PM announces long-awaited gambling ad crackdown
Celebrities and sportspeople will no longer be allowed to promote gambling on TV, radio or online as part of a long-awaited and wide-ranging crackdown on betting ads. An overhaul of…
Guardian power rankings: France lead the way with Senegal and Japan in top 10
From Algeria to Uzbekistan, our writers and contributors from around the world assess the state of the 48 nations to qualify for the World Cup “There’s more talent and potential…
As Australian food prices rise, ‘robust’ cauliflower and cabbage are April’s best value fruit and veg
Rising costs of fuel and fertiliser will soon affect fresh food aisles but brassica, root vegetables, apples and pears still provide bang for buck As roast and soup season starts,…
Finally, the clitoris is getting the attention it deserves
Almost 30 years after scientists mapped the nerves in the penis, they’ve done the same for the clitoris. At least men have stopped denying it exists There’s no excuse for…
I wore Meta’s smartglasses for a month – and it left me feeling like a creep
Content creators love the built-in camera; sceptics call them ‘pervert glasses’. Do we really need any more hi-tech wearables, even with a voice assistant that sounds like Judi Dench? Lately,…
A moment that changed me: for the first time in my life, a stranger pronounced my name correctly
I had grown up dreading introductions, with the inevitable mangling of my name. Suddenly, in India, we were both getting the respect we deserved I had five names on the…
A third inflationary shock in less than a decade is coming: who will pay the price this time around? | Aditya Chakrabortty
Brutal past experience has taught us that a cost of living crisis doesn’t affect us all the same, because we don’t all go into it with the same income or…
Australia has weathered fuel crises before. What can we learn from previous oil price spikes? | David Lee
After the second world war, cheap oil was a foundation of global economic stability. That changed dramatically in 1973 Past/Present is a column which places current events in historical context…
Yes, the rich must start paying their fair share of taxes | Bernie Sanders
We need a 5% wealth tax on America’s 938 billionaires. Over a 10-year period, this bill would raise much-needed $4.4tn for public coffers Never before in American history have so…
Apple at 50 quiz: top sellers, turkeys and turtlenecks
How much do you know about the history of one of the most powerful computing companies on the planet? In the 50 years since it was founded, Apple has long…