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No matter how far removed from the world’s pain and peril Australians feel, we must not look away

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Paul Daley

For all the errors and crises, the blight on Starmer’s first year is still the lack of vision

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Martin Kettle

How do you feed your family in Gaza?

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Paul Daley

Like English, Spanish is constantly evolving. Unlike some English speakers, we welcome that

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María Ramirez

This feels both sacrilegious and scary, but I have a bone to pick with Oprah Winfrey

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Emma Brockes

In an age of failing economies and a populist backlash, I’ll tell you what we need – Marxism

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Yanis Varoufakis

The Diddy verdict is the latest gruesome marker of a post-#MeToo era

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Moira Donegan

Capital gains for the rich and persistent gender pay gaps: what we can learn from the ATO’s annual tax statistics

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Greg Jericho

In 1948 a Labour government founded the NHS. My job now is to make it fit for the future

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Wes Streeting

America is over neoliberalism and neoconservatism. Trump is not

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Samuel Moyn

Beards may be dirtier than toilets – but all men should grow one

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Polly Hudson

I lost my niece and nephew in Gaza. Until the world calls this a genocide, we have no hope of peace

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Ahmed Najar

After a year studying Starmer, I can tell you that he is at once a very kind man and a ruthless one

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Anushka Asthana

How bad am I at small talk? Let me tell you about vaginal dryness ...

The importance of 31 December is well documented, but no one ever talks about the angst of 22 July. Or 23, or 25, depending on where you live. But...

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Polly Hudson

Ministers are fretting about Britain’s falling birthrate. Here’s why it could be a good thing

Back in the early 1970s when he was lead singer with the Faces, few of his fans would have expected Rod Stewart to be still belting out Maggie May...

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Larry Elliott

The Bezos wedding was a study in disingenuous billionaire behavior

If last week was the best of times for Zohran Mamdani and the working people of New York City, it was the worst of times for the billionaires who...

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Katrina Vanden Heuvel

I thought my sister and I had the worst fights in history. Then I asked the internet

How normal is sibling-on-sibling savagery? It’s a question I asked myself last week while watching two small children fight, Mike Tyson-style, on...

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Lucinda Price

After the welfare vote debacle, this much is clear: Starmer must change. Labour MPs will demand it

When politicians can’t admit they are losing, they say they are listening. Your anger has been heard, says the contrite minister after a byelection...

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Rafael Behr

Many of us already knew the childcare sector was in crisis. The question is: what are we going to do about it?

The absolute minimum a parent should expect when dropping off their child at an early childhood education and care centre is that their child will...

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Lisa Bryant

An impending gas shortfall in eastern Australia? This is just gas market Groundhog Day

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission is yet again warning of imminent gas shortfalls for Australia’s east coast. In response, the...

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Tristan Edis

The truth must come out about BBC mistakes at Glastonbury. But here’s why Tim Davie must stay

Uneasy lies the head that wears the BBC crown. Tim Davie, the beleaguered director general (DG), must be checking in the mirror to see if he is...

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Roger Bolton

The EU gave Romania’s migrant workers the chance to build a new life. Why are they turning against it?

It would be reasonable to assume that people who move from one EU country to another in search of work and opportunity are among the union’s most...

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Raluca Besliu

Look at Wimbledon without human line judges and tell me this: do you really want life to be perfect?

It’s the perfect Wimbledon. The sun is out, the Brits are firing and as for the scoring, that too will be somewhat perfect, this being the first...

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Hugh Muir

Everyone loves bombogenesis – so what is it? Not even the weather boffins can say

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Hugh Muir

Poorly led, strategically inept and shorn of democracy. Now I truly fear for this Labour government

The welfare bill has gone through, but what is on the minds of most Labour MPs and supporters is how did we get into this appalling mess over...

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John Mcdonnell

What would I do if I won the lottery? I’d blast the world’s worst people into space

Thoughts and prayers to the thousands of Norwegians who have just had one of the best weekends of their lives, followed by one hell of a comedown....

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Arwa Mahdawi

The supreme court is cracking down on judges – and letting Trump run wild

Ever since Donald Trump returned to power, he has carried out an unprecedented assault against the country’s rule of law. But we can be thankful...

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Steven Greenhouse

Caution has turned to cowardice – the BBC is failing viewers with its Gaza coverage

Tonight, audiences can finally watch Gaza: Doctors Under Attack on Channel 4 and Zeteo. This timely film was originally produced for the BBC by...

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Karishma Patel

Eminem, AI and me: why artists need new laws in the digital age

In the 74,833 words of a book I am writing, there are six words that, when strung together in a specific 12-word sequence, I cannot say. It’s a...

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Alexander Hurst

With his immigration bill, Canada’s prime minister is bowing to Trump

There are many stereotypes about Canada – that we are a nation of extremely polite people, a welcoming melting pot, and that we’re the US’s...

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Tayo Bero

The success of Budapest Pride hurt Orbán – but be warned, Europe’s far right is coming for all of our rights

An animal is at its most dangerous when it is wounded, and the Hungarian prime minister, Viktor Orbán, was already haemorrhaging supporters before...

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Gordon Cole-Schmidt

Planned Parenthood may not survive the Trump administration

Planned Parenthood, the massive, 108-year-old network of women’s and reproductive health clinics that operates almost 600 health centers across the...

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Moira Donegan

Welcome to Britain 2025: where a musician’s words cause more outrage than the murder and horror in Gaza

Let’s compare two news stories from the past few days. On Saturday, Bobby Vylan, the frontman of the rap-punk duo Bob Vylan, chanted “death, death...

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Owen Jones

When the time comes to die, what end-of-life care would doctors choose for themselves?

The uncustomary quiet of a Sunday morning in the emergency department is broken by a universally relevant question. “And if your heart were to...

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Ranjana Srivastava

What’s the secret to Liberal preselection?

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You Can’T Just Rest

To all who think capitalism can drive progressive change, it won’t – and here’s the shocking proof

The axe fell with shocking suddenness. On Thursday Aberdeen Group plc terminated its Financial Fairness Trust without notice and sacked the CEO,...

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Polly Toynbee

It’s not inevitable that musical dinosaurs dominate the charts. Here’s how we rescue pop in Britain

Looking at the Top 40 albums in the UK this week, it is clear that the charts have become a mausoleum. There are solid showings from Oasis (a...

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Eamonn Forde

I’m not ignoring your message – I’m overwhelmed by the tyranny of being reachable

A friend messaged me the other day. I saw it. I didn’t reply. A week later, I finally responded with the classic: Sorry for the late reply, just...

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Miski Omar

I learned about slavery from Hollywood. Why is French cinema so slow to depict our own colonial crimes?

France’s involvement in the transatlantic slave trade was historically among the most significant in Europe. After Britain, France had the second...

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Rokhaya Diallo

Bored mums in clothes shops of the world unite! Together we could be unstoppable

If there is a solidarity on Earth tighter than “bored middle-aged mothers in a clothes shop”, I don’t know what it is. Whether in Primark, Urban...

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Zoe Williams

Here’s what the Democrats can learn from Zohran Mamdani

In a lifetime of activism, I have canvassed and phone-banked, raised money, and twisted arms for dozens of political candidates. Zohran Mamdani,...

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Judith Levine

In Gaza we watched Iranian missiles go by, heading for Israel. That war is over – it seems ours will never end

Last Tuesday night, Donald Trump announced on social media that Iran and Israel had agreed to a ceasefire, ending what he called a “12-day war”. It...

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Hassan Abo Qamar

Glastonbury chanters or the Southport hate-tweeter – throw the book at one, you must throw it at them all

News that Avon and Somerset police have launched criminal investigations into the bands Bob Vylan and Kneecap for their Glastonbury sets reminds me...

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Marina Hyde

I can’t believe I need to spell this out – but Trump is not your daddy

Is your name Barron, Donald Jr, Eric, Ivanka or Tiffany Trump? No? Then I regret to inform you that President Donald John Trump is almost certainly...

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Arwa Mahdawi

Ben Jennings on Keir Starmer’s first year as prime minister – cartoon

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Juliet Stevenson

The Guardian view on the museum of the year: a history of the north-east in 3m objects

“Real museums are places where time is transformed into space,” Orhan Pamuk, the Nobel laureate, writes in his 2008 novel The Museum of Innocence....

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Juliet Stevenson

The Guardian view on Budapest’s pride parade: a humiliation for Orbán and a triumph for European values

In late 1980s Hungary, courageous environmental protests against an unpopular dam project played a part in the eventual collapse of the country’s...

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Juliet Stevenson

Palestine Action spraying paint is not terrorism. As ministers abuse their powers, I feel a duty to speak out

Strongly worded emails are not doing it. Appeals to MPs are not doing it. Taking to the streets in our hundreds of thousands with banners and...

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Juliet Stevenson

The way to tackle obesity in the UK is to make healthy food affordable. But the government won’t admit it

The government’s policy on obesity, announced on Sunday, sounds as though it’s tough on the supermarkets: they really must do better on the health...

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Zoe Williams

How can Australians make sure AI delivers on its hype? By proudly embracing our inner luddite

If I hear another well-intentioned person justifying their support for the regulation of AI with the qualifier “I’m no luddite, but …” I’m going to...

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Peter Lewis