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Marina Hyde

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Hit TV show, tick. Millions for lawyers, tick. Now could we manage some actual justice for the subpostmasters?

20.12.2024 40

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Marina Hyde

I spy another Prince Andrew disaster. Pity the royals: how could they possibly have seen this coming?

17.12.2024 5

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Marina Hyde

Memo to the Assads: Putin may welcome you in Moscow, but I wouldn’t drink his tea

10.12.2024 30

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Farewell, then, Justin Welby. Good to see that you have already forgiven yourself

I imagine the outgoing archbishop of Canterbury doesn’t have a tattoo. But if he did, he’d have that one beloved of so many insouciant people:...

06.12.2024 10

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So Labour waded into the Gregg Wallace row. Why don’t they get their own house, Parliament, in order?

Why has the prime minister weighed in on the content of a Gregg Wallace Instagram video? News that Keir Starmer’s spokesperson has taken the trouble...

03.12.2024 20

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Gregg Wallace is in trouble. I would tell him to put a sock on it, but isn’t that what caused the problem?

One of Gregg Wallace’s wives used to be charged with compiling his daily to-do list. As the MasterChef host once explained, in words he somehow said...

29.11.2024 60

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Elon Musk and a mass petition want a new UK election. Shall we do that – or just stick to democracy?

By now you will be aware of the petition demanding another general election. Finally, an answer to what would happen if Maga had sex with the...

26.11.2024 30

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Hats off to Jaguar’s ‘inclusive’ new branding: now people of all backgrounds won’t buy its cars

There are many eve-of-the-offensive conversations I would love to have been a fly on the wall for. Inside the Trojan horse, say, with that Ancient...

22.11.2024 10

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Spare a sob for Don Jr – replaced in Daddy’s affections by Elon Musk

As the Trump presidency bears down on the world, I hope we can all concur on the prospect of being subjected to regular appearances by Donald...

19.11.2024 40

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To the stars vowing to flee Trump’s America: maybe your excruciating endorsements were part of the problem

I wish celebrities would learn the art of the French exit. But they can’t, which is why Eva Longoria has announced she no longer lives in America....

15.11.2024 30

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Democrats and Republicans agree on one thing: any lessons learned from Trump 2.0 will be immediately forgotten

My husband knows masses more about US politics than me, so do imagine how much he enjoyed me spending the best part of the past two years telling him...

08.11.2024 10

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Remember, remember, the fifth of November, when a bad guy tried to blow up a political system

Well … we finally got to 5 November. Of course, you know the story. Once upon a time, there was a bad guy who wanted to set fire to a country’s...

05.11.2024 20

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Trump may become president again – but he’s already a useful idiot to the mega rich

During his term as US president, there was an established routine to Donald Trump’s evenings in public service. When he got into bed at 6.30pm with...

01.11.2024 6

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I don’t expect stone-cold truths from a chatshow, but Saoirse Ronan delivered one

In a development that absolutely must not catch on, something interesting has happened on a TV chatshow. What a precedent: I’m desperately hoping...

29.10.2024 80

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Is it wrong for Elon Musk to offer voters $1m a day to get Trump elected? That’s a tough one

For a guy who has spent his entire life making “I am very rich” the keystone of his personal brand, there is something quite poignant about...

22.10.2024 60

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It was Badenoch v Jenrick on GB News. And if that all sounds bad, watching it was worse

Distressingly, the GB News stream I watched the Conservative leadership hustings on kept glitching out, meaning every time I went back in I had to...

18.10.2024 8

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One day, all matters of state will be decided through Strictly Come Dancing. That day seems near

Within two years – maybe one – the pre-eminent mode of political discourse in our society will be things that did or didn’t happen on Strictly...

15.10.2024 6

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Marina Hyde

Hurricane Milton has left two worlds in its wake. Elon Musk lives in one of them. The other is called reality

I increasingly wonder why Elon Musk is bothering trying to establish himself on Mars, and not just because it looks like a complete dump up there....

11.10.2024 60

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Marina Hyde

Keir Starmer is an unforced error machine – have they tried turning him off and on again?

Day two of Keir Starmer’s reset, and it’s impossible not to get caught up in the thrill of revolution. Running as the change candidate against...

08.10.2024 10

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Marina Hyde

Hail Zuckus Maximus! The master of the metaverse is finally sorry … for being sorry

The good news is that Mark Zuckerberg has become bored of looking like an answer to the AI prompt “efit of a teen villain”. The bad? While the...

27.09.2024 20

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Behind every Al Fayed or Diddy, there is a small army of enablers: this column is dedicated to them

I’m afraid I shrieked when I read that Michael Cole – longterm publicist for the late former Harrods owner Mohamed Al Fayed – cannot come to the...

24.09.2024 20

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With the best glasses donor money can buy, surely Starmer can see that this week has been a total disaster

Can someone gift the prime minister a designer spade? He wants to keep digging. If Keir Starmer were a celebrity, this week we’d be looking for the...

20.09.2024 7

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Marina Hyde

Here’s the real ‘enigma’ about Charlotte Owen: why we still take sexist gossip so seriously

Hello there. Today I would like to talk about Charlotte Owen. If you’ve heard of Charlotte Owen, it’s probably because you’ve read someone –...

17.09.2024 20

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It’s another British multimillionaire’s solemn farewell tour – how ever will we cope?

Always intriguing to watch the emergence of a new publicity circuit, so the warmest of welcomes to the loose collective of multimillionaires currently...

13.09.2024 70

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I feel deep sympathy for Kate and I’m glad she’s better. But this dance with the media devil won’t work

I wonder if we will come to look back on that supposed great virtue of our age – controlling the narrative – and see it for the cornered form of...

10.09.2024 30

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Process fee, service fee, delivery fee … Who wouldn’t pay to see Ticketmaster rinsed by the regulator?

Ticketmaster has a dream. A dream that one day, it will be “pleased to have partnered with” your child’s school, making it “easier for you to...

06.09.2024 20

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Oasis reunite; Harry and Wills could be next. Nothing like money to bring people together

Praise be – for it has happened. The streams have officially been crossed. Imagine my delight to type in two of Earth’s most lavishly provocative...

03.09.2024 10

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The Iron Lady consigned to the ironing cupboard? Keir Starmer did pledge to do things differently

Reports that Keir Starmer has moved a portrait of Margaret Thatcher in Downing Street put me in two minds. On the one hand it could be nothing; on the...

30.08.2024 9

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Marina Hyde

As Matthew Perry discovered, there seems to be a fine line between doctor and drug dealer in Hollywood

“I loved the way I dedicated my services to her,” wrote Dr Conrad Murray of his “most noble” patient. “It was totally selfless because when...

16.08.2024 10

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Marina Hyde

So Donald chatted with Elon, and here’s the future as they see it – losers win, incompetence rules

Would you like to travel in the advance party to Mars, aboard the space rocket of a man who can’t sort a livestream? Ideally you would have to get...

13.08.2024 100

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Social media is a problem, Keir, but so is life for too many in Britain. I’d deal with that first

Is Keir Starmer eyeing Elon Musk as a useful villain for his season one? If so, I can’t help feeling the prime minister’s chances of getting a...

09.08.2024 70

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Where are the brave inciters of Britain’s race riots? From Tommy to Elon, they’re far, far away

“My kids are crying. We come here so I could spend some quality time with them. Now they are scared people are coming here to get them.” Thus...

06.08.2024 100

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Welcome to 2024’s saddest race – who gets to be Britain’s ‘Trump whisperer’?

Boris Johnson’s supporters will always tell you he is hugely popular in the US, so the spectacle of the former British prime minister addressing a...

19.07.2024 40

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Marina Hyde

Never doubt the instincts of Donald Trump, who just appointed ‘never Trump guy’ as his running mate

Encouraging scenes from the Republican national convention (RNC), where US politicians and the wider world are being told to dial down their rhetoric...

16.07.2024 60

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A weekend of deranged hope, dread and stockpiling flares – it’s the Euro 2024 final

Light the touchpaper on your flares, because England stands on the threshold of two days of giddy possibility. There is, quite simply, no greater...

12.07.2024 10

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Marina Hyde

Joe Biden now relies on instruction manuals, so here’s a good one: ‘Walk to podium, smile, wave goodbye’

The Joe Biden re-election campaign is now a situation where you want to put your hands over your eyes even when your hands are already over your eyes....

09.07.2024 8

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Marina Hyde

Sunak axed, the cast eviscerated: at last, it’s the Tories’ season finale

Well, if you’re just joining us, the nation has delivered an all-night victim impact statement. Labour has won a landslide and the Conservatives...

05.07.2024 10

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Take it on trust, Britain’s politicians beg voters. Trouble is, we all know they’re lying

“We’re not pitching you a new Netflix series,” intoned Labour’s shadow business secretary, Jonathan Reynolds, this week. “We’re not...

28.06.2024 40

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It’s the Sunak syndrome: you’re richer than the king but only ‘pass’ at being posh. That’s the class system for you

Psychologically speaking, I feel I understood the last two prime ministers only as they were leaving us. With Liz Truss this might seem...

14.06.2024 4

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Marina Hyde

So Trump moves closer to jail and nearer to the White House. This is our world in 2024

No rest for political cartographers. It turns out that what lay beyond America’s uncharted waters was some more uncharted waters. The unanimous...

01.06.2024 40

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Sunak seems convinced that Who Dares Wins. Spoiler alert: sometimes they lose really badly

Even in a year of largely lacklustre summer movies, you have to accept the reality that Rishi Sunak has scheduled his election against the release of...

24.05.2024 50

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Guardian Opinion cartoon Ella Baron on Paula Vennells’ appearance at the Post Office Horizon IT inquiry – cartoon

23.05.2024 100

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The Guardian view on free trade: an idea whose time has gone

The biggest shift in American politics has nothing to do with Stormy Daniels or Michael Cohen, Fox News or golf courses. Indeed, its author is not...

22.05.2024 20

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Rev Vennells wept but couldn’t remember much about sending innocent subpostmasters to jail. All so long ago

The former Post Office CEO Paula Vennells would like the victims of the most widespread miscarriage of justice in British legal history to know that...

22.05.2024 30

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Forget the Maga caps – check out Trump’s new Courtroom Collection!

17.05.2024 60

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Into Britain’s angry pulpit steps Rev Vennells, who ran Post Office – to explain why it sent honest people to jail

Strange to think the northern lights have been glimpsed in public more frequently over the past few years than the former Post Office CEO Paula...

17.05.2024 80

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The Guardian view on health spending: a broken promise that voters are unlikely to forget or forgive

In 2010, the Commons health select committee warned the new Conservative-led government that the NHS in England was facing cuts rather than the...

15.05.2024 30

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Marina Hyde

So Russell Brand was baptised in the Thames, and all his sins were washed away. Cheaper than a lawyer, I suppose

A hazmat dredger, please, to the stretch of the River Thames on which Russell Brand was recently baptised, in an event apparently conducted by TV...

14.05.2024 80

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Piers Morgan won’t care where the Baby Reindeer saga goes. But Netflix should

What will happen next in the still-mushrooming Baby Reindeer saga? Probably one or more of a number of bad things. Latest bad thing to happen (at time...

10.05.2024 40

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Frock horror! In these dark times, let us be grateful for the ludicrous spectacle of the Met Gala

Tuesday is officially the morning after the Met Gala of the night before, when we civilians get to press our noses up against the glass of our phone...

07.05.2024 20

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