After watching the Wicked sequel, Moya wonders if politeness is stopping us from seriously addressing women’s shrinking bodies and changing faces. Are we allowing extreme thinness to be normalised?

Zelenskyy in Downing Street as peace talks continue. Plus: The failed coup in Benin, Paramount interferes in the potential Netflix/Warner Bros deal, and Zack Polanski’s somewhat controversial reasons ...

On this Trip, Jem, Nadia and Keir debate the meaning of ‘mainstream’ – something none of them could ever possibly be, of course. Is ‘woke’ the new ‘mainstream’? Can there be a mainstream if we don’t ...

Twenty-eight of Nigel Farage’s former classmates and teachers have said that they witnessed racist or anti-Semitic behaviour by Nigel Farage during the 1970s and 1980s. Plus: The tech boss who wants ...

Has it been a good or bad week for Reform UK? On the one hand, the natural party of golf club boors got a bonanza donation of £9m from a former Tory mega donor. They’re still first in voting intention ...

A London councillor has defected to the Green party after having the whip withdrawn by “fascistic” Labour. Sam Foster, the former chair of Southwark’s Housing Scrutiny Commission, will now represent ...

You might have heard there’s no ethical consumption under capitalism, but some types of consumption are of course more ethical than others. If you’re celebrating Christmas by giving gifts, why not put ...

A prominent disability charity has fired an employee for protesting against the proscription of Palestine Action in order to protect its “brand reputation”. Chloe – who declined to give her surname, ...

Could Reform and the Tories create a pact? Plus: The final Hillsborough report allows those responsible for the deaths of 97 Liverpool fans to face no consequences, the case for decolonising economics ...

After all of the posturing that surrounded the supposedly radical 2025 budget, there it was: a “mansion tax” tacked onto England & Wales’s bizarre, outmoded system of council tax banding, and a small ...

Kate McMahon is a freelance journalist and foreign correspondent based in Egypt.

Four international solidarity activists were attacked in their sleep on 30 November by masked Israeli settlers in the Palestinian village of Ein ad-Duyuk, near Jericho in the occupied West Bank.