Inside the horrifying online network where children extort others to commit violence and self-harm
The 764 network is just one part of a growing online ecosystem that pushes young members into brutal and degrading acts. It has perpetrators and victims in dozens of countries…
Australia news live: Qantas apologises for four-hour wait on Sydney tarmac; Nine newspapers announce redundancies
Airline says communication ‘could have been better’ after about 250 passengers waited hours for flight to Denpasar to leave. Follow today’s news live Get our breaking news email, free app…
Six highlights from Andy Burnham’s first Downing Street speech
From ‘circuit breaker for Britain’ to 10-year plan, new prime minister sets out his stall It clocked in at a little more than five minutes, and contained several themes and…
Shania Twain: Little Miss Twain review – rootsy revival strays from the dirt track to the middle of the road
(Republic Nashville)The country legend’s seventh album revisits her troubled early life but plays it safe with zany humour and fluffy songs about young love ‘When I was a kid, I…
Australia has had housing crises before: what can we learn from them? | Anne O’Brien
When governments make access to housing more equitable, it’s because they recognise its social and economic value The federal government’s first major tax reform in nearly 30 years was a…
A job that changed me: At the one-hour photo lab, customers were determined to immortalise their genitals on 35mm
Along with an unexpectedly comprehensive understanding of local penises, my time at Rabbit Photo let me see locals’ lives captured in 35mm film Read more in this series here I…
How much does Australia spend on offshore detention in Nauru? | Fiona Katauskas
It’s hard to tell where it all goes… See more of Fiona Katauskas’s cartoons here Continue reading…
The politics of an online outrage industry – podcast
We know that the online world is awash with angry commentary, but why are we so compelled to keep scrolling, despite our best intentions? And how is it shaping our…
Trump is invoking foreign election interference to justify his own | Jamil Smith
The president no longer treats the people who defeated him as voters. He treats them as suspects There is a version of this country in which Donald Trump tells Americans…
The Andy Burnham I’ve met over the past 20 years gives me hope for British politics | John Harris
You hear the word ‘empathy’ a lot when people talk about our next prime minister. I can see why My contribution to this summer’s modest avalanche of Andy Burnham stories…