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If Donald Trump thinks Greenland should be his, how long before he sets his sights on Scotland?

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Zoe Williams

Surprise dip in inflation a lightbulb moment – but RBA unlikely to deliver interest rate bargains

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Greg Jericho

Let’s be clear: if the Palestine Action hunger strikers die, the government will bear moral responsibility

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George Monbiot

The Trump doctrine exposes the US as a mafia state

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Jan-Werner Müller

Rosalía’s Lux is more than epic Catholic pop – it grapples with a world fraught with complexity and crisis

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Carlos Delclós

Keir Starmer has a historic opportunity to fix this awful Brexit – if he follows this plan

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Naomi Smith

New year resolutions? How to free yourself from brain rot in 2026

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Look!! A Bird!!

Democrats can win back the White House in 2028. Here’s how

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Colin Seeberger

We study glaciers. ‘Artificial glaciers’ and other tech may halt their total collapse

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Brent Minchew And Colin Meyer

Is your community bushfire ready? In Cobargo after black summer we don’t just have a plan, we have one another

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Zena Armstrong

Nicki Minaj’s Maga conversion is doing nothing for her career – or is it?

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Arwa Mahdawi

Is Starmer’s reluctance to criticise Trump smart tactics – or the sign of a man without a plan?

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Rafael Behr

Nicola Jennings on Donald Trump’s threats to take over Greenland – cartoon

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Polly Hudson

‘For a moment, only that story matters’: my plan to reignite the all-consuming love of books

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Polly Hudson

We live in a surveillance culture – but why would I want to track my son or husband?

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Polly Hudson

Elon Musk is moving back into politics. Can’t he take up a new hobby instead?

“You know, I’ve generally found that when I get involved in politics, it ends up badly,” Elon Musk mused on Nikhil Kamath’s podcast in...

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Arwa Mahdawi

I got married twice in my 20s. Now I’m in love with my midlife situationship

We were just two midlifers in our 50s who met back in 2020 using a popular dating app. Bored, lonely and emerging from lockdown we jumped at the...

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Natasha Ginnivan

Many schools don’t think students can read full novels anymore. That’s a tragedy

Reading fiction has been such a joy for me that my heart broke a little to learn recently that many schools no longer assign full books to high...

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Margaret Sullivan

What did I learn from a new – and very random – poll? Our interior lives are much weirder than I thought

New polling just dropped from TV’s channel 5, conducted by More in Common, about a range of topics that fall under the umbrella, “every little...

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Zoe Williams

Male bonds develop one way, female friendships another. Should we stop trying to make men more like women?

It’s good to talk. Or so men are always being told, by everyone from mental health campaigners to the women they live with, bemused by the male...

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Gaby Hinsliff

Why the surprise over Trump’s Venezuela coup? US presidents promise isolation – and deliver war

It is starting to trickle out. Last week in Caracas was not an invasion, it was a putsch. It was the militarised kidnap of one ruler to aid his...

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Simon Jenkins

Now Musk’s Grok chatbot is creating sexualised images of children. If the law won’t stop it, perhaps his investors will

It’s a sickening law of the internet that the first thing people will try to do with a new tool is strip women. Grok, X’s AI chatbot, has been used...

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Sophia Smith Galer

Trump is marching into 2026 with the worst cabinet in history

As 2024 ended and Donald Trump’s cabinet picks were rolled out, commentators scrambled to decide which one was the worst. Was it Matt Gaetz for...

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Austin Sarat

Greta Thunberg came to stay – and my kid may have inadvertently helped her get arrested

It was 6am. London. A few days before Christmas. My four-year-old is singing at the top of her lungs and charging around my parents’ house on a...

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Arwa Mahdawi

Europe’s failure to condemn Trump’s illegal aggression in Venezuela isn’t just wrong – it’s stupid

There is no two without a three, as we say in Italian. After their complicit silence on Israel’s war crimes in Gaza and their tacit acceptance of...

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Nathalie Tocci

Trump’s new world order is being born – and Venezuela is just the start

As Venezuela’s skyline lit up under US bombs, we were watching the morbid symptoms of a declining empire. That may sound counterintuitive. After...

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Owen Jones

Donald Trump poses a threat to civilization

Trump’s domestic and foreign policies – ranging from his attempted coup against the United States five years ago, to his incursion into Venezuela...

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Robert Reich

The Guardian view on Trump’s raid in Caracas: oil matters, but it’s not the whole story

It’s all about oil. That was the reason Nicolás Maduro, the Venezuelan leader illegally abducted by US forces at the weekend, had given for Donald...

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Editorial

We can safely experiment with reflecting sunlight away from Earth. Here’s how

The world is warming fast – and our options to avoid catastrophic harm are narrowing. 2024 was the first full year more than 1.5C hotter than the...

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Dakota Gruener And Daniele Visioni

Is Trump really as lawless as he seems? Or is he just a law unto himself?

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It’S Open To Interpretation

Forget all the artisanal cheese. French crisps are absolutely depraved

I spent Christmas in France, which was on its best behaviour: tasteful, twinkling lights, market stalls stacked with exquisitely fresh fruit and...

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Emma Beddington

It’s not easy being an English northerner surrounded by southerners. Here’s how we survive

Of course they weren’t being mean, but each time my university friends jokingly echoed my Leeds-accented “no” with a noise that is perhaps best...

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Robyn Vinter

Nine scientific breakthroughs I’d like to see in 2026 – from earworms to procrastination

People who greet the new year with hope, ambitious plans and optimised gut microbiomes might be obnoxiously apparent at the moment, but we all know...

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Emma Beddington

For Americans, 2026 started with two starkly different visions for the country

The new year opened with a pair of scenes that illustrated the great divide within the US and the stakes of the ongoing contest over its future. On...

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Moira Donegan

Trump’s Venezuela invasion sets a perilous precedent

No matter how you slice it, Donald Trump’s invasion of Venezuela is an act of naked aggression. It is blatantly illegal and sets a disturbing...

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Kenneth Roth

Who does new year Keir look like after his reset? Last year Keir – and that’s a huge problem

Keir Starmer kicked off the political new year with a fascinating and revealing 45-minute-long interview with the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg. The...

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John Mcternan

With Trump’s military action in Venezuela, the US has made every other country less safe

The US military operation in Venezuela undermines a fundamental principle of international law, agreed after the horrors of two world wars and the...

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Volker Türk

As we farewelled Ronda our soft-hearted labrador, the grief was as painful as any I’ve felt

Each time a family dog dies, I go over it all again and decide that the intense grief is far outweighed by the joy the animal brought to our lives....

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Paul Daley

Ever been caught short? Here’s the good news: a great British toilet revolution could be on the way

Why do we have so few public toilets in UK cities? It’s hard to think of two more fundamental social needs than a) not being forced to relieve...

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Eddie Blake

The Guardian view on the junk food advertising ban: shaping tastes is a job for government

After years of wrangling, from this week new rules shield children in the UK from junk food advertisements. Those featuring processed food and...

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Editorial

The awkward truth about some of Trump’s views on Europe? European leaders agree with him

I expected the EU to push back strongly against Donald Trump’s new national security strategy. Not only does it show contempt for the EU and its...

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Shada Islam

The US violated international law in Venezuela. These are the questions Australia must now ask

No matter how the Trump administration seeks to justify its actions in seizing Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife in an audacious...

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Donald Rothwell

I’m watching myself on YouTube saying things I would never say. This is the deepfake menace we must confront

It was my blue shirt, a present from my sister-in-law, that gave it all away. It made me think of Yakov Petrovich Golyadkin, the lowly bureaucrat...

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Yanis Varoufakis

Trump’s coup in Venezuela didn’t just break the rules – it showed there aren’t any. We’ll all regret that

I never thought it possible that you could look back on the Iraq war, and the foreign invasions of the “war on terror” in general, and feel some...

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Nesrine Malik

Why is it so perilous to be a person of colour on The Traitors?

It was the first real day of 2026: 2 January. There was already no shortage of mayhem, which is to say “news”, in the world but the papers were...

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Zoe Williams

The Guardian view on Europe’s response to ‘America first’ imperialism: too weak, too timid

The initial reaction of European leaders to Donald Trump’s illegal military intervention in Venezuela was not only weak, it also had the briefest...

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Editorial

In 2026, remember this: Britain is much better than it was in so many ways. Don’t swallow the right’s lies

A couple of the more disruptive boys in the class put red laces in their Dr Martens, because someone had told them that was how you showed your...

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John Harris

The electric vehicle revolution is still on course – don’t let your loathing of Elon Musk stop you joining up

In another era, before Elon Musk bought Twitter, changed its name to X to mark the spot of its descent into barbarism, honed Grok, a generator of...

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Zoe Williams

The Guardian view on the US seizure of Maduro: Trump has turned the world’s superpower into a rogue state

Amid the immense confusion surrounding the US strikes on Venezuela, the seizure of the president, Nicolás Maduro, and Donald Trump’s announcement...

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After Trump’s illegal Venezuela coup, there are two dangers: he is emboldened, but has no clue what comes next

During his presidential campaigns, Donald Trump pledged to end “forever wars”, abandon “nation-building” interventions and focus instead on...

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Rajan Menon