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Before the Conservatives came to power in 2010, David Cameron set out his vision of a prosperous, secure country that would care for all. By every yardstick, his party has failed The long and wasted years of Tory Britain
There have been times in the past few weeks, watching Rishi Sunak, with his hands flailing for the steering wheel, when just for a second or two the ghosts of the Conservative party's last 14 years have seemed to play across his features, and we all have been forced to endure the unspooling catastrophe once again: the Truss budget and Partygate and proroguing parliament and Theresa May croaking her way to her P45 and No Deal is Better than a Bad Deal and Eat out to Help Out and, God help us, Get Brexit Done.
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July 05, 2024
The Guardian Weekly
War of words Deadly attack on Kharkiv book printer
Olena Ninadovska was inside Ukraine's biggest printing house when the Russian missile hit.
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July 05, 2024
The Guardian Weekly
Bloc braces as populist takes Orbán charge of EU agenda
For months, it was rumoured that Hungary planned to use a reworked version of Donald Trump's slogan for its upcoming EU presidency: Make Europe Great Again.
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July 05, 2024
The Guardian Weekly
Last dance Rival parties scramble to unite against the far right
France's left and centrist parties are scrambling to cobble together a united front. Rival parties were engaged in frantic bargaining and tactical voting plans on Monday in an attempt to stop the rise of Marine Le Pen's National Rally's (RN).
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July 05, 2024
The Guardian Weekly
Macron's failed gamble How Le Pen destroyed the centrist project
When Emmanuel Macron strolled through the seaside resort of Le Touquet last Sunday afternoon, near his holiday home, dressed in a leather jacket with his collar up and aviator shades, smiling and asking passersby how they were doing, he seemed a world away from the fact that his gamble of a snap election was about to dramatically backfire.
3 min |
July 05, 2024
The Guardian Weekly
Pressure is mounting on US President Joe Biden after a faltering debate performance against Donald Trump. Once-friendly media heavyweights have joined the chorus of derision.Is it time for Joe to go?
Amid a howling chorus of derision over Joe Biden's substandard debate performance against Donald Trump last week, one voice seemed to resonate more powerfully than others.
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July 05, 2024
The Guardian Weekly
Dangerous Alliance Putin And Kim Are The Odd Couple With A Dual Mission
They make an odd couple. One is smiley-faced and chubby. The other is thin-lipped and scowls a lot.
3 min |
June 28, 2024
The Guardian Weekly
Evangelicals On Crusade To Return Trump To Presidency
God's army is on the march. And many of its foot soldiers are wearing Make America Great Again regalia, sensing that their unlikely standard-bearer, former US president Donald Trump, is once again close to the promised land.
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June 28, 2024
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Friends Reunited What Can Russia And North Korea Do For Each Other?
China accounts for more than 90% of North Korea's trade and has been its most dependable aid donor and diplomatic ally.
3 min |
June 28, 2024
The Guardian Weekly
Tensions Rise On Border As War Looms
Doctors prepare for casualties, people flee their homes and apprehension hangs in the air as threat grows of conflict with Hezbollah
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June 28, 2024
The Guardian Weekly
The Prosecution Of Roy Is A Stark Warning From Modi To His Critics Salil Tripathi
This month, the highest ranking bureaucrat of the state of Delhi, Vinai Kumar Saxena, permitted the Delhi police to prosecute Arundhati Roy (pictured), and Sheikh Showkat Hussain for remarks they made at a public event 14 years ago.
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June 28, 2024
The Guardian Weekly
Heads up Road deaths prompt a rethink over bike helmets
When 42-year-old Myrthe Boss gets on her bike to go shopping in the Dutch town of Ede, she pops on a helmet.
3 min |
June 28, 2024
The Guardian Weekly
How Easter Island is swamped by deluge of plastic
Ocean currents are dumping tides of multinational rubbish on to the shores of one of the world's most remote habitats
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June 28, 2024
The Guardian Weekly
Bold ideas for a well-dressed salad - and without the need for oil
It's hard to deny the transformative power of a good salad dressing, but you don't need much oil, if any. Honey, for example, will give \"a natural stickiness that helps adhesion to your salad, while the sweetness balances the acidity of vinegar\", says Tony Rodd, head chef at Pomus in Margate
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June 28, 2024
The Guardian Weekly
The German theatre that puts climate centre stage
As part of a wider project to reduce its carbon footprint, a Potsdam theatre is reusing props, recycling costumes and doubling up tickets as transport passes
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June 28, 2024
The Guardian Weekly
Out of the shadows
Anthony McCall made his name with 'light sculptures' that people could enter. But a show in Sweden led to 20 years in the wilderness
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June 28, 2024
The Guardian Weekly
Sons of the guns
Can children born into Italy's mafia families be saved from lives of crime? One judge is helping them to establish new lives in a bid to break the cycle
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June 28, 2024
The Guardian Weekly
You asked me questions that I've never asked myself. That may seem funny, but part of being Keir is just ploughing on' The man likely to be Britain's next PM
WHAT ABOUT A QUICKFIRE ROUND, Isay to Keir Starmer, who is pushed for time on the campaign trail, a few snapshots to help glimpse the man likely to be PM? Starmer is nodding. He's keen to be helpful, keen to be a sport, although a little unsure of this magazine profile business and the need to talk about feelings. We are in the green room, all mirrors and concrete, backstage at Labour's Scottish launch in Inverclyde, and unless I'm mistaken he still has on a layer of foundation. Ready? He folds his arms across his chest. \"Yes, by all means.\"
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June 28, 2024
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How smooth operators reclaimed 'moonshine' palm spirit
Since the pandemic, Lola Pedro has been spending a lot of time at an eco-tourist hamlet in Badagry town, on the outskirts of Lagos, surrounded by coconut and African apple trees next to chalets with showers open to the sky.
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June 28, 2024
The Guardian Weekly
Fears of skills shortage as departures hit new highs
When New Zealand opened its borders after the pandemic, the departures began immediately.
2 min |
June 28, 2024
The Guardian Weekly
Can left overcome its bitter rivalries to defy the far right?
The 'New Popular Front' of Socialists, Greens and Communists could be the best hope of keeping out Marine Le Pen's National Rally
3 min |
June 28, 2024
The Guardian Weekly
Poll positions From defeat to total wipeoutthree outcomes facing Tories
Polls that use largescale polling data to extrapolate individual seat tallies, or MRPS-an acronym for multilevel regression and post stratification - have become popular in UK politics.
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June 28, 2024
The Guardian Weekly
'Enough is enough' In red wall, Tory support is crumbling
It sounds odd to describe a wellto-do village with neat privet hedges, freshly mown lawns and three cars on each driveway as a no-go area. Yet for almost three decades, the pretty parish of Silkstone, on the edge of the Pennines, was unwelcoming territory for Labour folk.
4 min |
June 28, 2024
The Guardian Weekly
Partners in crime
Vladimir Putin's defiant friendship pact with Kim Jong-un and North Korea marks a return to cold war politics - and raises big questions not just for Washington and Seoul, but also for Beijing
4 min |
June 28, 2024
The Guardian Weekly
Grain reaction: is there a culinary reason to use kosher salt?
If a recipe specifies kosher salt, is somebody having a laugh, or is there a gastronomic reason to use it? Pablo, Lancaster, England, UK
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June 21, 2024
The Guardian Weekly
BOOKS OF THE MONTH
The best recent crime and thrillers
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June 21, 2024
The Guardian Weekly
Burning bright Arundhati Roy talks forcefully about India's 'mad pathology', the self-absorbed west and globalisation
By 2001, when this collection of 12 interviews with US writer and broadcaster David Barsamian begins, Arundhati Roy was already under fire. Leftwing critics, among them Aijaz Ahmad, had attacked her Booker prize-winning The God of Small Things (1997) for its anti-communism. In Kerala, where it was set, she was charged with \"corrupting public morality\".
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June 21, 2024
The Guardian Weekly
A disaster foretold The story behind 1986's Challenger space shuttle explosion is a gripping catalogue of underfunding and stifling bureaucracy
In 1986, two catastrophic events occurred on either side of the cold war divide that shocked the world. On 28 January, 73 seconds after takeoff, the US space shuttle Challenger broke apart in mid-air, killing all seven astronauts on board and traumatising millions of viewers watching live on TV. Three months later, on 26 April, a meltdown at Chornobyl sent a radioactive cloud across the USSR and Europe. Two workers died immediately and the estimated death toll over time ranges from hundreds to tens of thousands. It's widely believed to have contributed to the collapse of the Soviet Union.
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June 21, 2024
The Guardian Weekly
A wild ride Tragedy and farce collide in the Irish author's beautiful, lovable and fun tale of lovers on the run in 19th-century Montana
The hero of Kevin Barry's new novel, The Heart in Winter, is a dope-fiend Irishman haphazardly subsisting in the mining town of Butte, Montana, in the 1890s. Tom Rourke has a poor excuse for a job as assistant to a poor excuse for a photographer, and earns drink money by writing letters for illiterate men luring brides from the east. His spare time is spent haunting brothels, racking up debt through his opium habit, and writing songs along the lines of: Ain't got a dime / But the sun's gonna shine/ Coz we's all bound for heaven/ On the Cal-i-fornee line. In his own mind, he is \"set apart from the hoarse and laughing crowd. He was at a distance of artistic remove from it was what he felt.\"
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June 21, 2024
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Alive and Kicken The gallery that's pivotal to how we see photography
Co-founded before the medium was taken seriously as art, this Berlin venue is turning 50 by celebrating its collection-and photography itself
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