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Our Post Office victory is being twisted by those who don’t want to see its like again

You are probably familiar with the case Alan Bates and Others v Post Office Ltd. The high court found that I and 554 other former subpostmasters...

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Alan Bates

A lifetime of immigration detention can never be Australia’s punishment for simply not holding a valid visa

Legal language can conceal what it seeks to describe. It can be an emollient, glossing over the violent specificity of things. Consider...

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Sanmati Verma

I’m no stranger to having work banned. If you want to protect kids, this is not the way to do it

I’m no stranger to the experience of having your work banned. Many would remember when my first film Gayby Baby was banned from schools in NSW by...

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Maya Newell

The weekly beast Bettina Arndt passed hat around for accommodation, cash and new friends for Bruce Lehrmann

Bruce Lehrmann’s lawyers this week revealed the former Liberal staffer did not have a secret financial backer and that they worked on a no win, no...

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Amanda Meade

What should Labour learn from Sadiq Khan? Take a stand – and don’t back down

Maybe it’s because I’m a Londoner, but I never doubted that Sadiq Khan would win re-election as the city’s mayor – even when rumours of a...

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John Mcternan

Eurovision is a joyful, powerful event – but it can’t carry the weight of the war in Gaza

Are you watching Eurovision this weekend? It used to be an innocent enough question. But it’s fast becoming a loaded one, as the silliest,...

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Gaby Hinsliff

Why is Britain’s mental health so incredibly poor? It’s because our society is spiralling backwards

The news should have stopped us in our tracks. Astonishingly, however, it was scarcely reported here. The latest map of mental wellbeing published...

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George Monbiot

The climate crisis is no laughing matter, no matter what those on Radio 4’s Today programme think

Do you find climate breakdown funny? Do you think it’s a laughing matter that we are on track to bequeath to our children and their children a...

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Bill Mcguire

None of us saw digital colonialism coming. Now we must live with its consequences

In the early 1980s hand-written chalk signs started appearing on the sidewalks of my grungy Manhattan neighbourhood: Whoever has the most toys when...

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Julianne Schultz

Piers Morgan won’t care where the Baby Reindeer saga goes. But Netflix should

What will happen next in the still-mushrooming Baby Reindeer saga? Probably one or more of a number of bad things. Latest bad thing to happen (at...

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Marina Hyde

In France, we’ve been desperate for a real alternative to Macron and Le Pen. Finally, he’s here

Maybe it’s the result of having moved to Europe with a North American point of view, but it has always stunned me that Europe’s nations –...

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Alexander Hurst

The students protesting in Dublin are on the right side of history – and they know it

Who tends to get the big foreign policy calls right: student protesters, or their detractors? Answering this question, it turns out, is useful if...

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Owen Jones

Growing up gay in Australia was tough. This week’s Sydney council book ban shows how far we have to go

Fourteen, the stage adaptation of my memoir of the same name, captures a moment in history and in my life that feels so far away now. It’s been...

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Shannon Molloy

I understand climate scientists’ despair – but stubborn optimism may be our only hope

“Hopeless and broken”: that is how a top scientist interviewed by the Guardian described feeling as she and hundreds of other climate experts...

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Christiana Figueres

Stormy Daniels’s testimony paints a dark picture of Trump’s view of sex and power

He seems to have understood it as a business deal. That’s what Stormy Daniels – the former porn star whose account of a sexual encounter with...

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Moira Donegan

The government has unveiled its new energy plan and it’s a gas

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Shannon Molloy

I’ve failed at jugs, I’m worse at teapots – why can’t I ever pour anything properly?

I can’t pour things. I don’t mean complicated stuff such as concrete, paint for road markings or a cake glaze; I’m talking simple fluids from...

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Adrian Chiles

It’s as if misogyny was the vice that dared not speak its name at the Garrick. That cloud has now lifted

The Garrick Club’s vote this week in favour of admitting women as members mattered. It mattered – and was the subject of widespread public debate...

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Simon Jenkins

As Germany’s postwar constitution turns 75, threats to its democracy are looming

Germany’s democracy is 75 years old this month. The anniversary is pregnant with meaning, as the country debates with ever greater anxiety the...

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John Kampfner

Drake v Kendrick Lamar’s rap beef has turned very ugly – who is benefiting from such a spectacle?

The sight of two (or more) people tearing chunks out of each other is one of humanity’s first and most enduring forms of entertainment. The sheer...

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Nels Abbey

It’s wall-to-wall lesbians out there! But the sudden acceptance of queerness is slightly complicated

I don’t want to alarm anyone, but if my calculations are correct, it seems we are entering a sapphic-heavy cultural moment. I’ve been a lesbian...

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Rebecca Shaw

Keir Starmer should be embracing the Tories’ disgruntled voters – not their turncoat MPs

No, no, this is an uncharacteristic mistake. Keir Starmer’s welcoming hand on Natalie Elphicke’s shoulder is a picture his enemies will relish...

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Polly Toynbee

Guardian Opinion cartoon Ben Jennings on Natalie Elphicke’s defection from the Conservatives to Labour – cartoon

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Owen Jones

I weep for the corals, but what I saw on the Great Barrier Reef gives me hope

From the dry lab on One Tree Island research station – about 100km off the coast from Gladstone and in the southern region of the Great Barrier...

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Kerrie Foxwell-Norton

If Keir Starmer isn’t careful, Gaza could do for him what the Iraq war did for Blair

How does Keir Starmer avoid Gaza doing to his Labour party what the Iraq war did to Tony Blair’s a generation ago? Or does the prospect not...

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Martin Kettle

The culture warriors have come for the National Trust. This is how we take them on – and win

In March this year, the BBC’s director general, Tim Davie, gave a speech on the BBC’s future. He said unbalanced, unfair and overtly...

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Celia Richardson

Mockery, low tactics, sexist tropes: gloriously, Stormy Daniels is repaying Donald Trump in kind

The spectacle of Stormy Daniels on the witness stand in a Manhattan courtroom this week sent one back to the image of Trump’s last female...

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Emma Brockes

Guardian Opinion cartoon Ben Jennings on Joe Biden’s threat to withhold some weapons sales to Israel – cartoon

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Christiana Figueres

Will Biden finally stop enabling Netanyahu’s extremist government?

On Monday, the Israeli military ordered Palestinians in the city of Rafah to evacuate ahead of airstrikes, which unleashed fears that Israel was...

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Mohamad Bazzi

Ten years after ending an abusive relationship my ex-partner is still trying to destroy me financially

I left an abusive relationship almost a decade ago, but my abuser has kept a noose around my neck every day since. At the time we had four young...

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Anonymous

Just how low will Republican politicians stoop to be Trump’s running mate?

Kristen Welker, the moderator of NBC’s Meet the Press, did her best to pin down Tim Scott last Sunday. Would the junior senator from South...

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Margaret Sullivan

Chronic underfunding, broken equipment and asbestos in the ceilings: this is the NHS in 2024

It was a bright hot day in August, and the heaters were stuck on full blast. A nurse on the acute medical ward bleeped my pager. The heart of a...

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Parth Patel

I hoped Peppa might be a role model for my daughter. But that little piggy is just a brat

When I first moved to the US from the UK, having an English accent was an asset. Back in the pre-Brexit era, it signalled sophistication and...

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Arwa Mahdawi

Standing in my boxers, blindfolded and full of shame, I remembered why I hate getting dressed up

I hate getting dressed up. Watching the Met Gala red carpet makes my legs go all itchy. As a child, getting dressed up entailed putting on trousers...

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Adrian Chiles

The world must reject Russia’s nuclear posturing – but not ignore the danger

Frustrated by the precarious state of Ukraine’s war effort and the long delays in US aid, leaders in France and Britain have stepped up their...

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Christopher S Chivvis

After 200 years, women can join the Garrick. Now for the task of making it share power, not hoard it

Britain’s “old boys’ club” suffered a blow last night. The Garrick Club – an exclusive gentlemen’s club in central London and relic of...

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Jemima Olchawski

Guardian Opinion cartoon Nicola Jennings on Rishi Sunak, desperately trying to look on the bright side – cartoon

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Arwa Mahdawi

I’m a British farmer. Here’s the scary truth about what’s happening to our crops

Farming has always been a risky business. To the chaos of Brexit and the relentless squeezing of the supermarkets, we can add the rapidly...

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Guy Singh-Watson

Natalie Elphicke is a hard-right Tory. Her defection sums up Labour’s contempt for progressive voters

Siri, show me a hollow victory. It is easy to imagine the glee felt by Keir Starmer’s advisers when Natalie Elphicke MP let them know she was...

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Owen Jones

Australian literature has long been ‘hijacked by activists’. This has made it richer. Let’s not go backwards

Last week the State Library of New South Wales announced the shortlists of the 2024 Premier’s Literary awards. The announcement came with arguably...

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Sarah Ayoub

Ursula von der Leyen is now a household name – and that could be Europe’s salvation

As 400 million EU citizens prepare to cast their votes in June’s European elections, a new poll shows that it is Ursula von der Leyen who has...

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Catherine De Vries And Isabell Hoffmann

I’m a non-dom millionaire living in Britain. Taxing me fairly won’t make me leave

The recent decision to abolish the non-dom status, which allows a small group of very rich UK residents to earn money abroad without paying tax on...

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Gio Notarbartolo

Starmer may be bland – but that passes the taste test in a country sick of spicy politics

Amid the cacophony of post-election analysis over the weekend, one item struck me as especially bleak for Rishi Sunak. It wasn’t the byelection...

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Rafael Behr

Grogonomics Those calling for higher interest rates in Australia should be careful of what they wish for

It seems that some people really want a recession. The estimates of inflation not falling below 3% until the end of next year has led some...

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Greg Jericho

Drake and Kendrick Lamar don’t get that women’s pain isn’t a punchline

Drake and Kendrick Lamar have been battling it out for days in a vicious diss-track feud, but what started out as a sparring of wits between two of...

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Tayo Bero

Israel is banning Al Jazeera, America is banning TikTok. We know why

The White House rightly said it was “concerning” when Israel’s parliament laid the groundwork to shut down Al Jazeera within its borders in...

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Seth Stern

Appetising, delicious food served up to prisoners? It works for the Nordic countries

I spent three weeks visiting prisons across Scandinavia to find out how they feed their prisoners. You may ask why any of us should be concerned...

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Lucy Vincent

The science on endometriosis is finally breaking through – so why do treatments feel stuck in the past?

I’m kneeling on the hard, cold tiles of my bathroom floor retching into the toilet bowl, and I’ve been here for some time. The colour has drained...

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Lucy Pasha-Robinson

A night out drinking should feel safe: here are a few simple steps you can take to help reduce risk

Feeling safe to socialise should be everyone’s right. Reports of Queensland MP Brittany Lauga alleging she was drugged and sexually assaulted during...

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Nicole Lee

The Guardian Essential report Could Labor use Australia’s fears over crime and online safety to power internet regulation?

A dark month of black swan events threatens to push the national political debate on to a platform of fear as the drumbeat of trauma asks new...

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Peter Lewis

Frock horror! In these dark times, let us be grateful for the ludicrous spectacle of the Met Gala

Tuesday is officially the morning after the Met Gala of the night before, when we civilians get to press our noses up against the glass of our...

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Marina Hyde

How could Sunak and Starmer liven up the election? I vote for a rap battle

God knows I don’t want to pick sides in the bitter rivalry between Kendrick Lamar and Drake. The rappers’ feud has been going on for way too long...

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Zoe Williams

Could you get by on a measly $43,000 a month? It seems Rudy Giuliani can’t

‘Bankruptcy” is a surprisingly amorphous term. For poor people, it means not having any money. For corporations and the super-wealthy it means a...

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Arwa Mahdawi

There’s one thing standing in the way of a ceasefire: Netanyahu’s refusal to compromise

The latest twists and turns in negotiations to end the war in Gaza appear labyrinthine and confusing. But it’s really not that complicated....

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Simon Tisdall

Making John Swinney leader may be the SNP’s smartest move in years

John Swinney’s accession to the leadership of the Scottish National party has been called a “coronation”. Yet the smooth handover of power that...

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Dani Garavelli

What is the most important word in medicine? It is not what we teach doctors

“What’s a Festschrift?” my youngest asks. “In German it means ‘celebration writing’,” I say, “I’m going to an academic conference to...

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Ranjana Srivastava

Lying politicians in the Senedd may finally be held to account – but why should we stop at Wales?

In 2019, I helped prove in court that the then prime minister misled the Queen. Boris Johnson claimed he prorogued parliament for purely...

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Sam Fowles

Tories must face hard truths: Reform-lite wreckers like Braverman are why the public just don’t like us

Last week’s local election results may finally have sunk Rishi Sunak’s Conservative party. It lost all but one of the 11 mayoralty contests, and...

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Justine Greening

Rachel Reeves is right: this government is gaslighting us over the economy

Labour’s tanks roll relentlessly across Tory lawns, not pausing a heartbeat to celebrate phenomenal local election results in England. It treated...

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Polly Toynbee

I will build at least 10,000 council homes. As for right to buy – suspend it for new properties

Last Thursday, people voted for change. There appears to be a settled view now that the country needs a fresh start. And yet anyone who has stood...

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Andy Burnham

There is a way for Starmer’s Labour to fix the big rift with Muslim voters – if it has the will

The local and mayoral elections saw many traditional Labour-voting Muslim voters abandon the party they’ve loyally supported for decades. One...

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Miqdaad Versi

Why I quit I stopped lying to please people – and I’ve never felt more free

I never used to think of myself as a liar. I always saw myself as an honest person. The only time I’d ever veer from the truth was to protect...

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Radhika Sanghani

England’s metro mayors make a farce of local democracy. They must be scrapped

England’s 12 “metro mayors” should be abolished. Metro mayorships are artificial creations whose regional geography rarely reflects any civic...

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Simon Jenkins

Sharing the Load How can we expect mothers to return to work if we’re so reluctant to allow fathers to stay home?

The job I was applying for was three days a week. It was a backwards step, career-wise, but the hours were attractive. By that I mean that the...

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Myke Bartlett

Have I got this right? Does Kristi Noem really want Joe Biden to start killing dogs too?

When Kristi Noem, the South Dakota governor being vetted as a candidate for Donald Trump’s vice-president, admitted in her memoir to having shot...

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Zoe Williams

Guardian Opinion cartoon Nicola Jennings on Rishi Sunak’s local elections disaster – cartoon

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Bhikkhu Sujato And Nadine Levy

Unloved but unchallenged, Sunak appears safe – because only a fool would want his job now

How to react to unfolding calamity? Tory MPs took different approaches. “Disastrous. Worse than I expected and pointing to a total wipeout.”...

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Henry Hill

Vampire facials, under-eye fillers, ‘prejuvenation’: how did cosmetic tweakments get so extreme?

Everyone goes through it: a reckoning with one’s own mortality in the mirror, poking at eye bags and tugging at folds of loose skin. Am I looking...

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Georgina Lawton

As the Channel tunnel turns 30, England needs to grow up and acknowledge its deep bond with France

The first passenger train from England to France carried Queen Elizabeth II to Calais on 6 May 1994. Trains carrying less exalted passengers would...

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Jonn Elledge

Don’t let the sound and fury over Gaza protests drown out what the students are saying

On a hot day last week, the pavements outside Columbia University were heaving. About 200 protesters were gathered, making a noise that was bigger...

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Nesrine Malik

What are Australia’s family law reforms, and how will they help women and children fleeing violence?

The first four months of 2024 have brought the horror of violence against women into the news feeds of everyday Australians. Each day we have been...

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Zoe Rathus For The Conversation

I love Vogue’s idea of ‘British girl energy’. But what does it involve? M&S knickers? Weaponised politeness?

Chioma Nnadi, who has taken over at British Vogue, says she has settled back in seamlessly after 20 years out of the UK. “I realised just how...

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Emma Beddington

American politicians forget: disruption and disorder are the point of protests

“In America, the student movement has been seriously radicalized wherever police and police brutality intervened in essentially nonviolent...

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Patrick Gaspard

Police let violent mobs attack UCLA students. This is what lawlessness looks like

Things had been tense at the University of California, Los Angeles, with some ugly jibes and the occasional shove exchanged between students who...

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Judith Levine

Guardian Opinion cartoon Ben Jennings on Rishi Sunak’s plan after last week’s elections results – cartoon

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Patrick Gaspard

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