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A state of denial
Netanyahu’s onslaught against Gaza has been genocidal, but Israelis refuse to see it. This has historical parallels—and roots in Israel’s foundation
Omer Bartov
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Israel
Two years that broke our world
Alona Ferber
The Insider
What actually happens if we leave the ECHR?
Andrew Adonis
Conservatives
Is this Kemi Badenoch’s last disco?
Raza Hussain
United States
Mamdani vs the Democrats
Atul Dev
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Two years that broke our world
Alona Ferber
THE INSIDER
What actually happens if we leave the ECHR?
Andrew Adonis
CONSERVATIVES
Is this Kemi Badenoch’s last disco?
Raza Hussain
CULTURE
In the bogs with Seamus Heaney
Oliver Soden
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CULTURE
‘Holy shit! This is a big deal and people don’t know about it!’
Philippa Nuttall
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CULTURE
Hans Ulrich Obrist: in with the madding crowd
Fiammetta Rocco
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UK
The right’s love affair with JCB
Imaan Irfan
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UNITED STATES
Mamdani vs the Democrats
Atul Dev
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Books in Brief: what to read this October
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Conor Gearty: ‘Let’s have some fights with the right enemies’
Conor Gearty, Ellen Halliday, Imaan Irfan
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After the horrific attacks in Manchester we must defend the right to protest
Alan Rusbridger
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Who’s ‘white British’? Who cares?
Ben Ansell From the magazine
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Charlie Kirk, memes and murder
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Chatbots may not keep getting better
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Is it okay to say clanker?
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Woke people like me need to stop viewing hope as disrespectful
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Rural life: learning to let go
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Liberalism in the end times
Amid a populist revolution, can the centre left do more than survive?
Ivan Krastev
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Who’s ‘white British’? Who cares?
Ben Ansell
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After the horrific attacks in Manchester we must defend the right to protest
Alan Rusbridger
The weekly constitutional
Why the government was right to take PPE Medpro to court
DAT Green
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Did the Murdoch empire hack MPs for commercial ends?
What if Rupert Murdoch’s newspaper company didn’t just hack phones to get a scoop, but targeted elected politicians—right to the very top—in pursuit of its business ambitions?
Nick Davies
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Phone Hacking
How Murdoch’s company magicked away 31 million emails
Nick Davies
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Media
What did Rupert know, when?
Nick Davies
Phone Hacking
Did Washington Post publisher ‘pervert the course of justice’ under Murdoch?
Nick Davies
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In the bogs with Seamus Heaney
For all the beauty of his work, a new collection shows that the Irish poet was rooted in darkness and mud
Oliver Soden
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Where is Berlin at now?
Boyd Tonkin
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Culture
The case against the ‘climate realists’
Richard Roberts
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Culture
‘Holy shit! This is a big deal and people don’t know about it!’
Philippa Nuttall
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Omer Bartov argues Israel's collective blindness to the atrocities in Gaza has roots in the country's own history. Ivan Krastev asks how the centre-left can survive in an age of populism. Plus: Atul Dev on the Zohran Mamdani juggernaut.

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A state of denial

Netanyahu’s onslaught against Gaza has been genocidal, but Israelis refuse to see it. This has historical parallels—and roots in Israel’s foundation

Omer Bartov
Wael al-Dahdouh: ‘Gazan reporters are paying a heavy price’
Imaan Irfan
Mamdani vs the Democrats
Atul Dev
Freedom of speech isn’t a divine right, even in America
Leonard Benardo
In the bogs with Seamus Heaney
Oliver Soden
Postwar man: Wim Wenders at 80
Sukhdev Sandhu
Who will teach Trump not to behave like a baby?
Sheila Hancock
World
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Epstein’s birthday book and the girls with no names
On the central cruelty of Jeffrey Epstein’s ‘birthday book’
Diane de Vignemont
Ukraine
The Ukrainians clearing Russian mines
Jen Stout
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Inside the murky world of Japan’s private detective agencies
Jude Crawley
Gaza
In Egypt, displaced Palestinians have been forgotten
Youmna El Sayed
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