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Yes, it’s full of nonsense, extreme hosting and psychobabble. But I do love Meghan’s Christmas special

Yes, it’s full of nonsense, extreme hosting and psychobabble. But I do love Meghan’s Christmas special

No matter the time of year, ’tis always open season on the Duchess of Sussex’s televisual offering, With Love, Meghan. Critics, professional and...

yesterday 8

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Polly Hudson

‘It’s not your turn,’ the board’s selection committee chair said. Instantly I felt as though I was back in the school yard

‘It’s not your turn,’ the board’s selection committee chair said. Instantly I felt as though I was back in the school yard

Many years ago, I was encouraged to put my name forward to chair a significant government board. It seemed like a long shot to me, I wasn’t in...

yesterday 7

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Julianne Schultz

Forget Hadrian’s Wall. The UK citizenship test should ask about Corrie, bus queues and Greggs

Forget Hadrian’s Wall. The UK citizenship test should ask about Corrie, bus queues and Greggs

What medal did Mary Peters win in the 1972 Olympics? How many Scottish ski resorts are there? Where was Florence Nightingale born? Until I got...

yesterday 4

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Emma Beddington

The right’s callous overdiagnosis bandwagon is rolling. Wes Streeting should not be on it

The right’s callous overdiagnosis bandwagon is rolling. Wes Streeting should not be on it

Wes Streeting is a politician whose keen interest in the zeitgeist is only matched by his seeming drive to be as close to the heart of it as...

yesterday 4

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John Harris

Zipcar’s demise means people such as me are back in the slow lane – and stuck needing their own costly car

Zipcar’s demise means people such as me are back in the slow lane – and stuck needing their own costly car

Zipcar, the world’s largest carsharing club, is leaving the UK. The company, which operates about 3,000 shared vehicles in Britain, has announced...

yesterday 6

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Phineas Harper

Ukraine is facing a painful choice

Ukraine is facing a painful choice

The negotiations over the war in Ukraine are frustrating and tragic. On the one side, a victim of aggression whose plight is more and more...

yesterday 4

The Guardian

Christopher S Chivvis

You don’t need alcohol on Christmas Day. It may be far more enjoyable if you stay sober

You don’t need alcohol on Christmas Day. It may be far more enjoyable if you stay sober

Now is the time of year when some of my clients want to talk about Christmas. As a specialist in addiction, many are seeking my help for their...

yesterday 3

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Antonia Saunokonoko

What we get wrong about the Montgomery bus boycott – and what we can learn from it

What we get wrong about the Montgomery bus boycott – and what we can learn from it

The Montgomery bus boycott, which began 70 years ago on 5 December 1955, is now understood as one of the most successful American social movements....

yesterday 4

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Jeanne Theoharis

I’m 15 years old and have a disability. Social media has been a lifeline – why is the government kicking me off?

I’m 15 years old and have a disability. Social media has been a lifeline – why is the government kicking me off?

The government has decided that from Wednesday I should be banned from social media because of the potential harm it can cause. But as a teenager...

yesterday 3

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Ezra Sholl

The Guardian view on Marwan Barghouti: Palestinians need a political future as well as aid and reconstruction

The Guardian view on Marwan Barghouti: Palestinians need a political future as well as aid and reconstruction

In a sort-of ceasefire, the killings – including of children – have slowed, not stopped. Israeli military operations continue to displace hundreds...

yesterday 7

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Editorial

The Guardian view on ageing research: our lives have more distinct phases than we thought

The Guardian view on ageing research: our lives have more distinct phases than we thought

Ageing can feel remarkably sudden. One morning you awake to find new aches, or lapses in strength and memory that you could swear were not present...

yesterday 6

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Editorial

Putin should have accepted Trump’s deal. Now Russia’s collapsing economy could lead to his downfall

Putin should have accepted Trump’s deal. Now Russia’s collapsing economy could lead to his downfall

People in Britain who think they are governed by fools should take a closer look at the Russian and US presidents. Vladimir Putin is systematically...

yesterday 200

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Simon Tisdall

Trump wants to recreate a white America that never existed

Trump wants to recreate a white America that never existed

As Donald Trump deteriorates and his grasp on power fades, he has been lashing out furiously at female journalists and ethnic groups, most recently...

previous day 100

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Rebecca Solnit

Why are diagnoses of ADHD soaring? There are no easy answers – but empathy is the place to start

Why are diagnoses of ADHD soaring? There are no easy answers – but empathy is the place to start

Does the rise in diagnoses of ADHD mean that normal feelings are being “over-pathologised”? The UK’s health secretary, Wes Streeting, seems to...

previous day 30

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Gabor Maté

Trump’s pardon of an ex-Honduran president is shocking. So is the history of US support for him

Trump’s pardon of an ex-Honduran president is shocking. So is the history of US support for him

Since President Trump first announced the pardon of former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernández last Friday, the media has been wading through...

previous day 20

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Dana Frank

Forget festive schmaltz, the best Christmas film this year is a gay biker dom-com

Forget festive schmaltz, the best Christmas film this year is a gay biker dom-com

Can Die Hard – the 1988 action movie starring Bruce Willis as an NYPD detective hoping to reconcile with his estranged wife on Christmas Eve – be...

previous day 8

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Kitty Grady

Only Europe can save Ukraine from Putin and Trump – but will it?

Only Europe can save Ukraine from Putin and Trump – but will it?

Europe, you have been warned. President Vladimir Putin has waged a full-scale war against Ukraine for nearly four years and this week threatened...

previous day 60

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Timothy Garton Ash

Nigel Farage was once run out of Edinburgh. Now Scottish voters are embracing his rabble-rousing

Nigel Farage was once run out of Edinburgh. Now Scottish voters are embracing his rabble-rousing

Almost 13 years ago, at a press briefing to launch Ukip’s first Scottish byelection campaign, Nigel Farage was run out of Edinburgh by jeering...

previous day 20

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Dani Garavelli

Want to be hotter? Try this one weird Republican trick

Want to be hotter? Try this one weird Republican trick

Forget expensive moisturizers or designer clothes. Ladies, if you want a quick and easy glow-up, you may want to try Republicanism. This one weird...

previous day 30

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Arwa Mahdawi

Rebecca Hendin on potential political candidates – cartoon

previous day 7

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Rebecca Solnit

In my homeland, I’m trapped by bombs. Outside, I’m trapped by identity. The world is shrinking for Gazans

In my homeland, I’m trapped by bombs. Outside, I’m trapped by identity. The world is shrinking for Gazans

The world is big, yet it is forever shrinking for Gazans. In fact, it is as small as 3% of the size of an ever-diminishing strip of land, where the...

previous day 8

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Plestia Alaqad

Datacentres – why are they so thirsty? Let’s ask a shark!

friday 20

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George Monbiot

Give credit where it’s due: Labour is finally doing things its supporters actually want

Give credit where it’s due: Labour is finally doing things its supporters actually want

What does it take for a small child not to recognise their own name? I’ve been thinking about that for days, since reading the Local Government...

friday 20

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Gaby Hinsliff

Labour has a groundbreaking plan for child poverty. Finally, this government has found its mission

Labour has a groundbreaking plan for child poverty. Finally, this government has found its mission

Once Labour set up a child poverty taskforce, it was predestined that the two-child benefit limit would be abolished. Every authority consulted...

friday 10

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Polly Toynbee

The Great European Bake-Off: if the EU wants closer integration, how about using pop culture?

The Great European Bake-Off: if the EU wants closer integration, how about using pop culture?

It was both enjoyable and strange to see the EU enlargement commissioner, Marta Kos, present the news on Moldovan TV a couple of months ago. For...

friday 4

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Paula Erizanu

Daily Telegraph unveils Sydney’s Power 100 list. You won’t believe who’s on it

Daily Telegraph unveils Sydney’s Power 100 list. You won’t believe who’s on it

Sharri Markson has been named one of Sydney’s most influential players for her “extraordinary advocacy on behalf of the Jewish community”. “The Sky...

friday 7

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Amanda Meade

I don’t care if Reform calls me a bad word on WhatsApp. But the story behind its gaffe is far more worrying

I don’t care if Reform calls me a bad word on WhatsApp. But the story behind its gaffe is far more worrying

Last week saw one of the proudest moments of my journalism career. Leaked messages from a WhatsApp group containing several senior members of...

friday 30

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Will Hayward

Over a pint in Oxford, we may have stumbled upon the holy grail of agriculture

Over a pint in Oxford, we may have stumbled upon the holy grail of agriculture

It felt like walking up a mountain during a temperature inversion. You struggle through fog so dense you can scarcely see where you’re going....

friday 200

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George Monbiot

The Trump administration sinks to a new low – opening fire on drowning men

The Trump administration sinks to a new low – opening fire on drowning men

The Trump administration looks ever more like a criminal enterprise – and now it seems to have added war crimes to its repertoire. Though even that...

friday 100

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Jonathan Freedland

The Liz Truss Show will confront the big issues of the day. For example: who on earth would watch Liz Truss?

The Liz Truss Show will confront the big issues of the day. For example: who on earth would watch Liz Truss?

Will you be seeing a pantomime this year? Birmingham’s got Gok Wan and Biggins in Robin Hood, Bradford has Sinitta in Snow White, while Bromley...

friday 10

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Marina Hyde

Labour wants to ramp up facial recognition. What if our data ends up in the wrong hands?

Labour wants to ramp up facial recognition. What if our data ends up in the wrong hands?

One thing to remember about the modern world is that nothing online is ever secure. M&S and Jaguar taught us that. Edward Snowden taught us that....

friday 6

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Simon Jenkins

Rosa Parks’ vacant former home is an emblem of racist housing policies

Rosa Parks’ vacant former home is an emblem of racist housing policies

Friday is the 70th anniversary of the Montgomery bus boycott, which began because Rosa Parks refused to relinquish her seat to a white person, as...

friday 20

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Bernadette Atuahene

What has the ceasefire actually accomplished?

friday 8

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Tom Mcilroy

If Labor won’t deal with the low-hanging fruit of jobs for mates, how can it be trusted against louder vested interests?

If Labor won’t deal with the low-hanging fruit of jobs for mates, how can it be trusted against louder vested interests?

In a scrappy week of Senate estimates hearings, there was one criticism of the Albanese government that should have really stung Labor, delivered...

friday 7

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Tom Mcilroy

Bruce Lehrmann an ‘inspiration’? Only to litigants whose cases have crashed and burned

Bruce Lehrmann an ‘inspiration’? Only to litigants whose cases have crashed and burned

Bruce Lehrmann is an “inspiration”. Of course he is. At least his solicitor-advocate, Zali Burrows, is urging us to see him that way because he...

04.12.2025 10

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Richard Ackland

Messy, combative and intoxicatingly fierce – don’t write off Your Party just yet

Messy, combative and intoxicatingly fierce – don’t write off Your Party just yet

It’s not every day that Jeremy Corbyn and some of his closest comrades are described as “the right” in a political argument. But I first heard them...

04.12.2025 10

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Andy Beckett

What do you give the prime minister who has everything?

04.12.2025 10

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The Opposition Has Some Ideas

Watch Simon Cowell’s TV search for a new boyband – and see how our world has changed

Watch Simon Cowell’s TV search for a new boyband – and see how our world has changed

There is a moment in the trailer for Simon Cowell’s new Netflix show, The Next Act, that is almost touching in its adherence to the way things once...

04.12.2025 4

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Emma Brockes

The Guardian view on regulating pornography: a £1m fine does not prove the Online Safety Act is working

The Guardian view on regulating pornography: a £1m fine does not prove the Online Safety Act is working

Awareness of the harm caused by online pornography is rising. Last month, the government bowed to pressure from campaigners and pledged to make...

04.12.2025 10

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Editorial

I called my recipe book Sabzi – vegetables. But the name was trademarked. And my legal ordeal began

I called my recipe book Sabzi – vegetables. But the name was trademarked. And my legal ordeal began

Vegetables, in my experience, rarely cause controversy. Yet last month I found myself in the middle of a legal storm over who gets to own the word...

04.12.2025 40

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Yasmin Khan

Europe is holding the line against Trump’s and Putin’s plans for Ukraine. But it won’t be able to for ever

Europe is holding the line against Trump’s and Putin’s plans for Ukraine. But it won’t be able to for ever

The failure of this week’s peace talks between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff fits into a now well-established pattern of...

04.12.2025 20

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Martin Kettle

Rightwingers are trying to destroy women’s right to vote

Rightwingers are trying to destroy women’s right to vote

Sexism can be very modern and tech savvy. Misogyny is an ever-evolving idiom, and men and women alike have found particularly of-the-moment ways to...

04.12.2025 200

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Moira Donegan

Did we learn nothing from robodebt? NDIS automation will put vulnerable lives at the mercy of machines

Did we learn nothing from robodebt? NDIS automation will put vulnerable lives at the mercy of machines

Never again. That was the resounding message delivered via the robodebt royal commission from the thousands of Australians whose lives and...

04.12.2025 60

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Georgia Van Toorn

The Guardian view on the crown estate inquiry: a necessary probe and a wider debate

The Guardian view on the crown estate inquiry: a necessary probe and a wider debate

Everyone in Britain has views about the royal family. In many cases, lots of views. Britain’s parliament, however, never lets the subject pass its...

04.12.2025 8

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Editorial

Ali Faqirzada is an Afghan refugee. He deserves to stay in America

Ali Faqirzada is an Afghan refugee. He deserves to stay in America

On 14 October, Ali Faqirzada – an Afghan refugee, a resident of New Paltz, New York, and a computer science student at Bard College – arrived for...

04.12.2025 40

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Francine Prose

I realise now that my view on mental health overdiagnosis was divisive. We all need better evidence

I realise now that my view on mental health overdiagnosis was divisive. We all need better evidence

Earlier this year, I appeared on the BBC and was asked a question by Laura Kuenssberg that I hadn’t anticipated: did I believe there’s a problem...

04.12.2025 5

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Wes Streeting

Kids’ parties are hell on earth, but may be the cure to the world’s ills

Kids’ parties are hell on earth, but may be the cure to the world’s ills

When my beautiful firstborn turned one, about 70 people came to the pub to celebrate. There were drinks, there were meals, there were balloons,...

04.12.2025 1

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Emily Mulligan

Is the UK economy really as bad as we think it is? Here is the truth of the matter

Is the UK economy really as bad as we think it is? Here is the truth of the matter

The British economy has endured a series of setbacks in recent years: austerity, Brexit, the global pandemic, soaring energy prices and an...

04.12.2025 2

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Jonathan Swarbrick

The Guardian view on a four-day week for teachers: a clever way to end the staffing crisis

The Guardian view on a four-day week for teachers: a clever way to end the staffing crisis

Can you guess which professionals in England work 26 hours of overtime a week without compensation, give up time with friends and family to deal...

03.12.2025 20

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Editorial

The Guardian view on US-Russia talks on Ukraine: a warning to Europe to move faster on security cooperation

The Guardian view on US-Russia talks on Ukraine: a warning to Europe to move faster on security cooperation

Donald Trump’s desire to end the war in Ukraine might be sincere, but his motives are selfish. He wants the glory of having brokered a deal and...

03.12.2025 30

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Editorial