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The curse of burnout Britain affects politicians as much as everyone else: give Carla Denyer a break

The curse of burnout Britain affects politicians as much as everyone else: give Carla Denyer a break

Carla Denyer is taking some time out. The Bristol Central MP and former Green party co-leader says she is suffering from burnout after trying to...

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Gaby Hinsliff

Heatwaves are becoming the norm. This is what Britain will look like in the year 2052

Heatwaves are becoming the norm. This is what Britain will look like in the year 2052

If you think the temperature uncomfortable today, let me take you to the last day of July 2052, the rays of the climbing sun reveal a city still...

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Bill Mcguire

Abortion trauma is a myth. Irish women don’t need laws to make them ‘reflect’ on their choices

Abortion trauma is a myth. Irish women don’t need laws to make them ‘reflect’ on their choices

Ireland’s parliament, the Dáil, voted down a reproductive rights amendment bill this month that would have abolished the country’s mandatory...

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Roe mcdermott

Has BHP shown its true colours?

Has BHP shown its true colours?

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It’s not easy being green

One Nation’s attacks on the media are straight from the Donald Trump playbook. We must call them out

One Nation’s attacks on the media are straight from the Donald Trump playbook. We must call them out

The day before the Farrer byelection on 9 May in which Pauline Hanson’s One Nation party delivered a seismic shock to the Australian political...

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Denis Muller

Australia’s property lobby would have us believe investors are selfless public servants. It’s just profiteering

Australia’s property lobby would have us believe investors are selfless public servants. It’s just profiteering

You might have noticed that the property lobby is having a meltdown. You can almost set your watch to it. The moment anyone suggests winding back...

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Maiy Azize

The Guardian view on the Pope and Claude: Leo XIV’s encyclical on AI is right to put humanity first

The Guardian view on the Pope and Claude: Leo XIV’s encyclical on AI is right to put humanity first

When the present pope adopted his regnal name, he explained the choice by reference to a 19th-century predecessor who used the papacy to address the...

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Editorial

The Guardian view on lenient sentences for rape: teenage survivors deserve more from the justice system

The Guardian view on lenient sentences for rape: teenage survivors deserve more from the justice system

The decision to review the sentences of two teenage boys convicted of raping two girls, aged 15 and 14, in separate incidents in November 2024 and...

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Editorial

Rebecca Hendin on Farage and the £5m – cartoon

Rebecca Hendin on Farage and the £5m – cartoon

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Oppressing women is how authoritarianism begins. So listen to what Reform is saying

Oppressing women is how authoritarianism begins. So listen to what Reform is saying

In preparation for interviewing Pussy Riot’s Maria “Masha” Alyokhina at the Charleston festival, I was reading her new memoir, Political Girl. I...

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Zoe Williams

Here is Andy Burnham’s route to save Labour: a new manifesto, a new election and electoral reform

Here is Andy Burnham’s route to save Labour: a new manifesto, a new election and electoral reform

Here comes the prospect of redemption, a second chance for Labour to start over. A victory for Andy Burnham in the Makerfield byelection not only...

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Polly Toynbee

In rusted collars and empty chairs, I still live with my beloved ghosts

In rusted collars and empty chairs, I still live with my beloved ghosts

Sometimes it seems like my world is inhabited by ghosts, such are the remnants and reminders of past lives all around me. The dead dogs are...

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Paul Daley

Each side spins a different story about the US-Iran peace talks – but Tehran may have the last word

Each side spins a different story about the US-Iran peace talks – but Tehran may have the last word

For those following the crisis between the US and Iran, the past few days have been bewildering. On Friday, the six-week-old ceasefire seemed doomed....

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Rajan Menon

The language of the American presidency doesn’t apply to Trump

The language of the American presidency doesn’t apply to Trump

Words matter. When describing a government, they inevitably carry moral weight. Over the past 16 months, Trump and his appointees have so profoundly...

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Robert Reich

A Britain where people cannot afford to raise children? We see that risk, and won’t let it happen

A Britain where people cannot afford to raise children? We see that risk, and won’t let it happen

Britain is facing a family crisis that politicians do not talk about nearly enough. Birthrates are now the lowest since records began. More and more...

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Bridget Phillipson

BHP has made big climate promises – that’s the easy part. Now it must do the real work of slashing emissions

BHP has made big climate promises – that’s the easy part. Now it must do the real work of slashing emissions

The revelation that BHP cancelled and delayed commitments to act on the climate crisis should be a wake-up call. It matters in its own right: millions...

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Adam Morton

Could this Japanese human washing machine save me from the tedium of cleaning myself?

Could this Japanese human washing machine save me from the tedium of cleaning myself?

Still trying and failing to plan a trip to Japan, I have at least found one absolute must: a pilgrimage to see the Future Human Washing Machine....

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Emma Beddington

Listen to the stories of Gaza’s women to fully grasp the horrors Israel is inflicting on us

Listen to the stories of Gaza’s women to fully grasp the horrors Israel is inflicting on us

Since Israel’s assault on Gaza began in October 2023, I have lost my father, my brother, his wife and their daughter. They are still buried under...

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Olfat al-kurd

Is this a good time for the CSIRO to be sacking climate scientists?

Is this a good time for the CSIRO to be sacking climate scientists?

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The next el niño is predicted to be bigger than ever with devastating global impacts

To understand Britain’s new politics, look no further than this Shakespearean saga in Worcestershire

To understand Britain’s new politics, look no further than this Shakespearean saga in Worcestershire

If you want a window into how a fragmented nation and a splintered party system are reshaping British politics, look no further than the drama at...

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Jason Okundaye

Angela Merkel won’t be negotiating with Putin – but the rumour reflects a truth about the Ukraine war

Angela Merkel won’t be negotiating with Putin – but the rumour reflects a truth about the Ukraine war

Discussions are said to be under way as to which former European heavyweights should represent the EU in any peace talks with Russia. Angela Merkel,...

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Nathalie Tocci

The Guardian view on 100 years after Miles Davis’s birth: why he still shapes modern music

The Guardian view on 100 years after Miles Davis’s birth: why he still shapes modern music

The space reserved for Miles Davis in the pantheon of 20th-century music is not simply because he mastered jazz, but because he refused to let it...

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Editorial

Nicola Jennings on Andy Burnham and the forthcoming Labour leadership battle – cartoon

Nicola Jennings on Andy Burnham and the forthcoming Labour leadership battle – cartoon

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The Guardian view on Erdoğan’s tightening grip on Turkey: the next election is already being decided

The Guardian view on Erdoğan’s tightening grip on Turkey: the next election is already being decided

Turkey’s next presidential election is scheduled for 2028. Many think it will come sooner. But by the time ballots are actually cast, the outcome...

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Editorial

Family estrangement is more common than people think, but research shows the effects on wellbeing are mixed

Family estrangement is more common than people think, but research shows the effects on wellbeing are mixed

Despite media stories occasionally highlighting high-profile family estrangements, in many cultures estrangement carries a stigma, a direct challenge...

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Gaynor Parkin And Dave Winsborough

The Democrats’ 2024 autopsy fails to confront the truth

The Democrats’ 2024 autopsy fails to confront the truth

When the Democratic National Committee finally released its autopsy on the 2024 election disaster, not even the DNC chair could defend it. “I...

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Norman Solomon

To the new couples ‘turbulence testing’ their relationships: just relax and enjoy good times instead

To the new couples ‘turbulence testing’ their relationships: just relax and enjoy good times instead

‘Turbulence test” trips are a “romantic travel trend” for new couples, according to US Vogue. The magazine spoke to two women who had decided...

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Emma Beddington

Tulsi Gabbard’s resistance to foreign wars amid Trump’s aggression was her undoing

Tulsi Gabbard’s resistance to foreign wars amid Trump’s aggression was her undoing

Tulsi Gabbard, the US director of national intelligence, stayed loyal to Donald Trump until the end – and nurtured the president’s grievances...

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Mohamad Bazzi

Bruce Springsteen is a model for how celebrities should resist Trump

Bruce Springsteen is a model for how celebrities should resist Trump

The Bruce Springsteen concert I went to in Brooklyn last week was unlike any concert I’ve attended in decades. It was far more than a fabulous,...

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Steven Greenhouse

The hill I will die on: If Hollywood blockbusters must dabble in science, can’t they get the small stuff right?

The hill I will die on: If Hollywood blockbusters must dabble in science, can’t they get the small stuff right?

On the advice of my teenage son, I recently went to the cinema to see Project Hail Mary. The film has science in it. I am a science writer and so he...

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Helen Pilcher

Renting has its downsides, but I’ve decided to stop waiting and start living – plants, garden furniture and all

Renting has its downsides, but I’ve decided to stop waiting and start living – plants, garden furniture and all

It was cheering to read that William and Kate’s new lease for Forest Lodge in Windsor stipulates that they must keep the grounds “clean and...

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Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

I avoid AI tools because thinking is supposed to be hard. It’s what makes us human

I avoid AI tools because thinking is supposed to be hard. It’s what makes us human

Long before the age of multi-billion-dollar AI companies promising to disrupt the field of software development, I was learning to code the hard way....

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Wendy Liu

My dad was far from perfect – but I live by the advice he gave me on his deathbed

My dad was far from perfect – but I live by the advice he gave me on his deathbed

This sounds like an old-fashioned, “take my mother-in-law” type joke, but is the antithesis of funny: one in five British people would swap their...

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Polly Hudson

Jim Chalmers is talkin’ ’bout generations – but is the message resonating with Australians?

Jim Chalmers is talkin’ ’bout generations – but is the message resonating with Australians?

A political slogan where the key word has seven syllables will always be a hard sell. In-ter-gen-er-a-tion-al is such a word. It may only take a few...

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Julianne Schultz

The office lunch was once a luxury. Now it’s just a pain

The office lunch was once a luxury. Now it’s just a pain

It’s 12.30pm as I write this. My mind is preoccupied with moving my fingers from key to key on my ageing laptop, a task I paused briefly to remove a...

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Dave Schilling

Under Trump, more than 145,000 US kids have been separated from their parents, a study shows

Under Trump, more than 145,000 US kids have been separated from their parents, a study shows

Stephen Miller, Donald Trump’s immigration czar and the architect of some of the government’s cruelest policies, doesn’t care what you think...

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Arwa Mahdawi

Liana Finck on shrinkflation coming for public transport – cartoon

Liana Finck on shrinkflation coming for public transport – cartoon

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For when you need to squeeze under those low bridges without reducing passenger capacity

An ever-expanding catastrophe over Iran is not inevitable. Trump can and must be stopped

An ever-expanding catastrophe over Iran is not inevitable. Trump can and must be stopped

With the deadlocked war in Iran about to enter its fourth month, loose comparisons with previous US quagmires in Iraq, Afghanistan and Vietnam are...

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Simon Tisdall

I was on Love Island. After the MAFS scandal, I know what TV companies must do to keep contestants safe

I was on Love Island. After the MAFS scandal, I know what TV companies must do to keep contestants safe

When I joined the cast of Love Island in 2021, I already semi-knew that reality TV wasn’t “real”. I grew up with parents who constantly reminded...

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Sharon gaffka

This is how to defeat Vladimir Putin

This is how to defeat Vladimir Putin

No dictator lasts for ever. One day Vladimir Putin will be gone. Recent reports suggest growing weakness in the Russian economy, discontent in society...

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Timothy Garton Ash

French stars are rightly worried by billionaire Vincent Bolloré. Here’s how to rein him in

French stars are rightly worried by billionaire Vincent Bolloré. Here’s how to rein him in

The shadow of Joseph McCarthy’s “red scare” loomed over the storied steps of this year’s Cannes film festival. Echoing the mid-20th-century...

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Alexander Hurst

Ella Baron on the EHRC’s transgender code of practice – cartoon

Ella Baron on the EHRC’s transgender code of practice – cartoon

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The Guardian view on gallery and museum gardens: a blooming triumph

The Guardian view on gallery and museum gardens: a blooming triumph

Never mind a gnome, no other garden at this year’s Chelsea flower show can boast a Barbara Hepworth sculpture like the RHS gold-award-winning Tate...

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Editorial

The Guardian view on Britain’s coming energy shock: mini-measures won’t suffice

The Guardian view on Britain’s coming energy shock: mini-measures won’t suffice

Rachel Reeves’s announcement of a series of cost of living measures this week shows a government trying to prove it still has agency and relevance....

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Editorial

What can Arsenal teach Keir Starmer about politics? You need a clear vision, a tight grip – and hope

What can Arsenal teach Keir Starmer about politics? You need a clear vision, a tight grip – and hope

Obviously, I know that politics and football are different. One is a high-stakes endeavour that affects the lives of hundreds of millions of people,...

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Jonathan Freedland

Nobody better represents Israeli politics today than Itamar Ben-Gvir

Nobody better represents Israeli politics today than Itamar Ben-Gvir

No, you’re not hallucinating: western governments really are condemning Israel, one-by-one, without equivocation. Not because of the ongoing...

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Ben Reiff

Keeping my dead wife’s books safe for our son helped me let go of guilt

Keeping my dead wife’s books safe for our son helped me let go of guilt

As I removed my dead wife’s favourite novels from the bookshelf, a photo of her fell to the ground and a wave of guilt swamped me. The photo was of...

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Ben O'Mara

Has the great AI backlash begun?

Has the great AI backlash begun?

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Why is Elon Musk so threatened by the casting of The Odyssey?

Why is Elon Musk so threatened by the casting of The Odyssey?

It was the casting choice that launched a thousand meltdowns. The Oscar-winning actor Lupita Nyong’o was confirmed as Helen of Troy in Christopher...

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Arwa Mahdawi

Here’s a potential witness for the police officers investigating Andrew: the police

Here’s a potential witness for the police officers investigating Andrew: the police

How noble that Thames Valley police has let it be known that its misconduct-in-public-office investigation into Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor is also...

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Marina Hyde