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Gaby Hinsliff

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Influencers sold the world a fantasy Dubai – and now it’s gone in a puff of missile smoke

Influencers sold the world a fantasy Dubai – and now it’s gone in a puff of missile smoke

To be fooled by a mirage, you needn’t be lost in the desert. Sometimes, the illusion is strongest just when you thought you were safely home,...

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Why the fightback against Reform must involve the middle-aged, fed-up workers of Britain

Why the fightback against Reform must involve the middle-aged, fed-up workers of Britain

Penny Lancaster was 50 when she retrained as a special constable. Wrangling Saturday night drunks and shoplifters might seem an odd fit for the...

02.03.2026 9

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Nobody wants to defend Britain’s voting system any more – but here’s why I will

Nobody wants to defend Britain’s voting system any more – but here’s why I will

You can’t always get what you want. And as Mick Jagger didn’t add, sometimes the best you can hope for is just to stop other people getting it. At...

26.02.2026 8

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Do you remember your first crappy job? Today’s young people would wish for half your luck

When Keir Starmer was 14 years old, he got a part-time job clearing stones from a local farmer’s field. At 16, Kemi Badenoch was flipping burgers...

20.02.2026 4

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Student debt is a generational injustice. Why are we squeezing graduates harder than the super-rich?

Never go to war with Martin Lewis. The one iron law of politics is that the financial guru who built moneysavingexpert.com has a quasi-godlike status...

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If you want to know what Reform would be like in power, look at how it threatened Bangor University

13.02.2026 2000

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How much did the Epstein poison infect Britain? Starmer had better find out, and fast

03.02.2026 10

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Even British teenagers want tighter laws around social media – but let’s make it part of a broader vision for children

28.01.2026 10

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Doomscrolling won’t bring order to the chaos. It’s OK to put the phone down and take a break

23.01.2026 10

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Nicola Jennings on Greenland, Trump and tariffs – cartoon

18.01.2026 10

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If it wasn’t clear before, it is now: Britain needs an escape plan from the Trump world order

18.01.2026 8

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By seeking to defuse domestic tensions over Gaza, West Midlands police ended up making matters worse

16.01.2026 30

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Why is Trump interested in Greenland? Look to the thawing Arctic ice

09.01.2026 70

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Male bonds develop one way, female friendships another. Should we stop trying to make men more like women?

06.01.2026 40

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Pete Songi on the UK government’s new year’s resolutions – cartoon

01.01.2026 10

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The best way to get round a difficult problem? Do nothing about it

01.01.2026 10

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A Christmas message from the First Dog on the Moon Institute

19.12.2025 40

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My lesson from 2025: Reform is much more vulnerable than it appears

19.12.2025 80

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Gen Z know the social contract is broken. It’ll take more than youth clubs and StarmerTok to reach them

11.12.2025 10

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Would you entrust a child’s life to a chatbot? That’s what happens every day that we fail to regulate AI

09.12.2025 10

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Give credit where it’s due: Labour is finally doing things its supporters actually want

05.12.2025 10

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Jury trials are flawed and unwieldy – but vital for justice being seen to be done

28.11.2025 10

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An uncomfortable truth for our leaders: there’s a limit to how ‘human’ we want you to be

25.11.2025 10

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This is modern Britain – where a princess pleading for children’s rights seems almost radical

21.11.2025 20

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Wes Streeting’s gamble with the NHS is greater than any play for Downing Street

14.11.2025 10

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What happens if the Greens overtake Labour in the polls? All bets are off

11.11.2025 10

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Meet gen X: middle-aged, enraged and radicalised by internet bile

07.11.2025 20

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Lily Allen’s new album shows the pain behind the ‘cool girl’ myth – that’s why women are obsessed with it

31.10.2025 10

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This hotels saga isn’t really about asylum seekers: it’s a window on to a far bigger scandal

28.10.2025 20

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Grooming gang survivors risk becoming pawns in a political game that is no place for vulnerable people

24.10.2025 8

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Millennial dads are experiencing something mums have known for a long time

17.10.2025 10

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‘Did two Brits spy for China?’ is one question. ‘Can any UK PM really stand up to China?’ is an even bigger one

14.10.2025 10

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What a £5 coffee (or a £100 Pizza Express) tells us about a changing Britain

03.10.2025 6

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Now we know what patriotism means to Shabana Mahmood – can she harness that to unite rather than divide us?

30.09.2025 10

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The case against digital ID cards: imagine how a Reform government could use them

26.09.2025 8

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It’s over and out (again) for Mandelson, but how many political lives does Starmer have left?

12.09.2025 9

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The Guardian view on Reform’s party conference: Trumpism is on the agenda – it must be resisted

Nigel Farage is the most influential politician of his generation never to have held ministerial office. His campaigning prowess was instrumental in...

05.09.2025 8

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Keir Starmer may be the judge of Angela Rayner’s fate – but the public is the jury

It didn’t take them long to find her. Spray-painted on the wall outside Angela Rayner’s new flat in Hove, East Sussex, in purple, red and yellow,...

05.09.2025 9

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Taylor Swift: engaged, mummy-tracked and doomed to tradwifedom? You really haven’t been listening

28.08.2025 20

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Remember when having women in power was supposed to change everything?

15.08.2025 10

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When a journalist uses AI to interview a dead child, isn’t it time to ask what the boundaries should be?

08.08.2025 10

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Moral outrage over Bonnie Blue’s porn empire misses the point: this is hardcore economics

05.08.2025 8

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Reform’s tales of wasteland Britain won’t work. There’s a far larger market for hope

01.08.2025 10

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The Guardian view on global inequality: the rising tide that leaves most boats behind

24.07.2025 10

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The Guardian view on Ukraine’s protests: Zelenskyy must heed critics at home and abroad

24.07.2025 6

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There is a dangerous disconnect: on Gaza, politics no longer speaks for the people

24.07.2025 6

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Abolishing Ofwat is fine but not enough: teach water bosses that failure has consequences

21.07.2025 8

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Why is it so hard for the authorities to win public trust? Maybe because they keep lying to us

18.07.2025 8

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Yes, the problem is men like Gregg Wallace – but it’s also those who should stop them and don’t

10.07.2025 9

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Whatever the truth of The Salt Path, I know why people wanted to believe it

08.07.2025 6

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