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Kellie Sloane faces a treacherous road ahead as NSW Liberal leader – and has a heavy burden on her shoulders

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Anne Davies

The ‘Danish model’ is the darling of centre-left parties like Labour. The problem is, it doesn’t even work in Denmark

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Cas Mudde

Who knew it would take an American pope to remind us of the value of art and good taste?

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Jason Okundaye

My schoolmates mocked me for being a UPF-free, ‘weird lunchbox’ kid. Turns out my mum was right all along

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Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

The BBC is under threat like never before. This is how to save it

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Pat Younge

In the midterms, Republicans will be footing the bill for Trump’s policies

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Sidney Blumenthal

Sam Lau on home interior tips for domestic bliss – cartoon

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Kenneth Roth

Trump’s Ukraine peace plan is a gift to Putin

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Kenneth Roth

Labour MPs face a serious dilemma on asylum seekers – but this is not the way out of it

Labour MPs face a serious dilemma on asylum seekers – but this is not the way out of it

This is how Labour MPs see it. They face brutal dilemmas and miserable choices. How to manage our asylum system is one of the worst. Through their...

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Polly Toynbee

Martin Rowson on the report into the UK’s response to Covid – cartoon

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Jonathan Freedland

Rachel Reeves is studiously ignoring the cause of Britain’s woes: the Brexit-shaped hole in the roof

Rachel Reeves is studiously ignoring the cause of Britain’s woes: the Brexit-shaped hole in the roof

Imagine a family stuck in a house that constantly floods. The carpets are soaked, the walls damp. It’s always cold, no matter how much they turn up...

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Jonathan Freedland

Vote for competent leaders, not entertainers – that’s what I wish the Covid report could say

Vote for competent leaders, not entertainers – that’s what I wish the Covid report could say

It feels as though a collective amnesia has set in around Covid-19. We all just want to move forward and pretend it didn’t happen. But, as the...

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Devi Sridhar

AI is changing the relationship between journalist and audience. There is much at stake

AI is changing the relationship between journalist and audience. There is much at stake

The idea of serving the public has been baked into the bones of journalism ever since the profession was created. Whether it was quality...

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Margaret Simons

There’s a catastrophic black hole in our climate data – and it’s a gift to deniers

There’s a catastrophic black hole in our climate data – and it’s a gift to deniers

I began by trying to discover whether or not a widespread belief was true. In doing so, I tripped across something even bigger: an index of the...

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George Monbiot

This is modern Britain – where a princess pleading for children’s rights seems almost radical

This is modern Britain – where a princess pleading for children’s rights seems almost radical

Every child has the right to feel safe, loved and as if they belong. Put like that, there is nothing remotely radical about what the Princess of...

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Gaby Hinsliff

First day of the Ashes Test! Is it summer already? Again? In this economy?

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Where Did I Leave My Thongs?

Spain has too rosy a view of Franco’s regime. Let’s remind ourselves of its horrors

Spain has too rosy a view of Franco’s regime. Let’s remind ourselves of its horrors

At first sight, few suspected that Francisco Franco might become a strongman capable of imposing a brutal dictatorship across four decades. He was...

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Giles Tremlett

Ita Buttrose airs unapologetic views on immigration as Albanese returns to ABC Hard Chat a decade on

Ita Buttrose airs unapologetic views on immigration as Albanese returns to ABC Hard Chat a decade on

Ita Buttrose has revealed her views on immigration while on a book tour for her memoir Unapologetically Ita. Buttrose stepped down as chair in...

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Amanda Meade

The Guardian view on Nigel Farage’s youthful views: the past still matters

The Guardian view on Nigel Farage’s youthful views: the past still matters

For one contemporary, it is the hectoring tone of today that evokes what it was like to be at school with Nigel Farage. “He would sidle up to me...

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Editorial

Xania Monet’s music is the stuff of nightmares. Thankfully her AI ‘clankers’ will be limited to this cultural moment

Xania Monet’s music is the stuff of nightmares. Thankfully her AI ‘clankers’ will be limited to this cultural moment

Xania Monet is the latest digital nightmare to emerge from a hellscape of AI content production. No wonder she’s popular … but how long will it...

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Van Badham

Tech should help us be creative. AI rips our creativity away

Tech should help us be creative. AI rips our creativity away

Making music is hard. Well, at least it used to be. I remember the old days, when you had to spend hours and hours honing skills, coming up with...

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Dave Schilling

The most shocking thing about beauty products for kids? Where the demand is coming from

The most shocking thing about beauty products for kids? Where the demand is coming from

As a newish mother, I am only too aware of the myriad ways we have failed our children. And then I came across a new skincare company aimed at...

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Morwenna Ferrier

Unelected Lords are blocking assisted dying – this is a democratic outrage

Unelected Lords are blocking assisted dying – this is a democratic outrage

If ever a British institution needed assistance in dying, it is the House of Lords. Its handling of the assisted dying bill on Friday of last week,...

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Simon Jenkins

Almost nine years since Dad died, cricket has become a reminder of his love for us

Almost nine years since Dad died, cricket has become a reminder of his love for us

My brother is asleep on the couch at his in-laws’ summer house in Norway. The room is full of the light of the afternoon sun. From the TV, there is...

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Lucianne Tonti

The man who froze his wife and got a new girlfriend: a stranger, sadder tale than I expected

The man who froze his wife and got a new girlfriend: a stranger, sadder tale than I expected

One of the last remaining fun things about the internet is getting to pass judgment on the goings-on in households that you would never hear about...

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Imogen West-Knights

The Guardian view on funding Ukraine’s resistance: a looming financial crisis in Kyiv must be averted

The Guardian view on funding Ukraine’s resistance: a looming financial crisis in Kyiv must be averted

In the early part of this year, as the US vice-president, JD Vance, berated European leaders in Munich, and Volodymyr Zelenskyy was subjected to a...

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Editorial

People are right to ask ‘what is the point of Labour?’ when it can’t agree on anything

People are right to ask ‘what is the point of Labour?’ when it can’t agree on anything

By instinct and conviction, Rachel Reeves is a traditionally social democratic, centre-left Labour chancellor. When she delivers her budget next...

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Martin Kettle

I am the king of the common cold – and I can tell you how to avoid one

I am the king of the common cold – and I can tell you how to avoid one

This time last year, I was on a TV programme with three singers. There was a rapper of Ghanaian heritage, a big pop star, and a famous...

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Adrian Chiles

The Guardian view on falling net migration: political debate is now detached from the facts

The Guardian view on falling net migration: political debate is now detached from the facts

British political debate has long been dominated by public anxiety about rising levels of immigration. How might that change if the population tide...

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Editorial

Will the government’s cuts to the CSIRO produce the right results?

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They’Re Not Listening To The Experts

Saudi Prince Mohammed is being lavished with praise by Trump. It’s clear why

Saudi Prince Mohammed is being lavished with praise by Trump. It’s clear why

Saudi Arabia’s crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, visited the US this week for the first time in seven years – and Donald Trump rolled out the red...

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Mohamad Bazzi

The landline may be having a renaissance – but it’s to a world in which the art of phone calls has changed

The landline may be having a renaissance – but it’s to a world in which the art of phone calls has changed

When something becomes old and then new again during my lifetime, I might be forgiven for feeling at once quite aged and a little sentimental. But...

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Paul Daley

What does the left want? A wealth tax. What will that accomplish? Very little

What does the left want? A wealth tax. What will that accomplish? Very little

By this time next week you will be digesting the budget, you lucky thing. Yet even before Rachel Reeves has commended a single damn thing to the...

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Aditya Chakrabortty

French conservatives are inching towards a pact with Le Pen that could enable a far-right takeover of the country

French conservatives are inching towards a pact with Le Pen that could enable a far-right takeover of the country

‘Not one vote for the left!” That call from Bruno Retailleau, chair of the mainstream conservative party Les Républicains (LR), helped a candidate...

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Paul Taylor

Trump’s ‘affordability’ efforts are a mess of absurdity and magical thinking

Trump’s ‘affordability’ efforts are a mess of absurdity and magical thinking

When running for president last year, Donald Trump wooed and wowed voters by vowing to reduce prices “starting on day one”. But once he was...

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Steven Greenhouse

I’ve always wanted the perfect reason to declutter. Now I’ve found it

I’ve always wanted the perfect reason to declutter. Now I’ve found it

I spend a lot of time worrying about stuff, as in physical, you know, stuff. Things I use, things I no longer use, things I’ve never used and never...

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Adrian Chiles

Telling a reporter ‘quiet, piggy’ was shocking – even for Trump

Telling a reporter ‘quiet, piggy’ was shocking – even for Trump

Catherine Lucey, who covers the White House for Bloomberg News, was doing what reporters are supposed to do: asking germane questions. Her query to...

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Margaret Sullivan

‘Why don’t you bake?’ A scolding that stung – until I heard it in a new way

‘Why don’t you bake?’ A scolding that stung – until I heard it in a new way

‘Aiyah, why don’t you bake?” my Aunt Julie scolded, her voice shrill with disbelief. “You should learn how to bake for the sake of your child! Your...

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Ying Reinhardt

Trump shrugged off Khashoggi’s killing. This is a new low

Trump shrugged off Khashoggi’s killing. This is a new low

“Things happen.” Just two words. That’s all it took for Donald Trump to effectively dismiss what is probably the most infamous journalist...

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Jodie Ginsberg

The days of 4% pay rises are behind us – wages are now barely growing faster than inflation

The days of 4% pay rises are behind us – wages are now barely growing faster than inflation

The latest wage figures show no sign of wages growth powering inflation, as the real value of private-sector wages fell in the September quarter....

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Greg Jericho

Kardell Lomas’s heartbreaking apology to police is a moment that should shame all Australians

Kardell Lomas’s heartbreaking apology to police is a moment that should shame all Australians

Three months before Kardell Lomas and her unborn baby were killed in a horrific act of feminicide in Ipswich, she stood in the office of a support...

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Amy Mcquire

‘May I meet you?’ is just the latest in horrible dating advice from billionaires

‘May I meet you?’ is just the latest in horrible dating advice from billionaires

Sit down and pay attention, because this column might change your life. I bring you tidings from the Nazi-filled wilderness that is now X, where...

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Arwa Mahdawi

The Guardian view on crypto’s latest crash: it reveals who pays the price for a failing economy

The Guardian view on crypto’s latest crash: it reveals who pays the price for a failing economy

The crypto crash has come again. And it is as brutal as ever. In barely six weeks, more than $1.2tn has evaporated from cryptocurrencies’ market...

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Editorial

The Guardian view on rogue landlords: past failures do not augur well for the new era of renters’ rights

The Guardian view on rogue landlords: past failures do not augur well for the new era of renters’ rights

Tenants need rights. Apart from food and water, shelter is the most basic human need and relevant to almost everyone all the time – unlike, say,...

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Editorial

The Saudification of America is under way

The Saudification of America is under way

The first time I ever used the words “alhumdulilah”, which translates to praise be to God in Arabic, was the night of 16 November 2018. A Friday...

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Karen Attiah

Becoming an AI detective is a job I never wanted and wish I could quit

Becoming an AI detective is a job I never wanted and wish I could quit

Recently, a friend sent me a video of a man dressed as a pickle. Following a high-octane car chase, the pickle flung himself out of the car and...

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Samantha Floreani

Killing season! That magical time of year when unlikeable political leaders get the proverbial chop

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Rafael Behr

Starmer’s squandering of a historic election victory is a tragedy nearing its finale

Starmer’s squandering of a historic election victory is a tragedy nearing its finale

The mood among Labour MPs these days follows Edgar’s law. This states that the scale of any misfortune can only be measured against unknown future...

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Rafael Behr

I grew up in Spain amid a collective amnesia about Franco. It is time we faced up to our dark past

I grew up in Spain amid a collective amnesia about Franco. It is time we faced up to our dark past

Like most Spaniards alive today, I was born after the death of Franco 50 years ago. Even for my parents’ generation, the dictatorship that lasted...

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María Ramirez

How can Labour see off Reform? Both Andy Burnham and Shabana Mahmood offer clues

How can Labour see off Reform? Both Andy Burnham and Shabana Mahmood offer clues

Last month, as the Nobel peace prize eluded Donald Trump’s covetous grasp, the Harvard professor Michael Sandel received an accolade sometimes...

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Julian Coman