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Taxes are the price paid for living in a civilised society. That founding belief in the moral imperative to stump up for the public good lies deep in...
Imagine an older man, in his 50s, in a position of swaggering power and influence. A cabinet minister, maybe, or an industry bigshot. He meets a...
I t is almost a year to the day since it finally dawned on most Conservatives that Boris Johnson would ultimately have to go. And yet, a whole two...
I t feels like a lifetime ago that a Rochdale pensioner buttonholed Gordon Brown over what she called eastern Europeans “flocking” to Britain....
T he end of the world is nigh, again. And as usual, it’s being greeted largely with a shrug. Perhaps you felt a prick of unease as you scrolled the...
I t’s been almost six months now since the last Tory leadership contest. So perhaps it was inevitable that another one would be along soon. No, not...
S ometimes a crisis best reveals itself in the small things. A pile of laundry, that by now you didn’t imagine you would still be doing; the sound...
If there’s one thing Hollywood screenwriters know how to deliver, it’s a snappy one-liner. “Pay your writers, or we’ll spoil Succession,”...
It was the call to swear an oath of allegiance to the king that did it. Until then it had been possible just to let all the coronation chatter about...
O ver the years, a variety of national troubles have been characterised as the British disease – among them economic stagnation, football...
S peaking last month at the beginning of Lent, Patriarch Kirill, the primate of the Russian Orthodox church, sermonised on the subject of Russia’s...
T he countdown clock is ticking, the panicky last-minute revision reaching feverish levels. No parent currently tiptoeing around snappy, stressed...
T he arrest of Tunisia’s leading opposition figure, Rached Ghannouchi, is a bleak moment. Profound disenchantment has been widespread for years...
Fiona Ivison was 17 when she was strangled and battered to death by a man who had paid her for sex. He then left her body in a freezing car park. She...
W hen the polling card for this May’s local elections arrived, as usual I stuck it on the fridge absent-mindedly without looking. It was only when...
T here must always be a place for necessary whistleblowing from inside governments. This newspaper will always stand, responsibly, for that...
F our years ago, Emmanuel Macron remarked that the era of European naivety on China was over. As Andrew Small establishes in his book The Rupture,...
After four tense days when you could almost feel the NHS holding its breath, striking junior doctors are preparing to return to the wards. But the...
T he arrest of the man who has been by far the most important official of the Scottish National party for more than two decades is liable to be a...
After the third lockdown ended, in that summer when everyone felt faintly broken, we ran away to the sea. At first it rained torrentially. But then...
C arol Vorderman is, rather appropriately for a mathematician, currently in her prime. The former Countdown presenter has lately enjoyed an...
It’s almost 20 years now since a socially awkward young computer science student set up a website for rating “hot” women. Facemash, as Mark...
I t is entirely likely that Vladimir Putin may never be held fully accountable for his crimes. But the possibility of eventual justice grew somewhat...
T he release of details of Rishi Sunak’s tax returns on Wednesday reveals several things. The first is that the prime minister and those around him...
When inspectors from Ofsted, England’s education watchdog, descended on Flora Cooper’s Berkshire primary school this week, there was a small but...
Say her name, not his. It is such a small thing, an almost helpless gesture in the face of horrors. But Louise Casey’s decision not to name the...
I t did not take long for anyone to realise that the Iraq war was the disaster that many had predicted; not much longer than it took to confirm that...
T he film awards season, which culminated in the Oscars last Sunday, often seems to be a red-carpet stroll for fashion designers in search of...
Something old, something new. Something borrowed, and something for “red wall” voters deserting the Conservatives en masse. Like a penitent spouse...
Imagine travelling to work in the morning, listening to colleagues loudly marking your body out of 10. Imagine being groped in the corridor,...
F or almost all my working life, I have relied on the advice of older women. But nothing they told me – about what other people were actually...
A nxieties about children and reading are not unusual, but news that fewer than half of those aged between eight and 18 admit to actually enjoying it...
Ramadan Abedi had done his best as a father, he insisted. He tried to intervene with his sons when he “found their thinking is wrong”, but it...
Long before he killed her, Joanna Simpson’s husband had secretly dug what would become her grave. The couple were separated and in the final throes...
H anding down beloved books to your children is one of the best things about being a parent. And so like countless others raised on Willy Wonka’s...
S he slipped through the smallest hole imaginable, an invisible rip in the fabric of a seemingly ordinary day. Nicola Bulley was there one minute,...
Hankering for the death penalty may get the deputy chair attention, but it won’t attract working-class voters with genuine problems, says Guardian...
The party of workplace scandals simply cannot be trusted with looking after our employment laws post-Brexit, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff
The British Gas scandal about vulnerable people being forced on to prepayment meters is just the latest cruelty in this crisis, says Guardian...
The government could have seriously improved older women’s prospects with menopause protections this week. It bottled it, says Guardian columnist...
The problem isn’t having it too good, it’s years of political infighting, economic sclerosis and self-delusion, says Guardian columnist Gaby...
The New Zealand prime minister showed us a different way to lead, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff
It’s time to look again at the UK’s watered-down online safety bill: this problem is too big for democracies to ignore, says Guardian columnist...
As the state of education comes under scrutiny, Labour’s leader faces some hard choices over the promises he made in 2020, says Guardian columnist...
The personal is political when resentment is baked into a monarchy whose instinct is to protect the heir at all costs, says Guardian columnist Gaby...
From audiobooks to podcasts and voice notes, there’s a steady generational shift in the way we understand the world, says Guardian columnist Gaby...
The PM should pay nurses and other striking workers properly. But there’s a pattern emerging: he’s always behind the curve, says Guardian...
Revolutionaries who claim to bring down corrupt systems have proved that orthodoxy exists for a reason, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff
In Britain we’re used to getting what we want, when we want – but the supply issues that have emptied shelves are here to stay, says Guardian...
Support for public sector workers shows that people realise the government’s in the wrong, not exhausted nurses, says Guardian columnist Gaby...