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Editorial: Efforts by the plastics industry to thwart regulation come from a familiar playbook

The city of culture celebrations will show the truth breadth of our community, from the Brontës to the working-class plays of Andrea Dunbar, says Lanre Bakare, Guardian arts correspondent

On January 7, I heard on the evening news that a wildfire had broken out in the Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, and was dangerously close to residential areas. At 4am, I woke up to reports that the fire was now spiraling out of control, burning hundreds (and now thousands) of…

Killing people with paperwork instead of a gun doesn’t make you any less of a murderer

For years I’ve overlooked the many good reasons for leaving the social media platform. But now there is no other choice, writes Guardian columnist Zoe Williams

Fascism in power in the 1930s brought the world to genocidal war. But memories have faded, as has the stigma attached to the far-right – and that’s dangerous, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

It’s free, it’s sensible and it makes workers happy. The government needs to accept that this is the new normal, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

Is a weakening Australian dollar bad news? Not really — but you won’t hear that from the media.

This is at least the eighth ceasefire propsal since October 2023. Could it be the one to end the immediate bombardment of Gaza?