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How did it take 100 years for women’s football to get here?
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.
Are asylum seeker hotel headlines manufacturing mayhem?
Some newspapers and commentators won’t be satisfied until the chaos they’re so fervently predicting actually happens.
Finally, a conspiracy theory Donald Trump doesn’t like
Once no more than a carnival barker, now Trump is the ringmaster, but he seems to be losing control of his crowd.
Keir Starmer’s unhappy anniversary
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’s bold experiment - ban kids from YouTube
Australia is about to embark on an experiment that could be copied around the world, if it works.
Do America’s allies matter anymore?
It’s a big week for western defence powers, but is the US listening to any of its allies anymore?
Donald Trump: President, watch dealer, bible salesman
Seems like everyone’s got multiple jobs these days, even world leaders.
“I had told so many lies, I was an expert in telling lies”
How could someone spend nearly four decades in the Army, but for so much of that time have to hide who they really were?
“The moment we have feared has arrived” — Trump creates a crisis
This is a confrontation Trump, and those around him, have been itching for since January. A fabricated crisis that becomes a pretext to militarise against an “enemy within.”
Why can’t politicians ever say sorry?
Politicians — on all sides — are terrified of saying sorry. Give in once, they reason, and you’ll never stop being pestered to make more concessions.