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What kind of society fast-tracks early release for domestic abusers? This is gambling with women’s lives

What kind of society fast-tracks early release for domestic abusers? This is gambling with women’s lives

It’s time to be blunt: the government is about to expose hundreds of vulnerable women to the risk of death or serious injury. Survivors of domestic...

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Joan Smith

Trump’s university ‘compact’ is gone. That doesn’t mean the assault on education is over

Trump’s university ‘compact’ is gone. That doesn’t mean the assault on education is over

The Trump administration has quietly abandoned the poisonous deal it tried to foist on American universities. Under its so-called Compact for Academic...

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Kenneth Roth

Why is Anthropic destroying books?

Why is Anthropic destroying books?

Should we destroy all the books in the world? An answer to this question can be found in the court documents of Bartz v Anthropic PBC. The northern...

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Kathryn James

RFK Jr has a new cooking show. Are any Trump officials doing their actual jobs?

RFK Jr has a new cooking show. Are any Trump officials doing their actual jobs?

The US health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr has got his work cut out for him. A cyclosporiasis outbreak linked to iceberg lettuce has the entire...

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Arwa Mahdawi

Let’s call Trump’s approach to Iran what it is: kindergarten diplomacy

Let’s call Trump’s approach to Iran what it is: kindergarten diplomacy

On Thursday, 23 July, after weeks of escalating attacks between the US and Iran, Donald Trump told a reporter that Iran hadn’t received “enough...

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Moustafa Bayoumi

Democracy is at stake when foolish humans bet on machines being intelligent

Democracy is at stake when foolish humans bet on machines being intelligent

When I am woken by the sound of my dog whining, I understand that she is hungry and wants me to get up. When my alarm clock goes off, I don’t...

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Rafael Behr

War! What is it good for? Absolutely humongous oil company profits

War! What is it good for? Absolutely humongous oil company profits

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Mission Accomplished

Murderous heat, an endangered food supply and no net zero: this is the life the radical right wants you to have

Murderous heat, an endangered food supply and no net zero: this is the life the radical right wants you to have

Can’t you leftists understand? Mass death is good for you. Reject the woke love of life! Welcome civilisational collapse! Watch it all burn, then...

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George Monbiot

Europe’s rivers are running dry, and the knock-on effects are disastrous

Europe’s rivers are running dry, and the knock-on effects are disastrous

Last week, 186 passengers had to be evacuated from the cruise ship Viking Ullur, after it ran aground on a sandbank in the Danube. Others have been...

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Yiannis Baboulias

Keep calm and carry on: two travellers weigh in on Jetstar’s new overhead locker baggage fees

Keep calm and carry on: two travellers weigh in on Jetstar’s new overhead locker baggage fees

In significant news for budget travellers, Jetstar will charge its passengers up to $52 to put carry-on baggage in the overhead locker. Will the new...

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Nick Miller

Homes in Australia are now cheaper – why can’t the government sell this good news story?

Homes in Australia are now cheaper – why can’t the government sell this good news story?

Residential property prices in Australia’s eight capital cities have fallen by an average of 2.5% from their most recent peak in March, according to...

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Saul Eslake

The Guardian view on 80 years of public funding for the arts: more vital than ever

The Guardian view on 80 years of public funding for the arts: more vital than ever

“I do not believe it is yet realised what an important thing has happened,” the economist John Maynard Keynes wrote in The Listener in July 1945....

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Editorial

Ella Baron on Ariana Grande’s decision to step back from public life – cartoon

Ella Baron on Ariana Grande’s decision to step back from public life – cartoon

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19.27 Cest

The Guardian view on Burnham and the devolved nations: a test for the new politics in Westminster

The Guardian view on Burnham and the devolved nations: a test for the new politics in Westminster

After early statements of intent on homelessness and social care, Andy Burnham capped his opening two weeks in office by addressing what one might...

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Editorial

Pauline Hanson has knocked another brick out of our creaky political system. It’s not good for anybody

Pauline Hanson has knocked another brick out of our creaky political system. It’s not good for anybody

Democracy’s lifeblood is information. But like any bloodstream, the more gunk that flows through it, the less healthy the system. For public debate...

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Peter Greste

Rise in adulterated sexual enhancement supplements could mean users are getting stiffed

Rise in adulterated sexual enhancement supplements could mean users are getting stiffed

Sexual enhancement supplements have always been a bit of a joke: you walk into a supplement store (or chuck a search into Google) and voilà –...

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Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz

What if older people refuse help outside the family? This is the taboo that could wreck care reform

What if older people refuse help outside the family? This is the taboo that could wreck care reform

Lisa* has used her local glazier so many times that he gives her a discount. For months, when care workers arrived at her mum’s home, they would...

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Emily Kenway

The hill I will die on: You should be legally obliged to play Mr Brightside at your wedding

The hill I will die on: You should be legally obliged to play Mr Brightside at your wedding

I’ve been to two weddings where the bride and groom refused to play the Killers’ pop-rock hit Mr Brightside, and both ended in divorce. Well, not...

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Amelia Tait

Asking Anthony Fauci for medical advice then calling for him to be jailed? Katie Miller is the latest Maga hypocrite

Asking Anthony Fauci for medical advice then calling for him to be jailed? Katie Miller is the latest Maga hypocrite

You should keep your friends close, your enemies closer, and Stephen and Katie Miller as far away from your general vicinity as humanly possible. Many...

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Arwa Mahdawi

My son has cancer. Kalshi wants you to be able to bet on his medical future

My son has cancer. Kalshi wants you to be able to bet on his medical future

My son is 12 years old. No matter how many Legos we get him, he will only build robotic mechs. He draws haunting pictures in pen and ink but refuses...

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Joshua Pederson

I would never go on holiday to France and come back with a pig. But I’ll admit I was tempted

I would never go on holiday to France and come back with a pig. But I’ll admit I was tempted

I went to a market recently in the Cévennes, in southern France. It was piled high with things that in principle I’m interested in, but wouldn’t...

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Zoe Williams

We launched a war on nature. Now we are in a climate war zone

We launched a war on nature. Now we are in a climate war zone

Far beyond the fires raging across Europe and North America, the smoke, dangerous to breathe, hangs in the air, dimming the view, changing the very...

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Rebecca Solnit

We are US civil rights lawyers. Trump’s policies have driven us to seek justice internationally

We are US civil rights lawyers. Trump’s policies have driven us to seek justice internationally

We are constitutional law, civil rights, and human rights scholars and practitioners who have spent decades litigating government abuse cases in the...

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Thomas Becker And Antonio Romanucci

Ceuta was a carnival of anti-migrant content for hateful opportunists on the right – and a lesson for the left

Ceuta was a carnival of anti-migrant content for hateful opportunists on the right – and a lesson for the left

The live streams are still running, training their cameras on the beach at Ceuta, where nothing is happening. The self-styled citizen journalists are...

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Jonathan Liew

After five brutal years of Taliban rule, Afghan women and girls need our help – and I have a plan

After five brutal years of Taliban rule, Afghan women and girls need our help – and I have a plan

Next weekmarks the fifth anniversary of the takeover of Afghanistan by the Taliban as US coalition troops were evacuated from the country. That’s...

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Gordon Brown

With Russia at the door and the US backing away, Europe has to build its own ‘way of war’

With Russia at the door and the US backing away, Europe has to build its own ‘way of war’

How can Europe defend itself against Russia without the US, or with much less of it? This question sums up the existential challenge now facing the...

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Nathalie Tocci

How are betting companies being accused of treating their VIPs?

How are betting companies being accused of treating their VIPs?

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The Accusations Aren’t Great

The Guardian view on funerals: the law must change following Robert Bush’s crimes

The Guardian view on funerals: the law must change following Robert Bush’s crimes

There are few more vulnerable moments in life than the days before and after the loss of a loved one. The rituals of farewell surrounding a funeral...

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Editorial

The Guardian view on events in Ceuta: chaos and tragedy are weaponised by the far right

The Guardian view on events in Ceuta: chaos and tragedy are weaponised by the far right

At least 72 people are believed to have died late last week, most of them drowned or crushed as they joined tens of thousands of others in attempting...

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Editorial

Rebecca Hendin on Britain’s air con debate – cartoon

Rebecca Hendin on Britain’s air con debate – cartoon

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19.04 Cest

Lonely planet: why are we addicted to the social media scroll when it is so clearly harming us?

Lonely planet: why are we addicted to the social media scroll when it is so clearly harming us?

There is so much talk of all the lonely people in the world right now that the pervasive state of loneliness is being called an epidemic. I don’t...

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Paul Daley

Does Andy Burnham really hate London? He wouldn’t be the only one

Does Andy Burnham really hate London? He wouldn’t be the only one

‘I’ve seen no evidence of Andy being anti-London,” the capital’s mayor, Sadiq Khan, told the Evening Standard last week, which is quaint and...

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Zoe Williams

The right’s exploitation of the Ceuta migrant ‘crisis’ almost guarantees that it will happen again

The right’s exploitation of the Ceuta migrant ‘crisis’ almost guarantees that it will happen again

For the European hard right and the White House, it seemed almost too good to be true: left-liberal Spain punished with a migration crisis of its own...

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Ruben Andersson

Nolan’s Odyssey shows what happens when a leader’s violations are rewarded

Nolan’s Odyssey shows what happens when a leader’s violations are rewarded

I had not read The Odyssey since I was a student. Stories change when we return to them later in life, or perhaps we are the ones who change....

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Jamil Smith

My olive oil is uncool, apparently. Welcome to the world of microsnobbery

My olive oil is uncool, apparently. Welcome to the world of microsnobbery

‘Are we living in an “era of microsnobberies”? Writing in the Washington Post last week, the lifestyle influencer Victoria Wolff asserted that...

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Emma Beddington

Are Trump’s most blatant authoritarian moves backfiring?

Are Trump’s most blatant authoritarian moves backfiring?

The pattern is by now all too familiar: with every power grab Trump tries – from a fraudulent speech about voter fraud to appeals to his supreme...

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Jan-Werner Müller

The most dynamic countries are surging ahead with high-speed rail. Others, like Britain, are stuck in the station

The most dynamic countries are surging ahead with high-speed rail. Others, like Britain, are stuck in the station

With all our grumbling about trains – and it is close to a national pastime – it is easy to forget the successes. There is a tale to tell, for...

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Christian Wolmar

Ring my doorbell if you really must. But text first so I know what to expect

Ring my doorbell if you really must. But text first so I know what to expect

The latest age signifier has nothing to do with knowing what music the kids are listening to, or whether your socks are showing: it’s all about your...

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Polly Hudson

The right hates The Odyssey because of its ‘wokeness’ – but it missed an even bigger threat to its worldview

The right hates The Odyssey because of its ‘wokeness’ – but it missed an even bigger threat to its worldview

For years, a small but vocal corner of the extremely online right has looked to the ancient world to justify its polluted brand of politics. The...

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Peter Swallow

It’s the debate of the century! Two climate ‘denialists’ battle it out to see who agrees the most denialistly

It’s the debate of the century! Two climate ‘denialists’ battle it out to see who agrees the most denialistly

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08.24 Cest

Finally, we have a PM for the digital age. But real change requires more than just being good on camera

Finally, we have a PM for the digital age. But real change requires more than just being good on camera

Andy Burnham is having a good time. I can’t remember the last time a prime minister (or indeed any high-profile British politician) actually looked...

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Nesrine Malik

Liechtenstein’s archaic abortion laws need to be modernised. But a prince is standing in the way

Liechtenstein’s archaic abortion laws need to be modernised. But a prince is standing in the way

The first person Maria* called when she found out she was pregnant was her doctor. The second person was a lawyer. The single mother of one was in...

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Gabriella Alvarez-Hummel

The inability to deliver the changes Indigenous Australians need is no longer just a moral failure but a civilisational one

The inability to deliver the changes Indigenous Australians need is no longer just a moral failure but a civilisational one

The Uluru statement from the heart was our prayer to the Australian people. There was hope in its words. The statement was written with love. It...

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Noel Pearson

The Guardian view on global corporate tax: a $500bn prize that states must seize

The Guardian view on global corporate tax: a $500bn prize that states must seize

Governments are told that public services must shrink because money is tight. Yet a new Tax Justice Network report says that countries could capture...

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Editorial

The Guardian view on drought: hot, dry conditions make inequality starker

The Guardian view on drought: hot, dry conditions make inequality starker

Compared with rising heat-related deaths, and devastating wildfires in the Cairngorms and Suffolk, the announcement that the Royal...

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Editorial

Nicola Jennings on Andy Burnham and the cost of living – cartoon

Nicola Jennings on Andy Burnham and the cost of living – cartoon

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18.06 Cest

Annie thought perimenopause symptoms were keeping her awake. Alcohol was playing a role too

Annie thought perimenopause symptoms were keeping her awake. Alcohol was playing a role too

When Annie* started pacing around her house at 3am and struggling to find words during work meetings, she put it down to stress and perimenopause. She...

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Diane Young

Struggling to get through summer? Treat yourself like a beloved dog – and six other survival tips

Struggling to get through summer? Treat yourself like a beloved dog – and six other survival tips

Unfortunately for hairdressers, “How’s your summer going?” is a loaded question this year. Even basking lizards and barbecue obsessives are...

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Emma Beddington

Decades on from the US’s disastrous campaign in Afghanistan, Trump is making all the same mistakes

Decades on from the US’s disastrous campaign in Afghanistan, Trump is making all the same mistakes

It’s five years this month since the chaotic retreat of US forces from Kabul. The Nato-backed invasion and occupation of Afghanistan, launched after...

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Simon Tisdall

Why we’re all obsessed with Jimothy the raccoon, the internet’s animal of the moment

Why we’re all obsessed with Jimothy the raccoon, the internet’s animal of the moment

Anyone who enjoys memes (who doesn’t?) has surely by now accumulated a mental menagerie of internet-famous animals. Mine include: Grumpy Cat, the...

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Elle Hunt