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Thu 24 Sept 2026

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Abandoned, dismissed and gaslighted: there is no excuse for the way ME sufferers have been betrayed

George Monbiot

Tom Watson’s move to Palantir is the latest sign of how far the rot has spread in UK politics

Clive Lewis

US soldiers in Zangabad, Afghanistan, 2012.

The west is in freefall – and the worst part is that we were warned, but chose not to listen

Owen Jones

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People meeting and shaking hands at a party.

We’re in a crisis of loneliness – but is buying friends on an app likely to help solve it?

Elle Hunt

Some of the Parthenon sculptures on view at the British Museum in London.

Britain would not cut up the Bayeux tapestry. So seize this moment and reunite the Parthenon sculptures in Greece

Kyriakos Mitsotakis

Andy Burnham and Donald Trump held their first face-to-face meeting in New York.

Burnham survived his first Trump meeting. His nice hair may have had something to do with it

Emma Brockes

A protest in Southall, west London, in June 1976.

Britain’s far-right violence comes to us direct from the 1970s. But so does the solution

Taj Ali

Ed Davey in a speedboat at Rampion offshore wind farm, off the Sussex coast, 21 September 2026.

It’s easy to ignore the Lib Dems, but they could soon hold the balance of power

Rafael Behr

Two green road signs on posts point left to ‘The NORTH' and right to ‘The SOUTH', surrounded by trees

Could we be about to see the end of northern English dialects? My experience – and the science – says aye

Zahaan Bharmal

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The Guardian view on Russian disinformation: a foreign threat that relies on UK complicity

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