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The tech bros have front-row seats at Trump’s inauguration, but what they want goes way beyond that

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Quinn Slobodian

Labour is right to forge more trade links with China – not doing so would be folly

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Kerry Brown

This could be the toughest winter in NHS history. Here’s a simple way we can all help

This could be the toughest winter in NHS history. Here’s a simple way we can all help

Corridors are no place to die, but that is what is happening in British hospitals now as the worst winter crisis in years crams every corner and...

yesterday 40

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Polly Toynbee

How Jeff Bezos can stop the bleeding at the Washington Post

How Jeff Bezos can stop the bleeding at the Washington Post

More than 400 newsroom staffers at the Washington Post pleaded with the paper’s owner, Jeff Bezos, this week to do something about their beloved...

yesterday 30

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Margaret Sullivan

England’s renters are about to gain more rights, but until then landlords may exploit weak regulation even more cruelly

England’s renters are about to gain more rights, but until then landlords may exploit weak regulation even more cruelly

Last month, I was working with a young homeless family on England’s south coast. The local council had found them a privately rented flat with an...

yesterday 20

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Nick Bano

Zuckerberg is quite the champion of the underrepresented – so long as you’re conservative and live in Texas

Zuckerberg is quite the champion of the underrepresented – so long as you’re conservative and live in Texas

Was it just for the PR? That’s what many who care about fairness in the workplace have been asking since Meta, headed by Mark Zuckerberg,...

yesterday 10

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Joseph Harker

The government wants to future-proof the BBC. How about embracing a subscription model?

The government wants to future-proof the BBC. How about embracing a subscription model?

The BBC is still in the premier league of great British institutions – just. Other countries have public broadcasters, but none has the BBC’s...

yesterday 10

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Simon Jenkins

Women’s claims of sexual abuse must be heard – unless they’re about master storyteller Neil Gaiman, apparently

Women’s claims of sexual abuse must be heard – unless they’re about master storyteller Neil Gaiman, apparently

Draw near, allies, for these are dark days for “kink-shaming”. At best, this is one of the whiniest, most pathetic and least helpful phrases to...

yesterday 10

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Marina Hyde

My brother and father drowned on a bright summer day. Swimming brings me closer to the two men I’ve lost

My brother and father drowned on a bright summer day. Swimming brings me closer to the two men I’ve lost

Last week, I swam in the sea, slowly wading in until the water reached my hips, and then diving under the softly rippling waves. Clear jellyfish...

yesterday 10

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Indigo Perry

Australia is becoming an uninsurable nation. There may only be one solution

Australia is becoming an uninsurable nation. There may only be one solution

As we watch the horror of the Los Angeles fires, Australians are painfully reminded of our own vulnerability to climate change, which continues to...

yesterday 40

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Nicki Hutley

An interesting speech full of hard truths? Kemi Badenoch is clearly rattled

An interesting speech full of hard truths? Kemi Badenoch is clearly rattled

Well, finally. Only eight years on from kneecapping the economy and crowing “you lost, get over it” at anyone impertinent enough to notice, a...

yesterday 60

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Gaby Hinsliff

I’ve been climbing Tasmanian mountains for years – but I’m terrified of heights

I’ve been climbing Tasmanian mountains for years – but I’m terrified of heights

Earlier this year, I finally climbed Mount Anne. This has taken an unlikely amount of time – I’ve been climbing Tasmanian mountains for years, but...

yesterday 10

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Ben Walter

The Guardian view on Britain and Europe: Labour must bring it on

The Guardian view on Britain and Europe: Labour must bring it on

A settled British relationship with the European Union has become an increasingly pressing part of Britain’s unfinished national business. Labour...

yesterday 50

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Editorial

The Guardian view on musical tastes: beware the algorithm comfort zone

The Guardian view on musical tastes: beware the algorithm comfort zone

In the six decades since the release of The Times They Are a-Changin’, Bob Dylan’s success has turned out to be one thing that doesn’t change...

yesterday 30

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Editorial

It’s time for Democrats to go low

It’s time for Democrats to go low

What the 2024 election results made clear is that the Obama coalition is dead. If Democrats are to have any shot at reclaiming power, so too must...

yesterday 5

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Peter Rothpletz

After the ceasefire, Gazans face a different kind of war. But we’re still clinging to hope

After the ceasefire, Gazans face a different kind of war. But we’re still clinging to hope

The ceasefire news came suddenly, with an agreement we had heard before, surrounded by bureaucracy, hope and death. People all around me in Gaza –...

yesterday 5

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Al-Meqdad Jamil Meqdad

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

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

When news of the ceasefire and hostage-release deal between Israel and Hamas first broke on Wednesday, a friend offered the kind hope that now, at...

yesterday 4

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Jonathan Freedland

A 100% tax on Brits buying homes in Spain sounds satisfying – but it won’t solve our housing crisis

A 100% tax on Brits buying homes in Spain sounds satisfying – but it won’t solve our housing crisis

Last October, tens of thousands of people marched through Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia and other big Spanish cities demanding affordable housing....

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María Ramirez

Liz Truss is long gone from Downing Street – but zombie economics lives on

Liz Truss is long gone from Downing Street – but zombie economics lives on

Britain’s centre of power is stalked by a zombie. Across Westminster, the mere mention of her name summons up a grim past, but she remains ever...

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Aditya Chakrabortty

Stationery shopping may be the finest form of procrastination – but who can resist the joy of a perfect pen?

Stationery shopping may be the finest form of procrastination – but who can resist the joy of a perfect pen?

As a child of the 90s, my summers were spent splashing in the neighbours’ overly chlorinated pool and flicking through the back-to-school...

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Jodi Wilson

Roll up, roll up! The Trump inauguration may be the least great show on Earth

Roll up, roll up! The Trump inauguration may be the least great show on Earth

In the quaintly upsetting era of George W Bush’s presidency, there was something people liked to pompously call the “cultural opposition”. This...

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Emma Brockes

The Guardian view on Biden’s warning of oligarchy: Trump and the malefactors of wealth

The Guardian view on Biden’s warning of oligarchy: Trump and the malefactors of wealth

Aristocrats are “the most difficult Animals to manage, of anything in the whole Theory and practice of Government. They will not suffer themselves...

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Editorial

Trump’s official portrait claims to ‘go hard’. Vance just looks stunned he pulled this off

Trump’s official portrait claims to ‘go hard’. Vance just looks stunned he pulled this off

It’s possible that you have seen far more of Donald Trump’s face than you’d like in recent months. But if you haven’t, then I’ve got great...

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Arwa Mahdawi

The Guardian view on Keir Starmer’s economy: no acute crisis, but chronically weak

The Guardian view on Keir Starmer’s economy: no acute crisis, but chronically weak

Recent days of market turmoil have elicited some extraordinary responses. The fact that investors are demanding higher rates to lend to the UK...

previous day 10

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Editorial

I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down – I just didn’t expect them to be such losers

I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down – I just didn’t expect them to be such losers

I don’t know if anyone else has noticed this but everything seems to be going down the tubes quite fast. And not fun tubes, like at a waterpark. The...

previous day 400

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Rebecca Shaw

The media needs to show how the climate crisis is fueling the LA wildfires

The media needs to show how the climate crisis is fueling the LA wildfires

Last week, as the Sunset fire was bearing down on her Los Angeles home, Allison Agsten approached a group of television news crews gathering in her...

previous day 40

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Mark Hertsgaard And Kyle Pope

This Gaza ceasefire deal is a fragile thing, beset by strongman egos. But it is our best hope yet

This Gaza ceasefire deal is a fragile thing, beset by strongman egos. But it is our best hope yet

At last! The yearned for Israel-Hamas ceasefire-for-hostages deal is finally happening. It is welcome. Like thin ice covering deep waters, it is...

previous day 40

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Simon Tisdall

Pete Hegseth’s confirmation hearing highlights Republicans’ servility to Trump

Pete Hegseth’s confirmation hearing highlights Republicans’ servility to Trump

In some ways, the secretary of Defense nomination of Pete Hegseth was always meant as a domination exercise, a way of making Senate Republicans...

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Moira Donegan

TikTok is the only truly democratic social platform. A US ban would rob us all

TikTok is the only truly democratic social platform. A US ban would rob us all

How many times in your life can you say that one of the culture-defining platforms of your era is being forcibly removed? This is what will happen...

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Sophia Smith Galer

Bangladeshi and British politics collided to bring down Tulip Siddiq

Bangladeshi and British politics collided to bring down Tulip Siddiq

It was unusual to see Muhammad Yunus, a widely respected Nobel laureate and the chief adviser of the unelected interim government of Bangladesh,...

previous day 10

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Salil Tripathi

This year, I want to say thank you more. Here’s why you should try it too

This year, I want to say thank you more. Here’s why you should try it too

There was a group of blokes cleaning the streets with big hoses and whatnot. These streets were in Zagreb, late one evening in the 1980s, well into...

previous day 10

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Adrian Chiles

At Davos, Trump will face a less friendly brand of billionaire – but their dominance is waning

At Davos, Trump will face a less friendly brand of billionaire – but their dominance is waning

Hollywood would struggle to come up with a better plot. On Monday, as Donald Trump returns to the White House, the World Economic Forum’s (WEF)...

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Larry Elliott

How I learned to love people I disagree with (by dressing up as my mother)

How I learned to love people I disagree with (by dressing up as my mother)

When I look back at some of the opinion pieces I wrote and the art I made in the 2010s, I can’t help but cringe at the conviction with which I...

previous day 10

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Amrou Al-Kadhi

The Guardian view on a ceasefire in Gaza: far too late, but desperately needed

The Guardian view on a ceasefire in Gaza: far too late, but desperately needed

Hope has rarely felt so fragile, or so inadequate. A moment long sought and prayed for will nonetheless be met with fear and apprehension as well...

wednesday 40

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Editorial

The Guardian view on Germany’s snap election: playing for the highest of stakes

The Guardian view on Germany’s snap election: playing for the highest of stakes

In the German city of Karlsruhe, a police investigation has just been launched into the distribution of 30,000 flyers designed to resemble...

wednesday 20

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Editorial

Australians should be angry about another year of climate inaction. But don’t let your anger turn into despair

Australians should be angry about another year of climate inaction. But don’t let your anger turn into despair

2025 has not started well, and you should be bloody angry. We are less than five months from the federal election and both major parties’ climate...

wednesday 10

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Greg Jericho

I’m a climate scientist and my house in LA burned down. My work has never been more real

I’m a climate scientist and my house in LA burned down. My work has never been more real

My house in Altadena burned down in the wildfires on Wednesday. It all happened quickly. On Tuesday around 7pm, my wife and daughters went to a...

wednesday 40

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Benjamin Hamlington

At last, Britain has a legal drug consumption room – thanks to one man’s civil disobedience

At last, Britain has a legal drug consumption room – thanks to one man’s civil disobedience

This week, the city of Glasgow opened the first legal drug consumption room in the UK. Users at the Thistle can inject drugs in a safe and clean...

wednesday 20

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Kojo Koram

Major banks are abandoning their climate alliance en masse. So much for ‘woke capital’

Major banks are abandoning their climate alliance en masse. So much for ‘woke capital’

Last week, as flames began tearing through greater Los Angeles, claiming multiple lives and forcing more than 100,000 people to evacuate, JP Morgan...

wednesday 10

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Adrienne Buller

Norwich pizza chefs are waging war over pineapple. But they’re just the latest to put a tax on taste

Norwich pizza chefs are waging war over pineapple. But they’re just the latest to put a tax on taste

Forget Greenland. A UK pizzeria, Lupa Pizza in Norwich, rendered itself the No 1 place on Earth most deserving of hostile annexation this week when...

wednesday 8

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Van Badham

Why is it so unsettling to watch an adult drink cold cow’s milk?

Why is it so unsettling to watch an adult drink cold cow’s milk?

Several years ago, I tried to impress a new girlfriend (now my wife) with my cultural credentials by dragging her to an off-off-off-off-Broadway...

wednesday 9

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Arwa Mahdawi

Anti-drone cages, short corridors and small houses: how better design can solve British prison problems

Anti-drone cages, short corridors and small houses: how better design can solve British prison problems

I met Jake in prison. He was a lifer and I was an officer. By the time I began working with him, he’d already served 15 years. Unsurprisingly,...

wednesday 3

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Alex South

For the first time in 35 years, I’m having to use a pen and paper. Help!

For the first time in 35 years, I’m having to use a pen and paper. Help!

I have come away without a laptop so, for the first time in 35 years, I have been forced to write something using pen and paper. My last attempt,...

wednesday 8

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Adrian Chiles

Keir Starmer’s handling of the Tulip Siddiq affair forms part of a worrying pattern

Keir Starmer’s handling of the Tulip Siddiq affair forms part of a worrying pattern

In theory, Tulip Siddiq’s resignation as a junior Treasury minister ought to be a political bump in the road for Keir Starmer, not a pothole...

wednesday 6

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Martin Kettle

Biden has paved the way for Trump’s egregious flouting of international rules

Biden has paved the way for Trump’s egregious flouting of international rules

Donald Trump wants to revive American imperialism. For weeks, the president-elect has threatened to seize Greenland and the Panama Canal, possibly...

wednesday 1

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Mohamad Bazzi

What do the Los Angeles fires tell us about the coming water wars?

What do the Los Angeles fires tell us about the coming water wars?

There’s a scene in the film Mad Max: Fury Road where the evil ruler Immortan Joe, gazing down from a cliff upon his parched, emaciated subjects,...

wednesday 4

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Judith Levine

I owe Alaa Abd el-Fattah my life, which is why I am going on a hunger strike to help free him

I owe Alaa Abd el-Fattah my life, which is why I am going on a hunger strike to help free him

I first encountered Alaa Abd el-Fattah 11 years ago, as a disembodied whisper of reassurance from outside the bars of my grubby prison cell in...

wednesday 1

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Peter Greste

Labour’s AI plan could be good for British people – except the creatives it will throw under the bus

Labour’s AI plan could be good for British people – except the creatives it will throw under the bus

On Monday morning, a couple of hours after the UK government’s AI opportunities action plan was published, I started getting messages from artists....

wednesday 30

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Ed Newton-Rex

Keir Starmer is right to gamble on an AI revolution, but it might not pay out in time

Keir Starmer is right to gamble on an AI revolution, but it might not pay out in time

Keir Starmer made two predictions at the start of his week. He said that artificial intelligence will transform Britain’s economy in the coming...

wednesday 10

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Rafael Behr

Something big is happening in the world of contraception. It’s going backwards

Something big is happening in the world of contraception. It’s going backwards

For many women I know, contraception is a kind of decades-long quest. The goal: to not get pregnant unless we want to. The tools: limited,...

wednesday 10

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Barbara Speed

NSW’s mental health system is on its knees. Here is why psychiatrists like me have resigned

NSW’s mental health system is on its knees. Here is why psychiatrists like me have resigned

I’ve been working in New South Wales’s public mental health system for 15 years. I’ve cared for some of the most unwell people in our community,...

wednesday 20

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Prachi Brahmbhatt

In the new Trumpian era, liberal democracies must hold their noses – and engage with difficult partners

In the new Trumpian era, liberal democracies must hold their noses – and engage with difficult partners

When returning US president Donald Trump eyes up Greenland, Panama and Canada, as Vladimir Putin once eyed Crimea and Xi Jinping eyes Taiwan, he is...

wednesday 70

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Timothy Garton Ash

Peter Dutton’s greatest hits might get him elected but he’s not immune to the bad democracy trap

Peter Dutton’s greatest hits might get him elected but he’s not immune to the bad democracy trap

Peter Dutton’s speech in the marginal seat of Chisholm a few days ago was supposed to sketch the terms by which the opposition leader would fight...

14.01.2025 10

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Rebecca Huntley

Labour has been sucked into the WFH culture war. It should know better

Labour has been sucked into the WFH culture war. It should know better

You would be hard-pressed to find a single positive side-effect of the pandemic. If there is one, it is the growing numbers of people who now work...

14.01.2025 30

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Polly Toynbee

Black mould, wet clothes and sharing a bed – that’s the reality of the cold snap for my kids and me

Black mould, wet clothes and sharing a bed – that’s the reality of the cold snap for my kids and me

My children and I have been sleeping in the same bed to stay warm for the past week. In the day, we layer up and put the heating on for short...

14.01.2025 20

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Gemma

Young people are abandoning democracy for dictators. I can understand their despair

Young people are abandoning democracy for dictators. I can understand their despair

Democracy is dying across the globe. This may sound alarmist and generate a follow-up question: what does that actually mean? Will there be no...

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Owen Jones

Big tech is picking apart European democracy, but there is a solution: switch off its algorithms

Big tech is picking apart European democracy, but there is a solution: switch off its algorithms

Elon Musk’s latest attempts at direct political interference illustrate the grave danger that Europe is facing. He has suggested overthrowing the...

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Johnny Ryan

Why I have finally quit Facebook (it’s not just about fact-checking)

Why I have finally quit Facebook (it’s not just about fact-checking)

Jaron Lanier was chief scientist of the engineering office of Internet2 back in the day, which is to say, definitely one of the godfathers of the...

14.01.2025 40

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Zoe Williams

Move fast, break things – sprint to kiss Trump’s ring. It’s the tech bros inauguration derby

Move fast, break things – sprint to kiss Trump’s ring. It’s the tech bros inauguration derby

Over the past month, we’ve learned that Donald Trump’s inauguration fund has received million-dollar donations from, among others, Google, Meta...

14.01.2025 40

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Marina Hyde

Thought UnitedHealthcare couldn’t get more awful? They’ve gone villain mode

Thought UnitedHealthcare couldn’t get more awful? They’ve gone villain mode

At this very moment Luigi Mangione, who is accused of shooting UnitedHealthcare’s CEO last month, is sitting in a federal jail cell in Brooklyn....

14.01.2025 40

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Arwa Mahdawi

Is Andrew Tate going to reinvent himself as a politician and ‘save Britan [sic]’?

Is Andrew Tate going to reinvent himself as a politician and ‘save Britan [sic]’?

‘The desire to be a politician should bar you for life from ever becoming one,” the comedian Billy Connolly once said. Never has this been...

14.01.2025 20

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Arwa Mahdawi

The Guardian view on Rachel Reeves: turbulence caused by caution, cuts and criticism

The Guardian view on Rachel Reeves: turbulence caused by caution, cuts and criticism

Rachel Reeves’s decisions don’t warrant her departure, but her missteps are steadily eroding her credibility. She entered office with public...

14.01.2025 1

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Editorial

We don’t have the swagger of Manchester or the sheen of Leeds, but Bradford has a radical culture all its own

We don’t have the swagger of Manchester or the sheen of Leeds, but Bradford has a radical culture all its own

More than 11,000 people crammed into Bradford’s City Park last Friday, on a frigidly cold January night. Hats were on, coffees were in hand and...

14.01.2025 9

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Lanre Bakare

The Guardian view on chemical pollution: the UK can’t ignore the risks from PFAS

The Guardian view on chemical pollution: the UK can’t ignore the risks from PFAS

As the public wake up to the risk of “forever chemicals”, or PFAS, the industry is fighting back with a campaign researchers have compared with...

14.01.2025 9

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Editorial

The links between alcohol and cancer are clear, but most Australians are unaware of the risks

The links between alcohol and cancer are clear, but most Australians are unaware of the risks

Looking back on my 25 years in medicine, one of my earliest realisations was Australia’s penchant for alcohol. A routine part of taking a...

14.01.2025 6

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Ranjana Srivastava

Anthony Albanese couldn’t sell a schooner to a shearer. He needs to ask ‘what would Xenophon do?’

Anthony Albanese couldn’t sell a schooner to a shearer. He needs to ask ‘what would Xenophon do?’

In the 1990s, a trend took hold among evangelical Christians – wristbands with the letters “WWJD”. “What Would Jesus Do?” Anthony Albanese,...

14.01.2025 10

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Hugh Riminton

The Guardian view on AI and public services: computers can’t cure all of Britain’s problems

The Guardian view on AI and public services: computers can’t cure all of Britain’s problems

Digital technology companies have reshaped our world and will continue doing so. Sir Keir Starmer knows his government must seek a role in shaping...

13.01.2025 10

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Editorial

The Guardian view on globalisation and its discontents: how the left was left behind

The Guardian view on globalisation and its discontents: how the left was left behind

Different year, same direction of travel. The likely formation of the first far-right-led government in Austria’s postwar history, after the...

13.01.2025 40

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Editorial