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Editorials, hot takes, and personal perspectives.
A proper leftwing take on taking back control | Letter
Mark Bergfeld suggests the quest for a better quality of life deserves as much political recognition as climbing a career ladder Gaby Hinsliff’s portrait of Claire Ainsley and her latest book Control:
Compassion is the antidote to the politics of cruelty | Letters
Readers respond to an article by John Harris in which he argues that around the world virtues such as kindness and compassion are gathering dust John Harris’s powerful article exposes the growing assa
Letter: Ian Berry obituary
By the time the photographer Ian Berry persuaded the Russian officer at the Czech border in 1968 that he was on the way to an architects’ conference, he had already been commissioned to contribute to
France’s response to protests is making Islamophobia worse. But ministers won’t even utter the word | Kamélia Ouaissa
French people like me live in fear because far-right hate speech goes unchecked. The consequences can be deadly Anger at the dilapidated state of schools may have been the starting point for the unres
Judging this year’s Booker prize taught me our humanity cannot be captured by algorithms and data | Rebecca Liu
As the demand for information and transparency about our lives increases, these brilliant books dealt with shadows, mystery, privacy and intimacy The first box of submissions for the 2026 Booker prize
Will the Trump-supporting UK right share in his ignominy? No, it’s too dishonest for that | Polly Toynbee
Sustained not by public opinion but by billionaire media owners, British rightwing commentators will embrace a Maga successor, not moderation Hallelujahs and hosannas have been echoing around the demo
Russell Brand’s conviction won’t end abusive behaviour in the creative industries, but at least whistleblowing is now possible | Helena Kennedy
Workers in music, film, TV and theatre may not feel they can speak up about abuse, but the authority I lead is able to help them Helena Kennedy KC is a Labour peer and the chair of the Creative Indust
The Guardian view on Jensen Huang’s affair: why did Trump ignore the warnings? | Editorial
The AI chip boss’s actions raise urgent questions about corporate influence, national security and the US president’s willingness to listen to intelligence warnings It could be the plot of a spy thril
The Guardian view on the British Library: don’t privatise the reading rooms | Editorial
Cybercriminals are to blame for the current crisis. But renting out study space will not lead to recovery It holds two copies of Magna Carta, the charter that set limits on royal power in 1215. It has
Ben Jennings on Russell Brand being jailed for rape and sexual assault – cartoon
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How to get the buzz back on Britain’s high streets | Letters
Readers respond to an article about the decline of town centres Sammy Gecsoyler’s report from Rotherham (‘It’s just vape shops, nail shops, charity shops’: can anything save the British high street?,
Is the party ending in Birmingham’s nightlife district? | Letters
Guardian readers reflect on rail development plans for Digbeth, and on 200 years of musical history – from Duran Duran to the club scene Regarding your article on the threat to nightlife in Digbeth fr
Like fridges, heat pumps don’t need an annual service | Letter
Ground-source and air-source heat pumps are extremely efficient machines, writes, David Reynolds I read Mary Massey’s letter (2 November) with some surprise. She said that her heat pump needs an annua
Obama granted me clemency after 23 years in prison. What will it take for Trump to do similar? | Letter
Danielle Metz wonders whether the president will extend the forgiveness he has shown the 6 January insurrectionists to other prisoners, in response to an article by James Rosen I was granted clemency
I wrote Labour’s Brexit red lines. This is why it’s time to scrap them | Chris Ward
The world has moved on since 2020 – in uncertain times, closer ties to Europe are the best way to peace and security Chris Ward is Labour MP for Brighton Kemptown and Peacehaven If offering the public
Elon Musk and the tech bros banked on Trump and lost. Humbled, humiliated: what will they do next? | Jonathan Liew
Democrats won seats on anti-datacentre tickets and Musk wasted nearly half a billion dollars. Big tech may be losing its grip, but it won’t go quietly Photos That Precede Unfortunate Events: a couple
Trump is humiliated and angry – and Europe is where he’s free to lash out | Nathalie Tocci
The US president sees Europeans as the mirror image of his ‘woke’ domestic foes. They should brace for further betrayal this winter Europeans have greeted the blue wave that crashed down on Donald Tru
This grim story of marine park whales could yet have a positive outcome – if it teaches us to value other species | Elle Hunt
There is no ‘saving’ these traumatised mammals from places like Marineland in Canada. Humans need to understand that our actions are not easily undone Remember “Save the whales”? Now that was an envir