Alastair Campbell’s diary: Sometimes I do ‘do God’, but only as a favour to the Pope
There’s a golden rule that you don’t plug someone else’s book when your own one is out. But there are some times when you have to make an exception
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Sorry influencers, but most of you are just dicks
A shop in the US put up a sign banning influencers and the response made it all the more clear that it is absolutely time to ban influencers
The strange death of sex in the movies
Hollywood used to understand desire. Now even its sex comedies are embarrassed about the bedroom
How long before Reform dump Zia Yusuf?
A party rift is deepening over the self-styled ‘shadow home secretary’
Donald Trump and Natalie Harp – the grimmest love story ever written
Trump’s right-hand woman doesn’t sleep or eat, runs alongside his golf cart and even looks a bit like him. She is right wing America’s idea of the perfect woman
Revealed: Postcards from our summer holidays, by Burnham, Badenoch, Farage, Davey and Polanski
Capped fares for donkey rides, yachting with oligarchs and Lib Den log flumes: How Britain’s political class have been spending the season
The new Trump vaccine order could kill thousands of Americans
Trump knows nothing about science, and neither does his health secretary RFK jr. Both are paranoid fantasists with no grasp of the facts – it could prove deadly
The TV documentary that gets ADHD all wrong
A show on Channel 4 says the condition has nothing to do with the brain, but is environmental. I have ADHD – I can tell you, that's dead wrong
Live: Are you over 45 and female? Sorry, you’re not getting a job
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How Rupert Murdoch became an estate agent
The revenue from Murdoch’s Australian newspapers was once so huge it launched a media empire – but now, the money comes from a different source
The Two Matts: 2026: the year the climate crisis came home
The Matts discuss the government’s response to the severe heat this summer in England and Wales (sorry Scotland!) … and whether this year will be a turning point in the public’s perception of urgency around the changing climate.
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The Two Matts: 2026: the year the climate crisis came home
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The Democrats’ secret plan to elect JD Vance
Anyone connected with the Trump disaster should be beatable in 2028 - but they are making the VP look like the safest choice
The 60% problem: Why a hotter climate is a crisis for the UK economy
Drought is hitting British farms just as war and supply shocks make our food supplies more vulnerable
Jason Arday’s death exposes a depressing reality about so-called “black privilege”
Tragedy captures how far elite institutions remain from treating ethnic diversity as simply normal
Mark Zuckerberg is back, and still talking bollocks about AI
The Facebook founder has written an essay about artificial intelligence because his fellow tech bros have done the same - it’s a 6,500-word nothingburger