Guardian USRory Stewart Rory Stewart's exit means the Tories have now given up on realityThe Guardian - Jonathan LisFor a tiny moment this week it seemed as though the Conservatives had allowed a glimmer of reality into the party’s bunker. Rory Stewart, a candidate universally derided when he launched his Tory leadership
Guardian USVaccines How do we combat the global measles revival? It’s a matter of trustThe Guardian - Charlie WellerTrust in scientists, in turn, is linked to trust in national institutions such as the government There’s no vaccine against distrust in vaccines. Millions of children in the world used to die each year
Guardian USOpinion (UK) Four reasons why Trump is cruising towards re-electionThe Guardian - Cas MuddeTrump can rightly claim that he has done all he could to keep the wall on the political agenda and push through a brutal anti-immigration agenda On Tuesday night President Trump launched his re-election
Guardian USOpinion (UK) I am the sort of person who would die in the desert without any trouble at all, yet here I amThe Guardian - First Dog on the MoonWelcome to Paruku. I am 15km south of Mulan (pronounced mullin) at Handover Camp which is about 12 hours’ drive from Broome. It is the edge of the great Sandy and Tanami deserts. In our last episode, Dog
Guardian USOpinion (UK) Our languages are a tool to understanding our ways of knowing and beingThe Guardian - Ali DrummondMy nervousness was at its peak as I walked towards the class. Then, upon seeing the familiar face of Aunty Mattie, the nerves started to dissipated My name is Ali Jimmy Drummond. I was named after my grandfather
Guardian USViktor Orbán Europe must stop this disgrace: Viktor Orbán is dismantling democracyThe Guardian - Timothy Garton AshThe ruling party, Fidesz, has so completely penetrated the state administration that Hungary is again a one-party state When European Union leaders gather in Brussels on Thursday they will have a guilty
Guardian USUnited Kingdom Teach British tourists the truth about empire – they can take itThe Guardian - Afua HirschPeople who have invested the time and money in travelling to Jamaica or Kenya are genuinely interested in learning something new Over the past few weeks, I have realised that I am the worst kind of British
Guardian USGender Our gender is not for others to decide. A bill for trans people to self identify is a good startThe Guardian - Simona CastricumBeing outed at Centrelink or to an employer through a superannuation provider shouldn’t happen to anyone When the Victorian Andrews Labor government introduced a bill to parliament on Tuesday that would
Guardian USPlay buttonTa-Nehisi Coates Should America pay reparations for slavery? Ta-Nehisi Coates v Coleman HughesThe Guardian - Ta-Nehisi Coates and Coleman HughesTa-Nehisi Coates: ‘The matter of reparations is one of making amends’ Yesterday, when asked about reparations, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell offered a familiar reply: America should not be held
Guardian USMargaret Thatcher From Thatcher to Brexit: this Tory folly was 40 years in the makingThe Guardian - Martin KettleBrexit is the price the party is paying for the unchecked flowering of poisonous political seeds planted under Thatcher “I’d like to have led the Conservative party. I’d like to have been prime minister,”
Guardian USJamal Khashoggi The Guardian view on Jamal Khashoggi’s murder: Saudi Arabia and its friendsThe Guardian - EditorialThe UN report into October’s murder of Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul is the fullest account yet of events and as horrifying as one would expect. Agnes Callamard, the special rapporteur,
Guardian USOpinion (UK) The Guardian view on Tory leadership and the constitution: a crisis in the makingThe Guardian - EditorialFor a country that takes pride in the venerable stability of its democracy, Britain is strangely prone to constitutional improvisations. For example, if the current Conservative party leadership contest
Guardian USUnited Kingdom My baby’s still learning to crawl. Must he really be taught ‘British values’?The Guardian - Amelia GrangerAs a recent migrant to this country, I got a shock when my husband and I looked for a childminder for our baby. The ones we met told us that alongside development goals such as eating solids and saying
Guardian USSex Toys Society is obsessed with women’s genitals. So why are ads for sex toys still taboo?The Guardian - Yomi AdegokeGiven society’s obsession with women’s sexual organs – how they should look, how they should smell – it is ironic that they are so intentionally concealed. The latest attempt to obscure any mention of
Guardian USOpinion (UK) Female academics are too scarce. So we’re banning job applications from menThe Guardian - Frank BaaijensThere is overwhelming evidence that diverse teams are more creative and productive Engineering has a huge impact on society. To responsibly advance science and technology, a university should be a balanced
Guardian USRory Stewart May’s Brexit deal is not dead – and only Rory Stewart will admit itThe Guardian - Rafael BehrAfter the dodo, the most iconically dead bird in popular culture is the Norwegian blue parrot whose stiffened corpse appeared in the famous Monty Python sketch. Theresa May’s Brexit deal was compared that
Guardian USOpinion (UK) Facebook cryptocurrency: dawn of the corporation-governmentThe Guardian - Ethan LouFacebook’s cryptocurrency, officially unveiled on Tuesday, heralds the rise of the corporation-government, potentially shaping the already vast powers of the Silicon Valley giants into a borderless, unaccountable
Guardian USOpinion (UK) Tim Cook: 'If you’ve built a chaos factory, you can’t dodge responsibility for the chaos'The Guardian - Tim CookIf I’ve learned one thing, it’s that technology doesn’t change who we are, it magnifies who we are, the good and the bad. Our problems – in technology, in politics, wherever – are human problems. From
Guardian USKyle Kashuv Kyle Kashuv may not be attending Harvard, but he’s learning a valuable lessonThe Guardian - Arwa MahdawiThere’s a big difference between 'callous and inflammatory language' and blatantly racist language The leftist outrage mob is at it again: stifling free speech and ruining innocent young lives by holding
Guardian USGCSEs My daughter’s GCSEs are over – and so is my role as a semi-competent child-rearerThe Guardian - Adrian ChilesMy youngest child’s GCSEs have just finished. So the exam timetable can come down from the fridge, leaving eight faint Blu-Tack stains, which doesn’t seem a lot given all the effort and stress involved.
Guardian USFacebook Alarming and unnecessary: Facebook’s new cryptocurrency must be resistedThe Guardian - Charles ArthurHave you heard about Facebook’s new “cryptocurrency”, called Libra? Its basic pitch boils down to “we messed up your privacy and gave your data to all sorts, and let foreign actors screw up your elections
Guardian USOpinion (UK) I had special needs help in school. But the doors that were opened for me are closingThe Guardian - Gerry HartChildren with additional needs are more than capable of attaining the same level of success as their peers Anyone watch the Tory leadership debate on Tuesday night? Miserable spectacle though it might
Guardian USIran A US war with Iran looms. Don’t for one second think that it is justifiedThe Guardian - Owen JonesWhile our Tory overlords committing to another military escapade is predictable, Trump’s 'coalition' will extend further We know how the story goes. The decision for war is made long in advance. That the
Guardian USBrexit Trying to unite the country over Brexit won’t win Labour a general electionThe Guardian - Peter KellnerThe laudable aim of healing divisions cannot succeed while the issue of Brexit remains unresolved Ahead of today’s meeting of Labour’s shadow cabinet, here is a thought experiment. In the latest YouGov
Guardian USOpinion (UK) I asked the five candidates about climate in the TV debate. None has a clear planThe Guardian - Erin CurtisThey should listen to the youngest in our society who are channelling the energy many have into something tangible Last night I asked the five candidates vying to be our next prime minister whether they
Guardian USPlay buttonRory Stewart TV debate brought home a terrifying truth: one of these men will be PMThe Guardian - Jonathan FreedlandPerhaps the most scathing line of the night was the title. It was called Our Next Prime Minister and as the hour wore on, those four words sounded increasingly like a rebuke to the nation. Look at us,
Guardian USIran Donald Trump’s reckless Iran policy casts doubt on the US as global leaderThe Guardian - David WearingTrump seems to have no idea how to climb down from the perilous situation he has created Irrespective of whether Iran is responsible for the recent attacks on Gulf shipping, the crisis now unfolding is
Guardian USCoal Coal-loving colonials put Australia on the road to cooked. Now it's time to turn the heat downThe Guardian - Liz ConorThe answers to sustainable, collective prosperity were known before industrialisation In the Anthropocene we humans have become a geological force, a “force of nature” – and a self-defeating one. But crisis
Guardian USSkirts Masculinity is a trap – which is why more men should wear skirtsThe Guardian - Arwa MahdawiBilly Porter is a singer, actor and man of fashion. He is also a man who isn’t afraid to wear a skirt. Porter wore a tuxedo dress to this year’s Oscars and rocked a very fabulous, very pink, uterus-inspired
