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The Guardian view on a green wake-up call for Friedrich Merz: Europe’s political centre loses its way again

The Guardian view on a green wake-up call for Friedrich Merz: Europe’s political centre loses its way again

For most of the postwar period, the state of Baden-Württemberg was both a bastion of German conservatism and – as the home of Mercedes-Benz and...

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The Guardian view on the cost of Trump’s war on Iran: the world’s poor will pay most dearly

The Guardian view on the cost of Trump’s war on Iran: the world’s poor will pay most dearly

Soaring prices at the pump, the scrapping of mortgage deals, and the prospect of higher prices for everything from food to smartphones. The US-Israeli...

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The Guardian view on Adam Smith: he deserves rescuing from the free-market myth

The Guardian view on Adam Smith: he deserves rescuing from the free-market myth

This week 250 years ago, Adam Smith published An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations – and invented economics. The...

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The Guardian view on Kemi Badenoch and the Iran war: confusion reveals a lack of serious thinking

The Guardian view on Kemi Badenoch and the Iran war: confusion reveals a lack of serious thinking

Britain is one of many countries that would benefit from the replacement of brutal theocracy with democratic government in Tehran. The Iranian people...

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The Guardian view on Europe’s response to the Iran crisis: damage limitation only goes so far

The Guardian view on Europe’s response to the Iran crisis: damage limitation only goes so far

When European leaders were blindsided in January by Donald Trump’s unilateral abduction of Venezuela’s president, Nicolás Maduro, their immediate...

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The Guardian view on the Iran crisis exposing Britain’s energy vulnerability: clean power offers protection

The Guardian view on the Iran crisis exposing Britain’s energy vulnerability: clean power offers protection

What should Britain do when war in the Middle East sends energy prices soaring? If the strait of Hormuz were blocked for the month of fighting that...

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The Guardian view on cancer survival rates: there is good news about healthcare amid the gloom

The Guardian view on cancer survival rates: there is good news about healthcare amid the gloom

New analysis from Cancer Research UK, revealing a 29% drop in the rate of people dying from cancer compared with 40 years ago, is a vital counterpoint...

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The Guardian view on EV charging: China took the right lessons from Britain’s past

The Guardian view on EV charging: China took the right lessons from Britain’s past

The future of electric cars arrived this week in China. The world’s biggest car seller, BYD, unveiled a new battery giving its latest electric...

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The Guardian view on secrecy in parliament: hiding the names of MPs’ staff would undermine democracy

The Guardian view on secrecy in parliament: hiding the names of MPs’ staff would undermine democracy

The recommendation that the names of MPs’ staff should be removed from a decades-old register, made by the House of Commons standards committee, is...

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The Guardian view on 25 years of Malorie Blackman’s Noughts & Crosses: a love story that changed an industry

The Guardian view on 25 years of Malorie Blackman’s Noughts & Crosses: a love story that changed an industry

A World Book Day question: which children’s author is name-checked in Stormzy’s song Superheroes (and appears in the video for Mel Made Me Do It)...

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The Guardian view on AI in war: the Iran conflict shows that the paradigm shift has already begun

The Guardian view on AI in war: the Iran conflict shows that the paradigm shift has already begun

“Never in the future will we move as slow as we are moving now,” the UN secretary-general, António Guterres, warned this week, addressing the...

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The Guardian view on rising youth unemployment: regional leaders as well as ministers must take action

The Guardian view on rising youth unemployment: regional leaders as well as ministers must take action

Launching a review into unemployment and economic inactivity among young people in December, the former health secretary Alan Milburn described the...

06.03.2026 10

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The Guardian view on the expanding Iran crisis: no clear aim and no end in sight

The Guardian view on the expanding Iran crisis: no clear aim and no end in sight

There will be no quick or easy wins – even on US and Israeli terms. They have celebrated assassinating Iran’s supreme leader; their offensive has...

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The Guardian view on the US-UK relationship: Trump is pushing Britain closer to Europe

The Guardian view on the US-UK relationship: Trump is pushing Britain closer to Europe

There is truth to Donald Trump’s declaration earlier this week that the UK-US relationship is “not what it was”, although there is no indication...

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The Guardian view on adult services websites: ministers must act on evidence of harm

The Guardian view on adult services websites: ministers must act on evidence of harm

The latest report from the UK anti-slavery commissioner, Eleanor Lyons, is a call to action on websites used to advertise sex workers – some of whom...

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The Guardian view on Rachel Reeves’s spring statement: stability cannot mean sacrificing living standards

The Guardian view on Rachel Reeves’s spring statement: stability cannot mean sacrificing living standards

The war in the Middle East has sent oil and gas prices soaring – and Britain remains deeply exposed to global energy markets. If the shocks persist...

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The Guardian view on Labour’s migration gamble: Denmark is no template

The Guardian view on Labour’s migration gamble: Denmark is no template

The home secretary, Shabana Mahmood, is expected this week to press ahead with plans to make it harder for migrants to gain settled status, extending...

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The Guardian view on schools: Send reforms aside, the government’s white paper lacks focus

The Guardian view on schools: Send reforms aside, the government’s white paper lacks focus

Heavily trailed reforms to special educational needs and disabilities (Send) education dominated coverage of last week’s schools white paper. But...

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The Guardian view on parliament’s role in war on Iran: MPs should vote before Britain gets sucked in

The Guardian view on parliament’s role in war on Iran: MPs should vote before Britain gets sucked in

In the Commons on Monday, Sir Keir Starmer was clear that Britain will not join offensive action against Tehran. It is wise not to join an illegal...

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The Guardian view on an explosion of solo exhibitions by women: move over old masters

“Do women have to be naked to get into the Met Museum?” the feminist art collective Guerrilla Girls asked in their famous 1989 poster. It pointed...

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The Guardian view on Trump’s Iranian campaign: an illegal war that risks becoming the new normal

The killing of Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, by a US-Israeli strike is a targeted assassination of a head of state. It also marks a...

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The Guardian view on Trump’s war on science: Europe should pick up talent fleeing the US

Donald Trump has spent much of his second term at war with science and scientists. He is cutting staff at institutions such as the Environmental...

27.02.2026 10

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The Guardian view on Gorton and Denton: a warning shot across Labour’s bows

The Greens have every reason to celebrate their victory in the Gorton and Denton byelection. From a standing start in a Manchester constituency,...

27.02.2026 9

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The Guardian view on Plaid Cymru’s rise: Welsh politics is on the brink of a revolution

Speaking last October at his party’s annual conference, Plaid Cymru’s leader, Rhun ap Iorwerth, raised the biggest cheer when he laid out the...

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The Guardian view on maternity care failures: NHS England must do better by mothers and babies

Perhaps the most dismaying thing about the interim maternity care report commissioned by the health secretary, Wes Streeting, is how little of it is...

26.02.2026 10

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The Guardian view on saving Westminster: parliament should leave London

MPs and peers face a looming choice: stay put or move out to allow billions of pounds of urgent repairs to the crumbling Palace of Westminster. That...

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The Guardian view on violent online rhetoric: all politicians have a duty to set a civil tone

The impulse to post on social media often overwhelms judgment of what is appropriate to share. Knowing when not to succumb to that urge, exercising...

25.02.2026 10

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The Guardian view on temporary accommodation bills: short-term fixes must be backed up by housebuilding

Local authorities are experiencing some of the highest temporary accommodation bills on record. Councils in England spent £2.8bn last year on...

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The Guardian view on Donald Trump’s tariffs: a nostalgia that misreads a changed world

When the US supreme court voted 6-3 last Friday to strike down Donald Trump’s tariffs, he was incandescent. Two judges he had elevated – Neil...

24.02.2026 10

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The Guardian view on the fourth anniversary of Putin’s war: Ukraine is exhausted, but not broken

Four years after Vladimir Putin launched the biggest conflict on European soil since the second world war, the human cost of his revanchist ambition...

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The Guardian view on Send reforms: ministers need to show how inclusion will work

With its education white paper, the key section of which concerns support for children with special educational needs and disabilities (Send), the...

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The Guardian view on Scottish Labour: Keir Starmer needs Anas Sarwar’s act of betrayal to pay off

At Scottish Labour’s spring conference last year, Sir Keir Starmer bullishly addressed mounting discontent at his government’s performance,...

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The Guardian view on the funding crisis at the National Gallery: the public should not pay the price

“The National Gallery is doing a great job isn’t it?” David Hockney reflected in 2024. “Everything in the collection is good, every single...

22.02.2026 10

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Royal scandal fallout has far to go: Andrew’s records will be scrutinised in detail

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Green and gold dazzle in snow

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Government has failed its duty on ISIS bride return

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The Guardian view on the Southbank Centre: ministers must support innovation in the present as well as the past

The granting of Grade II-listed building status to the brutalist concrete Southbank Centre, comprising the Queen Elizabeth Hall, Hayward Gallery and...

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The Guardian view on Trump’s Board of Peace: serving private interests more than public good

In Gaza, aid still trickles in at levels relief agencies say are far below what is required. Temporary shelters are scarce. Reconstruction materials...

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The Guardian view on the royals and the law: no more managed disgrace

The arrest of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor the king’s brother, should be the moment deference ends and accountability begins – a correction long...

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The Guardian view on Merz and Meloni: an emerging Berlin-Rome axis is threatening the EU’s green deal

When the European Union launched its green deal in 2019, putting into law the goal of climate neutrality by the middle of the century, it showed...

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The Guardian view on UK-EU defence: moving in the right direction, much too slowly

For Vladimir Putin, peace talks with Ukraine are war pursued by other means. That is why progress has been so slow in negotiations, which resumed in...

18.02.2026 10

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The Guardian view on Scotland’s housing crisis: supply has failed to keep pace with need

Rough sleeping in Scotland has risen by 106% over the past three years. Record numbers of children are now living in temporary accommodation, official...

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The Guardian view on local government elections: fix the system, not the timetable

Being forced to abandon plans to delay local elections in England with fewer than three months’ notice is not just another policy U-turn by the...

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The Guardian view on suicide following domestic abuse: justice is not being done for victims

Hours before she hanged herself in 2023, Katie Madden spoke on the telephone with her abusive former partner, Jonathon Russell, who had been banned...

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Danger in Tame’s lack of grace

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The Guardian view on Team GB’s Winter Olympics success: sporting inspiration lifts the grey February mood

For most of January and February, Britons have endured relentless, record-breaking rain, often accompanied by a biting wind. But in recent days many...

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The Guardian view on Palestine Action: banning the group was a step too far

The high court ruled last week that the British government’s proscription of Palestine Action is unlawful and disproportionate. Its judgment,...

16.02.2026 10

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The Guardian view on AI: safety staff departures raise worries about industry pursuing profit at all costs

Hardly a month passes without an AI grandee cautioning that the technology poses an existential threat to humanity. Many of these warnings might be...

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The Guardian view on Donald Trump and the climate crisis: the US is in reverse while China ploughs ahead

Devastating wildfires, flooding and winter storms were among the 23 extreme weather and climate-related disasters in the US which cost more than a...

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The Guardian view on the BBC World Service: this is London calling

“The programmes will neither be very interesting nor very good,” said the then BBC director general John Reith, when he launched its Empire...

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