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The Guardian view on the Lib Dems’ ambitions: to become the main opposition in Britain

Editorial: Sir Ed Davey is gambling that big ideas will give his party an advantage in the crisis-ridden and polarising conditions of the current era

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The Guardian view on Europe’s future: spend big or risk the consequences

Editorial: Former European Central Bank chief Mario Draghi is right to call for Marshall plan-type investment in the continent’s future

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OPINION - This crackpot US presidential election would be funny if it weren’t sinister

If the 2024 presidential election was a television series we would say it had jumped the shark by now — reached the point of such incredulity as to have lost the plot. The characters are all at each other’s throats. Donald Trump is behaving like a spoilt mean girl, posting…

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The burqa paradox: Feminism’s blind spot amid patriarchal impositions

My mother was born into a traditional upper-caste, upper-middle-class family. Though her upbringing came with its share of restrictions for women, the mindset in her household was not as conservative as that of my father’s family. My father, hailing from a Peshawari lineage, grew up in a household with a…

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OPINION - Poor Huw Edwards? The children he exploited deserve our pity

Huw Edwards’s conviction on possession of indecent images of children is a lurid tale of exploitation, sexual and economic, and a pattern of exploitative behaviour, culminating in consumption of paedophile material, some of it of the most serious kind.

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The punishment for felling Australia’s foreshore trees is a mere pittance against developers’ obscene profits

The bastards who vandalise trees to enhance views should be criminally pursued in line with those who vandalise public buildings

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We live in an era of political violence. The rich and famous aren’t the primary targets

Unlike Donald Trump, most of us do not get to face the risk of violence with Secret Service protection

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The UK’s two-child benefit limit has rightly caused outrage. But another cruel policy needs urgent attention

Thanks to the benefit cap, a family of five that I have worked with are living on as little as £65 a week., says social policy professor Ruth Patrick

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Keir Starmer and Ed Davey lead two different parties but face the same question: can the UK centre hold?

There is a clear, mutual respect between the two men who must oppose each other on one level but have comparable objectives, says journalist and author Tom Baldwin

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OPINION - In Starmer's Britain the class system isn’t dead, it has simply been re-imagined

Reading the dripping with snobbery and class-prejudice articles and social media attacks on Charlie Mullins, the Pimlico Plumbers boss who has declared he is taking all of his money out of the UK because of Labour’s attitude to the wealthy, I suddenly realised that there has been a seismic shift…

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Here’s the real ‘enigma’ about Charlotte Owen: why we still take sexist gossip so seriously

OK, it’s not great to put a 29-year-old in the Lords – but trouser-rubbing ‘journalists’ spreading innuendo can’t back it up with a shred of evidence, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

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Melania Trump has a memoir coming out – and she’s acting pretty strangely

There has been surprisingly little fanfare about the book, which is being published next month. Is the former first lady about to reveal all?

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OPINION - The Standard View: It's time to pedestrianise Oxford Street

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After the Huw Edwards scandal, a tip for the BBC – your stars are not Gods: stop treating them like that

The former presenter’s crimes are his responsibility, but the corporation must change so its big names can never again abuse their power, says Guardian columnist Jane Martinson

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There’s a danger that the US supreme court, not voters, picks the next president

Millions of Americans will vote this fall – but six Republican justices might have the final say, in a Bush v Gore redux

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Shōgun proves you don’t need dragons and bare bottoms for compelling drama

It’s official: cheap, violent thrills are out; detailed trade negotiations are in. Shōgun’s Emmy-winning haul suggests cerebral viewing is back in vogue

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British children the least happy in Europe – and Dutch kids the happiest? Don’t believe the hype

Careful with comparisons. A close look shows skewed figures – and a troubling picture of childhood in the Netherlands, says Netherlands-based journalist Senay Boztas

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Is a political settlement between Russia and Ukraine on the cards? I am sceptical

Neither war fatigue nor the fear of an escalation into nuclear war seem enough to spur on negotiations to end the conflict, says political scientist Rajan Menon

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Europe is in thrall to the far right – that’s the result of appeasement by so-called moderates

France is the latest country to capitulate to the demands of a poisonous, populist narrative. We need a progressive fightback, says former prime minister Gordon Brown

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What are Pakistan’s controversial constitutional amendments about?

The proposed amendments could weaken the independence of the judiciary, allege opposition parties and some experts.

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If Keir Starmer wants to be braver than Tony Blair, this is how: ignore the neanderthal right on crime

The rate of violent offences is plummeting but, thanks to rightwing dishonesty, much of the public still believes it is rising, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

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TNT Radio, a network for conspiracy theorists and fringe politicians, is shutting its doors

‘Because we’re a free speech platform, what we found is that no-one really wants free speech,’ said the network’s CEO and flagship host.

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Tinder’s School of Swipe is a solid first step – but online dating safety has a long way to go

The challenge remains to create a comprehensive approach that addresses underlying abuse and discrimination

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How the media’s ‘sane-washing’ is driving crazy racism (and the rest of us just plain crazy)

For the right around the world, the racism is the point. It can’t be laughed off or fact-checked away.

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