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Something good happened! The rescue of Reece the kelpie

07.02.2025 60

The Guardian

Gordon Brown

Be clear about what Trump and Musk’s aid axe will do: people will face terror and starve, many will die

Be clear about what Trump and Musk’s aid axe will do: people will face terror and starve, many will die
07.02.2025 300

The Guardian

Gordon Brown

GORDON BROWN: How a Kirkcaldy ‘warm welcome’ is bringing communities together

GORDON BROWN: How a Kirkcaldy ‘warm welcome’ is bringing communities together

Former prime minister Gordon Brown says community spaces prove there is an alternative to isolation.

23.01.2025 1

The Courier

Gordon Brown

Memo to President Trump: you are wrong to leave the World Health Organization. You should think again

Memo to President Trump: you are wrong to leave the World Health Organization. You should think again
22.01.2025 2

The Guardian

Gordon Brown

My friend Jimmy Carter will be remembered long after other presidents are forgotten. Here’s why

Though Jimmy Carter was, at the age of 100, the US president who had lived longer than any of the other 45 occupants of the office, he will be...

30.12.2024 30

The Guardian

Gordon Brown

Spending time with people in their final days showed me that we need not assisted dying, but better end-of-life care

Jennifer, the baby daughter my wife Sarah brought into the world a few days after Christmas 2001, died after only 11 days. By day four, when the...

22.11.2024 6

The Guardian

Gordon Brown

Today, our hearts are breaking for the children of Gaza. Tomorrow, we must give them peace

The nightmare continues. One year on from the horror of the 7 October massacre and the inhumane seizure of hostages, more than 40,000 lives have...

08.10.2024 50

The Guardian

Gordon Brown

Europe is in thrall to the far right – that’s the result of appeasement by so-called moderates

In recent days, the French president, Emmanuel Macron, has capitulated to the far-right anti-immigration agenda of Marine Le Pen. In July, in an...

17.09.2024 60

The Guardian

Gordon Brown

Another worldwide alert – mpox is spreading. Here are three steps we can take to head it off

Just a little over a year since declaring that Covid-19 was no longer a public health emergency of international concern and that the 2022-23 mpox...

30.08.2024 3

The Guardian

Gordon Brown

It’s August 2024 – and our world is at a turning point. Here’s what we should do now

The world is on fire. At no time since the Cuban missile crisis of 1962 has the world looked so dangerous, nor has an end to its 56 conflicts – the...

24.08.2024 100

The Guardian

Gordon Brown

First Murdoch papers targeted me. Now there is evidence they falsely implicated me in a cover-up

Blazoned across the top of every edition of the Washington Post is the statement “Democracy dies in darkness”. But what if the publisher himself...

31.07.2024 10

The Guardian

Gordon Brown