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It’s not just Gaza. From the West Bank to Syria and Lebanon, Israel’s onslaught continues

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Nesrine Malik

I’m a Guardian journalist who has covered Victoria police’s new search powers. On Sunday, police searched me

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Lisa Favazzo

There are those on the left and right who offer only grievance: Labour is getting on with the job of economic renewal

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Keir Starmer

Reciting the names of the dead: how Australia’s response to HIV/Aids was emotionally – and politically – powerful

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Leigh Boucher

Hello, foreign oligarchs and corporations! Please come and sue the UK for billions

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George Monbiot

We have a practical framework for American resistance. Now we need a spiritual one

We have a practical framework for American resistance. Now we need a spiritual one

Across the country, organizers are carrying something heavier, clearer and more spiritually charged than anything I have seen in over 30 years of...

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Rami Nashashibi

The ‘squeezed middle’ is back – and this time it could be Labour’s undoing

The ‘squeezed middle’ is back – and this time it could be Labour’s undoing

Just over 15 years ago, a realisation began to dawn on British politicians, triggered by the financial crash of 2008 and its effects on millions of...

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John Harris

China is bearing down on Taiwan – enabled by Trump’s weakness and vacillation

China is bearing down on Taiwan – enabled by Trump’s weakness and vacillation

Sheer ignorance, fed by malign intent, historical prejudice and mutual misunderstanding, is often the crucial spark that ignites simmering...

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Simon Tisdall

Don’t filter your dates by age and hobbies, ask them how they shop

Don’t filter your dates by age and hobbies, ask them how they shop

A friend of mine once declined a date with a kind, funny, clever man because she hated his shoes. When she relayed this to our group of...

yesterday 10

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Polly Hudson

How can we navigate difficult conversations these holidays? Buddhism offers some guidance

How can we navigate difficult conversations these holidays? Buddhism offers some guidance

When it comes to difficult conversations, I have a way to go. I often swing between hyper-assertiveness and retreating entirely, but both avoid...

yesterday 7

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Nadine Levy

If toxic humility is a thing, I definitely have it. But perhaps there’s another way

If toxic humility is a thing, I definitely have it. But perhaps there’s another way

What’s your favourite thing about yourself? Stylist’s Love Yourself campaign asked over 400 women that, and published eight pages of their answers....

yesterday 8

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Emma Beddington

The Guardian view on the inequality emergency: why a Nobel prize winner’s warning must be heeded

The Guardian view on the inequality emergency: why a Nobel prize winner’s warning must be heeded

When Swiss tycoons handed Donald Trump a gold bar and a Rolex watch – gifts that were followed by a cut in US tariffs – it was no diplomatic...

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Editorial

The Guardian view on the Send crisis: Bridget Phillipson must be tough with the Treasury so children aren’t penalised

The Guardian view on the Send crisis: Bridget Phillipson must be tough with the Treasury so children aren’t penalised

The crisis over special educational needs and disabilities in England is not just a question of cash. Children and parents spend months and years...

yesterday 10

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Editorial

The Russia-Ukraine peace deal is not a loss. Nor is it a victory

The Russia-Ukraine peace deal is not a loss. Nor is it a victory

No one should be satisfied with the unjust peace that Ukraine may be forced to accept. The aggressor would be rewarded with territory and other...

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Stephen Wertheim

What Rosa Parks can teach us about resistance today

What Rosa Parks can teach us about resistance today

It was 70 years ago when four African Americans were sitting in the fifth row of a bus in Montgomery. As one white man had to stand towards the...

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Jan-Werner Müller

What could be putting young women off marriage? It really isn’t that much of a mystery

What could be putting young women off marriage? It really isn’t that much of a mystery

According to recent data, marriages in England and Wales are down by nearly 9% after a post-pandemic spike, while civil partnerships have risen by...

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Naoise Dolan

When it comes to alcohol, gambling and domestic violence in Australia, it’s essential we connect the dots

When it comes to alcohol, gambling and domestic violence in Australia, it’s essential we connect the dots

“How do we maintain the rage?” Sussan Ley asked in parliament last week. The opposition leader was speaking to a motion introduced by Labor’s...

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Zoe Daniel

What Chicago’s fight against ICE can teach us all about how to resist oppression

What Chicago’s fight against ICE can teach us all about how to resist oppression

Earlier this year, the Trump administration reversed the convention that nobody would be snatched by immigration and customs enforcement, or ICE, by...

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Zoe Williams

Trump keeps insulting female journalists

Trump keeps insulting female journalists

There was a time when it would have been a scandal for the president of the United States to call a journalist “ugly” or a politician...

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Arwa Mahdawi

David Lammy is right to slash the use of juries – it’s an open-and-shut case

David Lammy is right to slash the use of juries – it’s an open-and-shut case

Juries are an archaic and inefficient feature of Britain’s collapsing justice system. They survive only in some English-speaking countries as...

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Simon Jenkins

Congratulations, everyone! Starmer survives another week, and it’s only cost us £26bn

Congratulations, everyone! Starmer survives another week, and it’s only cost us £26bn

Thanks to Labour’s incredible Black Friday deal, breaking manifesto policies is buy-one-get-one-free. As part of its all-promises-must-go drive,...

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Marina Hyde

Jury trials are flawed and unwieldy – but vital for justice being seen to be done

Jury trials are flawed and unwieldy – but vital for justice being seen to be done

For the sake of British justice, something has to give. Everyone knows that the courts are in crisis, that we can’t go on like this. Traumatised...

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Gaby Hinsliff

Arthur Miller? Snore! Audiences want new plays – why are theatres too scared to stage them?

Arthur Miller? Snore! Audiences want new plays – why are theatres too scared to stage them?

Crisis? What crisis? British Theatre Before and After Covid, a report released this week, is like a comedy-tragedy mask rendered in academic form....

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Brian Logan

Australia finally acknowledges environment underpins all else. That’s no small thing

Australia finally acknowledges environment underpins all else. That’s no small thing

The passage of long overdue reforms to the Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (EPBC) Act demonstrates powerfully that...

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Ken Henry

Press freedom is being destroyed from Gaza to America. Don’t think it can’t happen here

Press freedom is being destroyed from Gaza to America. Don’t think it can’t happen here

First things first. It would be remiss of me not to refer specifically to the appalling and outrageous casualty list of Palestinian journalists and...

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Kerry O&x27Brien

How does Black Friday show your true colours?

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Brian Logan

The 28-point ‘peace plan’ for Ukraine may be dead – but Trump still won’t stop Putin

The 28-point ‘peace plan’ for Ukraine may be dead – but Trump still won’t stop Putin

Europe breathed a deep collective sigh of relief on Monday, as the crisis triggered by Washington’s presentation of a new 28-point plan for ending...

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Dmytro Kuleba

Kerry O’Brien sounds the alarm for Australian media in thunderous Walkleys address

Kerry O’Brien sounds the alarm for Australian media in thunderous Walkleys address

The former ABC broadcaster Kerry O’Brien got a standing ovation at the 70th Walkley awards on Thursday night for a rousing speech that reminded...

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Amanda Meade

The genocide in Gaza is far from over

The genocide in Gaza is far from over

On 10 October, following two years of Israeli genocide that have turned Gaza into the new benchmark of total destruction, after Israel has killed...

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Raz Segal

Why Starmer’s desire to govern as ‘Mr Rules’ is bound to fail

Why Starmer’s desire to govern as ‘Mr Rules’ is bound to fail

This Labour government loves rules. Fiscal rules, stability rules, investment rules, immigration rules and rules restricting protests: this...

friday 20

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Andy Beckett

Germany raised its citizens to hate war. Now it wants us to enlist in the army – but we say no

Germany raised its citizens to hate war. Now it wants us to enlist in the army – but we say no

When I was growing up, the most German sentence imaginable was: “We’ve lost two world wars and we’re proud of it.” We were so anti-military,...

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Mithu Sanyal

Antisemitism allegations against the teenage Farage matter – look at what he went on to do

Antisemitism allegations against the teenage Farage matter – look at what he went on to do

Nigel Farage could have strangled this story at birth. Confronted with the testimony of more than 20 former schoolmates, who shared with the...

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Jonathan Freedland

Martin Rowson on a besieged Labour party – cartoon

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Jonathan Freedland

Barnaby Joyce’s scandals have damaged politics. Maybe it’s time for a change of scenery

Barnaby Joyce’s scandals have damaged politics. Maybe it’s time for a change of scenery

The 30 minutes before question time in federal parliament don’t usually warrant much media attention. A laundry list of members deliver 90-second...

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Tom Mcilroy

Rachel Reeves’s budget has inflamed, not calmed, Britain’s febrile mood

Rachel Reeves’s budget has inflamed, not calmed, Britain’s febrile mood

Rachel Reeves’s chancellorship was already balanced on a knife-edge, even before the 2025 budget. After she delivered her second budget statement,...

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Martin Kettle

Labor’s nature law overhaul contains wins – but we should watch for gremlins in the details

Labor’s nature law overhaul contains wins – but we should watch for gremlins in the details

We should start at the beginning in assessing the Labor-Greens deal to revamp Australia’s national environment law. And the beginning is that,...

27.11.2025 10

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Adam Morton

The rewriting of Australia’s nature laws comes as a relief, yet I can’t help feel a sense of foreboding

The rewriting of Australia’s nature laws comes as a relief, yet I can’t help feel a sense of foreboding

I got a text from a biodiversity advocate around midday on Thursday asking me: are you glad, or sad? I wasn’t sure how to reply. The Australian...

27.11.2025 10

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Georgina Woods

The two-child limit is abolished at last. Watch out for the narrative that will follow

The two-child limit is abolished at last. Watch out for the narrative that will follow

And just like that, the two-child benefit limit was finally abolished. “I don’t intend to preside over a status quo that punishes children for the...

27.11.2025 8

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Frances Ryan

The Guardian view on Labour’s budget: real gains for children and struggling families are a welcome shift

The Guardian view on Labour’s budget: real gains for children and struggling families are a welcome shift

Rachel Reeves’s budget contains many measures to make any social democrat cheer. Scrapping the two‑child benefit cap, putting up gambling taxes,...

27.11.2025 10

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Editorial

Zohran Mamdani is rewriting the political rules around support for Israel

Zohran Mamdani is rewriting the political rules around support for Israel

Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu should be quaking in his boots at the decisive victory of Zohran Mamdani in the 4 November New York City...

27.11.2025 30

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Kenneth Roth

The Guardian view on the peers lobbying scandal: Lords reform is a vital step for restoring trust in democracy

The Guardian view on the peers lobbying scandal: Lords reform is a vital step for restoring trust in democracy

Not much about the House of Lords is defensible on principles of democratic representation. One plausible merit of an appointed chamber is that...

27.11.2025 7

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Editorial

Food is medicine, and that’s a fact. Why we all need Native American foodways

Food is medicine, and that’s a fact. Why we all need Native American foodways

Within Indigenous communities across North America and beyond, we have long known that food is medicine. This isn’t just theory; it’s fact. We...

27.11.2025 20

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Kate Nelson

London has plenty of posh breakfast options – but give me a greasy spoon any day

London has plenty of posh breakfast options – but give me a greasy spoon any day

Early some mornings, when I’m working in London, I go for breakfast with two good friends. So that’s me, a fabric dealer and a psychotherapist....

27.11.2025 20

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Adrian Chiles

How Amazon turned our capitalist era of free markets into the age of technofeudalism

How Amazon turned our capitalist era of free markets into the age of technofeudalism

For the past six years, every Black Friday – that made-up carnival of consumption – Amazon workers and their allies have mobilised across the...

27.11.2025 20

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Yanis Varoufakis

I’m always on my phone, my girlfriend would rather communicate via woodland creatures. Somehow we make it work

I’m always on my phone, my girlfriend would rather communicate via woodland creatures. Somehow we make it work

There are some pretty big differences between me and my girlfriend. She is from Aotearoa, I’m from Queensland. She is 10 years younger than me. She...

27.11.2025 6

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Rebecca Shaw

To halt the far right, Europe’s progressive parties must fix its housing crisis. Our research shows how

To halt the far right, Europe’s progressive parties must fix its housing crisis. Our research shows how

Housing costs across Europe have become a growing burden for many households, both for those trying to buy and those trying to rent. Over the past...

27.11.2025 3

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Tarik Abou-Chadi

This was Rachel Reeves’s ‘live now, pay later’ budget. The big question is: what happens when ‘later’ arrives?

This was Rachel Reeves’s ‘live now, pay later’ budget. The big question is: what happens when ‘later’ arrives?

Some budgets are important but quickly forgotten. Some budgets are trivial but linger long in the memory. The package of measures Rachel Reeves has...

27.11.2025 2

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Larry Elliott

Eating Thanksgiving dinner at dinnertime is ludicrous. Here’s why

Eating Thanksgiving dinner at dinnertime is ludicrous. Here’s why

Without question, my favorite holiday is Thanksgiving. I relish the opportunity to appreciate all the wonderful things about life. I also love that...

27.11.2025 3

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Dave Schilling

By ending a cruel Tory social experiment, this budget clearly set out how Labour will fight the battle to renew Britain

By ending a cruel Tory social experiment, this budget clearly set out how Labour will fight the battle to renew Britain

Yesterday the chancellor, Rachel Reeves, delivered a Labour budget. People have been asking for Labour’s purpose and values to be more clearly...

27.11.2025 2

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Lucy Powell

A budget to save Britain’s finances? More like Operation Save Our Skins

A budget to save Britain’s finances? More like Operation Save Our Skins

Imagine it: you are the chancellor of a government in mortal peril. Poll ratings are down the U-bend; backbenchers are mutinous and colleagues are...

26.11.2025 20

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Aditya Chakrabortty