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First Dog on the Moon Cop28! No prizes for guessing how it is turning out

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Neglect, deflect, then scapegoat those you’ve exploited: that’s what passes for UK immigration policy

The headline, now increasing in pitch, capital letters and exclamation marks, is that net migration is off the charts. It is soaring. It is at an...

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The war in Gaza has been an intense lesson in western hypocrisy. It won’t be forgotten

The images of hostages and prisoners being reunited with their families are almost too hopeful to absorb. Even as Israeli authorities explicitly try...

27.11.2023 100

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Suella Braverman has proved that Islamophobia is never far from the surface in Britain

“Hate marchers” who are not interested in Gaza, but in asserting “the primacy by certain groups – particularly Islamists”. This is how...

13.11.2023 50

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Pro-Palestine rallies aren’t ‘hate marches’ – they’re an expression of solidarity, helplessness and frustration

As the streets fill with ever-increasing numbers of pro-Palestine supporters – and with a large protest planned in central London next weekend –...

06.11.2023 300

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Labour losing voters over Gaza matters – whether it hurts electorally or not

Cathy had voted Labour all her life. Then she heard an LBC interview with Keir Starmer. In it, he was asked if it was “appropriate” that Israel...

30.10.2023 100

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Guardian Opinion cartoon Ben Jennings on the humanitarian crisis in Gaza – cartoon

23.10.2023 2

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As Gaza is bombed and starved, the Arab world is watching – and it’s angry

A few years after the end of Lebanon’s civil war, when the country seemed like one that had buried its past of conflict for ever, I heard an...

22.10.2023 20

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Is this Labour party progressive at heart, or Tory lite? We’ll find out this week

T he cost of living crisis has been happening for so long now, it can no longer really be classed as a “crisis”. Crisis implies urgency,...

08.10.2023 8

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In one vulgar swoop, Suella Braverman has humiliated every single migrant in the UK

E ven by this government’s standards, last week was bleak and this one, as the Tory conference gets under way, promises to be no less dispiriting....

02.10.2023 100

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Are you single or in a ‘hard-working family’? Your answer counts for a lot

B eing single today is less a description of your relationship status and more an economic state. Of course, being single was never easy: couples can...

25.09.2023 100

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It’s the ‘great noticing’, as rightwingers accept that ‘Britain is broken’. But their fixes won’t make it any better

G irl Who Boys Can’t Hear was a recurring character who featured on The Fast Show. She is a woman in the company of men who raises an intelligent...

17.09.2023 7

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Megacities in the desert: the human cost of Egypt and Saudi Arabia’s bold new projects

S pread over an area almost 7km (4 miles) long, Cairo’s Necropolis is a sprawling district of tombs, mausoleums, mosques and courtyards. Also known...

11.09.2023 40

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Powerless in the face of Britain’s crises, Rishi Sunak has now entered his self-pitying era

W e are used to the fact that Rishi Sunak only has two speeds: blandly repeating his five political “priorities” and dutifully affirming the...

21.08.2023 100

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A key lesson from the Niger crisis: Africans, not global powers, will plot the continent’s path

A “coup belt” now extends across the African continent, running along the Sahel region that bisects north and sub-Saharan Africa. On 10 August,...

14.08.2023 10

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British people are kinder and less divided than politicians give us credit for

A n expiring Tory party lashing about for electoral resuscitation by doubling down on a small number of pugnacious policies. A Labour opposition that...

07.08.2023 20

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The lesson from the Greece wildfires? The climate crisis is coming for us all

A surreal video filmed by a tourist in “the most perfect location in Greece” last week, posted to show how “a weekend trip turned into survival...

31.07.2023 100

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Our generation was told liberal economics would make us free. Look at us now. We were misled

J ane is a junior doctor working several extra locum shifts to make ends meet. Burnt out after the pandemic, and struggling with her physical and...

24.07.2023 6

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It doesn’t matter if a girl identified as a cat (she didn’t). The issue is how post-truth politics exploits it

I apologise in advance, because this column is about something that didn’t happen. Too much is actually happening in the world that deserves our...

26.06.2023 5

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People voted for Boris Johnson knowing he was a liar. It’s too late to start shifting the blame

T here are words and phrases that do some heavy lifting in British politics – “populism”, “Brexit”, “legitimate concerns”, the...

19.06.2023 300

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The US holds its nose over Saudi Arabia’s human rights record – when the price is right

B race for another season of upheaval in the sports world. The Arabs are coming. Again. After the Qatar World Cup raised misgivings about...

13.06.2023 100

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The creep of corpspeak: why have Starmer and Sunak’s promises become ‘priorities’?

I ’m not quite sure when it happened, but at some point over the past year, politicians’ language was taken over by a sort of corporate speak....

04.06.2023 6

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The UK’s stance on international students? We need you, but we don’t want you

G iven how much the subject of immigration dominates British political life, it is remarkable how little people know about what it actually takes to...

28.05.2023 3

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Don’t celebrate the prospect of the Tories in opposition – that’s the real danger zone

O blivion. Possibly even extinction. That’s where the Conservative party is headed, it would be safe to assume, after the local elections wipeout,...

21.05.2023 100

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