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Iceland’s shorter working week has been a huge success – and it’s changed my family’s life

I like to walk around old cemeteries and read the headstones. Here in Iceland, it has been customary to engrave people’s job titles below their...

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María Hjálmtýsdóttir

A social media ban for everyone is in the national interest – not just kids under 16

The Australian government has proposed a ban on social media for all citizens under 16. Citing the success of recently introduced restrictions on...

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Van Badham

Trump’s science-denying fanatics are bad enough. Yet even our climate ‘solutions’ are now the stuff of total delusion

We now face, on all fronts, a war not just against the living planet and the common good, but against material reality. Power in the United States...

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George Monbiot

What do Australians think of the new-look Aukus?

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It’S Definitely Sub-Optimal

As a Sudanese Australian, it is heartbreaking to see the devastating war in my homeland overlooked

Last month, the Australian government announced new visa pathways for displaced Palestinians from Gaza and Ukrainians, providing much-needed relief...

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Sara Sinada

Never mind what Rachel Reeves did long ago at the Bank of England: what claims do you make on your CV?

There are lies, evasions and manipulations by politicians that, when they come to light, can make the politician in question seem even less...

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Emma Brockes

With Trump heading for the White House, the Democrats must learn these lessons – and fast

Did the Democrats really lose because they were too “woke”, too obsessed with minorities, too radical? After defeat, there always comes the battle...

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Owen Jones

Trump’s cabinet picks are agents of his contempt, rage and vengeance

“Shock” suddenly became the most commonly uttered word in habitually nonplussed Washington DC. After Donald Trump had attempted to subvert the...

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Sidney Blumenthal

Portugal is rapidly losing its young people. Will this new scheme convince them to stay?

In the autumn of 2018, I moved to Lisbon for a month-long course at the Universidade de Lisboa. I struggled to find any short-term sublets in the...

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Adam Almeida

As a child I needed free school meals, as mayor, I provide them. And this policy works – here’s the proof

Hunger has a crippling influence on a child’s development. It robs them of their focus, energy and ambition. Hungry children in our classrooms are...

yesterday 10

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Sadiq Khan

Harris ran from the Biden policies that were actually popular with voters

The post-mortems of Kamala Harris’s loss to Donald Trump all agree on one thing: that Harris stuck too close to Biden. It was deliberate, pundits...

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Daniela Gabor

Anatomy of a non-scandal: the defence of Allison Pearson reveals how ‘free speech’ has been weaponised

The Allison Pearson saga is nothing if not a morality tale about the modern media. Among its many learnings are that calling a group of people of...

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Jane Martinson

There’s a buzz online about local honey being the ‘ultimate hay fever hack’ – but does it actually help?

As pollen counts increase in parts of Australia throughout spring and summer, so too do the number of social media posts spruiking the benefits of...

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Melissa Davey

Mark Zuckerberg loves his wife? That’s nice – but let’s stop fawning over a guy who fawns over Trump

Do they hand out Nobel prizes for PR? Because the team behind Mark Zuckerberg’s recent metamorphosis deserves one immediately. Not so long ago,...

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Arwa Mahdawi

Labour wants tax rises to fall on the ‘broadest shoulders’. The farmers furore shows why that’s so hard to achieve

It is hardly advanced political science to observe that governments are more popular when giving people stuff than when taking it away. Junior...

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Rafael Behr

We’ve lost 20,000 pubs since I started drinking in them. That sends a chill down my spine

A closed pub is a sad, sad sight. Where once was life, people talking and laughing, now there is none. OK, bad stuff would have gone on too. I get...

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Adrian Chiles

The Guardian view on Donald Trump’s plutocrats: money for something

One person turns up surprisingly often at Donald Trump’s side. Not his No 2, JD Vance, nor his wife, Melania, but another man a quarter-century...

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Editorial

The Guardian view on the politics of buses: Labour’s winning ticket

Six years ago, when Jeremy Corbyn focused on failing bus services during prime minister’s questions, the then leader of the Labour opposition was...

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Editorial

Our politics could not be more different – but we’re united against this dangerous assisted dying bill

Free votes on conscience matters are comparatively rare in the UK parliament. But they are almost always about issues of once-in-a-generation...

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Diane Abbott And Edward Leigh

My friend Joshua Wong is among those jailed in Hong Kong – the UK must stand up for these political prisoners

Joshua Wong, one of Hong Kong’s best-known pro-democracy activists, was sentenced to four years and eight months in prison on Tuesday. He received...

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Nathan Law

Australia took its interest rate medicine – and it has poisoned our living standards

I always worry when I hear politicians or economists talk about how the economy needs to be administered some painful medicine. Inevitably it means...

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Greg Jericho

Don’t underestimate the Rogansphere. His mammoth ecosystem is Fox News for young people

One night after his now infamous appearance at the Trump rally at Madison Square Garden – where he joked that Black people carve watermelons...

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Sam Wolfson

Why children like me have a right to be heard at the People’s Blockade of the Newcastle coal port

All year, I have been looking forward to the People’s Blockade of the Newcastle coal port. I’ve been so excited to see the colourful array of...

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Frankie Kelly

Let’s not waste another summer debating climate science – Australia’s energy transition can work for everyone

Australia is facing the extreme risk of dangerous concentrations of high pressure and hot air this summer. There is also a strong likelihood of...

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Peter Lewis

Labor’s caps on international students are on the brink of defeat. Will they now act in the national interest?

The expected defeat of the federal government’s proposed caps on international student numbers provides the entire nation with an important...

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George Williams

Construction is the world’s biggest carbon emitter, yet Labour still refuses to tackle it

You can damn oil companies, abuse cars, insult nimbys, kill cows, befoul art galleries. But you must never, ever criticise the worst offender of...

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Simon Jenkins

Spare a sob for Don Jr – replaced in Daddy’s affections by Elon Musk

As the Trump presidency bears down on the world, I hope we can all concur on the prospect of being subjected to regular appearances by Donald...

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Marina Hyde

To protect US democracy from tyrants, we must protect the truly free press

Reliable and independent sources of news are now threatened by growing alliances of oligarchs and authoritarians. The mainstream media doesn’t use...

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Robert Reich

The Guardian view on taxing farmers: big landowners must pay their share

No tax change is perfect. Systems can never be customised to take in every set of circumstances. There are always edge cases – people who are...

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Editorial

The Guardian view on a showtrial in Hong Kong: a new authoritarian low

Defending Beijing’s draconian crackdown on political freedoms in Hong Kong, following the extraordinary protest movement in 2019, the...

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Editorial

He already has 12 children. Now Musk wants all of the US to embrace extreme breeding

Is Elon Musk the dinner party guest from hell? It sure seems that way. Not only is the man desperate for people to laugh at his crass jokes, he...

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Arwa Mahdawi

He has already fathered many children. Now Musk wants all of the US to embrace extreme breeding

Is Elon Musk the dinner party guest from hell? It sure seems that way. Not only is the man desperate for people to laugh at his crass jokes, he...

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Arwa Mahdawi

As my eldest sits his final school exam, I’m grateful to the fine teachers who helped me parent him

“I hope you’re not going to do something like this,” warns my son on his way to attend a surprise 18th party courageously arranged by his...

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Ranjana Srivastava

Ed Sheeran, Fuse ODG: do they know they’re dead right about Band Aid? Africa needs more than a singalong

Hey y’all: listen up to the chartbusting, pop-pickin’, time-addled DJ: “Yes indeed, Band Aid’s Do They Know It’s Christmas is back with a...

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Nels Abbey

Why Kamala Harris couldn’t convince an anti-establishment America

Two weeks have passed, and Kamala Harris’s convincing electoral defeat still has Democrats pointing fingers at who – or what – to blame. If only...

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Samuel Hammond

Nobody in Australia would work for 65 cents an hour. We cannot tolerate it at foreign embassies either

In a cost of living crisis, many workers in Australia are doing it tough, but spare a thought for people being paid 65 cents an hour. If you wanted...

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Fiona David

What can foreign students learn about political football?

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It’S A Game With Aussie Rules

A ‘political trial’? Marine Le Pen is singing from the Donald Trump hymn sheet

“Everyone has stolen from the cash register except the National Front!” exclaimed Marine Le Pen on French TV in 2004, commenting on an...

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Pauline Bock

760,000 women in the UK waiting for a gynaecological appointment? That’s just the tip of the iceberg

The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists has landed on an arresting image to illustrate the waiting-list crisis in its field. If all...

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Zoe Williams

Great movies can play fast and loose with history. But not Gladiator II with its rhinos and cafe culture

Does accuracy in a movie set in the past actually matter? When one historian pointed out errors in Ridley Scott’s Napoleon, the director...

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Charlotte Higgins

Sneaky, excessive and unjustified: why Labor’s electoral reforms are vulnerable to constitutional challenge

Jack Lang was fond of saying that you should always put your money on self-interest. But when it comes to campaign finance laws, politicians use...

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Anne Twomey

In Kent, Labour has a fight on its hands – and a make-or-break test for its housing revolution

Watch what happens in Swale, as it’s a tale that will be repeated often in the next few years. Here in Kent is a test of Labour’s determination...

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Polly Toynbee

Wales’s 20mph speed limit saves lives and money. So why has it become a culture-war battlefield?

Imagine you’re a politician running a country. In front of you there is a proposal that in just nine months would save your society more than...

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Will Hayward

The Guardian view on children’s homes: cap profits and don’t stop there

Curbs on profiteering in the children’s social care sector cannot come soon enough. It is getting on for three years since the Competition and...

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Editorial

The Guardian view on a genocide probe call: sense in Gaza’s senseless conflict

As an Israeli airstrike killed at least 30 people in a northern Gaza residential block, Pope Francis called for an investigation into whether...

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Editorial

If you can’t trust the voice of David Attenborough, what can you trust?

It sounds too fanciful and too outrageous to be true, but nothing is too outrageous for the world the tech bros have bequeathed us. The BBC has...

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Zoe Williams

Joe Biden’s last-gasp missile decision is momentous for Ukraine – but Putin will retaliate

US president Joe Biden’s last-gasp decision to permit Ukraine to fire western-made, long-range missiles at military targets deep inside Russian...

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Simon Tisdall

The uncommitted campaign showed the Democratic party ignores Gaza at its peril

In the days following the 2024 election, a cadre of pundits have been eager to call the uncommitted voters’ impact on the presidential race both...

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Camonghne Felix

Who does the Democratic party actually represent?

In September 1981, 10 months after Ronald Reagan’s sweeping 44-state victory over Jimmy Carter, 100 leading elected Democratic officials...

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Alex Bronzini-Vender

I’m used to outsiders mangling Belfast’s history. So Say Nothing was a breath of fresh air

I will admit that when I heard there was to be a TV adaptation of Say Nothing, based on Patrick Radden Keefe’s book of the same name, released on...

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Rachel Connolly

A kookaburra: ‘They think they are waking the world’

I walked out of my kitchen on an overcast morning last week, feeling depressed, trying to think my way around the US election result somehow...

monday 10

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Helen Sullivan

In England and Wales, where you live determines the kind of policing you get. That isn’t right

The need for a major shake-up of our police service has been spoken about for decades. The last major reform to policing in the 1960s modernised...

monday 10

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Gavin Stephens

They called me ‘Wormy’ in the playground. But I’ve grown to love my unusual surname

“Wormy! Wormy! Come here, Wormy!” I’m seven years old, arms wrapped across my legs like a protective shield, while a group of older kids tease...

monday 30

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Evelyn Rose Worman

Hey, architects: hands off my dog-box apartment! It may be small and dark, but it beats the alternative

By modern standards, I live in a “dog box”. My unit is a 38 sq metre one-bedder on the ground floor of a classic Sydney 1960s red-brick...

monday 20

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Dominic Behrens

Here’s how to mitigate some of Trump’s most dangerous foreign policy instincts

The nightmare has arrived. Trump’s “America First” norm-flouting was bad enough the last time around, when a collection of traditional...

monday 20

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Kenneth Roth

Winter is coming – and so is my 50th birthday. It’s time to eat all the pastries and grab all the joy

Support for seasonal self-love comes from an unexpected quarter: the French daily Libération has issued a plea for us to embrace our “winter...

monday 20

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Emma Beddington

Electoral reform – it’s the worst. Snitty the Psephological Cassowary tries to make it interesting

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The Major Parties Are Relying

Behind Trump’s victory lies a cold reality: liberals have no answers for a modern age in crisis

The most useful lesson of growing up under a dictatorship is that dictatorships are never absolute. Sometimes they are even democracies – ones...

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Nesrine Malik

For the first time in its history, we could be looking at a genuinely rightwing European Union

Many observers breathed a sigh of relief earlier this year when the mainstream, pro-EU alliance – of centre-left, centre-right and liberal parties...

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Alberto Alemanno

If reason can’t save the world, no wonder magic and superstition are on the rise

How good must it feel to gather up physical manifestations of your anxieties, shove them in a giant papier-mache demon and set fire to them?...

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Emma Beddington

Cover-up of child abuse in Church of England tried to ‘protect the work’ of twisted theology

It has been an unprecedented 10 days for the Church of England. The Makin report into abuse by John Smyth, barrister and Church lay reader, was...

17.11.2024 10

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Helen King

Pink fishy goo makes bad news palatable

Have you ever asked yourself a question along the lines of: “If you had to choose not to eat bread or not to eat potatoes, what would you go...

17.11.2024 10

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David Mitchell

People everywhere are head down, lost in the oblivion of infinite scroll. Just stop and let the moment breathe

The next time a waiter takes my order, I’ll ask for an “empty cup of attention”. OK, not really. As if that’s ever on the menu, especially in...

17.11.2024 10

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Justine Toh

How to survive the broligarchy: 20 lessons for the post-truth world

1 When someone tells you who they are, believe them. Last week Donald Trump appointed a director of intelligence who spouts Russian propaganda, a...

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Carole Cadwalladr

The streetlights going out over Britain tell a brutal story: austerity isn’t over – it’s getting worse

All over the country, the lights are going out. The level of need for adult and children’s care is constantly increasing. People are still...

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John Harris

How a small group of Amazon workers took on big business and challenged traditional unions

‘The union wants to protect workers. The employer wants to protect workers. How do I choose between them?” So asks one young worker in Union, a...

17.11.2024 30

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Kenan Malik

Farmers have hoarded land for too long. Inheritance tax will bring new life to rural Britain

One of the baleful dimensions of our times is the way that the conversation about what constitutes the good society is framed by the rich and their...

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Will Hutton

The appointment of Robert F Kennedy has horrified public health experts. Here are his three most dangerous ideas

The announcement that Donald Trump has appointed Robert F Kennedy as the US secretary of health and human services has sent shock waves through the...

17.11.2024 50

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Devi Sridhar

There is a moral in Jamie Oliver’s story of stereotypical folk, just not one he intended

Share the adventure of a lifetime in this incredible addition to the popular series, Reading with the Stars! It’s almost Christmas and Jamie and...

17.11.2024 20

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Catherine Bennett

To turn Britain around, we need a proper understanding of life for poorer workers

Things have not being going well for low- and middle-income Britain: wages flatlining, public services crumbling and, as a result, faith in...

17.11.2024 50

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Torsten Bell

Why Labour’s high command has become very obsessed with bills and borders

German politicians used to know where they were with their voters. If they gave you one term in power, they were likely to offer a second serving...

17.11.2024 10

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Andrew Rawnsley

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