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“Black c—k loves you!”

On Sunday, the Brazilian people achieved something that the pundits said was impossible.

“Everything under heaven is in chaos,” Mao is reputed to have told his wife.

Until 9:30pm on Sunday night, Aleksandar Vučić still looked all-powerful.

France is in the grip of social breakdown, with financial chaos looming.

Ramla’s market is a mosaic of Arabs and Jews.

There is a tradition of British chancellors drinking at the despatch box on Budget day.

Much of what we find meaningful in relationships we might call friction overcome.

Two weeks out from the midterm elections, JD Vance finds himself at the lowest point in his career so far.

My five-year old daughter, Rachel, was very excited about going to London.

Nothing less than Brazilian sovereignty is on the line in this weekend’s presidential election, which reaches its denouement on Sunday.

Outside the locked gates of Tirana’s Catholic Cathedral last Saturday, a riot policeman ran towards me with his club upraised to bash me on the head.

Until recently, the Finnish-Russian border was teeming with life.

When I meet Freddie deBoer on a sunny Sunday afternoon in New Haven, Connecticut, at an upscale Japanese grocery market, he arrives wearing a black Sunn O))) t-shirt — a nod to one of the world’s loudest and most frightening drone-metal bands.

Earlier this week, cybersecurity experts discovered something nasty online: two critical flaws in PHP, the code that has been used to build approximately two-thirds of the World Wide Web.

Remaniac, infotainer, mansplainer: these are just some of the portmanteau words used to describe Alastair Campbell over the years.

We, the undersigned, call for a complete and total end to the use of the “open letter” as a mode of public intervention.

It is hard to write about Hemingway.

At some point in the past few years, visiting nearly every major city in Europe or the Americas became indistinguishable from visiting every other major city in these regions.

All nations have budgets, but not many have a Budget.

Decades before Brexit, in one of the landmark speeches on Britain in Europe, an orator hailing from their party’s Right flank asked their audience: “What does federation mean?”

Born in the misty hills of technical abstraction, nursed on trillions of dollars of investment, the beast that is artificial intelligence has come down like the wolf on the fold.

“Do you know the guys’ nickname for me on the other side?”

Is there a “loophole” in New York law — and perhaps similar laws in other states — that allows a rapist to get away with it so long as his victim was voluntarily intoxicated?

The Anglophone response to France’s riots has divided sharply by politics.

In these strange and unpredictable times, it takes a lot to surprise me.

The last two US government reports on inflation before the November midterms have raised Democratic hopes of a blue wave.

In the aftermath of the fatal tiger attack at Yorkshire Wildlife Park, a surprising vocabulary emerged to describe Altai.

After Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin met in Anchorage, Alaska, last year, there was a brief moment when it appeared possible that the US would enforce a peace on Russia and Ukraine.

On Friday evening, with France braced for more of the protests that have violently disrupted the nation, Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte were otherwise engaged: swaying to the music of Céline Dion in the VIP section of a sold-out concert hall in Nan…

By this time last year, Zohran Mamdani was already the presumptive next mayor of New York.

On its surface, The Social Reckoning is a journalism movie, a story about a sly and dogged (and handsome) reporter aided by a virtuous (and sexy) truth-teller from within the evil organisation.

When I told friends about my invitation to Anthropic, they expressed a mix of curiosity, envy and alarm.

Last year, I happened to be staying in Washington, DC, just as the DOGE boys moved into the 6th floor of the General Services Administration Building.

Scott Russell doesn’t much look like a revolutionary.

Between war and plague and famine, the 14th century was surely the grimmest on record.

The notifications kept coming: “I hope you sit in the discomfort of the backlash you are rightfully receiving and realize that, even then, you are experiencing only a fraction of the pain, torment, and degradation that Jane Doe has been experiencing in ev…

Are you on a retinol journey?

At 3:41PM on 3 July, 2025, Kimberly Guilfoyle sent a text message to a man named Eric.

If you fancied a really brilliant time in Elizabethan London, you could do worse than visit the Paris Garden in Southwark.

When Andy Burnham won the Makerfield by-election in June, he told voters that he would put an end to 40 years of neoliberal economic policy, characterised by “austerity, privatisation, and deregulation”.

French youth have always been the canary in Europe’s coal mine.

“I love beautiful young women like you.”

Several months ago, while US officials were weighing America’s next defense Memorandum of Understanding with Israel, an American diplomat in Jerusalem made an unusual intervention.

In 2019 the businessman James Dyson, famed for his bagless vacuum cleaners, found himself at the centre of a different kind of cyclone.

In 1932, the poet John Cornford — then a 16-year-old schoolboy — sent samples of his work to W.H.

The tunnels under the Colosseum’s floor held lions, elephants, bears and crocodiles, snared by imperial animal catchers to battle with gladiators.

The Beach Boys song “God Only Knows” is a classic within the modern rock canon.

“A dereliction of duty.”

In the final year of Joe Biden’s presidency, a majority of Americans were fed up with the border crisis over which he’d presided.