JULY 3. 2025

Disabled people are the largest minority in the world, but the government doesn’t care

If the government wanted to win over a large part of the electorate, surely we are the group to appeal to, not Reform voters?

Oasis: The trauma and the glory

Growing up in an abusive household, the Gallagher brothers became two very different personalities. Together, they made one great rock ‘n roll star.

The insanity and greatness of Apocalypse Now

Apocalypse Now was the one truly great Vietnam movie epic - but however mad was, it could have been a whole lot madder

Supreme Court Lets Trump Banish Immigrants to South Sudan

Only one of the eight immigrants set to be expelled to South Sudan is from that nation.

Is Switzerland the future of Britain?

The nation has just negotiated a new settlement with the EU, and British officials have been playing close attention to the terms of the deal

Tin-eared Jenrick strikes again

Robert Jenrick’s pivot to video continues, this time with an attack on Rachel Reeves so foul and ill-judged that even the right wing trolls are turning against him

Can someone drop a bomb on Rod Liddle please? Just hypothesising

The rent-a-gob Spectator columnist has proposed dropping a nuclear bomb on Glastonbury despite preaching free speech for Tommy Robinson

The world isn’t broken, it was built this way

From Congo to Gaza, the machinery of empire hides behind the language of aid and development.

Tools to Cope With Climate Anxiety

A climate-aware therapist answers your questions on how to cope with fear, talk to skeptics, and keep showing up.

Labour's nature policy false start

Labour government's first year in power "like a dance pattern with impressive forward strides and sudden backwards steps. "

The Israeli Plot to Extinguish the Journalists Documenting Genocide

Palestinian journalists live through the same brutal conditions they cover — and describe a pattern of direct targeting by Israeli forces.

Building Memory, Documenting the Truth: The Case of Nicaragua’s Confidencial

With hundreds of the country’s reporters in exile, the press is under pressure like never before. But this outlet is continuing to report despite all its staff now being based overseas.

Communities working in concert

How to bring people into the heart of the music-making process, breaking down the barriers between artist and audience.

JULY 2. 2025

Trump’s Budget Bill Would Explode Funding for ICE. Top Democrats Aren’t Talking About It.

Democrats denounced the bill’s cuts to Medicaid and attempted to rebrand it as “One Big, Ugly Bill. ” They didn’t mention its handouts to ICE.

A Rare Showing Of Bipartisanship Stopped The Senate’s Public Land Grab

Trump's divisive “Big Beautiful Bill” would devastate lives and the climate—but on nature preservation, bipartisan pushback yielded a win.

Why Won't ICE Comment on Kristi Noem's Cannibal Stories?

Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem repeated a story of ICE deporting a “cannibal, ” despite no evidence to support it. This plays into centuries of racist fantasies.

Richard Tice: art critic, and chicken

The Reform leader has a new, surprising area of expertise

Is Wales’s shortest-serving first minister heading for the Lords?

Vaughan Gething, who lasted 139 days as first minister, is rumoured to be in line for a peerage

Problem Page: I cried at work. What should I do?

“Raquelle” writes about her sense of betrayal by her boss “Keith” after a project goes wrong

Daniella Shreir: Diary

I arrived​ in Cannes with a terrible line from the festival president’s Sélection officielle ringing in my head. ..