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Los Angeles is on fire and big oil are the arsonists

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Tzeporah Berman

The image that speaks a thousand words about our inhumane migration debate

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Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

Trump’s punishment for his crimes? None

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Moira Donegan

Trump, Musk and Zuckerberg have declared war on facts and truth. The pushback must start now

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Emily Bell

As resolutions go, Mark Zuckerberg’s ‘nothing in moderation’ is a stinker

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Alison Phillips

Loved ones mourn Kelyan Bokassa, the 14-year-old boy killed on a London bus. And we all have some thinking to do

Loved ones mourn Kelyan Bokassa, the 14-year-old boy killed on a London bus. And we all have some thinking to do

The last time Mary Bokassa saw her 14-year-old son alive was around lunchtime, on his first day back to school after Christmas. She had no way of...

yesterday 10

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Gaby Hinsliff

Why are US supreme court justices starting to sound like Trump?

Why are US supreme court justices starting to sound like Trump?

We’re supposed to believe that it was about a job interview. On Tuesday, President-elect Donald Trump spoke on the phone with the supreme court...

yesterday 10

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Moira Donegan

Forget it, Trump: Greenland doesn’t want to be ruled by the US – or Denmark

Forget it, Trump: Greenland doesn’t want to be ruled by the US – or Denmark

The news that Donald Trump Jr was about to visit Nuuk felt like a flashback to almost six years ago, when his father, Donald Trump, famously...

yesterday 40

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Aka Hansen

Farage, Musk and Trump: they crave your attention. Don’t give it to them

Farage, Musk and Trump: they crave your attention. Don’t give it to them

Even more than other forms of politics, populism needs an audience. Populist politicians want to be famous personalities, to make attention-getting...

yesterday 30

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Andy Beckett

Fast fashion is an addiction. Secondhand shopping mania may be just as bad

Fast fashion is an addiction. Secondhand shopping mania may be just as bad

‘Guess how much this was,” I say to my partner mischievously, revealing with relish the latest toy I’ve found for our youngest son. It’s...

yesterday 10

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Chloe Hamilton

Fires like those in LA could hit Sydney or Melbourne. How prepared are we?

Fires like those in LA could hit Sydney or Melbourne. How prepared are we?

As the Los Angeles wildfires rage, we are watching a disaster unfold in real time. We knew this would happen eventually. We have moved from...

yesterday 20

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David Bowman For The Conversation

There are no adults in the room: there’s barely a room. This is politics at warp speed, and we know who’s benefiting

There are no adults in the room: there’s barely a room. This is politics at warp speed, and we know who’s benefiting

The worst-timed foreign visit by a politician this week was LA mayor Karen Bass deciding to attend the inauguration of the president of Ghana. The...

yesterday 30

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Marina Hyde

To resist the climate crisis, we must resist the billionaire class

To resist the climate crisis, we must resist the billionaire class

When I feel uncertain, I find it’s helpful to write down things I know to be true. Fossil fuels are causing irreversible planetary overheating....

yesterday 30

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Peter Kalmus

Mick Lynch, you’re a legend – and the unapologetic working-class leader the left is missing

Mick Lynch, you’re a legend – and the unapologetic working-class leader the left is missing

Mick Lynch is the trade union icon who nearly wasn’t. Leaving school at 16 to train as an apprentice electrician, he worked in construction until...

yesterday 30

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Polly Smythe

Meta never cared about factchecking. What it wants is friction-free oligarchy

Meta never cared about factchecking. What it wants is friction-free oligarchy

This week Meta announced the elimination of its factchecking program in the US and rollbacks to content moderation policies on “hateful...

yesterday 20

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Joan Donovan

Melania’s $40m Amazon deal: another sign Bezos is capitulating to Donald Trump

Melania’s $40m Amazon deal: another sign Bezos is capitulating to Donald Trump

The language in a New York Times article was extremely restrained as it described Jeff Bezos’s evolving stance regarding Donald Trump. The Amazon...

yesterday 10

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Margaret Sullivan

For years I’ve asked ministers what they expect refugees to do. They never have an answer

For years I’ve asked ministers what they expect refugees to do. They never have an answer

Another day, another pledge from the government to smash the people-smuggling gangs. The foreign secretary, David Lammy, has lined up alongside the...

yesterday 20

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Diane Taylor

The AfD leader’s fawning over Elon Musk should sink her party. Instead, it will boost it

The AfD leader’s fawning over Elon Musk should sink her party. Instead, it will boost it

Imagine a politician fighting a general election being granted the opportunity of a publicly livestreamed chat with one of the most powerful...

yesterday 10

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Thomas Vorreyer

With Trump as America’s tsar and Musk at his side, Starmer must now look to Europe

With Trump as America’s tsar and Musk at his side, Starmer must now look to Europe

Flood the zone with shit. So advised Steve Bannon, onetime chief strategist for Donald Trump, who understood long ago that if you want to get away...

yesterday 3

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Jonathan Freedland

How will President Trump put himself on the map?

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Jonathan Freedland

Donald Trump’s conviction is the latest twist in the Maga story

Donald Trump’s conviction is the latest twist in the Maga story

Donald Trump will take the office on 20 January 2025 as a convicted felon. On Thursday night, a sharply divided US supreme court declined to ride...

yesterday 2

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Lloyd Green

The Guardian view on the LA fires: Donald Trump’s denial and division fuel climate inaction

The Guardian view on the LA fires: Donald Trump’s denial and division fuel climate inaction

The wildfires ravaging Los Angeles have killed at least 10 people, displaced 180,000 and scorched about 40 square miles – an inferno driven by...

yesterday 30

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Editorial

The Guardian view on Magnus Carlsen’s power play: checking chess’s ruling body in style

The Guardian view on Magnus Carlsen’s power play: checking chess’s ruling body in style

A persuasive case can be made that Magnus Carlsen is the greatest chess player of all time. The 34-year‑old Norwegian is no longer world champion...

yesterday 3

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Editorial

Elon Musk’s rage-fests on X make it clear that he wants something. I think I know what it is

Elon Musk’s rage-fests on X make it clear that he wants something. I think I know what it is

What, as they say, is Elon Musk’s deal? There will be a lot of justifiably righteous commentary about his hijacking of the debate around sexually...

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Emma Brockes

This 77-year-old climate activist should never have been jailed – and now faces a Kafkaesque struggle to get out

This 77-year-old climate activist should never have been jailed – and now faces a Kafkaesque struggle to get out

Gaie Delap will turn 78 on Friday, in Eastwood Park prison, Gloucestershire. Sentenced to 20 months last August for climbing a gantry over the M25...

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Zoe Williams

Elon Musk is a monster bully on the loose, but he can only get his way if we let him

Elon Musk is a monster bully on the loose, but he can only get his way if we let him

They can smell the fear. And they are thrilled by what they can smell. Fanned by a mesmerised media at home and abroad, the thrill excites them...

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Martin Kettle

The Guardian view on Jimmy Carter’s funeral: requiem for a good man and a better era

The Guardian view on Jimmy Carter’s funeral: requiem for a good man and a better era

Heavy with honours, attended by all living US presidents, and swathed in public affection, Jimmy Carter received a solemn state funeral on...

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Editorial

I didn’t think it was possible, but this week has been a new low for the Tories

I didn’t think it was possible, but this week has been a new low for the Tories

Things can only get worse, as Musk-Trumpery continues to invade British politics. The outrageous smears and falsehoods – Elon Musk posted 200 times...

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Polly Toynbee

Open borders defy rising nationalism in Europe. We must protect them

Open borders defy rising nationalism in Europe. We must protect them

With so many economic and political challenges looming, the EU nevertheless began 2025 with a little bit of its old magic and a reminder that...

previous day 5

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Alexander Hurst

London has a congestion charge – and traffic in gridlock. We need other ways to end the obsession with cars

London has a congestion charge – and traffic in gridlock. We need other ways to end the obsession with cars

There was a moment, during the long, strange summer of 2020, when it felt like Covid might reshape London, as it seemed set to change so much else....

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Jonn Elledge

I can’t forget the confused old man on the bus the other day

I can’t forget the confused old man on the bus the other day

I was part of a miserable incident on a bus. This was one evening just before Christmas and I had somewhere to be. As I got on, the driver was...

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Adrian Chiles

In defense of DEI

In defense of DEI

If the US wants to achieve economic growth, empower the best talent and have a fair and just society for all, it must embrace diversity, equity and...

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Wajahat Ali And Yusuf Zakir

The chronicle of a fire foretold

The chronicle of a fire foretold

The fires raging in and around Malibu are huge, and they’re terrible, and they’re also the latest in a series of catastrophic fires in Los...

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Rebecca Solnit

‘Stop saying I crashed the economy,’ says Liz Truss. Is it possible to gaslight an entire country?

‘Stop saying I crashed the economy,’ says Liz Truss. Is it possible to gaslight an entire country?

The problem with worrying about megalomaniacs on the web and wildfires in Los Angeles is that we have been distracted from the very real plight of...

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Hugh Muir

I’ll never be a summer person, but I’ve found ways of surviving the season and even enjoying it – sometimes

I’ll never be a summer person, but I’ve found ways of surviving the season and even enjoying it – sometimes

I’m not made for heatwaves. If my DNA could talk, it would tell me about how it still dreams of the windswept Scottish island that was home to my...

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Indigo Perry

The Guardian view on child sexual exploitation: concrete action must be the priority

The Guardian view on child sexual exploitation: concrete action must be the priority

Inquiries into institutional failures are a vital element in public life. These have three broad purposes, the first of which is finding out the...

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Editorial

Is ‘sleep divorce’ the key to marital bliss?

Is ‘sleep divorce’ the key to marital bliss?

Forgive me, I know it’s judgmental, but when I first came across the internet’s latest buzz phrase, “sleep divorce”, the name for happy...

wednesday 2

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Coco Khan

Staking claim to a patch of sand with your beach cabana might be the most Australian thing of all

Staking claim to a patch of sand with your beach cabana might be the most Australian thing of all

Anthony Albanese is up in arms over some absolutely un-Australian behaviour he’s seen on a Facebook group. People, he’s discovered, own beach...

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Anna Spargo-Ryan

No telescope needed: how to navigate the Australian night sky in summer

No telescope needed: how to navigate the Australian night sky in summer

It’s summer in Australia and that means many of us head out of the city and off to a remote camping site, where the night sky shines bright with...

wednesday 3

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Virginia Kilborn

The Guardian view on Kemi Badenoch: lacking substance, courage and judgment

The Guardian view on Kemi Badenoch: lacking substance, courage and judgment

In the absence of action, politicians can only be judged on their words. This is the perennial problem for opposition parties – how to persuade...

wednesday 40

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Editorial

Don’t panic – despite the headlines, the Aussie dollar isn’t crashing

Don’t panic – despite the headlines, the Aussie dollar isn’t crashing

As I returned to work after the Christmas holidays, I checked in on how the economy was going and was rather startled to read the headline “Panic...

wednesday 20

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Greg Jericho

AI-generated ‘slop’ is slowly killing the internet, so why is nobody trying to stop it?

AI-generated ‘slop’ is slowly killing the internet, so why is nobody trying to stop it?

How do you do, fellow humans? My name is Arwa and I am a genuine member of the species homo sapiens. We’re talking a 100% flesh-and-blood person...

wednesday 60

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Arwa Mahdawi

Migrant exploitation is a progressive issue. That’s why we will now take the toughest steps ever to stop it

Migrant exploitation is a progressive issue. That’s why we will now take the toughest steps ever to stop it

In January 1946, the foreign secretary, Ernest Bevin, stared into the geopolitical fog. The second world war had only just ended. The cold war,...

wednesday 30

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David Lammy

The Guardian view on content moderation: Meta did far too little. Now it wants to do even less

The Guardian view on content moderation: Meta did far too little. Now it wants to do even less

Mark Zuckerberg famously boasted that Facebook had a saying: “Move fast and break things”. His product has not just destroyed industry models but...

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Editorial

Kemi Badenoch was supposed to make the Tories serious again. She has failed

Kemi Badenoch was supposed to make the Tories serious again. She has failed

The House of Commons is built for confrontation, with rows of benches facing each other across an aisle. When the original Victorian chamber was...

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Rafael Behr

Elon Musk is boosting the AfD. But why is Germany’s mainstream helping him?

Elon Musk is boosting the AfD. But why is Germany’s mainstream helping him?

When Elon Musk endorsed the far-right Alternative für Deutschland on X as the only party that could “save Germany”, followed by an opinion...

wednesday 40

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Hanno Hauenstein

There is little the US can do to constrain Elon Musk. But here are some ideas

There is little the US can do to constrain Elon Musk. But here are some ideas

Elon Musk repeatedly asserts, without evidence, that the British prime minister, Keir Starmer, covered up the abuses of young girls by gangs...

wednesday 40

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Robert Reich

The awkward tributes to Jean-Marie Le Pen show how much power his daughter now wields

The awkward tributes to Jean-Marie Le Pen show how much power his daughter now wields

I once asked Jean-Marie Le Pen, during 1992 regional elections, about the National Front’s (FN) slogan Quand nous arriverons, ils partiront,...

wednesday 10

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Paul Taylor

Mark Zuckerberg has gone full Maga

Mark Zuckerberg has gone full Maga

Mark Zuckerberg seems to have gone full Maga. Just two weeks before Donald Trump assumes power over the world’s most powerful government, the CEO...

wednesday 7

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Siva Vaidhyanathan

Many wise people have told me how to live a better life. Obviously I didn’t pay attention

Many wise people have told me how to live a better life. Obviously I didn’t pay attention

What’s the best bit of advice you’ve ever had? It’s a common question to lob in at the end of an interview. I mean the kind of interview you...

wednesday 8

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Adrian Chiles

Scuba diving has opened my eyes to a new world. Being a beginner again feels magical

Scuba diving has opened my eyes to a new world. Being a beginner again feels magical

There is a paradox to being 20 metres under the ocean. It is a place of calm and wonderment. I am immersed in a foreign world, with a new watery...

wednesday 3

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Kieran Pender

President Jimmy Carter was an antidote to politics as spectacle

President Jimmy Carter was an antidote to politics as spectacle

I first met President Jimmy Carter at a sports bar in 1996 at the Atlanta Olympics. I was interning for the Carter Center in the same summer class...

wednesday 3

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Ro Khanna

Why are gen Z shunning ‘hustle culture’ in favour of long-term jobs? Here are three good reasons

Why are gen Z shunning ‘hustle culture’ in favour of long-term jobs? Here are three good reasons

For decades, we’ve been told that the modern workplace is a playground of freedom and choice. Flexibility, agility and autonomy have become buzz...

wednesday 2

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Oli Mould

Look at the underside of a log, and you’ll find my new obsession: the beautiful, bonkers world of slime moulds

Look at the underside of a log, and you’ll find my new obsession: the beautiful, bonkers world of slime moulds

A few years ago, I started looking at the underside of logs and it changed my life. I found a secret carnival of the most bodacious and interesting...

wednesday 3

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Lucy Jones

The spiralling cost of borrowing spells trouble for Rachel Reeves – but she must hold her nerve

The spiralling cost of borrowing spells trouble for Rachel Reeves – but she must hold her nerve

The cost of UK government borrowing is higher than it has been since just before the global financial crisis of 2008. The yield on five-year gilts...

wednesday 2

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Jonathan Portes

The Guardian view on the Church of England after Welby: adapt to survive

The Guardian view on the Church of England after Welby: adapt to survive

Justin Welby’s last day in post as archbishop of Canterbury, on Monday, was spent privately at Lambeth Palace where he attended two services on...

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Editorial

A new era of lies: Mark Zuckerberg has just ushered in an extinction-level event for truth on social media

A new era of lies: Mark Zuckerberg has just ushered in an extinction-level event for truth on social media

Social media has always acted as something of a funhouse mirror to society as a whole. The algorithms and amplifications of an always-online...

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Chris Stokel-Walker

How low will British politics go? Ask Elon, master of the Muskoverse – he’ll decide

How low will British politics go? Ask Elon, master of the Muskoverse – he’ll decide

Can it really be three weeks ago that Nigel Farage and Elon Musk were posing adoringly at Mar-a-Lago, in front of that hilariously naff painting of...

07.01.2025 50

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Marina Hyde

To see how Trump will control the US media, look at Viktor Orbán’s Hungary

To see how Trump will control the US media, look at Viktor Orbán’s Hungary

Will democracy survive a second Trump presidency? A change of senior personnel at a social media company involving a former British deputy prime...

07.01.2025 20

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Owen Jones

Making law is about the head, not the heart. I don’t want MPs offering personal testimony

Making law is about the head, not the heart. I don’t want MPs offering personal testimony

Recently, John Healey, the relatively new defence secretary, made a personal confession. He told how his son’s current military service “plays on...

07.01.2025 20

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Simon Jenkins

I know how to fix new year’s resolutions – and it could change everything

I know how to fix new year’s resolutions – and it could change everything

What’s the right age to realise new year’s resolutions are trash that won’t last until February? By about 12 years old, the data should be in:...

07.01.2025 10

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Zoe Williams

My AI-cloned voice was used to spread far-right propaganda. How do we stop the fake audio scam?

My AI-cloned voice was used to spread far-right propaganda. How do we stop the fake audio scam?

My brother held his phone up to my ear. “You’re gonna find this creepy,” he warned. An Instagram reel showing a teenage boy at a rally featured...

07.01.2025 10

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Georgina Findlay

New mothers don’t need to be bombarded with unsolicited advice – they need reassurance

New mothers don’t need to be bombarded with unsolicited advice – they need reassurance

In the discombobulation of postpartum, reassurance is what all new mothers need. When sleep deprived and aching, when doubt spirals are common and...

07.01.2025 10

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Jodi Wilson

With the 21st century a quarter complete, illiberal democracy is the new global norm

With the 21st century a quarter complete, illiberal democracy is the new global norm

The three largest democracies in the history of the world will soon be ruled by intolerant authoritarians who leveraged celebrity and social media...

07.01.2025 10

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Siva Vaidhyanathan

From ‘gestation’ to ‘gentle’: across Europe, why do we talk about parenting in English?

From ‘gestation’ to ‘gentle’: across Europe, why do we talk about parenting in English?

For me, becoming a mother was an experience as disorienting and confusing as moving to a new country. I had to learn new behaviours and customs as...

07.01.2025 7

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Olga Mecking

Demi, Jodie and Nicole: is Hollywood finally ready to recognise complex female characters over 40?

Demi, Jodie and Nicole: is Hollywood finally ready to recognise complex female characters over 40?

There’s something spectacular happening in movies and television at the moment and it’s not a superhero fight sequence or a motorcycle stunt off...

07.01.2025 6

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Natasha Ginnivan

‘I don’t hold a hose, mate’: Australia’s political history is full of gaffes. Here are some of the best (or worst)

‘I don’t hold a hose, mate’: Australia’s political history is full of gaffes. Here are some of the best (or worst)

The Oxford English Dictionary defines a gaffe as a “blunder, an instance of clumsy stupidity, a ‘faux pas’”. It evokes a sense of triviality...

07.01.2025 2

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Frank Bongiorno For The Conversation

Why was Justin Trudeau forced out? With Trump on the horizon, his party wasn’t sure he could win

Why was Justin Trudeau forced out? With Trump on the horizon, his party wasn’t sure he could win

Justin Trudeau has announced he will step down as Canadian prime minister after his successor is chosen, probably by the end of March. Trudeau says...

07.01.2025 5

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David Moscrop

The Guardian view on Gaza’s suffering: a deepening disaster should not be treated as inevitable

The Guardian view on Gaza’s suffering: a deepening disaster should not be treated as inevitable

The new year has commenced as bleakly as the last one concluded in Gaza. As December came to an end, the UN announced that the healthcare system...

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Editorial

Will flattery get you everywhere with Donald Trump? Billionaires are determined to find out

Will flattery get you everywhere with Donald Trump? Billionaires are determined to find out

Reader, I was wrong. So terribly wrong. It pains me to admit this but, back in the distant past (last year), I wrote some very nasty things about...

07.01.2025 3

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Arwa Mahdawi

Joe Biden is Leonard Peltier’s last hope

Joe Biden is Leonard Peltier’s last hope

As Joe Biden prepares to leave office, he has a chance to do something singularly honorable in the name of American justice and basic human rights....

07.01.2025 6

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Rose Styron And Alex Matthiessen

Ignore Musk, ignore the critics – you’ll feel the benefit of Labour’s policies in your pocket before long

Ignore Musk, ignore the critics – you’ll feel the benefit of Labour’s policies in your pocket before long

Look up, despite the bleak midwinter, the flu crisis and this dismal mood of political cynicism. Despite, too, the daily doom that pumps out of the...

07.01.2025 70

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Polly Toynbee

The Guardian view on Elon Musk’s disinformation: escalating hate and threatening democracy

The Guardian view on Elon Musk’s disinformation: escalating hate and threatening democracy

On Monday, Sir Keir Starmer rightly defended robust debate but insisted it “must be grounded in facts, not lies”, in response to Elon Musk’s...

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Editorial

The Guardian view on Starmer and the NHS: renewal is the right priority

The Guardian view on Starmer and the NHS: renewal is the right priority

By kicking off the first full week of 2025 with a speech in which he called the NHS the “cornerstone” of his government’s plan to rebuild...

06.01.2025 20

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Editorial

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