The GuardianOpinion Nepotism and partisanship in the US civil service is reaching a crisis pointThe Guardian - Preet BhararaLong before President Donald Trump lied about the path of a hurricane and threatened the leadership at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, he nominated the former CEO of AccuWeather to
The GuardianPolitics A recession is coming. When it does, we need to demand a Green New DealThe Guardian - Yanis Varoufakis and David AdlerAmerican carnage and Brexit collapse, detention camps and environmental breakdown – the daily barrage of bad news makes it easy to forget that these are disparate symptoms of the same disease unleashed
The GuardianOpinion The three lessons ABC's Jon Faine taught me about being a better doctorThe Guardian - Ranjana SrivastavaThree-and-a-half hours of a live radio tribute from a magnificent town hall filled with thousands. State premiers from across the decades. A newspaper editorial and a front-page headline. Words from friends
The GuardianMe Too Movement Two years on, the literature of #MeToo is coming of ageThe Guardian - Rhiannon Lucy CosslettWe know that men read fewer books by women When Mary Gaitskill’s “#MeToo” novella, This Is Pleasure, was published by the New Yorker in July, it didn’t go viral in the same spectacular way as Kristen Cat
The GuardianWar The fantasy of Britain at war could be nearing its last hurrahThe Guardian - John HarrisTo anyone under 40, these things must surely seem weird beyond words, which ought to give cause for hope Can you hear it: the theme from The Great Escape, and the hum of Spitfire engines? Such is the music
The GuardianOpinion If you avoid phone calls, you're missing out. Here's whyThe Guardian - Melanie TaitA phone call can be viewed an aggressive personal intrusion I’ve taken to switching my phone’s ringer on between 8.30pm and 10.30pm on a week night. It feels like a dangerous act, for someone who used
The GuardianOpinion Congestion charges in Sydney and Melbourne wouldn't have to penalise poor peopleThe Guardian - Marion Terrill and James Ha for the ConversationCongestion charging should be introduced in Australia’s largest cities, as Grattan Institute’s latest report shows. Our analysis also finds that the people who commute to the Melbourne and Sydney CBDs
The GuardianCitizenship Stripping people of citizenship makes the world less safe, not moreThe Guardian - Ben DohertyThe defining characteristics of modern citizenship are that it is secure, and it is egalitarian and equalising Disowning one’s own citizens is back in vogue for governments around the world. Denationalisation
The GuardianJohn Bercow The Guardian view on John Bercow’s departure: parliament needs a bold SpeakerThe Guardian - EditorialWhen parliament returns on Monday, John Bercow will be three weeks from retirement. These weeks are likely to be stormy. MPs could be wrestling with divisive Brexit decisions right up to the Speaker’s
The GuardianDonald Trump The Guardian view on Syria and Trump: a disaster, still being madeThe Guardian - Editorial“Total disaster,” wrote the former US anti-Islamic State envoy, Brett McGurk, on Sunday, summarising the events of the past few days. Donald Trump’s decision to abandon America’s Kurdish partners in north-east
The GuardianOpinion Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal would make people worse off than Theresa May’sThe Guardian - Anand Menon and Jonathan PortesRelative to the status quo and May’s proposals, the economic impact of these proposals would be significant and negative Back to the (original) backstop? By conceding that any customs border will have
The GuardianRace & Ethnicity There is a crisis on campuses – but it’s about racism, not free speechThe Guardian - Nesrine MalikThis disconnect between reality and the myths is not a matter of sloppiness or poor reporting, it is ideological Have you heard about the crisis on Britain’s university campuses? Free speech is under it
The GuardianFossil Fuels Divestment works – and one huge bank can lead the wayThe Guardian - Bill McKibbenMillions of people marched against climate crisis over the past two weeks, in some of the largest demonstrations of the millennium. Most people cheered the students who led the rallies – call them the
The GuardianOpinion Peter Handke's Nobel prize that dishonours the victims of genocideThe Guardian - Ed VulliamySo, the highest award in literature goes to a writer who denies the existence of concentration camps that it was my accursed honour to find in Bosnia in 1992, who lauded Slobodan Milošević, mastermind
The GuardianIowa Trump's mounting troubles in Iowa could spell doom for RepublicansThe Guardian - Art CullenIf she votes for evicting Trump she could be seen as a maverick, like Grassley was as a younger man President Trump may have already lost Iowa and the rest of the midwest, but now he risks throwing the
The GuardianEliud Kipchoge Eliud Kipchoge and a marathon whose audacity will live long in our memoryThe Guardian - Kenan MalikSome sporting moments achieve mythical status because of their sheer audacity. Muhammad Ali’s “rumble in the jungle” defeat of George Foreman in Kinshasa in 1974 to regain his world heavyweight title to
The GuardianPolitics Invoking the spectre of rioting is an insult to those who voted LeaveThe Guardian - Bridget PhillipsonThere is the possibility that these efforts to whip up civil unrest, and the fear of it, have a darker purpose Using the threat of other people’s criminal violence to demand you get your way is despicable
The GuardianOpinion The lord provost was only guilty of trying to look good for GlasgowThe Guardian - Kevin McKennaMale politicians can get away with wearing the same suit as last week. Women are never afforded such latitude ‘Optics”, like its close brethren “toxic” and “woke”, belongs to a dismal suite of words that
The GuardianOpinion Could Jennifer Arcuri save the UK from doom?The Guardian - Stewart LeeThe American businessperson Jennifer Arcuri was a beneficiary of more than £126,000 in public money, £11,500 of which came from a City Hall-funded agency during Boris Piccaninny Watermelon Letterbox Cake
The GuardianIslamic State (ISIS) Trump and Erdoğan risk a resurgent Isis thanks to their recklessness in SyriaThe Guardian - Hassan HassanFuture historians might remember Turkey’s incursion into northern Syria, launched last week, as the second time that President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan provided Islamic State with a lifeline, intentionally
The GuardianChina Western tech giants must stop kowtowing to China’s bullyingThe Guardian - John NaughtonRecent developments show how fear of losing out can intimidate people and corporations It has been a bad few weeks for anyone wanting to express approval for Hong Kong protesters online. A player of the
The GuardianWomen's News 'You don't have to settle': the joy of living (and dying) aloneThe Guardian - Keli GoffMarriage, unless to an exceptional man, is often a 'bad bargain' for women Not long ago I had a discussion with a friend about why she married, and ultimately divorced, someone she knew wasn’t right for
The GuardianOpinion The Queen might be admired, but the crown has seldom seemed so emptyThe Guardian - Catherine BennettLack of clarity over what the Queen could, or should, do in the current chaos is what makes her role so exploitable Brexit is surely a gift for republicans: the demonstrable irrelevance, to the national
The GuardianOpinion The secret diary of Carrie SymondsThe Guardian - Catherine BennettSuper conference! Amazing response to my non-floral new dress, reminding people to think seriously about disposable items. Wake up! Nervous, but Stanley said “just keep hold of him, dear girl”, so Bozzie
The GuardianAusterity Labour and the Tories promise to lavish us with gifts, but who will foot the bill?The Guardian - Andrew RawnsleyBy the grace of God and through the machinations of Boris Johnson, tomorrow the Irish state coach will convey the Queen down the Mall to preside over the state opening of parliament. At around 11.30am,
The GuardianOpinion Climate protests have roots that go deep into the rich history of British social changeThe Guardian - Lucy RobinsonThe criticisms of Extinction Rebellion fit a well established pattern: indulgent, middle-class crusties slumming it; naughty children revolting for their own entertainment. Then there are the takes on
The GuardianOpinion We can mention the war. Should we now talk about Britain’s darker history?The Guardian - Kenan Malik‘I wonder if Kenan Malik is clear that the ‘Don’t mention the war’ episode of Fawlty Towers is intended to make fun of the British obsession with the Second World War that he criticises?” So wrote an John
The GuardianOpinion Are we really being taxed until the pips squeakThe Guardian - Torsten BellWho pays what tax on their earnings and how has that changed over time? The answers are crammed into the chart, showing the overall level of earnings paid in income tax and national insurance. Here are
The GuardianDonald Trump Donald Trump: xenophobe in public, international mobster in privateThe Guardian - Robert ReichUnder Trump, thuggery has replaced diplomacy You don’t have to be an originalist to see the dangers when a president seeks personal favors from foreign governments The most xenophobic and isolationist
