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Each year, word of the year gets darker. ‘Six-seven’ may be annoying – but it’s bucked that trend

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Coco Khan

When it’s developers v people, usually the money wins. I saw how one community came out on top

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Jason Okundaye

When is a sausage not really a sausage? Ask the meat lobby

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George Monbiot

The tug-of-war over CNN shows how dysfunctional US media has become

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Margaret Sullivan

A Christmas message from the First Dog on the Moon Institute

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Gaby Hinsliff

At the dark end of a brutal year, I’m grateful to these heroes for showing us the light

At the dark end of a brutal year, I’m grateful to these heroes for showing us the light

Some traditions are getting harder to maintain. Among them, my own custom of devoting the last column before Christmas to reasons to be hopeful. In...

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Jonathan Freedland

The Guardian view on the Palestine Action hunger strikers: the government is trying to ignore this protest

The Guardian view on the Palestine Action hunger strikers: the government is trying to ignore this protest

In 1981, IRA and other republican prisoners went on hunger strike in Northern Ireland, demanding the restoration of their political status. Ten...

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Andrea Egan

My warning as the new head of Unison: never again will we prop up politicians hostile to unions

My warning as the new head of Unison: never again will we prop up politicians hostile to unions

I started my working life as a low-paid children’s residential care worker supporting vulnerable children, and I am still a registered social...

yesterday 5

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Andrea Egan

The Guardian view on the rise of romantic fiction: finally getting the respect it deserves

The Guardian view on the rise of romantic fiction: finally getting the respect it deserves

At last, the perception of popular fiction by women as “silly novels by lady novelists”, as George Eliot sniffily put it back in 1856, is changing....

yesterday 4

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Andrea Egan

Merry Christmas, Keir Starmer: despite everything, you’re still the best man for the job

Merry Christmas, Keir Starmer: despite everything, you’re still the best man for the job

Merry Christmas, Sir Keir, and a happy new year. Or as they say in Downing Street these days, make merry for tomorrow you may die. At your drinks...

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Simon Jenkins

It’s time to accept that the US supreme court is illegitimate and must be replaced

It’s time to accept that the US supreme court is illegitimate and must be replaced

The justices of the US supreme court – even its conservatives – have traditionally valued their institution’s own standing. John Roberts, the...

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Ryan Doerfler And Samuel Moyn

I’m on hunger strike in a British prison. This is why

I’m on hunger strike in a British prison. This is why

Amu Gib is one of several prisoners on hunger strike who are awaiting trial for alleged offences relating to Palestine Action. Gib is being being...

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Amu Gib

As Tory after Tory defects to Nigel Farage, I say this: be careful which turncoats you wish for

As Tory after Tory defects to Nigel Farage, I say this: be careful which turncoats you wish for

Nigel Farage is storing up trouble by welcoming yet another tranche of Conservative defectors to Reform UK’s ranks. I should know. When I was chief...

yesterday 10

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Simon Hart

The immediate shock and terror of the Bondi shooting is giving way to anger and division. We must look for the light

The immediate shock and terror of the Bondi shooting is giving way to anger and division. We must look for the light

As Australia winds down for a traditional Christmas holiday across languorous days of beach and blistering heat set to the soundtrack of Test...

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Paul Daley

As a child, our family Christmas photo was an annual trauma. As a parent, I understand it now

As a child, our family Christmas photo was an annual trauma. As a parent, I understand it now

In my family, Christmas isn’t just a holiday … It’s an obsession. And my mother? She’s the matriarch of mistletoe. Every December, our home...

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Sean Szeps

Finally, Labour is finding its nerve and getting Britain’s bad Brexit deal undone

Finally, Labour is finding its nerve and getting Britain’s bad Brexit deal undone

Month by month, Labour is bringing us closer to Europe. This week, the UK announced it is rejoining the Erasmus youth exchange programme. This...

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Polly Toynbee

My lesson from 2025: Reform is much more vulnerable than it appears

My lesson from 2025: Reform is much more vulnerable than it appears

Imagine a classroom with almost nothing in it, save some hard wooden benches and a stack of Bibles. Imagine the school it is in has only one loo,...

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Gaby Hinsliff

Europe has lost all credibility in the Middle East. The way to regain it lies in Syria, Iraq and Lebanon

Europe has lost all credibility in the Middle East. The way to regain it lies in Syria, Iraq and Lebanon

A year after the overthrow of Syria’s dictator, Bashar al-Assad, the former jihadi fighter turned Syrian president Ahmed al-Sharaa addressed the...

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Nathalie Tocci

I want my sons to know masculinity can be kind – and my daughter to live without fear

I want my sons to know masculinity can be kind – and my daughter to live without fear

In the year leading up to March 2025, one in eight women in England and Wales had been a victim of domestic abuse, sexual assault or stalking....

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David Lammy

The Guardian view on reducing violence against women: ministers must follow through on a bold promise

The Guardian view on reducing violence against women: ministers must follow through on a bold promise

Labour set itself a mammoth task when it pledged, before last year’s election, to halve violence against women and girls (VAWG) in 10 years. While...

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Editorial

Ten years of fortress Europe has served only cruelty, profiteers and racists. The next decade is up to us

Ten years of fortress Europe has served only cruelty, profiteers and racists. The next decade is up to us

For a decade, Europe has remained suspended in a perpetual state of migration crisis. While the Greek word krisis refers to an exceptional moment...

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Maurice Stierl

How many big names have paid the price for being linked to Jeffrey Epstein? Fewer than you might think

How many big names have paid the price for being linked to Jeffrey Epstein? Fewer than you might think

A couple of weeks ago, the annual DealBook Summit got under way in New York. It’s a series of public talks billed as conversations with “the...

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Emma Brockes

Want to understand the sickness of Britain today? Look no further – a novel explained it all 20 years ago

Want to understand the sickness of Britain today? Look no further – a novel explained it all 20 years ago

An Englishman drives into a new town and can’t see the warning signs. Richard Pearson is visiting Surrey to close down his late father’s home and...

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Aditya Chakrabortty

Keir Starmer is our most musical prime minister since Edward Heath. He must take up the baton for the arts

Keir Starmer is our most musical prime minister since Edward Heath. He must take up the baton for the arts

As you listen to a Christmas performance of Handel’s Messiah, it is easy to persuade yourself that all is still well with music and the arts in...

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Martin Kettle

What’s going on with Donald Trump’s health?

What’s going on with Donald Trump’s health?

Is Donald Trump OK? Recently, he’s looked tired. His famous fake tan is a bit more sallow than usual and seems painted on more thickly and clumsily...

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Moira Donegan

This Christmas, let’s ban the world’s most miserable gift-giving game

This Christmas, let’s ban the world’s most miserable gift-giving game

Happy forced frivolity season! We have once again arrived at the eye of the storm for the holidays, where cheerfulness is mandatory and lack of...

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Dave Schilling

Thanks for asking after my health, but actually I’m doing just fine

Thanks for asking after my health, but actually I’m doing just fine

I wrote a piece a few weeks ago railing at the app-heavy facelessness of dealing with the NHS about what I believe is known as one’s care pathway....

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Adrian Chiles

George Osborne has a new job in tech, and it doesn’t bode well for Britain

George Osborne has a new job in tech, and it doesn’t bode well for Britain

George Osborne getting a new job isn’t exactly news. Since leaving frontline politics, the former chancellor has served as the chair of the...

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Chris Stokel-Walker

Sport, music, Scouts … it’s time to end the relentless treadmill of kids’ extracurricular activities and re-embrace civilisation

Sport, music, Scouts … it’s time to end the relentless treadmill of kids’ extracurricular activities and re-embrace civilisation

Every week during term time, Monday arrives like a slap to the face. One child needs to be at basketball training by 7am, another child has a...

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Saman Shad

Brendan Carr admits his FCC is Trump’s journalism police

Brendan Carr admits his FCC is Trump’s journalism police

The Federal Communications Commission chair, Brendan Carr, admitted at a Senate hearing on Wednesday that there had been a political “sea change”...

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Seth Stern And Clayton Weimers

The Guardian view on the EU and Ukraine: a moment of truth for Brussels and Kyiv

The Guardian view on the EU and Ukraine: a moment of truth for Brussels and Kyiv

Morally, the decision facing the European Council in Brussels this week has been a no-brainer. Russia invaded Ukraine illegally and unilaterally....

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Editorial

The Guardian view on another green U-turn in Brussels: going slow on car-industry targets is a road to nowhere

The Guardian view on another green U-turn in Brussels: going slow on car-industry targets is a road to nowhere

Two years ago, the European Union’s adoption of a 2035 ban on the sale of new petrol and diesel cars was hailed as an act of global leadership, and...

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Editorial

The Guardian view on Australia’s social media ban: dragging tech companies into action

The Guardian view on Australia’s social media ban: dragging tech companies into action

On 10 December, the world watched as Australia enacted the first social media ban for under-16s. Whether it will have the desired effect of...

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Editorial

AI toys are suddenly everywhere - but I suggest you don’t give them to your children

AI toys are suddenly everywhere - but I suggest you don’t give them to your children

If you’re thinking about buying your kid a new-fangled AI-powered toy for the holidays, may I kindly suggest you don’t? I’m sure most Guardian...

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Arwa Mahdawi

A Harvard scholar’s ouster exposes a crisis of institutional integrity

A Harvard scholar’s ouster exposes a crisis of institutional integrity

Last Tuesday afternoon, Dean Andrea Baccarelli at the Harvard School of Public Health sent out a brief message announcing that one of the country’s...

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Eric Reinhart

A warning for Keir Starmer from his own past: if you’re not bold on Brexit and Europe, your Labour rivals will be

A warning for Keir Starmer from his own past: if you’re not bold on Brexit and Europe, your Labour rivals will be

Seven years ago, it took just eight words to electrify the Labour conference and to show the party was falling out of love with its then leader....

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Tom Baldwin

Ghost jobs, robot gatekeepers and AI interviewers: let me tell you about the bleak new age of job hunting

Ghost jobs, robot gatekeepers and AI interviewers: let me tell you about the bleak new age of job hunting

As I apply for yet another job, I look at the company’s website for context. I’ve now read their “what we do” section four or five times, and...

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Eleanor Margolis

Trump’s $10bn attack on the BBC doesn’t have to make sense. In his absurd world, he has already won

Trump’s $10bn attack on the BBC doesn’t have to make sense. In his absurd world, he has already won

Love Actually may be a terrible movie, but it provides one speech that’s hard not to wish into reality this Christmas. Keir Starmer, the actual,...

wednesday 10

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Jane Martinson

The stats don’t lie. Australia’s tax system is designed to benefit the wealthiest and the rest of us pay for it

The stats don’t lie. Australia’s tax system is designed to benefit the wealthiest and the rest of us pay for it

New figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics reveal just how much an average Australian earns. Being “rich” might not see you living like a...

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Greg Jericho

Everything about Paul Mescal is irresistible – with one exception

Everything about Paul Mescal is irresistible – with one exception

I want to believe in reincarnation because I want to come back as Paul Mescal. What it must be like to be irresistible. I’m sure it gets wearing,...

wednesday 4

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Adrian Chiles

Britain rejoining Erasmus+ won’t halt the nativist tide – but it’s a step in the right direction

Britain rejoining Erasmus+ won’t halt the nativist tide – but it’s a step in the right direction

‘I am a citizen of the world,” so the great Renaissance thinker Desiderius Erasmus is reputed to have said. It is because of his cosmopolitanism...

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Julian Baggini

I got smashed in the face by a cricket ball – a true story about physics and hardened leather (and a cartoonist)

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Rafael Behr

This is Europe’s secret weapon against Trump: it could burst his AI bubble

This is Europe’s secret weapon against Trump: it could burst his AI bubble

The unthinkable has happened. The US is Europe’s adversary. The stark, profound betrayal contained in the Trump administration’s national security...

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Johnny Ryan

At the Bondi vigil, Pauline and Barnaby turned tragedy into opportunism. It is inexcusable

At the Bondi vigil, Pauline and Barnaby turned tragedy into opportunism. It is inexcusable

Mourners crowded around a sea of flowers behind the Bondi Pavilion on Tuesday, quietly singing a traditional song of peace. Shalom, shalom, they...

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Julianne Schultz

Putin thinks democracy is the west’s weakness. We have to prove him wrong

Putin thinks democracy is the west’s weakness. We have to prove him wrong

I once spent an exasperating week showing a Russian friend around London. He insisted on seeing everything and admiring nothing. Museums,...

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Rafael Behr

Behold, it’s the Trump who stole Christmas

Behold, it’s the Trump who stole Christmas

Trump gave what was billed as a “Christmas speech” in rural Pennsylvania this past week that began with his “wishing each and everyone one of you a...

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Robert Reich

Europe is a continent soaked in economic pessimism. Until we change that, the far right will rise and rise

Europe is a continent soaked in economic pessimism. Until we change that, the far right will rise and rise

How much does Europe’s future resemble its gruesome past? That question was already pressing before Donald Trump retook the White House, and turned...

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Owen Jones

Why would someone buy my bag of random tat on Vinted?

Why would someone buy my bag of random tat on Vinted?

We have a lot of differing opinions about Vinted activity in my household. My son thinks [sic] “old people have a massively inflated idea of how...

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Zoe Williams

At Bondi, every Jewish person’s worst nightmare came true. Can we still have a safe future in Australia?

At Bondi, every Jewish person’s worst nightmare came true. Can we still have a safe future in Australia?

Being Jewish in Australia today feels very different to when I was a child. Growing up, it was about family, community, culture. It was about our...

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Dean Sherr

I’m an elementary school principal. Students live in fear of ICE

I’m an elementary school principal. Students live in fear of ICE

There is snow on the ground, but for some Chicago families, this is a moment of unfreezing. ICE is still out there, but Commander Gregory Bovino...

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Seth Lavin