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I love the graffiti I see in Paris – but tagging is just visual manspreading

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Alexander Hurst

The inevitable Trump-Musk feud is finally here – and it’s pathetic

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Moira Donegan

I asked readers which wordular-grammaticalisms they would ban … people literally lost their minds!

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Gaby Hinsliff

Keir Starmer’s muddled politics are reaching their limit. It’s time for him to make a choice

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Andy Beckett

Musk’s tax bill attacks have rattled Republicans. But Trump still reigns supreme

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Lloyd Green

What is Britain’s elusive ‘national character’? The Ballad of Wallis Island might just tell us

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Gaby Hinsliff

Rachel Reeves’s spending review will reveal what this government’s priorities really are

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Helen Miller

David Marr follows Sam Maiden to the exit after Honi Soit withdraws speaking invitation

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Amanda Meade

I suspect there’s something poisonous about money. That’s why I’m embracing a gift economy

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Kelley Swain

Trump v Musk: the two worst people in the world are finally having a big, beautiful breakup

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Arwa Mahdawi

The most pointless role in UK politics? The secretary of state for Wales

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Will Hayward

If Trump cuts funding to NPR and PBS, rural America will pay a devastating price

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Margaret Sullivan

Don’t think Nigel Farage will kill off the Tories? Just look at Reform UK’s surge in Scotland

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Owen Jones

Trump’s crypto ventures may be his most dangerous moneymaking scheme

Throughout his business career, Donald Trump sought new ways to leverage his name to make easy money. He ran an airline, a university and a winery....

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Mohamad Bazzi

For the first time in my life I’m in charge of a garden. Is it too late to plant?

I’ve moved from the city to Melbourne’s outer east, where everybody knows how to garden. Blundstoned parents swagger in for school pickup with...

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Ashe Davenport

Sadiq Khan is right: Britain must decriminalise cannabis – or remain in the dark ages

Yet another attempt to inject sanity into Britain’s archaic drug laws has failed. The mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, last month accepted Lord...

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Simon Jenkins

Free school meals for more children in England is a positive thing, but there’s a catch

Good news. Free school meals for all children in England on universal credit is rightly being celebrated by schools, nurseries, further education...

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Polly Toynbee

Why is there such a generational divide in views on sex and gender in Britain?

Differing attitudes to women’s and transgender rights activism are often said to be generational. One poll, published a month on from the supreme...

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Susanna Rustin

Why is defence such a hard sell? The same reason Starmer is struggling in the polls

Defence reviews and foreign policy resets seem to turn up almost as often as the Sussexes’ lifestyle brand relaunches these days. Labour’s...

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Martin Kettle

A cookbook taught me everything I know about home – and sobriety

If there was a single feeling that defined my 20s, it was a generalised allergy to the very concept of home: I learned it’s a myth that you only...

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Joseph Earp

Italy’s citizenship referendum could make the country fairer. It’s a miracle it’s happening at all

When I first moved to Italy in 2012, I had no idea that more than a decade later I’d still be here. Back then, being British I had the luxury of EU...

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Jamie Mackay

Trump has launched an unprecedented crusade against legal immigrants

The Donald Trump administration has billed itself as taking unprecedented steps to crack down on illegal immigration. While the total number of...

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Daniel Mendiola

Politics can destroy relationships – just ask Sarah Vine and Michael Gove

The intrusion of politics into personal relationships has been an eagerly documented feature of the Trump-Brexit era, which this week found its...

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Emma Brockes

I knew everyone would hate my mustard shorts. That didn’t stop me buying them

One day in my late teens I found a pair of jeans that fitted me nicely. This was at the newly opened Merry Hill shopping centre in the Black...

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Adrian Chiles

Companies that spinelessly follow Trump’s cuts to DEI will pay a heavy price

Organising a women’s networking event in the US has become an act of defiance. Companies with equality-driven agendas risk losing government...

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Miriam González Durántez

Trump’s tariffs have become his Vietnam – and the right is breaking ranks

Donald Trump’s trade war has become his quagmire: legal, economic and political. On 28 May, the court of international trade ruled his tariffs...

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Sidney Blumenthal

We in the cultural sector must stand up to Trump’s attacks – if not now, when?

In one of his recent Truth Social posts, Donald Trump appeared to fire Kim Sajet – the fearless and utterly brilliant director of the Smithsonian...

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Gus Casely-Hayford

The good news? Household living standards are on the rise. The bad news? Just about everything else

There were early signs that the March GDP figures were not going to be good. To start with, the Bureau of Statistics’ new measure of household...

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Greg Jericho

Rachel Reeves can’t avoid raising taxes any longer – but she’ll need to get creative

Sir Keir Starmer is pledging to make Britain “battle-ready” by spending billions of pounds on arms factories, drones and submarines. Rachel Reeves...

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Larry Elliott

It’s not Denmark’s children who can’t handle debating Gaza. It’s our politicians

In Denmark, we like to think of ourselves as being in the vanguard of freedom of expression. We were the first country in the world to legalise...

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Rune Lykkeberg

A scuffle in the lolly aisle. The sickening death toll climbs. Another family face gut-wrenching grief

Five years ago thousands of Australians defied Covid restrictions to pour on to the streets of our cities and towns as part of the global Black...

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Lorena Allam

Labour claims to be defending Britain from new threats, but its warfare state is steeped in old thinking

It is hard to take this Labour government seriously or literally. In presenting its much-heralded strategic defence review and calling for a new...

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David Edgerton

The spirit of Liz Truss, ridiculous but relentless, stalks British politics

We need to talk about Liz Truss, although there are reasons not to bother. The prime minister who failed faster than any previous holder of the...

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Rafael Behr

There are huge floods and/or droughts all over! And insurance is wildly expensive (if you can even get it)

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Elisabeth Ribbans

Are we heading for a recession? Show me your nails

Is there going to be a recession this year? Economists have been umm-ing and ahh-ing and crunching the numbers, but the answer could be at the tip...

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Arwa Mahdawi

Conversations with strangers: inviting people to join my daily walk has made my life fuller

In the Uganda of the 1980s, my family lived in Kampala. We did not own a car, so walking was part of daily life: to school, to church, to the...

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Jacqueline Asiimwe

Antisemitic and Islamophobic violence is rising in the United States. Both must stop

This must stop. Two incidents of political violence, both targeting groups of Jewish people, are two incidents too many. Less than two weeks ago, a...

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Moustafa Bayoumi

How the use of a word in the Guardian has gotten some readers upset

In Shakespeare’s Henry VI, Part II, a messenger breathlessly announces to the king that, “Jack Cade hath gotten London bridge”. Hold this late...

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Elisabeth Ribbans

Trump keeps being overruled by judges. And his temper tantrums won’t stop that

It’s hard to keep track of all the temper tantrums that Donald Trump has had because he’s so ticked off that one judge after another has ruled...

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Steven Greenhouse

England’s planning bill has many naysayers. I’m not one of them

In recent weeks, various nature groups and newspaper columnists have promoted claims that the government’s flagship planning and infrastructure...

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Nick Williams

I’ve learned a new word – and now I’m seeing the people it describes everywhere

A friend held a controversial opinion about something, which he shared with me on WhatsApp. He insisted he wasn’t being an edgelord. A what? I took...

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Adrian Chiles

The Guardian view on Great British Railways: renationalisation can put passengers back in the driving seat

Government guidance documents rarely feature soaring prose to fire the imagination. But a recent Department for Transport policy update contained...

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Jo-Ann Mort

The Guardian view on Karol Nawrocki’s win: Poland first, perhaps – but Europe comes last

Europe’s latest presidential election appears to have delivered not a statesman but a slogan – “Poland first” – and with it, a rebuke to the...

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Jo-Ann Mort

You can oppose Israel’s policies without killing Jewish people

It happened again. The third time this year that Jewish people were attacked with murderous intent in a major US city under the guise of the...

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Jo-Ann Mort

Move over Harry and Meghan: Britain’s real royal family are now dominating the US headlines

So long, and thanks for all the jam. Meghan, Duchess of Sussex and queen of Montecito, recently announced that she is reimagining As Ever, her...

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Arwa Mahdawi

Democratic party leaders just met for the first time in months. When will they take real action?

People with the power to change the direction of the Democratic party – the executive committee of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) – met...

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Norman Solomon

Pete Songi on Robert Jenrick’s war on antisocial behaviour – cartoon

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Jeremy Corbyn

How exactly has Britain supported Israel’s military assault on Gaza? The public has a right to know

Hussam, 13, and Muhammad, 14, were killed by air-dropped cluster bombs. These bombs were made by the United States and were dropped in a military...

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Jeremy Corbyn

My mentor and friend died suddenly while I was at work. The memory of his kindness kept me going

We are going through the list of overnight admissions when my phone beeps. Expecting a medical request to do something or see someone, my chest...

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Ranjana Srivastava

I received a 30-month jail sentence for nonviolent resistance. Why so harsh? Because protest works

Last week, at Minshull Street crown court in Manchester, I was sentenced to two and half years in prison for conspiring to intentionally cause a...

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Indigo Rumbelow