Editorials
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The Guardian view on counter-terrorist propaganda: a crude weapon in the battle for hearts and minds
Editorial: Covert messaging can be counterproductive. The answer to the jihadis, and anyone else who seeks to divide society, is to uphold the values that liberal democracy relies on -
Editorial: Swingeing fee increases have not interrupted the breathtaking growth of the British university industry. But there is a depressing mismatch between the burgeoning graduate population and limited openings in real graduate jobs
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Editorial: The whole British electorate has a vote this week. But the key signals about the next general election will be the state of opinion in the rest of England, rather than London or Scotland
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Editorial: The government has been forced to back down on some key changes, but this is still a nasty undemocratic piece of partisan law-making
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Editorial: The financial crisis exposed how public guarantees underpinned private profits in banking. Now the BHS saga reveals how the rewards for owning businesses of other sorts are also unmatched by payment of a proper price for failure
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Editorial: The new politics ends in muddle as a weary country prepares to vote again
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The American president must use all means possible to get Vladimir Putin on board
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The perception that Labour has failed to address bigotry within its ranks threatens to dominate the London mayoral race
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Editorial: An able politician, Sadiq Khan edges his rivals on the housing crisis. And the divisive Conservative campaign run against him is all the more reason to make this Muslim the mayor
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Editorial: In the wake of tragedy, Liverpool families fought to redeem their dishonoured dead. It has been a defining human impulse, since the time of the Greek heroine Antigone
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Editorial: Anti-Jewish prejudice has been a recurrent problem across the political spectrum. Jeremy Corbyn must wake up to it – and root it out from his party
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Editorial: It’s shameful that the international lawyers investigating student disappearances in Mexico are to leave with their work unfinished
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Editorial: The inquest into the deaths of 96 football fans might end up costing £70m. If it means the police think again about covering up their mistakes, then it was worth every penny
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Editorial: Politics in Northern Ireland has always marched to a different drum. Now the same is true of Scotland and Wales as well
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Editorial: Obama’s vision for Europe provides a much-needed tonic for the old continent
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Editorial: It has taken 27 years to break down official lies and establish that 96 Liverpool fans were unlawfully killed. Celebrate a victory for justice – and make sure it never happens again
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Editorial: It’s too easy to dismiss the collapsing retailer as out of date. In truth it has been bled dry by some very modern British business practices
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Editorial: The US Republican party has disarmed its own ability to resist Donald Trump’s racial politics. The Cruz-Kasich deal may trigger more anger than electoral success
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Editorial: The Tories seem hooked on the smack of firm government. But both the junior doctors’ dispute and the crisis of child migrants will only be solved by shrewd bargaining
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Editorial: It was a spectacular signal of global intent on Friday when more than 170 governments signed up to the Paris deal. But it’s just the start of a long, hard road
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Greed in the boardroom means gross unfairness for the rest of the workforce
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The Silicon Valley giant is using its dominance in mobile operating systems to push an advantage in other areas
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Editorial: The remain campaign has played two big cards this week. Britain’s debate about Europe is now much more serious than before
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Editorial: Crude mockery of Turkey’s president has led to a German comic being prosecuted under an obscure old law. Free speech is one big loser. Angela Merkel’s reputation is another
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Editorial: Sajid Javid is not a natural interventionist but he has rightly bowed to political and economic reality in the steel industry
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Editorial: Rushing all schools into academy status will overstretch the Whitehall bureaucrats and risk the education of a generation
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Editorial: Elizabeth II’s long life has defined the modern monarchy. But a modern conversation about the ever-changing constitutional concordat ought to begin now
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Editorial: A recent Guardian report into Boots shed light on what happened after private equity invaded the high street. The reaction from medical professionals attests to the human toll, and the costs to the taxpayer
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Editorial: The Cinderella election on 5 May is the one that shapes police services in England and Wales. It’s too important to overlook
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Editorial: Nothing is clear in Brazil’s murky political crisis, except that the country will suffer the consequences for a long time to come
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Editorial: The Treasury’s assessment of the economic consequences of leaving Europe cannot be dismissed as scaremongering. On the contrary, it is a responsible warning
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