Trump, nosediving in the polls and bristling over a disastrous war on Iran, needs a scapegoat – and the Israeli prime minister best fits the bill

The PM’s stated trajectory is a rebuke to past Tory and Labour governments. The challenge now is to make his project progressive in word and deed, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

As the Swedish Academy chooses the winner of the book world’s most prestigious award, Simon Kuper looks back at an august ideal often marred by politics and bias

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The Australian Greens is Australia's fastest growing political party. By joining the Greens, you become a part of our vision of an Australia with the courage to take action on important issues.

There is no greater treachery than this failure to face up to the climate crisis. How can we now fend off despair?

Unlike Julia Gillard’s joint signing of the agreement on the Clean Energy Act in 2011, Albanese has never held a meeting in public with the Greens. He routinely meets Greens leader Larissa Waters, but you wouldn’t know it. It’s as if Labor won the last election outright and the Greens don’t exist.

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The 55-year-old senator is renowned for his sharp brain but he divides opinion and could face opposition from the party’s grassroots New Greens leader David Shoebridge has said he is “up for a red hot fight” and hit out at One Nation’s “politics of hate”, signalling a more confrontational style of delivery under his leadership. The NSW senator, elected as leader on Wednesday afternoon following Larissa Waters’ shock resignation, said the minor party would show people it understood their anger and mistrust with mainstream politicians, and “show them who their real enemy is” – the elite 1%. Continue reading...

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