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In 2016, on the day after the Brexit vote, my home town’s pub opened early and celebratory pints were drunk underneath union flags. I was in…

There are times on The Long Wave desk when a conversation sparks a sort of group therapy session. A few weeks ago, Jason came back from…

I haven’t slept for seven-and-a-half years – at least, it feels that way. The TV, rotating between Bluey, The Wiggles and K-pop Demon Hunters (when the…

The first thing Raymond Martin looks for in a toilet, he says, is cleanliness. Does the tissue paper on the floor mean this public lavatory has…

Two prominent Israeli human rights organizations have concluded in a new report that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza—marking the first time Jewish-led groups within Israel…

The most famous enslaver in Jamaica, the island that was one of the most profitable of Britain’s Caribbean colonies, is a ghost. One of the tellings…

It is a balmy Thursday evening in north-east London and a dozen teenagers in combat fatigues are practising first aid on each other inside an army…

Late last month, approximately 1 billion news cycles ago, an obscure federal court made President Donald Trump very, very mad.The US Court of International Trade ruled…

Back in 2001, when I first attended university, I didn’t join any student organizations, clubs or professional societies. I was busy with classes, after all, and…

The great energy transition is happening before our eyes. You can see it on our roofs: more than one in three Australian homes now have solar.…