Editorial
Editorials from the Guardian. All Guardian and Observer editorials can be found here
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Editorial: The usual parties finished in the usual order in the 2 March election. But Arlene Foster’s obduracy and the UK’s vote to leave the EU threaten a period of fresh instability
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Editorial: While Kim Jong-un’s regime has hacked other countries, US attempts to damage his nuclear programme face tough challenges
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Editorial: Conservatism is seeing a revolutionary nationalist movement grafted on top of a liberal internationalist one. When it fails to live up to its promises there will be trouble
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Editorial: The springtime political gatherings in Beijing are a carefully choreographed show. They can only tell us so much
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Editorial: The chancellor cannot pretend that the next round of austerity is simply an accounting exercise. Lives are at stake
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Editorial: The flotation of this tech company is an absurdity, where desperate investors pay to own a piece of a company that they will have no say in running
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Editorial: There is understandable concern for asylum seekers embarking on dangerous journeys. But the treatment they receive in their new home is just as important
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Editorial: The contrast between the presidential inaugural and the address to Congress was striking. But there are still two Donald Trumps and neither of them is good
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Editorial: Monumental failures with patient correspondence put lives at risk. The Department for Health needs to ask what needs to change to ensure it doesn’t happen again
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Editorial: After months of threats and shaming, a rough kind of justice has been done on behalf of BHS pensioners
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Editorial: In troubled times, the appearance of authority is worth far more than the content of advice
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Editorial: The information gathered about us by the internet giants makes our political system vulnerable to new forms of manipulation
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Editorial: The controversy that has left Park Geun-hye’s presidency hanging in the balance tells us as much about this overlooked country as it does about her
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Editorial: Labour is ceding territory on the centre ground of politics to the Tories, not because of Brexit but because of the Labour leader’s unwarranted optimism. The reality is that voters are not buying what he is selling
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Editorial: Millions face starvation, but the world is turning away. We are too late to prevent this severe food crisis – but we can and must act now to save lives
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Editorial: The new commissioner faces a daunting reform challenge, but begins with stores of political capital
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Editorial: Jamal al-Harith, previously held at Guantánamo Bay, has blown himself up for Islamic State. But his case cannot justify the expansion of such detention and use of torture
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Editorial: A lack of competition at the ballot box breeds complacency and even corruption in local government. Adopting proportional representation is a prerequisite for devolving powers
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Editorial: When the time comes politicians and the public should be able to make a clear-eyed choice about leaving Europe and not relegate themselves to irrelevance at a turning point in modern British history
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Editorial: More than four decades after a law was passed to ensure men and women were paid the same, large differences persist. To end this gender wage gap will need more government action
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Editorial: Like the rest of western Europe, Sweden is dealing with economic and demographic issues. But whatever misguided US conservatives think, the Nordic nation is not a battlefront in a clash of civilisations
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Editorial: The illness and death of Steve Hewlett is an example of humour and decency
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Editorial: The assembly elections on 2 March were not necessary. But they give voters the opportunity to demand fresh thinking about Brexit’s impact on the Irish border
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Editorial: Few dispute the importance of better vocational education pathways. But the current system is failing and should be revisited
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Editorial: The controversial former prime minister made a compelling and well-judged case for Britain in Europe, delivered with his familiar political skill
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Editorial: A snatch of film thought to show the great French novelist captivates our imagination. But it cannot tell us what we really want to know about the artist
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Editorial: The US president’s ditching of the commitment to a two-state solution may not be part of a calculated strategy. That is all the more alarming
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Editorial: No one can escape filth in the atmosphere. Even conservatives must see that it blights all our lives and requires a collective political remedy
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Editorial: The Trump administration’s dramas in Washington risk distracting Europe from the US message about defence needs in the face of Russia’s threat. This must not be allowed to happen
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