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From handsome prince to a ghost behind glass, Andrew’s face tells the story of his decline | Fay Bound-Alberti
1+ hour, 15+ min ago (601+ words) Never the heir, but less of a spare than Harry somehow, Andrew's face was once memorialised in the way that only royalty, Jesus and the saints were: endlessly reproduced as public property. Andrew's face was part of his " and the…...
Todd Sampson: ‘Under every extreme group there’s a human need – often for belonging’
3+ hour, 13+ min ago (1244+ words) The ad man turned TV personality on his tough upbringing, praying with UFO worshippers and why he chooses to talk with people "at the edges" A warm and gusty afternoon in Sydney"s Chinatown. Todd Sampson is looking for a…...
Pauline Hanson is already distorting policy and politics on immigration. It’s threatening to take us down a dark road
3+ hour, 13+ min ago (903+ words) Labor is cutting immigration, and the Coalition is talking about "good and bad" migrants, as One Nation"s rise influences the debate A little more than two years out from the next federal election, there is something of a realignment…...
Ramadan night markets bring thousands of visitors to Lakemba – a suburb where Pauline Hanson claims people ‘feel unwelcome’
3+ hour, 13+ min ago (804+ words) More than one million people are expected to visit the month-long night markets in south-west Sydney, where "everyone is happy" The steps at Lakemba mosque on Thursday night hum with a contented quietness, and the smell of sweet bread baking....
Claims of bikies, strippers and drugs in the CFMEU threaten to end Jacinta Allan’s premiership. Can she survive?
3+ hour, 13+ min ago (1189+ words) A report alleging the Victorian branch of the union had turned into a "crime syndicate" has sparked a war between the state government and a corruption fighter He credits this to his union, the Construction, Forestry and Maritime Employees Union…...
‘His superpower is shamelessness’: Tim Wilson has big ambitions – for Australia and for himself
3+ hour, 13+ min ago (1544+ words) To supporters, the shadow treasurer is proof the Liberals can win back urban heartlands. But is a clash of ideologies looming? A week or so after the Coalition's catastrophic 2025 election defeat, the surviving Liberals returned to Canberra to choose a…...
These atrocities in Sudan were entirely predictable. So why did the rest of the world fail to stop them? | Husam Mahjoub
3+ hour, 28+ min ago (381+ words) Western governments have put elite bargains before civilian lives. If El Fasher is to mean anything, this approach must change The latest report from the UN independent fact-finding mission on the fall of El Fasher in Sudan reads like a…...
Road review – Johnny Vegas lands his punches in bitter riposte to Thatcher’s Britain
4+ hour, 42+ min ago (315+ words) Selina Cartmell's vision for Jim Cartwright's play is big. Too big to be contained within the regular loop of the auditorium, even when the director uses the full height of the in-the-round space, sending her actors up ladders and getting…...
The World Service must be preserved, whatever the cost | Letters
4+ hour, 47+ min ago (553+ words) Your editorial on the predicament facing the BBC World Service (The Guardian view on the BBC World Service: this is London calling, 13 February) rightly stresses the strategic importance of this national asset at a time when the global order is…...
How to win friends and influencers: Labour’s new social media strategy is a step into the future | Kirsty Major
4+ hour, 58+ min ago (907+ words) There was a backlash when No 10 invited online content creators inside its doors. But in a fast-changing media landscape, this solves two problems at onceLast year, No 10 took an unprecedented step: it invited content creators to cross the threshold of…...