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The ICJ spoke clearly. Will Israel’s allies listen?
Israel and its allies are signed-up members of the international legal order. Its integrity depends on them heeding its judgments
Conor Gearty
United States
Can we stop Elon Musk winning the election for Trump?
Alan Rusbridger
Politics
Can Labour really kill the culture wars?
Marie Le Conte
Politics
How Rachel Reeves can escape her straitjacket
Tom Clark
Journalism
As a tabloid hack, Paul McMullan destroyed lives. Does he regret it?
Alan Rusbridger
Politics
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What Keir Starmer can learn from Tony Blair
New Labour initially struggled to fix the NHS. Can the new government do better?
Mark Dayan
The Insider
Can Kamala Harris break the vice-presidents’ curse?
Andrew Adonis
Poverty
What really happened in Harehills
Stu Hennigan
Constitution
Labour shows no interest in constitutional change
DAT Green
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Following Labour’s historic victory, Isabel Hilton explores how Britain might find its place in the world again. Meanwhile, some of the UK’s finest minds—including Justin Welby, Ruth Davidson and Antony Gormley give us their hopes for the UK’s future

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How Britain can rejoin the world

The UK isn’t the global power that it was in 1997. But if the new government makes smart choices, we might still avoid drifting into irrelevance

Isabel Hilton
The great renewal
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Labour must rethink the machinery of state
Sam Freedman
How the conflict ends
Ehud Olmert, Nasser Alkidwa, Alona Ferber
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David McAllister
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Trump’s supporters idolise him with religious fervour
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The ICJ spoke clearly. Will Israel’s allies listen?
Conor Gearty
UNITED STATES
Can we stop Elon Musk winning the election for Trump?
Alan Rusbridger
POLITICS
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Tom Clark
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Can Labour really kill the culture wars?
Marie Le Conte
NHS
What Keir Starmer can learn from Tony Blair
Mark Dayan
WORLD
While the Middle East burns, Netanyahu fiddles in DC
Alona Ferber
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As a tabloid hack, Paul McMullan destroyed lives. Does he regret it?
Alan Rusbridger
THE INSIDER
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Andrew Adonis
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Will replacing Biden help the Democrats?
Peter Kellner
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France
Agnès Poirier’s diary: Parisians flee the Olympics
For months we had been complaining about the damage the Games would inevitably bring to our city
Agnès Poirier
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While the Middle East burns, Netanyahu fiddles in DC
Alona Ferber
United States
Don’t underestimate Kamala Harris
Jill Abramson
World
Tibetan exiles are on the move again
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Ehud Olmert and Nasser Alkidwa: The day after the Gaza war
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Trump and conspiracies: Does the truth even matter now?
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Biden: Is the game up for the president?
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Election 2024: It’s the Sun wot lost it!
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Julian Assange: A landmark moment in press freedom?
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Classical in crisis
In the 1970s, Britain’s musical provisions—for people of all ages and backgrounds—were the envy of other European countries. No longer
Hilary Davan Wetton
Culture
Götterdämmerung in a chicken shed
Alan Rusbridger
Classical
Classical notes: State of the arts
Ian Bostridge
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Culture
Multiple lives, one John Akomfrah
David McAllister
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America, America
The great US tug of war is the unending struggle between liberalism and tribalism
Celeste Marcus
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Climate
Are protest injunctions out of order?
Nicola Cutcher
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AI
Waking the dead
Jemimah Steinfeld
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Phone Hacking
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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Phone Hacking
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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Australia
Australia’s Labor party shows how Starmer might govern—but shouldn’t
Anthony Albanese’s record won’t reassure voters hoping for bold policy from the new British Labour government
Ben Clark
General Election 2024
The pretty intolerant left
Alona Ferber
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People
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Fin Carter
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