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Beijing trade threats unhelpful

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Voters are losing faith as politicians lose their way

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Trump must respect his allies

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The Guardian view on microplastics research: questioning results is good for science, but has political consequences

The Guardian view on microplastics research: questioning results is good for science, but has political consequences

It is true that science is self-correcting. Over the long term this means that we can generally trust its results – but up close, correction can be...

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The Guardian view on Trump and Greenland: get real! Bullying is not strength

The Guardian view on Trump and Greenland: get real! Bullying is not strength

For all Donald Trump’s bluster about restoring American strength, his attempt to bully European allies over Greenland reveals a deeper weakness:...

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The Guardian view on Craig Guildford’s departure: right decision, dangerous implications

The Guardian view on Craig Guildford’s departure: right decision, dangerous implications

After refusing to walk, in a manner reminiscent of Stuart Broad batting against the Australians in the 2013 Ashes, the West Midlands chief constable...

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The Guardian view on ICE and Renee Good’s killing: Trumpism’s brutal tactics don’t end with migrants

The Guardian view on ICE and Renee Good’s killing: Trumpism’s brutal tactics don’t end with migrants

In Minnesota, armed and masked agents are ripping families apart. They are seizing parents while they wait with their child at a bus stop, going door...

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The Guardian view on Trump’s world: from Venezuela to Iran to Greenland, the madness is the method

The Guardian view on Trump’s world: from Venezuela to Iran to Greenland, the madness is the method

The Middle East was braced on Wednesday night, but the anxious petitioning of Gulf states and Iran’s attempts to appease the US president appeared...

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The Guardian view on Robert Jenrick’s defection: Britain’s right is in a crisis of its own making

The Guardian view on Robert Jenrick’s defection: Britain’s right is in a crisis of its own making

Conservative party leader Kemi Badenoch’s decision to sack her shadow justice minister, Robert Jenrick, due to his impending defection was not so...

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Groupthink is not free speech

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Greens can always make PM’s bad hate laws worse

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Hate bill on slippery slope in ideological tug of war

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Trump v Powell fiscal madness

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The mainstream got action

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Own goal for the arts in Adelaide

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The Australian

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Natural cycle turning back to fire

15.01.2026 10

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Trump deserves support of free world in Tehran plans

15.01.2026 10

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The Guardian view on Labour’s plan for railways in the north: a slow train coming

The Guardian view on Labour’s plan for railways in the north: a slow train coming

In areas starved of the kind of investment taken for granted in the south-east, the miserable state of northern England’s railways has long been a...

15.01.2026 20

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The Guardian view on Labour policy U-turns: a dangerous pattern that corrodes confidence

The Guardian view on Labour policy U-turns: a dangerous pattern that corrodes confidence

In practical terms there is not a huge difference between proving your identity online with a passport and using a government-issued digital ID. But...

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Iran’s people need world support

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Hate laws must keep their tight parameters on race

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Rudd free to strut world stage

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The Guardian view on long waits for disability benefits: the system should not push people closer to poverty

The Guardian view on long waits for disability benefits: the system should not push people closer to poverty

Long delays in processing personal independence payment (Pip) claims have become one of the most damaging and least defensible failures in the UK’s...

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The Guardian view on Trump’s assault on the Fed: it is part of an affordability blame game

The Guardian view on Trump’s assault on the Fed: it is part of an affordability blame game

The US government’s authoritarian and vexatious attack on Jerome Powell, the chair of the Federal Reserve, should be seen in the light of...

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Iran must not get away with threats to US, Israel

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Cultural left is conspicuous in its tolerance for hate

12.01.2026 10

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The Guardian view on Europe’s stalling night train revival: don’t let it hit the buffers

The Guardian view on Europe’s stalling night train revival: don’t let it hit the buffers

When the European Union made its 2020 commitment to achieving net zero carbon emissions by the middle of the century, there was a wave of excitement...

12.01.2026 10

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The Guardian view on India’s employment guarantee: scrapping a right to work risks a rural revolt

The Guardian view on India’s employment guarantee: scrapping a right to work risks a rural revolt

Few countries have attempted anything as ambitious as India’s rural jobs guarantee. Under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee...

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Iran now a theocratic failed state

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The Guardian view on Ofcom versus Grok: chatbots cannot be allowed to undress children

The Guardian view on Ofcom versus Grok: chatbots cannot be allowed to undress children

An online trend involving asking Grok, the Elon Musk-owned chatbot, to undress photographs of women and girls and show them wearing bikinis has...

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The Guardian view on the new global disorder: Britain and Europe must find their own path

The Guardian view on the new global disorder: Britain and Europe must find their own path

Occasionally, history generates smooth changes from one era to another. More commonly, such shifts occur only gradually and untidily. And sometimes,...

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The Guardian view on granting legal rights to AI: humans should not give house-room to an ill-advised debate

The Guardian view on granting legal rights to AI: humans should not give house-room to an ill-advised debate

Most readers of Kazuo Ishiguro’s 2021 novel Klara and the Sun will have been moved by the portrait of its eponymous AI narrator. As a solar-powered...

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The Guardian view on Britain and Europe: time to move together, faster and further

The Guardian view on Britain and Europe: time to move together, faster and further

Sir Keir Starmer’s plan for 2026 was to talk more about the domestic issues that concern British voters. Donald Trump knocked that plan off course....

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The Guardian view on universities: Labour needs a clearer plan

The Guardian view on universities: Labour needs a clearer plan

Education opens doors, and the expansion of higher education begun under New Labour means that millions of young people who would not previously have...

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The Guardian view on Trump’s raid in Caracas: oil matters, but it’s not the whole story

The Guardian view on Trump’s raid in Caracas: oil matters, but it’s not the whole story

It’s all about oil. That was the reason Nicolás Maduro, the Venezuelan leader illegally abducted by US forces at the weekend, had given for Donald...

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The Guardian view on the junk food advertising ban: shaping tastes is a job for government

The Guardian view on the junk food advertising ban: shaping tastes is a job for government

After years of wrangling, from this week new rules shield children in the UK from junk food advertisements. Those featuring processed food and drink...

06.01.2026 20

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The Guardian view on Europe’s response to ‘America first’ imperialism: too weak, too timid

The Guardian view on Europe’s response to ‘America first’ imperialism: too weak, too timid

The initial reaction of European leaders to Donald Trump’s illegal military intervention in Venezuela was not only weak, it also had the briefest...

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The Guardian view on Zohran Mamdani’s task: a high-stakes test case for progressive ambition

The Guardian view on Zohran Mamdani’s task: a high-stakes test case for progressive ambition

The multiple firsts achieved by New York’s new mayor, Zohran Mamdani, have been well chronicled: he is the first Muslim to occupy that role, the...

05.01.2026 10

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The Guardian view on the US seizure of Maduro: Trump has turned the world’s superpower into a rogue state

The Guardian view on the US seizure of Maduro: Trump has turned the world’s superpower into a rogue state

Amid the immense confusion surrounding the US strikes on Venezuela, the seizure of the president, Nicolás Maduro, and Donald Trump’s announcement...

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The Guardian view on care leavers: responsibility for looked-after children does not end at 18

The outcomes for children who grow up in care are shocking. A vital part of the welfare state, which exists to promote the safety and wellbeing of...

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The Guardian view on Gaza’s winter: the world must take heed as Palestinian suffering deepens again

As Gaza enters the bleakest period of winter, children are dying of hypothermia, drowning in flooded camps and burning to death as their families try...

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The Guardian view on mRNA vaccines: they are the future – with or without Donald Trump

The late scientist and thinker Donald Braben argued that 20th-century breakthroughs arose from scientists being free to pursue bold ideas without...

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The Guardian view on hard times for Britain’s charities: struggling to do more with less

Speaking in a parliamentary debate on the voluntary sector, not long after Labour’s huge election victory, the party’s former MP Jeff Rooker...

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The Guardian view on the new Monroe doctrine: Trump’s forceful approach to the western hemisphere comes at a cost

Donald Trump is not generally noted as a student of history. Yet over the past year, his decisive reorientation of US foreign policy towards the...

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The Guardian view on the National Year of Reading 2026: time to start a healthy habit for life

Reading to children from a young age leads to greater happiness, educational success, empathy and social mobility – no wonder the government wants...

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The Guardian view on antibiotics: recent breakthroughs are great news, but humanity is losing the bigger race

During her tenure as director general of the World Health Organization, Dr Margaret Chan used to say that all of the “easy” antibiotics had...

30.12.2025 10

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The Guardian view on the new space race: humanity risks exporting its old politics to the moon

During the cold war’s space race, the Apollo moon missions were driven by the need to prove American superiority. Having made that political and...

29.12.2025 10

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The Guardian view on adapting to the climate crisis: it demands political honesty about extreme weather

The record-breaking 252mph winds of Hurricane Melissa that devastated Caribbean islands at the end of October were made five times more likely by the...

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Finding meaning and hope at a dark, challenging time

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The Australian

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Voters want leadership on terror

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