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My friend Jimmy Carter will be remembered long after other presidents are forgotten. Here’s why

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Spending time with people in their final days showed me that we need not assisted dying, but better end-of-life care

Jennifer, the baby daughter my wife Sarah brought into the world a few days after Christmas 2001, died after only 11 days. By day four, when the...

22.11.2024 10

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Today, our hearts are breaking for the children of Gaza. Tomorrow, we must give them peace

The nightmare continues. One year on from the horror of the 7 October massacre and the inhumane seizure of hostages, more than 40,000 lives have been...

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Europe is in thrall to the far right – that’s the result of appeasement by so-called moderates

In recent days, the French president, Emmanuel Macron, has capitulated to the far-right anti-immigration agenda of Marine Le Pen. In July, in an...

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Another worldwide alert – mpox is spreading. Here are three steps we can take to head it off

Just a little over a year since declaring that Covid-19 was no longer a public health emergency of international concern and that the 2022-23 mpox...

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It’s August 2024 – and our world is at a turning point. Here’s what we should do now

The world is on fire. At no time since the Cuban missile crisis of 1962 has the world looked so dangerous, nor has an end to its 56 conflicts – the...

24.08.2024 90

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First Murdoch papers targeted me. Now there is evidence they falsely implicated me in a cover-up

Blazoned across the top of every edition of the Washington Post is the statement “Democracy dies in darkness”. But what if the publisher himself...

31.07.2024 7

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Rage as Putin bombs a children’s hospital in Kyiv, but know there is a way to try him for his crimes

This week’s bombing of the main children’s hospital in the heart of Kyiv is the latest and most gruesome reminder of Vladimir Putin’s war...

09.07.2024 9

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Use this election to reject the Farage version of Britain. Let’s get our country back

For as long as I can recall, our country has been defined by what we might call three basic truths that we hold to be British: first, our devotion to...

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Millions of British children born since 2010 have only known poverty. My £3bn plan would give them hope

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There’s a hard-right tidal wave about to hit Europe – and it will only make the economic crisis worse

By the time of the European parliament elections in June, this year’s rightward ebb in European politics will have turned into a tidal wave....

29.04.2024 100

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Britain seems stuck in a doom loop of poverty. I have a plan to raise billions to address that

An election year is the time to confront the paralysing gloom and declinist thinking besetting our country and, by rediscovering our moral compass,...

27.03.2024 20

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Tables without food, bedrooms without beds. Grinding child poverty in Britain calls for anger – and a plan

Even if the government issued newspaper editors with D-notices banning any public mention of the word “poverty”, it could hardly do more to create...

08.02.2024 100

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In 2008, we were inches from peace in the Middle East. I believe it’s still within our grasp

With all hope currently buried beneath the rubble of Gaza and Israel’s abandoned kibbutzim, it is hard not to despair about the prospects of an...

09.01.2024 10

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Moments of hope Nelson Mandela taught me this: hope survives wherever people come together

A story is told about a British ambassador and his fellow diplomats at the UN who were asked of their hopes for the festive season. “A box of the...

31.12.2023 30

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Here’s what Trump 2.0 will bring: ignorance and vengeance in the US, chaos for world order

This year has been dominated by the Russia-Ukraine war, recession, the China-US standoff, and the Hamas terrorist attack and Gaza war. Yet as...

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