Play buttonOpinion There’s a side to Eton that you won’t read about in David Cameron’s memoirsThe Guardian - Musa OkwongaIt is unacceptable that, on the brink of Brexit, a country that claims to be global is directed by an ever more socially homogenous group David Cameron publishes his memoirs today, in which he looks back
Wealth For the sake of life on Earth, we must put a limit on wealthThe Guardian - George MonbiotIt is not quite true that behind every great fortune lies a great crime. Musicians and novelists, for example, can become extremely rich by giving other people pleasure. But it does appear to be universally
Climate The climate crisis isn’t just causing extreme weather. It’s fuelling extreme politics, tooThe Guardian - Nick LowlesKeeping our societies united in the face of the pressures created by the climate crisis is part of the global fight In the past three weeks, we took the pulse of citizens in eight countries in the Americas
California Let's follow California's lead and regulate companies like UberThe Guardian - Veena DubalCould AB5 signal the end of technology apps operating as autonomous legal fiefdoms? This week, California’s governor, Gavin Newsom – a darling of tech capitalists – signed Assembly Bill 5 (AB5) into law.
Family Law I believed the Australian family court system was biased against fathers – then I found the rot at the core of itThe Guardian - Jess HillI've lost count of the mothers who are afraid their children will be at greater risk if they leave than if they stay Everyone knows someone who’s had a shitty time in the family law system I’ve spent five
UK Home Office Poland wants its citizens to leave the UK. It should support those who call it homeThe Guardian - Jakub KrupaThere are some for whom Brexit is a catalyst for a long-deferred decision about the future In common with European countries – and increasingly the UK itself – Poland does not know quite what to make Brexit.
Private Schools There is no longer any justification for private schools in BritainThe Guardian - Frances RyanWhen many working-class children don’t have basic equipment in class, the dominance of elite schools feels even more obscene A few years back, I finished a PhD on how to tackle Britain’s unequal life –
Robotics Killer robots: why do so many people think they are a good idea?The Guardian - Stuart HeritageLaura Nolan is a modern hero. A former Google software engineer, Nolan resigned from her job last year after being asked to dramatically enhance the artificial intelligence used in US military drones.
Opinion Unbelievable – at last, a rape drama that gives victims a voiceThe Guardian - Fiona SturgesRather than reducing its audience to mere gawpers, it digs deeply into themes of trauma, self-worth and the failures of the justice system When Cersei Lannister was raped by her brother, Jaime, next to
Opinion It was an ideal place for our children to grow up – but the coalmine has silenced our schoolyardThe Guardian - Alison Smiles-SchmidtIn the New South Wales town of Wollar you can’t hear children laughing in the school playground any more. Coal has silenced the schoolyard, coated the remaining houses in a layer of dust and cut off the
Conservatism Eat that, povvos: Scott Morrison's 'compassionate conservatism' is stale and dangerousThe Guardian - Van BadhamScott Morrison’s Liberal-National coalition was re-elected to govern Australia on 18 May. The character of the returned government has been defined by their aggressive welfare policies. These include breath,
Opinion From Succession to the Bold Type: how recap culture made us love TV moreThe Guardian - Wendy SyfretOn Monday night I rushed home from work to watch the latest episode of Succession, HBO’s sleeper hit following the toxic machinations of the Roy family. The characters are stand-ins for the Murdochs: news,
Opinion Why is New York's most famous library getting into bed with the Saudi crown prince?The Guardian - Annia Ciezadlo and Matthew ZadroznyUpdate: on Wednesday at 16:31, the New York Public Library tweeted a statement saying it would no longer be hosting the event, citing “public concern” On 23 September the New York Public Library’s historic
Opinion Will Corbyn’s Brexit referendum strategy work? Our panel respondsThe Guardian - Polly Toynbee, Tom Kibasi, Giles Wilkes, Lisa NandyNeutral! In mid-national crisis how does a party campaign on the great issue of our time with a leader who won’t say where he stands? Everything about the idea is preposterous. What do canvassers say the
The Guardian view on teacher workloads: big lessons to learnThe Guardian - EditorialThe new secretary of state for education, Gavin Williamson, knows a lot about the heavy workloads piled on teachers. His wife used to teach in a primary school. Then she left the profession to become teaching
trump news update The Guardian view on Israel’s elections: it could be worseThe Guardian - EditorialBenjamin Netanyahu’s political magic has broken, his biographer declared. The longest-serving prime minister in Israel’s history gambled that a second election in six months would win him a mandate when
Play buttonOpinion If the world ran on sun, it wouldn’t fight over oilThe Guardian - Bill McKibbenConveniently, the largest ever demonstrations about energy policy are scheduled to take place this Friday We are sadly accustomed by now to the idea that our reliance on oil and gas causes random but outbreaks
Brexit This election should be about much more than just BrexitThe Guardian - Owen JonesWhat of a housing crisis that has left one in 200 Britons homeless? Or of one fifth of our population living in poverty? The Brexit debacle is an obnoxious man following you everywhere, clashing cymbals
Opinion The latest Iran-Saudi flare-up exposes Trump's bankrupt Middle East policyThe Guardian - Michael H FuchsThe fact that the United States is up in arms over an attack with no reported casualties on an oil refinery in Saudi Arabia – while at the same time supporting Saudi Arabia’s war in Yemen that has killed
Brett Kavanaugh Kavanaugh should never have been appointed. Impeachment is our only hopeThe Guardian - Moira DoneganIt seems even more likely than it did before that US supreme court Justice Brett Kavanaugh is indeed a serial sexual assaulter. New revelations about the multiply accused Kavanaugh’s time at Yale that
Rachel Riley The best way of dealing with online trolls? Ignore them – and starve them of oxygenThe Guardian - Stuart HeritageIf you want to know what sort of world we live in, Rachel Riley has had to block 1,500 people on Twitter. That’s right: Countdown’s human calculator has attracted such a swell of antisemitic hatred that
Opinion Our quiet county has nothing against McDonald’s. But we prefer our own burgersThe Guardian - Helen Walmsley-JohnsonRutland is a funny place. When I moved back here five years ago and told my London friends where I was going, the response was mostly: “Where?” A mere 18 miles at its longest point, it is England’s smallest
Opinion Dear Sackler family, your greed turned my son into a quadriplegicThe Guardian - Sherrie RubinYour product, OxyContin, has caused untold harm to millions of Americans. Aaron suffered an accidental OxyContin overdose on 9 October 2005. As you are aware, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved
trump news update Whatever Iran’s role in the Saudi attack, the regional status quo is unsustainableThe Guardian - Mahsa RouhiTehran is potentially leveraging the lack of appetite among the US electorate for a new war in the Middle East Saturday’s attacks on Saudi Arabian oil facilities at Abqaiq represent a potential tipping
Black Voters Suddenly, it’s OK to be German and to talk about raceThe Guardian - Mithu SanyalWhen I was growing up there was no racism in Germany. In the 1980s every child learned at school that race was a construct that fascists had used to justify segregating and killing people. So if race exist,
Opinion When Scott Morrison lectured CEOs about speaking out on climate change, it was quite a fight to pickThe Guardian - Richard DennissClimate change policy is a first-order issue for many companies In the same week that the prime minister told chief executives not to get “distracted” by issues like climate change, his National Party
Opinion Why Ivanka Trump’s new haircut should make us very afraidThe Guardian - Arwa MahdawiIt is hard to keep up with the volume of news these days. However, that is no excuse for me missing what may prove to be the biggest story of the year: Ivanka Trump getting a haircut. Yep, the first daughter
Opinion Why you should join the global climate strike this FridayThe Guardian - Bill McKibbenA year ago, inspired by Swedish schoolgirl Greta Thunberg, young people around the world began ‘climate-striking’ – walking out of school for a few hours to demand action against the global warming that
NHS The NHS saved Mum - but I saw a system on life supportThe Guardian - Diane TaylorIt’s likely that increased taxes or an increased larger portion of our taxes will be required to fund this A week ago the NHS saved my mum’s life. She had been prescribed some new blood pressure medication
