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Israel’s leaders committed genocide in Gaza and must pay for it. Their political and media allies must too

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Owen Jones

Ben Jennings on Rachel Reeves’s obsession with economic growth – cartoon

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Polly Toynbee

Of course there’s a bosses’ backlash over workers’ rights. Starmer must face them down

Of course there’s a bosses’ backlash over workers’ rights. Starmer must face them down

What a perverse act of defiance – two fingers up to government policy by a major company. Bidfood is one of the largest food distributors in the...

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Polly Toynbee

The golden rule of the parents’ group chat? No chit-chat

The golden rule of the parents’ group chat? No chit-chat

Anyone who has a school-age child is aware of the minefield that is the parent group chat. If you’re a parent who is about to enter the school...

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Natasha Sholl

What’s the point of Davos when even the rich are fed up with the super-rich?

What’s the point of Davos when even the rich are fed up with the super-rich?

Rachel Reeves might give the impression of being someone who’s never late for social engagements, but she is increasingly late to the party. At a...

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Zoe Williams

Can Trump make a deal for Middle East peace?

Can Trump make a deal for Middle East peace?

The only thing we know for certain regarding a Trump Middle East doctrine is that the president-elect has no clear policy regarding that part of...

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Jo-Ann Mort

It’s easy to label violence like the Southport attack as terrorism. I’m afraid the truth is more complex

It’s easy to label violence like the Southport attack as terrorism. I’m afraid the truth is more complex

Amid the chaos of rioting and misinformation that followed the Southport attack last summer, the abject horror of the crime itself almost seemed to...

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Samira Shackle

Alice Weidel is the presentable face of the AfD. And the one its opponents should fear the most

Alice Weidel is the presentable face of the AfD. And the one its opponents should fear the most

“Alice? Who the fuck is Alice?” wondered European audiences in 1995 when the Dutch band Gompie landed an unlikely success by adding this risque...

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Katja Hoyer

The Australia Day conversation is boring – but 26 January marks an incredible history of Indigenous resistance

The Australia Day conversation is boring – but 26 January marks an incredible history of Indigenous resistance

The hullabaloo around “Australia Day” started early this year. It was barely the beginning of December 2024 when outrage columns and Sky News...

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Celeste Liddle

It’s the reign of King Donald: now a people who fled cruel monarchs have their own

It’s the reign of King Donald: now a people who fled cruel monarchs have their own

Donald Trump’s triumphal return to the White House was American political theatre on steroids. This was, of course, exactly the returning...

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Martin Kettle

Trump 2.0 is already assailed by lawsuits, but it’s small comfort to America’s defeated liberals

Trump 2.0 is already assailed by lawsuits, but it’s small comfort to America’s defeated liberals

It is a strange effect of the second Trump presidency that, where Donald Trump and his allies know the ropes this time round and have grown in...

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Emma Brockes

What do I want from a film? An ending, not a surprise cliffhanger

What do I want from a film? An ending, not a surprise cliffhanger

I’ll never forget my experience of taking my seven-year-old to see. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse in the cinema, and I don’t mean that in a...

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Joel Snape

What Trump didn’t say in his inauguration speech

What Trump didn’t say in his inauguration speech

I was at the Trump inauguration on Monday, and needless to say, I disagree with almost everything he had to say. What really struck me, however, is...

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Bernie Sanders

Tax the rich – do it now. Start with me

Tax the rich – do it now. Start with me

I have joined more than 370 millionaires from 22 countries in signing a letter calling on our political leaders to tackle the cost of extreme...

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Dale Vince

Elon Musk has shown his hand. If politicians like me won’t curb his malign powers, who will?

Elon Musk has shown his hand. If politicians like me won’t curb his malign powers, who will?

Elon Musk has spent much of the past couple of days trying to explain away his offensive antics at Donald Trump’s inauguration. Whether or not it...

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Ed Davey

My local bookshop has hit on an incredible business strategy: be nice to customers

My local bookshop has hit on an incredible business strategy: be nice to customers

In today’s hyper-connected world, where I can have anything from a power drill to a little chocolate pudding delivered to my door the same day,...

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Joel Snape

A day to mark Prince Harry’s historic victory over Rupert Murdoch – and to survey the awful toll on public life

A day to mark Prince Harry’s historic victory over Rupert Murdoch – and to survey the awful toll on public life

The apology is “full and unequivocal”. The damages to be paid are huge. Appearing before the Leveson inquiry in 2011, Rupert Murdoch pronounced...

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Jane Martinson

Misleading fear campaigns may kill Labor’s superannuation changes. But here are the real numbers

Misleading fear campaigns may kill Labor’s superannuation changes. But here are the real numbers

Australia’s superannuation is a broken system that works to give the richest 10% over $20bn a year in tax breaks, while nearly a quarter of...

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Greg Jericho

Frontline staff are often unfairly blamed for NSW’s collapsing mental health system, but it is patients who suffer most

Frontline staff are often unfairly blamed for NSW’s collapsing mental health system, but it is patients who suffer most

After more than a decade working as a psychiatrist in the public mental health system in Sydney, I recently resigned from my position along with...

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Kamran Ahmed

In the Trump vortex, Keir Starmer must fight hard and fast to define Britain’s destiny

In the Trump vortex, Keir Starmer must fight hard and fast to define Britain’s destiny

When all eyes at Westminster are fixed on Washington, it is easy to forget how little attention is paid back in return. Unlike Mexico and Canada,...

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Rafael Behr

Exciting news! The world is on track to have more than 1.5 degrees of warming and five trillionaires

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Tim White

The strange loophole that transformed Berlin from tenant’s paradise to landlord’s playground

The strange loophole that transformed Berlin from tenant’s paradise to landlord’s playground

From London and other overpriced cities, we often look to Berlin as a beacon of progressive housing politics. Renting in the capital, as some 84%...

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Tim White

Oligarchs are more visible than ever. That also makes them more vulnerable

Oligarchs are more visible than ever. That also makes them more vulnerable

Twenty years ago, someone calling the United States an oligarchy would have been labelled a crazy commie or, at best, cuckoo. Now Biden made it...

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Jan-Werner Müller

Scientists can help governments plan for the future. But don’t forget sci-fi writers: we can do it too

Scientists can help governments plan for the future. But don’t forget sci-fi writers: we can do it too

I am an imaginative person, but I never once imagined I would find myself in a room with the Ministry of Defence (MoD) talking about what the world...

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Emma Newman

Dutton may think voters no longer care about good government. But there’s no such thing as a ‘free lunch’

Dutton may think voters no longer care about good government. But there’s no such thing as a ‘free lunch’

In an unofficial election campaign where we have so far seen very few concrete policy proposals, Peter Dutton’s announcement that the LNP will offer...

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John Quiggin

Give up complaining for 30 days? There’s no way I can conquer this January challenge

Give up complaining for 30 days? There’s no way I can conquer this January challenge

April may be the cruellest month – but January is easily the most depressing. The weather outside is frightful and, around this time,...

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Arwa Mahdawi

Memo to President Trump: you are wrong to leave the World Health Organization. You should think again

Memo to President Trump: you are wrong to leave the World Health Organization. You should think again

This week, in East Sussex, a case of mpox was announced, the sixth UK case since October. New cases have also been detected recently in France,...

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Gordon Brown

South Korean democracy was nearly toppled by its president. It was saved by its people

South Korean democracy was nearly toppled by its president. It was saved by its people

Compared with other advanced industrialised countries, South Korea is still a young democracy, having only transitioned from authoritarian to...

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Youngmi Kim

I set out to study which jobs should be done by AI – and found a very human answer

I set out to study which jobs should be done by AI – and found a very human answer

When I interviewed a nurse practitioner in California about what she cherished most about nursing, it was the “human element” of being present...

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Allison Pugh

My brother is minimally verbal. He taught me that language is far more than mere words

My brother is minimally verbal. He taught me that language is far more than mere words

I have long thought that each family has its own unique dialect. A panoply of words, references and turns of phrase that would be incomprehensible...

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Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

Worried about your child’s transition from daycare to ‘big school’? Music can make it easier

Worried about your child’s transition from daycare to ‘big school’? Music can make it easier

It’s the first day of “big school” and your child is clinging to your leg at the school gate, bawling their eyes out. You’re perplexed. The...

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Sarah Ayoub

So this is Trump’s ‘golden age’ – chaos, dysfunction and a coalition of creeps

So this is Trump’s ‘golden age’ – chaos, dysfunction and a coalition of creeps

Full American democracy is barely 60 years old, yet seems to be in an advanced state of cognitive decline. At his inauguration yesterday, Donald...

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Marina Hyde

The Guardian view on Donald Trump’s inauguration: fear, division and the facade of national populism

The Guardian view on Donald Trump’s inauguration: fear, division and the facade of national populism

On the surface, Donald Trump’s inauguration looked like the usual transfer of power, with political rivals exchanging polite applause. This was a...

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Arwa Mahdawi

The nightmare begins. But by holding its nerve, the world can weather President Trump

The nightmare begins. But by holding its nerve, the world can weather President Trump

The snow lay in drifts over the railway lines at Auschwitz, when Keir Starmer went to pay his respects last week. His wife, Victoria, the...

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Gaby Hinsliff

The Guardian view on incapacity benefit: the Treasury should not be calling the shots

The Guardian view on incapacity benefit: the Treasury should not be calling the shots

Labour’s plans for social security are once again under the spotlight, after the high court ruled that a consultation on incapacity benefit cuts...

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Arwa Mahdawi

Australia is not in a vibe-cession, but that doesn’t mean we’re not vulnerable to one

Australia is not in a vibe-cession, but that doesn’t mean we’re not vulnerable to one

As Aussie summers go, it hasn’t been a bad one. No major disasters. The weather’s been mostly good, notwithstanding those storms. The cricket was...

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Peter Lewis

There’s a way to beat a far-right takeover in the UK. So why has Starmer gone silent about it?

There’s a way to beat a far-right takeover in the UK. So why has Starmer gone silent about it?

Inauguration day in the US signalled the drum beat of the far right sweeping across western democracies. According to Sadiq Khan, now is the time...

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Polly Toynbee

Austria’s ‘firewall’ against the far right collapsed. Could the unthinkable happen in Germany too?

Austria’s ‘firewall’ against the far right collapsed. Could the unthinkable happen in Germany too?

Could Germany go the way of Austria? Could the party of the far right be invited to form a government? What was previously deemed impossible, then...

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John Kampfner

Beware, Trump: the American spirit is indefatigable

Beware, Trump: the American spirit is indefatigable

At noon ET on Monday, the US presidency changed hands, and one of the largest governments in the world rearranged itself in service to the...

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Moira Donegan

The great Harry and Meghan debate rages on – but I’m staying out of it

The great Harry and Meghan debate rages on – but I’m staying out of it

It may have been straight after Megxit – when Meghan and Harry decided to “step back” from the royal family in 2020; or it may have been a year...

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Zoe Williams

From TikTok to TrumpTok? The app’s banning and unbanning encapsulates everything wrong with US politics

From TikTok to TrumpTok? The app’s banning and unbanning encapsulates everything wrong with US politics

Politics in the US has had its fair share of stupid moments, but the recent banning and (sort of) unbanning of TikTok may rank as one of the...

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Arwa Mahdawi

Trump is back. And the resistance has been humbled into near-impotence

Trump is back. And the resistance has been humbled into near-impotence

Needless to say, a nation capable of sending a man like Donald Trump to the White House twice is not well. It was of course possible to understand...

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Osita Nwanevu

A rebrand, not a revolution: our panel reacts to Trump’s inauguration speech

A rebrand, not a revolution: our panel reacts to Trump’s inauguration speech

Donald Trump was sworn in as the 47th president of the US today, promising a slew of executive actions that put America first. Here our columnists...

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Arwa Mahdawi

The Israel-Gaza ceasefire deal hangs by a thread. This is what must happen for peace to last

The Israel-Gaza ceasefire deal hangs by a thread. This is what must happen for peace to last

The defiant appearance of heavily armed Hamas fighters during Sunday’s handover to the Red Cross of three Israeli hostages held in Gaza since the...

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Simon Tisdall

Braverman, Truss and Fox – we have sent the worst of British public life to Trump’s inauguration

Braverman, Truss and Fox – we have sent the worst of British public life to Trump’s inauguration

No UK prime minister, or indeed any other world leader, has ever been to the inauguration of a US president since the record of attenders began in...

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Zoe Williams

A hadeda: nothing can quite capture the sound of these birds, because it’s mainly just rude noise

A hadeda: nothing can quite capture the sound of these birds, because it’s mainly just rude noise

Hadedas are iridescent grey-brown ibises – jack russell-sized birds with long, curved bills and very small heads – found throughout sub-Saharan...

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Helen Sullivan

Trump threatens a global trade war. Europe must unleash a radical alternative

Trump threatens a global trade war. Europe must unleash a radical alternative

How should Europe respond before Donald Trump’s policies destabilise the global economy? All countries will soon have to take a stand on the new...

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Gabriel Zucman

Will the next Senedd election see an end to Welsh Labour’s winning streak?

Will the next Senedd election see an end to Welsh Labour’s winning streak?

Since Brexit, one of the hardest tasks in British politics has been to make accurate predictions. Just when you think you know what is going to...

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Will Hayward

Yes, Trump is back. Yet I remain hopeful about America

Yes, Trump is back. Yet I remain hopeful about America

If you’re feeling despair over Trump’s second regime, which begins today, I understand. Yet I remain hopeful about America. Let me explain why....

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Robert Reich

I’m an A&E nurse – and in my hospital right now, we can’t give patients the dignified care they need

I’m an A&E nurse – and in my hospital right now, we can’t give patients the dignified care they need

A&E nurses thrive in a crisis. That’s why my colleagues and I came into the profession – to do the best for our patients in their moment of need,...

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Susie

Trump is back! How do we prepare for life under a brutal regime of AI climate crypto madness?!

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At Least We Have Tiktok Back

The new public square is fact-free social media – and it couldn’t come at a worse time for Australia

The new public square is fact-free social media – and it couldn’t come at a worse time for Australia

I outsmarted and shamed a nice elderly man named Leo last night, who was only trying to help me. Leo’s a career coach with a trimmed white beard...

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Ed Coper

We Tories have no idea what an effective, modern leader looks like – that’s why we struggle to find one

We Tories have no idea what an effective, modern leader looks like – that’s why we struggle to find one

What would the ideal leader of the Conservative party look like? Despite the party’s newly developed regicide habit, this question doesn’t...

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Henry Hill

Biden was a remarkably consequential one-term president

Biden was a remarkably consequential one-term president

With his characteristic dyspeptic vitriol, Donald Trump scorns Joe Biden as the “worst president in the history of America”. The historian...

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Katrina Vanden Heuvel

Somehow, it is still January. Here are my nine wellness-free survival tips

Somehow, it is still January. Here are my nine wellness-free survival tips

I don’t want to alarm anyone on this, the 95th day of January, but I have just realised that there are still almost two weeks before February...

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Emma Beddington