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A ballroom bunker is a perfect symbol for Trump 2.0

A ballroom bunker is a perfect symbol for Trump 2.0

A self-declared “secretary of war” keeps committing war crimes; people are dying in Africa because of Musk’s cuts to USAid; farm bankruptcies in...

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Jan-Werner Müller

Activists paid for the Voting Rights Act in blood. The supreme court has undermined it

Activists paid for the Voting Rights Act in blood. The supreme court has undermined it

The supreme court on Wednesday paved the way for racial discrimination in voting, 60 years after Martin Luther King Jr and thousands of other movement...

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Sophia lin lakin

Jimmy Kimmel’s quip about Melania Trump is protected speech, and Disney must stand tall

Jimmy Kimmel’s quip about Melania Trump is protected speech, and Disney must stand tall

A few days before the alleged assassination attempt on Donald Trump last weekend, one comic’s joke on his late-night show sounded routine enough, if...

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Margaret Sullivan

The supreme court’s voting rights decision is a death knell for American democracy

The supreme court’s voting rights decision is a death knell for American democracy

Is America a democracy? The term implies an equality of rights and dignity among citizens, a collective and uniform right of individuals to...

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Moira Donegan

Creaky knees be damned – Charlize Theron is showing us what’s possible at 50

Creaky knees be damned – Charlize Theron is showing us what’s possible at 50

If you are in your 50s, 40s or even late 30s and feel as though things are rapidly heading south, might I point you in the direction of Apex, the...

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Emma Brockes

Why is Britain’s economy so stuck? It’s the tension between what voters want and what the bond markets allow

Why is Britain’s economy so stuck? It’s the tension between what voters want and what the bond markets allow

The days of two-party politics are over. When voters go to the polls in England next week, they will have five main contenders to choose from. In...

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Larry Elliott

Labour is facing wipeout in its final stronghold. Why? It’s housing, housing, housing

Labour is facing wipeout in its final stronghold. Why? It’s housing, housing, housing

Over the week to come, journalists will repeat three things until they, and you, are sick: that local elections fall next Thursday; that the results...

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Aditya Chakrabortty

I took an algorithm to court in Sweden. The algorithm won

I took an algorithm to court in Sweden. The algorithm won

We like to imagine that injustice announces itself loudly. That when something goes wrong in the public system, alarms go off and someone takes...

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Charlotta kronblad

Angus Taylor’s shameful remarks about ‘bad’ countries obscure the bigger question – how can we make sure Australia is a good one?

Angus Taylor’s shameful remarks about ‘bad’ countries obscure the bigger question – how can we make sure Australia is a good one?

At a time when his party has a real opportunity to throw out the playbook of the past, Angus Taylor seems woefully ill-equipped to lay out a vision...

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Sisonke Msimang

Are we being told the truth about a gas profits tax?

Are we being told the truth about a gas profits tax?

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Or is it the gaslight

The Guardian view on assisted dying reform: now try a citizens’ assembly

The Guardian view on assisted dying reform: now try a citizens’ assembly

The prorogation of parliament on Wednesday signals the end of the road for the terminally ill adults (end of life) bill. The proposal to allow some...

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Editorial

The Guardian view on the UAE quitting Opec: whatever importers pay, the price of fossil fuels is too high

The Guardian view on the UAE quitting Opec: whatever importers pay, the price of fossil fuels is too high

Opec appears to be the latest casualty of the Iran war. On Tuesday, the United Arab Emirates announced that it was leaving the oil cartel after...

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Editorial

I can’t stop pilfering from other people’s plates – but don’t even think about grabbing my chips

I can’t stop pilfering from other people’s plates – but don’t even think about grabbing my chips

I have identified my worst character trait. In such a crowded field, this has been no easy task. This one wins out because it’s two equally...

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Adrian Chiles

Another RBA rate rise won’t fix inflation – it will just smash households already hit by soaring fuel costs

Another RBA rate rise won’t fix inflation – it will just smash households already hit by soaring fuel costs

With the release of the March inflation figures on Tuesday showing a big jump, the likelihood of a rate rise next week has become all but certain....

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Greg Jericho

Nicola Jennings on Keir Starmer seeing off a Labour rebellion – cartoon

Nicola Jennings on Keir Starmer seeing off a Labour rebellion – cartoon

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17.07 Cest

The missing Ukrainian reporter, the Russian prison – and a vital lesson learned about journalism in a dangerous age

The missing Ukrainian reporter, the Russian prison – and a vital lesson learned about journalism in a dangerous age

In February 2025, the body of journalist Viktoriia Roshchyna was finally returned to Ukraine after months of uncertainty. She was one of 757 Ukrainian...

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Laurent Richard

King Charles’s White House visit was an exercise in full-throttle distraction and denial

King Charles’s White House visit was an exercise in full-throttle distraction and denial

That the king’s arrival in the US was preceded by gunfire at the White House correspondents’ dinner set the tone for a visit that was built on the...

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Frances Ryan

What does the Zoological Society of London do? After 200 years, the answer is still ‘everything’

What does the Zoological Society of London do? After 200 years, the answer is still ‘everything’

In the spring of 1826, two extraordinary things occurred in central London. The first was the death of Chunee the elephant. On 1 March at Cross’s...

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Martin Rowson

I got an allotment to escape the chaos – and discovered a hotbed of vendettas

I got an allotment to escape the chaos – and discovered a hotbed of vendettas

What do you do when it feels as if the world has lost the plot? There are various answers to that question, but one of the more wholesome (and legal)...

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Arwa Mahdawi

We detected Aids through a federal early warning system. Trump has decimated it

We detected Aids through a federal early warning system. Trump has decimated it

In June 1981, I was a young pulmonary fellow at one of the three Los Angeles hospitals where the first five cases of an unusual pneumonia in...

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Robert b shpiner

A non-controversial public health policy? The UK’s gradual ban on smoking has been a PR success

A non-controversial public health policy? The UK’s gradual ban on smoking has been a PR success

Last week saw the passage of the tobacco and vapes bill, which has a very ambitous aim: to create a “smoke-free generation” and eventually end...

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Devi Sridhar

Palantir has released its terrifyingly honest (and pompous) plans for world domination

Palantir has released its terrifyingly honest (and pompous) plans for world domination

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In the coming AI future, Britain must not end up at the mercy of US tech giants

In the coming AI future, Britain must not end up at the mercy of US tech giants

Donald Trump is not impressed by soft power. He respects hard men with military muscle. But he can be moved by pageantry, which is the purpose of King...

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Rafael Behr

Avalanche deaths have surged in the Alps this season. Here’s why

Avalanche deaths have surged in the Alps this season. Here’s why

Many avalanche accidents occur just after a storm, when blue-sky conditions return and people head to the backcountry to enjoy fresh powder. These...

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Johan gaume

By echoing the hateful policies of One Nation the Liberal party risks becoming a recruiting agent for extremist groups

By echoing the hateful policies of One Nation the Liberal party risks becoming a recruiting agent for extremist groups

The Farrer byelection looks as though it will be a contest between the local independent, Michelle Milthorpe, and the One Nation candidate, David...

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Malcolm Turnbull

The fuel crisis is about to whack Australia. Jim Chalmers’ budget must tread a fine line between panic and preparation

The fuel crisis is about to whack Australia. Jim Chalmers’ budget must tread a fine line between panic and preparation

While the treasurer puts the finishing touches to a budget that was to be the lodestar of Labor’s second term, he could be forgiven for thinking he...

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Peter Lewis

Labor’s news levy for tech giants is much needed – but leaves too much bargaining power with platforms

Labor’s news levy for tech giants is much needed – but leaves too much bargaining power with platforms

We should applaud the release of the Australian government’s exposure draft legislation for the news bargaining incentive (NBI). The government is...

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Rod Sims

The Guardian view on the politics of central Europe: in search of a new left

The Guardian view on the politics of central Europe: in search of a new left

Péter Magyar’s historic defeat of Viktor Orbán in Hungary’s recent election was rightly celebrated in progressive circles and beyond. For the...

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Editorial

The Guardian view on Starmer and Mandelson: questions that won’t go away

The Guardian view on Starmer and Mandelson: questions that won’t go away

Whether a prime minister misled parliament is a serious matter. The pattern of statements made by Sir Keir Starmer about appointing Lord Mandelson as...

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Editorial

Ben Jennings on BP’s Iran war profits – cartoon

Ben Jennings on BP’s Iran war profits – cartoon

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19.16 Cest

Starmer seems to think he can do no wrong – two weeks of Mandy-mania hearings point to the opposite conclusion

Starmer seems to think he can do no wrong – two weeks of Mandy-mania hearings point to the opposite conclusion

Have his enemies done it? Have the rebels managed to find a thermal exhaust port in the Death Starmer that would enable them finally to destroy it?...

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Marina Hyde

A dead person’s fat pumped into your body? Why the ‘zombie filler’ trend has some experts spooked | Antiviral

A dead person’s fat pumped into your body? Why the ‘zombie filler’ trend has some experts spooked | Antiviral

With people getting everything from salmon sperm to plasma injected into their faces in the name of beauty, it is difficult to be surprised when new,...

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Melissa Davey

Turn on, tune in, cash out … The US right used to fear psychedelics. Now it wants to sell them

Turn on, tune in, cash out … The US right used to fear psychedelics. Now it wants to sell them

On 13 May 1966, a US Senate subcommittee questioned a former Harvard clinical psychologist, considered by many to be “the most dangerous man in...

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Kojo Koram

Is Tucker Carlson eyeing a 2028 presidential run?

Is Tucker Carlson eyeing a 2028 presidential run?

A few years ago, Tucker Carlson was sleeping peacefully alongside his wife and four dogs when, all of a sudden, he was “physically mauled” by a...

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Arwa Mahdawi

Sectarianism? Family voting? No, what British Muslims are doing with their votes is called democracy

Sectarianism? Family voting? No, what British Muslims are doing with their votes is called democracy

‘An establishment whitewash … a blooming disgrace. And I promise you that our democracy is not in a healthy state.” Nigel Farage was furious....

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Taj Ali

If it feels like the world is rejecting science and truth, here are five ways to fight back

If it feels like the world is rejecting science and truth, here are five ways to fight back

In 1992, a group of rebel doctors published a radical idea in the prestigious Journal of the American Medical Association. They argued that the...

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Helen pearson

Gen Z thinks old age begins at 53 – so I have only three months to go

Gen Z thinks old age begins at 53 – so I have only three months to go

For boomers, old age begins at 75, according to a new survey, while gen X considers the start date of decrepitude to be 70, and millennials are a...

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Zoe Williams

Shrugging at calamity: America is reacting in strange ways to our chaotic times

Shrugging at calamity: America is reacting in strange ways to our chaotic times

In the early hours of Sunday, I awoke to check the time on my phone and learned that there had been a shooting – apparently, an assassination...

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Francine Prose

It’s time MPs levelled with us: Britain is already at war, and we’ll need to do two things to survive it

It’s time MPs levelled with us: Britain is already at war, and we’ll need to do two things to survive it

We are at war. Four words that sound ludicrously melodramatic on a sunny spring day, when all may not be exactly right with the world – but when you...

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Gaby Hinsliff

Capital gains discounts were meant to usher in an Australia of ‘shareholders’ – not property speculators

Capital gains discounts were meant to usher in an Australia of ‘shareholders’ – not property speculators

If pre-budget rumours and press speculation are to be taken with less than the usual grain of salt, the budget which the treasurer, Jim Chalmers, will...

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Saul Eslake

Giorgia Meloni clung to her relationship with Trump – now it’s starting to look like a liability

Giorgia Meloni clung to her relationship with Trump – now it’s starting to look like a liability

The news last week that the Trump administration sounded out Fifa, world football’s governing body, about replacing Iran with Italy at this year’s...

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Riccardo alcaro

Angus Taylor’s claim that Iran is a ‘bad country’ erases the courage of those who resist the regime at all costs

Angus Taylor’s claim that Iran is a ‘bad country’ erases the courage of those who resist the regime at all costs

Recent remarks by the opposition leader, Angus Taylor, including comments describing Iran as a “bad country” and suggesting migrants from such...

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Nos hosseini

Who’s bringing their culture wars to ANZAC day?

Who’s bringing their culture wars to ANZAC day?

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Keyboard warriors have a lot to answer for

The Guardian view on screens in schools: big tech is finally under the microscope

The Guardian view on screens in schools: big tech is finally under the microscope

A new law banning mobile phone use in schools in England, which ministers reluctantly agreed to last week, is on one level the result of political...

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Editorial

The Guardian view on King Charles’s state visit: a regal exercise in damage limitation

The Guardian view on King Charles’s state visit: a regal exercise in damage limitation

When King Charles’s mother became the first British monarch to address the United States Congress in 1991, she spoke in the aftermath of the US-led...

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Editorial

What does Britain need from Labour? Not another new PM, but a government with the guts to take radical action

What does Britain need from Labour? Not another new PM, but a government with the guts to take radical action

If not Keir Starmer, then who? That’s altogether the wrong question. What matters is not who but what comes next. A black cloud of near terminal...

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Polly Toynbee

Are our prime ministers the problem – or is the UK ungovernable?

Are our prime ministers the problem – or is the UK ungovernable?

At what point, as you consider the prime minister’s shortcomings more in sorrow than in anger, as you size up likely successors and try to wonder,...

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Zoe Williams

Ben Jennings on political violence in the US – cartoon

Ben Jennings on political violence in the US – cartoon

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17.39 Cest

My beloved grandfather is dying. I’m so grateful for the intergenerational joy we’ve shared

My beloved grandfather is dying. I’m so grateful for the intergenerational joy we’ve shared

My grandfather, who I have always called Pa, is dying. He grew up working class in the north of England and went on to have a spectacular career, life...

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Hannah Bambra

A brutal wrestle on a plane, passengers outraged, attendants helpless: I saw the UK’s deportation policy at work

A brutal wrestle on a plane, passengers outraged, attendants helpless: I saw the UK’s deportation policy at work

It’s Gatwick airport, mid-afternoon, and on the runway there is turmoil. Public policy playing out in full view of the public. Voters, citizens,...

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Hugh Muir