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CP Scott, 1921 Guardian editor

No more missing records or letters lost in the post – I will bring in a totally digital NHS
Keir Starmer
Imagine the benefits of having a joined-up service at last. Combined with AI and genomic medicine, this is the future for our health service
A lost generation are stuck living with their parents – and Tory talk of housebuilding won’t help them
John Harris

The Tories have form with far right conspiracy theories. This time it’s ‘cultural Marxism’
Samuel Earle
Why I stopped arguing about the climate emergency and tried the silent treatment instead
Helena Echlin
Don’t celebrate the prospect of the Tories in opposition – that’s the real danger zone
Nesrine Malik
How watching TV became a lonely pursuit – and podcasts are rushing to fill that void
Fiona Sturges

Green belts once served a vital purpose, but now they are squeezing the life out of cities
Rowan Moore
Farewell, racial stereotypes. Now we have the true tale of an Indian princess turned suffragette
Anjli Mohindra
While Rishi Sunak keeps quiet, noisy Tories are wreaking havoc on his party’s reputation
Isabel Hardman
The price of failure: a moat for Johnson, jobs for Osborne and globetrotting for Truss
Catherine Bennett
The uncounted: how millions died unseen in America’s post-9/11 wars
Simon Tisdall
Becky, 12, tried to kill herself. The care she received? Eight weeks in solitary
Louise Tickle
Don’t fear gentrification, those new blocks of flats can lead to lower rents
Torsten Bell
Once we ask the Lee Anderson question, our democracy is on a slippery slope
Kenan Malik

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The Heat or Eat Diaries

My dad is ill, but his flat’s ceiling is falling in and our food bill has doubled. There’s no one to help us
Siobhan
I’m stumped by the endless bureaucracy of the system. Why can’t we just find him somewhere warm and safe, asks Siobhan, who is a full-time carer for her father
In my freezing house, gripped by fear, I scrawl ‘things can get better’ on a chalkboard
Marin

Rich people help themselves, poor people help each other – I saw a food bank user take in a homeless friend
Sophie
I used to shoulder the money worries – now my kids feel the burden too. I chase them around the house turning off lights
Charlie
Even pound shops don’t sell things for a pound any more. I’m juggling three jobs just to get by
Sharron Spice
We get £5 a week extra now our baby is born. At times like this, I consider working illegally
Paul

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Why I quit

I used to hide behind my hair. But cancer gave me a buzzcut and helped me find my voice
Joanne Harris
Why I quit the softball team – and wrote Star Wars fan fiction and princess novels instead
Meg Cabot
IVF works for the lucky few. After a decade, I finally realised I wasn’t one of them
Simran Chawla
I gave up believing depression had to be serious – there’s humour even in the darkest moments
Rhiannon Neads

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Starmer's path to power

The centre left is on the up around the world. Here’s what Keir Starmer can learn from it
Claire Ainsley
Dear Keir, the polls are tightening and frankly, people are worried. You have to raise your game
John Harris
This is how Labour can win back Scotland – and achieve a majority UK government
Katherine Sangster
Labour must be a broad church. Starmer’s purge of the left puts his future government in peril
Neal Lawson

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The day I decided to strike

After a marking boycott, the university threatened to withhold our pay. That only made us angrier
Dr Tanzil Chowdhury
My hospital feels like a factory. When I saw other strikes getting results, I knew I’d join the picket line
Joanna Sutton-Klein
Amazon treats me worse than the warehouse robots – that’s why I’m walking out
Darren Westwood
I wasn’t sure if I’d strike – until I locked eyes with another NHS nurse on one awful, ordinary day
Maxine Wade

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The Guardian view

The Guardian view on England’s water companies: a badly broken system
Editorial: Ministers were warned about the risks of private equity entering the sector but did nothing. Now we’re paying the price
- The Guardian view on Pakistan’s army: go back to the barracks
- The Observer view on immigration: it’s time for Tories to admit that Britain needs foreign workers
- The Observer view on the high costs order against Carole Cadwalladr

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Spotlight

How philistine of David Starkey to limit western civilisation to whiteness
Tomiwa Owolade
I refuse to accept the historian’s equations of skin colour and culture

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You may have missed

$209bn a year is what fossil fuel firms owe in climate reparations. We want that paid
André Wright
After a new study revealing the extent to which developing nations have been damaged, there is no excuse for further delay, says André Wright, a former news and opinion editor at the Jamaica Gleaner
If swing voters were terrified of the climate crisis, ministers would take it seriously
Gaby Hinsliff

The great British baby drought has a simple cause. And it’s not ‘cultural Marxism’
Polly Toynbee
Alzheimer’s drugs are a ray of hope. They must be accessible to all, not the wealthy few
Devi Sridhar
Water companies got England’s sewage-ridden rivers and seas into this mess. Do we really trust them to clean it up?
Henry Swithinbank
The law is gone but they are still in jail: who will free Britain’s most wronged prisoners?
George Monbiot

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This is Europe

Has France really gone to hell? Its catastrophist discourse is at odds with the facts
Alexander Hurst
Poland has changed beyond recognition – and so has its place in Europe’s pecking order
Anna Gromada
Putin doesn’t want the war to end – he wants to blast us back to the 40s Soviet era
Georgi Gospodinov
For Hamburg, devastated by allied bombing, King Charles’s visit is so much more than a photo-op
Helene von Bismarck

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Cartoons

Ben Jennings on Suella Braverman’s speeding fine – cartoon
Water companies ‘apologise’ to their customers – cartoon
Nicola Jennings on the world’s 1.5C global heating limit — cartoon

Columnists

I went to the NatCon conference expecting sinister exuberance. But all I found was doom and gloom
Andy Beckett
They’re openly saying it: Brexit has failed. But what comes next may be very dark indeed
Jonathan Freedland
Pity the MPs who hate the London bubble and its elites – but just can’t leave them behind
Marina Hyde
Loyalty has long been the Tories’ secret weapon. Without it, Sunak stands no chance
Simon Jenkins

Keir Starmer does have a vision – and it’s not New Labour 2.0
Martin Kettle
Here’s what I want: a hung parliament. Let me tell you why
Owen Jones
In a contest between Tory MPs and reality, Rishi Sunak is refusing to pick a side
Rafael Behr
Is Martha Stewart’s Sports Illustrated cover a diversity breakthrough? No, it’s just window dressing
Zoe Williams
It’s the nation’s favourite cocktail – Phil and Holly on the rocks. Sickly sweet at first and then quite sour
Marina Hyde
Sunak must be firm. Ukraine’s fate will be decided by war and diplomacy – not by sanctions
Simon Jenkins
The Tories are on the ropes now – and Labour’s knockout blows are not far away
Polly Toynbee
Westminster forgot its promises to ‘coastal communities’, and left them to rot
John Harris

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Letters

The Crown Prosecution Service isn’t ‘cherrypicking’. It’s making the right calls
A low birthrate is good news for the planet
- Keir Starmer should look at reversing Brexit
- Pachyderm parallel put me in the picture on New York City weight
- Awareness of mental health is not enough
- The flaws in Nicholas Hytner’s plan to save the performing arts
- Access to personal information must be properly monitored
- We should study live juries to improve rape trials

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Opinion

No more missing records or letters lost in the post – I will bring in a totally digital NHS

A lost generation are stuck living with their parents – and Tory talk of housebuilding won’t help them

The Tories have form with far right conspiracy theories. This time it’s ‘cultural Marxism’

Why I stopped arguing about the climate emergency and tried the silent treatment instead

Don’t celebrate the prospect of the Tories in opposition – that’s the real danger zone

How watching TV became a lonely pursuit – and podcasts are rushing to fill that void

Green belts once served a vital purpose, but now they are squeezing the life out of cities

Farewell, racial stereotypes. Now we have the true tale of an Indian princess turned suffragette

While Rishi Sunak keeps quiet, noisy Tories are wreaking havoc on his party’s reputation

The price of failure: a moat for Johnson, jobs for Osborne and globetrotting for Truss

The uncounted: how millions died unseen in America’s post-9/11 wars

Becky, 12, tried to kill herself. The care she received? Eight weeks in solitary

Don’t fear gentrification, those new blocks of flats can lead to lower rents

Once we ask the Lee Anderson question, our democracy is on a slippery slope

The Heat or Eat Diaries

My dad is ill, but his flat’s ceiling is falling in and our food bill has doubled. There’s no one to help us

In my freezing house, gripped by fear, I scrawl ‘things can get better’ on a chalkboard

Rich people help themselves, poor people help each other – I saw a food bank user take in a homeless friend

I used to shoulder the money worries – now my kids feel the burden too. I chase them around the house turning off lights

Even pound shops don’t sell things for a pound any more. I’m juggling three jobs just to get by

We get £5 a week extra now our baby is born. At times like this, I consider working illegally

Why I quit

I used to hide behind my hair. But cancer gave me a buzzcut and helped me find my voice

Why I quit the softball team – and wrote Star Wars fan fiction and princess novels instead

IVF works for the lucky few. After a decade, I finally realised I wasn’t one of them

I gave up believing depression had to be serious – there’s humour even in the darkest moments

Starmer's path to power

The centre left is on the up around the world. Here’s what Keir Starmer can learn from it

Dear Keir, the polls are tightening and frankly, people are worried. You have to raise your game

This is how Labour can win back Scotland – and achieve a majority UK government

Labour must be a broad church. Starmer’s purge of the left puts his future government in peril

The day I decided to strike

After a marking boycott, the university threatened to withhold our pay. That only made us angrier

My hospital feels like a factory. When I saw other strikes getting results, I knew I’d join the picket line

Amazon treats me worse than the warehouse robots – that’s why I’m walking out

I wasn’t sure if I’d strike – until I locked eyes with another NHS nurse on one awful, ordinary day

The Guardian view

The Guardian view on England’s water companies: a badly broken system

The Guardian view on Pakistan’s army: go back to the barracks

The Observer view on immigration: it’s time for Tories to admit that Britain needs foreign workers

The Observer view on the high costs order against Carole Cadwalladr

Spotlight

How philistine of David Starkey to limit western civilisation to whiteness

You may have missed

$209bn a year is what fossil fuel firms owe in climate reparations. We want that paid

If swing voters were terrified of the climate crisis, ministers would take it seriously

The great British baby drought has a simple cause. And it’s not ‘cultural Marxism’

Alzheimer’s drugs are a ray of hope. They must be accessible to all, not the wealthy few

Water companies got England’s sewage-ridden rivers and seas into this mess. Do we really trust them to clean it up?

The law is gone but they are still in jail: who will free Britain’s most wronged prisoners?

This is Europe

Has France really gone to hell? Its catastrophist discourse is at odds with the facts

Poland has changed beyond recognition – and so has its place in Europe’s pecking order

Putin doesn’t want the war to end – he wants to blast us back to the 40s Soviet era

For Hamburg, devastated by allied bombing, King Charles’s visit is so much more than a photo-op

Cartoons

Ben Jennings on Suella Braverman’s speeding fine – cartoon

Water companies ‘apologise’ to their customers – cartoon

Nicola Jennings on the world’s 1.5C global heating limit — cartoon

Columnists

I went to the NatCon conference expecting sinister exuberance. But all I found was doom and gloom

They’re openly saying it: Brexit has failed. But what comes next may be very dark indeed

Pity the MPs who hate the London bubble and its elites – but just can’t leave them behind

Loyalty has long been the Tories’ secret weapon. Without it, Sunak stands no chance

Keir Starmer does have a vision – and it’s not New Labour 2.0

Here’s what I want: a hung parliament. Let me tell you why

In a contest between Tory MPs and reality, Rishi Sunak is refusing to pick a side

Is Martha Stewart’s Sports Illustrated cover a diversity breakthrough? No, it’s just window dressing

It’s the nation’s favourite cocktail – Phil and Holly on the rocks. Sickly sweet at first and then quite sour

Sunak must be firm. Ukraine’s fate will be decided by war and diplomacy – not by sanctions

The Tories are on the ropes now – and Labour’s knockout blows are not far away

Westminster forgot its promises to ‘coastal communities’, and left them to rot

Letters

The Crown Prosecution Service isn’t ‘cherrypicking’. It’s making the right calls

A low birthrate is good news for the planet

Keir Starmer should look at reversing Brexit

Pachyderm parallel put me in the picture on New York City weight

Awareness of mental health is not enough

The flaws in Nicholas Hytner’s plan to save the performing arts

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