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‘It’s not your turn,’ the board’s selection committee chair said. Instantly I felt as though I was back in the school yard

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Julianne Schultz

Yes, it’s full of nonsense, extreme hosting and psychobabble. But I do love Meghan’s Christmas special

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Polly Hudson

Trump wants to recreate a white America that never existed

As Donald Trump deteriorates and his grasp on power fades, he has been lashing out furiously at female journalists and ethnic groups, most recently...

yesterday 100

Rebecca Solnit

Why are diagnoses of ADHD soaring? There are no easy answers – but empathy is the place to start

Does the rise in diagnoses of ADHD mean that normal feelings are being “over-pathologised”? The UK’s health secretary, Wes Streeting, seems to...

yesterday 30

Gabor Maté

Trump’s pardon of an ex-Honduran president is shocking. So is the history of US support for him

Since President Trump first announced the pardon of former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernández last Friday, the media has been wading through...

yesterday 20

Dana Frank

Forget festive schmaltz, the best Christmas film this year is a gay biker dom-com

Can Die Hard – the 1988 action movie starring Bruce Willis as an NYPD detective hoping to reconcile with his estranged wife on Christmas Eve – be...

yesterday 7

Kitty Grady

Only Europe can save Ukraine from Putin and Trump – but will it?

Europe, you have been warned. President Vladimir Putin has waged a full-scale war against Ukraine for nearly four years and this week threatened...

yesterday 70

Timothy Garton Ash

Nigel Farage was once run out of Edinburgh. Now Scottish voters are embracing his rabble-rousing

Almost 13 years ago, at a press briefing to launch Ukip’s first Scottish byelection campaign, Nigel Farage was run out of Edinburgh by jeering...

yesterday 30

Dani Garavelli

Want to be hotter? Try this one weird Republican trick

Forget expensive moisturizers or designer clothes. Ladies, if you want a quick and easy glow-up, you may want to try Republicanism. This one weird...

yesterday 20

Arwa Mahdawi

Rebecca Hendin on potential political candidates – cartoon

yesterday 5

Rebecca Solnit

In my homeland, I’m trapped by bombs. Outside, I’m trapped by identity. The world is shrinking for Gazans

The world is big, yet it is forever shrinking for Gazans. In fact, it is as small as 3% of the size of an ever-diminishing strip of land, where the...

yesterday 7

Plestia Alaqad

Datacentres – why are they so thirsty? Let’s ask a shark!

previous day 30

George Monbiot

Give credit where it’s due: Labour is finally doing things its supporters actually want

What does it take for a small child not to recognise their own name? I’ve been thinking about that for days, since reading the Local Government...

previous day 30

Gaby Hinsliff

Labour has a groundbreaking plan for child poverty. Finally, this government has found its mission

Once Labour set up a child poverty taskforce, it was predestined that the two-child benefit limit would be abolished. Every authority consulted...

previous day 10

Polly Toynbee

The Great European Bake-Off: if the EU wants closer integration, how about using pop culture?

It was both enjoyable and strange to see the EU enlargement commissioner, Marta Kos, present the news on Moldovan TV a couple of months ago. For...

previous day 4

Paula Erizanu

Daily Telegraph unveils Sydney’s Power 100 list. You won’t believe who’s on it

Sharri Markson has been named one of Sydney’s most influential players for her “extraordinary advocacy on behalf of the Jewish community”. “The Sky...

previous day 20

Amanda Meade

I don’t care if Reform calls me a bad word on WhatsApp. But the story behind its gaffe is far more worrying

Last week saw one of the proudest moments of my journalism career. Leaked messages from a WhatsApp group containing several senior members of...

previous day 20

Will Hayward

Over a pint in Oxford, we may have stumbled upon the holy grail of agriculture

It felt like walking up a mountain during a temperature inversion. You struggle through fog so dense you can scarcely see where you’re going....

previous day 200

George Monbiot

The Trump administration sinks to a new low – opening fire on drowning men

The Trump administration looks ever more like a criminal enterprise – and now it seems to have added war crimes to its repertoire. Though even that...

previous day 100

Jonathan Freedland

The Liz Truss Show will confront the big issues of the day. For example: who on earth would watch Liz Truss?

Will you be seeing a pantomime this year? Birmingham’s got Gok Wan and Biggins in Robin Hood, Bradford has Sinitta in Snow White, while Bromley...

previous day 10

Marina Hyde

Labour wants to ramp up facial recognition. What if our data ends up in the wrong hands?

One thing to remember about the modern world is that nothing online is ever secure. M&S and Jaguar taught us that. Edward Snowden taught us that....

previous day 7

Simon Jenkins

Rosa Parks’ vacant former home is an emblem of racist housing policies

Friday is the 70th anniversary of the Montgomery bus boycott, which began because Rosa Parks refused to relinquish her seat to a white person, as...

previous day 20

Bernadette Atuahene

What has the ceasefire actually accomplished?

previous day 5

Tom Mcilroy

If Labor won’t deal with the low-hanging fruit of jobs for mates, how can it be trusted against louder vested interests?

In a scrappy week of Senate estimates hearings, there was one criticism of the Albanese government that should have really stung Labor, delivered...

previous day 6

Tom Mcilroy

Bruce Lehrmann an ‘inspiration’? Only to litigants whose cases have crashed and burned

Bruce Lehrmann is an “inspiration”. Of course he is. At least his solicitor-advocate, Zali Burrows, is urging us to see him that way because he...

thursday 20

Richard Ackland

Messy, combative and intoxicatingly fierce – don’t write off Your Party just yet

It’s not every day that Jeremy Corbyn and some of his closest comrades are described as “the right” in a political argument. But I first heard them...

thursday 8

Andy Beckett

What do you give the prime minister who has everything?

thursday 10

The Opposition Has Some Ideas

Watch Simon Cowell’s TV search for a new boyband – and see how our world has changed

There is a moment in the trailer for Simon Cowell’s new Netflix show, The Next Act, that is almost touching in its adherence to the way things once...

thursday 4

Emma Brockes

The Guardian view on regulating pornography: a £1m fine does not prove the Online Safety Act is working

Awareness of the harm caused by online pornography is rising. Last month, the government bowed to pressure from campaigners and pledged to make...

thursday 10

Editorial

I called my recipe book Sabzi – vegetables. But the name was trademarked. And my legal ordeal began

Vegetables, in my experience, rarely cause controversy. Yet last month I found myself in the middle of a legal storm over who gets to own the word...

thursday 40

Yasmin Khan

Europe is holding the line against Trump’s and Putin’s plans for Ukraine. But it won’t be able to for ever

The failure of this week’s peace talks between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff fits into a now well-established pattern of...

thursday 20

Martin Kettle

Rightwingers are trying to destroy women’s right to vote

Sexism can be very modern and tech savvy. Misogyny is an ever-evolving idiom, and men and women alike have found particularly of-the-moment ways to...

thursday 200

Moira Donegan

Did we learn nothing from robodebt? NDIS automation will put vulnerable lives at the mercy of machines

Never again. That was the resounding message delivered via the robodebt royal commission from the thousands of Australians whose lives and...

thursday 60

Georgia Van Toorn

The Guardian view on the crown estate inquiry: a necessary probe and a wider debate

Everyone in Britain has views about the royal family. In many cases, lots of views. Britain’s parliament, however, never lets the subject pass its...

thursday 7

Editorial

Ali Faqirzada is an Afghan refugee. He deserves to stay in America

On 14 October, Ali Faqirzada – an Afghan refugee, a resident of New Paltz, New York, and a computer science student at Bard College – arrived for...

thursday 40

Francine Prose

I realise now that my view on mental health overdiagnosis was divisive. We all need better evidence

Earlier this year, I appeared on the BBC and was asked a question by Laura Kuenssberg that I hadn’t anticipated: did I believe there’s a problem...

thursday 4

Wes Streeting

Kids’ parties are hell on earth, but may be the cure to the world’s ills

When my beautiful firstborn turned one, about 70 people came to the pub to celebrate. There were drinks, there were meals, there were balloons,...

thursday 5

Emily Mulligan

Is the UK economy really as bad as we think it is? Here is the truth of the matter

The British economy has endured a series of setbacks in recent years: austerity, Brexit, the global pandemic, soaring energy prices and an...

thursday 4

Jonathan Swarbrick

The Guardian view on a four-day week for teachers: a clever way to end the staffing crisis

Can you guess which professionals in England work 26 hours of overtime a week without compensation, give up time with friends and family to deal...

03.12.2025 20

Editorial

I have a lifelong connection to Victoria’s state library – which is why I am aghast at its crude self-lobotomy

Pardon me that this is a little personal. I first visited the State Library of Victoria aged 12. I held books retrieved from its mountainous stacks...

03.12.2025 60

Gideon Haigh

There are two big drivers of Australia’s economic growth – but shape matters as much as size

Australia’s economy grew 2.1% over the past year, and with that came improved household living standards – in part due to income from rooftop solar...

03.12.2025 10

Greg Jericho

Jobs for the boys!? Everyone hates jobs for the boys (except the boys)

03.12.2025 10

A Mystery For The Ages

I accompanied my wife to Dignitas. The Lords’ filibustering is an insult to all like her who have suffered

Three years ago, I sat in a hotel in Zurich, awaiting my flight home, wondering how I was going to get through the next few weeks and months....

03.12.2025 30

Dave Sowry

Fear of facing the future has British politics stuck in the past

Hollywood has stopped betting on original ideas. Sequels and remakes dominate the box office. Among this year’s Christmas movie releases are...

03.12.2025 20

Rafael Behr

The Guardian view on US-Russia talks on Ukraine: a warning to Europe to move faster on security cooperation

Donald Trump’s desire to end the war in Ukraine might be sincere, but his motives are selfish. He wants the glory of having brokered a deal and...

03.12.2025 30

Editorial

Can you be on a six-figure income and still be considered poor?

Have you heard that a family of four in the US is now considered poor if their household income is under $136,500 (£103,300) a year? Don’t @ me...

03.12.2025 10

Arwa Mahdawi

Cracks have emerged in the Maga coalition

The sharks can smell blood in the water. After a decade in eerie command of the Republican party, with primary voters in his cult-like thrall and...

03.12.2025 40

Moira Donegan

The Sarah Everard report part two: a catalogue of repeated and preventable failures

How do we get sexual predators out of the country’s police forces? It was one of the most urgent questions asked in 2021 when a serving police...

03.12.2025 10

Joan Smith

Trump is using a tragic shooting to demonize millions

After two national guard members were ambushed in Washington DC last week, killing one and leaving the other in critical condition, Donald Trump...

03.12.2025 10

Mohamad Bazzi

Letters. Text messages. Passwords and more passwords. Why can’t the NHS just give me someone to talk to?

I had this thing on the back of my shoulder, which a dermatologist at an NHS hospital looked at. He was brisk, verging on brusque. He said it was...

03.12.2025 6

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‘It’s not your turn,’ the board’s selection committee chair said. Instantly I felt as though I was back in the school yard

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Yes, it’s full of nonsense, extreme hosting and psychobabble. But I do love Meghan’s Christmas special

Polly Hudson

Trump wants to recreate a white America that never existed

Rebecca Solnit

Why are diagnoses of ADHD soaring? There are no easy answers – but empathy is the place to start

Gabor Maté

Trump’s pardon of an ex-Honduran president is shocking. So is the history of US support for him

Dana Frank

Forget festive schmaltz, the best Christmas film this year is a gay biker dom-com

Kitty Grady

Only Europe can save Ukraine from Putin and Trump – but will it?

Timothy Garton Ash

Nigel Farage was once run out of Edinburgh. Now Scottish voters are embracing his rabble-rousing

Dani Garavelli

Want to be hotter? Try this one weird Republican trick

Arwa Mahdawi

Rebecca Hendin on potential political candidates – cartoon

Rebecca Solnit

In my homeland, I’m trapped by bombs. Outside, I’m trapped by identity. The world is shrinking for Gazans

Plestia Alaqad

Datacentres – why are they so thirsty? Let’s ask a shark!

George Monbiot

Give credit where it’s due: Labour is finally doing things its supporters actually want

Gaby Hinsliff

Labour has a groundbreaking plan for child poverty. Finally, this government has found its mission

Polly Toynbee

The Great European Bake-Off: if the EU wants closer integration, how about using pop culture?

Paula Erizanu

Daily Telegraph unveils Sydney’s Power 100 list. You won’t believe who’s on it

Amanda Meade

I don’t care if Reform calls me a bad word on WhatsApp. But the story behind its gaffe is far more worrying

Will Hayward

Over a pint in Oxford, we may have stumbled upon the holy grail of agriculture

George Monbiot

The Trump administration sinks to a new low – opening fire on drowning men

Jonathan Freedland

The Liz Truss Show will confront the big issues of the day. For example: who on earth would watch Liz Truss?

Marina Hyde

Labour wants to ramp up facial recognition. What if our data ends up in the wrong hands?

Simon Jenkins

Rosa Parks’ vacant former home is an emblem of racist housing policies

Bernadette Atuahene

What has the ceasefire actually accomplished?

Tom Mcilroy

If Labor won’t deal with the low-hanging fruit of jobs for mates, how can it be trusted against louder vested interests?

Tom Mcilroy

Bruce Lehrmann an ‘inspiration’? Only to litigants whose cases have crashed and burned

Richard Ackland

Messy, combative and intoxicatingly fierce – don’t write off Your Party just yet

Andy Beckett

What do you give the prime minister who has everything?

The Opposition Has Some Ideas

Watch Simon Cowell’s TV search for a new boyband – and see how our world has changed

Emma Brockes

The Guardian view on regulating pornography: a £1m fine does not prove the Online Safety Act is working

Editorial

I called my recipe book Sabzi – vegetables. But the name was trademarked. And my legal ordeal began

Yasmin Khan

Europe is holding the line against Trump’s and Putin’s plans for Ukraine. But it won’t be able to for ever

Martin Kettle

Rightwingers are trying to destroy women’s right to vote

Moira Donegan

Did we learn nothing from robodebt? NDIS automation will put vulnerable lives at the mercy of machines

Georgia Van Toorn

The Guardian view on the crown estate inquiry: a necessary probe and a wider debate

Editorial

Ali Faqirzada is an Afghan refugee. He deserves to stay in America

Francine Prose

I realise now that my view on mental health overdiagnosis was divisive. We all need better evidence

Wes Streeting

Kids’ parties are hell on earth, but may be the cure to the world’s ills

Emily Mulligan

Is the UK economy really as bad as we think it is? Here is the truth of the matter

Jonathan Swarbrick

The Guardian view on a four-day week for teachers: a clever way to end the staffing crisis