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N ormalisation is the process by which something unusual or extreme becomes part of the everyday. What once provoked horror and outrage soon barely...
T he idea of a clear demarcation between work and life is, for most people, an absurd joke: your life is being invaded, and you have no line of...
T he best outcome for the next election will not appear on the ballot paper, and is already the target of a hostile and escalating press campaign. It...
D emocratic freedoms are hard won and easily lost. Rights secured after generations of struggle – by citizens risking their safety, liberty and,...
T his week, Keir Starmer finally abandoned his commitment to scrap university tuition fees, one of the last remaining concrete pledges he made to...
I t is difficult to begrudge anyone for celebrating the downfall of far-right provocateur Tucker Carlson, ignominiously ejected from Fox News....
I f there is such a thing as an onward march of human progress, it has not just halted, but screeched into reverse. Last autumn, a little-discussed...
W e can predict with some precision what will happen when the government criminalises the possession of nitrous oxide. Hundreds of thousands of young...
T he Metropolitan police cannot be reformed: it must be given its final rites and buried for good. I made this argument in the first column I ever...
T he BBC’s humiliating climbdown over its attempted silencing of Gary Lineker is a milestone. For years, emboldened rightwingers have succeeded in...
“W hy do you think that, at 67, I would start a career as a dictator?” Tunisia’s president, Kais Saied, told the New York Times in 2021,...
C onsider Abdul, a 26-year-old Darfuri refugee whose fellow villagers were burnt to death by Janjaweed, an Arab-supremacist militia. Think of...
H arun’s nightmare began with a fever, a general sense of being under the weather. Maybe it was Covid, he thought. Then his temperature soared to...
T riumphalism reigns in Keir Starmer’s operation. For the factional warriors surrounding the Labour leader, sparring with Tories is business but...
B oris Johnson’s Brexit has been a dismal failure, heralding only falling investment and stagnant growth. If you want an admission of this truth,...
Of all the places to find a heartening queer love story: the apocalypse. This TV series is a major cultural milestone, says Guardian columnist Owen...
I discovered that breaking the taboo of talking about loss was vital for healing, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones
A deadly, avoidable crisis is under way, fuelled by NHS cuts, the neglect of social care, inequality and the soaring cost of living, says Guardian...
More people than ever before have declared themselves as not heterosexual, but, sadly, the trans community still faces adversity, says Guardian...
Young people may represent the first generation that doesn’t grow more conservative with age, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones
He was a disaster as PM, but without him it’s looking like electoral oblivion for Britain’s ‘natural party of government’, says Guardian...
For some LGBTQ shunned by relatives, friends and community are rewriting what ‘family’ means, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones
Don’t believe Rishi Sunak or other Tory union-busters, says the Guardian columnist Owen Jones
Mounting evidence of dirty tricks against prospective MPs can’t be dismissed as leftwing sour grapes, says the Guardian columnist Owen Jones