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Merry Christmas, Keir Starmer: despite everything, you’re still the best man for the job

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Trans rights should be a private affair. A toxic debate does no one any favours

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Labour wants to ramp up facial recognition. What if our data ends up in the wrong hands?

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David Lammy is right to slash the use of juries – it’s an open-and-shut case

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Unelected Lords are blocking assisted dying – this is a democratic outrage

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Homelessness is increasingly hard to ignore – unless you are the Labour party

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My verdict on the ‘woke’ review of England’s school curriculum? It isn’t radical enough

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Britain would do well to remember where its power over China lies

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In Gaza, and now Ukraine, Donald Trump may be peace activists’ greatest ally. That deserves our backing

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The latest Prince Andrew abuse claims are a new low for the Royal Family. In this form, it can’t survive

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Even more annoying machines? Guardian readers share their most frustrating technofoibles

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We all know Brexit’s to blame for the crisis facing UK steel – it’s time for politicians to be honest and reverse it

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Why does Reform seem unassailable? Because this is party conference season, when politicos always lose the plot

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Trump’s visit revealed a stark truth: Britain feels more than ever like a country stuck in the past

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Starmer fancies himself a leader among leaders – but his tough talk on defence is just expensive bluster

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Trump’s ‘Gaza Riviera’ plan is an obscenity. Can we really trust Tony Blair to have told him so?

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As William moves to Forest Lodge, an era of pushbike royals beckons. Will that save the monarchy?

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As thousands more teenagers scramble for university places, I have to ask – why?

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If mansion owners paid a fair council tax, local authorities wouldn’t be in such a mess

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He may talk rubbish but Trump has an eye for beauty, and that is a breath of fresh air

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Another way we are failing an entire generation: we must teach young people to speak

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This fiasco didn’t start when Britain leaked Afghans’ names, but when we invaded their country

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Ed Miliband would let a turbine farm destroy Brontë country. We need net zero, but at what cost?

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This was Les Mis in the Commons – and Kemi Badenoch couldn’t resist hamming it up

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Note to Starmer and the other sabre-rattlers. Why spend billions on weapons – soft power would keep us safe

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How bad is the HS2 fiasco now? So bad it’s time to listen to Nigel Farage

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Labour had the chance to finally kill off HS2. Instead, it’s throwing more money into the pit

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Sadiq Khan is right: Britain must decriminalise cannabis – or remain in the dark ages

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From the day Britain left the EU, this reset was inevitable. What a pointless waste of time, money and effort

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Move civil servants out of London: fine. But that won’t curb Whitehall’s grip on Britain

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Will Nigel Farage and Reform UK kill off the Tories? Don’t be so ridiculous

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Here’s a radical way to save England’s collapsing justice system: get rid of juries

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Youth centres may seem tame fare for politicians. But I’ve seen firsthand how they cut crime

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Votes for 16-year-olds? Sorry, but I’m not convinced

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Criticise Trump’s tariffs all you like, but western sanctions aren’t any better – just ask Syria

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The tariffs are bad, but Britain should remember this: Trump will probably be gone in four years

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Ben Jennings on the spring statement and child poverty – cartoon

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Donald Trump is moving fast and breaking things, but that may result in a better US

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GCSEs harm our young people. Ministers should have the guts to abolish them – and start again