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Australia must combat antisemitism, but not simply defer to demands of some voices

Australians should be appalled by the rise in antisemitism, including arson, vandalism, assaults, abuse and threats. Every person in our country...

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Ben Saul

Why is Labour so afraid to admit that we must tax the rich to help the poor?

After 125 years of practice, Labour ought to be good at saying why resources should be redistributed from the rich to everyone else. Its founding...

yesterday 60

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Andy Beckett

Welcome to Prime Day, when thousands of product thumbnails blur together to form a giant pile of garbage

I’m a simple girl. My idea of fun is an annual event in which people are crushed in pursuit of half-price Christmas decorations. But those days...

yesterday 50

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Anna Spargo-Ryan

Thirty years ago we said never again, Srebrenica. How much longer before we declare: never again, Gaza?

Today will be a hard day for Sydneysider Mirela Muratovic, a survivor of the only recognised genocide in Europe since the end of the second world...

yesterday 100

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Ed Husic

A bit like AI, Elon Musk seems custom-built to undermine everything good and true in the world

Grok, Elon Musk’s X-integrated AI bot, had a Nazi meltdown on Tuesday. It’s useful to recap it fully, not because the content is varied –...

yesterday 20

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Zoe Williams

The doctors’ strike threatens to scupper the NHS’s recovery – this time, the BMA has overreached

Good news and bad news for the NHS this week. Waiting lists are falling a bit faster: May’s figures, out yesterday, show the lowest waiting list...

yesterday 10

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Polly Toynbee

Right, the underpants are off! It’s time I, Gregg Wallace, had my say

I was born in the year 1964, which means I am exactly on the cusp between boomer and generation X. This is more than a fascinating fact about me –...

yesterday 40

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Marina Hyde

Donald Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’ is the ultimate betrayal of his base

Donald Trump’s so-called “big, beautiful bill”, which will eviscerate the living standards, healthcare and aspirations of his white, working-class...

yesterday 30

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Sidney Blumenthal

We’ve become inured to Trump’s outbursts – but when he goes quiet, we need to be worried

In the global attention economy, one titan looms over all others. Donald Trump can command the gaze of the world at a click of those famously short...

yesterday 30

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Jonathan Freedland

The BDS movement turns 20. It’s an essential pillar of Palestinian freedom

Do no harm, a principle that many associate with the medical practice, has become a fundamental ethical principle of global solidarity the Boycott,...

yesterday 20

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Omar Barghouti

A rightwing minister told Sweden to get tough on crime – until his own son was caught in a Nazi scandal

Before the elections next year, Sweden’s conservative government has been eager to avoid accusations of racism or xenophobia. So it’s unfortunate...

yesterday 10

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Martin Gelin

Mushroom trial spores toxic media hot takes after Erin Patterson’s guilty verdict

The media were constrained in what they could report during Erin Patterson’s 10-week trial. But after the mushroom trial guilty verdict was handed...

yesterday 5

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Amanda Meade

I loved Girls – but could I trust Lena Dunham to write about London?

I have watched all six series of Girls at least four times. I watched it as it was castigated for its unlikable characters, lack of diversity,...

yesterday 4

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Barbara Speed

Martin Rowson on Keir Starmer’s migration deal with France – cartoon

yesterday 2

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Jonathan Freedland

The special envoy’s plan is the latest push to weaponise antisemitism, as a relentless campaign pays off

One must acknowledge the remarkably effective Jewish community organisations in Australia behind the latest antisemitism report. Collectively, with...

yesterday 3

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Louise Adler

Doge wants to replace our institutions with a tech utopia. It won’t work

Elon Musk has stepped away from Doge with very little “efficiency” to show for it. While it may have been more of a showpiece than real policy,...

yesterday 2

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Mike Pepi

Australia’s current childcare funding model risks failing our most precious people

When you attach profit to caring, you create a problem. We don’t need yet another series of reviews and reports to tell us that when you rely on...

yesterday 1

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Zoe Daniel

Does the state of the world make you feel like screaming?

yesterday 1

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Zoe Daniel

Albanese must be careful that tackling antisemitism doesn’t curb free speech

Handing down his ruling in the case of racist and antisemitic speech by the Muslim cleric Wissam Haddad earlier this month, Justice Angus Stewart...

yesterday 1

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Tom Mcilroy

The Guardian view on Starmer and Macron’s Channel crossings deal: safe routes hold the key to future progress

To use a football analogy that he might appreciate, the first year of Sir Keir Starmer’s premiership has been a game of two halves. Domestically,...

yesterday 2

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Editorial

The Guardian view on The Salt Path scandal: memoirists have a duty to tell the truth

“All autobiographies are lies,” George Bernard Shaw wrote in 1898. “I do not mean unconscious, unintentional lies: I mean deliberate lies.” The...

yesterday 2

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Editorial

Zohran Mamdani’s videos are a masterclass. Eric Adams’s posts are getting more bizarre

Eric Adams, possible resident of New Jersey and mayor of New York City, is a man of many talents. He is the city’s “most famous vegan”, albeit...

yesterday 1

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Arwa Mahdawi

Starmer had a chance to thwart the smuggling gangs – with ‘one in, one out’, he has bottled it

For years, human rights campaigners have been calling for safe routes to the UK for asylum seekers to prevent them from taking dangerous journeys...

yesterday 1

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Diane Taylor

Yes, AI is getting scarier. So why do I need that loveless machine to tell me everything will be all right?

CNN reported this week that Grok – the AI-powered chatbot on billionaire Elon Musk’s “X/Twitter” platform – has gone Nazi. Unforgivably,...

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Van Badham

I quit my job as a pilot because of the climate crisis. But I love flying – and I know we can transform aviation

I love flying. I’ve wanted to be a pilot since I was young. I grew up in Chichester, West Sussex, under a flight path used by Gatwick airport...

previous day 10

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George Hibberd

Do we think enough about parents who care for sick or disabled children – and how not to make things harder?

When you have a baby, especially if you’re in an antenatal class, or friends or family members have a child of about the same age, there is a...

previous day 50

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Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

Vienna has been declared a renters’ utopia – and it’s easy to see why

When it comes to best-practice examples in the housing debate, Vienna is a common reference. Indeed, the Austrian capital features prominently in...

previous day 60

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Justin Kadi

How does the right tear down progressive societies? It starts with a joke

Imagine the furore if a Guardian columnist suggested bombing, say, the Conservative party conference and the Tory stronghold of Arundel in Sussex....

previous day 300

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George Monbiot

Think you know Trump’s new bill? Try this big, beautiful quiz

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Lawrence Douglas

The Guardian view on Ukraine’s future: Putin may be gaining ground, but he is not winning

European leaders gathered in Rome on Thursday for a conference on Ukrainian recovery, but endurance remains the priority. Russia has intensified...

previous day 30

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Editorial

With the world in crisis, many say end globalisation. I say that would be a mistake

The year 2025 should be a time of celebration, marking eight decades of the United Nations’ existence. But it risks going down in history as the...

previous day 40

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Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva

By learning to wield political power, Greens could fill the void at the heart of British politics

The Green party leadership election – by far the highest-profile in the party’s history – has largely been seen through the traditional lens of...

previous day 10

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Adam Ramsay

Oasis and Black Sabbath are filling stadiums. But where’s the next wave of working-class rock stars?

Britain, this summer at least, is going ballistic for the biggest bands from back in the day. The jubilance for the coming-back-together of Oasis...

previous day 20

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Dan Cave

Is there anything more British than an underwhelming boast on a sign?

Riding through the southern fringes of the city of Worcester a couple of days ago, I passed a sign with an arrow pointing in the direction of...

previous day 6

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Adrian Chiles

Bhutan tried to erase us. Now, Trump’s America is helping

In mid-March 2025, I sat quietly in the back of a small, crowded room at the Asian Refugees United center in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, surrounded...

previous day 8

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Lok Darjee

Netanyahu is playing Trump with his ridiculous Nobel peace prize nomination

“Benjamin Netanyahu nominates Donald Trump for Nobel peace prize”– that headline seems to have been pulled straight out of the satirical news...

previous day 7

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Mohamad Bazzi

Can Australia handle the truth when it comes to structural racism?

previous day 3

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Maybe We Need To Unlearn Some Lessons Of History

Yes, the problem is men like Gregg Wallace – but it’s also those who should stop them and don’t

It was only a handful of “middle-class women of a certain age”. That’s how the MasterChef host Gregg Wallace originally dismissed his accusers,...

previous day 1

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Gaby Hinsliff

First jobs, first love and a serve of minimum chips

My first part-time job was in a small continental delicatessen at the Ringwood Market. I worked Friday nights and Saturday mornings and was paid...

previous day 5

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Nova Weetman

The Guardian view on Labour’s welfare mess: attempting to hide its cuts triggered a rebellion too big to punish

In 2022, Liz Truss’s mini-budget collapsed under the weight of its own ideological haste, destroying her government’s credibility in days. Whether...

previous day 30

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Editorial

The Guardian view on young people in coastal towns: time to invest in their future

Wish you were here? In recent years the fate of coastal towns has emerged as one of Britain’s most pressing social issues. Both the fishing and...

wednesday 3

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Editorial

Something stinks in Philadelphia – and it’s not just the uncollected garbage

If nobody stopped me, I could talk about urban sanitation for hours on end. Unfortunately, somebody (normally my wife) always stops me – usually in...

wednesday 20

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Arwa Mahdawi

If ministers want to see how welfare reform can be done, come see us in Greater Manchester

One consequence of the recent debate on disability benefits should be the acceptance of a shared responsibility across the Labour family to support...

wednesday 70

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Andy Burnham

Time scientists say the rotation of the Earth is speeding up – what is happening?

wednesday 10

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Will We All Fly Off Into Space? Sadly No

Poor mental health is driving young people out of their jobs. My own journey showed me how to help

Last month, new figures showed that one in four young people in England have a mental health condition. An unwillingness to examine the challenging...

wednesday 10

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Fran Boait

The RBA’s decision to hold rates isn’t a calamity, but its shift in language is confounding – and worrying

Following a spate of soft data, financial markets had priced in a near certainty that the Reserve Bank would cut interest rates this week – so it...

wednesday 10

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Nicki Hutley

Why is Latin America shifting to the right?

The second world war ended with an agreement of coexistence that included the creation of the UN multilateral system and a development model that...

wednesday 5

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Ernesto Samper Pizano

Macron and Starmer talk Trump, boats and Ukraine – but Brexit is the ghost at the banquet

Gilded carriages and royal banquets are not essential tools of modern diplomacy, but nor are they obsolete. In a digital age, when...

wednesday 20

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Rafael Behr

Extreme heat is our future – European cities must adapt

Three years ago, in Zurich for the first time, I crossed a bridge over the Limmat River and saw people floating down it in rubber rings on their...

wednesday 10

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Alexander Hurst

The Guardian view on restricting trial by jury: the ugly face of justice tailored to tight budgets

Only a tiny minority of criminal cases in England and Wales are decided by a jury – as few as 1%, once guilty pleas and judge-directed acquittals...

wednesday 20

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Editorial