On what planet did Boy George think releasing a song supporting Israel’s genocide in Gaza would be a good idea, asks Suzanne Harrington

She fed it, gave it shelter, and treated its mange... but Suzanne Harrington is now a precious shoe down after adopting a fox

The tournament was a tale of two presidents who scored own-goal after own-goal to the detriment of sporting integrity

We warm up by skipping, which sounds harmless, but is absolutely not if the last time you skipped was in fifth class

Two current situations show just how embedded this under-the-carpet-sweeping reflex remains in the DNA of our institutions

When foreign holiday temperatures turn up on our doorstep, we freak out — we are ill-equipped, which is to say we are not equipped at all

We continue to permit a skewed system, hoping that those who hoard wealth will chuck a bit back at us. Children still go to bed hungry

It feels like the most globally unifying, fun thing the world has left — football — has been hijacked by the baddies. It stinks.

I'd never been to a literary festival... I’ve long considered myself too young to waft around a picturesque rural town surrounded by men in white straw hats and ladies in Birkenstocks and floaty scarves

You cannot but help feel sympathy for anyone who is so covered in shame about who they really are that they spend a lifetime lying to themselves and others