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From mindfulness to learning something new: seven simple strategies for wellbeing

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Matt Fisher

What if Russia wins in Ukraine? We can already see the shadows of a dark 2025

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Timothy Garton Ash

As a media columnist, even I found myself turning away from the news in 2024. But we can do things differently

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Jane Martinson

I bought a farm, hated the cows, and sold it. Then somehow, I bought another

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John Humphrys

Only 35% of Americans trust the US judicial system. This is catastrophic

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David Daley

The left’s best defense against Trump? Ditching limousine liberalism

As Donald Trump prepares for his inauguration, many have begun to debate how best to build a committed political opposition. Instead of reviving...

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Dustin Guastella

‘How do we live in this terrible world?’ a reader asked me. Here’s the only answer I have

It’s a season brimming with tradition and, as longtime readers may know, my own custom has been to try, in the last column before Christmas, to find...

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Jonathan Freedland

Elon Musk is becoming a one-man rogue state – it’s time we reined him in

Elon Musk is, more or less, a rogue state. His intentions are self-serving and nefarious, and his nation-state level resources allow him to flout...

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Alexander Hurst

In the spirit of both Zen and Christmas holidays, I’ve decided to become a digital dropout

It’s the last fortnight of December, time to reappraise the traditions of shared holiday rituals. Will Australians once more create kitchen-bound...

yesterday 10

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Van Badham

New York is the worst place in the world, my taxi driver told me. Not that night, not to me

The winter night I moved to New York, I sat in the back of a cab, two bulging suitcases stuffed into the boot by the driver who rolled his eyes at...

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Megan Nolan

Joe Biden is going out quietly but with trademark decency

As with many a lame-duck president in the past, it feels as if Joe Biden has already left the national stage even though he has a month left in his...

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Margaret Sullivan

Unrwa may be forced to stop saving lives in Gaza. Will the world let that happen?

The UN agency entrusted with the protection and welfare of Palestine refugees for three-quarters of a century, Unrwa, which I lead, was always...

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Philippe Lazzarini

Elon Musk is the ultimate chaos agent

Elon Musk holds no public office. He has never stood for election, passed scrutiny for appointment to public office, nor commanded a political...

yesterday 1

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Siva Vaidhyanathan

The US supreme court’s TikTok case will put free expression on the line

The US supreme court surprisingly decided, this week, to hear TikTok’s emergency appeal to its imminent ban in the United States. It may be the...

yesterday 1

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Trevor Timm

Lisa Kudrow is right: friendship ‘takes work’. But you wouldn’t know it from TV

Lisa Kudrow says being and staying friends with her Friends co-stars was tough at times. “That six-way relationship took some work – and we did...

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Emma Beddington

Hit TV show, tick. Millions for lawyers, tick. Now could we manage some actual justice for the subpostmasters?

In her closing statement to the Post Office inquiry this week, Paula Vennells once again added the brutal murder of irony to her list of failings....

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Marina Hyde

The facts about a planet facing climate disaster are clear. Why won’t this Labour government face them?

There is no need to overcomplicate things: a rise in global temperatures of 3.1C is not compatible with human survival. That is where we are...

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Jeremy Corbyn

Syria has always been an Israeli obsession. Now it has unexpectedly given Netanyahu his coveted image of victory

Wars are remembered by their iconic images, and finding a triumphal photograph has been a key goal for belligerents striving to leave their mark on...

yesterday 1

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Aluf Benn

Starmer should not be the fall guy for Labour’s failures. This disaster was written by committee

Keir Starmer’s team can smell the presence of the political grim reaper. Every Friday, the prime minister’s chief of staff, Morgan McSweeney, runs...

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Owen Jones

Gisèle Pelicot has allowed us all to shout out loud: she did it, and we can do it. Gisèle Pelicot is us

I am looking at a colour photo of a woman with auburn hair entering the courthouse in Avignon. Around her, the impassive faces of her lawyers. This...

yesterday 7

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Judith Godrèche

Gisèle Pelicot has rewritten her story – and electrified women all over the world. But what about men?

Women who are raped are in many countries – perhaps in most – violated and abused again by the legal system. And yet during her reckoning with...

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Rebecca Solnit

The Waspi women suffered outrageous misogyny, but in poverty-stricken Britain they’re not the top priority

Some women born in the 1950s were not adequately warned that they would have to work up to six extra years before drawing their state pension. Some...

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Polly Toynbee

All Starmer’s failings play into the hands of Farage – the prime minister is the gift that keeps on giving

While the editor of this hallowed section and I do not always agree, he has conceded that it’s almost Christmas – which is all the excuse I need...

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Aditya Chakrabortty

‘Flexi-schooling’ isn’t the answer for time-pressed parents - but something has to give

Every few years, the grind of modern life inspires calls for a radical rethink. We have seen this most recently in Iceland, where the rollout of a...

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Emma Brockes

Germany and France are in crisis – is the next global financial crash brewing?

Things are not quite going according to plan for Rachel Reeves. The economy has contracted for the past two months and inflation is proving hard to...

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Larry Elliott

It’s easier than you think to get the measure of Kemi Badenoch – just ask around in Nigeria

The Tory leader, Kemi Badenoch, recently went viral over her comments on the perfidy of sandwiches and “moist bread” in an interview with the...

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Nels Abbey

What does the verdict in the Gisèle Pelicot rape trial mean for France? Our panel responds

One face and name dominated the streets of Paris on 23 November as the annual march marking International Day for the Elimination of Violence...

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Rokhaya Diallo

A string of assassinations, a faltering economy, a shortage of workers: the pressure on Putin is ratcheting up

The assassination on Tuesday of the Russian general and conspiracy theorist Igor Kirillov in downtown Moscow is yet another operation in a string...

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Olga Chyzh

The US’s foreign broadcasters may soon be forced to become pro-Trump propaganda

Donald Trump has never made any secret of his hatred of the press, which he famously calls “the enemy of the people”. Press watchdogs are...

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Andrew Gawthorpe

The balance of power is shifting in the Middle East – and it is Turkey’s ‘full moon’ on the rise

The fall of the Assad regime in Syria marks the end of Iran’s long-feared “Shia crescent” and the rise of Turkey’s “full moon”, reshaping...

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Hassan Hassan

We now have a plan to make England’s local government work – but I fear party politics will trash it

I am under no illusions about this. Compared with Prince Andrew’s latest disgrace or with Keely Hodgkinson’s latest glittering prize, the reform...

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Martin Kettle

The path to truth-telling in Australia is thorny and long. But there is some ground for hope

Only months out from a federal election, the challenge of truth-telling in Australia seems as daunting as ever. There is undeniable evidence that...

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Mark Mckenna

Women’s body hair shouldn’t be controversial. It’s time to stop policing our physical choices

Growing up in the 1980s, all the teenage girls I knew shaved their legs and their armpits as soon as they could. I was 15 when I started. I...

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Nova Weetman

I stood up to the ‘boys club’ at the heart of our justice system – and was vindicated

On Thursday, I stood in Gray’s Inn and spoke words I had hardly dared to hope I would say: “This is a victory for women’s rights and free...

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Charlotte Proudman

Dear Santa, please bring back the plastic lids on yoghurt pots

All I want for Christmas is the return of yoghurt pot lids. And not just for me, for everyone. In this season of goodwill, I want everyone to get a...

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Adrian Chiles

A predicted deficit will get the headlines, but remember that budgets are about choices

The midyear economic and fiscal outlook (Myefo) released on Wednesday showed a slight increase in the size of budget deficits over the next three...

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Greg Jericho

Can retinol, vitamin A or other compounds really keep your skin healthy and ‘youthful’?

Antiviral reader Patrick wrote in to us because of the “constant claims” he sees on social media “that retinol (vitamin A) and related compounds...

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Melissa Davey

Command and control from London runs England, but that must stop: give the people money and power

The biggest shake-up in local government for 50 years – that is how Labour’s white paper, Power and partnership: Foundations for growth, has...

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Vernon Bogdanor

At last, a figure has emerged who could wrench power from Viktor Orbán in Hungary

Hungarian politics can sometimes seem like a soap opera that is stuck with the same characters and has run on too long. You have the occasional...

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Viktória Serdült

What does the China ‘spy’ row show? That Starmer can’t just muddle through on foreign policy

When Keir Starmer met Xi Jinping at the G20 summit in Rio last month he declared that Britain should build a “pragmatic and serious relationship”...

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Rafael Behr

Islamophobia is an everyday reality for too many Australians

Five years ago, then prime minister Scott Morrison stated on national television: “I don’t know if Australians understand Islam very well.” It...

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Aftab Malik

Yara is grateful to be in Australia. But it’s not Christmas while family and friends suffer in Gaza

It’s almost Christmas, and I always like to be the first one to wish my best friend, Yara, a merry Christmas as she’s always the first one to wish...

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Plestia Alaqad

Is your air fryer spying on you? It’s time to stop buying unnecessary ‘smart’ devices

Air fryers make delicious roast potatoes and, it turns out, pretty decent snooping devices. Last month, the consumer group Which? issued a warning...

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Arwa Mahdawi

Liberation is the dream that came true for Syrians like me. But the reality is not easy

My friend called me crying. Homs was liberated, she said. My nerves were about to explode. Liberated, not liberated, liberated, not liberated –...

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Mona Rafea

Donald Trump’s disturbing war on the press has now escalated

The Donald Trump vengeance tour is on the road and the media is in its crosshairs. “It should have been the justice department or somebody else, but...

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Lloyd Green

These women lost their children because they were lesbians – why can’t the government say sorry?

I am more than just aware of the faint outlines of queer history – it is something I see in Technicolour. I immerse myself in lesbian books, films...

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Sophie Wilkinson

Martin Rowson on Bashar al-Assad’s new life in Moscow – cartoon

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Jörg Lau

Germany’s snap election will not just be a referendum on Scholz, but on an entire democratic system

It was certainly not one of those rather bland debates the Bundestag, the German parliament, is deservedly known for. On Monday, Olaf Scholz, the...

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Jörg Lau

Elon Musk is on track to be a trillionaire – if America doesn’t turn against him first

Congratulations to Elon Musk, a genius of truly galactic proportions, who recently made what might have been the world’s savviest investment. The...

wednesday 6

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Arwa Mahdawi

I spy another Prince Andrew disaster. Pity the royals: how could they possibly have seen this coming?

No matter how much you try to digest the implications of the alleged Chinese spy scandal, some details are just comically indigestible. Take the...

wednesday 10

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Marina Hyde

As an oncologist, I learn from my patients what matters most in life

Tell me, what else should I have done? Doesn’t everything die at last, and too soon? Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and...

wednesday 1

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Ranjana Srivastava

What price a wonderful Santa memory for you and your kid? Try £24: ‘ho, ho, ho’ not included

Did you take your kids to see Santa this year? If so, how much did you pay? At one grotto in Winchester, it was £18.50 per child and £6 per adult,...

wednesday 10

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Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

Labour seems to be flailing, but keep faith: Starmer’s long-term plans are both radical and sound

This is slow government. This solemn and serious cabinet is not one for quick, bright eye-catchers, timed to hit 6 o’clock bulletins. The best it...

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Polly Toynbee

Australians are gripped by feelings of doom about the state of the world. It’s time to throw the phone away

As 2024 approaches end of days, I’m taking comfort in a piece of old technology called a book. I’m not sure it’s a great book but it’s got me...

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Peter Lewis

I have followed the Bali Nine case for 20 years. This is not about taking sides, except the side of time

Kim Beazley took over from Mark Latham as federal opposition leader in 2005; the same year nine young Australians tried to smuggle 8.7kg of heroin...

17.12.2024 10

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Madonna King

I went to see two very different pantos this week. Here’s what I learned

They call the Palladium Christmas pantomime “the glitziest show in town”, which basically means “most expensive”. I feel moved to point out...

17.12.2024 8

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Zoe Williams

Forget the novelty mugs and homemade biscuits: here’s what teachers really want for Christmas

I’m not sure when teacher gifts became another hot item on the December stress list. I have vague memories from my childhood of carrying to...

17.12.2024 20

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Myke Bartlett

If you’ve got children, you need to watch Swiped – and see how sick their phones are making them

Every parent of a school-age child should watch Swiped, the Channel 4 documentary on smartphones shown last week. It was devastating. It told of an...

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Simon Jenkins

The legal battle over abortion-by-mail in the US has begun – and the stakes are high

The legal battle over the interstate mailing of abortion pills has begun. On Friday, the Texas attorney general, Ken Paxton, sued Dr Margaret...

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Moira Donegan

Why aren’t more politicians condemning Nancy Mace’s vicious anti-trans stunts?

Representative Nancy Mace is proudly embracing her George Wallace moment. It’s time for dissent. When Vivian Malone and James Hood enrolled at...

17.12.2024 20

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Jay Saper

In the end, Syria and Assad became just too toxic – even for Putin

The fall of the Assad regime marks the end of a big chapter in Russia’s presence in the Middle East. However, this does not mean that Moscow is...

17.12.2024 8

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Nikolay Kozhanov

The ‘quad-demic’ is here – and with it I have become a disease detective

Neologisms may have the excitement of the strange, but there is nothing exciting about the “quad-demic” if you’re afflicted by it. Even if the...

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Zoe Williams

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