying a brief career...
Sorry to bother you. Would you mind terribly? No worries if not! It isn’t only women who pepper emails with self-effacing phrases like this, of...
Pack up your life into a pile of cardboard boxes, and move on. Unpack it all, dare to relax and buy a few houseplants, and before long you’ll...
Never again. When the United Nations was originally founded from the ashes of the second world war, it was at least in part to give more solid meaning...
Death has climbed in through our windows; it has entered our fortresses. Throughout these days of unbearable stories, from the slaughter of small...
It is many years since I heard Hatikvah, the Israeli national anthem, sung. But the haunting sound of British Jews singing it inside a synagogue at...
Don’t send criminals to jail, because the jails are already full to bursting. It almost beggars belief that judges were offered this advice at a...
O nce upon a time, a crafty fag behind the bike sheds was the mark of a teenage rebel. But not any more, which is why the vast majority of British...
The blue and yellow flag still flies high over Britain’s town squares and public buildings, signalling our unwavering and enduring solidarity with...
I t sounds at first like what Donald Trump once called “locker room banter”. Just two guys, unwittingly taped having the kind of conversation that...
‘W hat are you going to do about the Sun?” It was the first question Neil Kinnock asked, when a bunch of eager young political advisers setting up...
A fter all the turmoil of recent years, you might think British politics had lost its capacity to shock. But a week in which some of the angriest...
R ussell Brand has always invited outrage. It was what he did, his shtick and his selling point: a willingness to cross the line that – when...