20 years on from meeting my musical heroes, the Pet Shop Boys on their soundtrack for the silent film classic, and why they’re always looking outside pop to “keep things interesting.”

What’s behind Britain’s political “vibe shift” that’s put far-right rhetoric around migration and asylum in the mainstream?

Trump says Ukraine joining NATO would be ‘insulting’ — but who is he really speaking for?

No-one’s interested in women’s football? As I set my alarm for 1.45am to make sure I didn’t miss England’s Euro 2025 final from the other side of the world, I wondered how anyone could get it so ludicrously wrong.

Some newspapers and commentators won’t be satisfied until the chaos they’re so fervently predicting actually happens.

Once no more than a carnival barker, now Trump is the ringmaster, but he seems to be losing control of his crowd.

The chaos surrounding the government’s welfare reforms is the kind of thing that happens in the dying days of an administration barely hanging onto power. How on earth has this happened?

Australia is about to embark on an experiment that could be copied around the world, if it works.

It’s a big week for western defence powers, but is the US listening to any of its allies anymore?

Seems like everyone’s got multiple jobs these days, even world leaders.