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This goes beyond Gary Lineker. The BBC risks coming apart over the Gaza war

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Jane Martinson

From the day Britain left the EU, this reset was inevitable. What a pointless waste of time, money and effort

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Simon Jenkins

There is no excuse for the killing of two Israeli embassy workers

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Kenneth Roth

A battle is under way for the soul of a Brighton GP surgery

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Polly Toynbee

The children of Gaza are starving to death

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Time Is Running Out

Maga’s ‘DEI hire’ taunt is an age-old grievance reignited. And it’s spreading

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Gaby Hinsliff

I am writing this with a pencil – it could be an author’s last line of defence against AI

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Luke Beesley

The least ‘integrated’ part of British society isn’t the immigrants – it’s the elite

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Andy Beckett

Trump’s barbarism is turning his biggest strength into a liability

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Osita Nwanevu

Trump’s ambush of South Africa’s president shows how low the US has fallen

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Justice Malala

In Ukraine, I saw Trump’s ‘peace deal’ wouldn’t just trade away land – but lives, memories and homes

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Timothy Garton Ash

The Guardian view on the US and South Africa: Trump looks to his base and partners look elsewhere

The most telling moment of Donald Trump’s meeting with Cyril Ramaphosa was not the cynical screening of footage promoting false claims of “white...

yesterday 20

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Editorial

The Guardian view on Russia sanctions: a brittle economy is Putin’s weakness

Donald Trump’s pledge to end the war in Ukraine on the first day of his second term as US president was a sign of his unsuitability as a peace...

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Editorial

Volodymyr Zelenskyy has courage. Pope Francis had it too. Why are there so many cowards?

“Courage is seeking the truth and speaking it,” Jean Jaurès, the French philosopher and Socialist party leader, told a group of high school...

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Alexander Hurst

As a Labour MP who voted against winter fuel cuts, I’m glad the PM has seen sense

On Wednesday, Keir Starmer indicated he may U-turn on last year’s winter fuel payments cuts. The prime minister announced in the Commons that he...

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Jon Trickett

The UK risks falling apart. Keir Starmer can mend it now – but he doesn’t have much time

A house divided against itself cannot stand, warned Abraham Lincoln. The United States’ later descent into civil war over slavery would prove...

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Martin Kettle

My signed tie is up for auction. I don’t think even my mum would buy it

Whenever I see a signed this or that for sale, I ask myself why anyone would want it. Apart from anything else, unless you were standing next to...

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Adrian Chiles

Famous men’s toxic fandoms have become a tool for punishing women

There’s a new formula for punishing women who speak out about abuse by high-profile figures, and it usually goes like this: woman alleges abuse,...

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Tayo Bero

We bear the brunt of the climate crisis. A Pacific Cop could help shape the global response

Watching from the western Pacific, we saw many describe Australia’s recent election as a decisive moment for climate and energy policy. If that was...

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Surangel Whipps Jr

The Guardian view on Starmer’s U-turn: change direction – or keep losing support

Sir Keir Starmer’s U-turn on winter fuel payments did not just represent a policy reversal. It was the moment when the prime minister, elected on...

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The Guardian view on social cohesion: too many of us are still ‘bowling alone’

Thirty years after writing Bowling Alone, the famous essay in which he diagnosed a dangerous crisis of social cohesion in the United States, Robert...

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I’ve studied the history of death. I know how we can better face up to our grief – and our own mortality

Many years ago, as part of a school homework project, I asked my grandparents what the most significant social change had been during their...

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Molly Conisbee

Can Albanese really see what needs to be done?

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Surangel Whipps Jr

If aid doesn’t enter Gaza now, 14,000 babies may die. UN peacekeepers must step in

On Monday, Israel launched an intensive ground offensive named Operation Gideon’s Chariots as part of its plan to cause as much pain and damage as...

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Michael Fakhri

What did you do during the genocide in Gaza?

Now, when Israel is executing a “final solution” in Gaza, when it is far too late for dissent to make any difference, the tide is slowly starting...

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Arwa Mahdawi

‘Pro-worker priorities’? Trump’s budget bill offers the exact opposite

With Donald Trump pushing hard to give big tax cuts to the rich and do huge favors for crypto billionaires, it was jarring to see a photo of a...

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Steven Greenhouse

I thought ghosts were mean, restless and set on revenge. Then I watched the TV show

The ghost in my house is called Henry. I only found this out after naming my cat Henry, at which point one of my kids said, “Oh, like the ghost”,...

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Anna Spargo-Ryan

How ditching the Liberals can put the grunt back into the Nationals – Australia’s rural party

It’s been a lonely week for the Nats. Personally, I am on Team Split. I think it’s high time they put the grunt back into the country party. Yet,...

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Gabrielle Chan

Ramaphosa withstood Trump’s bizarre ambush – but he let down South Africans

The dust is still settling from Donald Trump’s latest “ambush” in the Oval Office. What started off as a series of pleasantries about golf...

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Zanele Mji

The fault line that opened up a Coalition chasm can be traced back decades

The Coalition came unstuck over four policy areas: nuclear power, the $20bn regional Australia future fund, strengthening the universal service...

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Judith Brett

The real story isn’t young men supposedly voting far right. It’s what young women are up to

‘The boys are alt-right.” This seems to be the new consensus on far-right politics propagated in numerous articles and podcasts. But the media’s...

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Cas Mudde

Maga Catholics are on a collision course with Leo XIV. They have good reason to fear him

In the outer reaches of the Magasphere, it would be fair to say the advent of the first pope from the US has not been greeted with unbridled...

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Julian Coman

The US credit rating has been downgraded. But there’s an easy fix for our debt

On Friday, the credit rating of the United States was downgraded. Moody’s, the ratings firm, announced that the government’s rising debt levels...

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Robert Reich

Children are speaking to strangers online – and grooming is on the rise. This is how to protect them

When we look at what causes poor mental health, we often think of stress, genetics, poverty or loneliness. These are all contributing factors, but...

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Devi Sridhar

Gwyneth Paltrow’s ‘vagina candle’ is still burning bright – at five times the original price

I have a foolproof way to make millions. It’s a little tricky to execute, but hear me out, OK? Step one: find a time machine. Step two: travel back...

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Arwa Mahdawi

A huge Democratic victory in Omaha offers a lesson for the party

For the last several months, the Trump administration’s reckless use of executive power, trade policy, gutting federal agencies and defying court...

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Katrina Vanden Heuvel

First workers were disappointed in Labour – now they’re angry. To understand why, visit Birmingham

Six months ago, it was a stirring, a mood felt in many workers’ meetings, on picket lines and doorsteps. What started as disappointment in Labour...

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Sharon Graham

The UK has spoken out against the ‘monstrous’ human catastrophe in Gaza. Why won’t Australia do more?

The humanitarian situation in Gaza has reached a breaking point, with 2.1 million Palestinians trying to survive human catastrophe on the strip....

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Donald Rothwell

You would think after nearly three years of being wrong, the RBA might start to question its economics. But no

The decision by the Reserve Bank to cut rates on Tuesday was welcome and well overdue. While all signs point to more rates cuts to come,...

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Greg Jericho

A new US report makes it clear: five-day in-office mandates are outdated

When the pandemic hit in early 2020, organizations pivoted overnight to remote and hybrid models to survive. Nearly five years later, Amazon,...

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Gleb Tsipursky

After the Coalition’s very public split, I can only offer this time-honoured breakup advice: work on yourself

You might hear the clink of bottles into recycling bins this morning, the sounds of Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours pumping out of a tinny phone speaker...

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James Colley

International opinion has rounded on Israel, but it’s not enough to force Netanyahu’s hand

Nineteen months on from the 7 October Hamas attacks and the war in Gaza, Israel is under a new wave of international pressure and increasingly...

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Sanam Vakil

Gary Lineker was once my rival. I feel no shame in saying I was beaten by the best

Amid the controversy around Gary Lineker’s exit from the BBC, a couple of points need making, entirely unrelated to the circumstances of his...

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Adrian Chiles

Cutting aid for girls’ education isn’t just wrong – it’s economically illiterate

Ask any one of the 187 female Labour MPs whether they would have made it to the House of Commons without an education and you would probably get...

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Larry Elliott

The Guardian view on the calls to save Gaza: Palestinians need deeds, not words

The UN humanitarian chief Tom Fletcher fears that thousands of babies are at imminent risk of death in Gaza unless aid reaches them. Benjamin...

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Editorial

The trouble with AI art isn’t just lack of originality. It’s something far bigger

The artificial intelligence (AI) giant OpenAI recently announced that its ChatGPT platform now provides free image generation, prompting an online...

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Eric Reinhart

Extinction Rebellion may have gone quiet, but climate protest will come roaring back

On 21 April 2019, I was on Waterloo Bridge in London with my younger siblings. Around us were planters full of flowers where there were once cars,...

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Oliver Haynes

I finally managed to impress the gen Z of my household – by admitting I skived out of an open day

When you book your kid on a university open day, places tend to have a pretty strict specification: no more than one guest. Me and the middle teen...

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Zoe Williams

Was this a hen do or a humanitarian mission to liberate Paris? Either way, give Lauren Sánchez an award

To Cannes, in the country of France, where last night Jeff Bezos’s fiancee, Lauren Sánchez, got what she deserves: a philanthropy award. Lauren was...

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Marina Hyde

The cost of getting care and getting there: why is hospital parking so expensive in Australia?

“Every minute of your delay costs me money,” a patient grumbles, brandishing a parking ticket. “I am sorry,” I sympathise. “Let’s finish...

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Ranjana Srivastava