The GuardianNorthern Territory Northern Territory’s youth justice system is a theatre of the absurd and Australia’s great shameThe Guardian - John LawrenceThe Northern Territory’s juvenile legal system continues to be “Australia’s shame”. This situation is a gross injustice and central to the kind of country Australia really is. It’s also extremely expensive,
The GuardianOpinion (UK) Why is it so hard for Labour to find a woman to be leader?The Guardian - Suzanne MooreOn Sunday night, I may have watched some men in suits talking nonsense. I may have been in the pub. I may have fallen asleep because the Tory-leadership candidate who is actually going to win couldn’t
The GuardianOpinion (UK) Theresa May could yet give us the ultimate parting gift: a Brexit referendumThe Guardian - Polly ToynbeeWho knows the dark recesses of her mind, this locked-in woman incapable of communication? The obscene sight of Tory leadership candidates splashing out cash by the bucketload is just one of the head-clutching,
The GuardianOpinion (UK) The Wahaca row shows why workers need a new way to uniteThe Guardian - Zoe WilliamsA row recently erupted over workers’ conditions in the restaurant group Wahaca that turned out to be a little more complicated than it looked. Some diners had done a runner; another, law-abiding punter,
The GuardianBoris Johnson The Guardian view on a Brexit election: the unicorns are backThe Guardian - EditorialThe eccentric and extreme nature of Brexit has led to some bizarre outcomes. Perhaps the strangest is that the departure of the United Kingdom from the European Union has been downgraded from a national
The GuardianOpinion (UK) I’m pregnant and forced to choose between being an MP and a mumThe Guardian - Stella CreasyPrejudices and unhelpful tropes about motherhood suffocate female representatives – whether we have children or not Even when you’ve spent a lifetime fighting for equality, you can still be floored by
The GuardianOpinion (UK) The Guardian view on Hong Kong’s crisis: the people have spokenThe Guardian - EditorialWhen hundreds of thousands of people have marched in what appeared to be the biggest protest in Hong Kong’s history, their chants of anger ringing from the streets, it sounds perverse to draw attention
The GuardianOpinion (UK) Why I hate emojisThe Guardian - Suzanne MooreShould I ever be kidnapped or held against my will – I am talking about a boring wedding rather than a Liam Neeson Taken-type scenario – it will be very easy for my nearest and dearest to know something
The GuardianOpinion (UK) I thought I would die in Brook House. Now my abusers will have to face justiceThe Guardian - BBI thought this moment would never come, but I always clung on to hope. I spent nearly two years in Brook House immigration detention centre and I was abused by the officers, like so many other people It
The GuardianOpinion (UK) Is showing compassion to migrants a crime?The Guardian - Moustafa BayoumiOn 11 June, a federal jury in Tucson, Arizona refused to convict the immigration activist Scott Warren on felony charges that could have sent him to prison for twenty years. What had Warren done to merit
The GuardianOpinion (UK) The Guardian view on the latest crackdown in Turkey: investigate real violence against women, not fictionThe Guardian - EditorialAs she sat on the train to the Hay festival late last month, the London-based Turkish novelist Elif Shafak received a chilling telephone call from her editor in Istanbul. She was told that police officers
The GuardianViktor Orbán The EU's Islamophobia is getting worse – Britain must fight this from withinThe Guardian - Yasmin QureshiThe European elections last month were widely seen as a test of the EU’s resilience. Many were relieved that far-right parties did not do as well as feared. However, nationalism is still on the rise across
The GuardianJo Brand Jo Brand’s joke: are we all now disgusted of Tunbridge Wells?The Guardian - Hephzibah AndersonWhat lingers is the ear-ringing moral outrage, a kind of ethical tinnitus that risks deafening us to nuance I don’t know about you, but I’m aghast. Thunderstruck, flabbergasted, jaw on the ground, fists
The GuardianBoris Johnson Hail to the oxymoron-in-chief, Boris JohnsonThe Guardian - Simon JenkinsBoris Johnson was right: group debates are awful. Last night was Love Island with one-liners, five rivals pouting and shouting at the same time. Since viewers have no voice or vote in the outcome, what
The GuardianRory Stewart If you think Rory Stewart is the grownup choice, think againThe Guardian - Ash SarkarThese politically correct times make it difficult to keep up with the right nouns for thin-skinned online activists. Terms that attempt to pithily describe identities and behaviours are now slurs. You
The GuardianOpinion (UK) From houses to wages, it's time we realised that size isn't everythingThe Guardian - Julian BagginiAmong our nation’s many long-term property woes is that British homes are not only becoming less affordable, they’re also getting smaller. However, news from over the pond suggests shoebox living may be
The GuardianOpinion (UK) It took me years to come out as bisexual. I just didn’t feel safe enoughThe Guardian - Sharan DhaliwalI came out last year, just before my 34th birthday, as a bisexual woman. As a result, I regularly hear from people asking what they should do because they’re getting older and, sometimes, are more frightened
The GuardianTrump Administration The historical argument for impeaching TrumpThe Guardian - Heather Cox RichardsonThe Republican-controlled Senate will almost certainly not vote to remove Trump from office no matter how convincing the evidence The question of impeaching Donald Trump is about replacing the toxic partisanship
The GuardianBrunei Top Gear would never have visited Brunei if it had already passed its homophobic stoning lawThe Guardian - Andrew FlintoffBeing asked to present Top Gear was one of the best moments of my professional career, just behind captaining the England cricket team. I’ve always loved cars. I’ve always loved travelling the world. Gear
The GuardianApps Should dating apps tell us how sexy we are?The Guardian - Coco KhanIt was a strange comfort, to shake off the humiliation in the knowledge that the system degrades us all, not just me Marks out of 10: how attractive do you think you are? Perhaps you’d describe yourself
The GuardianOpinion (UK) Any new prime minister is doomed if they don’t fix Britain’s democracyThe Guardian - John HarrisThe urge to get Brexit 'sorted' and the machinations of our newly assertive parliament verge on the antithetical Presented with Brexit, a political system apparently breaking apart and the central importance
The GuardianPlay buttonSarah Sanders Don't bother replacing Sarah Sanders – there's no pointThe Guardian - Ross BarkanThe imminent resignation of Sarah Sanders as Donald Trump’s press secretary marks yet another departure from a White House that treats chaos as its modus operandi. On the left, there is understandable
The GuardianOpinion (UK) If doctors have a duty of care to all, why crowdfund for surgery?The Guardian - Ranjana SrivastavaPatient care is rarely well-served by lionising individuals over good institutions How much money would you give to save the life of a terminally ill patient? It turns out a lot – enough to restore one’s
The GuardianOpinion (UK) Hong Kong is not China yet, but that feared day is coming ever nearerThe Guardian - Louisa LimWe don't have a grand strategy. In every situation, you just defend what you can Ray Yep, political scientist Hong Kong has become a place whose present is unresolved and whose future is unimaginable.
The GuardianOpinion (UK) The urgency of climate crisis needed robust new language to describe itThe Guardian - Paul ChadwickInitial reader response was positive to the Guardian’s recent changes to the way it will refer to climate. “This is an epic struggle of ideas, crucial to our future,” wrote one aye-sayer. The announcement
The GuardianOpinion (UK) The Guardian view on impoverished schools: charity is not the answerThe Guardian - EditorialThe contraction of school budgets over the past three years is one of many grave errors of judgment by this government, and has compounded the mistakes of the previous one. That departing prime minister
The GuardianSudan If you want to help Sudan, amplify the voices of those suffering its horrorsThe Guardian - Nesrine MalikIt has been two weeks since the Janjaweed, Sudan’s infamous militia, embarked on a brutal campaign to disperse and suppress a popular uprising against deposed president Omar al-Bashir’s military government.
The GuardianPlay buttonBoris Johnson Why the threat of an early election makes Tories double down on Boris JohnsonThe Guardian - Katy BallsWhile a hard Brexit deadline risks an unwelcome trip to the polling booth, a Brexit delay could prove fatal to the party Will Britain’s next prime minister have one of the shortest premierships in recent
The GuardianJared Kushner Jared Kushner may have an ethics problem - to the tune of $90mThe Guardian - Vicky WardHistory will judge corruption to be the most destructive and defining characteristic of the mob-like family The stench surrounding Jared Kushner has grown more pungent with every passing day. On Monday,
