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Buoyed by shifting political winds, ‘Deport!’ is the new ‘Go back where you come from’ echoed by racists

Buoyed by shifting political winds, ‘Deport!’ is the new ‘Go back where you come from’ echoed by racists

There is a rise in racist rhetoric surrounding deportation. This is clearly influenced by the increased use of deportation against immigrants and...

yesterday 10

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Ghassan Hage

Hear me out: maybe Norway should give Melania Trump the Nobel peace prize

Hear me out: maybe Norway should give Melania Trump the Nobel peace prize

Haters be damned: Donald Trump just keeps on winning. He won the inaugural Fifa peace prize last year and was presented with the completely real,...

yesterday 10

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Arwa Mahdawi

Top Democrats are fighting a billionaire tax in California. Their voters are on the other side

Top Democrats are fighting a billionaire tax in California. Their voters are on the other side

Midway through this summer, a high-quality poll found that Democrats in California were overwhelmingly in favor of the upcoming ballot measure for a...

yesterday 10

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Norman Solomon

Why politicians chasing economic growth is a lie | Radical Thinking with Aditya Chakrabortty

Why politicians chasing economic growth is a lie | Radical Thinking with Aditya Chakrabortty

You can watch previous episodes of Radical Thinking here Aditya’s suggested reading list for this episode: As we say in the podcast, I’ve...

yesterday 10

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Hugh Muir

The real problem with Britain’s Political Traitors show is that no one is very faithful to anything for long

The real problem with Britain’s Political Traitors show is that no one is very faithful to anything for long

You join us on a steam train in Scotland as we head to the next episode of the BBC’s hit show Political Traitors. It’s like the celebrity edition,...

yesterday 10

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Robert Hutton

Relying on AI is rotting your brain. But here’s what you can do about it

Relying on AI is rotting your brain. But here’s what you can do about it

Ever longed for your own personal assistant? In the ever quickening tech race, Meta has recently launched Muse, a new AI personal agent. Unlike...

yesterday 10

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Carly Dober

Massive Attack, Bob Marley, bell hooks and grime: what forces shaped four generations of Black Britons?

Massive Attack, Bob Marley, bell hooks and grime: what forces shaped four generations of Black Britons?

‘British music has shaped me completely’ Singer and songwriter, 26 What book has most inspired you? All about love by bell hooks taught me so much...

yesterday 2

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Arlo Parks

When you’re traduced, abused and gaslighted – believe me, Black History Month matters

When you’re traduced, abused and gaslighted – believe me, Black History Month matters

Pity Black History Month UK, assailed on all sides. Those on the right seek to end the celebration on the basis that it amounts to special treatment...

yesterday 10

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Hugh Muir

British people can’t be made to pay for the wrongs of slavery – but we must confront our complicated history

British people can’t be made to pay for the wrongs of slavery – but we must confront our complicated history

On 28 October 1787, Thomas Clarkson pushed through the crowds to reach the pulpit of Manchester Cathedral. A campaigner for abolishing slavery, he...

yesterday 10

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Andy Burnham

How do you bounce back from Liz Truss-level public failure? Don’t be shameless; do show remorse

How do you bounce back from Liz Truss-level public failure? Don’t be shameless; do show remorse

Gabriel Weston made a mistake at work this summer. It doesn’t define her – she was and is a well-regarded NHS surgeon and author – but it was...

previous day 20

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Gaby Hinsliff

This is the hard lesson from Israel’s election: to stop nationalist populists, you can’t play by gentlemen’s rules

This is the hard lesson from Israel’s election: to stop nationalist populists, you can’t play by gentlemen’s rules

It’s less an election result than a philosophical puzzle: what happens when a win contains a loss, a loss contains a win and the two collide?...

previous day 20

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Jonathan Freedland

The Iran war is deepening the US energy crisis. A bad winter is ahead

The Iran war is deepening the US energy crisis. A bad winter is ahead

Heating oil may be the clearest warning yet of how the war in Iran is deepening the US’s energy affordability crisis. Families who heat their homes...

previous day 10

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Mark Wolfe

Trump vowed to reduce prices, but his policies have fueled US inflation

Trump vowed to reduce prices, but his policies have fueled US inflation

Donald Trump successfully campaigned for his second term two years ago promising to reduce prices on day one, but ever since he returned to the White...

previous day 10

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Steven Greenhouse

Mary Peltola made a mistake. But her Republican opponent would be a disaster for Alaska

Mary Peltola made a mistake. But her Republican opponent would be a disaster for Alaska

Donald Trump’s trip to Alaska earlier this month was a real doozy. Should I be surprised? The previous time he visited my home state, in August...

previous day 3

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Kim Heacox

The world needs the United Nations more than ever. It needs a new lease on life

The world needs the United Nations more than ever. It needs a new lease on life

To save the United Nations from the irrelevance in which it now wallows, the next secretary general will require the concerted backing of the few...

previous day 3

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Mark Medish

I’m a gen Z voter. Content creators have far less power than politicians think

I’m a gen Z voter. Content creators have far less power than politicians think

In tight races, any group that shifts a few points can be called decisive. In 2024, however, gen Z voters actually earned the spotlight. Take...

previous day 10

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Alex Bronzini-Vender

The hill I will die on: Dumplings are the ultimate proof of our common humanity

The hill I will die on: Dumplings are the ultimate proof of our common humanity

On a recent Saturday morning in Paris, I made a life-changing discovery. It came in the frozen aisle of an Asian supermarket: you can buy premade...

previous day 9

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Joseph de Weck

We must protect Jewish Australians without casting suspicion on legitimate concern for Palestinians

We must protect Jewish Australians without casting suspicion on legitimate concern for Palestinians

The antisemitic massacre at Bondi exposed a terrifying truth: that Jewish Australians can no longer take their safety for granted. The doxing,...

previous day 10

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George Newhouse

Opening the EU debate again is clearly a political minefield. But we have to do it

Opening the EU debate again is clearly a political minefield. But we have to do it

Andy Burnham’s opening debate on whether Britain should rejoin the EU is divisive, painful and politically risky. That is why it should be welcomed....

previous day 10

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Simon Jenkins

Could 2026 be the year that democracy fought back?

Could 2026 be the year that democracy fought back?

It is undoubtedly too early to declare victory, but the recent electoral defeats of Viktor Orbán, Aleksandar Vučić and Flávio Bolsonaro make me...

previous day 10

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David van Reybrouck

Liberal senator admits mistake after grilling ABC execs about Gaza journalist’s ‘Hamas’ ID

Liberal senator admits mistake after grilling ABC execs about Gaza journalist’s ‘Hamas’ ID

Sarah Henderson has admitted that she wrongly accused a late Palestinian journalist, Roshdi Sarraj, who filed video for the ABC from Gaza, of holding...

previous day 10

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Amanda Meade

My phone thinks my boyfriend is my ‘best friend’. It’s not alone

My phone thinks my boyfriend is my ‘best friend’. It’s not alone

My boyfriend and I invented a game on our recent trip to Italy. We called it “invisible gays”, which might have been an attempt at some kind of...

thursday 10

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Patrick Lenton

How Hobart, Sydney and Melbourne are reckoning with statues of colonial-era white men in an age of truth telling

How Hobart, Sydney and Melbourne are reckoning with statues of colonial-era white men in an age of truth telling

This is the tale of three cities and the same number of statues, two of them colonial era and one from early this century. All were erected to...

thursday 10

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Paul Daley

The tabloids that used Thomas Markle to attack Meghan should now reflect. I bet they won’t

The tabloids that used Thomas Markle to attack Meghan should now reflect. I bet they won’t

As the allegations mount against Thomas Markle Sr, his daughter, the Duchess of Sussex, has released a statement describing her deep distress, and...

thursday 20

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Zoe Williams

Could Abdul El-Sayed’s plan for AI companies stave off catastrophe?

Could Abdul El-Sayed’s plan for AI companies stave off catastrophe?

The Michigan senatorial candidate Abdul El-Sayed, a Democrat, occupies a strange but increasingly common place in modern American politics. He’s...

thursday 5

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Jerel Ezell

Is this play-safe budget a sign that the prime minister is planning an early election?

Is this play-safe budget a sign that the prime minister is planning an early election?

Great hopes were invested in Andy Burnham when he became prime minister in July. He went big on the failings of 40 years of neoliberalism, emphasised...

thursday 10

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Larry Elliott

It’s easy to see through Trump’s Ukraine ploy

It’s easy to see through Trump’s Ukraine ploy

As the US midterms approach, Donald Trump is abandoning Ukraine’s democracy in a desperate effort to deny responsibility for worsening inflation....

thursday 10

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Kenneth Roth

A simple pub sign led me down a very disturbing rabbit hole

A simple pub sign led me down a very disturbing rabbit hole

There’s a pub near me with an eye-catching sign outside. I’ve driven past it many times, and it always gives me pause for a little idle thought....

thursday 20

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Adrian Chiles

Trump’s plea – ‘pretend I’m on the ballot’ – deserves to backfire

Trump’s plea – ‘pretend I’m on the ballot’ – deserves to backfire

As he criss-crosses the nation, stumping for Republican candidates, Donald Trump keeps asking voters to use their imaginations. “In this election,...

thursday 10

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Margaret Sullivan

If British Library reading rooms become ‘co-working spaces’, what, exactly, is a national library for?

If British Library reading rooms become ‘co-working spaces’, what, exactly, is a national library for?

In a crowded country that is short of public money, any expansive public building that seems underused in any way is vulnerable. Professional critics...

thursday 10

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Andy Beckett

Liz Truss has brought our divided nation together – in mockery of her

Liz Truss has brought our divided nation together – in mockery of her

In these times of social and political division, it’s worth doing a quick audit of what keeps us together. Where, as we fight over what constitutes...

thursday 10

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Emma Brockes

Serbia’s students achieved the impossible. Europe must not fail them now

Serbia’s students achieved the impossible. Europe must not fail them now

As polling stations closed across Serbia on Sunday evening, riot police were deploying around the presidency in Belgrade. Many of us feared the worst:...

thursday 10

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Srdjan Cvijić

I’ve mailed off my vote in the US midterms. It will be a nail-biting watch, but easier from outside Trump’s America

I’ve mailed off my vote in the US midterms. It will be a nail-biting watch, but easier from outside Trump’s America

Recently I made my own envelope out of a sheet of paper and sticky tape, signed it and affixed a sticker. Then I took it to my nearest Australia Post...

thursday 10

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Eleanor Limprecht

Burnham promised big change – where was it? Instead we got the Martin Lewis budget

Burnham promised big change – where was it? Instead we got the Martin Lewis budget

Was this Andy Burnham’s budget – the bold vision of a new prime minister who burns with a passion to topple “40 years of neoliberalism”? Fat...

28.10.2026 20

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Aditya Chakrabortty

I’ve been watching the 7 Up TV series. One change in our behaviour really struck me

I’ve been watching the 7 Up TV series. One change in our behaviour really struck me

Not for the first time, I got something wrong. As someone who made a living being on camera, I developed theories about what it takes to be yourself...

28.10.2026 10

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Adrian Chiles

Will John Healey’s ‘breathing space’ budget deliver what Britain needs? Our panel responds

Will John Healey’s ‘breathing space’ budget deliver what Britain needs? Our panel responds

‘Growth in every postcode’? Not yet, but hope at last First, he did no harm. Then he scattered sprinkles of feel-goods. He told the truth about...

28.10.2026 10

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Polly Toynbee

The RBA has primed the market for an interest rate rise. But what will it mean for unemployment?

The RBA has primed the market for an interest rate rise. But what will it mean for unemployment?

Back in July the June inflation figures killed off chances of a rate rise; yesterday, however, the September inflation figures all but guarantee a...

28.10.2026 10

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Greg Jericho

Mark Carney is celebrated abroad – while he guts hard-won protections at home

Mark Carney is celebrated abroad – while he guts hard-won protections at home

The Canadian prime minister is a hero around the world for his Davos speech that reckoned with a reconfiguration of power in the shadow of Donald...

28.10.2026 6

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Shiri Pasternak

Will it be AI or the climate crisis that ends humanity? We can make it neither

Will it be AI or the climate crisis that ends humanity? We can make it neither

A summer of extreme heat, entire villages obliterated in Nepal, a super El Niño breaking records, Exxon publicly saying we may reach 3C by 2050 –...

28.10.2026 7

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Adam McKay

Airbnb feels like a soulless rip-off – and its hosts are revolting

Airbnb feels like a soulless rip-off – and its hosts are revolting

To Airbnb or not to Airbnb, that is the question. Would you like to help pay someone’s mortgage and clean their house and fork out an extortionate...

28.10.2026 10

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Arwa Mahdawi

We are seeing the rise of psychopatriarchy everywhere

We are seeing the rise of psychopatriarchy everywhere

For those of us who have spent our lives trying to dismantle this endlessly destructive paradigm of patriarchy, it has become increasingly clear in...

28.10.2026 5

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V

A bitter night in Israel for all who craved a fresh start. Netanyahu survives – and we are more divided than ever

A bitter night in Israel for all who craved a fresh start. Netanyahu survives – and we are more divided than ever

Following Israel’s nail-biting election, nearly every political community in the country experienced triumph and despair. The initial results swung...

28.10.2026 20

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Dahlia Scheindlin

The climate crisis will destroy our economies – we learned this 20 years ago. When will we act?

The climate crisis will destroy our economies – we learned this 20 years ago. When will we act?

Saving the only planet we have makes good economic sense. There is, after all, no money to be made on a dead Earth. There may be costs involved now,...

28.10.2026 7

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Fiona Harvey

Trump is in a corner and likely to lash out at Iran again. Here’s how to avert that disaster

Trump is in a corner and likely to lash out at Iran again. Here’s how to avert that disaster

As another Iran catastrophe looms, one question matters more than any other: how to stop it before it’s too late? Whatever the eventual outcome of...

28.10.2026 10

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Simon Tisdall

I couldn’t afford food on jobseeker after bills and rent. Is this really what ‘no one left behind’ looks like?

I couldn’t afford food on jobseeker after bills and rent. Is this really what ‘no one left behind’ looks like?

In 2022, when Anthony Albanese was making his pitch to voters to change the country by changing the government, I was briefly encouraged by one aspect...

28.10.2026 20

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Travis Gilbert

Elon Musk says he has ‘cyber psychosis’. Do you too?

Elon Musk says he has ‘cyber psychosis’. Do you too?

In the least surprising news you’ll hear all week, Elon Musk has said he’s not entirely right in the head. “I’ve got a little bit of cyber...

27.10.2026 10

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Arwa Mahdawi

In Gaza, no privacy, no peace: this is what our lives look like a year after the ‘ceasefire’

In Gaza, no privacy, no peace: this is what our lives look like a year after the ‘ceasefire’

Every morning, I look at myself and my neighbours standing in the queue for water, and remember how each of us once had a life of our own, our...

27.10.2026 10

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Akram Al-Sourani

If the Albanese government wants to cheat the populist death spiral, it needs to go to the barricades with the rest of us

If the Albanese government wants to cheat the populist death spiral, it needs to go to the barricades with the rest of us

Midway through its second term, the Albanese government is teetering on the verge of a populist death spiral that is sweeping the globe. To avoid...

27.10.2026 10

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Peter Lewis

Are seed oils unhealthy? Why are so many influencers speaking out against them?

Are seed oils unhealthy? Why are so many influencers speaking out against them?

If you’ve been online lately, you’ve probably been bombarded with the discourse about seed oils. Once a completely innocuous food that no one...

27.10.2026 20

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Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz

Not registered to vote yet in the US? There’s a good chance you can still cast a ballot

Not registered to vote yet in the US? There’s a good chance you can still cast a ballot

With election day just a week away, candidates are ignoring millions of young Americans who could still cast a decisive ballot but have not yet...

27.10.2026 7

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Laura W Brill