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Jonathan Liew

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Ceuta was a carnival of anti-migrant content for hateful opportunists on the right – and a lesson for the left

Ceuta was a carnival of anti-migrant content for hateful opportunists on the right – and a lesson for the left

The live streams are still running, training their cameras on the beach at Ceuta, where nothing is happening. The self-styled citizen journalists are...

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After this World Cup, here’s what I feel: a kind of messy hope

It’s the World Cup final, so you pick a side. And don’t worry if you happen to be part of the 98.9% of the human race that is neither Spanish nor...

20.07.2026 20

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Jonathan Liew

Britain has become addicted to pressing the ‘new PM’ button – and I don’t see how Burnham avoids it

Current state of British democracy: the guy who puts out the resignation lectern in front of No 10 is now so familiar that he has become a meme. On...

25.06.2026 20

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Why do the right’s Henry Nowak protests look like a party? Distasteful as it is, they’re having fun

“Big up Southampton!”” trills a voice on the livestream as a small band of brave patriots skips down St Denys Road past the big Sainsbury’s....

09.06.2026 20

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If you’re still on Elon Musk’s X, ask yourself this: why?

You can read the Tottenham striker Richarlison launching a defiant broadside at the newly crowned champions. “Next season, we will compete for the...

28.05.2026 20

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Jonathan Liew

David Attenborough is not just a national treasure: he is also the most radical person on TV

The excesses the capitalist system has brought us have got to be curbed somehow. Ordinary people worldwide are beginning to realise that greed does...

13.05.2026 20

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Jonathan Liew

A hundred years after her birth, we still over-revere Queen Elizabeth II. The monarchy? Not so much

The commemorative Queen Elizabeth II centenary teddy bear stands 30cm tall, is made from finest mohair and retails for £289, payable in three...

21.04.2026 30

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Jonathan Liew

Here’s the danger: if Labour doesn’t offer a radical solution to the energy-price crisis, others will

In a time of fear, heroes must rise. There’s a gathering storm rattling at the windows, tearing through the family WhatsApp groups. Use your air...

25.03.2026 30

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Jonathan Liew

A corner of north London where food has become a battleground in the Israel-Gaza war

First comes the hummus: studded with chickpeas, anointed with a little reservoir of olive oil, greedily smeared up with hunks of pitta bread and messy...

14.03.2026 30

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Jonathan Liew

Pubs are for everyone. Don’t let Reform make them the political property of the boorish hard right

11.02.2026 20

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Jonathan Liew

Copyrighted art, mobile phones, Greenland: welcome to our age of shameless theft

28.01.2026 20

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Jonathan Liew

When crowds direct offensive chants at Keir Starmer, who’s to blame? I’m afraid he is

13.01.2026 90

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Won’t somebody please think of Britain’s poor £2m homeowners? Oh, wait – everyone already is

03.12.2025 10

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The Guardian view on Britain’s new class divide: the professional middle is being hollowed out

03.11.2025 20

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Jonathan Liew

The Guardian view on the Huntingdon train stabbings: an immigration-fixated right is failing the public

03.11.2025 20

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Jonathan Liew

Say what you like about ‘Sadiq Khan’s no-go hellscape’ – Britain’s cities prove the rightwing agitators wrong

03.11.2025 30

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Standing with Maccabi’s football hooligans against local police – is that what patriotism looks like now?

21.10.2025 20

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Jonathan Liew

We know what the comedians got out of the Riyadh comedy festival. What about the Saudi regime?

09.10.2025 20

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Jonathan Liew

The populist right wants to remake the UK in the image of Dubai. We should all be careful what they wish for

23.09.2025 60

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Jonathan Liew

What is the endgame in this toxic immigration debate: is it friends and neighbours thrown out of the country?

10.09.2025 50

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Jonathan Liew