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When did ‘feminist critique’ of celebrities become nothing more than a snide telling-off?

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Jennifer Jasmine White

Iran is the enemy Netanyahu has always wanted to destroy. Even from their bomb shelters, most Israelis support his war

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Aluf Benn

The Minnesota shootings illuminate the character of the Trump era

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Sidney Blumenthal

Sarah Akinterinwa on the eternal takeaway debate – cartoon

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Sidney Blumenthal

Trump’s coalition is self-destructing over the Iran war question

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Moustafa Bayoumi

Ancient trees are shipped to the UK, then burned – using billions in ‘green’ subsidies. Stop this madness now

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Dale Vince

I hope this is the last piece I ever have to write about assisted dying

I hope this is the last piece I ever have to write about assisted dying

MPs, read this horror before you vote today. Here’s how some people are slowly dying, right now, in mortal agony untreatable by the best palliative...

yesterday 20

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Polly Toynbee

I grew up on American food. Trust me, it’s the last thing Europe needs

I grew up on American food. Trust me, it’s the last thing Europe needs

All over European media, the take seems to be similar – that the EU is “under pressure” to conclude some sort of deal with the US in order to avoid...

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Alexander Hurst

The Guardian view on restoring trust in politics: Labour must not soft-pedal on standards reform

The Guardian view on restoring trust in politics: Labour must not soft-pedal on standards reform

John Major did not beat about the bush. In a speech this week to an Institute for Government conference marking the 30th anniversary of the Nolan ...

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Editorial

The Guardian view on Our Story With David Attenborough and The Herds: a new theatre of the Anthropocene

The Guardian view on Our Story With David Attenborough and The Herds: a new theatre of the Anthropocene

As parts of the UK swelter, this week brought yet more alarming reports of increasing temperatures, extreme weather events and dwindling chances of...

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Editorial

America made a catastrophic mistake with the Iraq war. Is it about to repeat it in Iran?

America made a catastrophic mistake with the Iraq war. Is it about to repeat it in Iran?

Two decades ago, as Americans debated whether their country should invade Iraq, one question loomed the largest: did Saddam Hussein possess weapons...

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Stephen Wertheim

Israel, we’re begging you: please let aid organisations do our jobs in Gaza

Israel, we’re begging you: please let aid organisations do our jobs in Gaza

Abed Al Rahman, just a boy, carried the weight of his family’s hunger as he stepped into the streets of Gaza in search of bread. He had his...

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James Elder

From LA to Paris, the populist right hates cities – and it’s fuelled by a sense of bitter defeat

From LA to Paris, the populist right hates cities – and it’s fuelled by a sense of bitter defeat

From Los Angeles to London, Istanbul to Warsaw, cities are making rightwing populists angry. Their liberal elites, immigrants, net zero policies,...

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Andy Beckett

We’re on the brink of a disastrous, illegal conflagration in the Middle East. Trump must be stopped

We’re on the brink of a disastrous, illegal conflagration in the Middle East. Trump must be stopped

Like the US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq in 2003, Israel’s war on Iran is neither legal nor just. It is a war of choice, not of necessity –...

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Fawaz Gerges

Long-beaked echidnas? Yes please! A cartoon for people who cannot bear any more news about anything dreadful

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Andy Beckett

The internet’s nastiest gossipmonger has been exposed and guess what – he wants his privacy

The internet’s nastiest gossipmonger has been exposed and guess what – he wants his privacy

With as much as two weeks to kill before nuclear winter sets in, many of you will be looking to road-test your new fallout suits. In which case: can...

yesterday 10

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Marina Hyde

Welcome to a new ‘gloomcycle’ of news. Here’s how to stop compulsive scrolling

Welcome to a new ‘gloomcycle’ of news. Here’s how to stop compulsive scrolling

The threat of a world war. Political assassinations. Federal raids on unsuspecting migrants. There seems to be no end to terrifying news these...

yesterday 4

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Margaret Sullivan

Britain is one step closer to compassionate, kind death for all

Britain is one step closer to compassionate, kind death for all

I am relieved and overjoyed by the historic vote on assisted dying in England and Wales in the House of Commons today. The road has been long and...

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Kim Leadbeater

Can you really find true love online, or is it artificial?

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Kim Leadbeater

The Guardian view on Trump and Iran: Netanyahu’s war has no visible exit

The Guardian view on Trump and Iran: Netanyahu’s war has no visible exit

The maxim that wars are easy to start and hard to end does not appear to be troubling Benjamin Netanyahu. For the Israeli prime minister, conflict...

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Editorial

The Australia-US alliance is facing a decisive test, and not just over the Middle East

The Australia-US alliance is facing a decisive test, and not just over the Middle East

Would Australia go to war to support the United States in conflict with China over Taiwan – or elsewhere? The government avoids discussing the...

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Hugh White

Netanyahu is using Muslim women’s ‘rights’ to justify his war. What hideous, hollow hypocrisy

Netanyahu is using Muslim women’s ‘rights’ to justify his war. What hideous, hollow hypocrisy

The Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has invoked the Iranian regime’s heinous women’s rights record to justify his heinous war on Iran....

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Mona Eltahawy

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

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

Stop it now. Stop spending sums that you admit are out of control. Show common sense and send everyone home. HS2 is a bad joke, a fiasco. Labour’s...

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Simon Jenkins

If you went to state school, do you ever feel British life is rigged against you? Welcome to the 93% Club

If you went to state school, do you ever feel British life is rigged against you? Welcome to the 93% Club

For the first time in our history, we have a cabinet made up entirely of people who went to state schools. Several, including prime minister Keir...

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Alastair Campbell

The US supreme court just undermined gender equality

The US supreme court just undermined gender equality

By now, it is a ritual: every June, Americans endure several weeks of agonizing suspense, as we wait to hear how the supreme court will erode our...

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Moira Donegan

Ice is cracking down on Trump’s own supporters. Will they change their minds?

Ice is cracking down on Trump’s own supporters. Will they change their minds?

By now, the cycle of Donald Trump supporters being slapped in the face by his policies is common enough that it shouldn’t warrant a response. What...

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Tayo Bero

The racial violence in Ballymena repeats a pattern that’s blighted Britain for years. We must wake up to that

The racial violence in Ballymena repeats a pattern that’s blighted Britain for years. We must wake up to that

In early June, the violence began. Rumours of a foreigner assaulting a local woman resulted in groups roaming through a small British town,...

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Lanre Bakare

The Guardian view on assisted dying: a momentous bill that needs further attention

The Guardian view on assisted dying: a momentous bill that needs further attention

The central issue before MPs, as they decide how to vote on the latest version of Kim Leadbeater’s assisted dying bill, is how to value individual...

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Editorial

The anti-Trump camp was in disarray. How has No Kings managed to unite it?

The anti-Trump camp was in disarray. How has No Kings managed to unite it?

Two months ago, around the US, mass demonstrations against Donald Trump were organised in what felt like the beginning of the great unfreezing of...

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Emma Brockes

Europe must stand without the US – but the latest war in the Middle East shows it has no idea how

Europe must stand without the US – but the latest war in the Middle East shows it has no idea how

The rupture in the transatlantic relationship has left European leaders struggling to know how to think, let alone act, with any autonomy. Europe...

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Nathalie Tocci

As the threat of war looms, are these four horsemen out of a job?

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It’S All Looking A Bit Apocalyptic

A US senator’s X posts after the Minnesota shootings were horrific – and predictable

A US senator’s X posts after the Minnesota shootings were horrific – and predictable

National tragedy used to bring national unity. If only momentarily, partisanship was put aside, and people of all political persuasions came...

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Austin Sarat

Forty years later, Molly’s final farewells on A Country Practice remain a blueprint for a good death

Forty years later, Molly’s final farewells on A Country Practice remain a blueprint for a good death

When I talk to Australian gen Xers about my new play, I invariably get the same response: a dramatic intake of breath, a hand swiftly covering the...

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Melanie Tait

Easy regime change in Tehran is a nice idea. But look to history: it’s a near-impossible one

Easy regime change in Tehran is a nice idea. But look to history: it’s a near-impossible one

On the eve of the 1991 Gulf war, a TV reporter asked the US commander Norman Schwarzkopf if he would topple Iraq’s Saddam Hussein. Stormin’ Norman...

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Martin Kettle

Abortion remains a criminal offence in the UK because of the left’s timidity. We must learn from that – and fast

Abortion remains a criminal offence in the UK because of the left’s timidity. We must learn from that – and fast

Around the world, the antis are joining forces. Whether anti-abortion, anti-transgender, anti-immigrant, anti-human rights or just anti anyone who...

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Stella Creasy

Nuclear armageddon is back baby! So how does one survive a nuclear explosion?

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It’S Easy! I Have Done It Hundreds Of Times

Britons have just 23 hours of ‘genuinely free’ time a week – so much for labour-saving technology

Britons have just 23 hours of ‘genuinely free’ time a week – so much for labour-saving technology

As the AI revolution heralds a new dawn – or living nightmare – in the world of work, I find my thoughts turning increasingly to Kellogg’s. Yes,...

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Elle Hunt

The warmongers were wrong about Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya. Now watch them make the same mistake about Iran

The warmongers were wrong about Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya. Now watch them make the same mistake about Iran

As the G7 issues a statement declaring that Israel has a “right to defend itself”, you have a right to ask if you are losing your mind. Israel...

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Owen Jones

G7 leaders are paralysed by their fear of upsetting Donald Trump

G7 leaders are paralysed by their fear of upsetting Donald Trump

There is no founding charter or admissions process to the self-selecting group of “leading” economic powers that currently numbers seven. It was...

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Rafael Behr

Why establishment Democrats still can’t stomach progressive candidates like Zohran Mamdani

Why establishment Democrats still can’t stomach progressive candidates like Zohran Mamdani

Who’s afraid of Zohran Mamdani? The answer, it would seem, is the entire establishment. The 33-year-old democratic socialist and New York City...

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Arwa Mahdawi

Why is there a Maga-branded Instant Pot? Because capitalism never sleeps

Why is there a Maga-branded Instant Pot? Because capitalism never sleeps

If you want to demonstrate your fealty to Donald Trump through the medium of branded merchandise (and who doesn’t?) there are ample ways to do so....

wednesday 20

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Arwa Mahdawi

America is sleepwalking into another unnecessary war

America is sleepwalking into another unnecessary war

As the United States inches closer to direct military confrontation with Iran, it is critical to recognize how avoidable this escalation has been....

wednesday 20

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Eli Clifton And Eldar Mamedov

New York City might elect a truly progressive mayor – thanks to ranked-choice voting

New York City might elect a truly progressive mayor – thanks to ranked-choice voting

With a week left until New York’s Democratic mayoral primary, one might have thought that the former governor Andrew Cuomo would be measuring the...

wednesday 20

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Katrina Vanden Heuvel

We should all grieve about the state of the world. It can be an integral part of activism

We should all grieve about the state of the world. It can be an integral part of activism

Time, it seems, is moving in strange ways for many of us. A colleague recently said, “mourning, reckoning and activism all seem to require...

wednesday 10

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Kelley Swain

At last, a victory for rivers over megafarms: now councils can’t treat toxic waste as someone else’s problem

At last, a victory for rivers over megafarms: now councils can’t treat toxic waste as someone else’s problem

The recent ecological collapse of the River Wye due to pollution from intensive agriculture has been well documented. But the slow-motion...

wednesday 20

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Charles Watson

Why Europe should hijack Nato for its own purposes

Why Europe should hijack Nato for its own purposes

Call it the five-for-five summit. When Nato leaders meet in The Hague next week, European allies will sign up to a phoney transatlantic bargain in...

wednesday 10

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Paul Taylor

Canada said it would stand up to Trump. Instead, it’s taking cues from him

Canada said it would stand up to Trump. Instead, it’s taking cues from him

Steve Bannon calls it “flooding the zone”. Donald Trump demonstrated it in his first weeks back in office, when he introduced over 100 executive...

wednesday 3

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Shiri Pasternak And Dayna Nadine Scott

Few men can really rock a moustache. Timothée Chalamet is not one of them

Few men can really rock a moustache. Timothée Chalamet is not one of them

What is it with all these wispy moustaches suddenly decorating young men’s faces? These things, which have crawled their way on to so many upper...

wednesday 3

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Adrian Chiles

Will the new Middle East crisis rock the world economy? The markets say no – but I fear they’re wrong

Will the new Middle East crisis rock the world economy? The markets say no – but I fear they’re wrong

Financial markets picked up the clear message when Donald Trump cut short his stay at the G7 summit in the Canadian Rockies this week. Despite...

wednesday 7

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Larry Elliott

As anti-tourism protests grow in Europe, we need a rethink – but that’s no reason to stop travelling

As anti-tourism protests grow in Europe, we need a rethink – but that’s no reason to stop travelling

After coordinated protests across Europe last weekend, it’s easy for the ethically conscious tourist to feel uncertain. Across southern Europe –...

wednesday 7

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Leah Pattem