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Martin Rowson on food distribution in Gaza – cartoon

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Ignore the bluster: as Netanyahu starves Gaza, the world is turning on him – and he knows it

Ignore the bluster: as Netanyahu starves Gaza, the world is turning on him – and he knows it
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Who’s behind the boom in bots?

25.07.2025 10

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Martin Rowson on the doctors’ strike in England – cartoon

25.07.2025 3

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To end the starvation in Gaza, Trump must lean on Netanyahu – so Starmer must lean on Trump

To end the starvation in Gaza, Trump must lean on Netanyahu – so Starmer must lean on Trump
25.07.2025 30

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Martin Rowson on ructions in the Labour party – cartoon

18.07.2025 20

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The Guardian view on the cultural life of trees: we must protect our natural heritage

18.07.2025 4

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The Guardian view on Maga and Jeffrey Epstein: the truth about Donald Trump and conspiracy theories

18.07.2025 4

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Faced with a choice between saving his own skin and the lives of others, Netanyahu always chooses himself

18.07.2025 10

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Martin Rowson on Keir Starmer’s migration deal with France – cartoon

11.07.2025 8

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We’ve become inured to Trump’s outbursts – but when he goes quiet, we need to be worried

11.07.2025 30

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Martin Rowson on a year of Keir Starmer’s government – cartoon

04.07.2025 3

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To Starmer, his achievements are obvious. As a thought experiment, let’s see things through his eyes

04.07.2025 4

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Martin Rowson on Donald Trump’s birthday parade – cartoon

13.06.2025 4

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Netanyahu attacked Iran to avert an ‘existential threat’. He may have made it worse

13.06.2025 6

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Musk and Trump are enemies made for each other – united in their ability to trash their own brands

06.06.2025 3

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It’s easy to dismiss Robert Jenrick’s fare-dodging stunt. But he understands something Keir Starmer doesn’t

30.05.2025 6

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Finding the state of the world a little difficult to face?

23.05.2025 10

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Martin Rowson on Benjamin Netanyahu’s comments on the war in Gaza – cartoon

23.05.2025 20

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A biblical hatred is engulfing both sides in the Gaza conflict – and blinding them to reason

23.05.2025 10

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What Donald Trump did this week should terrify Benjamin Netanyahu. This is why

16.05.2025 10

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The Guardian view on the impact of Trump’s film tariffs: a disaster movie waiting to happen

09.05.2025 5

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The Guardian view on Pope Leo XIV: a different kind of American leader

09.05.2025 5

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The art of dealing with Donald Trump? Don’t fight him alone

09.05.2025 7

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One hundred days in, Donald Trump faces a problem: he can rage, but he can’t govern

02.05.2025 3

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Martin Rowson on Pope Francis’s funeral – cartoon

25.04.2025 10

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Ukraine has exposed Trump’s true identity: as a vandal, an autocrat, a gangster and a fool

25.04.2025 100

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Catching up on the news? You may want to lie down

11.04.2025 30

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What’s the true cost of Donald Trump? All the crises around the world that we’ve no time to fix

11.04.2025 20

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Trump is the orange hurricane upending everything. Starmer must warn Britain of the danger

28.03.2025 30

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Martin Rowson on Labour beating ploughshares into swords – cartoon

21.03.2025 10

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Trump is abandoning democracy and freedom. That creates an opening for Europe – and Britain

21.03.2025 5

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Martin Rowson on the continuing talks to end the war in Ukraine – cartoon

14.03.2025 7

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Why is Donald Trump crashing the US economy? Because he’s high on his own supply of fake news

14.03.2025 30

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Donald Trump or Don Corleone? Sometimes it’s hard to tell the difference

07.03.2025 10

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Donald Trump is turning America into a mafia state

07.03.2025 10

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Trump is the world’s greatest showman – and the weakest strongman it has ever seen

21.02.2025 2

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In Israel, dread and rage haunt the streets. Netanyahu is exploiting that

14.02.2025 4

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Martin Rowson on Trump’s Gaza riviera – cartoon

07.02.2025 5

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Lethal fantasies of driving people from their land haunt the Middle East. Trump is fuelling them

07.02.2025 5

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Martin Rowson on Storm Éowyn – cartoon

24.01.2025 20

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Through the blizzard of edicts, see Trump for what he is: an autocrat reaching for limitless power

24.01.2025 7

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Relief at this Gaza deal should be tempered by rage at Hamas and Netanyahu. How dare they take so long?

17.01.2025 4

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How will President Trump put himself on the map?

10.01.2025 3

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With Trump as America’s tsar and Musk at his side, Starmer must now look to Europe

10.01.2025 8

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How will 2025 turn out? The life of Jimmy Carter offers an unexpected clue

How will we look back on 2025? Or, if that seems too absurd a question to ponder just a few days into the new year, how might we view the first...

03.01.2025 10

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‘How do we live in this terrible world?’ a reader asked me. Here’s the only answer I have

It’s a season brimming with tradition and, as longtime readers may know, my own custom has been to try, in the last column before Christmas, to find...

20.12.2024 5

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We cannot afford for Starmer’s government to fail. Because Farage is lying in wait

This government must not fail. Let’s get that clear from the start. If Keir Starmer does not succeed, too many British voters will conclude that...

06.12.2024 10

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Brexit makes no sense in a world dominated by Trump. Britain’s place is back in the EU

It’s one damn thing after another. As Keir Starmer is discovering, government, like life, can feel like a fusillade of events, each coming faster...

29.11.2024 5

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Benjamin Netanyahu is a wanted man – and he has only himself to blame

Thanks to Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel, which once dreamed of being a light unto the nations, has taken a step closer to becoming a leper among the...

22.11.2024 10

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