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  • George Monbiot

    George Monbiot
    Why is Britain’s mental health so incredibly poor? It’s because our society is spiralling backwards

  • Aditya Chakrabortty

    Aditya Chakrabortty
    Lies, confections, distortions: how the right made London the most vilified place in Britain

    Aditya Chakrabortty
  • Josh O'Connor portrait photographed for the Observer New Review

    Marina Hyde
    Weekend podcast: Josh O’Connor on Zendaya and gardening; Marina Hyde on the Met Gala; being a boy in 2024; and Philippa Perry offers advice on leaving a legacy

  • Kris Hallenga of Copafeel photographed in Cornwall, May 2021

    Zoe Williams
    Kris Hallenga obituary

  • Polly Toynbee
    Keir Starmer should be embracing the Tories’ disgruntled voters – not their turncoat MPs

    Polly Toynbee
  • Frances Ryan
    So UK ministers want to fob off disabled people with vouchers? It’s like government by Groupon

    Frances Ryan
  • Owen Jones
    The students protesting in Dublin are on the right side of history – and they know it

    Owen Jones
  • Jonathan Freedland
    Joe Biden is desperate for this war to end – but neither Netanyahu nor Hamas is in any hurry

    Jonathan Freedland
  • Simon Jenkins
    It’s as if misogyny was the vice that dared not speak its name at the Garrick. That cloud has now lifted

    Simon Jenkins
  • Martin Kettle
    If Keir Starmer isn’t careful, Gaza could do for him what the Iraq war did for Blair

    Martin Kettle
  • Afua Hirsch
    ‘We are all mixed’: Henry Louis Gates Jr on race, being arrested and working towards America’s redemption

  • Timothy Garton Ash
    A new cold war? World war three? How do we navigate this age of confusion?

    Timothy Garton Ash
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