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For migrants, ‘deterrence’ doesn’t deter. It’s cruelty, not compassion, Mr Sunak

‘It underscores why you need a deterrent.” So claimed Rishi Sunak in response to the Channel tragedy last week that led to the deaths of five...

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Kenan Malik

The Observer view on overtourism: sometimes, the planet’s hotspots are best left unvisited

Climbing Everest used to be an even more dangerous pursuit than it is today, requiring huge bravery, endurance and skill. Even then the mountain...

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Martha Gill

Lost civilisations make good TV, but archaeology’s real stories hold far more wonder

It’s important to start strong. That’s true of a lot of things in life, but doubly so when you’re an archaeologist starting off a conversation...

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Flint Dibble

Tony Blair had it, Boris Johnson too... the quality that wins Angela Rayner support despite her gaffes

Here’s a cast-iron rule of politics: authenticity matters. It is almost all that matters. If you have it, you’re made. If you don’t, no team of...

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Martha Gill

Keir Starmer needs to have a frank conversation with voters about the price of security

I’m not certain who minted the phrase, but it is an excellent one to describe the decade or so that followed the fall of the Berlin Wall and the...

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Andrew Rawnsley

Some are born lucky, so the left shouldn’t flinch from giving others a helping hand

Life is a game of chance. Or that’s what I tell myself when I’m losing at my newest hobby, poker. Of course it’s a different story when I win...

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Sonia Sodha

Jacob Rees-Mogg is just posing as a GB News anchor, but Ofcom doesn’t care if we’re confused

‘Tonight I’ll be asking the most important question of all – who was St George and why do we celebrate him?” Supposing a UK channel wanted to...

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Catherine Bennett

Context is vital. That’s why I’m filming everything I say and do from now on

The terrible massacre of innocent Israelis by sadistic Hamas agents on 7 October last year has set in motion a dreadful chain of events, exploited...

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Stewart Lee

Children left to drown in the Channel – is this where Britain’s drift to the right is taking us?

In the hourly deluge of outrage and nonsense that passes for the national conversation, it was only another fleeting moment. But last Tuesday, as...

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John Harris

‘Woke’ isn’t dead – it’s entered the mainstream. No wonder the right is furious

Is woke dead? Is it over? Has it “peaked”, run its course before we’ve even properly agreed on what this endlessly controversial but somehow...

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Gaby Hinsliff

Tories have always had a fear of political extinction. After the next election, they could be right

There is a morose mood in the Conservative party. It isn’t just that the Tories expect to lose the next election – they fear that the coming...

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Samuel Earle

The networker Silicon Valley’s business model is incompatible with the moderation of online horror and hatred

Way back in the mid-1990s, when the web was young and the online world was buzzing with blogs, a worrying problem loomed. If you were an ISP that...

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John Naughton

The Week in Patriarchy Discussing Sonia Sotomayor’s retirement is not sexist – it’s strategic

A month ago Josh Barro (a man) at the Atlantic wrote a piece headlined Sonia Sotomayor Should Retire Now. Around the same time the Guardian’s...

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Arwa Mahdawi

A celebrity politician has been jailed for rape. Will Czech women be listened to now?

He was spoken of as an extraordinary talent. A rising star with a million followers on Instagram, who made politics relevant for younger...

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Apolena Rychlíková And Jakub Zelenka

I am resigning from the Tory party and crossing the floor. Only Labour wants to restore our NHS

Alongside serving my ­constituents as their MP, during the junior doctors’ strike I have spent more than 20 night shifts over the past year or so...

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Dan Poulter

The overturning of Harvey Weinstein’s rape conviction is an affront to women

Usually, rape isn’t reported. When it is reported, it is often not charged. And when it is charged, it rarely leads to a conviction. These facts...

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Moira Donegan

We may have equal marriage – but LGBTQ+ people are still locked out of equal parenthood

The Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act is 10 years old. In the UK, any couple can marry. Likewise, thanks to this courageous pair, any couple can now...

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Freddy Mcconnell

Civil War is a terrifying film, but Trump: The Sequel will be a real-life horror show

Director, cast and critics all agree: Civil War, the movie depicting America tearing itself to bloody bits while a cowardly, authoritarian...

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Simon Tisdall

Uncommitted voters are not apathetic. The Democratic party is

The US is just months away from the 2024 election, and the prospect of a second Trump presidency grows each day as he evades repercussions for the...

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Camonghne Felix

Notebook What joy it is to have a friend with a superpower – getting a table at the hottest restaurants

The land of restaurants is increasingly paradoxical. Every day, good ones close. Running costs are punitive and broke customers are eating at home...

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Rachel Cooke

Did five frightened horses bolting through London really mean the end was neigh?

Woah there, cried the nation. Easy, boy. This week’s most arresting visuals came on Wednesday morning when runaway horses brought central London to...

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Michael Hogan

The Guardian view on patriotism and the Last Night of the Proms: time for a change

Here we go again: Britannia will continue to rule at the Last Night of the Proms. Unveiling a wide-ranging programme for this year’s festival,...

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Jonathan Freedland

Hidden gems from the world of research It’s immoral to push children into poverty, but that’s what the benefits cap does

There’s much talk of “fiscal pinch points” driving economic policy decisions. But there are moral pinch points, too. Not least when it comes to...

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Torsten Bell

The Observer view on Dan Poulter and the failing Conservative government

This week, voters across England and Wales will go to the polls in the last set of local elections before the next general election. But one...

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Dan Poulter

Social media lies can unleash a dangerous contempt for others. We can stop it

The Bondi Junction attacker and the teen who allegedly stabbed the bishop used knives, but judging from the online reaction to both events, many of...

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Max Jeganathan

Is Connor Hubbard the most boring man on the internet?

Connor Hubbard might be the most boring man on the internet. The 29-year-old dresses like a generic white guy, lives in a nice but unremarkable...

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Arwa Mahdawi

We won’t stop violence against women with ‘conversations about respect’. This is not working. We need to get real

It’s happening again. Another run of alleged domestic violence homicides has horrified the nation, and the media is again searching for answers....

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Jess Hill

First Dog on the Moon Do you love to read but the world wide web has turned your brain into fluff? First Dog on the Moon is here to help

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George Monbiot

The cost of living crisis has made the UK a poorer, more anxious nation – and worse is yet to come

Under capitalism, prices are supposed to be the centre of everything. They are the key agreement between buyer and seller. They are the one clear...

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Andy Beckett

The Cass review of gender identity services marks a return to reason and evidence – it must be defended

As the dust settles around Hilary Cass’s report – the most extensive and thoroughgoing evidence-based review of treatment for children...

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David Bell

Ever get the feeling that you’re being had? Presenting: the great sewage scam

So that’s how they do it. I’d been wondering how, when more sewage has been entering our rivers than ever before, some of the water companies...

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George Monbiot

The weekly beast ‘Climate denial’ ad pulled from The Australian after being labelled ‘deceptive’

For almost a decade, the Australian has been running “climate science denial” ads from the Climate Study Group (CSG) that claim burning fossil...

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Tory Shepherd

We must target the root cause of misinformation. We cannot fact check our way out of this

There are once again calls for the government to Do Something about misinformation online, following the recent stabbings at Bondi Junction and the...

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Samantha Floreani And Lizzie Oshea

Starmer’s rail plans must only be the start. It’s full renationalisation that Britain needs

Is there any hope for Britain’s beleaguered rail passengers? We have some of the highest fares in Europe, industrial relations are at an all-time...

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Tom Haines-Doran

The Tories’ poisonous anti-culture politics has crushed the arts. Bring on election night

A culture change is on the way when this moribund government of the living dead is gone. Clock-watching, we wait for that witching hour on election...

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Polly Toynbee

USC vetoed a Muslim student’s graduation speech for her pro-Palestinian views. Why?

When Asna Tabassum, a hijab-wearing Muslim, was announced as the valedictorian for the University of Southern California class of 2024, my initial...

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Mohammed Zain Shafi Khan

The SNP ditching its Green allies has backfired on Humza Yousaf – and set back the cause of independence

The Bute House agreement (BHA) was supposed to stabilise the SNP. Brokered by Nicola Sturgeon in August 2021, the coalition with the Greens at...

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Dani Garavelli

How much did #MeToo change for women? Let’s ask Harvey Weinstein today – or Donald Trump

According to his representatives, former Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein is still digesting the overturning of his rape conviction by a New York...

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Marina Hyde

US cows now have bird flu, too – but it’s time for planning, not panic

Avian flu, or H5N1, is making headlines in the United States. The past few years have seen concerning signs of it spreading across the world –...

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Devi Sridhar

Like Germany’s president, I love a good kebab. Cosying up to autocrats like Erdoğan, less so

“Nazis eat döner kebabs in secret,” must be one of the dumbest slogans I have seen at German protests against the far right. Yes, the popularity...

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Fatma Aydemir

Most Jews and Palestinians want peace. Extremists, narcissists ​and other ‘allies’ only block the way

Beware the friend who is only trying to help. Not, perhaps, as a rule for life but certainly when it comes to the Israel-Palestine conflict and the...

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Jonathan Freedland

Different perspectives on protest and Palestine

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Maddie Thomas

Change by degrees How to ditch disposable cups - and transform the way you enjoy coffee

Almost everyone has a reusable cup (or three) in their kitchen cupboard, but the convenience of disposable cups often triumphs on the morning...

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Maddie Thomas

Biden is the graduation speaker for Martin Luther King’s alma mater. It’s a moral disaster

Morehouse College is a special place. The only all-male historically Black college in the world, it has alumni ranging from Dr Martin Luther King...

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Jared Loggins

Frank Field saw benefit in the Lib Dems. In this election year, Labour would be wise to do the same

David Marquand and Frank Field, both of whom died this week, never sat on the Labour benches together. The professor of politics and the...

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Martin Kettle

Fair to say America isn’t gripped by Liz Trussmania. Here’s what she can learn from Mr Bean

‘I know the name,” texts a friend when I ask if she knows who Liz Truss is, but like most Americans can’t quite put her finger on why. “Like...

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Emma Brockes

Why we need to stop using ‘pro-Palestine’ and ‘pro-Israel’

In reporting on the encampments springing up on college campuses across the US, the media seem to have convened a terminology confab and agreed on...

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Judith Levine

Lies, confections, distortions: how the right made London the most vilified place in Britain

I have been reading about the most abysmal place. It is a land where children, red-faced with their own radicalism, march alongside bearded...

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Aditya Chakrabortty

Smacking a child is just an act of violence. Why do England and Northern Ireland still allow it?

When a child is scared of their parents, they can spend a long time plucking up the courage to talk. I learned this during a decade of volunteering...

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Frances Ryan

The Trump family’s latest side hustle: Melania’s selling $245 Mother’s Day necklaces

If your husband was a legally adjudicated sexual predator who cheated on you with an adult film star shortly after you gave birth to his son, and...

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Arwa Mahdawi

Can we really trust AI to channel the public’s voice for ministers?

What is the role of AI in democracy? Is it just a volcano of deepfakes and disinformation? Or can it – as many activists and even AI labs are...

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Seth Lazar

In Portugal, we’re celebrating 50 years of freedom. So why is the far right creeping back?

Fifty years ago, on 25 April 1974, a military-led movement in Portugal took down the rightwing authoritarian regime that had governed the country...

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Vicente Valentim

Britain’s natural landscape is in ruins – thanks to the Tories. Here’s how Labour will restore it

We must not be the last generation to have the opportunity to marvel at nature. When I was growing up, I took for granted the excitement of...

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Steve Reed

Elected mayors have made their mark, but still Westminster hogs power. That’s a national embarrassment

All the bigger British political parties are in favour of devolution, yet it proves oddly difficult to deliver. England is a remarkably centralised...

thursday 8

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Tony Travers

Venice is leading the way with a tourist tax. Other great European cities should follow suit

Venice has had enough. It is sinking beneath the twin assaults of tourism and the sea and believes the answer lies in fending off visitors by...

thursday 8

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Simon Jenkins

I’m asking BP to take its share of responsibility for my son’s death, and will take it to UK court if I have to

A year has passed since my beautiful boy Ali Julood died. Not a day goes by when I do not think of him smiling and playing football with his...

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Hussein Julood

I started using heroin decades ago. The rejection of a Melbourne CBD injecting room feels like a rejection of me

I’ve used heroin off and on for decades now. I still do. Throughout my twenties, I had used drugs in ways that were often destructive to me. Back...

thursday 9

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Anonymous

Conan O’Brien is going viral for all the right reasons – hot wings and spewed milk

With every advance in human technology comes an advance in weird new emotional situations. For example, the Germans should invent a word for the...

thursday 6

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Rebecca Shaw

Rishi Sunak has staked his premiership on Rwanda – but the electorate will punish him for it

The government’s current position on the Rwanda scheme is unlikely to boost its electoral hopes – and to understand why, we should look to...

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Henry Hill

Do you speak a ‘big’ global language? Here’s what my tiny language can teach you

A couple of years ago, I received an invitation from a German cultural institution to present my debut short story collection, which was translated...

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Ana Schnabl

Everyone laughed at Hitler in the 1920s. A century on, are we making the same mistake?

There’s something I heard that I can’t get out of my mind. It’s one line in a very long book full of other very good lines. This was the...

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Adrian Chiles

Hate crime against east Asian people in the UK rocketed during Covid – and it hasn’t gone away

I was elected a member of parliament in December 2019, just months before the Covid pandemic changed all of our lives. As Britain’s first MP of...

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Sarah Owen

We need an exodus from Zionism

I’ve been thinking about Moses, and his rage when he came down from the mount to find the Israelites worshiping a golden calf. The ecofeminist in...

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Naomi Klein

Britons don’t like culture wars, but that doesn’t mean the ‘woke mob’ messaging will stop

There was a time in the UK when “culture war” conjured up a certain ugliness that disfigures political discourse across the Atlantic. Particular...

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Owen Jones

King Charles looked for heroes to honour – and picked William, Kate and Camilla. Laugh? Cry? You choose

I wonder if I should award myself an honour, something grand-sounding. How about Most Excellent Keeper of the Belfry? It has a nice ring about it,...

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Norman Baker

Trump’s hush-money case might finally show him what accountability feels like

Donald Trump, who once bragged that he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and not lose any voters, has gotten away for years with unimaginable...

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Margaret Sullivan

I tried to become a local hero by rescuing a cat. I failed comprehensively

A couple of weeks ago I went to go see a woman about a cat. The woman was my neighbour (we’ll call her L) and she had lost her tabby, Karma....

24.04.2024 9

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Arwa Mahdawi

Grogonomics The government shouldn’t boast about Australia’s latest CPI figures, but it shouldn’t panic either

Despite what the fearmongers would have you believe, the latest inflation figures showed that inflation remains well under control. Not only is...

24.04.2024 10

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Greg Jericho

Horses are medicine – they’re helping give young Aboriginal people the love and support they need

I have seen horses soothe even the most troubled of souls, with cognitive and neurological issues, to be able to be completely still for the first...

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Juli Coffin

Guardian Opinion cartoon Martin Rowson on Rishi Sunak’s Rwanda mission accomplished – cartoon

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Arwa Mahdawi

I worry that hugging people could come across as creepy. So, from now on, all you’re getting is a handshake

I gave up hugging people just before Christmas; I thought it was for the best. I’m in my mid-50s, possibly a bit smelly and live in fear of...

24.04.2024 3

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Adrian Chiles

On Anzac Day you’ll hear stories of courage and mateship. It’s a way to rationalise war

Commemoration, and what has increasingly become an almost ecclesiastic celebration of Australia’s short martial history, on Anzac Day relies on a...

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Paul Daley

First Dog on the Moon Last year Voyager 1 started sending ‘gibberish code’. It was broken! In space!

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Ana Schnabl

Starmer must drain the poison from the immigration debate – it’s what the public wants

“Look, if people don’t like the mug, they don’t have to get the mug,” Ed Miliband said, exasperated. We were on a train to Manchester for a...

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Rafael Behr

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