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When I delivered the worst of news to my dying patient, she cried ā but not about her prognosis | Ranjana Srivastava
Published: October 22, 2024 14:00
We like to think patients judge us for our medical acumen but, in fact, they observe the words we say, the empathy we show and the kindness we offerāNow I am crying because you are sitting there.āāI am sorry,ā I say, preparing to jump up. Continueā¦
To win, Harris should talk more about working-class needs and less about Trump | Dustin Guastella
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/oct/22/harris-working-class-voters-poll-election
Published: October 22, 2024 10:00
Our polling shows that the best way to defeat Trump is offer a compelling economic platform that puts working families firstThe 2024 campaign has entered the final stretch and, as polls tighten, it seems Kamala Harris plans to lean into attacking Donaldā¦
Meteorologists could be climate change heroes by relaying its urgency to the public
Published: October 22, 2024 10:00
Weathercasters are positioned to help viewers connect short-term extreme events ā like hurricanes ā with the climate crisisSome have called Hurricanes Helene and Milton an October surprise. Yet such disasters are now dispiritingly predictable. In theirā¦
Celebrities arenāt gods; theyāre humans. After Liam Payneās tragic death, can we accept them as flesh and blood? | Mark Borkowski
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/oct/22/liam-payne-death-celebrity-fame
Published: October 22, 2024 10:00
As a showbiz publicist, I know about the Faustian pact between stars and the public. The benefits are clear, but the costs are truly steepAs the worldwide tributes continue, the tragic death of Liam Payne at the cruel age of just 31 has shaken theā¦
Netanyahu, the brutal chancer, will keep on bombing, but his brinkmanship may go too far | Simon Tisdall
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/oct/22/netanyahu-bombing-brinkmanship-stop-us
Published: October 22, 2024 09:03
The notion that he will claim a victory and stop now is deluded. He will press on until there is the political will in the US to stop himItās blindingly obvious Benjamin Netanyahu does not want a ceasefire in Gaza or Lebanon or anywhere else ā not yet, atā¦
Kamala Harris needs to win non-college educated white voters fast. Here's how | Joan C Williams
Published: October 22, 2024 08:04
Democratsā fate depends on winning enough non-college-educated voters in swing states. They arenāt trying hard enoughKamala Harris is doing a lot of things right that recent Democratic campaigns got wrong. She took a chance on Tim Waltz ā coach, solider,ā¦
Labour gave us Sure Start to tackle child poverty. Now it should hike tax to keep it | Polly Toynbee
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/oct/22/labour-sure-start-tax-tories-child-poverty
Published: October 22, 2024 07:00
The Tories put British childrenās prospects of escaping a poor background into reverse. This is Labourās chance to fix thatAs the budget approaches, outrage from the Tories and their media outriders at any mention of proposed tax rises is reaching boilingā¦
Europeās far right will look at Austria and say: this is how we do it | Cas Mudde and Gabriela Greilinger
Published: October 22, 2024 06:00
The success of Herbert Kicklās FPĆ is no surprise ā it had been normalised by the centre right for years. Let that be a warningWhile Europe may be āsleepwalking into a far-right trapā, Austria is consciously walking straight into it. After all, polls hadā¦
Battered but bizarrely upbeat: why even utter defeat hasnāt shaken the Tory partyās confidence | Andy Beckett
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/oct/22/tories-defeat-conservatives-british-values
Published: October 22, 2024 05:00
The Conservatives believe that they uniquely represent British values ā so what need is there to admit the UK is changing? Why exactly are the Conservatives so upbeat, barely three months after their worst-ever election defeat? At their party conference,ā¦
Itās time Australia called in the big guns on the social media firms. Our democracy is at risk | Belinda Barnet
Published: October 22, 2024 04:53
Meta has made it very clear to Australians that they do not value our journalism or our public interest mediaThe joint select committee on social media and Australian society tabled their interim report on Monday, recommending that the government exploreā¦
Enough with the ribbon-cutting: itās time King Charles bore witness to the true history of the Aussie gang | Peter Lewis
Published: October 22, 2024 02:39
The truth is our nation was built on the exploitation of everyone who didnāt wear the royal insignia ā both stolen land and stolen labourGuardian Essential poll: King Charlesās job approval rating eclipses Albanese and DuttonKing Charles III ā or as Tonyā¦
As a Lebanese Australian, the country I live in feels hostile to my pain ā and by extension, to me | Sherine Al Shallah
Published: October 21, 2024 23:40
Every bit of news of every attack trivialises everything else here. Dreams, plans, āachievementsā I grew up and spent most of my life in Beirut before migrating to Australia just over a decade ago. I had to leave and I cannot go back. I have come to termsā¦
The Guardian view on foreign powers in Sudan: struggling for advantage while civilians starve | Editorial
Published: October 21, 2024 17:51
The role of the United Arab Emirates in fuelling the war is under the spotlight. But other countries too are exacerbating the deadly conflictThe often denied but obvious involvement of foreign powers in Sudanās deadly civil war is now firmly in theā¦
From drones to genomics, science can help fight extinction: that work must begin at Cop16 | Angela McLean
Published: October 21, 2024 15:30
As nations meet in Colombia to confront species and ecosystem loss, the onus is on the global north to put science and collaboration at the heart of the issueAngela McLean is chief scientific adviser to the UK governmentBiodiversity, the incredible varietyā¦
Could we all be as positive as Chris Hoy facing death? Perhaps knowing when we will go changes everything | Simon Jenkins
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/oct/21/chris-hoy-positive-terminal-cancer-science
Published: October 21, 2024 14:24
As Hoy has said, there is agony in trying to predict the future. Medical advances mean we might be able to navigate an awful diagnosis with some certaintyWe can all sympathise with Chris Hoy for his terminal cancer, and admire the manner in which heā¦
More and more, I sense Iām out of touch. Can my expat writing still call Australia home? | Mikaella Clements
Published: October 21, 2024 14:00
Writing anything is an exercise in vulnerability, but the fear of writing Australia and getting it wrong is embarrassing and invalidatingIāve lived overseas for 12 years, the vast majority of my adult life. I visit Australia every year (global pandemicsā¦
Progressives must walk a fine line: end the war in Gaza and elect Harris | Judith Levine
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/oct/21/progressives-end-gaza-war-elect-harris
Published: October 21, 2024 10:00
Itās sounds like an impossible dilemma for activists and organizers, but it isnāt. Progressives can and must do bothThe war in Gaza is not high among most votersā concerns. But for many Arab Americans and protesters of the war, it is. As election day nearsā¦
As a fire brigade commander I hid my stress. Then it made me too sick to work | JD Murphy
Published: October 21, 2024 08:00
I realised I had PTSD after investigating the Grenfell Tower fire and developing autoimmune illnesses, so I had to learn to stop āmanning upā I am eight years old and walking in the Welsh rain. The pace is fast and I imagine Iām a soldier who mustnāt stopā¦
As a recent migrant to Germany I say this: the border clampdown is an insult to the values championed here | Bonita Dordel
Published: October 21, 2024 06:00
Even as I am taught about the German credo of tolerance and compassion, the government is betraying it to pander to the far rightI live in a small, quaint old town in north-west Germany, and every day I attend four hours of German and integration lessons.ā¦
I love the NHS: it saved my life, but the operation to rescue it must be led by the people and its staff | Wes Streeting
Published: October 21, 2024 05:15
My treatment showed me the brilliance and failings of our health service. But it is in crisis and government canāt tackle that aloneWhen I was diagnosed with kidney cancer, in 2021, the NHS saved my life. I felt this Rolls-Royce machine kick into gear, asā¦
Why does big business want Australia to spend billions on not building houses? | Cameron Murray
Published: October 21, 2024 04:47
Housing developers have a keen financial interest in drip-feeding new homes into the market to maximise their returnsAustralia has more and larger dwellings per person than ever. But you wouldnāt know it from the public conversation about housing.Like weā¦
The LNPās āadult crime, adult timeā election slogan wonāt make Queenslanders safer. We need to fight fear with facts | Aimee McVeigh
Published: October 21, 2024 03:25
This posturing will put more pressure on our maxed-out youth detention centres ā and harm more childrenWalking into the Cairns watch house is an experience that awakens the senses. Fluorescent lights, no windows, strong smells of body odour mixed with oldā¦
How can we love fully in the face of inevitable loss? It starts with letting go | Nadine Levy
Published: October 20, 2024 14:00
Itās not easy to accept change, separation and heartbreak. But grief can pave the way for a new form of connectionMaking sense of it is a column about spirituality and how it can be used to navigate everyday lifeEarly in life I learned that we loseā¦
How can Britain plot its future when it is so deeply stuck in the mud? Empower the citizens | John Harris
Published: October 20, 2024 12:43
A debate as vital as assisted dying shouldnāt rely on one MP and Starmerās pledge to Esther Rantzen. Is the way to address big issues the model used in Ireland?No one really saw it coming, but here we are, in the midst of what passes for a watershed debateā¦
In the Jabalia refugee camp, my sister has reached breaking point. What will it take to stop this nightmare? | Ahmed Najar
Published: October 20, 2024 11:32
Every time I think things canāt get worse in Gaza, they do. But that is what happens when the world turns a blind eye to crueltyMy family is trapped in the Jabalia refugee camp, crammed into a space no larger than 1.4 sq km with more than 119,000 otherā¦
Gender is going to be a huge factor in this election. Hereās what the data shows | Celinda Lake and Cate Gormley
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/oct/20/elections-2024-gender-data-abortion
Published: October 20, 2024 10:00
Younger women are registering to vote at record rates ā and tell pollsters that abortion rights are a crucial voting concernThe election for president ends in under a month, and voters in states across the country have begun casting early ballots. As weā¦
Rachel Reeves wonāt be loved for a tough budget. Her best hope is to earn respect | Andrew Rawnsley
Published: October 20, 2024 07:30
Labour nerves are jangling in advance of the most significant event since the electionI have now heard so many Labour people quiver that Rachel Reevesā looming budget is a āmake or breakā event that Iāve given up counting. Whether or not it will deserveā¦
The assisted dying debate is about so much more than kindness v conservatism | Sonia Sodha
Published: October 20, 2024 07:00
George Carey is wrong to reduce the bill to a simple question of right or wrongThere is perhaps nothing more 2020s than taking a sensitive, morally fraught issue loaded with complexity and nuance, and casting it as progress and kindness versus indifferenceā¦
Britainās wealth gap is growing, its malign effects seep into all aspects of life. Itās a national disaster | Will Hutton
Published: October 20, 2024 06:30
Wealth distribution reeks of unfairness and poses as big a threat to the countryās wellbeing as climate changeBritain is a wealthy country, but the gap between our richest and poorest 10% is now, the US excepted, the highest in the developed world.ā¦
Pumping the unemployed with weight-loss drugs echoes Victorian attitudes to the poor | Kenan Malik
Published: October 20, 2024 06:00
Shifting blame to the victims of economic policy is an old trick by politicians. Now theyāre using obesity to tackle joblessnessIn early 2023, Lars Fruergaard JĆørgensen, chief executive of the Danish pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk, and its UKā¦
Joe Biden must use the death of Yahya Sinwar to press for peace | Observer editorial
Published: October 20, 2024 05:30
With Benjamin Netanyahu hellbent on victory at all costs, the US must stop supplying weapons and impose sanctions on Israelās governmentContrasting reactions to the chance killing by Israeli soldiers of Hamasās top leader, YahyaĀ Sinwar, offer a chasteningā¦
Carbon capture is not the answer to the climate crisis
Published: October 20, 2024 05:00
In 50 years, CCS has captured just a tiny proportion of global emissions and left a trail of wasted public money in its wakeThe Observer is correct to highlight the urgency of the climate crisis and the signal this yearās devastating hurricane season sendsā¦
For the record
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2024/oct/19/for-the-record
Published: October 19, 2024 22:00
Robert Jenrick MP | Hurricane Helene | Manchester City FC | Linda Lindasā¢ An article about the Conservative leadership contest referred to Robert Jenrickās assertion that UK forces were āmurdering rather than capturing terroristsā. The phrase he used wasā¦
King Charles is not the adversary of an Australian republic ā but hasnāt the time of the crown gone?
Published: October 19, 2024 19:00
Our monarch is gracing his dominion to see us, his subjects, in a land that still pretends we are not a republic at heartCharles the Third has rather selflessly come to see you, Australians. Your Sovereign. Of whom we are all subjects.Subjects. If youā¦
How many more children like Sara Sharif will be killed beforeĀ smacking is banned? | Catherine Bennett
Published: October 19, 2024 18:00
Labour should not dither ā it is time for England to follow the example set by Scotland and WalesBroadcasters have, understandably enough, been adding content warnings to reports about Sara Sharif, the 10-year-old girl who allegedly died at the hands ofā¦
Why sex discrimination at work doesnāt go away until women are in charge | Torsten Bell
Published: October 19, 2024 16:00
New research reveals men pay little heed to women in mixed-sex teamsSingle-sex teams are something for the football pitch,Ā not the workplace. Itās notĀ the 1950s. Many studies show the benefits of mixed teams: among scientists, for example, they produceā¦
Of course teenagers want to be pop idols like Liam Payne. Given the perils, should we let them? | Martha Gill
Published: October 19, 2024 15:30
The singer is the latest casualty of an industry that thrusts fame on children too young to copeSex, drinking, smoking, gambling, joining the army, being put to work ā we now take it as obvious that there should be strict laws protecting young people fromā¦
Rachel Reevesā budget is like a long car journey, without a Fruit-tella in sight | Alison Phillips
Published: October 19, 2024 15:00
Stopping to look āunder the bonnetā of the nationās finances is all well and good, but how long does it take so see the engineās knackered?And still thereās another 10 days to go. After 15Ā bumpy weeks, will this budget ever come? The nation remains in theā¦
The Satanic Temple is taking on the Christian right. It may be effective ā itās definitely fun | Arwa Mahdawi
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/oct/19/satanic-temple-fight-against-religious-right
Published: October 19, 2024 13:41
Recognized as a religion by the IRS, the group uses the religious rightās tactics, and their victories, against themThe devil works hard, but the Republican party works harder. Not a day seems to go by without anti-abortion zealots on the right advancingā¦
The stench of my local landfill points to a massive problem that Britain isnāt solving | Jennifer Sizeland
Published: October 19, 2024 10:00
Toxic emissions, health risks and leaching pollution ā better management of landfill sites is a matter of urgencyLast summer, people living around the perimeter of Pilsworth South landfill in Bury, Greater Manchester, couldnāt open their windows because ofā¦
When the wife of drug lord El Chapo takes to the catwalk in a wedding dress, sheās sending a message | Roberto Saviano
Published: October 19, 2024 09:00
There was more to Emma Coronelās turn at the Milan fashion show than most would have realised. Itās a cynical game of clues and signalsIn the midst of an important Italian fashion event, Emma Coronel Aispuro, who is a former beauty queen but no ordinaryā¦
The history of Caribbean slavery is being lost. Britain must act now to preserve it | Laura Trevelyan and Nicole Phillip
Published: October 19, 2024 08:00
Climate-related disasters are destroying precious records. At next weekās Commonwealth summit, King Charles can show his support for their protectionQuacou, Hankey, Cuffee, Fatima, Fanny Ibo and Quamina. These are the names of African people enslaved onā¦
Itās 60 years since The Lucky Country. Have we moved on from the bronzed Aussie male stereotype? | Frank Bongiorno and Mark McKenna
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/oct/19/the-lucky-country-book-60-years-anniversary
Published: October 18, 2024 23:00
Writer Donald Horne was an astute generaliser in a golden era of them. Can we still examine Australia with his boldness?Sixty years ago, Penguin published a small paperback ā Donald Horneās The Lucky Country: Australia in the Sixties. Its cover was adornedā¦
With Sinwar dead, Benjamin Netanyahu could stop the war in Gaza. But donāt bet a penny on that | Jonathan Freedland
Published: October 18, 2024 14:39
The Israeli PM could cite the Hamas leaderās death as a ātotal victoryā, but his far-right partners would revolt and his ally Trump would not be happyA good day for the world, said Joe Biden. The best day of my life, said Mohammed, a 22-year-oldā¦
Zero-carbon beer is a myth: how to make brewing greener
Published: October 18, 2024 14:00
The dirty little secret of brewing is that it uses heat, water and fossil fuels. Hereās how some craft brewers have been tackling the problemChange by degrees offers life hacks and sustainable living tips each Saturday to help reduce your householdāsā¦
Pylons rule and rural beauty is up for sale. Why do those in power so hate the countryside? | Simon Jenkins
Published: October 18, 2024 12:00
Ed Miliband seems happy to see the landscape blighted. We value townscape ā everywhere else has to fend for itselfDoes Labour believe in beauty? The energy secretary, Ed Miliband, celebrated his arrival in office this summer by permitting three of theā¦
Jews shut down the New York Stock Exchange to protest Israel. Hereās why | Elena Stein
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/oct/18/jews-shut-down-new-york-stock-exchnage-why
Published: October 18, 2024 11:07
As the descendant of a survivor of a genocide, the Holocaust, I refuse to be a bystander to another genocideTime after time, Shaāban al-Dalou, a 19-year-old software engineering student living in Gaza, nearly escaped death. He began studying at Gazaāsā¦
First he urged women to put family first. Now Harrison Butkerās the latest angry rich guy with a Pac | Arwa Mahdawi
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2024/oct/18/harrison-butker-political-action-committee
Published: October 18, 2024 11:00
The Kansas City Chiefs kicker became a hero on the right after a speech in May. Suddenly Fox News is OK with athletes in politicsIn a segment last week, Laura Ingraham could barely contain her glee when she announced that Harrison Butker had decided toā¦
The electoral college has become a gun held to the head of US democracy | Lawrence Douglas
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/oct/18/us-election-electoral-college
Published: October 18, 2024 10:00
Created as a constitutional afterthought, the system now holds millions of voters hostage to a handful of countiesThese are not easy days for supporters of American democracy. But what twists my innards is not the prospect that in three weeksā time, theā¦
A week before the election, Trump will hold his most unsettling spectacle yet | Sidney Blumenthal
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/oct/18/donald-trump-madison-square-garden-rally
Published: October 18, 2024 10:00
Trumpās planned rally at Madison Square Garden will be the ultimate act of ego and the climax of his Hitlerian rhetoricFor the apotheosis of his entire āpoisoning of the bloodā campaign, Donald Trump has planned a spectacular extravaganza in Madison Squareā¦
It was Badenoch v Jenrick on GB News. And if that all sounds bad, watching it was worse | Marina Hyde
Published: October 18, 2024 09:40
Each had an hour to show why they are the future ā until the next Tory debacle means another contest. They barely managed thatDistressingly, the GB News stream I watched the Conservative leadership hustings on kept glitching out, meaning every time I wentā¦
Donāt listen to the Tories ā Labour is right to raise taxes | Polly Toynbee
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/oct/18/tories-labour-raise-taxes-national-insurance
Published: October 18, 2024 09:00
The rumoured rise in national insurance on employers makes sense. As for claims Labour promised not to do that: it didnātAs the budget approaches, expect more balderdash and hogwash from Labourās enemies and their foghorn media. Listen to them protest thatā¦
Hereās the deal: AI giants get to grab all your data unless you say they canāt. Fancy that? No, neither do I | Chris Stokel-Walker
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/oct/18/ai-systems-big-tech-data-ministers
Published: October 18, 2024 07:00
Data is vital to AI systems, so firms want the right to take it and ministers may let them. We must wake up to the dangerImagine someone drives up to a pub in a top-of-the-range sports car ā a Ā£1.5m Koenigsegg Regera, to pick one at random ā parks up andā¦
Does France really make the best bread in the world? As a baker, Iād say ā¦ maybe not | Lizzie Parle
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/oct/18/france-best-bread-world-baker-marseille
Published: October 18, 2024 06:00
Living in Marseille, I see how bread is a source of daily joy ā but the reality of French bakery is not as charming as it seemsFor many French people, the first experience of being allowed out alone as a child is going to the local bakery. The smell ofā¦
Maeve Boothby OāNeill died because of a discredited view of ME. How was this allowed to happen? | George Monbiot
Published: October 18, 2024 05:00
Chronic fatigue syndrome is as physiological as a broken leg. āFor the sake of those who have it, we must learn all we can from this tragic caseHow could this happen in the 21st century? This question could apply to many issues, but this one sends youā¦
As a middle-aged man, I wouldāve saved loads on therapy if Iād read Baby-Sitters Club books as a kid | Russell Marks
Published: October 18, 2024 00:04
Boys werenāt exposed to emotionally intelligent characters in the books marketed to us. I wonāt let my son be a victim of the same social tabooA friend and her 10-year-old daughter were telling me recently theyād begun to watch The Baby-Sitters Club, theā¦
The Guardian view on Yahya Sinwarās death and Gazaās future: an opportunity that must not be ignored | Editorial
Published: October 17, 2024 17:50
With the reported killing of the Hamas leader, Israelās partners should renew the push for a ceasefire and hostage dealThe Israeli militaryās announcement that it has killed the Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar should be an opportunityĀ to end the devastating warā¦
Propelled by tech money, the menace of race science is back ā and itās just as nonsensical as ever | Adam Rutherford
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/oct/17/tech-money-race-science-nonsensical
Published: October 17, 2024 14:38
Once thought extinct after the fall of empire, this debunked practice has re-emerged with support from rogue experts and rich backersāCivilisation is going to pieces ā¦ if we donāt look out the white race will be ā will be utterly submerged. Itās allā¦
Would Australia pay the billion-dollar annual cost of our monarchy? No? Neither should the UK | Graham Smith
Published: October 17, 2024 14:00
A British republic is inevitable. Hereās why Iām campaigning to hasten the monarchyās demiseRejoice! Australiaās absentee head of state is stopping over for a few days on his way to the Commonwealth meeting in Samoa. Yet as is often the case with royalā¦
Fox Newsās interview of Kamala Harris was grievance theater, not political journalism | Margaret Sullivan
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/oct/17/fox-news-harris-interview
Published: October 17, 2024 13:53
Brett Baier interrupted Harris so much she could barely finish a sentence. She still injected some reality into Fox Newsās worldBret Baier started off his Wednesday evening interview with Kamala Harris with a barrage of combative questions aboutā¦
Netanyahu crosses every red-line and yet is rewarded with more weapons. Why? | Mohamad Bazzi
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/oct/17/netanyahu-weapons-biden
Published: October 17, 2024 13:15
Netanyahu has broken multiple promises to Biden to restrain Israeli attacks on Gaza. Biden is complicit in Israelās impunityFor the past year, as the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, eviscerated one US-imposed āred lineā after another inā¦
Are Black voters abandoning the Democratic party? | Steve Phillips
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/oct/17/trump-harris-election-black-voters
Published: October 17, 2024 10:00
Polls that show Kamala Harris losing Black support have Democrats in a panic. The reality is more complicatedAre Black voters gravitating towards Donald Trump in meaningful numbers? Recent polls and articles, most notably the New York Times/Siena Collegeā¦
Why are chilling testimonies from doctors who have visited Gaza being ignored? | Arwa Mahdawi
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/oct/17/gaza-doctors-testimonies
Published: October 17, 2024 09:08
People claim the foreign doctors coming back from Gaza are lying. I wish that were the case, because the truth is beyond horrific First come the bombs. A boom, then 2,000lb worth of destructive force flattening everything in its way. Severing limbs,ā¦
In its assault on northern Gaza, Israel has taken its depraved campaign to new depths | Owen Jones
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/oct/17/northern-gaza-israel-depraved-campaign
Published: October 17, 2024 09:00
Healthcare facilities burn, food and water are blocked and drones shoot their fleeing targets. Yet we cannot say we were not warnedThe killing fields of northern Gaza speak of a crime that was confessed to long ago. The Israeli state is creating āaā¦
Why is Germany shooting its own stagnating economy in the foot? | Simon Nixon
Published: October 17, 2024 06:00
A proposed Italian-German bank merger makes sense for Europe, but Berlin is opting for domestic protectionismA potential merger between a German bank and an Italian rival would not normally elicit much interest beyond the business pages. But these are notā¦
Does Starmer believe in anything, people ask, and now I can answer: his credo is the rule of law | Martin Kettle
Published: October 17, 2024 05:00
Rwanda, the Chagos Islands, arms to Israel ā all fit a pattern. Look to the speech his attorney general made this week; all the clues are therePolitical speeches seem to fall like autumn leaves at this time of year. Speeches at party conferences. Speechesā¦
Job hunting is demoralising enough without having my personality eviscerated by an AI interviewer | Anna Spargo-Ryan
Published: October 17, 2024 01:44
I did not ask to receive feedback after my interrogation by a chatbot ā but the third-party AI platform did an uncanny impersonation of the boss from my first jobIāve recently found myself back on the job market after my department was made redundant. Myā¦
Iām happy to see people who look like me in Canberraās elections ā but that doesnāt mean Iāll vote for them | Zoya Patel
Published: October 16, 2024 22:57
The true value of representative diversity isnāt solely in direct representation. Itās in increasing the experiences, views and values that can contribute to our communitiesI live in Canberra, and our Territory elections are on this week. Driving aroundā¦
Ikea shelves, books by politicians, even a whole celeriac: in defence of middle-class fly-tipping | Zoe Williams
Published: October 16, 2024 16:03
If it comes from a good home, itās not rubbish ā itās more of an impromptu car boot sale. Social hypocrisy rules!One experiences politics through direct encounters with the state, and since the first wave of austerity that experience has divergedā¦
Hereās a way to fix Australiaās skills shortage ā and raise wages at the same time | Greg Jericho
Published: October 16, 2024 14:00
While itās a more long-term solution, reducing the gender pay gap and increasing workplace diversity should be addressed as a matter of urgency Skills shortages are nothing new. Ten years ago, when unemployment was 5.9%, I wrote about how business groupsā¦
Many wonāt vote Trump or Harris. The size of that group will decide the election | Michael Podhorzer
Published: October 16, 2024 14:00
The future of American democracy depends on whether people believe they have a reason to vote this NovemberWe are mere weeks away from perhaps the most consequential election in American history. The good news, at least for your blood pressure, is that youā¦
King Charles, know this: Australians donāt hate the royals ā we just wish youād lose interest in us| Van Badham
Published: October 16, 2024 13:00
Itās a bit awkward: Charles and Camilla are expecting us to bring out the bunting. Instead, theyāll meet with a wall of lazy republicanismItās 25 years since Australia voted ānoā in a referendum to become a republic ā but to suggest the negative 1999ā¦
The debate is on in parliament ā so should MPs change the law to allow assisted dying? Our panel responds
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/oct/16/assisted-dying-bill-mps-england-wales-panel
Published: October 16, 2024 10:50
Today Westminster begins its scrutiny of a bill that could for ever change the way we live or die in England and Wales Christiaan Barnard, the surgeon who performed the worldās first heart transplant, vividly skewered the notion of patients āfreelyāā¦
Californians want controls on AI. Why did Gavin Newsom veto an AI safety bill? | Garrison Lovely
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/oct/16/california-ai-safety-bill-gavin-newsom
Published: October 16, 2024 10:00
AI lobbyists are fighting regulation because they know voters of both parties do not trust the sector to police itselfCalifornia governor Gavin Newsom recently killed SB1047, a first-of-its-kind artificial intelligence safety bill, arguing that its focusā¦
Is it worse to have no climate solutions ā or to have them but refuse to use them? | Rebecca Solnit
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/oct/16/climate-crisis-technology-ai
Published: October 16, 2024 10:00
Tech barons are forever predicting some amazing new technology to fix the climate crisis. Yet fixes already existThere are so many ways to fiddle while Rome burns, or as this seasonās weather would have it, gets torn apart by hurricanes and tornadoes andā¦
Iām stuck on the zero-hours job treadmill. Hereās why Labourās reforms wonāt help workers like me | Rose Atkinson
Published: October 16, 2024 09:09
Having no rights or stability wrecks your mental and physical health. The employment rights bill isnāt enough to change thatMy working life has been full of insecurity and precarity. Iām 34 now and I wasnāt even paid minimum wage until I was over 25. Ofā¦
Italyās scheme to offshore asylum claims should not be a model for the rest of Europe | Andreina De Leo and Marco Gerbaudo
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/oct/16/italy-offshore-asylum-europe-giorgia-meloni
Published: October 16, 2024 06:00
Other leaders have expressed interest in Giorgia Meloniās deal with Albania. But is it really a humane and effective strategy?Thereās much interest in the Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloniāsdeal with Albania tooffshore asylum procedures, which startedā¦
Starmer is stuck in a British bubble, but it will soon be burst by a turbulent world | Rafael Behr
Published: October 16, 2024 05:00
The PMās time in office will be defined by how he responds to global economic challenges and political instability, not least in the USThere is plenty of action in British politics but not a lot of movement. The governmentās unsteady start in office and aā¦
My friend George Negus was the same generous guy on and off screen ā whether interviewing leaders or grabbing a beer | Kerry O'Brien
Published: October 16, 2024 02:48
The TV natural was driven to expand his horizons. But it was his essential generosity that was at the core of his strengthGeorge Negus, veteran Australian journalist and TV presenter, dies aged 82I met George when I was working on This Day Tonight. Iādā¦
If Kamala Harris is trying to show she can meet the needs of Black America, she has gaps to fill | Shamira Ibrahim
Published: October 16, 2024 01:10
The Democratic nominee is turning her attention to Black men ā but her insistence that āwe can do it allā is undercut by realityAs we enter the final 21 days of the 2024 presidential election, the euphoric sheen from the summerās āKamala is Bratāā¦
Australia treats its armed forces veterans with a perversely shabby contempt | Paul Daley
Published: October 15, 2024 22:31
If you are going to define the birth of a nation by imperial adventures abroad then you must honour and respect those who return damagedGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Having characterised so much of its history and identity byā¦
The Guardian view on Israel and the UN: undermining a vital institution | Editorial
Published: October 15, 2024 18:02
Countries that espouse their commitment to the rules-based international order must challenge attempts to weaken the organisationThe United Nations is supposed to be above the fray āĀ aĀ forum for and facilitator of peaceful resolutions or, at the least, theā¦
Starmer calls it slashing āred tapeā. In fact, heās just capitulating to big business | Nicholas Shaxson
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/oct/15/starmer-red-tape-big-business-labour
Published: October 15, 2024 17:28
Labourās investment summit promoted the idea of a trade-off between regulation and growth. We know where that endsThere is a profound yet simple question about investment in our economy that all politicians should be forced to face: who benefits? At thisā¦
Israel is a rogue nation. It should be removed from the United Nations | Mehdi Hasan
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/oct/15/israel-united-nations
Published: October 15, 2024 14:53
One rogue nation cannot declare war on the UN itself and continue to get away with itOver the past year, Israel has launched attacks on multiple countries and occupied territories: the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen and Iran.Yet countriesā¦
Young Australians aged 18 to 21 can vote. They should also be paid an adult wage | Intifar Chowdhury
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/oct/16/australia-junior-pay-rate-wages-salary
Published: October 15, 2024 14:00
Opponents say abolishing junior pay rates would drive up youth unemployment ā but thereās little evidence for that claimGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe Australian Council of Trade Unions is leading a renewed push for juniorā¦
Harris and Trump are tied in the polls ā so I conducted my own less traditional research | Arwa Mahdawi
Published: October 15, 2024 12:23
The latest survey shows the presidential candidates are neck and neck. But a trip around my neighbourhood suggests good news for Harris and possibly for giant meteorsPolls! What are they good for? Absolutely nothing, except for driving yourself bonkers. Ohā¦
One day, all matters of state will be decided through Strictly Come Dancing. That day seems near | Marina Hyde
Published: October 15, 2024 12:08
The Saturday night staple is no longer just a dance show ā itās a battlefield, where political fights and culture wars are wagedWithin two years ā maybe one ā the pre-eminent mode of political discourse in our society will be things that did or didnātā¦
Letās get this straight: private healthcare will and must work for the NHS ā not the other way around | Polly Toynbee
Published: October 15, 2024 09:00
Labour is right not to be squeamish about independent healthcare firms, but Wes Streeting seems wise enough to prioritise public benefitOur critically injured public services beg for help, but the totem signifying the state of the nation will always be theā¦
Ireland's peacekeepers in Lebanon are putting their lives on the line. I know ā I was one of them | Tom Clonan
Published: October 15, 2024 06:00
In 1996, I witnessed the horror as the Israeli army fired on UN positions. Now history is repeating itselfTom Clonan is an independent senator in the Irish parliament and a retired Irish army officerThe Irish armed forces have participated in UNā¦
Call it the Great Welsh Train Robbery ā a Ā£4bn HS2 scandal happening in plain sight | Will Hayward
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/oct/15/great-welsh-train-robbery-hs2-rail-services
Published: October 15, 2024 05:00
Thanks to a ministerial sleight of hand, the cost to Wales, already plagued by poor rail services, has been hugeEveryone can agree that the delivery of HS2 has been shambolic. The high-speed line from central London (ish) to the north of England, has for aā¦
New evidence says gas exports damage the climate even more than coal. Itās time Australia took serious action | Adam Morton
Published: October 14, 2024 22:36
A US study estimates the total climate pollution from LNG was 33% greater than that from coal over a 20-year period. This should have major ramifications for emissions policyGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe claim thatā¦
What kind of person would drag autistic children into the culture wars? The Kemi Badenoch kind | John Harris
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/oct/14/autistic-children-culture-wars-kemi-badenoch
Published: October 14, 2024 16:22
The Tory leadership hopeful paints a picture of free handouts and special treatment. As the father of an autistic child, I can tell you thatās a lieFor the past 18 months or so, a bundle of ideas about human psychology has been getting increasing attentionā¦
Starmerās House of Lords reform only scratches the surface of its problems | Simon Jenkins
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/oct/14/keir-starmer-house-of-lords-reform
Published: October 14, 2024 15:16
As the prime minister said himself in 2020, what it really requires is proper representation from the regions and nations. Whereās that conviction now?Nothing reveals Britainās aversion to change quite like its failure to reform the House of Lords. Sinceā¦
A red-lipped batfish: is there anything creepier? | Helen Sullivan
Published: October 14, 2024 14:00
Weāve all been there. Weāve all felt like a badly made-up, odd-limbed, irritable floor-dwelling messAs you contemplate the wonders of evolution, and how a creature can be born with something weird and new, and that thing can either help it get ahead or notā¦
Time is running out for Kamala Harris to break with Biden on the Gaza catastrophe | Moira Donegan
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/oct/14/kamala-harris-israel-gaza
Published: October 14, 2024 10:07
Bidenās approach to Israel has been disastrous, both morally and strategically ā and it could cost Harris dearlyIn an appearance this week on the daytime talkshow The View, Kamala Harris was asked how her presidency would differ from Joe Bidenās. āThere isā¦
What does JD Vance really believe? | Sidney Blumenthal
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/oct/14/jd-vance-trump-beliefs
Published: October 14, 2024 10:00
Vanceās great skill is advancement through mimicry ā with Trump as his ultimate modelThe world is on fire, but in Washington DC topic A is Olivia Nuzzi. Her suspension as a writer for New York Magazine for sharing ādemureā nude photographs of herself andā¦
As a hippy-punk grandmother, hereās how I learned to stop disturbing the baby ā and his parents | Rose Rouse
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/oct/14/grandmother-baby-parents-son-parenting
Published: October 14, 2024 07:00
Coming to terms with my son and his partnerās modern, tender and considered parenting hasnāt been easy ā but now I love itI was 70 when I became a grandmother for the first time in 2023. My son Marlon had a son of his own, and while I had never been theā¦