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Who could be behind the phantom briefing and the tax rise that wasn’t? Inspector Starmer is on the case

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Marina Hyde

Trump can get away with saying what he likes about the BBC. But Epstein? That’s his one vulnerability

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Jonathan Freedland

Martin Rowson on trouble at No 10 – cartoon

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Jonathan Freedland

Somebody to love: should AI relationships stay taboo or will they become the intelligent choice?

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Brigid Delaney

Is climate change really something we need to stress about?

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Brigid Delaney

One Coalition battle after another: Sussan Ley’s authority is being eroded by rightwingers picking fights

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Tom Mcilroy

Scrapping green subsidies is short-termist sabotage – and as usual the consumer will pay

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Camilla Born

Homelessness is increasingly hard to ignore – unless you are the Labour party

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Simon Jenkins

Wes Streeting’s gamble with the NHS is greater than any play for Downing Street

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Gaby Hinsliff

Once a global leader on climate action, the EU has given in to the right’s green-bashing

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Nathalie Tocci

Republicans are regimented. Democrats are undisciplined. Just look at the shutdown

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Robert Reich

How a Texas shrimper stalled Exxon’s $10bn plastics plant

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Shilpi Chhotray

Dark forces are preventing us fighting the climate crisis – by taking knowledge hostage

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George Monbiot

Labor must not partner with climate vandals on Australia’s new environmental laws

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Tim Flannery

New face, same problems: replacing Keir Starmer with Wes Streeting will do nothing to help Labour

New face, same problems: replacing Keir Starmer with Wes Streeting will do nothing to help Labour

I never thought, in the year 2025, I’d be hearing sentences that started “a week is a long time in politics”; and yet here we are, so much has...

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Zoe Williams

The Whyalla steelworks might be the best place in the world to make low-cost green iron. Will Labor seize the moment?

The Whyalla steelworks might be the best place in the world to make low-cost green iron. Will Labor seize the moment?

Whyalla provides the litmus test for the commonwealth and the South Australian government’s commitment to green iron. It has all the right...

yesterday 20

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Rod Sims And Baethan Mullen

Who’ll be the real winner of the Coalition’s net zero battle?

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Andrew Mclachlan

As a conservative Liberal senator I see no coherent reason to run away from a net zero target

As a conservative Liberal senator I see no coherent reason to run away from a net zero target

It has been suggested to me that my views on our society’s relationship with the natural world come from my Celtic upbringing fused with the...

yesterday 10

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Andrew Mclachlan

The real Reform voters have been revealed – it’s a slapdash coalition Farage will struggle to hold together

The real Reform voters have been revealed – it’s a slapdash coalition Farage will struggle to hold together

Who are Nigel Farage’s army, the voters who want him as our next prime minister? Few questions are as important in British politics. Were an...

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Aditya Chakrabortty

Sicily deserves better than the looming prospect of a giant bridge that will never get built

Sicily deserves better than the looming prospect of a giant bridge that will never get built

A dozen or so times each day, as Italy’s southbound Intercity rail service arrives in the Calabrian town of Villa San Giovanni, the journey comes to...

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Jamie Mackay

The Liberals’ new emissions policy is bursting with contradictions – and is unlikely to be what voters want

The Liberals’ new emissions policy is bursting with contradictions – and is unlikely to be what voters want

Six months ago on Thursday, the new Liberal leader, Sussan Ley, stood in the opposition party room at Parliament House and promised the Coalition...

yesterday 10

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Tom Mcilroy

Ultra-rich media owners are tightening their grip on democracy. It’s time to wrest our power back

Ultra-rich media owners are tightening their grip on democracy. It’s time to wrest our power back

The richest man on Earth owns X. The family of the second-richest man owns Paramount, which owns CBS, and could soon own Warner Bros, which owns...

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Robert Reich

How can we make the housing crisis even worse? Donald Trump has a plan

How can we make the housing crisis even worse? Donald Trump has a plan

Would you like to buy a crumbling shack for $2m? Well then, you’re in luck, because that just about sums up the state of the housing market right...

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Arwa Mahdawi

Food insecurity leaves long-term scars. The Snap cuts are no exception

Food insecurity leaves long-term scars. The Snap cuts are no exception

When I was 13, a pair of foster siblings, Carla and Rodrigo, came to live with my family. For the two of them, the move brought a period of much-...

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Priya Fielding-Singh

How should we tackle Reform and the rise of the far right? Our Gen Z panel has some ideas

How should we tackle Reform and the rise of the far right? Our Gen Z panel has some ideas

Jackson Peace Jackson Peace, 21, is a student from the Isle of Wight My home town on the Isle of Wight, one of the UK’s most deprived areas, and...

yesterday 10

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Jackson Peace

I decided to put my change into a cash-converting machine. Big mistake

I decided to put my change into a cash-converting machine. Big mistake

One night, late in the last century, I was with some friends walking home in the middle of the night. We were living in Cricklewood, on Shoot-Up...

yesterday 4

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Adrian Chiles

Republicans are scrambling to reclaim affordability. Good luck with that

Republicans are scrambling to reclaim affordability. Good luck with that

Try as they might to present Zohran Mamdani as the exemplar of their opponents’ radical-left lunacy, the platform the New York mayor-elect and...

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Judith Levine

Kyle Sandilands rails against ‘pearl clutchers’ and ‘activist haters’ as regulator reins in radio duo’s antics

Kyle Sandilands rails against ‘pearl clutchers’ and ‘activist haters’ as regulator reins in radio duo’s antics

After finding the Kiis network repeatedly broadcast “vulgar” and “deeply offensive” content, the Australian Communications and Media Authority...

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Kate Lyons And Amanda Meade

It soothes my bitter heart to know that no matter how much money Elon Musk has, he will never, ever be funny

It soothes my bitter heart to know that no matter how much money Elon Musk has, he will never, ever be funny

As I’ve written before, the world is being burned down around us by some of the biggest losers in history. It is painful to watch. In difficult...

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Rebecca Shaw

Starmer’s backers never meant him to be prime minister – his leadership was doomed from the start

Starmer’s backers never meant him to be prime minister – his leadership was doomed from the start

Wes Streeting was always meant to be their Labour prime minister. The plan, hatched by a tiny clique of rightwing faction fighters, was this: find...

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Neal Lawson

This week’s doctors’ strike is another test of Wes Streeting’s mettle. He is right not to buckle

This week’s doctors’ strike is another test of Wes Streeting’s mettle. He is right not to buckle

The bizarre, self-defeating assault on Wes Streeting suggests a pre-budget panic. This feels like a government losing touch and escaping from...

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Polly Toynbee

Ben Jennings on Keir Starmer and Labour infighting – cartoon

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Priya Fielding-Singh

Pregnancy after loss has shown me that love doesn’t end – it just changes shape

Pregnancy after loss has shown me that love doesn’t end – it just changes shape

Pregnancy after loss is full of contradictions. It is hope that feels cautious, like it might dissolve if you breathe too hard. It is learning to...

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Lauren Farrugia

Labour’s rebuttal to the Green party this week sums up the double standard that dogs our politics

Labour’s rebuttal to the Green party this week sums up the double standard that dogs our politics

Britain is broken and nothing can ever get better. It doesn’t sound like a winning election slogan, but the sentiment is increasingly taking hold...

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Frances Ryan

Labour is standing on a precipice: if it breaks its election promise on tax, it will never be trusted again

Labour is standing on a precipice: if it breaks its election promise on tax, it will never be trusted again

It’s rare to watch a political calamity advance with such gruesome inevitability. Rachel Reeves’s reported plan to shred Labour’s flagship tax...

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Owen Jones

What do you need to do to ‘earn’ a trillion dollars in this economy?

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Look At All Those Zeroes – Look At Them!

The EU has let US tech giants run riot. Diluting our data law will only entrench their power

The EU has let US tech giants run riot. Diluting our data law will only entrench their power

Europe is hurtling toward digital vassalage. Under Ursula von der Leyen, the European Commission president, EU laws to tackle tech giants have been...

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Johnny Ryan And Georg Riekeles

There’s a missing link in British public life – and it underpins crises from the BBC to our prisons

There’s a missing link in British public life – and it underpins crises from the BBC to our prisons

Imagine you are given a pile of tokens, representing real money, and invited to donate to a common pot. There are other players but you can’t...

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Rafael Behr

Covid vaccines may increase the lifespan of cancer patients – this could be a game changer

Covid vaccines may increase the lifespan of cancer patients – this could be a game changer

I’m often asked whether we’re better prepared for the next pandemic. It’s a mixed answer, but the bright spot is scientific progress on...

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Devi Sridhar

The Liberal party’s betrayal of younger voters on net zero isn’t just a moral failure – it’s electoral stupidity

The Liberal party’s betrayal of younger voters on net zero isn’t just a moral failure – it’s electoral stupidity

The 2025 election defeat should have been a wake-up call for the Liberal party on the issue of climate and young people, yet it it seems like the...

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Intifar Chowdhury

The Guardian view on Labour leadership speculation: a symptom of failure to define a governing purpose

The Guardian view on Labour leadership speculation: a symptom of failure to define a governing purpose

It is extraordinary that Labour MPs are contemplating replacing their leader within 18 months of winning a landslide general election victory, a...

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Editorial

The Guardian view on special Trump treatment for Hungary: roll on the next election

The Guardian view on special Trump treatment for Hungary: roll on the next election

During the US presidential election campaign of 2016, Viktor Orbán was the only European Union leader to back Donald Trump. Which was hardly...

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Editorial

The BBC’s editing error was serious, but the response is way out of proportion

The BBC’s editing error was serious, but the response is way out of proportion

You can’t be in the news business and avoid mistakes. That’s why responsible media organizations correct their errors and acknowledge them to the...

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Margaret Sullivan

The 5% first home buyers scheme is a miserable policy failure – and the latest chapter in Australia’s housing disgrace

The 5% first home buyers scheme is a miserable policy failure – and the latest chapter in Australia’s housing disgrace

The story of Australia’s housing policy over the past 25 years is one of governments doing all they can to juice demand for housing while steadily...

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Greg Jericho

Yes, New York will soon be under new management. But Zohran Mamdani is just the start

Yes, New York will soon be under new management. But Zohran Mamdani is just the start

A relatively unknown thirtysomething parachuted on to the national stage and into high political office. Energising to some of the Democratic base...

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Carys Afoko

To the cashier who left me absolutely speechless – I salute you

To the cashier who left me absolutely speechless – I salute you

It was Sunday morning and I was grumpy enough, filling up my mum’s car. It was one of those petrol stations which is also a supermarket, so you run...

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Adrian Chiles

A word of warning to the hounds circling Starmer: be careful what you wish for

A word of warning to the hounds circling Starmer: be careful what you wish for

Be absolutely clear. Keir Starmer is in very deep trouble indeed. Perhaps belatedly, he himself grasps this. His team and his ministers knew it...

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Martin Kettle

Boyfriends are cringe. But is the #boysober trend a feminist reclamation or a neoconservative tilt?

Boyfriends are cringe. But is the #boysober trend a feminist reclamation or a neoconservative tilt?

A few years ago, I wrote about the rise of the “soft” and “hard” launch on social media, those curated posts that signalled a new...

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Lisa Portolan

Celebrating literature is good – but I’m running out of patience with celebrity book clubs

Celebrating literature is good – but I’m running out of patience with celebrity book clubs

In these turbulent times, we take small joys where we can find them. And this week we’ll take this: the spectacle of various literary people at the...

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Emma Brockes

Nicola Jennings on the woes of Keir Starmer and the BBC – cartoon

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Emma Brockes