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Arwa Mahdawi

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Give up complaining for 30 days? There’s no way I can conquer this January challenge

Give up complaining for 30 days? There’s no way I can conquer this January challenge
22.01.2025 7

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Arwa Mahdawi

From TikTok to TrumpTok? The app’s banning and unbanning encapsulates everything wrong with US politics

From TikTok to TrumpTok? The app’s banning and unbanning encapsulates everything wrong with US politics
21.01.2025 6

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Arwa Mahdawi

The Guardian view on incapacity benefit: the Treasury should not be calling the shots

The Guardian view on incapacity benefit: the Treasury should not be calling the shots
21.01.2025 6

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Arwa Mahdawi

The Guardian view on Donald Trump’s inauguration: fear, division and the facade of national populism

The Guardian view on Donald Trump’s inauguration: fear, division and the facade of national populism
21.01.2025 70

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A rebrand, not a revolution: our panel reacts to Trump’s inauguration speech

A rebrand, not a revolution: our panel reacts to Trump’s inauguration speech
21.01.2025 60

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Trump’s official portrait claims to ‘go hard’. Vance just looks stunned he pulled this off

Trump’s official portrait claims to ‘go hard’. Vance just looks stunned he pulled this off
17.01.2025 50

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Arwa Mahdawi

Why is it so unsettling to watch an adult drink cold cow’s milk?

Why is it so unsettling to watch an adult drink cold cow’s milk?
15.01.2025 9

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Arwa Mahdawi

Is Andrew Tate going to reinvent himself as a politician and ‘save Britan [sic]’?

Is Andrew Tate going to reinvent himself as a politician and ‘save Britan [sic]’?
14.01.2025 20

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Arwa Mahdawi

Thought UnitedHealthcare couldn’t get more awful? They’ve gone villain mode

Thought UnitedHealthcare couldn’t get more awful? They’ve gone villain mode
14.01.2025 40

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Arwa Mahdawi

AI-generated ‘slop’ is slowly killing the internet, so why is nobody trying to stop it?

AI-generated ‘slop’ is slowly killing the internet, so why is nobody trying to stop it?
09.01.2025 60

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Will flattery get you everywhere with Donald Trump? Billionaires are determined to find out

Will flattery get you everywhere with Donald Trump? Billionaires are determined to find out

Reader, I was wrong. So terribly wrong. It pains me to admit this but, back in the distant past (last year), I wrote some very nasty things about...

07.01.2025 3

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I tried ‘intermittent sobriety’. Here’s what I learned jumping on and off the wagon

I tried ‘intermittent sobriety’. Here’s what I learned jumping on and off the wagon

’Tis the season to drink far too much and then vow that, next year, you’ll never drink again. Or at least, it used to be that season. These...

06.01.2025 9

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The Baldoni-Lively legal battle has depressing echoes of Depp v Heard

First, a mea culpa. Last year I wrote a critical piece about the promotional campaign for the adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s controversial novel...

04.01.2025 6

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January 6 was part of an attempted coup d’etat in America. Don’t let Trump and his allies tell you otherwise

The sun shone brightly on 6 January 2021. The birds chirped, children frolicked and thousands of unarmed patriots gathered peacefully in Washington...

03.01.2025 100

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Is it true that up to half of people have no inner monologue? I investigated

Sometimes I like to start a column by asking myself: should this really be a column that will live on the internet forever, for all and sundry to...

30.12.2024 50

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Hail the broligarchy: why 2024 was the year of the bro

A creature of various talents, and the owner of at least three types of shirt, the Great American Bro can take different forms. The finance bro,...

27.12.2024 10

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My daughter will be an only child – and I’m not going to feel guilty about it

For a few years now, I’ve kept a few vials of a stranger’s sperm on ice. Not just hanging out in my freezer next to the frozen peas, to be clear....

27.12.2024 3

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Is your air fryer spying on you? It’s time to stop buying unnecessary ‘smart’ devices

Air fryers make delicious roast potatoes and, it turns out, pretty decent snooping devices. Last month, the consumer group Which? issued a warning...

18.12.2024 60

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Elon Musk is on track to be a trillionaire – if America doesn’t turn against him first

Congratulations to Elon Musk, a genius of truly galactic proportions, who recently made what might have been the world’s savviest investment. The...

17.12.2024 6

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Londoners are ‘cold’ and ‘mean’, according to one US family. But for real rudeness, go to Philadelphia

If you are an American hoping to ingratiate yourself with the local people while on a trip to London, I have some tips. First: smile at strangers...

11.12.2024 3

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Who’s the most basic person on the internet? A court will have to decide between these two beige influencers

Sydney Nicole Gifford, a 24-year-old lifestyle influencer, was busy being her most authentic self when her carefully curated world suddenly...

10.12.2024 3

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You can judge someone by their enemies. I write for the Guardian because it has all the right ones

The year is 2050. The US government is run by President Elon Musk and his 690 children. Donald Trump, immortalized as an AI hologram, continues to...

10.12.2024 20

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Are chicken sandwiches a) a tasty lunch? Or b) the ultimate symbol of gen Z wokeness?

You are what you eat. And if you eat sandwiches? Then you’re probably woke, I’m afraid. While the convenience food may have been invented by a...

04.12.2024 30

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Martin Rowson on Keir Starmer’s refusal to choose between the US and the EU – cartoon

03.12.2024 3

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Arwa Mahdawi

I understand why Joe Biden wants to protect his son Hunter. But it doesn’t make it right

‘No one is above the law,” Joe Biden tweeted in May. He probably should have added a caveat to that because his own son appears to be floating...

03.12.2024 3

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Can Gwyneth Paltrow save Goop with a bold new vaginal product?

“VAGINA! VAGINA! VAGINA!” That, in a nutshell (possibly the wrong metaphor), was the key to success for Gwyneth Paltrow’s lifestyle brand, Goop,...

27.11.2024 40

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Kim Kardashian cozying up to a robot is another example of AI entering our lives

On a scale of one to 10, just how desperate do you think Kim Kardashian is for attention? Judging by the billionaire’s weirdly sexual photoshoot...

23.11.2024 20

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Mark Zuckerberg loves his wife? That’s nice – but let’s stop fawning over a guy who fawns over Trump

Do they hand out Nobel prizes for PR? Because the team behind Mark Zuckerberg’s recent metamorphosis deserves one immediately. Not so long ago,...

20.11.2024 10

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He has already fathered many children. Now Musk wants all of the US to embrace extreme breeding

Is Elon Musk the dinner party guest from hell? It sure seems that way. Not only is the man desperate for people to laugh at his crass jokes, he...

19.11.2024 2

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He already has 12 children. Now Musk wants all of the US to embrace extreme breeding

Is Elon Musk the dinner party guest from hell? It sure seems that way. Not only is the man desperate for people to laugh at his crass jokes, he...

19.11.2024 3

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Line up to kiss the ring! How to join the brownnosers sucking up to Trump

Let the humiliation Olympics begin. As Donald Trump readies himself for his revenge tour, world leaders and business moguls are falling over...

14.11.2024 100

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Celebrities need to stop writing children’s books: they’re woefully underqualified

Ever wondered what frivolous whims you’d indulge if you were made queen for the day? Liz Hurley has. The actor recently told the Guardian she’d...

13.11.2024 8

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Is Ivanka Trump a secret Democrat? No – and neither is Melania

Her father may have been voted into the highest office in the land, but have the results of the US election left Ivanka Trump feeling low? Deep...

12.11.2024 2

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Trump’s win has given angry incels enormous power

Well that didn’t take long, did it? As soon as it became clear that Donald Trump had won the election, social media saw a major spike in gleeful...

09.11.2024 10

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We are witnessing the final stage of genocide in Gaza

Want to know a fun fact about Palestinians? They’re hard to kill. You can bomb them, bury them under rubble, burn them alive and they still don’t...

06.11.2024 100

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RIP Peanut the squirrel. At least he wasn’t flushed away like Pebbles the hamster

RIP Peanut the squirrel, an internet-famous critter who has become the latest entry into the niche but expanding quiz category I have termed...

05.11.2024 10

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Olivia Rodrigo is right: you shouldn’t date anyone who wants to go into space. But I have other red flags

Olivia Rodrigo does not want to hear about Uranus. Or your planned trip to Mars, for that matter. The pop star recently told Netflix that she has an...

05.11.2024 2

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Arwa Mahdawi

The truth about immigration? As Elon Musk shows, borders are always open for the rich

When is an illegal immigrant not an illegal immigrant? When they’re a privileged white person, of course. In that case the correct classification is...

30.10.2024 4

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Hulk Hogan once endorsed Barack Obama. How did he become a big Maga mascot?

It was less WWE, more WTF. On Sunday night, Terry Gene Bollea, better known as Hulk Hogan, strutted on stage at Madison Square Garden to speak at a...

29.10.2024 2

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Tucker Carlson is fantasizing about Daddy Donald Trump spanking teenage girls

Welcome to another normal day in Magaland. The sun is shining, the leaves are falling, and the former Fox News host Tucker Carlson is fantasizing...

24.10.2024 1

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Is three minutes enough for a goodbye hug? A New Zealand airport has ruled it is

Parting, as we all know, is such sweet sorrow. But if you’re departing from New Zealand’s Dunedin airport your sorrow had better be short and...

23.10.2024 3

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McDonald Trump had a shift serving fries. Will the stunt supersize his base?

Remember the creepy clown sightings that started in 2016? All over the world, scary clowns started popping up, terrifying small children. The trend...

22.10.2024 1

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Elon Musk is trying to buy the US election for Donald Trump. What does he want in return?

Welcome to The Maga Millions: a thrilling new contest in which you can win a million bucks if you help a billionaire buy an election. As 5 November...

22.10.2024 2

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First he urged women to put family first. Now Harrison Butker’s the latest angry rich guy with a Pac

In a segment last week, Laura Ingraham could barely contain her glee when she announced that Harrison Butker had decided to venture into politics: a...

18.10.2024 50

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Arwa Mahdawi

Why are chilling testimonies from doctors who have visited Gaza being ignored?

First come the bombs. A boom, then 2,000lb worth of destructive force flattening everything in its way. Severing limbs, vaporizing bodies, leaving...

17.10.2024 100

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We live in a treat culture – and gen Z is splurging on snacks

The last time I happened to find myself in Los Angeles (which is not a place I often happen to find myself), I did what every visitor to La-La Land...

16.10.2024 5

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Harris and Trump are tied in the polls – so I conducted my own less traditional research

Polls! What are they good for? Absolutely nothing, except for driving yourself bonkers. Oh look: Donald Trump is up by two points. Wait, it looks...

15.10.2024 3

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Wild conspiracies about the weather are spreading online. The media can help

Marjorie Taylor Greene, who has earned the dubious honour of being one of the most unhinged US politicians in recent memory, has an important...

10.10.2024 40

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Celebrities are coughing up millions to bring back the dodo. This could end very badly

The dodo is dead. That’s kind of its claim to fame. Had a bit of an awkward-looking beak. Couldn’t fly. Poor relation to the pigeon. Generally...

09.10.2024 10

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As the world falls apart, a few things are still worth celebrating – like Moo Deng the pygmy hippo

Knock knock! Who’s there? Moo. Moo who? No need to cry – it’s only a joke. OK, fine, that needs work. But you know what can’t be improved...

08.10.2024 1

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