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Gaby Hinsliff

Gaby Hinsliff

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Millennials are a growing electoral force, and their thinking on tax is a gamechanger

Taxes are the price paid for living in a civilised society. That founding belief in the moral imperative to stump up for the public good lies deep in...

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The lesson from the Phillip Schofield scandal? A moral grey area is not OK in any workplace

Imagine an older man, in his 50s, in a position of swaggering power and influence. A cabinet minister, maybe, or an industry bigshot. He meets a...

29.05.2023 5

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The Covid inquiry is digging up Boris Johnson’s blunders and the mess keeps piling up

I t is almost a year to the day since it finally dawned on most Conservatives that Boris Johnson would ultimately have to go. And yet, a whole two...

28.05.2023 20

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The Tories should be proud of Britain’s migration numbers – and they have Boris Johnson to thank

I t feels like a lifetime ago that a Rochdale pensioner buttonholed Gordon Brown over what she called eastern Europeans “flocking” to Britain....

25.05.2023 5

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If swing voters were terrified of the climate crisis, ministers would take it seriously

T he end of the world is nigh, again. And as usual, it’s being greeted largely with a shrug. Perhaps you felt a prick of unease as you scrolled the...

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Tory populists have a real enemy in their sights – they’re gunning for the Tory realists

I t’s been almost six months now since the last Tory leadership contest. So perhaps it was inevitable that another one would be along soon. No, not...

16.05.2023 10

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Britain’s nimby homeowners: do you really want your children living with you for ever?

S ometimes a crisis best reveals itself in the small things. A pile of laundry, that by now you didn’t imagine you would still be doing; the sound...

12.05.2023 50

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If bosses fail to check AI’s onward march, their own jobs will soon be written out of the script

If there’s one thing Hollywood screenwriters know how to deliver, it’s a snappy one-liner. “Pay your writers, or we’ll spoil Succession,”...

04.05.2023 5

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Charles is the king of apathy, not our hearts – he risks it all by asking for more

It was the call to swear an oath of allegiance to the king that did it. Until then it had been possible just to let all the coronation chatter about...

02.05.2023 90

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The Guardian view on gambling reform: fighting the British disease

O ver the years, a variety of national troubles have been characterised as the British disease – among them economic stagnation, football...

28.04.2023 4

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The Guardian view on Orthodox Christianity in Ukraine: breaking with Moscow

S peaking last month at the beginning of Lent, Patriarch Kirill, the primate of the Russian Orthodox church, sermonised on the subject of Russia’s...

27.04.2023 3

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Exam grades are going ‘back to normal’. But for our stressed-out teenagers, normal is a long way off

T he countdown clock is ticking, the panicky last-minute revision reaching feverish levels. No parent currently tiptoeing around snappy, stressed...

27.04.2023 10

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The Guardian view on Tunisia’s new autocrat: Saied’s enablers should stop

T he arrest of Tunisia’s leading opposition figure, Rached Ghannouchi, is a bleak moment. Profound disenchantment has been widespread for years...

21.04.2023 4

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Starmer was not ‘soft on crime’. But this is politics – and the ruthless Tory machine is just starting up

Fiona Ivison was 17 when she was strangled and battered to death by a man who had paid her for sex. He then left her body in a freezing car park. She...

20.04.2023 10

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Voter ID will disenfranchise poor and marginalised people. Our best defence? Talk about it

W hen the polling card for this May’s local elections arrived, as usual I stuck it on the fridge absent-mindedly without looking. It was only when...

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The Guardian view on the Pentagon leaks: this system puts lives at risk

T here must always be a place for necessary whistleblowing from inside governments. This newspaper will always stand, responsibly, for that...

16.04.2023 10

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The Guardian view on China and Europe: Macron’s careless words were costly

F our years ago, Emmanuel Macron remarked that the era of European naivety on China was over. As Andrew Small establishes in his book The Rupture,...

14.04.2023 3

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The junior doctors’ strike is not just about pay – this is a generation that feels betrayed

After four tense days when you could almost feel the NHS holding its breath, striking junior doctors are preparing to return to the wards. But the...

14.04.2023 7

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The Guardian view on the police and the SNP: a high-stakes moment

T he arrest of the man who has been by far the most important official of the Scottish National party for more than two decades is liable to be a...

07.04.2023 40

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Finally, there’s something to unite Britain – disgust at what is happening to our waterways and seas

After the third lockdown ended, in that summer when everyone felt faintly broken, we ran away to the sea. At first it rained torrentially. But then...

06.04.2023 30

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Carol Vorderman’s later-life renaissance gives us just the kind of political hero we need

C arol Vorderman is, rather appropriately for a mathematician, currently in her prime. The former Countdown presenter has lately enjoyed an...

04.04.2023 100

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This gung-ho government says we have nothing to fear from AI. Are you scared yet?

It’s almost 20 years now since a socially awkward young computer science student set up a website for rating “hot” women. Facemash, as Mark...

31.03.2023 60

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The Guardian view on Ukraine and war crimes: the start of a case against Putin

I t is entirely likely that Vladimir Putin may never be held fully accountable for his crimes. But the possibility of eventual justice grew somewhat...

24.03.2023 70

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The Guardian view on the Tory mood: rallying around Sunak

T he release of details of Rishi Sunak’s tax returns on Wednesday reveals several things. The first is that the prime minister and those around him...

24.03.2023 8

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Should Ofsted behave like swooping hawks? How can schools thrive in a climate of fear?

When inspectors from Ofsted, England’s education watchdog, descended on Flora Cooper’s Berkshire primary school this week, there was a small but...

23.03.2023 4

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Remember the Casey review next time Suella Braverman talks about ‘woke’ policing in the Met

Say her name, not his. It is such a small thing, an almost helpless gesture in the face of horrors. But Louise Casey’s decision not to name the...

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The Guardian view on Iraq, 20 years on: the costs of war

I t did not take long for anyone to realise that the Iraq war was the disaster that many had predicted; not much longer than it took to confirm that...

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The Guardian view on female costume designers: film’s real superheroes

T he film awards season, which culminated in the Oscars last Sunday, often seems to be a red-carpet stroll for fashion designers in search of...

17.03.2023 3

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Sunak and Hunt have the Tory blind spot: they can’t see how greedy they look to everyone else

Something old, something new. Something borrowed, and something for “red wall” voters deserting the Conservatives en masse. Like a penitent spouse...

17.03.2023 10

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How we educate children about sex is vital. Don’t let it be part of Britain’s toxic culture war

Imagine travelling to work in the morning, listening to colleagues loudly marking your body out of 10. Imagine being groped in the corridor,...

10.03.2023 20

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Young women, do you need more confidence? This is how to get it

F or almost all my working life, I have relied on the advice of older women. But nothing they told me – about what other people were actually...

08.03.2023 40

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The Guardian view on children’s reading: a gift that should be for all

A nxieties about children and reading are not unusual, but news that fewer than half of those aged between eight and 18 admit to actually enjoying it...

05.03.2023 90

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To stop the next Manchester attack, MI5 must find the next young man growing up in a petri dish of hate

Ramadan Abedi had done his best as a father, he insisted. He tried to intervene with his sons when he “found their thinking is wrong”, but it...

03.03.2023 5

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A man who killed his wife with a hammer is set to be released. With probation in tatters, who will protect us?

Long before he killed her, Joanna Simpson’s husband had secretly dug what would become her grave. The couple were separated and in the final throes...

24.02.2023 30

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It’s not Orwellian for publishers to edit Roald Dahl, just commercially savvy

H anding down beloved books to your children is one of the best things about being a parent. And so like countless others raised on Willy Wonka’s...

20.02.2023 10

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The ghoulish online sleuths are shameful, but that’s no excuse for how the police have treated Nicola Bulley

S he slipped through the smallest hole imaginable, an invisible rip in the fabric of a seemingly ordinary day. Nicola Bulley was there one minute,...

17.02.2023 20

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It’s not just that Lee Anderson is wrong about hanging: he’s also the wrong man to stop the Tories sinking

Hankering for the death penalty may get the deputy chair attention, but it won’t attract working-class voters with genuine problems, says Guardian...

10.02.2023 5

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From demands about avocado rotation to staff in tears, working for the Tories can be perilous

The party of workplace scandals simply cannot be trusted with looking after our employment laws post-Brexit, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

06.02.2023 8

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Energy bailiffs for the poorest, huge profits for the richest: this is Britain in 2023

The British Gas scandal about vulnerable people being forced on to prepayment meters is just the latest cruelty in this crisis, says Guardian...

02.02.2023 70

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Salute Madonna: defying the odds at 64. But what are the work choices for other women her age?

The government could have seriously improved older women’s prospects with menopause protections this week. It bottled it, says Guardian columnist...

27.01.2023 90

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It’s ‘something for nothing Britain’ shrieks the Mail. Talk about blaming the victim

The problem isn’t having it too good, it’s years of political infighting, economic sclerosis and self-delusion, says Guardian columnist Gaby...

23.01.2023 10

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Jacinda Ardern knew when to quit. Unlike some other politicians I could mention

The New Zealand prime minister showed us a different way to lead, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

19.01.2023 7

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You can’t stop the likes of Bridgen and Tate saying dangerous things – but you can take away their soapboxes

It’s time to look again at the UK’s watered-down online safety bill: this problem is too big for democracies to ignore, says Guardian columnist...

13.01.2023 30

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It’s multiple choice time for ruthless Starmer: will he retain or scrap tuition fees?

As the state of education comes under scrutiny, Labour’s leader faces some hard choices over the promises he made in 2020, says Guardian columnist...

10.01.2023 60

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Harry’s allegations are not just about a royal fist fight – but the very real dangers of hereditary power

The personal is political when resentment is baked into a monarchy whose instinct is to protect the heir at all costs, says Guardian columnist Gaby...

05.01.2023 100

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Ignore the purists – listening to a book instead of reading it isn’t skiving or cheating

From audiobooks to podcasts and voice notes, there’s a steady generational shift in the way we understand the world, says Guardian columnist Gaby...

29.12.2022 100

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Sunak is the ‘too little, too late’ PM. That’s why he’s failing over the NHS and this wave of strikes

The PM should pay nurses and other striking workers properly. But there’s a pattern emerging: he’s always behind the curve, says Guardian...

22.12.2022 30

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From Musk to Truss, 2022 was the year reckless populists came crashing down to Earth

Revolutionaries who claim to bring down corrupt systems have proved that orthodoxy exists for a reason, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

16.12.2022 40

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From antibiotics to eggs, this is the age of inconvenience. We’d better get used to it

In Britain we’re used to getting what we want, when we want – but the supply issues that have emptied shelves are here to stay, says Guardian...

12.12.2022 10

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Britain is braced for a winter of strikes – yet a public backlash just hasn’t happened

Support for public sector workers shows that people realise the government’s in the wrong, not exhausted nurses, says Guardian columnist Gaby...

09.12.2022 20

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