Trump has created a slush fund of taxpayer money to give to his friends | Moira Donegan
The ‘Anti-Weaponization Fund’ is an extraordinary example of bald self-dealing Donald Trump is stealing almost $2bn in taxpayer money and handing it out to his friends. That’s the upshot of…
Canadian prime minister Mark Carney is not the climate guy you thought | Seth Klein
While Canada may be clinging to fossil fuels, much of the world is moving on Casual international observers would be forgiven for assuming Canada is in the comforting hands of…
The Guardian view on the Mountbatten-Windsor papers: they expose the collapse of Britain’s ‘good chap’ state | Editorial
New papers matter less for royal gossip than for what they reveal about the UK’s fragile constitutional culture of trust, prestige and informal power The most shocking revelation in files…
Feeling the dance of age, I join a pottery class. It isn’t until I let go of expectations that I truly begin to learn how to create | Nova Weetman
It has become less about the finished product and more about the process itself Years ago, my son and I took a pottery class one Saturday afternoon. I agreed to…
One Nation says it’s the only party in Australia to question climate science. It should ask itself why | Temperature Check
Climate change denial has become untenable yet Hanson’s party digs in – with conspiracy theories, cherrypicking and claims that are easy to refute Follow our Australia news live blog for…
Bullying, hazing and the making of a ‘soccer president’: Donald Trump’s forgotten career on the pitch
The US president will have a prominent role at this summer’s World Cup, but his involvement with the sport started in military school Sign up for the World Behind The…
From a waterfall cube to a field of mushrooms: Vivid Sydney 2026 – in pictures
Bold and bright, Vivid Sydney transforms the city’s streets and parks with light installations, projections and digital art. It includes a 6.5km light walk from Barangaroo to Darling Harbour, along…
Phantom Days by Angela O’Keeffe review – a rich, lyrical story told through the ‘eyes’ of a book
Though O’Keeffe’s third novel is partly narrated by a seemingly sentient object, the result is wonderfully human How do we deal with the loss of a life never lived? As…
Jimmy Kimmel on CBS after the end of Stephen Colbert’s Late Show: ‘Don’t ever watch it again’
Late-night hosts spoke about the end of the iconic long-running show and Trump’s latest grift Late-night hosts discussed the end of The Late Show and Stephen Colbert’s tenure as well…
Trump says he will ‘try and make’ son’s wedding, but timing is ‘not good’ for him
‘I have a thing called Iran, and other things,’ says president as he considers invitation to Donald Trump Jr’s nuptials Get Me to the Church on Time, sang Alfred Doolittle…