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When will our politicians have the courage to make meaningful change to our broken aged care system?

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Julianne Schultz

Prince Harry and King Charles reconciling? Their feud was the only relatable thing about them

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Polly Hudson

Autocrats and tech bros want to live for ever. Here’s how bleak that future could be

Autocrats and tech bros want to live for ever. Here’s how bleak that future could be

I was in bed scrolling on my phone when I read the headline: Hot mic catches Xi and Putin discussing organ transplants and immortality. It took me...

yesterday 20

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Hanna Thomas Uose

Shocked by Epstein’s birthday book? That culture was everywhere before feminism

Shocked by Epstein’s birthday book? That culture was everywhere before feminism

I was there. I kept the receipts. I remember how normalized the sexual exploitation of teenage girls and even tweens by adult men was, how it...

yesterday 20

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Rebecca Solnit

You haven’t felt the power of heavy metal until you’ve seen a room of grown men cry

You haven’t felt the power of heavy metal until you’ve seen a room of grown men cry

In June, I travelled to Helsinki to see Iron Maiden. I live in Finland and so know well that the country is heavy metal mad. It boasts more metal...

yesterday 60

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Mike Watson

Taking action to stop climate change is not an act of charity. It is a legal obligation

Taking action to stop climate change is not an act of charity. It is a legal obligation

I often talk about my childhood in the Reef Islands, a special place on the far eastern seas of Solomon Islands. It is there that I learned to...

yesterday 20

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Cynthia Houniuhi

Women’s suffrage is apparently up for debate again in America

Women’s suffrage is apparently up for debate again in America

Should women in the US have the right to vote? You’d be forgiven for assuming this particular issue was sorted out quite a long time ago. But,...

yesterday 50

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Arwa Mahdawi

Skinny jeans are showing signs of a comeback. Please make it all stop

Skinny jeans are showing signs of a comeback. Please make it all stop

If you’re reading this, there’s a good chance you are wearing clothes. Or my byline photo made you spontaneously strip down to nothing but a pair...

yesterday 6

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Dave Schilling

The US is on the brink of another era of political violence – and Donald Trump ‘couldn’t care less’

The US is on the brink of another era of political violence – and Donald Trump ‘couldn’t care less’

The killing of Charlie Kirk has left the US and those who care about it on edge. The arrest of a suspect, Tyler Robinson, has hardly settled the...

yesterday 7

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Jonathan Freedland

RFK Jr does not just reject vaccines. He rejects science and must step down

RFK Jr does not just reject vaccines. He rejects science and must step down

Since taking office, Robert F Kennedy Jr, the secretary of the health and human services department (HHS), has undermined vaccines at every turn....

yesterday 30

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Bernie Sanders

Is Trump America’s greatest peacemaker?

yesterday 8

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Sarah Malik

Zohran Mamdani proudly embodies what I often feel alienated in: my own identity as an unapologetic Muslim and progressive

Zohran Mamdani proudly embodies what I often feel alienated in: my own identity as an unapologetic Muslim and progressive

He eats biryani with his hands, references Bollywood, is an unapologetic Muslim and a progressive. He has also done something politically risky for...

yesterday 8

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Sarah Malik

Martin Rowson on Labour’s problems with Keir Starmer and Peter Mandelson – cartoon

yesterday 9

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Moira Donegan

Jeffrey Epstein’s birthday book is a horrifying document

Jeffrey Epstein’s birthday book is a horrifying document

Jeffrey Epstein had a lot of friends. When his girlfriend-cum-assistant and convicted fellow sex trafficker, Ghislane Maxwell, set out to compile...

yesterday 10

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Moira Donegan

It’s over and out (again) for Mandelson, but how many political lives does Starmer have left?

It’s over and out (again) for Mandelson, but how many political lives does Starmer have left?

Once is unfortunate. Twice is clearly careless. But there are few words available for a family newspaper to describe hiring Peter Mandelson thrice,...

yesterday 8

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Gaby Hinsliff

Macron has defied the will of the people. He leaves the French public no choice but to Block Everything

Macron has defied the will of the people. He leaves the French public no choice but to Block Everything

The protests that rocked France this week did not come out of the blue. For more than a year now, our country has been in a state of unprecedented...

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Rokhaya Diallo

A gender-critical book at Scotland’s National Library is the latest in a long line of cancellations

A gender-critical book at Scotland’s National Library is the latest in a long line of cancellations

It was predictable that August in Edinburgh would see a flare-up of the gender wars. Scottish politics has been pivotal in the UK-wide battle over...

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Susanna Rustin

If Keir Starmer’s Labour can’t satisfy the unions, another party will

If Keir Starmer’s Labour can’t satisfy the unions, another party will

‘Unions winning” declared a giant, cheerily multicoloured sign along the windy seafront side of the Brighton Centre this week. Built in the unions’...

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Andy Beckett

The real bias monitor at CBS is Donald Trump

The real bias monitor at CBS is Donald Trump

News outlets, including CBS, are free to run their editorial operations as they see fit. If they independently decide to hire a bias ombudsman,...

previous day 10

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Seth Stern

A one-man headline machine? Murdoch tabloid spins Ray Hadley’s sprays as ‘exclusive’ news stories

A one-man headline machine? Murdoch tabloid spins Ray Hadley’s sprays as ‘exclusive’ news stories

For the last six months the Daily Telegraph has had a string of “exclusives” on tap and the Murdoch tabloid sends out regular emails to subscribers...

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Amanda Meade

Starmer fancies himself a leader among leaders – but his tough talk on defence is just expensive bluster

Starmer fancies himself a leader among leaders – but his tough talk on defence is just expensive bluster

Each night we wonder where we are. We sit in comfort watching death and destruction fall on thousands in Gaza and Ukraine. Each night we see...

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Simon Jenkins

Charlie Kirk’s shocking killing sets the stage for a dangerous federal crackdown

Charlie Kirk’s shocking killing sets the stage for a dangerous federal crackdown

I disagreed with Charlie Kirk on pretty much everything, but his shocking and morally repugnant assassination is deeply concerning, and not just...

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Moustafa Bayoumi

It’s not too late: the House of Lords can still protect disabled people from this dangerous assisted dying bill

It’s not too late: the House of Lords can still protect disabled people from this dangerous assisted dying bill

The House of Lords has a rare opportunity to prove its worth to the country today, as it begins to debate the assisted dying bill. Personally, I...

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Lucy Webster

Israel’s attack on Qatar proves Trump’s pledges of protection are worthless

Israel’s attack on Qatar proves Trump’s pledges of protection are worthless

When Donald Trump visited Qatar in May, he promised to defend the tiny, wealthy emirate and its rulers. “We are going to protect this country,”...

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Mohamad Bazzi

I’ve always wanted to be seen as ‘cool’, but it’s time to face the music: I am anything but

I’ve always wanted to be seen as ‘cool’, but it’s time to face the music: I am anything but

Ever since the Tumblr-scrolling days of my youth, my ultimate goal in life has always been to be seen as someone who is undoubtedly, undeniably,...

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Eleanor Burnard

Starmer is always torn between risk and caution. When it came to Mandelson, the wrong side won

Starmer is always torn between risk and caution. When it came to Mandelson, the wrong side won

Keir Starmer’s public image is one of stolid caution. This was something deliberately crafted at the start of his leadership of the Labour party to...

previous day 8

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Emma Burnell

Trump or no Trump, Europe’s relationship with the US will never recover

Trump or no Trump, Europe’s relationship with the US will never recover

Is the transatlantic rupture temporary or structural? Is Donald Trump the cause of the rift, or is the US president only a symptom of underlying...

thursday 9

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Nathalie Tocci

Is Australia facing troubled waters at the Pacific Island Forum?

thursday 10

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And Are We Part Of The Problem?

Let France be a warning, Rachel Reeves: stand up to the bond market vigilantes, or they’ll come for Britain next

Let France be a warning, Rachel Reeves: stand up to the bond market vigilantes, or they’ll come for Britain next

There are plenty of tough jobs in politics but none tougher than the one just handed to Sébastien Lecornu, the third French prime minister to be...

thursday 10

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Larry Elliott

As the Epstein case shows, Trump’s Maga faithful care about only one kind of sex-crime victim

As the Epstein case shows, Trump’s Maga faithful care about only one kind of sex-crime victim

On Monday, Donald Trump appeared in two, unrelated stories involving the sexual abuse of women. The first was a ruling by the US federal court of...

thursday 10

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Emma Brockes

Warning! The rightwing junktanks behind the Tories’ worst disasters still have the keys to No 10

Warning! The rightwing junktanks behind the Tories’ worst disasters still have the keys to No 10

Forgive me if I’ve got this wrong, but I seem to recall the country voting the Tories out last year. Part of the reason, if I remember correctly,...

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George Monbiot

It’s not about Rayner or Farage: the real tax story is how the super-rich avoid paying their share

It’s not about Rayner or Farage: the real tax story is how the super-rich avoid paying their share

It’s been tiresome to see the glee with which Angela Rayner’s been accused of hypocrisy this week, but then anyone who sticks their neck out to...

thursday 50

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Rebecca Gowland

Charlie Kirk’s killing is a tragic marker of the indiscriminate nature of political violence

Charlie Kirk’s killing is a tragic marker of the indiscriminate nature of political violence

Once unleashed, political violence comes for everyone. It doesn’t know what side of the aisle you’re on or what your ideology might be, who your...

thursday 30

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Margaret Sullivan

I boiled my wooden spoons – and what emerged from them will haunt me for ever

I boiled my wooden spoons – and what emerged from them will haunt me for ever

Never am I so creative as when it comes to finding something to do instead of what I really should be doing. There’s nothing like a looming...

thursday 30

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Adrian Chiles

Israel has replaced Iran as the biggest security threat to the Gulf states

Israel has replaced Iran as the biggest security threat to the Gulf states

Israel’s assassination of Hamas negotiators in Doha this week has crossed a line that even its closest Arab partners cannot ignore. Israel has long...

thursday 10

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Sanam Vakil

Russia is brazenly provoking the west. Putin must be left in no doubt of the consequences

Russia is brazenly provoking the west. Putin must be left in no doubt of the consequences

By sending a barrage of drones into Polish airspace, Russia is testing Nato’s military response and Europe’s political resolve to stand behind...

thursday 2

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Paul Taylor

My dad has Alzheimer’s. He needs full-time care but we have been turned away from every facility

My dad has Alzheimer’s. He needs full-time care but we have been turned away from every facility

My dad has Alzheimer’s, which is not unusual for an 84-year-old man. He lives with my mum, who is also in her 80s, in a two-bedroom apartment in...

thursday 2

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Jane Rawson

What should you do if, like me, you are irredeemably naff? Embrace it

What should you do if, like me, you are irredeemably naff? Embrace it

On a first date, relatively recently, I put on one of my favourite albums. It was only later that the woman in question described her distress. It...

thursday 1

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Adrian Chiles

As an Australian Indian, I’m furious at the racism playing out on a national stage. It is exhausting

As an Australian Indian, I’m furious at the racism playing out on a national stage. It is exhausting

Being an Indian immigrant in Australia is exhausting. The irony that many of us are here because our parents, or their parents, chose this country...

10.09.2025 20

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Zoya Patel

Paris cleaned up the Seine – and gave swimmers a new way to beat the heat. Will your city follow suit?

Paris cleaned up the Seine – and gave swimmers a new way to beat the heat. Will your city follow suit?

After la rentrée, when adults and children alike across France head back to work and school after the seemingly endless summer holidays, you would...

10.09.2025 5

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Helen Massy-Beresford

Boreholes leaking methane? Not as funny as it sounds

10.09.2025 20

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Anna Funder And Julia Powles

Tech companies are stealing our books, music and films for AI. It’s brazen theft and must be stopped

Tech companies are stealing our books, music and films for AI. It’s brazen theft and must be stopped

Today’s large-scale AI systems are founded on what appears to be an extraordinarily brazen criminal enterprise: the wholesale, unauthorised...

10.09.2025 40

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Anna Funder And Julia Powles

What do you call Elon Musk’s trillion-dollar pay deal? Obscene

What do you call Elon Musk’s trillion-dollar pay deal? Obscene

Bribery is generally unethical and often illegal, but also quite effective. When my four-year-old is acting up and ignoring my increasingly...

10.09.2025 3

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Arwa Mahdawi

Starmer should beware: in this volatile age, no majority and no leader is secure for long

Starmer should beware: in this volatile age, no majority and no leader is secure for long

Keir Starmer doesn’t see himself as the leader of a coalition government. With 399 MPs and a working majority of 156, why should he? One reason is...

10.09.2025 6

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Rafael Behr

Why have energy drinks been banned for under-16s in England? The real question is why it wasn’t done sooner

Why have energy drinks been banned for under-16s in England? The real question is why it wasn’t done sooner

About 18 months back, British youth were in the midst of a Prime craze. Pushed by YouTube influencers Logan Paul and KSI, this brightly coloured...

10.09.2025 20

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Devi Sridhar

What is the endgame in this toxic immigration debate: is it friends and neighbours thrown out of the country?

What is the endgame in this toxic immigration debate: is it friends and neighbours thrown out of the country?

Do they come for you at dawn or dusk? In the dead of night, or at family dinnertime? Will they come with masks and shields, or will they be kindly...

10.09.2025 100

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Jonathan Liew

So politicians want rid of the Senedd: would they abolish any other country’s democracy?

So politicians want rid of the Senedd: would they abolish any other country’s democracy?

Wales is a wonderfully unusual country and that is why I love it. But one quirk about Wales I really dislike is how increasingly often I hear it...

10.09.2025 1

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Will Hayward