Opinion
We wanted to let Max Dowman bloom in the shadows but he has become hard to ignore
When Football Maps Everything, Max Dowman Plays Between the Lines Jorge Luis Borges once imagined a civilisation so obsessed with accuracy that it eve...
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The Social Arithmetic Behind Pakistan’s Population Growth
Pakistan is now the fifth-largest country in the world by population. Its latest census put the number past 250 million, and it's now close to 259 mil...
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A broken housing market is driving inequality right across Europe – and fuelling the far right
Housing is as personal an issue as it gets. Homes are where we take refuge from the outside world, express ourselves, build relationships and families...
7 hours ago
Australia’s approaching summer fills me with dread. I’m not equipped to battle 40C
As a cultured citizen of the globe (social media), I am witness to a lot of different opinions about the weather throughout the year. I will soon be s...
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The incoming ‘super’ El Niño will create chaos around the world – and we are far from ready for it
If you think you have heard enough about the growing “super” El Niño, trust me, you are going to hear a lot more. What is happening in the equatorial ...
3 hours ago
Patriot missiles have been a godsend for Ukraine against Putin, but they’re running out. Kyiv needs help and fast
Invincible.” That was how Vladimir Putin described Russia’s latest generation of ballistic missiles in 2018. In 2022 he would unleash this arsenal to ...
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The Euphemism of Integration: Kashmir Seven Years Later
“The convoluted wording of legalisms grew up around the necessity to hide from ourselves the violence we intend toward each other... Elaborate euphemi...
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Finally, we have a PM for the digital age. But real change requires more than just being good on camera
Andy Burnham is having a good time. I can’t remember the last time a prime minister (or indeed any high-profile British politician) actually looked as...
6 hours ago
I knew Rod Liddle and hated what he became. He would have wanted me to say so
As tributes poured in for Rod Liddle, the Sunday Times and Sun columnist who has died at the age of 66, they were markedly coy and sanitised. Paradoxi...
6 hours ago
I stand to defend vertical drinking. Is a pub that doesn’t allow it a real pub at all?
It is unbelievable: unconscionable. Westminster Council is moving against “vertical drinking” in pubs, starting with Soho. It claims drinking standing...
7 hours ago
Fears about nuclear war are reaching a fever pitch. Another grim sign of the times
Intimations of world war three – the big one, nuclear Armageddon – didn’t arise yesterday. But they got more urgent when Donald Trump was elected the ...
6 hours ago
Dear Kristi Noem: you’re tracking down ICE critics? I’m one of them
The New York Times reports that the Department of Homeland Security has sent Google, Meta (owner of Facebook and Instagram) and other media corporatio...
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Stripped of finery, detained by police as an ordinary citizen: now Andrew enters a new era – and Britain too
The arrest of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor is a seismic moment for the royal family as well as for himself. On one hand, it is hard to believe any great...
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Punjab University : More Than Oxford for Pakistan
Some universities polish individuals. Others quietly shape societies. The University of the Punjab belongs to the latter kind. To place PU alongside O...
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Even British teenagers want tighter laws around social media – but let’s make it part of a broader vision for children
Our children’s feelings are not for sale, and nor are they to be manipulated. So said Emmanuel Macron this week, after French lawmakers voted to ban u...
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In Gorton and Denton, I found a long-festering sense of fury that Labour has no idea how to tackle
The route of the No 201 bus begins in the regenerated wonderland of central Manchester, and follows a straight line through the neighbourhoods to its ...
7 hours ago
From the Burnham row to the China visit, avoiding hard choices is the Starmer doctrine
There comes a point in a prime minister’s career when foreign travel offers respite from domestic trouble. Even when relations with the host country a...
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The Trump-Kennedy Center is another front in the battle for the soul of America
Ayear ago – just a year ago – the Kennedy Center in Washington DC was a world-class centre for the performing arts. It had a resident opera company, r...
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