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The Guardian view on saving Westminster: parliament should leave London

MPs and peers face a looming choice: stay put or move out to allow billions of pounds of urgent repairs to the crumbling Palace of Westminster. That...

25.02.2026 20

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The Guardian view on violent online rhetoric: all politicians have a duty to set a civil tone

The impulse to post on social media often overwhelms judgment of what is appropriate to share. Knowing when not to succumb to that urge, exercising...

25.02.2026 10

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The Guardian view on temporary accommodation bills: short-term fixes must be backed up by housebuilding

Local authorities are experiencing some of the highest temporary accommodation bills on record. Councils in England spent £2.8bn last year on...

24.02.2026 20

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The Guardian view on Donald Trump’s tariffs: a nostalgia that misreads a changed world

When the US supreme court voted 6-3 last Friday to strike down Donald Trump’s tariffs, he was incandescent. Two judges he had elevated – Neil...

24.02.2026 10

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The Guardian view on the fourth anniversary of Putin’s war: Ukraine is exhausted, but not broken

Four years after Vladimir Putin launched the biggest conflict on European soil since the second world war, the human cost of his revanchist ambition...

23.02.2026 70

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The Guardian view on Send reforms: ministers need to show how inclusion will work

With its education white paper, the key section of which concerns support for children with special educational needs and disabilities (Send), the...

23.02.2026 150

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The Guardian view on Scottish Labour: Keir Starmer needs Anas Sarwar’s act of betrayal to pay off

At Scottish Labour’s spring conference last year, Sir Keir Starmer bullishly addressed mounting discontent at his government’s performance,...

22.02.2026 20

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The Guardian view on the funding crisis at the National Gallery: the public should not pay the price

“The National Gallery is doing a great job isn’t it?” David Hockney reflected in 2024. “Everything in the collection is good, every single...

22.02.2026 70

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The Guardian view on the Southbank Centre: ministers must support innovation in the present as well as the past

The granting of Grade II-listed building status to the brutalist concrete Southbank Centre, comprising the Queen Elizabeth Hall, Hayward Gallery and...

20.02.2026 20

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The Guardian view on Trump’s Board of Peace: serving private interests more than public good

In Gaza, aid still trickles in at levels relief agencies say are far below what is required. Temporary shelters are scarce. Reconstruction materials...

20.02.2026 20

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The Guardian view on Merz and Meloni: an emerging Berlin-Rome axis is threatening the EU’s green deal

When the European Union launched its green deal in 2019, putting into law the goal of climate neutrality by the middle of the century, it showed...

19.02.2026 20

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The Guardian view on the royals and the law: no more managed disgrace

The arrest of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor the king’s brother, should be the moment deference ends and accountability begins – a correction long...

19.02.2026 20

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The Guardian view on UK-EU defence: moving in the right direction, much too slowly

For Vladimir Putin, peace talks with Ukraine are war pursued by other means. That is why progress has been so slow in negotiations, which resumed in...

18.02.2026 20

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The Guardian view on Scotland’s housing crisis: supply has failed to keep pace with need

Rough sleeping in Scotland has risen by 106% over the past three years. Record numbers of children are now living in temporary accommodation, official...

18.02.2026 10

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The Guardian view on local government elections: fix the system, not the timetable

Being forced to abandon plans to delay local elections in England with fewer than three months’ notice is not just another policy U-turn by the...

17.02.2026 20

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The Guardian view on suicide following domestic abuse: justice is not being done for victims

Hours before she hanged herself in 2023, Katie Madden spoke on the telephone with her abusive former partner, Jonathon Russell, who had been banned...

17.02.2026 20

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The Guardian view on Team GB’s Winter Olympics success: sporting inspiration lifts the grey February mood

For most of January and February, Britons have endured relentless, record-breaking rain, often accompanied by a biting wind. But in recent days many...

16.02.2026 30

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The Guardian view on Palestine Action: banning the group was a step too far

The high court ruled last week that the British government’s proscription of Palestine Action is unlawful and disproportionate. Its judgment,...

16.02.2026 70

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The Guardian view on AI: safety staff departures raise worries about industry pursuing profit at all costs

Hardly a month passes without an AI grandee cautioning that the technology poses an existential threat to humanity. Many of these warnings might be...

15.02.2026 150

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The Guardian view on Donald Trump and the climate crisis: the US is in reverse while China ploughs ahead

Devastating wildfires, flooding and winter storms were among the 23 extreme weather and climate-related disasters in the US which cost more than a...

15.02.2026 150

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The Guardian view on Starmer’s trust crisis: it is unlikely to be managed away

Once a political leader’s net favourability sinks deep into negative territory, recovery is the exception, not the rule. It usually takes an...

13.02.2026 70

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The Guardian view on the BBC World Service: this is London calling

“The programmes will neither be very interesting nor very good,” said the then BBC director general John Reith, when he launched its Empire...

13.02.2026 150

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The Guardian view on rural China: urbanites contemplate an escape to the country

24.08.2025 30

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The Guardian view on build-to-rent: hardly a solution to the housing crisis

24.08.2025 30

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The Guardian view on England’s riverbanks: landscapes that everyone should be able to enjoy

30.07.2025 10

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