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By ending a cruel Tory social experiment, this budget clearly set out how Labour will fight the battle to renew Britain

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Lucy Powell

How Amazon turned our capitalist era of free markets into the age of technofeudalism

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Yanis Varoufakis

Food is medicine, and that’s a fact. Why we all need Native American foodways

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Kate Nelson

I’m always on my phone, my girlfriend would rather communicate via woodland creatures. Somehow we make it work

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Rebecca Shaw

A budget to save Britain’s finances? More like Operation Save Our Skins

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Aditya Chakrabortty

The rewriting of Australia’s nature laws come as a relief, yet I can’t help feel a sense of foreboding

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Georgina Woods

Rachel Reeves’s budget has inflamed, not calmed, Britain’s febrile mood

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Martin Kettle

Labor’s nature law overhaul contains wins – but we should watch for gremlins in the details

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Adam Morton

The two-child limit is abolished at last. Watch out for the narrative that will follow

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Frances Ryan

This was Rachel Reeves’s ‘live now, pay later’ budget. The big question is: what happens when ‘later’ arrives?

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Larry Elliott

Zohran Mamdani is rewriting the political rules around support for Israel

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Kenneth Roth

London has plenty of posh breakfast options – but give me a greasy spoon any day

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Adrian Chiles

To halt the far right, Europe’s progressive parties must fix its housing crisis. Our research shows how

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Tarik Abou-Chadi

Eating Thanksgiving dinner at dinnertime is ludicrous. Here’s why

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Dave Schilling

At last, TV about influencers that isn’t cringe – I Love LA is my show of the year

At last, TV about influencers that isn’t cringe – I Love LA is my show of the year

It’s been a while since a TV show came along that people leaned into losing their minds about, but finally, and after a year of otherwise mediocre...

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Emma Brockes

The latest inflation figures offer no joy – except to the gas producers whose windfall profits remain largely untouched

The latest inflation figures offer no joy – except to the gas producers whose windfall profits remain largely untouched

The latest inflation figures showed a jump in the growth of average prices from 3.6% to 3.8%. But they also indicate just how much our economy is...

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Greg Jericho

Teenage dreams are never practical. But where would we be without the people who chased theirs?

Teenage dreams are never practical. But where would we be without the people who chased theirs?

Who wants to crush a kid’s dreams? Not me. But what to say when asked by a teenager about a career in the media? With tens of thousands of media,...

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Adrian Chiles

Has Rachel Reeves made the right calls in this budget? Our panel responds

Has Rachel Reeves made the right calls in this budget? Our panel responds

Polly Toynbee Guardian columnist This budget will be remembered for finally abolishing the monstrous two-child benefit cap. That’s what Labour...

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Polly Toynbee

Rachel Reeves has many problems. She’s realising that her Brexit bind may be the biggest of all

Rachel Reeves has many problems. She’s realising that her Brexit bind may be the biggest of all

Rachel Reeves has approached this week’s budget like a reluctant swimmer inching into freezing water, trying to ease the unpleasantness by...

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Rafael Behr

To defeat the global Goliaths devastating our planet, we must raise an army of Davids

To defeat the global Goliaths devastating our planet, we must raise an army of Davids

The Cop30 climate talks have ended in Brazil with a collective shrug of the shoulders after the Goliaths of the fossil energy industry once again...

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Peter Lewis

When Israel breaks international law, what does Trump’s US do? Sanction the judges

When Israel breaks international law, what does Trump’s US do? Sanction the judges

The fate of one French judge is a case study in the west’s long unravelling. Nicolas Guillou cannot shop online. When he used Expedia to book a...

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Owen Jones

Have you seen the new BoM website? Everyone is so mad about it

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Rafael Behr

Are raccoons – AKA trash pandas – really evolving into cute pets? One theory says yes

Are raccoons – AKA trash pandas – really evolving into cute pets? One theory says yes

I have kept many pets over the years. Some, like my current canine companion, have been both adoring and adorable, but others have been less...

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Helen Pilcher

Hannah Clarke was failed by police before she was murdered. It shouldn’t be up to whistleblowers to demand better

Hannah Clarke was failed by police before she was murdered. It shouldn’t be up to whistleblowers to demand better

I remember watching the news and seeing the smoke rising from a car as emergency services tried to put out the final flames that had already killed...

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Regina Featherstone

Why on earth would Meghan still want to be called the Duchess of Sussex?

Why on earth would Meghan still want to be called the Duchess of Sussex?

Meghan may be a resident of Montecito, California, but she is still the Duchess of Sussex, and she won’t let us commoners forget it. Despite their...

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Arwa Mahdawi

Is Queens the new political bellwether of America?

Is Queens the new political bellwether of America?

As the extraordinary Oval Office meeting between Donald Trump and Zohran Mamdani shows, there’s a new bellwether in American politics. For years,...

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Michael Massing

If Epstein’s victims don’t receive justice that is a ticking timebomb

If Epstein’s victims don’t receive justice that is a ticking timebomb

It began as I finished Nobody’s Girl, the torturous and devastating account of Virginia Giuffre’s life. It was what I can only describe as a kind...

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Michael Massing

Don’t believe Nigel Farage’s denials. He targeted me for being Jewish – and it hurt

Don’t believe Nigel Farage’s denials. He targeted me for being Jewish – and it hurt

I had thought my Dulwich days were well behind me and that I’d never again have to think about the antisemitic taunts I suffered from Nigel Farage...

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Peter Ettedgui

Ella Baron on Rachel Reeves’s autumn budget – cartoon

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Peter Ettedgui

‘We’re a bit jealous of Kneecap’: how Europe’s minority tongues are facing the digital future

‘We’re a bit jealous of Kneecap’: how Europe’s minority tongues are facing the digital future

There’s an Irish saying, tír gan teanga, tír gan anam: a country without a language is a country without a soul. Representatives of some of...

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Stephen Burgen

Does methylene blue really have wellness benefits or will it just leave you with the blues?

Does methylene blue really have wellness benefits or will it just leave you with the blues?

A week before he was sworn in as secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services in February, a video of anti-vaccination conspiracy...

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Donna Lu

JD Vance might want to run in 2028 – but does he have a Palantir-shaped problem?

JD Vance might want to run in 2028 – but does he have a Palantir-shaped problem?

The US is the land of the free and the home of the world’s most expensive, and most excruciatingly drawn-out, elections. In most democracies, the...

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Arwa Mahdawi

The majority of doctors supported the recent strike. So why did the Department of Health suggest the opposite?

The majority of doctors supported the recent strike. So why did the Department of Health suggest the opposite?

The latest strike by resident doctors began on Friday 14 November. That morning, the headline of the lead story on the front page of the Times...

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Peter Kellner

Australia doesn’t need another migration ‘debate’. We need leaders brave enough to tackle inequality for all

Australia doesn’t need another migration ‘debate’. We need leaders brave enough to tackle inequality for all

Racism and economic insecurity can have a close relationship in this country. That is most apparent when Australia finds itself pulled into another...

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Giridharan Sivaraman

Is British politics immune to US-style rightwing Christianity? We’re about to find out

Is British politics immune to US-style rightwing Christianity? We’re about to find out

Earlier this year, not long after Tommy Robinson embraced evangelical Christianity while in prison, the then Conservative MP Danny Kruger spoke in...

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Lamorna Ash

An uncomfortable truth for our leaders: there’s a limit to how ‘human’ we want you to be

An uncomfortable truth for our leaders: there’s a limit to how ‘human’ we want you to be

The camera catches Jacinda Ardern in her pyjamas, bleary-eyed with exhaustion. It follows her wiping crumbs off the worktops, breastfeeding, trying...

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Gaby Hinsliff

My guide to populist-proofing your democracy – before it’s too late

My guide to populist-proofing your democracy – before it’s too late

How can we defend our democracies against those who would destroy them? We talk a lot about strategies for keeping anti-liberal, nationalist...

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Timothy Garton Ash

I went to an M&S opening and it was mobbed. Why are people so weird about shops?

I went to an M&S opening and it was mobbed. Why are people so weird about shops?

I’m a very staunch fan of the Marks & Spencer crisp combo mix, in every flavour (ready salted is the obvious exception, and the Christmas maple...

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Zoe Williams

Is the Democratic party embracing Bernie Sanders-style politics?

Is the Democratic party embracing Bernie Sanders-style politics?

Since the Democrats’ sweeping victories on 4 November, a strange thing has happened among the party factions: a semblance of unity has emerged. At...

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Dustin Guastella

The shameful attacks on the Covid inquiry prove it: the right is lost in anti-science delusion

The shameful attacks on the Covid inquiry prove it: the right is lost in anti-science delusion

That number will stay fixed for ever in public memory: 23,000 people died because Boris Johnson resisted locking the country down in time. As Covid...

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Polly Toynbee

What can we learn from RFK’s ‘erotic poetry’? That Americans need to get better at enjoying a scandal

What can we learn from RFK’s ‘erotic poetry’? That Americans need to get better at enjoying a scandal

Literally nothing on this earth takes itself as seriously as American journalism. There are rogue-state dictators it’s more permissible to laugh at...

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Marina Hyde

The Comey and James dismissals are a reminder of Trump’s lawlessness

The Comey and James dismissals are a reminder of Trump’s lawlessness

Monday brought good news for two of Donald Trump’s most hated enemies: the former FBI director James Comey, and the New York state attorney...

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Austin Sarat

It was my late mother’s birthday – and I spent it exactly as she would have wanted

It was my late mother’s birthday – and I spent it exactly as she would have wanted

It would have been my late mother’s birthday last Monday, and because I am either astronomically stupid or fathomlessly wise, I elected to spend it...

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Zoe Williams

Sure, people tell you about sleepless nights. But why does no one mention the hell that is a parent WhatsApp group?

Sure, people tell you about sleepless nights. But why does no one mention the hell that is a parent WhatsApp group?

When I was little, I thought hell was a fiery pit beneath the Earth’s surface. The image was vivid: flames, tortured souls and a cartoonish devil...

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Sean Szeps

Trump’s ‘peace plan’ was a pro-Kremlin abomination whose failure is a glimmer of hope for Ukraine

Trump’s ‘peace plan’ was a pro-Kremlin abomination whose failure is a glimmer of hope for Ukraine

The US president, Donald Trump, has said “something good just may be happening” at the talks in Switzerland intended to end the war in Ukraine....

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Rajan Menon

How can Australia convince the world to give up fossil fuels if Anthony Albanese is contradicting himself on gas expansion?

How can Australia convince the world to give up fossil fuels if Anthony Albanese is contradicting himself on gas expansion?

With another set of global climate talks behind us, the Australian government faces some tricky tasks before it takes over negotiations at the next...

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Bill Hare

Shabana Mahmood is an avatar of open Britain – that’s what makes her fable about immigration so seductive

Shabana Mahmood is an avatar of open Britain – that’s what makes her fable about immigration so seductive

Over the past couple of weeks, Shabana Mahmood has launched not only her new asylum crackdown policy, but also her “story”. The two are...

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Nesrine Malik

I endured an English public school. But that’s not the only reason I’m unsurprised about the Farage allegations

I endured an English public school. But that’s not the only reason I’m unsurprised about the Farage allegations

When I see the allegations of racism against Nigel Farage from his schooldays, I can’t say I am greatly surprised. There are those who believe that...

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Musa Okwonga

Another Cop wrecked by fossil fuel interests and our leaders’ cowardice – but there is another way

Another Cop wrecked by fossil fuel interests and our leaders’ cowardice – but there is another way

The 30th conference of the parties (Cop30), the annual climate summit of all nations party to the UNFCCC, just ended. Stakeholders are out in the...

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Genevieve Guenther

Horror stories of a ‘feminised workplace’ mask the real crisis in male identity

Horror stories of a ‘feminised workplace’ mask the real crisis in male identity

First it was mechanisation threatening our jobs, then AI and now this: the Great Feminisation is taking over the workplace. Well, that’s according...

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Finn Mackay