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I have been an AI researcher for 40 years. What tech giants are doing to book publishing is akin to theft

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Toby Walsh

Musk calls social security a ‘Ponzi scheme’. The real con is what Trump’s peddling

Musk calls social security a ‘Ponzi scheme’. The real con is what Trump’s peddling

Elon Musk said on Joe Rogan’s show last week that social security is “the biggest Ponzi scheme of all time”. Rubbish. In a Ponzi scheme, a con...

yesterday 100

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Robert Reich

Europe can’t just hope for the best with Trump. Ukraine needs all the arms we can send

Europe can’t just hope for the best with Trump. Ukraine needs all the arms we can send

After US vice-president JD Vance’s speech in Munich last month, most European leaders came to the conclusion that our world has fundamentally...

yesterday 40

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Frans Timmermans

Crap jobs, fewer homes, less money, toxic politics. And peak happiness eludes the young: who knew?

Crap jobs, fewer homes, less money, toxic politics. And peak happiness eludes the young: who knew?

So there are two studies, one commissioned by Weetabix, one by the UN, but we don’t need to decide which one is likely to be the more reliable...

yesterday 30

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Zoe Williams

We lived through the Lismore floods three years ago. Now Cyclone Alfred brings a new threat

We lived through the Lismore floods three years ago. Now Cyclone Alfred brings a new threat

The waiting. The constant checking of media sites. Cross-checking against multiple sources as to not get caught out – again. I am hardened to the...

yesterday 10

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Kate Stroud

The days crawl, the years race by: time is doing my head in

The days crawl, the years race by: time is doing my head in

On my 30th birthday an old – and much older – friend said to me, with feeling: “I tell you, son, 30 to 40 goes by in the blink of an eye.”...

yesterday 10

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Adrian Chiles

Starmer is at his best right now – but he must accept there is no going back with Trump’s US

Starmer is at his best right now – but he must accept there is no going back with Trump’s US

Keir Starmer, it turns out, is at his best in a crisis. He has faced two since he became prime minister last year, one domestic, the other...

yesterday 30

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Martin Kettle

Our worst politicians are wondering if they can make Trumpism work here. Why not?

yesterday 70

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Kate Stroud

The US embrace of Russia is an existential threat to the EU. Germany must step up to save it

The US embrace of Russia is an existential threat to the EU. Germany must step up to save it

In February 1945, three world leaders – Winston Churchill, Franklin D Roosevelt and Josef Stalin – met in Crimea for the Yalta conference, to...

yesterday 40

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Catherine De Vries

Who owns Britain? In large part, other countries – and that should set alarm bells ringing

Who owns Britain? In large part, other countries – and that should set alarm bells ringing

In 1994, I joined a march protesting against how the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund – backed by the US – were forcing governments...

yesterday 70

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Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah

Republicans want corporate oligarchy. We need economic democracy

Republicans want corporate oligarchy. We need economic democracy

Families in the US are exhausted. They deserve a government that chooses them over billionaire donors. The Republican budget plan that passed the...

yesterday 100

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Rashida Tlaib And Michael A Mccarthy

Reviving the woolly mammoth isn’t just unethical. It’s impossible

Reviving the woolly mammoth isn’t just unethical. It’s impossible

You will never ever see a living woolly mammoth. While this is an obvious truth to most geneticists, zoologists and mammoth experts, the endless...

yesterday 30

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Adam Rutherford

Couples fight about housework. Couples divorce about housework. Surely it would be easier if men just did more housework?

Couples fight about housework. Couples divorce about housework. Surely it would be easier if men just did more housework?

Many moons ago, when I was much less cynical than I am now, I wrote a story for a newspaper about a marriage in which the man stayed home to look...

yesterday 20

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Lucy Clark

Trump is suspending aid to Ukraine – but he’s rolling over for Israel

Trump is suspending aid to Ukraine – but he’s rolling over for Israel

In his speech to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday night, Donald Trump barely mentioned Gaza or the wider Middle East, making only a passing...

yesterday 10

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Mohamad Bazzi

The Guardian view on undercover policing: the struggle for accountability continues

The Guardian view on undercover policing: the struggle for accountability continues

Information in the public domain about the undercover policing of protest groups from the late 1960s onwards would not be there were it not for the...

yesterday 10

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Editorial

The Guardian view on why Canada matters: a nation in the global frontline

The Guardian view on why Canada matters: a nation in the global frontline

It is two months since Justin Trudeau announced his resignation as Liberal party leader and Canada’s prime minister. After a decade in power, Mr...

yesterday 9

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Editorial

British defence jobs and skills will keep us safe, says the PM. So he’d better buy the UK’s jet, not the US one

British defence jobs and skills will keep us safe, says the PM. So he’d better buy the UK’s jet, not the US one

In his statement to parliament last week, Keir Starmer pledged £13.4bn more spending on defence from 2027, rising to 3% of GDP in the next...

yesterday 3

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Sharon Graham

Nepo babies should do what they want. Except complain to the rest of us

Nepo babies should do what they want. Except complain to the rest of us

A couple of years ago I wrote about the nepo baby discourse that had kicked off, arguing that focusing all of our energy on the very rich and...

yesterday 2

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Rebecca Shaw

Fallen trees, howling wind and drunken parrots: bracing for Alfred, I remember another Queensland cyclone

Fallen trees, howling wind and drunken parrots: bracing for Alfred, I remember another Queensland cyclone

The most vivid image that comes to mind when I think about cyclones is my uncle Rodney, drenched in his thongs and shorts and tropical shirt,...

yesterday 1

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Joe Hinchliffe

While our eyes are on the welfare state’s destruction, Trump is building a police state

While our eyes are on the welfare state’s destruction, Trump is building a police state

Last week, the federal human resources department sent out a seven-page memo ordering agencies to submit detailed plans on how they will work with...

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Judith Levine

Playing the victim: how Trump’s clash with Zelenskyy paved the way for the suspension of military aid

Playing the victim: how Trump’s clash with Zelenskyy paved the way for the suspension of military aid

During a dramatic Oval Office meeting last Friday, US president Donald Trump confronted Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy in a move that...

previous day 40

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Lilie Chouliaraki

Wooden spoons are making us sick? I thought that was fish slices

Wooden spoons are making us sick? I thought that was fish slices

If you want to stir up online controversy, wooden spoons are the perfect tool with which to do so. Every few years, influencers go viral with...

previous day 20

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Arwa Mahdawi

The fact that humans can only survive on Earth doesn’t bother Trump – and I know why

The fact that humans can only survive on Earth doesn’t bother Trump – and I know why

In thinking about the war being waged against life on Earth by Donald Trump, Elon Musk and their minions, I keep bumping into a horrible suspicion....

previous day 90

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George Monbiot

The LA Times’ AI ‘bias meter’ looks like a bid to please Donald Trump

The LA Times’ AI ‘bias meter’ looks like a bid to please Donald Trump

The past few months have been brutal ones for the readers and journalists of the largest news organization in California, the Los Angeles Times....

previous day 10

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Margaret Sullivan

My dad gave me the sex talk at 27. It was one of the best conversations of my life

My dad gave me the sex talk at 27. It was one of the best conversations of my life

Sitting in a cafe in Sydney recently, I heard a line that I would never have expected to hear from Dad, a dull, quiet, introverted Chinese man in...

previous day 7

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Wing Kuang

Democrats are acting sedate and silent during Trump’s worst excesses

Democrats are acting sedate and silent during Trump’s worst excesses

What was the point of Donald Trump’s address to Congress on Tuesday night? The annual speech – called the “State of the Union” address in...

previous day 6

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Moira Donegan

Remote controls, tumble dryers, documentaries … do we have to make everything so complicated?

Remote controls, tumble dryers, documentaries … do we have to make everything so complicated?

I was once trying to get a television idea commissioned about a subject or issue that I thought was important. So important that I can no longer...

previous day 6

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Adrian Chiles

Advice to Keir Starmer: stop the fawning over Trump. Then help plan for a better world without him

Advice to Keir Starmer: stop the fawning over Trump. Then help plan for a better world without him

There are only so many times Donald Trump can be offered a state and royal visit to temper his political tantrums. With his latest attacks on...

previous day 6

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John Mcdonnell

The Reserve Bank should be looking at these numbers and wondering why it waited until February to act

The Reserve Bank should be looking at these numbers and wondering why it waited until February to act

And so the corner has been turned. No longer is population the only thing keeping the economy growing. But the still-weak GDP figures of the last...

previous day 3

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Greg Jericho

The Guardian view on Israel’s aid blockade: pushing Palestinians toward catastrophe

The Guardian view on Israel’s aid blockade: pushing Palestinians toward catastrophe

Israel’s decision to block aid to Gaza, as ceasefire talks falter, is a devastating blow to 2 million hungry, vulnerable civilians in the shattered...

previous day 2

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Greg Jericho

The Guardian view on Merz’s U-turn on debt: Germany responds to the signs of the times

The Guardian view on Merz’s U-turn on debt: Germany responds to the signs of the times

Three days after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the German chancellor, Olaf Scholz, created a £100bn special fund to modernise...

previous day 3

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Greg Jericho

Trump is turning the media into a mouthpiece of the regime

Trump is turning the media into a mouthpiece of the regime

You know we’re in trouble when Fox News emerges as the great defender of freedom of the press. But such was the case when Jacqui Heinrich, a senior...

previous day 1

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Lawrence Douglas

Dear Suella: I was born in London and raised in Oxfordshire. What do you reckon – can I be English?

Dear Suella: I was born in London and raised in Oxfordshire. What do you reckon – can I be English?

Here’s a thing: Black and brown people can be born and bred in England, can do and become just about anything in and for England (including making...

previous day 40

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Nels Abbey

The dangerous folly of Australia’s come-what-may sycophancy towards Trump is on full display

The dangerous folly of Australia’s come-what-may sycophancy towards Trump is on full display

The greatest absurdity in Australia’s political discourse about the second Trump administration is the mantra that America perpetually remains a “...

previous day 50

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Paul Daley

Be grateful you’re still here: Germany’s rebuke of a grieving mother exposes its deepening anti-immigrant mood

Be grateful you’re still here: Germany’s rebuke of a grieving mother exposes its deepening anti-immigrant mood

The first time I went to Hanau, I was creeped out by how ordinary it was. This mid-sized city of 100,000 people right in the geographical centre of...

previous day 20

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Fatma Aydemir

Keir Starmer, you claim huge and damaging cuts are vital so we can buy arms and defend ourselves. Prove it

Keir Starmer, you claim huge and damaging cuts are vital so we can buy arms and defend ourselves. Prove it

Britain is now on a “war footing”, we are told. Earlier this year, Nato’s secretary general, Mark Rutte, demanded that European nations start...

previous day 100

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Owen Jones

As Republicans thunderously applauded and Democrats walked out in droves, Trump’s Congress speech showcased the US divide

As Republicans thunderously applauded and Democrats walked out in droves, Trump’s Congress speech showcased the US divide

Donald Trump is busy while the world around him is mired in chaos. Six weeks into his second term, he has reversed the course of US policy towards...

previous day 50

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Lloyd Green

How to prepare for Cyclone Alfred and what to do if it’s too late to leave

How to prepare for Cyclone Alfred and what to do if it’s too late to leave

Tropical Cyclone Alfred is predicted to make landfall anywhere between Brisbane and Sunshine Coast this week. The Australian Bureau of Meteorology...

previous day 10

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Paul Daley

Albanese is fighting an election in the attention economy. The deciding votes will come from those least engaged

Albanese is fighting an election in the attention economy. The deciding votes will come from those least engaged

Beyond the electoral contests of party, policy and personality lies a more primal battle: the fight for our attention in an era when democratic...

tuesday 4

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Peter Lewis

The US we thought we knew is gone – and Australians know it

The US we thought we knew is gone – and Australians know it

The truth was written all over the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s face in the Oval Office last week. The US is an unreliable ally. “The...

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Emma Shortis

JD Vance’s traumatic past doesn’t explain his bullying of Ukraine: his ‘might is right’ doctrine does

JD Vance’s traumatic past doesn’t explain his bullying of Ukraine: his ‘might is right’ doctrine does

Even before the shocking treatment of Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the Oval Office, the US had voted with Russia in the UN. Alarm bells about the...

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Karolina Wigura And Jarosław Kuisz

It’s With Love, Meghan – not just a TV show but a landmark piece of art. And not in a good way

It’s With Love, Meghan – not just a TV show but a landmark piece of art. And not in a good way

Are peonies a life philosophy? Are “life philosophies” even philosophy? I have to hold on to the idea that they aren’t, even in the face of a...

tuesday 80

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Marina Hyde

Labour has humane and popular plans to stand up for UK workers. Why dilute them?

Labour has humane and popular plans to stand up for UK workers. Why dilute them?

One step forward, two steps back. Angela Rayner’s employment rights bill is back in the Commons this week, stuffed with ideas for improving...

tuesday 10

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Gaby Hinsliff

Elon Musk is a proven danger to good science, but the Royal Society won’t say it. That’s why I resigned

Elon Musk is a proven danger to good science, but the Royal Society won’t say it. That’s why I resigned

Fellows of the Royal Society met yesterday to discuss, as they put it, “Fellows’ behaviour”. In light of the resignation of two fellows and an open...

tuesday 60

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Kit Yates

Why this is no time for Zelenskyy to grovel to Trump

Why this is no time for Zelenskyy to grovel to Trump

For Volodymyr Zelenskyy, this is no time to grovel. After last Friday’s ambush in the Oval Office – where the Ukrainian president, who has led his...

tuesday 50

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Paul Taylor

Putin is not Hitler. His actions in Ukraine are horrific enough to need no exaggeration

Putin is not Hitler. His actions in Ukraine are horrific enough to need no exaggeration

Is Vladimir Putin another Adolf Hitler? The western world seems to think so. In which case is Donald Trump another Neville Chamberlain and Ukraine...

tuesday 40

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Simon Jenkins

First Trump threatened to nuke hurricanes. Now he’s waging war on weather forecasters

First Trump threatened to nuke hurricanes. Now he’s waging war on weather forecasters

Some politicians go whichever way the wind blows. Not, however, the US’s esteemed leader, Donald Trump. He is such a force of nature that he can...

tuesday 40

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Arwa Mahdawi

Yes, Trump is a hypocrite. But is pointing that out an effective attack?

Yes, Trump is a hypocrite. But is pointing that out an effective attack?

Historians and psychologists will study when exactly the meeting between Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy started to descend into political...

tuesday 30

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Jan-Werner Müller

Even after the White House ambush and now Trump’s military pause, Ukrainians are defiant, but want a path to peace

Even after the White House ambush and now Trump’s military pause, Ukrainians are defiant, but want a path to peace

A few days before the Munich Security Conference, one of the Ukrainian military officers fighting on the eastern Ukrainian border told me about...

tuesday 20

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Nataliya Gumenyuk

Tariffs can help US workers. But Trump’s doing them all wrong

Tariffs can help US workers. But Trump’s doing them all wrong

In the run-up to the 2024 election, a lot of people were ringing alarms about Donald Trump’s tariffs. Kamala Harris called Trump’s policies a...

tuesday 10

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Dustin Guastella