Gaza protests resume at Columbia as semester begins Columbia University students began the school year with fresh protests and increased security just outside their famous New York City campus. Last term, the school experienced some of the US’s largest and tensest campus demonstrations – eventually leading to the resignation of school President Minouche Shafik – … Read more
BBC Sir Tony Blair and Amol Rajan also discussed the impact of globalisation Sir Tony Blair has been out of power in government for 17 years. Yet he thinks he’s learned almost as much after leaving Number 10 as when he was in it. One of the key insights from the revolutions in behavioural economics … Read more
Australia has a problem with greenhouse gas emissions – a bigger problem than the political debate concedes. Late last week, as Australians endured record August warmth and global heating-fuelled extreme rain, the federal government released data that suggest heat-trapping gases across most of the economy are currently headed in the wrong direction or yet to … Read more
At the age of seven, Alexandra Pfeifer was taken by her father and two brothers to Prague railway station, and told she was going on holiday. “I didn’t know where or why I was going. I didn’t know there was a place called England. I waved to my brothers out of the window when the … Read more
David Lammy’s announcement of a suspension on 30 arms export licences to Israel finally returns some credibility to the UK’s arms control rules, but its obvious incoherence may leave the Labour government in a position that is unsustainable. The UK government’s own guidance has long been clear. Britain’s position is that it will “not issue … Read more
The Brothers Quay, identical twins, make marvellous, mystifying films in which eerie stop-motion puppets outnumber the few live performers. These films might be set in a strange school for servants, or a lecture hall, or a labyrinth, but really they take place in a small desktop universe that runs according to its own alien rules. … Read more
Ukraine has experienced one of the deadliest attacks of the war after a Russian missile strike on the central city of Poltava hit a military training institute and a nearby hospital, killing at least 51 people and injuring more than 200 others. The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, said in a video address that, according to … Read more
Onwards and sideways. Abandon hope all ye who enter here. To get the full surround sound effect of Project Miserable you only have to observe Treasury departmental questions. A place from which few come out alive. Presided over by the Ministering Angel of Death (AKA Rachel Reeves). Dressed all in black like some latter day … Read more
Scribbled notes by the neonatal nurse Lucy Letby, used to help convict her of murdering seven babies, were written on the advice of professionals as a way of dealing with extreme stress, the Guardian has learned. The notes were relied on as amounting to a confession by the prosecution during her first trial and in … Read more
Benjamin Netanyahu’s main political rival, Benny Gantz, has accused the Israeli prime minister of putting his personal interests before those of his country after he again insisted on the need for Israeli control of the Gaza-Egypt border on Monday, a position that has emerged as a key obstacle to a ceasefire deal. Speaking in Tel … Read more