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Trump doesn’t know how to deal with China. His cowardice only makes a war with Taiwan more likely

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Simon Tisdall

A shameful death after a supermarket scuffle shines a light on Australia’s unfinished business

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Julianne Schultz

Trump’s pardoning of Black celebrities is a cynical ploy

This week, Donald Trump issued two dozen presidential pardons to a motley crew of wrongdoers, including shady politicians, fraudulent CEOs and...

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Tayo Bero

Why am I filled with nostalgia for a pre-internet age I never knew?

A video went viral on X a few months ago that I can’t stop watching. It’s 2003: the band that later becomes MGMT are performing their song Kids to...

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Isabel Brooks

In Hong Kong, my daughter was dazzled by futuristic tech – and I glimpsed the world she’ll grow up in

A few months ago, I travelled with my six-year-old daughter to Hong Kong. As we made our way out of the airport and boarded a train, we shared a...

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Kojo Koram

Are there billions more people on Earth than we thought? If so, it’s no bad thing

According to the UN, the world’s population stands at just over 8.2 billion. However, a recent study suggests the figure could be hundreds of...

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Jonathan Kennedy

As Ice deports children, what futures do we lose?

Two children – a nine-year-old boy and his six-year-old sister – are playing at “house”, pretending to be their father and mother. Absorbed in the...

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Ariel Dorfman

A dystopian surveillance fear has become reality in Texas

Hello and welcome to the latest edition of “lo and behold, the dystopian thing that women and activists warned would happen ends up happening”....

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Arwa Mahdawi

What does a crystal ball tell gen Z about the future?

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Tom Mcilroy

Sussan Ley wants to keep the Coalition together – but caving on net zero won’t help her win back seats

After another scrappy week for the faltering Coalition, Bridget McKenzie on Thursday called for the National party to stop talking about itself. No...

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Tom Mcilroy

Ella Baron on Donald Trump’s unhappiness at the ‘taco’ jibes – cartoon

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Jonathan Freedland

It’s easy to dismiss Robert Jenrick’s fare-dodging stunt. But he understands something Keir Starmer doesn’t

There is no shortage of reasons to dislike and dismiss Robert Jenrick. He is, after all, the former immigration minister who ordered that a centre...

yesterday 7

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Jonathan Freedland

So long, Elon: the cuts didn’t go to plan, but you completely shredded your reputation

I can’t believe that Elon Musk is leaving Doge, the government department he named after a tired and basic meme that most of the internet had moved...

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Marina Hyde

We’re minimizing the horror of Trump’s military birthday parade

In 2017, watching a two-hour Bastille Day procession, Donald Trump told the French president that we’d have one too, only better. That time, the...

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Judith Levine

What it’s like to be in the graduating class of 2025 in Gaza

Before the war, students in Gaza were surrounded by books, not bombs. They woke each morning to the voices of their mothers urging them to get...

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Nadera Mushtha

What have I seen in Liverpool this week? Kindness in person and conspiracies online

“This doesn’t sound good at all.” The message flashed up on a group chat I am in with other journalists in Liverpool and Merseyside. My blood...

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Liam Thorp

Prime Minister Farage? He’s serious about that – it’s time the country was too

If Nigel Farage has a secret weapon, it is his seeming refusal to take things seriously. His habit of repairing to the pub at any opportunity –...

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Gaby Hinsliff

If the horrors unfolding in Gaza are not a red line for Australia to take stronger action then I don’t know what is

Much has been made this week over Anthony Albanese’s strongest comments yet criticising the Netanyahu government’s ongoing blockade of humanitarian...

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David Pocock

How Labor’s North West Shelf approval further endangers Murujuga’s 50,000-year-old rock art

On Thursday, the new environment minister, Murray Watt, approved an extension for the North West Shelf liquefied natural gas project. The gas plant...

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Benjamin Smith And John Black

It’s time for Israel to halt its war of devastation in Gaza

The government of Israel is currently waging a war without purpose, without goals or clear planning, and with no chances of success. Never since...

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Ehud Olmert

Europe will never agree on Israel – but here’s a way it can act to help Gaza

European consciences have started waking up to the Israeli government’s crimes in the occupied Palestinian territories – and it is about time. What...

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Nathalie Tocci

As a Muslim girl in Bradford, I saw my story in Jane Austen’s novels. Now I’ve directed a TV series about her

I grew up as the daughter of an imam in a conservative British-Pakistani community in Bradford. Our early years were spent in a large Victorian...

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Ali Naushahi

It’s been a big, beautiful week of bad news for Trump. But don’t expect it to stick

Nothing is going according to plan for the Trump administration. The big, beautiful bill, originally vaunted to save the US taxpayer at least $2tn,...

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Zoe Williams

The noises you make every day fill me with disgust. Now I’m not afraid to tell you

In case you aren’t related to me and didn’t know, it was my dad’s birthday last week. Looking through photos and various paraphernalia to make the...

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Rebecca Shaw

Is Trump’s ‘baby bond’ really pro-child? No – children need a fair society to thrive

Turning children into capitalists – that’s the purpose behind the new “Trump account”, which will give every new baby born in the US during the...

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Polly Toynbee

I’ve seen the reality of the new Israel-backed ‘aid’ for Gaza. It’s nothing more than a deadly PR stunt

Two days ago, Israeli soldiers fired on a massive crowd of starving Palestinians who just wanted to eat. Some of them had walked more than 10km to...

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Eyad Amawi

Have you looked at images of Gaza on Google Maps? You should

A picture says a thousand words. And the imagery slowly seeping out of Gaza tells a story that many politicians and media figures are still doing...

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Arwa Mahdawi

Why do so many Americans join the Israeli military?

In his 1971 novel The Day of the Jackal, Frederick Forsyth renders a rich plot to assassinate Charles de Gaulle, the French president. The...

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Ahmed Moor

Segregated classrooms are not a thing of the past – look at what is happening to Roma children in Slovakia

It may come as a surprise to many, but racial segregation in schools exists today in several countries in the EU. In Slovakia, more than 60% of...

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Michal Zálešák And Kamila Gunišová

Is the Australian government doing enough on Gaza?

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Depends

As seen in Canada, Charles has pushed the boundaries of politics as king – and got away with it

It requires an effort to keep reminding yourself of the sheer historical oddity of monarchy’s healthy survival into the modern democratic age. Yet...

thursday 10

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Martin Kettle

Trump’s new ‘gold standard’ rule will destroy American science as we know it

Science is under siege. On Friday evening, the White House released an executive order called Restoring Gold Standard Science. At face value, this...

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Colette Delawalla

Trump’s lawlessness is emboldening El Salvador’s brutal regime

The Trump administration’s agreement with Nayib Bukele to detain US immigrants deported to El Salvador without due process seems to have emboldened...

thursday 6

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Noah Bullock And Amrit Singh

Starmer and co are trashing Labour’s legacy. We must take back control of our party – before it’s too late

I joined the Labour party 50 years ago. Back then, as a young man, I was proud that I was becoming part of a movement motivated by the highest...

thursday 9

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John Mcdonnell

Will Donald Trump defy the US supreme court?

With the most authoritarian and lawless president in history sitting in the White House, the US supreme court is no doubt worried about looking...

thursday 20

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Steven Greenhouse

On my motorbike, I did a road journey in England avoiding motorways – and discovered a whole new country

I learned a lot driving to Hinckley in Leicestershire. I had some work there. That’s showbiz, folks. I didn’t do the journey as I’d normally do...

thursday 10

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Adrian Chiles

Have you ever overhyped a hobby on social media to impress your crush? You might suffer from Downbaditis

It was mid-winter when I found myself shivering on a slippery rock, staring out to sea. The waves in front of me were growling and my gut responded...

thursday 4

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Lucinda Price

The super tax debate is divorced from reality – and more proof that Australia’s tax system is built for the rich

The unhinged criticisms to changes in superannuation make more sense when you realise that Australia’s entire tax debate is geared to ensure rich,...

thursday 10

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Greg Jericho

Think you know a lot about Dickens? Then who’s this Herbert character?

It’s unwise to drill too deeply into the exact questions that come up in a GCSE paper. You can’t get a proper sense of proportion when: you most...

thursday 9

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Zoe Williams

A reality show sent 12 virgins to an island to learn how to have sex. The result was weirdly coy

Channel 4’s latest attempt to straddle the line between televised humiliation and light titillation came to an end this week. Virgin Island...

thursday 1

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Jennifer Jasmine White

Australians remain deeply sceptical about the value of private healthcare – it’s time for radical reform

The viability of private healthcare in Australia has been thrown into doubt after Brookfield’s decision to place Healthscope, the operator of 37...

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Anthony Scott

The Woodside boss’s attacks on my generation are blatant scapegoating – and we see straight through them

You’re likely familiar with the term “carbon footprint”, which measures an individual’s environmental impact. The concept communicates to consumers...

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Hannah Ferguson

Trump’s unfounded attack on Cyril Ramaphosa was an insult to all Africans

The meeting at the White House between Donald Trump and the South African president, Cyril Ramaphosa, was, at its heart, about the preservation of...

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John Dramani Mahama

How long will it be before Melania steps aside for MelanAI?

I imagine students at the US Military Academy at West Point are trained to handle unexpected situations, but I’m not sure anyone could have...

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Arwa Mahdawi

A great prize, but a great risk: why we all need the nationalised South Western Railway to work

A historic journey took place this week, when the first renationalised South Western Railway (SWR) service departed from Woking for Waterloo. Yet...

28.05.2025 10

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Sarah Nankivell

Brigitte Macron’s push has reverberated around the world. Why was it met with a shrug in France?

The French president’s plane has just landed in Hanoi. Its door is open and Emmanuel Macron is standing looking at his wife, Brigitte, who is still...

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Pauline Bock