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Do your new year’s resolutions fit the temper of the times?

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Glen Berman

What would it take for me to feel safe wearing a kippah after Bondi?

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Glen Berman

I knew all about the NHS’s challenges and flaws. But then as a patient, I saw the love and the magic

I knew all about the NHS’s challenges and flaws. But then as a patient, I saw the love and the magic

I watched Nye, the National Theatre’s hit show about Aneurin Bevan, the former Labour MP for Ebbw Vale and his fight to found a national health...

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Anne Perkins

The very next day, you gave it away … how to get rid of an unwanted Christmas gift without getting caught

The very next day, you gave it away … how to get rid of an unwanted Christmas gift without getting caught

As the recipient of an unwanted gift, is it necessary to pretend you like it? This is what most of us are trained to do as children; for some it...

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Eleanor Limprecht

The mood was jubilant at Italy’s far-right Atreju festival. But has Meloni’s success peaked?

The mood was jubilant at Italy’s far-right Atreju festival. But has Meloni’s success peaked?

Earlier this month, the gardens of Rome’s Castel Sant’Angelo were filled with families enjoying some unseasonably warm sun by a pop-up ice rink....

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Jamie Mackay

The hill I will die on: Pigeons are working-class heroes and deserve some respect

The hill I will die on: Pigeons are working-class heroes and deserve some respect

Is there something I would figuratively die on a hill for? Yes, there is – and as it happens, I’m sitting on a literal hill right now, feeding...

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Ssaint Douglass

The BBC tells the story of Britain in a way Netflix simply cannot. In the year to come, please remember that

The BBC tells the story of Britain in a way Netflix simply cannot. In the year to come, please remember that

Don’t let President Trump cloud the real debate about the BBC. Of course, his demand for damages of no less than $5bn has dominated our thinking...

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Tony Hall

Is it Twixmas or Twixtmas? And other style guide conundrums we have faced this year at the Guardian

Is it Twixmas or Twixtmas? And other style guide conundrums we have faced this year at the Guardian

Are we in Twixmas or Twixtmas? Do dinosaurs have capital letters? Is space measured in kilometres or miles? These are some of the questions we...

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Charlotte Naughton And Katy Guest

Americans are waking up. A grand reckoning awaits us

Americans are waking up. A grand reckoning awaits us

About a year ago, at the start of the Trump 2.0 regime, a woman was about to pass me on the sidewalk and then stopped, turned toward me and almost...

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Robert Reich

On these in-between days I’m ‘growing down’, sinking into the present moment and savouring small delights

On these in-between days I’m ‘growing down’, sinking into the present moment and savouring small delights

Just over a year ago, my mother died. It was a few months after my second baby was born and a month before Christmas. She was the last in the...

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Nadine Levy

US strikes on IS targets in Nigeria may only fan the flames of insurgent violence

US strikes on IS targets in Nigeria may only fan the flames of insurgent violence

The response of Nigerians to the airstrikes against Islamic State (IS) targets in Sokoto state, north-western Nigeria are complicated. The...

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Onyedikachi Madueke

Through the lens of history, Trump’s legacy will be more of a blotch than a Maga masterpiece

Through the lens of history, Trump’s legacy will be more of a blotch than a Maga masterpiece

For those who lived through the cold war, the fall of the Berlin Wall on 9 November 1989, was an unforgettable moment. The sinister watch towers...

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Simon Tisdall

Need cheering up after a terrible year? I may have just the story you’re looking for

Need cheering up after a terrible year? I may have just the story you’re looking for

Perhaps you are searching for reasons to be cheerful at the end of what has been a particularly dispiriting year? In that case, read on. In...

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Martin Kettle

The hill I will die on: Faux Cyrillic is a load of old crдp

The hill I will die on: Faux Cyrillic is a load of old crдp

One of the worst bugbears to possess is one that is shared by hardly anyone else. It’s lonely being the only person who cares about something. It’s...

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Viv Groskop

The best of: Fiona Katauskas cartoons 2025

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Gallery

In the battle against antisemitism we must accept that Zionism means different things to different people

In the battle against antisemitism we must accept that Zionism means different things to different people

The 14 December Bondi Beach attack targeting Jews at a Hanukah celebration has brought the issue of antisemitism into sharp national focus. In...

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David Slucki

Trump is shamelessly covering America in his name

Trump is shamelessly covering America in his name

In 2011, Donald Trump published a book with the self-help guru Robert Kiyosaki titled Midas Touch. It’s a typical self-empowerment manual in which...

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Mohamad Bazzi

2025: a year in political cartoons – from a Bond-villain Trump to a toppled prince

2025: a year in political cartoons – from a Bond-villain Trump to a toppled prince

In a year in which I’ve drawn too many cartoons about powerful people acting with impunity, the fall of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor stood out to me...

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Martin Rowson

A conversation between Joe Rogan and Mel Gibson summed up 2025 for me – and not in a good way

A conversation between Joe Rogan and Mel Gibson summed up 2025 for me – and not in a good way

Looking back on this crazy year, one event, right at the start, seems to me to encapsulate the whole. In January, recording his podcast in a studio...

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George Monbiot

The hill I will die on: Online shops, please, I beg – stop with endless post-purchase emails

The hill I will die on: Online shops, please, I beg – stop with endless post-purchase emails

When I buy something online, I don’t want to receive more than two emails: one to confirm my order has been received, and another to tell me when...

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Athena Kugblenu

The year in patriarchy: Taylor Swift’s engagement, Trump 2.0 and the Epstein files

The year in patriarchy: Taylor Swift’s engagement, Trump 2.0 and the Epstein files

The year 2025 would have been far better if we could have sent a few billionaires and world leaders into intergalactic exile. Instead, we had to...

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Arwa Mahdawi

Our dog’s affections remain a sweet mystery even as Odie turns five today

Our dog’s affections remain a sweet mystery even as Odie turns five today

“And who does your dog love the most?” my friend laughingly asks my youngest child as she fusses over Odie, our cavoodle. The dog is delighted by...

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Ranjana Srivastava

The best of: First Dog on the Moon cartoons 2025

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Feeling burnt out? A bush blessing for the end of the year

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Now Is The Time To Think Of New Beginnings

There’s an itsy-bitsy fear I want to overcome. I will never be a fan, but can I at least be Normal about spiders?

There’s an itsy-bitsy fear I want to overcome. I will never be a fan, but can I at least be Normal about spiders?

I am someone who believes it is never too late to change. I think you can in fact teach an old dog new tricks, as long as the old dog is...

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Rebecca Shaw

Our king, our priest, our feudal lord – how AI is taking us back to the dark ages

Our king, our priest, our feudal lord – how AI is taking us back to the dark ages

This summer, I found myself battling through traffic in the sweltering streets of Marseille. At a crossing, my friend in the passenger seat told me...

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Joseph De Weck

The hill I will die on: Washing-up bowls are horrible and should be banned

The hill I will die on: Washing-up bowls are horrible and should be banned

When I was a kid, our TV was in a television cabinet. For those unfamiliar with this preposterous abomination, it was a box on legs into which the...

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Jason Hazeley

Fat, fearless and over 50: thanks to my TikTok outfit posts, I feel powerful and seen

Fat, fearless and over 50: thanks to my TikTok outfit posts, I feel powerful and seen

After spending a large proportion of this year in hospital and coming out with a feeding tube, life felt completely upside down. I’d gone from...

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Jen Walshaw

In Gaza we’re trapped in an endless maze of waiting – for peace, for the deaths to stop and for our lives to begin again

In Gaza we’re trapped in an endless maze of waiting – for peace, for the deaths to stop and for our lives to begin again

Here in Gaza we hear the word “peace” constantly – even more often than we hear the roar of warplanes or the thuds of shelling. It appears on...

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Aya Al-Hattab