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Watching the election from afar, I can’t help but wonder – is this really the best Australia can do?

Informed by impeccable sources that the federal election would be held on 12 April, I booked a holiday to Italy, departing on the 14th. Then...

yesterday 30

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Hugh Riminton

Hungary’s Péter Erdő is a strong candidate to be the next pope – and that’s reason to be fearful

Who might be the next pope? The question is famously difficult to answer. But we can be reasonably confident that if the successful contender comes...

yesterday 40

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Alex Faludy

We obsess over the angry young men going Reform. But what of the anxious young women going Green?

Sometimes a political backlash doesn’t take the shape you expect. Though there are times when it goes off like a firework, as young men’s TikTok-...

yesterday 80

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Gaby Hinsliff

Want to beat authoritarianism? Look to Latin America

Inspiration on how to beat back authoritarianism is in short supply, but those searching for hope in these dark times might consider Latin America....

yesterday 90

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Greg Grandin

Should benefit claimants risk having their bank accounts spied upon and driving licences revoked? I don’t think so

Labour won last year’s general election on a promise to reverse the damage done by the previous Conservative governments, offering a politics that...

yesterday 50

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Neil Duncan-Jordan

Youth centres may seem tame fare for politicians. But I’ve seen firsthand how they cut crime

At next week’s local elections, few will be voting on how their council is run. They will be passing judgment on Keir Starmer, Kemi Badenoch and...

yesterday 20

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Simon Jenkins

Why did Israeli extremist Ben-Gvir speak at Yale University?

Let me start with a statement that should be obvious: deliberately starving 2 million people – half of whom are children – is indefensible. It is...

yesterday 40

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Arwa Mahdawi

Ukraine has exposed Trump’s true identity: as a vandal, an autocrat, a gangster and a fool

To see the true face of Donald Trump, look no further than Ukraine. Laid bare in his handling of that issue are not only his myriad weaknesses, but...

yesterday 100

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Jonathan Freedland

Why does RFK Jr want to put my family on an ‘autism registry’?

I always knew my parents operated on a different wavelength than most. For one, they are both exceptionally smart. My mother is a former...

yesterday 40

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Deborah Bloom

In Kyiv, we don’t believe in the fantasy of Trump’s ‘peace deal’. Our reality is more dead civilians

War teaches you to believe only in what happens, rather than what is merely said or promised. A day after the “peace talks” in London, which the US...

yesterday 10

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Nataliya Gumenyuk

In Brazil, the right creates precarious workers, and precarious workers prefer the right – but the cycle can be broken

On 1 April, Brazilian couriers organised a day of action in which thousands of workers engaged in pickets and protests in at least 60 cities, with...

yesterday 9

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Rodrigo Nunes

Trump’s transactional instincts could help forge a new Iran nuclear deal

In May 2018, Donald Trump unilaterally withdrew the US from the Iran nuclear deal and reimposed American sanctions that crippled the Iranian...

yesterday 2

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Mohamad Bazzi

Martin Rowson on Pope Francis’s funeral – cartoon

yesterday 3

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Jonathan Freedland

Is one-nation Toryism dead? Not yet, but it can’t let Reform and the right provide all the answers

This is not a happy time to be on the one-nation wing of the Conservative party. The final round of last year’s leadership election was between two...

yesterday 2

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Henry Hill

The Guardian view on Trump v universities: essential institutions must defend themselves

Enfeebling universities or seizing control is an early chapter in the authoritarian playbook, studied eagerly by the likes of Viktor Orbán in...

yesterday 5

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Editorial

The Guardian view on posthumously publishing Joan Didion: goodbye to all that

Joan Didion entered the fray on the publication of Ernest Hemingway’s unfinished final manuscript in an essay titled Last Words in 1998: “You think...

yesterday 4

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Editorial

The Guardian view on Conservatives in crisis: a shrinking party without purpose

The Conservative party is braced for a beating in local elections next week and the conversation has already turned to potential pacts with Reform...

previous day 50

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Editorial

The Guardian view on the coming papal conclave: Catholics at a crossroads

In keeping with the humble style of his papacy, Pope Francis did his best to dial down the pomp and ceremony that would mark his passing. In St...

previous day 20

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Editorial

Donald Trump wants celebrities to kiss the ring. Bill Maher did: who’ll be next?

If President Trump invited you to the White House, would you go? This is the question US hacks and other media personalities have been asking...

previous day 30

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Emma Brockes

My cousin Ziyad loved his family, Gaza’s candies and life. A bomb ended all that on Friday night

My cousin Ziyad was too young to die. He was sleeping at home in Khan Younis refugee camp when the bombs fell just before midnight on Friday. After...

previous day 20

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Ghada Ageel

Labour’s great nature sellout is the worst attack on England’s ecosystems I’ve seen in my lifetime

Those of us who try to defend wildlife are horribly familiar with bad laws. But we’ve never seen anything like this. The government’s planning and...

previous day 200

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George Monbiot

A new deal with the EU is exactly what Britain needs. Here’s how Labour will achieve it

Labour has been determined to negotiate a new partnership with the EU. The benefits it could unlock are clear – reducing barriers to trade, driving...

previous day 10

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Nick Thomas-Symonds

The Republican anti-tax coalition is beginning to disintegrate

“I am a gay woman who is moderately pro-choice – I know that there are some people in this room who don’t believe that my marriage should have been...

previous day 10

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David Sirota

Google broke the law. It’s time to break up the company

In less than a year, US courts have ruled that the world’s most powerful tech company broke the law – twice. In August, a federal judge in...

previous day 9

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Courtney C Radsch

How will Gaza influence votes this election?

previous day 5

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Some Candidates Don’T Want To Mention The War

The EU fined Apple and Meta – but failed to really hold them to account. Was that to appease Trump?

The European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, had some tough words for big tech this week, but it seems that at the last minute, the EU...

previous day 4

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Alexander Hurst

Inside Labour’s top-secret plan for new towns, I see signs of hope

There is magic in the invention of new towns. Who wouldn’t want to plan out their ideal urban community, like Sim City and its many video game...

previous day 6

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Polly Toynbee

A high school singing audition inspired by Flashdance haunted me for years – until I found my voice again

When I was 16 I eagerly auditioned for our high school musical, singing a verse and the chorus from the Irene Cara song Flashdance … What a...

previous day 4

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Nova Weetman

I’ll never play golf like Rory McIlroy. But maybe he can teach me how to live with my mistakes

Whether you’re into sport or not, there’s wisdom to be mined from it. Once you’ve picked your way through the platitudes, banalities and cliche...

previous day 3

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Adrian Chiles

While secularism is growing in Australia, Anzac commemorations remain fervently Christian

The official commemorations for Australian military personnel who’ve died on the battlefield or whose lives were marred due to war service have...

previous day 4

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Paul Daley

What did Pope Francis think of JD Vance? His view was more than clear

We might never quite know what Pope Francis said to the US vice-president during their very brief meeting on Sunday. In the widely shared video...

wednesday 100

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Jan-Werner Müller

The left is rising, and the far right is reeling. Will I finally see the Finland I dreamed of?

The Finns say “spring comes in swinging” – when winter gives way to spring, and green shoots meet the final flurries of snow, often well into...

wednesday 30

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Mike Watson

Albanese’s brand of cultural Catholicism harks back to an earlier Australia – but it’s also thoroughly modern

Some observers were surprised at the depth of emotion that Anthony Albanese showed when delivering his statement responding to the death of Pope...

wednesday 2

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Frank Bongiorno

The Guardian view on the UK supreme court’s equality ruling: a clear legal line, a blurred social one

In a landmark ruling, the UK supreme court has found that, under the Equality Act 2010, “sex” means biological sex – an unambiguous legal position...

wednesday 40

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Editorial

The Guardian view on US-Russian talks: Trump wants a deal, whatever it means for Ukraine

There could hardly be clearer evidence than Donald Trump’s latest attack on Volodymyr Zelenskyy, and the US administration’s last-minute snub of...

wednesday 80

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Editorial

A silent majority of the world’s people wants stronger climate action. It’s time to wake up

A superpower in the fight against global heating is hiding in plain sight. It turns out that the overwhelming majority of people in the world –...

wednesday 50

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Mark Hertsgaard And Kyle Pope

The Coalition’s defence plans are a kneejerk, impossible dream when what we need is achievable policy

Politicians do not do irony well, especially when they are on the ropes. How else can one understand the Coalition’s invertebrate media release two...

wednesday 40

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Allan Behm

The global south has lost its pope. The world has lost its conscience

Pope Francis died hours after meeting the US vice-president, JD Vance. If that wasn’t a bad enough omen, the Republican congresswoman Marjorie...

wednesday 20

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Nathalie Tocci

The most gripping thing I’m watching on my phone? Swedish moose migrating in real time

Do you reach for your phone first thing in the morning as soon as you wake up? Me too. Only, for the past week, it’s not my WhatsApp, email or...

wednesday 10

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Claire Cohen

Why is the US right so obsessed with the Obamas’ marriage?

An estate on Martha’s Vineyard. A nine-bedroom house in DC. A family home in Chicago. Barack and Michelle Obama own about a gazillion dollars’...

wednesday 5

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Arwa Mahdawi

Trump’s an unstable bully – but it’s hard to defend the economic orthodoxies he is attacking

Poor Rachel Reeves. The economy is weak. Government borrowing has just come in higher than expected. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has...

wednesday 6

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Larry Elliott

Australia needs more than hollow words about a fair go – we need brave policy-makers

On Anzac Day I like to post on social media a list of birthdates in the national service lotteries from 1965 t0 1972. I do it because the March...

wednesday 4

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Greg Jericho

What is America’s pro-natalism movement really about?

Malcolm and Simone Collins, the pro-natalist couple who are reportedly consulting the Donald Trump administration on how to encourage American...

wednesday 4

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Moira Donegan

I loathe pigeons. You wouldn’t believe what they do to my downpipe

Pigeons. Appalling things. I looked them up on the bird charity RSPB’s website and snorted when I came across the Where to See section. The answer...

wednesday 5

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Adrian Chiles

Why a holiday in the US is out of the question

In the grand scheme of things, the deportation of two German teenagers, Charlotte Pohl and Maria Lepere, from Hawaii is not the most alarming thing...

22.04.2025 100

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Zoe Williams

Don’t believe the doubters: protest still has power

Opinions about the protests this month keep oscillating between two extremes. Optimists point to the larger-than-expected numbers (larger than...

22.04.2025 40

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Jan-Werner Müller

Tariffs will raise prices. But the climate crisis is the real inflation risk

Inflation is, at base, a tax on consumption – and it hits the poor the hardest, since they consume more of their incomes and the rich consume less....

22.04.2025 20

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Mark Blyth And Nicolò Fraccaroli

I hate the idea of British prison officers carrying stun guns – but it may be our only option

It was a hot day in Texas when I visited in 2018. Hotter still inside the walls of the Eastham Unit, the men’s prison near Huntsville where I spent...

22.04.2025 10

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Alex South

Is there really life on planet K2-18b? We can’t rule it out, but some key questions must be answered

Astrobiology has entered an exciting new phase in recent decades. Since the 1990s, but accelerating in recent years, researchers have begun...

22.04.2025 8

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Nathalie Cabrol

For Trump, the message is all. No surprise he’s targeting NPR and PBS

It was entirely predictable that Donald Trump would go after public media in America. Harming the reality-based press – in every form, whether...

22.04.2025 1

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Margaret Sullivan