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

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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

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Jonathan Freedland

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

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Devi Sridhar

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

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Margaret Simons

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

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George Monbiot

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

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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

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Giles Tremlett

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

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Amanda Meade

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...

yesterday 8

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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

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Van Badham

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

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Dave Schilling

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

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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...

yesterday 5

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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...

wednesday 10

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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...

wednesday 10

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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

Welcome to Trump’s America! A place where people can’t afford to call an ambulance

Welcome to Trump’s America! A place where people can’t afford to call an ambulance

I’ve got a genius business idea for people with few discernible skills. First you establish a “health insurance” company and get people to pay you...

wednesday 6

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Arwa Mahdawi

Trump and his ilk imagine a world without international law – but they will not achieve it

Trump and his ilk imagine a world without international law – but they will not achieve it

Nineteen forty-five was a pivotal moment in international law, marking the founding of the United Nations and the International Military Tribunal...

wednesday 6

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Philippe Sands

Doing your own research isn’t a bad thing, I tell my patients. But just how will they spot the fraudulent papers?

Doing your own research isn’t a bad thing, I tell my patients. But just how will they spot the fraudulent papers?

One of my children is irate at my deletion of an important school email. I claim that so many useless emails rain into my inbox that some useful...

wednesday 20

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Ranjana Srivastava

Staring down the barrel of three leadership changes in two weeks, are the Liberals near rock bottom?

Staring down the barrel of three leadership changes in two weeks, are the Liberals near rock bottom?

If we needed any more evidence that the Coalition’s political stocks were tanking, the prospect of three leadership changes in two weeks might be...

wednesday 2

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Tom Mcilroy

Extortionate tickets and matches moved at Trump’s whim: are you ready for the ‘greatest World Cup ever’?

Extortionate tickets and matches moved at Trump’s whim: are you ready for the ‘greatest World Cup ever’?

“It’s very clear,” claimed haunted Fifa cue-ball Gianni Infantino not so long ago, “that politics should stay out of football and football...

wednesday 20

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Marina Hyde

Will Marjorie Taylor Greene turn the Maga movement against Trump?

Will Marjorie Taylor Greene turn the Maga movement against Trump?

There are 535 members of Congress; only a dozen or so are household names. If you want to achieve that sort of brand name recognition, there are a...

wednesday 10

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Arwa Mahdawi

A question to the few remaining Labour supporters: is this refugee-bashing what you voted for?

A question to the few remaining Labour supporters: is this refugee-bashing what you voted for?

You can learn a great deal about a government by who it chooses to fight. In the 16 months since this shambolic, soulless rabble were handed power...

wednesday 20

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Owen Jones

The Guardian view on Germany under Merz: Europe’s powerhouse is still struggling

The Guardian view on Germany under Merz: Europe’s powerhouse is still struggling

Last March, following angst-ridden months as Europe came to terms with Donald Trump’s return to the White House, financial markets in Paris, Milan...

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Diane Taylor