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We’ve had a skinful: drinks to toast the end of the political year

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For Most Of These Tipples

I could not forgive the father who left me. Until a chance encounter changed my outlook

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Carolin Würfel

Alaa Abd el-Fattah’s tweets were wrong, but he is no ‘anti-white Islamist’. Why does the British right want you to believe he is?

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Naomi Klein

The hill I will die on: That stone-cold classic you love isn’t a party starter – it’s a party destroyer

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Nels Abbey

Bad cops prey on the public – and their fellow officers. To stop them, we must break the culture of silence

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Mukund Krishna

As we prepare for 2026, remember we have the power to make our future

When we talk about opposition in politics, sometimes it’s just a policy disagreement – but in the current political crisis in the US, the...

yesterday 80

Rebecca Solnit

Psst: wanna buy a new year’s honour? Once it was simple. And now? Well, don’t rule it out

And so the new year honours list is out. The people – some of them at least – have spoken: here comes a fresh tranche of the great and good. Many...

yesterday 30

Stephen Bates

Why is the Democratic party hiding its 2024 autopsy report?

The Democratic National Committee’s decision to block the release of its own autopsy report on the 2024 election is stunning but not surprising....

yesterday 20

Norman Solomon

The hill I will die on: Never decline an invitation on the day of the event. Ghosting is the humane option

As New Year’s Eve looms, I implore you to heed this party etiquette advice. There are only two correct times to decline a party invitation: well in...

yesterday 10

Phineas Harper

You’ll never defeat us in Iran, President Trump: but with real talks, we can both win

While Benjamin Netanyahu earlier this year achieved his dream of dragging the US into a military confrontation with Iran, it came at a steep and...

yesterday 10

Abbas Araghchi

Snap decisions: why crowding into a photo booth with friends is still a magical experience

Last New Year’s Eve, I was out with a friend. We had no plans, so we met at a local cinema and then wandered the long street between our houses,...

yesterday 9

Nova Weetman

The royal family is edging toward modernity – but in 2026, the public will expect yet more transparency

This year, as King Charles gathered with the royal family for their traditional Christmas at Sandringham, he had much to reflect on. Certainly, the...

yesterday 10

Anna Whitelock

Do your new year’s resolutions fit the temper of the times?

yesterday 20

Glen Berman

2025 was the year we grew tired of celebrity for celebrity’s sake

When Katy Perry and five other women were launched into space in Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin rocket, no doubt they expected to be celebrated as...

yesterday 20

Nadia Khomami

Labour could oust Starmer, he could elegantly step aside – but without a plan, it will all be for nothing

Will he still be there to see in the next new year? Noise about Keir Starmer’s durability quietens with MPs being away from Westminster’s tearooms...

yesterday 10

Polly Toynbee

What would it take for me to feel safe wearing a kippah after Bondi?

What would it take for me to feel safe wearing a kippah (a Jewish head covering) on a daily basis? This is a question I have been asking myself...

yesterday 40

Glen Berman

The Louvre is the pride of France – and it’s on the verge of collapse. Can we rescue it in time?

Long before Versailles dazzled the world, the Louvre rose from the banks of the Seine as a royal residence. Charles V kept his celebrated library...

yesterday 20

Agnes Poirier

The Guardian view on the new Monroe doctrine: Trump’s forceful approach to the western hemisphere comes at a cost

Donald Trump is not generally noted as a student of history. Yet over the past year, his decisive reorientation of US foreign policy towards the...

yesterday 40

Editorial

Officers armed with assault rifles will patrol Sydney’s streets. But do more imposing police make us feel any safer?

yesterday 40

Anne Davies

The Guardian view on the National Year of Reading 2026: time to start a healthy habit for life

Reading to children from a young age leads to greater happiness, educational success, empathy and social mobility – no wonder the government wants...

previous day 8

Editorial

Americans are waking up. A grand reckoning awaits us

About a year ago, at the start of the Trump 2.0 regime, a woman was about to pass me on the sidewalk and then stopped, turned toward me and almost...

previous day 200

Robert Reich

Is it Twixmas or Twixtmas? And other style guide conundrums we have faced this year at the Guardian

Are we in Twixmas or Twixtmas? Do dinosaurs have capital letters? Is space measured in kilometres or miles? These are some of the questions we...

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Charlotte Naughton And Katy Guest

The Guardian view on antibiotics: recent breakthroughs are great news, but humanity is losing the bigger race

During her tenure as director general of the World Health Organization, Dr Margaret Chan used to say that all of the “easy” antibiotics had already...

previous day 10

Editorial

The hill I will die on: Pigeons are working-class heroes and deserve some respect

Is there something I would figuratively die on a hill for? Yes, there is – and as it happens, I’m sitting on a literal hill right now, feeding...

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Ssaint Douglass

The mood was jubilant at Italy’s far-right Atreju festival. But has Meloni’s success peaked?

Earlier this month, the gardens of Rome’s Castel Sant’Angelo were filled with families enjoying some unseasonably warm sun by a pop-up ice rink....

previous day 40

Jamie Mackay

The BBC tells the story of Britain in a way Netflix simply cannot. In the year to come, please remember that

Don’t let President Trump cloud the real debate about the BBC. Of course, his demand for damages of no less than $5bn has dominated our thinking...

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Tony Hall

I knew all about the NHS’s challenges and flaws. But then as a patient, I saw the love and the magic

I watched Nye, the National Theatre’s hit show about Aneurin Bevan, the former Labour MP for Ebbw Vale and his fight to found a national health...

previous day 9

Anne Perkins

The very next day, you gave it away … how to get rid of an unwanted Christmas gift without getting caught

As the recipient of an unwanted gift, is it necessary to pretend you like it? This is what most of us are trained to do as children; for some it...

previous day 7

Eleanor Limprecht

US strikes on IS targets in Nigeria may only fan the flames of insurgent violence

The response of Nigerians to the airstrikes against Islamic State (IS) targets in Sokoto state, north-western Nigeria are complicated. The...

sunday 10

Onyedikachi Madueke

On these in-between days I’m ‘growing down’, sinking into the present moment and savouring small delights

Just over a year ago, my mother died. It was a few months after my second baby was born and a month before Christmas. She was the last in the...

sunday 10

Nadine Levy

The Guardian view on the new space race: humanity risks exporting its old politics to the moon

During the cold war’s space race, the Apollo moon missions were driven by the need to prove American superiority. Having made that political and...

sunday 8

Editorial

Through the lens of history, Trump’s legacy will be more of a blotch than a Maga masterpiece

For those who lived through the cold war, the fall of the Berlin Wall on 9 November 1989, was an unforgettable moment. The sinister watch towers...

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Simon Tisdall

The hill I will die on: Faux Cyrillic is a load of old crдp

One of the worst bugbears to possess is one that is shared by hardly anyone else. It’s lonely being the only person who cares about something. It’s...

sunday 40

Viv Groskop

Need cheering up after a terrible year? I may have just the story you’re looking for

Perhaps you are searching for reasons to be cheerful at the end of what has been a particularly dispiriting year? In that case, read on. In...

sunday 20

Martin Kettle

Trump is shamelessly covering America in his name

In 2011, Donald Trump published a book with the self-help guru Robert Kiyosaki titled Midas Touch. It’s a typical self-empowerment manual in which...

27.12.2025 10

Mohamad Bazzi

The year in patriarchy: Taylor Swift’s engagement, Trump 2.0 and the Epstein files

The year 2025 would have been far better if we could have sent a few billionaires and world leaders into intergalactic exile. Instead, we had to...

27.12.2025 30

Arwa Mahdawi

2025: a year in political cartoons – from a Bond-villain Trump to a toppled prince

In a year in which I’ve drawn too many cartoons about powerful people acting with impunity, the fall of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor stood out to me...

27.12.2025 30

Martin Rowson

The hill I will die on: Online shops, please, I beg – stop with endless post-purchase emails

When I buy something online, I don’t want to receive more than two emails: one to confirm my order has been received, and another to tell me when...

27.12.2025 30

Athena Kugblenu

A conversation between Joe Rogan and Mel Gibson summed up 2025 for me – and not in a good way

Looking back on this crazy year, one event, right at the start, seems to me to encapsulate the whole. In January, recording his podcast in a studio...

27.12.2025 100

George Monbiot

In the battle against antisemitism we must accept that Zionism means different things to different people

The 14 December Bondi Beach attack targeting Jews at a Hanukah celebration has brought the issue of antisemitism into sharp national focus. In...

27.12.2025 4

David Slucki

The best of: Fiona Katauskas cartoons 2025

27.12.2025 4

Gallery

The Guardian view on adapting to the climate crisis: it demands political honesty about extreme weather

The record-breaking 252mph winds of Hurricane Melissa that devastated Caribbean islands at the end of October were made five times more likely by...

26.12.2025 50

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We’ve had a skinful: drinks to toast the end of the political year

For Most Of These Tipples

I could not forgive the father who left me. Until a chance encounter changed my outlook

Carolin Würfel

Alaa Abd el-Fattah’s tweets were wrong, but he is no ‘anti-white Islamist’. Why does the British right want you to believe he is?

Naomi Klein

The hill I will die on: That stone-cold classic you love isn’t a party starter – it’s a party destroyer

Nels Abbey

Bad cops prey on the public – and their fellow officers. To stop them, we must break the culture of silence

Mukund Krishna

As we prepare for 2026, remember we have the power to make our future

Rebecca Solnit

Psst: wanna buy a new year’s honour? Once it was simple. And now? Well, don’t rule it out

Stephen Bates

Why is the Democratic party hiding its 2024 autopsy report?

Norman Solomon

The hill I will die on: Never decline an invitation on the day of the event. Ghosting is the humane option

Phineas Harper

You’ll never defeat us in Iran, President Trump: but with real talks, we can both win

Abbas Araghchi

Snap decisions: why crowding into a photo booth with friends is still a magical experience

Nova Weetman

The royal family is edging toward modernity – but in 2026, the public will expect yet more transparency

Anna Whitelock

Do your new year’s resolutions fit the temper of the times?

Glen Berman

2025 was the year we grew tired of celebrity for celebrity’s sake

Nadia Khomami

Labour could oust Starmer, he could elegantly step aside – but without a plan, it will all be for nothing

Polly Toynbee

What would it take for me to feel safe wearing a kippah after Bondi?

Glen Berman

The Louvre is the pride of France – and it’s on the verge of collapse. Can we rescue it in time?

Agnes Poirier

The Guardian view on the new Monroe doctrine: Trump’s forceful approach to the western hemisphere comes at a cost

Editorial

Officers armed with assault rifles will patrol Sydney’s streets. But do more imposing police make us feel any safer?

Anne Davies

The Guardian view on the National Year of Reading 2026: time to start a healthy habit for life

Editorial

Americans are waking up. A grand reckoning awaits us

Robert Reich

Is it Twixmas or Twixtmas? And other style guide conundrums we have faced this year at the Guardian

Charlotte Naughton And Katy Guest

The Guardian view on antibiotics: recent breakthroughs are great news, but humanity is losing the bigger race

Editorial

The hill I will die on: Pigeons are working-class heroes and deserve some respect

Ssaint Douglass

The mood was jubilant at Italy’s far-right Atreju festival. But has Meloni’s success peaked?

Jamie Mackay

The BBC tells the story of Britain in a way Netflix simply cannot. In the year to come, please remember that

Tony Hall

I knew all about the NHS’s challenges and flaws. But then as a patient, I saw the love and the magic

Anne Perkins

The very next day, you gave it away … how to get rid of an unwanted Christmas gift without getting caught

Eleanor Limprecht

US strikes on IS targets in Nigeria may only fan the flames of insurgent violence

Onyedikachi Madueke

On these in-between days I’m ‘growing down’, sinking into the present moment and savouring small delights

Nadine Levy

The Guardian view on the new space race: humanity risks exporting its old politics to the moon

Editorial

Through the lens of history, Trump’s legacy will be more of a blotch than a Maga masterpiece

Simon Tisdall

The hill I will die on: Faux Cyrillic is a load of old crдp

Viv Groskop

Need cheering up after a terrible year? I may have just the story you’re looking for

Martin Kettle

Trump is shamelessly covering America in his name

Mohamad Bazzi

The year in patriarchy: Taylor Swift’s engagement, Trump 2.0 and the Epstein files

Arwa Mahdawi

2025: a year in political cartoons – from a Bond-villain Trump to a toppled prince

Martin Rowson

The hill I will die on: Online shops, please, I beg – stop with endless post-purchase emails

Athena Kugblenu

A conversation between Joe Rogan and Mel Gibson summed up 2025 for me – and not in a good way