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I loved being a principal, but Australia has grown complacent about the growing violence directed at educators

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Andy Mison

France’s left is celebrating Le Pen’s conviction. But gloating will make it harder to beat the far right

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Georgios Samaras

Pete Songi on Donald Trump’s ‘liberation day’ – cartoon

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Kellie Carter Jackson

Trump will not stop until every American relic reflects his imaginary world view

Trump will not stop until every American relic reflects his imaginary world view

Last week, Donald Trump issued another executive order, this one aimed directly at the Smithsonian Institution, and called for “Restoring Truth and...

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Kellie Carter Jackson

Democrats still misunderstand working class voters – to their peril

Democrats still misunderstand working class voters – to their peril

Progressives have plenty of bad ideas that should be axed, but populism without an economic promise is a bloodless bleat. It wasn’t long ago that...

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Dustin Guastella

Poor Prince Harry: what to do when someone close to you publicly trashes an institution you love?

Poor Prince Harry: what to do when someone close to you publicly trashes an institution you love?

Straight faces, please, as we try to look charitably at the toxic row engulfing Prince Harry’s charity. Are you up to speed with this everyday...

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Marina Hyde

Labour’s populist pantomime over sentencing rules plays into the hands of the right

Labour’s populist pantomime over sentencing rules plays into the hands of the right

A progressive sentencing guideline that was due to come into force today has been shot down in the crossfire of the culture wars. This is...

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Janey Starling

Donald Trump is eyeing up a third term – and no one is opposing him

Donald Trump is eyeing up a third term – and no one is opposing him

Hell is empty and all the devils are in Washington DC. And, what with devils being immortal and all, it looks as if they might stay there...

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Arwa Mahdawi

Trump claimed he was pro-worker. His new order shows how absurd that was

Trump claimed he was pro-worker. His new order shows how absurd that was

If any workers are still holding on to the notion that Donald Trump is pro-worker or pro-union, his move last week to terminate union bargaining...

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Steven Greenhouse

NAD boosters: Kendall Jenner and Hailey Bieber are into them, but do they actually stop ageing?

NAD boosters: Kendall Jenner and Hailey Bieber are into them, but do they actually stop ageing?

The fountain of youth is an enduring legend. Different iterations of the fabled spring – which is said to give anyone who drinks or bathes in its...

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Natasha May

Andrew Tate is back in Romania. How we handle him will reveal what kind of country we really are

Andrew Tate is back in Romania. How we handle him will reveal what kind of country we really are

A turquoise Koenigsegg Jesko, the world’s fastest car and worth about £2.3m, zipped through central Bucharest at nearly 100mph on Monday 24 March....

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Andrei Popoviciu

From babysitting to keeping a secret, the PM is preferred. But it is the literal pub test where Albo stands out

From babysitting to keeping a secret, the PM is preferred. But it is the literal pub test where Albo stands out

While Australia may not be holding a presidential election, the leaders of the major parties carry the disproportionate burden of personifying the...

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Peter Lewis

Trumpism is sinking democratic values. It’s Starmer’s job to steer the UK back to safety

Trumpism is sinking democratic values. It’s Starmer’s job to steer the UK back to safety

The prime minister may pretend to “like and respect” Donald Trump, but elsewhere in parliament anti-Americanism is running hot. In a Lords debate...

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Polly Toynbee

Is my Scottish accent really the problem – or is it just your English ears?

Is my Scottish accent really the problem – or is it just your English ears?

The worst job I had was in a bank in Sydney, dealing with a life insurance policy called Lite Life Direct. It was tedious, repetitive and oddly...

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Catriona Stewart

Today Labour brings in higher wages, because we know we must put money back in working people’s pockets

Today Labour brings in higher wages, because we know we must put money back in working people’s pockets

A few months ago I visited a school in my constituency and took part in a question-and-answer session with young pupils. One girl raised her hand...

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Rachel Reeves

Mother’s Day has restored my hope in 2025 – but my kids had nothing to do with it

Mother’s Day has restored my hope in 2025 – but my kids had nothing to do with it

I like to uphold my children’s privacy and respect their wishes, the foremost of which is: “Please respect our privacy by not writing about us.”...

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Zoe Williams

Who actually runs Columbia University?

Who actually runs Columbia University?

Late on Friday evening, the trustees of Columbia University announced that its interim president, Katrina Armstrong, was leaving her post. Six days...

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Arjun Appadurai And Sheldon Pollock

A lot of mums are angry at Chappell Roan. I just want her to come over and listen to me whinge

A lot of mums are angry at Chappell Roan. I just want her to come over and listen to me whinge

A few weeks ago I told my friend – a good friend – that I was considering having a third kid. The colour washed from her face, and before her...

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Molly Glassey

And the award for zero self-awareness goes to second-home owners raging about higher taxes

And the award for zero self-awareness goes to second-home owners raging about higher taxes

Should you have the world’s tiniest violin to hand, prepare to play it. This week, English councils gain the power to double council tax on second...

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Gaby Hinsliff

The Guardian view on the Marine Le Pen verdict: no politician is above the law

The Guardian view on the Marine Le Pen verdict: no politician is above the law

Emmanuel Macron’s troubled second presidential term was already set to go down as one of the most turbulent in the history of France’s Fifth...

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Alexander Hurst

With this damning of Le Pen, France can be the ‘anti-Trump’. It’s a bold path others should follow

With this damning of Le Pen, France can be the ‘anti-Trump’. It’s a bold path others should follow

The French justice system chose courage over surrender. The law was clear, and so was the court in its sentencing: no special treatment for Marine...

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Alexander Hurst

How to fight a fascist state – what I learned from a second world war briefing for secret agents

How to fight a fascist state – what I learned from a second world war briefing for secret agents

The SOE Syllabus was a series of lectures given to prospective secret agents in Britain during the second world war. These “lessons in...

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Zoe Williams

Logging is quietly ravaging US forests. Trump is taking an axe to protections

Logging is quietly ravaging US forests. Trump is taking an axe to protections

The world is running out of time to halt deforestation and forest degradation. Yet instead of stepping up, the United States is dismantling forest...

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Jennifer Skene

As Trump rewrites even America’s history, institutions have two choices – submit or find ways to resist

As Trump rewrites even America’s history, institutions have two choices – submit or find ways to resist

It has come to this: we are now in Ministry of Truth territory. In Washington DC, the Smithsonian Institution, the US’s ensemble of 21 great...

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Charlotte Higgins

Americans are beginning to fear dissent. That’s exactly what Trump wants

Americans are beginning to fear dissent. That’s exactly what Trump wants

I was talking recently to a friend who’s a professor at Columbia University about what’s been happening there. He had a lot to say. When he needed...

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Robert Reich

Love, actually: How intimacy survives marriage and motherhood

Love, actually: How intimacy survives marriage and motherhood

The first thing a friend did when I told her the title of my book was laugh. “The Sex Lives of Married Women?” She asked. “You mean The No Sex...

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Saman Shad

Peter Dutton’s gas plan is a superficial solution to a real problem. Australians deserve better

Peter Dutton’s gas plan is a superficial solution to a real problem. Australians deserve better

Peter Dutton says his policies would reduce the wholesale price of gas on Australia’s east coast from $14 a gigajoule to $10 a gigajoule by...

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Tony Wood

Trump’s US doesn’t just think Europe is obsolete – it wants to see it dead

Trump’s US doesn’t just think Europe is obsolete – it wants to see it dead

The “Signalgate” scandal confirmed what Europeans already knew. The Trump administration’s disdain for Europe is deep and the transatlantic...

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Nathalie Tocci

Social media is awash with ‘heteropessimism’. Do young women really think so poorly of men?

Social media is awash with ‘heteropessimism’. Do young women really think so poorly of men?

How is the ideal heterosexual girlfriend supposed to behave? This played on my mind after I watched Companion, a film about a loutish millennial...

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Rachel Connolly

The siege of Khartoum has lifted. Left behind are scenes of unimaginable horror

The siege of Khartoum has lifted. Left behind are scenes of unimaginable horror

Ten days ago, in a major turning point in almost two years of war, the Sudanese army reclaimed the capital city from the Rapid Support Forces (RSF)...

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Nesrine Malik

Vance’s posturing in Greenland was not just morally wrong. It was strategically disastrous

Vance’s posturing in Greenland was not just morally wrong. It was strategically disastrous

No one would allow that he could not see these much-admired clothes; because, in doing so, he would have declared himself either a simpleton or...

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Timothy Snyder

How has Deliveroo turned a profit? By slashing the pay and dismantling the rights of riders like me

How has Deliveroo turned a profit? By slashing the pay and dismantling the rights of riders like me

It’s taken Deliveroo more than a decade to do it, but this month, the company made an annual profit for the first time. This might come as a...

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Shaf Hussain

Men get more disgusted as they age? It’s only a matter of time before my husband sees the real, slovenly me

Men get more disgusted as they age? It’s only a matter of time before my husband sees the real, slovenly me

What disgusts you? I hope it’s not inexpertly summarised research, because I have been intrigued by the recently reported finding that men get more...

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Emma Beddington

The Trump administration’s roundup of student protesters is genuinely shocking

The Trump administration’s roundup of student protesters is genuinely shocking

The defining feature of American democracy, you could be forgiven for having thought, is that you can say what you think without having to fear...

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Jameel Jaffer

Republicans are quietly trying to disenfranchise millions of voters

Republicans are quietly trying to disenfranchise millions of voters

The first months of the new Trump administration have been dizzying with the breadth of executive actions to slash the social safety net, further...

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Alexis Anderson-Reed

Palestinians must have the final say in Gaza’s reconstruction

Palestinians must have the final say in Gaza’s reconstruction

On the 17th night of Ramadan – a time meant for prayer, reflection and mercy – Gaza burned. Once again, our screens fill with images too harrowing...

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Ahmad Ibsais

Labour’s historic attack on disabled people is already wrecking lives. Just ask Kevin

Labour’s historic attack on disabled people is already wrecking lives. Just ask Kevin

What has just happened, and where are we now? Three long weeks ago, the government began to announce all those cuts to disability and sickness...

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John Harris

Never ask ‘what’s for dinner’ and hide food from teenagers – my essential rules for happy home dining

Never ask ‘what’s for dinner’ and hide food from teenagers – my essential rules for happy home dining

“You’ll never eat a good meal in a restaurant that puts caviar on scrambled eggs”; “Your dining companions should have a say in what you order”; “...

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Emma Beddington

‘Don’t you have friends to go with?’: the stigma and joy of a table for one

‘Don’t you have friends to go with?’: the stigma and joy of a table for one

I once told a colleague that I was going to Amsterdam on a solo trip to wine and dine alone. “Do you not have any friends to go with?” she replied....

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Emma Gannon

Alex felt demoralised by the suggestion he should ‘be more resilient’. He learned that it is an ongoing process

Alex felt demoralised by the suggestion he should ‘be more resilient’. He learned that it is an ongoing process

Alex* was positively seething at his friend’s suggestion to “be a bit more resilient” in the face of a recent setback at work. “I wonder what they...

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Bianca Denny

Squaring up to death after my cancer diagnosis gave me a deeper appreciation of life

Squaring up to death after my cancer diagnosis gave me a deeper appreciation of life

Lauren Laverne says she loves her life more now that she’s had cancer. I know exactly what she means. Imagine you’re diagnosed with cancer. Do you...

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Matt Forde

Let Britain’s magical, mythical creatures inspire a patriotism untainted by politics

Let Britain’s magical, mythical creatures inspire a patriotism untainted by politics

It is possible to have too much trust in a marriage. The mythic Welsh warrior Lleu Llaw Gyffes, who appears to have been bigger on brawn than...

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Kate Maltby

Just like McCarthy, Trump spreads fear everywhere before picking off his targets

Just like McCarthy, Trump spreads fear everywhere before picking off his targets

‘Gold, mister, is worth what it is because of the human labor that goes into the finding and getting of it.” It’s a line spoken by Walter Huston in...

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Kenan Malik

The storm-battered chancellor needs her nextdoor neighbour to be a steadfast friend

The storm-battered chancellor needs her nextdoor neighbour to be a steadfast friend

After her jaunt to the O2, Rachel Reeves may be aware that the musical oeuvre of Sabrina Carpenter includes I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking...

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Andrew Rawnsley

Who could begrudge Rachel Reeves free tickets when she was, er, just trying to be a good parent?

Who could begrudge Rachel Reeves free tickets when she was, er, just trying to be a good parent?

In terms of Reeves’ family values, the chancellor of the exchequer can hardly be faulted, she has been explaining, for snagging box tickets to a...

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Catherine Bennett

I’ve got the message: security leaks are no laughing matter

I’ve got the message: security leaks are no laughing matter

During the Brexit era, it became obvious many comments under these columns were being placed by Russian trolls, with slightly strange grasps of...

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Stewart Lee

Yoko Ono is now getting acclaim, but why do rock stars’ female partners get so much abuse?

Yoko Ono is now getting acclaim, but why do rock stars’ female partners get so much abuse?

More than 50 years after John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s 1969 bed-in, protesting against war, Ono finally gets her love-in. David Sheff’s biography...

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Barbara Ellen

The Observer view on JD Vance: spurned in Greenland and humiliated at home, the vice-president should resign

The Observer view on JD Vance: spurned in Greenland and humiliated at home, the vice-president should resign

Not for the first time, JD Vance, America’s outspoken vice-president, has made a public fool of himself. He insisted on visiting Greenland despite...

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Matt Forde

AI promises to free up time. But what if it spares us from learning, writing, painting and exploring the world?

AI promises to free up time. But what if it spares us from learning, writing, painting and exploring the world?

As much as I have the general vibe of a luddite (strange hobbies, socially maladjusted, unfathomable fashion choices, etc) I have to hand it to...

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Joseph Earp

Wigmore Hall’s principled stand over public funding is music to my ears

Wigmore Hall’s principled stand over public funding is music to my ears

The news that Wigmore Hall in London is to turn its back on an annual subsidy of £345,000 from Arts Council England (ACE), after a successful...

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Rachel Cooke