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This is my first Father’s Day as a dad without my own. Allowing joy to sit alongside grief is the most honest way to move through this day

This is my first Father’s Day as a dad without my own. Allowing joy to sit alongside grief is the most honest way to move through this day

This year is my first Father’s Day as a dad. My son will be just seven months old, too young to know why there’s a card on my bedside table or why...

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Samuel Bernard

The division exposed by the March for Australia was a test for our politicians. They failed it – and put the nation last

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Zoe Daniel

Melania Trump is right that the robots are here – but she’s wrong on how to handle it

Melania Trump is right that the robots are here – but she’s wrong on how to handle it

“The robots are here,” proclaimed Melania Trump during an AI event at the White House on Thursday. It can be hard to parse the first lady’s...

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Arwa Mahdawi

Blindsided by Trump, Modi is learning hard lessons about India’s place in the new world order

Blindsided by Trump, Modi is learning hard lessons about India’s place in the new world order

When Donald Trump won his second term, India’s ruling elite must have been quietly pleased. Prime minister Narendra Modi’s performative courting of...

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Mukul Kesavan

This Father’s Day, let’s honour all the mentors who guide our kids and shape their lives

This Father’s Day, let’s honour all the mentors who guide our kids and shape their lives

Just as Christmas can be lonely and isolating for many people, the supposedly official commemorations of parenthood – Father’s and Mother’s days...

yesterday 20

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Paul Daley

The end of Meanjin after 85 years is as sad as it is infuriating

The end of Meanjin after 85 years is as sad as it is infuriating

Some years ago, I wrote about the terrible repercussions that would follow if the literary magazine Island were forced to close following its...

yesterday 20

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Ben Walter

I’m from an English working-class town. When will society stop looking at us through the rearview mirror?

I’m from an English working-class town. When will society stop looking at us through the rearview mirror?

In 2016, on the day after the Brexit vote, my home town’s pub opened early and celebratory pints were drunk underneath union flags. I was in a...

yesterday 6

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Beth Steel

‘No pets, no guests, no music’ – and now ‘no WFH’: why house-share ads are getting ever stricter

‘No pets, no guests, no music’ – and now ‘no WFH’: why house-share ads are getting ever stricter

Last week, I came across a flurry of ads on the house-share site SpareRoom sounding less like they were for cosy, inviting living arrangements than...

yesterday 5

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Kimi Chaddah

Rebecca Hendin on the subscriptions you don’t have, but really need – cartoon

yesterday 3

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Rebecca Solnit

The Jeffrey Epstein cover-up is an affront to US democracy

The Jeffrey Epstein cover-up is an affront to US democracy

Rape is a crime against democracy in the most immediate sense of equality between individuals and the premise that we’re all endowed with certain...

yesterday 60

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Rebecca Solnit

RFK Jr’s anti-science agenda will be catastrophic for the United States

RFK Jr’s anti-science agenda will be catastrophic for the United States

Things seem to be going well at the CDC, the federal agency charged with protecting US public health. By “well” I mean terrible, thanks to the...

yesterday 60

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Moustafa Bayoumi

Why is much of the media ignoring questions about Trump’s health?

Why is much of the media ignoring questions about Trump’s health?

Prestigious news organizations gave scant attention when, for several days recently, Donald Trump faded from public view. Other than some social...

yesterday 50

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Margaret Sullivan

Rayner’s exit is a bombshell. But the real crisis for Starmer may have only just begun

Rayner’s exit is a bombshell. But the real crisis for Starmer may have only just begun

A government that was already reeling has sustained another massive blow. Elected in a landslide slightly more than a year ago, Labour hit the...

yesterday 10

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Jonathan Freedland

To Australia’s university fat cats, who may yet face job cuts not of their own making – don’t forget to wash your underwear …

To Australia’s university fat cats, who may yet face job cuts not of their own making – don’t forget to wash your underwear …

The corporate cannibalisation of Australia’s higher education sector is so bad that it has entered the firmament of literature. Poet Dorothy Porter...

yesterday 10

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Van Badham

Sky News Australia gives neo-Nazi centre stage with uninterrupted press conference

Sky News Australia gives neo-Nazi centre stage with uninterrupted press conference

We all saw footage of the disturbing behaviour of neo-Nazi Thomas Sewell, who shouted at the Victorian premier, Jacinta Allan, this week as she was...

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Amanda Meade

Brexit didn’t solve Britain’s woes, but no matter: leaving the ECHR definitely will. Sounds simple, doesn’t it?

Brexit didn’t solve Britain’s woes, but no matter: leaving the ECHR definitely will. Sounds simple, doesn’t it?

There will be fireworks and celebration at Nigel Farage’s party conference this weekend. Burgeoning membership and council seats as Reform UK tops...

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Polly Toynbee

Authoritative to authoritarian: rightwing radicalisation is blurring the Conservatives’ political red lines

Authoritative to authoritarian: rightwing radicalisation is blurring the Conservatives’ political red lines

While British rightwing politics has never been exactly a gentle pursuit, there is a longstanding assumption that its tone and content have limits....

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Andy Beckett

Everyone lies so much we don’t even know what’s true any more. Disgraceful!

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How’S Things? Fine Thanks. Not True

It’s the big fat Greek farming scandal – devised by the political elite and paid for by ordinary people

It’s the big fat Greek farming scandal – devised by the political elite and paid for by ordinary people

Something strange has been happening in Greece: animals are appearing out of nowhere. Between 2016 and 2022, the sheep population on the island of...

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Alexander Clapp

A grim week of migrant-bashing, and for what? People will suffer – and Labour will gain absolutely nothing

A grim week of migrant-bashing, and for what? People will suffer – and Labour will gain absolutely nothing

It’s been a busy week for asylum-seeker bashing. Had it not been for the forensic scrutiny of the deputy prime minister’s tax affairs, the...

previous day 40

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Diane Taylor

The golden rule of Trump and Farage’s free speech crusade: they’re allowed to chat rubbish – you’re not

The golden rule of Trump and Farage’s free speech crusade: they’re allowed to chat rubbish – you’re not

Pop quiz. Of whom did Donald Trump say admiringly: “I also learned that he loves his country very much”? And: “He wrote me beautiful letters....

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Marina Hyde

Ben Jennings on Wes Streeting and free speech – cartoon

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Gaby Hinsliff

The Guardian view on Xi, Putin and Kim: heed China’s statement of intent, but don’t take it as fact

The Guardian view on Xi, Putin and Kim: heed China’s statement of intent, but don’t take it as fact

On Wednesday morning, Beijingers living near Tiananmen Square were issued with cold breakfast packs and ordered to refrain from cooking, lest smoke...

previous day 4

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Gaby Hinsliff

The Guardian view on Reform’s party conference: Trumpism is on the agenda – it must be resisted

The Guardian view on Reform’s party conference: Trumpism is on the agenda – it must be resisted

Nigel Farage is the most influential politician of his generation never to have held ministerial office. His campaigning prowess was instrumental...

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Gaby Hinsliff

Keir Starmer may be the judge of Angela Rayner’s fate – but the public is the jury

Keir Starmer may be the judge of Angela Rayner’s fate – but the public is the jury

It didn’t take them long to find her. Spray-painted on the wall outside Angela Rayner’s new flat in Hove, East Sussex, in purple, red and yellow,...

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Gaby Hinsliff

Trump’s domestic troop deployments aren’t about crime – they’re about intimidation

Trump’s domestic troop deployments aren’t about crime – they’re about intimidation

“We’re going in,” Donald Trump said on Tuesday, when asked whether national guard troops would be sent to invade Chicago. The comment came as...

previous day 10

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Moira Donegan

This is a disaster unfolding in plain sight. Each day Keir Starmer is smoothing Nigel Farage’s path to No 10

This is a disaster unfolding in plain sight. Each day Keir Starmer is smoothing Nigel Farage’s path to No 10

Britain isn’t sleepwalking into catastrophe; it’s charging towards it. Last year, a violent rightwing uprising tore through our streets – an...

previous day 40

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Owen Jones

My hair started thinning straight out of high school. At 24, I embraced the inevitable

My hair started thinning straight out of high school. At 24, I embraced the inevitable

When I was a toddler, family and strangers alike would fawn over my crown of golden locks. I was often mistaken for a little girl. Then as I grew...

previous day 2

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Brodie Wilkinson

The robodebt class action settlement may be the biggest in Australian history – but the trauma isn’t over

The robodebt class action settlement may be the biggest in Australian history – but the trauma isn’t over

The federal government has agreed to pay $475m in compensation to the thousands of victims of the robodebt scandal. Both the government and Gordon...

previous day 2

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Peter Whiteford

Will journalists in Gaza ever be safe?

thursday 10

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Not With This

Daniel Andrews’ photo with dictators is a glaring reminder of Australia’s hypocrisy on human rights

Daniel Andrews’ photo with dictators is a glaring reminder of Australia’s hypocrisy on human rights

A photo of former Victorian premier Daniel Andrews alongside the Chinese leader, Xi Jinping, the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, and the North...

thursday 6

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Daniela Gavshon

Australia scores a B- on its latest economic report card. It’s an improvement, but there’s still a long way to go

Australia scores a B- on its latest economic report card. It’s an improvement, but there’s still a long way to go

Australia’s economy grew by 0.6% over the three months to June this year, and by 1.8% over the year to June. This outcome was better than expected...

thursday 2

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Nicki Hutley

While Starmer struggles with a broken system in Westminster, real power keeps leaking elsewhere

While Starmer struggles with a broken system in Westminster, real power keeps leaking elsewhere

With a buzz of activity in parliament and mandatory back-to-school metaphors, a new political season opens in Westminster, but is that where...

thursday 4

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Rafael Behr

No Abba, no meatballs? Sweden’s new cultural canon is a listicle that will soon be forgotten

No Abba, no meatballs? Sweden’s new cultural canon is a listicle that will soon be forgotten

Sweden is often associated with a large and efficient bureaucratic apparatus. It is also often associated with minimalist interiors furnished by...

thursday 2

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Gabriel V Rindborg

Is Britain really the new North Korea? Let us consider the evidence

Is Britain really the new North Korea? Let us consider the evidence

Tell me, fellow Brits, how are you getting used to our island version of North Korea? How are you coping with life, now that we are a global pariah...

thursday 20

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Martin Kettle

Summer’s ending – and the delusion that a new me might be possible is back

Summer’s ending – and the delusion that a new me might be possible is back

Every year at this time, I think of a quote from the Bible, but which I know from Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson, in which...

thursday 30

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Emma Brockes

Hold music is eating my soul. Can anyone save me from the doom loop?

Hold music is eating my soul. Can anyone save me from the doom loop?

Hold music. There must be a better way. You have already had to come to terms with disappointments on your long journey to your heart’s desire: a...

thursday 3

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Adrian Chiles

I dated Jeffrey Epstein. The files must be released

I dated Jeffrey Epstein. The files must be released

In 1986, my life went from black-and-white to color. It was the year I taped a Duran Duran poster to my rural Pennsylvania high school locker, and...

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Stacey Williams

Trump’s killing of 11 alleged Venezuelan drug traffickers sets a dangerous precedent

Trump’s killing of 11 alleged Venezuelan drug traffickers sets a dangerous precedent

The US military’s killing of 11 alleged Venezuelan drug traffickers traveling by boat in international waters in the Caribbean is an illegal use of...

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Kenneth Roth

Trump wants to rewrite American history. Maybe he should learn it first

Trump wants to rewrite American history. Maybe he should learn it first

Of all the presidents, Donald Trump – the man who would remake the Smithsonian and alter its presentation of “how bad slavery was”, as he put it...

thursday 50

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Sidney Blumenthal

Zack Polanski’s win shows leftwing candidates are still underestimated – even by Jeremy Corbyn

Zack Polanski’s win shows leftwing candidates are still underestimated – even by Jeremy Corbyn

What risk could the election of Zack Polanski as leader pose for the Green party? That’s what journalists wondered aloud on one current affairs...

thursday 4

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Zoe Williams

I saw a poor, lonely man wandering the A4 – then realised the sheer joy of where he was heading

I saw a poor, lonely man wandering the A4 – then realised the sheer joy of where he was heading

It’s 6am on an unpromising Saturday, and I’m heading west out of London on the stretch where the A4 runs beneath the elevated M4 – two roads for...

thursday 5

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Adrian Chiles

Trump’s ‘Gaza Riviera’ plan is an obscenity. Can we really trust Tony Blair to have told him so?

Trump’s ‘Gaza Riviera’ plan is an obscenity. Can we really trust Tony Blair to have told him so?

Tony Blair’s leaked presence at the recent White House discussion of Donald Trump’s “Gaza Riviera” plan is either good news or outrageous....

thursday 10

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Simon Jenkins

Trump’s belligerence is pushing Xi, Putin and Kim together – and tearing the old world order apart

Trump’s belligerence is pushing Xi, Putin and Kim together – and tearing the old world order apart

Donald Trump’s first reaction to the disconcerting spectacle of China’s Xi Jinping, Russia’s Vladimir Putin and North Korea’s Kim Jong-un marching...

thursday 10

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Simon Tisdall

My petty gripe: bands naming themselves as puns on other bands – will it never end?

My petty gripe: bands naming themselves as puns on other bands – will it never end?

It’s a tradition almost as old as popular music itself: a band name that puns, plays on, or pays tribute to the name of another artist. In the...

thursday 3

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Andrew Stafford

Racism in Australia is hardly new. To address this, we need media and politicians capable of navigating complexities

Racism in Australia is hardly new. To address this, we need media and politicians capable of navigating complexities

Perhaps it is inevitable that the two most persistent evils in human societies – racism and misogyny – can be at times difficult to define and pin...

thursday 2

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Margaret Simons

Fiscally physical: why I’m not letting go of cash

Fiscally physical: why I’m not letting go of cash

“Oh my God! You still use cash?!” If I had a dollar for every time someone said that to me, I’d have about $1,326, and it’d all be in the cold hard...

03.09.2025 30

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Fiona Katauskas

Keir Starmer may have just served up the worst political slogan of all time

Keir Starmer may have just served up the worst political slogan of all time

“Delivery, delivery, delivery”. That’s what the prime minister promised as he announced yet another government reboot, insisted he would get all...

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Simon Hattenstone

Labour has succeeded only in strengthening Farage. The way is now open for Zack Polanski’s Greens

Labour has succeeded only in strengthening Farage. The way is now open for Zack Polanski’s Greens

There’s an obvious way to destroy Nigel Farage’s political momentum. A poll by the research group Persuasion UK, testing various messages, found...

03.09.2025 30

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George Monbiot

Sun, sex, but no sangria? The Balearics’ booze crackdown might just save their tourist industry

Sun, sex, but no sangria? The Balearics’ booze crackdown might just save their tourist industry

Last summer, Spain’s Balearic Islands launched one of Europe’s toughest crackdowns on alcohol-fuelled party tourism. In popular resorts such as...

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Dimah Ajeeb