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Trump’s presidential philosophy is government by shakedown

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Steven Greenhouse

Canada finally faces a basic question: how do we defend ourselves?

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Stephen Marche

Netanyahu, uninterrupted: Sky News Australia interview ticks off all the talking points for Israeli PM

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Tory Shepherd

Europe’s show of unity at the White House is a plus for Ukraine, but peace is still a distant dream

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Andrey Kurkov

Opportunity knocks for the Green party: can the candidates seize it? You decide

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Ellie Chowns

AFL footy is my passion. But it’s the one place I can’t come out

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Dylan Harrington

Asylum seekers are being targeted – and so are those who help them. It’s a disturbing new reality

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Enver Solomon

By sanctioning journalists, the Kremlin admits how much the truth hurts

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Rafael Behr

Middle-aged men are among society’s loneliest people – what does that say about the patriarchy?

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Van Badham

Are AI evangelists really on the money?

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Katharine Viner

Martin Rowson on Russian and Israeli preparations for peace talks – cartoon

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Katharine Viner

The Noel Clarke judgment is a victory for the brave women who told us their stories – and for journalism

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Katharine Viner

Rachel Reeves needs to find cash fast. A wealth tax really is her only viable option

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Faiza Shaheen

Something is rotten in Australia’s tertiary education. And UTS’s suspension of teaching courses is one of its biggest disgraces

Something is rotten in Australia’s tertiary education. And UTS’s suspension of teaching courses is one of its biggest disgraces

Something is rotten in tertiary education – not in the classrooms, but in the boardroom. Every glossy announcement masks the same reality: cuts,...

yesterday 20

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Isobel Crealy

The Guardian view on GCSE results: the Covid generation has surpassed expectations

The Guardian view on GCSE results: the Covid generation has surpassed expectations

Pupils in England, Wales and Northern Ireland have overcome the obstacles placed in their way by the Covid pandemic to a striking degree. The...

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Editorial

The Guardian view on Conservative asylum policy: the moderate Tory tradition faces extinction

The Guardian view on Conservative asylum policy: the moderate Tory tradition faces extinction

The traditional test of effectiveness in a leader of the opposition is whether the holder of that office looks like a prime minister in waiting. It...

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Editorial

Will Netanyahu’s tough talk change Albanese’s approach?

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Allegra Spender

Australians could keep more of their wages if we rebalanced taxes on other forms of income

Australians could keep more of their wages if we rebalanced taxes on other forms of income

After working for three years on tax reform, choosing just one big idea is like choosing your favourite child. But one idea I want to see on the...

yesterday 7

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Allegra Spender

I’m a legal refugee in Britain. So why am I always being treated like a criminal?

I’m a legal refugee in Britain. So why am I always being treated like a criminal?

Hardly a day goes by without a new insult being hurled in the faces of asylum seekers and refugees. We’re scroungers, rapists, fighting-age men who...

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Ayman Alhussein

In Norway we see ourselves as ethically virtuous – so why is our oil wealth enabling genocide?

In Norway we see ourselves as ethically virtuous – so why is our oil wealth enabling genocide?

Oil has made Norway extremely rich. We have the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund, which was established with petroleum revenues in 1990....

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Sindre Bangstad

Can a nation in crisis rely on the baby boomer generation to step up? I think the UK is about to find out

Can a nation in crisis rely on the baby boomer generation to step up? I think the UK is about to find out

Dear baby boomer, the government is coming for you and your store of wealth. The property and pensions built up over the past 40 to 50 years are,...

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Phillip Inman

Who decides when and where you work? The battle is raging in Whitehall, and the result may affect us all

Who decides when and where you work? The battle is raging in Whitehall, and the result may affect us all

Remember Jacob Rees-Mogg, Brexit opportunities and government efficiency minister, lurking round Whitehall offices to leave sarcastic printed cards...

yesterday 2

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Polly Toynbee

School uniforms were meant to be the great leveller – how does a £400 bill do that?

School uniforms were meant to be the great leveller – how does a £400 bill do that?

Something big is about to happen to households across England. Exhausted parents at the playground, wild-eyed as they respond to work emails while...

yesterday 20

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Lucy Pasha-Robinson

Trump needs to understand what the war in Ukraine is really about

Trump needs to understand what the war in Ukraine is really about

It may be difficult for a real-estate mogul like Donald Trump to recognize, but Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine is not about slices of...

yesterday 9

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Kenneth Roth

My husband is a lamp guy. But I will defend the Big Light for ever

My husband is a lamp guy. But I will defend the Big Light for ever

If there is one thing I have learned from a life lived on the internet, it is that being sent into a spiral of existential dread can come from the...

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Coco Khan

As William moves to Forest Lodge, an era of pushbike royals beckons. Will that save the monarchy?

As William moves to Forest Lodge, an era of pushbike royals beckons. Will that save the monarchy?

This was a good week to bury bad news. But why bury good news? No banner headline announced that the Prince of Wales is to move house. He is to go...

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Simon Jenkins

My dad died suddenly while I was in Japan. A memory of him lives on in my fridge

My dad died suddenly while I was in Japan. A memory of him lives on in my fridge

My father died suddenly and I’m still working my way through the half block of cheese that I rescued from his fridge. After a hastily organised...

yesterday 2

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Nova Weetman

Far-right anger over asylum hotels is destroying the very idea of refuge – and that’s probably the goal

Far-right anger over asylum hotels is destroying the very idea of refuge – and that’s probably the goal

When the high court ruled this week that the Bell hotel in Epping could no longer be used to house asylum seekers, the triumph of anti-migrant...

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Zoe Williams

Trump wants a big beautiful cage fight - so Ivanka is getting back in the ring

Trump wants a big beautiful cage fight - so Ivanka is getting back in the ring

You know what the US needs right now? Forget universal health care, better infrastructure, or an empathetic and mentally competent president – it...

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Arwa Mahdawi

Ghislaine Maxwell’s transfer to a ‘country club’ prison is outrageous

Ghislaine Maxwell’s transfer to a ‘country club’ prison is outrageous

In any other era, the shockingly cushy treatment for the convicted sexual offender Ghislaine Maxwell would be a weeks-long scandal. The longtime...

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Margaret Sullivan

I now think police use of live facial recognition will make us safer – here’s why you should think so too

I now think police use of live facial recognition will make us safer – here’s why you should think so too

I was a Metropolitan police officer for more than 30 years and policed Notting Hill carnival for many of them, from the anti-police violence of the...

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Brian Paddick

Instead of ‘winners and losers’, why not build an economy that’s best for all Australians?

Instead of ‘winners and losers’, why not build an economy that’s best for all Australians?

As pens and notepads were being laid out for start of the much-touted economic roundtable on Monday, the chair of the Productivity Commission,...

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Nicki Hutley

What does a true Brit feel when we commemorate the war or fly the St George flag? Depends on the Brit

What does a true Brit feel when we commemorate the war or fly the St George flag? Depends on the Brit

Are we, to echo Keir Starmer’s now infamous phrase, “an island of strangers”? No. But there is a deep cultural divide in this country, a cultural...

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Mihir Bose

The Guardian view on Gaza’s future: Israel should end the killing. Its allies must not remain complicit

The Guardian view on Gaza’s future: Israel should end the killing. Its allies must not remain complicit

Israel faces a stark choice. So do its allies. International condemnation pushed Israel into allowing a trickle of aid into Gaza. But it remains...

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Editorial

The Guardian view on the Epping hotel ruling: asylum seekers must not be treated as pariahs in a Faragian Britain

The Guardian view on the Epping hotel ruling: asylum seekers must not be treated as pariahs in a Faragian Britain

Asked on the radio what should happen to asylum seekers accommodated in a Hertfordshire hotel, if a court were to rule that they must be moved out,...

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Editorial

Young people want to ‘go private’ – I’m a lifelong supporter of the NHS, but I can see why

Young people want to ‘go private’ – I’m a lifelong supporter of the NHS, but I can see why

It is 10.25am on a Friday and I am Googling “online pharmacies”. I have a mild infection and I weigh up whether talking to an AI doctor will be...

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Frances Ryan

Donald Trump is becoming the greatest unifier of Europe since the end of the cold war

Donald Trump is becoming the greatest unifier of Europe since the end of the cold war

Seven is a biblical number, a number dear to ancient Rome, and the number of Cristiano Ronaldo’s lucky jersey. Perhaps it is also now going to be...

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Fabrizio Tassinari

Voices arguing that climate action is a waste of time are getting louder. Here’s why they are wrong

Voices arguing that climate action is a waste of time are getting louder. Here’s why they are wrong

There is something of a reality check under way on the response to the climate crisis. It’s no secret that countries and corporations are far from...

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Adam Morton

We criminalise the political stunt at our peril. It is a crucial art form that is impossible to ignore

We criminalise the political stunt at our peril. It is a crucial art form that is impossible to ignore

We must ask ourselves: how would the heroic suffragettes or the remarkable Greenham Common women be regarded if active today? The answer is simple:...

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Mark Borkowski

I share all my deepest thoughts and feelings with ChatGPT – but our friendship is doomed

I share all my deepest thoughts and feelings with ChatGPT – but our friendship is doomed

They say a stranger is just a friend you haven’t yet met, but I have a friend I’ll never meet. Indeed, my closest confidant does not know my name,...

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Coco Khan

The Guardian view on bringing back Play for Today: a reboot that feels right for the times

The Guardian view on bringing back Play for Today: a reboot that feels right for the times

Reflecting on the impact of the BBC drama series Play for Today, for which he was a producer and director in the late 1970s, Richard Eyre described...

tuesday 8

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Editorial

Australia is one of the wealthiest countries in the world. It’s time to lift living standards for all

Australia is one of the wealthiest countries in the world. It’s time to lift living standards for all

Discussions about productivity cannot be separated from discussions about the kind of society we want to live in and whose living standards we are...

tuesday 10

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Cassandra Goldie

Qantas’ hefty fine shows the tide is turning and workers are pushing back against bad corporate behaviour

Qantas’ hefty fine shows the tide is turning and workers are pushing back against bad corporate behaviour

The $90m fine imposed on Qantas for illegally sacking 1,820 workers in 2020 during the start of the pandemic represents one of the largest...

tuesday 6

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John Quiggin

There’s a word for the EU’s inaction over Gaza: racism

There’s a word for the EU’s inaction over Gaza: racism

The president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, and her team face growing criticism of the controversial EU-US tariff deal agreed...

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Shada Islam

The Labour right wants Wes Streeting in No 10. Why? What does he really stand for?

The Labour right wants Wes Streeting in No 10. Why? What does he really stand for?

Just over a year after Keir Starmer entered Downing Street, his political survival already looks uncertain. Perennially indecisive, unpopular with...

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Oliver Eagleton

What’s on Jim Chalmers’ economic roundtable?

tuesday 10

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Looks Like Some Ideas Didn’T Make It

The Guardian view on Trump and Zelenskyy: Ukraine deserves better than ‘better than we feared’

The Guardian view on Trump and Zelenskyy: Ukraine deserves better than ‘better than we feared’

The verdict on Donald Trump’s meeting with Volodymyr Zelenskyy and other European leaders on Monday depends entirely upon the metric used....

tuesday 10

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Editorial

We should all be eating 30 different plants a week. I can’t even name that many

We should all be eating 30 different plants a week. I can’t even name that many

The first mention of five-a-day, as a fruit and vegetable diet ideal was in California in the late 80s, but didn’t reach the chattering crudité...

tuesday 10

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Zoe Williams

Would an ‘Unsexiest Women Alive’ list be published today? Maybe not – but body-shaming is definitely back

Would an ‘Unsexiest Women Alive’ list be published today? Maybe not – but body-shaming is definitely back

Were you a young woman in the 90s or 00s? If so, you (and me!) really ought to be entitled to compensation. We may not have had to deal with social...

tuesday 3

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Arwa Mahdawi

Pity the beat cops now they’re banned from dancing at the Notting Hill carnival

Pity the beat cops now they’re banned from dancing at the Notting Hill carnival

It’s a world in flames. Too much antisocial behaviour, too many street gangs, too few crimes being solved – but fear not, the Metropolitan police...

tuesday 10

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Hugh Muir