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This is the week Scotland was forced to confront its role in slavery, and say: ‘Yes, that was us’

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Hannah Lavery

Enough of the billionaires and their big tech. ‘Frugal tech’ will build us all a better world

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Eleanor Drage

The US is complicit in genocide. Let’s stop pretending otherwise

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Mehdi Hasan

I’m no sportsman, but a rugby legend’s simple, sage advice struck a chord

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Richard Coles

Europe’s trade deal with the US was dead on arrival – it needs to be buried. Here’s how to do it

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Georg Riekeles And Varg Folkman

Despite the chaos of its launch, Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana’s new party has struck a nerve

Despite the chaos of its launch, Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana’s new party has struck a nerve

Less than a month into its existence, Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana’s new leftwing party is already widely seen as a mess. Its leadership, its...

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Andy Beckett

Everyone loves music but nobody loves music apps. It’s time to leave Spotify

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Josep Borrell

Schwartz Media journalists banned from 7am podcast after Gaza episode prompts negative comments

Schwartz Media journalists banned from 7am podcast after Gaza episode prompts negative comments

Schwartz Media, publisher of the Saturday Paper, the Monthly and the Quarterly Essay, recently sold its 7am podcast to Solstice Media, with the...

yesterday 10

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Amanda Meade

Reform’s tales of wasteland Britain won’t work. There’s a far larger market for hope

Reform’s tales of wasteland Britain won’t work. There’s a far larger market for hope

Sheer joy. That’s how it felt watching England’s Lionesses romping gleefully across the pitch after their victory in Basel – not just because...

yesterday 10

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Gaby Hinsliff

He may talk rubbish but Trump has an eye for beauty, and that is a breath of fresh air

He may talk rubbish but Trump has an eye for beauty, and that is a breath of fresh air

Trigger warning. Some readers may find this disturbing. Not everything Donald Trump says is mad and a lie. Not all of it is about money. Some of it...

yesterday 9

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Simon Jenkins

Sorry America, but it’s not Australia’s fault that your healthcare system is failing you

Sorry America, but it’s not Australia’s fault that your healthcare system is failing you

If I were president of the United States, I would certainly be concerned about the cost and performance of the country’s healthcare system. The...

yesterday 10

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John Quiggin

Millennial women were told to chase our dreams. That’s left us burnt out, broke and dreaming of a rich patron

Millennial women were told to chase our dreams. That’s left us burnt out, broke and dreaming of a rich patron

A couple of weeks ago, I came across an Amy Poehler joke in which she sums up the different generational experiences of money: “Boomers are all...

yesterday 8

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Carolin Würfel

The Guardian view on the green transition: renewables are the future – but countries’ actions must catch up with their promises

The Guardian view on the green transition: renewables are the future – but countries’ actions must catch up with their promises

With net zero policies under attack from elected far-right populists as well as autocratic petrostates, and another summer of record-breaking...

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Editorial

The Guardian view on statues: new monuments reflect changing values and reinvigorate the public realm

The Guardian view on statues: new monuments reflect changing values and reinvigorate the public realm

Efforts to ensure that modern values are reflected in public sculpture began well before the Black Lives Matter protests five years ago. Those...

yesterday 2

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Editorial

By failing to sanction Israel, EU leaders are complicit in its crimes. They must act now

By failing to sanction Israel, EU leaders are complicit in its crimes. They must act now

If they survive Donald Trump’s attacks, the international courts will not deliver their final verdict for several years. But for all those who have...

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Josep Borrell

People love to say ‘sexuality doesn’t matter’ and shouldn’t come up in AFL – so why do players hurl homophobic slurs?

People love to say ‘sexuality doesn’t matter’ and shouldn’t come up in AFL – so why do players hurl homophobic slurs?

Writing this article was like being knocked unconscious and magically transported back 15 years. Julia Gillard is prime minister, everyone is...

yesterday 10

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Rebecca Shaw

From Sydney Sweeney to Dunkin’, why brands think being hot and white is ‘great genes’

From Sydney Sweeney to Dunkin’, why brands think being hot and white is ‘great genes’

Hot off a gig where she was selling a bar of “morning wood” soap containing her used bathwater, the actor Sydney Sweeney is making headlines for...

yesterday 10

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Arwa Mahdawi

Everything the right - and the left – are getting wrong about the Online Safety Act

Everything the right - and the left – are getting wrong about the Online Safety Act

Last week, the UK’s Online Safety Act came into force. It’s fair to say it hasn’t been smooth sailing. Donald Trump’s allies have dubbed it...

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George Billinge

Are we getting the real story on Gaza?

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George Billinge

Why the US is burning $10m worth of birth control

Why the US is burning $10m worth of birth control

There are few better metaphors for the receding status of American women than one offered up by the Trump administration at a medical waste...

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Moira Donegan

I spent decades at Columbia. I’m withdrawing my fall course due to its deal with Trump

I spent decades at Columbia. I’m withdrawing my fall course due to its deal with Trump

Dear Acting President Shipman, I am writing you an open letter since you have seen fit to communicate the recent decisions of the board of trustees...

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Rashid Khalidi

Ignore the bluster: as Netanyahu starves Gaza, the world is turning on him – and he knows it

Ignore the bluster: as Netanyahu starves Gaza, the world is turning on him – and he knows it

“No one likes us, we don’t care.” It may be rousing on the stadium terraces of south London, as the signature chant for Millwall football club,...

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Jonathan Freedland

Martin Rowson on food distribution in Gaza – cartoon

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Jonathan Freedland

The more governments try to restrict social media use, the more young people will find ways to get around it

The more governments try to restrict social media use, the more young people will find ways to get around it

It’s not entirely surprising the Australian government is now including YouTube accounts in its under-16s social media ban – but the decision to...

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Leo Puglisi

No one wants to hear about your dreams – unless you follow my golden rule

No one wants to hear about your dreams – unless you follow my golden rule

As everyone knows – or ought to know – there is nothing as boring as listening to someone tell you about a dream they have had. This is a shame, as...

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Adrian Chiles

The Guardian view on the other Afghan scandal: countries are forcing refugees back to Taliban rule

The Guardian view on the other Afghan scandal: countries are forcing refugees back to Taliban rule

The British public discovered only very belatedly that an enormous accidental data breach by an official three years ago put up to 100,000 Afghans...

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Editorial

Trump’s Unesco withdrawal is part of a broader assault on democracy

Trump’s Unesco withdrawal is part of a broader assault on democracy

Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw the United States a second time from what is essentially the beacon of global culture and heritage – Unesco...

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Liesl Gerntholtz And Julie Trebault

As Gaza suffers, US companies are reaping horrific payoffs

As Gaza suffers, US companies are reaping horrific payoffs

Thousands of famished people waiting for hours in 90-degree heat to secure bags of flour that run out after 10 minutes – this is a typical scene at...

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Katrina Vanden Heuvel

Is this tough US-EU trade deal a triumph for Brexit Britain? Only in leavers’ most delusional fantasies

Is this tough US-EU trade deal a triumph for Brexit Britain? Only in leavers’ most delusional fantasies

Those who misled the country over Brexit are usually quieter these days. They do not hang their heads in shame, but change the subject whenever...

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Polly Toynbee

This trade deal is the EU’s Suez moment – its subservience to Trump is on show for all to see

This trade deal is the EU’s Suez moment – its subservience to Trump is on show for all to see

The Suez crisis in 1956 was a humiliating moment of truth for the UK. Faced with implacable opposition from the US, Anthony Eden’s government was...

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Larry Elliott

In this time of rancour, fear and war, peaceful nuclear cooperation in the Middle East is still possible

In this time of rancour, fear and war, peaceful nuclear cooperation in the Middle East is still possible

Ten years ago, after the Iran nuclear deal, I wrote in the Guardian about the urgent need for global nuclear disarmament – starting with the...

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Javad Zarif

The LA Times’s owner wants to take the struggling paper public. Will it work?

The LA Times’s owner wants to take the struggling paper public. Will it work?

When the legendary journalist David Halberstam wrote his landmark 1979 book about American journalism, The Powers That Be, he focused on four media...

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Margaret Sullivan

Critics say Starmer is no Attlee – and they’re right. Labour must look to the future, not the past

Critics say Starmer is no Attlee – and they’re right. Labour must look to the future, not the past

We raised a glass last Saturday evening, the four of us, to toast the 80th anniversary of the 1945 Labour government. None was old enough to...

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Martin Kettle

Hulk Hogan the man did terrible things. But the character was revolutionary

Hulk Hogan the man did terrible things. But the character was revolutionary

When Hulk Hogan died and a rush of people searched his name on Google to read various obituaries, I’m sure at least some of them were shocked to...

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Dave Schilling

The NT’s newest youth justice law changes will heap more trauma on to traumatised kids while worsening youth crime

The NT’s newest youth justice law changes will heap more trauma on to traumatised kids while worsening youth crime

“We expect the usual offender apologists to criticise our efforts”. So said the Northern Territory’s chief minister, Lia Finocchiaro, in an...

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Russell Marks

The fight for trans safety is a fight for everyone’s safety – MPs must have the chance to debate it

The fight for trans safety is a fight for everyone’s safety – MPs must have the chance to debate it

The supreme court judgment on the application of the 2010 Equality Act has rendered the UK’s system of legal gender recognition entirely hollow. It...

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Freddy Mcconnell

Worried about your child’s screentime? Get a landline

Worried about your child’s screentime? Get a landline

Among the many useless but consoling facts I’ve hung on to at the expense of real knowledge is the telephone number of my best friend from high...

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Emma Brockes

The Helsinki accord was a masterpiece of European diplomacy. Fifty years on, we need its spirit more than ever

The Helsinki accord was a masterpiece of European diplomacy. Fifty years on, we need its spirit more than ever

Vladimir Putin will probably never give up on his attempts to bring Ukraine into Russia – which is where it belongs, according to his warped view...

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Kai Hebel And Richard Davy

‘There are times I feel I hate them’: how siblings can clash over end-of-life care for elderly parents

‘There are times I feel I hate them’: how siblings can clash over end-of-life care for elderly parents

When Anna’s* parents came to visit last year, she was determined to give them a relaxing holiday in her Queensland beach town. She’d been worried...

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Sarah Macdonald

Jason White on water management – cartoon

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Dave Schilling

The Guardian view on Trump’s tariffs: both a political and an economic threat

The Guardian view on Trump’s tariffs: both a political and an economic threat

Donald Trump’s 1 August tariffs deadline did what it was always intended to do. It kept the markets and the nations guessing amid last-minute...

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Editorial

The loneliness of being an only child never really goes away, which is why I gifted my two daughters each other

The loneliness of being an only child never really goes away, which is why I gifted my two daughters each other

I recently stumbled across a letter I wrote to Santa when I was six years old. Deep in a box of crumpled photos and loose negatives, my earnest...

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Freya Bennett

The renewable energy revolution is a feat of technology

The renewable energy revolution is a feat of technology

I know progressives are supposed to be technophobes, but there is one technology we probably love more than anyone else (except the engineers who...

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Rebecca Solnit

An effigy of refugees, burned by a crowd: this is where Europe’s brutal fantasy of border control has led us

An effigy of refugees, burned by a crowd: this is where Europe’s brutal fantasy of border control has led us

The burning of an effigy of refugees on a boat to the cheers of a riled-up crowd in Moygashel, Northern Ireland shows where we are today. A decade...

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Maurice Stierl

The best joke award has gone. Is the Edinburgh fringe taking all the pun out of comedy?

The best joke award has gone. Is the Edinburgh fringe taking all the pun out of comedy?

So long, pun of the year. The best joke of the fringe award – the lighthearted, groan-inducing staple of the Edinburgh festival – has been scrapped...

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Anya Ryan

The Guardian view on famine in Gaza: the time for the west to act decisively is now

The Guardian view on famine in Gaza: the time for the west to act decisively is now

The symbolism of Palestinian statehood matters. For months, the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and his far-right coalition allies have...

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Editorial

There are no secrets on the internet. Just ask the women who entrusted their data to Tea

There are no secrets on the internet. Just ask the women who entrusted their data to Tea

Help me out with a question I’ve been pondering, will you? I’m trying to figure out if there is a single adult on Earth whose personal information...

wednesday 10

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Arwa Mahdawi

I’m one of many Palestinian doctors in Israel. We’re being persecuted – but we won’t abandon our oath

I’m one of many Palestinian doctors in Israel. We’re being persecuted – but we won’t abandon our oath

Medicine is a humanistic profession, grounded in ethical values of justice, beneficence and the commitment to do no harm. It is a vocation of...

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Lina Qasem-Hassan

I’ve never been prone to nostalgia. But when I stop by our old London home, memories come upon me in a flood

I’ve never been prone to nostalgia. But when I stop by our old London home, memories come upon me in a flood

Back when we took photographs with actual cameras and film and had the pictures printed at the chemist, we took a snap of our son on his first day...

wednesday 10

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Paul Daley

France’s recognition of a Palestinian state won’t stop Israel’s onslaught

France’s recognition of a Palestinian state won’t stop Israel’s onslaught

Almost two years into a conflict that has cost tens of thousands of lives, amid an Israeli military campaign and humanitarian blockade that have...

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Hussein Agha And Robert Malley