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I’m ashamed of what I said about Blake Lively. Her allegations should shock us all

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Laura Snapes

After a breakup, can you ever be happy living alone? I moved countries to find out

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Carolin Würfel

My shirts reeked of onions; my father hated the ‘phoney Tudor windows’. That flat will always mean home

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Michael Rosen

You can keep your rigid Christmas traditions – I’ll be tucking into my Boxing Day carbonara

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Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

It’s time for a new approach to dealing with Trumpy relatives during the holidays

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Jill Filipovic

I grew up Muslim in a Catholic community – and Mary represented common ground

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Zeyneb Sayilgan

Here’s what I learned in medical school – beyond the curriculum

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Roland Bull

Romcoms are clearly fantasy – but divorce sequels aren’t the answer

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Zoe Williams

Forget ‘benefit cheats’ – £23bn a year is going unclaimed. How do we get that to vulnerable people?

At the stroke of midnight on Saturday night, the shutters came down. Anyone who didn’t claim pension credit by then will have lost their winter...

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Polly Toynbee

Even as we mourn in Magdeburg, the AfD is trying to cynically exploit the Christmas market attack

On Saturday afternoon in Magdeburg a man stood outside Johanniskirche (St John’s church), contemplating a lake of candles, flowers and soft toys....

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Thomas Vorreyer

Assad’s demise has been widely celebrated – but it spells an uncertain future for Syria’s Kurds

The fall of Bashar al-Assad after the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) takeover in Syria is bad news for the country’s Kurds. It is worth charting how...

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Zeynep Kaya

I’m not looking at your beach body, I just want to know what you’re reading

Chances are you’re flocking to the sand this summer. Perhaps you prefer to perch under a tree near the riverbank or roll out your towel on the...

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Jodi Wilson

A consensus is emerging: Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. Where is the action?

A consensus is building. On 5 December, Amnesty International concluded after an investigation that “Israel has committed and is continuing to...

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Nesrine Malik

Gen Z’s politics are hard to categorize – and a harbinger of a new political order

We live, at first blush, under the absolute dominion of celebrity. The former and future president of the United States spent more than a decade as...

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Ross Barkan

Roast beef, and lemons fresh from the trees – that was Christmas in my South African home

My childhood home was in South Africa. My parents adored each other and life for my two brothers and me was loving and carefree. Mum was a...

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Prue Leith

Welcome to Britain’s Victorian Christmas, where volunteers in Santa hats fulfil the basic functions of the state

“Will Santa find me?” a subject line in my inbox asked last week. I wondered briefly if my niece had moved to email with her questions about...

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Frances Ryan

At last, a charter of rights for Australian airline passengers – but where’s the compensation for delays?

One in four flights in Australia are delayed. At least one in 50 are cancelled. Australian governments have never legislated consumer protections...

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Monique Ryan

Notre Dame rose again from the ashes – so too can France’s battered democracy

When Notre Dame burned, something in the flames seemed to speak to the combustibility of our age. Nothing is for ever, the fire said, even those...

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Alexander Hurst

From bacon baubles to glitter gravy: a guide to this year’s must(n’t) try Christmas trends

Christmas is all about traditions: repeating the same thing over and over, however silly it might be, because that’s just what you do at...

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Rich Pelley

Santa slays and jingle hells: here’s why Christmas horror films are the perfect antidote to the season

A clown walks into a bar. Seriously. Bear with me a minute here. The clown sees a Santa Claus impersonator propped up on a stool with a beer. The...

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Paul Syvret

Farage, Musk and Candy say ‘cheese’ – now British democracy’s toast

There’s a new photo of Nigel Farage and the Reform treasurer, Nick Candy, who partied through the pandemic at Lord Shaun “Bum and Boobs” Bailey...

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Stewart Lee

Menaced by foreign foes, facing mutiny at home: how long before Iran goes nuclear?

Choices, choices. In life, there’s always a choice, or so that complacent saying goes. It didn’t really hold true for the people of Syria, bound...

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Simon Tisdall

Peter Mandelson is being sent to Washington to join the battle for Donald Trump’s ear

From Prince of Darkness to deputy prime minister to Your Excellency. It is fair to say that the latest incarnation of the politician with nine...

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Andrew Rawnsley

Rudolph’s never going to get a very shiny new role in Santa’s family firm

Santa has a great reputation. Generous, jolly, snazzily dressed. But he’s obviously a terrible employer. The elves are entirely unpaid for their...

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Torsten Bell

I travelled up and down the UK this year. One album sums up what I saw

The most revelatory experience I had this year happened at Glastonbury, on the festival’s Saturday night. I was at the Left Field, the...

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John Harris

With Assad’s fall, Putin’s dream of world domination is turning into a nightmare

As Bashar al-Assad fell, Russian nationalist military bloggers turned on the Kremlin. “Ten years of our presence,” fumed the “Two Majors”...

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Peter Pomerantsev

Death is at the heart of Christmas. That’s why we love to tell festive ghost stories

This Christmas, find some pity for Lynda Snell MBE. Fans of the BBC radio soap The Archers know Lynda as the stalwart organiser of every Christmas...

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Kate Maltby

We know that domestic abuse will soar this Christmas, so why can’t we stop it?

Every Christmas, domestic abuse rates soar as women find themselves on the receiving end of batterings, abuse and controlling behaviour from a...

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Yvonne Roberts

Our rarely apologise, never resign bishops don’t deserve comfortable lives in the Lords

At its current rate, the Church of England can probably fit in another pre-Christmas safeguarding catastrophe, and embark on the familiar ritual....

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Catherine Bennett

I had 25 addresses in 20 years – but now I’ve created the beginnings of a new life

After a while, you want to live alone. And then it happens and you discover everything that’s difficult about it. You realise that you didn’t...

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Jay Bernard

Why worry about your body falling apart at 44 or 60 when you could fret about your brain at 58 or 70?

I don’t believe ageing is linear: I reckon we have long plateaux, then everything falls apart all at once. I realised this at the close of my...

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Emma Beddington

Syria has been liberated from Russia and Iran – but outsiders still threaten its new freedom

The liberation of Syria was long hoped for, but unexpected. Over the past weeks, Syrians have experienced the full range of human emotions, with...

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Robin Yassin-Kassab

Christmas was always the hardest time of year for Steve. It was a trigger for past family trauma

For many, Christmas is a time of celebration, joy and tradition. But for others it brings up past traumas, challenging family dynamics or a sense...

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Diane Young

What will Australian media look like in 2025? Messy and imperfect but with glimmers of hope

Imagine you were designing a democracy from scratch. How would you ensure people had enough access to accurate, independent information? My guess...

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Margaret Simons

I’m one of millions working in retail. This Christmas, don’t ask how we are – or we may tell you

You decided to do it differently this year. You usually buy online, with high-minded principle, from a company owned by the least-loathsome...

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Andrew Herrick

Belief in a lottery curse is comforting, but winning lots of money does make you happy

Does winning the lottery wreck your life? When it was revealed earlier this week that an anonymous Briton had won £177m in the November...

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Martha Gill

True cinematic turkeys achieve a kind of transcendence. Think of Cats or Last Christmas

As a lifelong enthusiast of the “so-bad-it’s-good” sub-strand of cinema, I approach every Christmas with a mix of excitement and trepidation. If...

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Kathryn Bromwich

From mindfulness to learning something new: seven simple strategies for wellbeing

Life can be mentally demanding: your job, paying bills, caring for family, financial or housing difficulties, relationship problems or physical...

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Matt Fisher

Only 35% of Americans trust the US judicial system. This is catastrophic

The US supreme court has been hijacked by the extreme right and corrupted to its core. American oligarchs bestow millions in gifts and largesse on...

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David Daley

As a media columnist, even I found myself turning away from the news in 2024. But we can do things differently

The other night I broke a long-cherished habit. At home in time for the BBC News at 10, I could only manage a couple of headlines before I turned...

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Jane Martinson

What if Russia wins in Ukraine? We can already see the shadows of a dark 2025

There are human activities in which both sides can win. War is not one of them. Either Ukraine wins this war or Russia does. Ukraine’s former...

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Timothy Garton Ash

I bought a farm, hated the cows, and sold it. Then somehow, I bought another

The first time it happened I wrote it off as inexperience. By “it” I mean lying on a concrete floor covered in cow shit and wondering how many...

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John Humphrys

The left’s best defense against Trump? Ditching limousine liberalism

As Donald Trump prepares for his inauguration, many have begun to debate how best to build a committed political opposition. Instead of reviving...

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Dustin Guastella

‘How do we live in this terrible world?’ a reader asked me. Here’s the only answer I have

It’s a season brimming with tradition and, as longtime readers may know, my own custom has been to try, in the last column before Christmas, to find...

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Jonathan Freedland

Elon Musk is becoming a one-man rogue state – it’s time we reined him in

Elon Musk is, more or less, a rogue state. His intentions are self-serving and nefarious, and his nation-state level resources allow him to flout...

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Alexander Hurst

In the spirit of both Zen and Christmas holidays, I’ve decided to become a digital dropout

It’s the last fortnight of December, time to reappraise the traditions of shared holiday rituals. Will Australians once more create kitchen-bound...

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Van Badham

New York is the worst place in the world, my taxi driver told me. Not that night, not to me

The winter night I moved to New York, I sat in the back of a cab, two bulging suitcases stuffed into the boot by the driver who rolled his eyes at...

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Megan Nolan

Joe Biden is going out quietly but with trademark decency

As with many a lame-duck president in the past, it feels as if Joe Biden has already left the national stage even though he has a month left in his...

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Margaret Sullivan

Unrwa may be forced to stop saving lives in Gaza. Will the world let that happen?

The UN agency entrusted with the protection and welfare of Palestine refugees for three-quarters of a century, Unrwa, which I lead, was always...

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Philippe Lazzarini

Elon Musk is the ultimate chaos agent

Elon Musk holds no public office. He has never stood for election, passed scrutiny for appointment to public office, nor commanded a political...

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Siva Vaidhyanathan

The US supreme court’s TikTok case will put free expression on the line

The US supreme court surprisingly decided, this week, to hear TikTok’s emergency appeal to its imminent ban in the United States. It may be the...

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Trevor Timm

Lisa Kudrow is right: friendship ‘takes work’. But you wouldn’t know it from TV

Lisa Kudrow says being and staying friends with her Friends co-stars was tough at times. “That six-way relationship took some work – and we did...

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Emma Beddington

Hit TV show, tick. Millions for lawyers, tick. Now could we manage some actual justice for the subpostmasters?

In her closing statement to the Post Office inquiry this week, Paula Vennells once again added the brutal murder of irony to her list of failings....

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Marina Hyde

The facts about a planet facing climate disaster are clear. Why won’t this Labour government face them?

There is no need to overcomplicate things: a rise in global temperatures of 3.1C is not compatible with human survival. That is where we are...

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Jeremy Corbyn

Syria has always been an Israeli obsession. Now it has unexpectedly given Netanyahu his coveted image of victory

Wars are remembered by their iconic images, and finding a triumphal photograph has been a key goal for belligerents striving to leave their mark on...

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Aluf Benn

Starmer should not be the fall guy for Labour’s failures. This disaster was written by committee

Keir Starmer’s team can smell the presence of the political grim reaper. Every Friday, the prime minister’s chief of staff, Morgan McSweeney, runs...

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Owen Jones

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