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Reeves and Starmer are a two-for-one deal – if she goes, he goes. What a cheering thought

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Marina Hyde

It’s entirely reasonable to be in awe of surgeons – but patients need someone they can talk to

03.12.2025 0

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Ranjana Srivastava

‘Jobs for mates’ review is damning – and the government’s response is a failure of the highest order

03.12.2025 0

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Anthony Whealy

John Roberts has badly weakened our democracy. Will he ever stand up to Trump?

03.12.2025 0

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Steven Greenhouse

Ellen DeGeneres left Trump’s America. Will the British weather force her to return?

03.12.2025 0

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Arwa Mahdawi

The Guardian view on OBR v the Treasury: ministers have embraced the theatre of errors

The confected frenzy splashed across the morning front pages from the Telegraph to the Mail is remarkable mostly for its absurdity. An outrage...

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Editorial

The Guardian view on men’s health: the needs of different groups can only be addressed in a functioning system

Men, on average, have lower life expectancy than women – by around four years in the UK. They account for three-quarters of all deaths by suicide...

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Editorial

How does anyone get on a government board these days?

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It Helps To Have Friends In High Places

The most misleading thing about Rachel Reeves’s budget? Who it was really for

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Aditya Chakrabortty

It’s under fire from left and right – but Labour’s workers’ rights bill is a huge achievement

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Polly Toynbee

The opening of Melbourne’s Metro Tunnel has turned me into a shameless train ambassador

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Brodie Lancaster

It is not too late to put the brakes on assisted dying, and focus on what is really needed

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Gordon Brown

The White House’s new media ‘bias’ tracker is a desperate gimmick

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Margaret Sullivan

Why did I ever buy my kids refillable advent calendars?

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Zoe Williams

From enslavement to Windrush to Hurricane Melissa, Britain is still tearing Caribbean families apart

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Nadine White

AI poses unprecedented threats. Congress must act now

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Bernie Sanders

Your Party’s antics assume a luxury the left does not have: time

Your Party’s antics assume a luxury the left does not have: time

Four months is a long time in the history of the British left. When Your Party – now its official name – was launched at the end of July, 800,000...

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Owen Jones

I needed new bras but what really lifted me up was a moment of connection with my bra fitter

I needed new bras but what really lifted me up was a moment of connection with my bra fitter

On a work trip to Melbourne, I detoured into the city to get fitted for a bra. A friend had shared that it was an experience all women should have...

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Jodi Wilson

There are those on the left and right who offer only grievance: Labour is getting on with the job of economic renewal

There are those on the left and right who offer only grievance: Labour is getting on with the job of economic renewal

At the budget last week, we made the right choices for Britain, cutting the cost of energy with £150 off bills, protecting the NHS and tackling the...

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Keir Starmer

It’s not just Gaza. From the West Bank to Syria and Lebanon, Israel’s onslaught continues

It’s not just Gaza. From the West Bank to Syria and Lebanon, Israel’s onslaught continues

It is clear now that the ceasefire in Gaza is only a “reducefire”. The onslaught continues. There are near-daily attacks on the territory. On a...

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Nesrine Malik

Reciting the names of the dead: how Australia’s response to HIV/Aids was emotionally – and politically – powerful

Reciting the names of the dead: how Australia’s response to HIV/Aids was emotionally – and politically – powerful

Aids has always been laden with political and emotional volatilities. The possibility of blood- or sex-based transmission combined with its first...

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Leigh Boucher

I’m a Guardian journalist who has covered Victoria police’s new search powers. On Sunday, police searched me

I’m a Guardian journalist who has covered Victoria police’s new search powers. On Sunday, police searched me

Last week I produced a video for Guardian Australia on expanded Victoria police search powers in the Melbourne CBD. Days later, I experienced that...

yesterday 20

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Lisa Favazzo

Ella Baron on infighting at the Your Party conference – cartoon

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Leigh Boucher

Hello, foreign oligarchs and corporations! Please come and sue the UK for billions

Hello, foreign oligarchs and corporations! Please come and sue the UK for billions

How do you reckon our political system works? Perhaps something like this. We elect MPs. They vote on bills. If a majority is achieved, the bills...

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George Monbiot

The US love of football is reaching new levels. Just look at Arsenal super-fan Zohran Mamdani

The US love of football is reaching new levels. Just look at Arsenal super-fan Zohran Mamdani

When Zohran Mamdani made an appearance on The Adam Friedland Show last week, the newly elected mayor of New York was expecting the typical nimble...

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Bryan Armen Graham

Tired of being a woman in 2025? Why not become a nun …

Tired of being a woman in 2025? Why not become a nun …

Nuns are everywhere – we’ve had Isabella Rossellini’s Sister Agnes stealing the show in Conclave and nuns with main character energy in The...

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Emma Beddington

Gay ‘conversion therapy’ should be consigned to history. In the US, it could make a comeback

Gay ‘conversion therapy’ should be consigned to history. In the US, it could make a comeback

Homosexuality is an illness that therapists can and should cure: that’s the rationale for “conversion therapy”, a practice promoted as a way to...

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David Kirp

If toxic humility is a thing, I definitely have it. But perhaps there’s another way

If toxic humility is a thing, I definitely have it. But perhaps there’s another way

What’s your favourite thing about yourself? Stylist’s Love Yourself campaign asked over 400 women that, and published eight pages of their answers....

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Emma Beddington

How can we navigate difficult conversations these holidays? Buddhism offers some guidance

How can we navigate difficult conversations these holidays? Buddhism offers some guidance

When it comes to difficult conversations, I have a way to go. I often swing between hyper-assertiveness and retreating entirely, but both avoid...

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Nadine Levy

The ‘squeezed middle’ is back – and this time it could be Labour’s undoing

The ‘squeezed middle’ is back – and this time it could be Labour’s undoing

Just over 15 years ago, a realisation began to dawn on British politicians, triggered by the financial crash of 2008 and its effects on millions of...

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John Harris

What Rosa Parks can teach us about resistance today

What Rosa Parks can teach us about resistance today

It was 70 years ago when four African Americans were sitting in the fifth row of a bus in Montgomery. As one white man had to stand towards the...

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Jan-Werner Müller

Don’t filter your dates by age and hobbies, ask them how they shop

Don’t filter your dates by age and hobbies, ask them how they shop

A friend of mine once declined a date with a kind, funny, clever man because she hated his shoes. When she relayed this to our group of...

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Polly Hudson

China is bearing down on Taiwan – enabled by Trump’s weakness and vacillation

China is bearing down on Taiwan – enabled by Trump’s weakness and vacillation

Sheer ignorance, fed by malign intent, historical prejudice and mutual misunderstanding, is often the crucial spark that ignites simmering...

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Simon Tisdall

When it comes to alcohol, gambling and domestic violence in Australia, it’s essential we connect the dots

When it comes to alcohol, gambling and domestic violence in Australia, it’s essential we connect the dots

“How do we maintain the rage?” Sussan Ley asked in parliament last week. The opposition leader was speaking to a motion introduced by Labor’s...

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Zoe Daniel

We have a practical framework for American resistance. Now we need a spiritual one

We have a practical framework for American resistance. Now we need a spiritual one

Across the country, organizers are carrying something heavier, clearer and more spiritually charged than anything I have seen in over 30 years of...

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Rami Nashashibi

Trump keeps insulting female journalists

Trump keeps insulting female journalists

There was a time when it would have been a scandal for the president of the United States to call a journalist “ugly” or a politician...

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Arwa Mahdawi

The Guardian view on Turner and Constable: radical in different ways

The Guardian view on Turner and Constable: radical in different ways

JMW Turner appears on £20 notes and gives his name to Britain’s most avant garde contemporary art prize. John Constable’s work adorns countless...

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Editorial

What could be putting young women off marriage? It really isn’t that much of a mystery

What could be putting young women off marriage? It really isn’t that much of a mystery

According to recent data, marriages in England and Wales are down by nearly 9% after a post-pandemic spike, while civil partnerships have risen by...

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Naoise Dolan

The Guardian view on Ukraine peace talks: Putin is taking Trump for another ride on the Kremlin carousel

The Guardian view on Ukraine peace talks: Putin is taking Trump for another ride on the Kremlin carousel

As Donald Trump’s Thanksgiving Day deadline for a Ukraine peace agreement came and went this week, the Russia expert Mark Galeotti pointed to a...

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Editorial

What Chicago’s fight against ICE can teach us all about how to resist oppression

What Chicago’s fight against ICE can teach us all about how to resist oppression

Earlier this year, the Trump administration reversed the convention that nobody would be snatched by immigration and customs enforcement, or ICE, by...

saturday 10

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Zoe Williams

The Russia-Ukraine peace deal is not a loss. Nor is it a victory

The Russia-Ukraine peace deal is not a loss. Nor is it a victory

No one should be satisfied with the unjust peace that Ukraine may be forced to accept. The aggressor would be rewarded with territory and other...

saturday 8

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Stephen Wertheim

Martin Rowson on a besieged Labour party – cartoon

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Jonathan Freedland

Antisemitism allegations against the teenage Farage matter – look at what he went on to do

Antisemitism allegations against the teenage Farage matter – look at what he went on to do

Nigel Farage could have strangled this story at birth. Confronted with the testimony of more than 20 former schoolmates, who shared with the...

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Jonathan Freedland

Barnaby Joyce’s scandals have damaged politics. Maybe it’s time for a change of scenery

Barnaby Joyce’s scandals have damaged politics. Maybe it’s time for a change of scenery

The 30 minutes before question time in federal parliament don’t usually warrant much media attention. A laundry list of members deliver 90-second...

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Tom Mcilroy

How does Black Friday show your true colours?

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Brian Logan

Arthur Miller? Snore! Audiences want new plays – why are theatres scared of them?

Arthur Miller? Snore! Audiences want new plays – why are theatres scared of them?

Crisis? What crisis? British Theatre Before and After Covid, a report released this week, is like a comedy-tragedy mask rendered in academic form....

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Brian Logan

Congratulations, everyone! Starmer survives another week, and it’s only cost us £26bn

Congratulations, everyone! Starmer survives another week, and it’s only cost us £26bn

Thanks to Labour’s incredible Black Friday deal, breaking manifesto policies is buy-one-get-one-free. As part of its all-promises-must-go drive,...

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Marina Hyde

The Guardian view on city living: an urban species is still adapting to our new environment

The Guardian view on city living: an urban species is still adapting to our new environment

Cities have existed for millennia, but their triumph is remarkably recent. As recently as 1950, only 30% of the world’s population were urban...

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Editorial

The Guardian view on restricting trial by jury: a shabby evasion of responsibility

The Guardian view on restricting trial by jury: a shabby evasion of responsibility

Abolition of trial by jury in England and Wales in all but the most serious cases is not the official policy of Sir Keir Starmer’s government –...

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Editorial

Press freedom is being destroyed from Gaza to America. Don’t think it can’t happen here

Press freedom is being destroyed from Gaza to America. Don’t think it can’t happen here

First things first. It would be remiss of me not to refer specifically to the appalling and outrageous casualty list of Palestinian journalists and...

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Kerry O&x27Brien