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It was the mid-‘80s. Independence Day was a holiday. I wanted to go out, play with my friends. But my mother sternly said, “Don’t go out today…who knows what will happen. Bombs may explode and what not.” That warning still rings in my ears every Independence Day.

Exactly four years later, our reunion in the safety of my new home in Melbourne was sweet

The UK tech sector has never been more important, writes Chris Blackhurst. Now they need backing to increase their access to funds and future growth

If teenagers haven’t already absorbed that life is unfair, they’ll register it by the time they’re 18 and find that everyone around them thinks that their entire future hangs on three little letters, or maybe four, these being the grades they got at A-level or its equivalent today. You may…

Student debt increasing, graduate salaries dropping, high-skilled jobs thin on the ground – higher education in the UK is a mess, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

To ward off becoming a crazy catless lady, I look after other people’s pets while they’re away

As India enters its 79th year, the questions of who the Republic belongs to and who belongs in the country stare its citizens in the face in multiple ways. The day has somehow come to be one of enforced vegetarianism, with several municipal bodies across the country ordering the closure…

As I pushed my 40-year-old skin up my face in the mirror, to see if I would look better with it stretched across my cheekbones, past my ears … I suddenly shuddered and uttered to myself: “You have got to get out of here.”

The ex-Doge staffer and wife of Stephen Miller says she wants to reach conservative women – and her first guest is JD Vance