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Are Trader Joe’s tote bags the last vestige of American soft power?

No one wants to visit us any more – but they might pay $50,000 for a bag you could get here for $3

The Guardian - US

At the root of all our problems stands one travesty: politicians’ surrender to the super-rich

There are many excuses for failing to tax the ultra-wealthy. The truth is that governments don’t tackle the problem because they don’t want to, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

The Guardian - UK

Mystic Nigel has seen the future: a country run by his cabinet of taxidermied Tories

By welcoming ‘Honest Bob’ Jenrick into the fold, the Reform seer is embracing the uniparty chaos he claimed to be seeing off, writes Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

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Are our bodies full of microplastics or not? There’s a way to resolve this debate, and scientists must hurry

This week’s furore is microplastics researchers’ ozone moment. If they fail, the powerful plastics lobby will step into the breach, says science journalist and author Debora MacKenzie

The Guardian - UK

I never thought I’d see an asylum hotel on fire, or worry about my staff’s safety. The past five years changed that

As head of an immigration charity, I’ve seen firsthand how hostility and toxicity have reached unprecedented levels, says outgoing Refugee Council CEO Enver Solomon

The Guardian - UK

By seeking to defuse domestic tensions over Gaza, West Midlands police ended up making matters worse

For the sake of British Jews and British Muslims – and those of us who believe in multiculturalism – lessons must be learned from the Villa Park row, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

The Guardian - UK

Say what you will about Trump, but unlike Starmer he knows his own power – and how to use it

The right is unafraid to show its might on the world stage – meanwhile the PM is tinkering with potholes, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

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Has a Nazi theorist’s vision of a world divided into ‘great spaces’ found a new advocate in Trump?

Carl Schmitt wanted empires that dominated the small countries in their orbits. But the US president’s chaotic actions are not that strategic, says Brendan Simms, director of the Centre for Geopolitics at Cambridge University

The Guardian - UK

Aside from creepy surveillance, what are ‘consumer-ready’ service robots actually for?

For A$30k you could have a remote employee see inside your home via a walking, talking machine with a chilling blank face. Count me out

The Guardian - AU

Badenoch and Starmer are the winners from Robert Jenrick’s dismal Tory betrayal

THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: The extraordinary events of the shadow justice secretary’s firing and rehiring are a boost to the Tory and Labour leaders – but will only divide the right

The Independent UK

The Guardian view on Robert Jenrick’s defection: Britain’s right is in a crisis of its own making

Editorial: A former Tory cabinet minister leaps to Reform and turns the issue of Kemi Badenoch’s authority into a test of Tory survival

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on Trump’s world: from Venezuela to Iran to Greenland, the madness is the method

Editorial: The US president delights in his inconsistency. But his short-term victories have profound long-term costs for his country and the world

The Guardian - UK

An expulsion, a smirking leader and now a defection: it’s episode one, series one of the Farage/Jenrick show

Farage was all smiles as the Tory rightwinger he once called a ‘fraud’ defected to Reform. Will it be big enough for the both of them? Keep watching, says Guardian columnist Zoe Williams

The Guardian - UK

I know the terrible cost of speaking out in Iran – and I beg the world to stand with those speaking out now

Survivors of the regime like me are reliving our nightmares as brave Iranians fight for their freedom. They say they have nothing to lose but their chains, says women’s rights activist and torture survivor Nasrin Parvaz

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The problem with Australian men? They simply don’t know how to flirt

Call it tall poppy syndrome or the nonchalant olympics, but we’ve grown accustomed to an almost nonexistent form of flirting from the local male species

Evening Standard

OPINION - Why are ministers obsessing about Grok instead of important things?

While political attention is on an AI tool, here are three more crucial issues we should lose sleep over

The Guardian - US

The FBI’s raid of journalist’s home was the product of decades of backsliding

The trend of invading newsrooms, in violation of federal law, has now spread to the highest levels of the federal government

The Guardian - UK

After all these years, I still hate wearing specs

When I was a boy, glasses were a source of shame that ruined my self-esteem. Now that contact lenses have failed me too, all that’s left is to embrace the blurriness

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The world of today looks bad, but take hope: we’ve been here before and got through it – and we will again

As I write my last regular column for the Guardian, my thoughts turn to the lessons and hope we can take from history, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle

The Guardian - AU

Elon Musk’s Grok made the world less safe – his humiliating backdown gives me hopium

The AI chatbot’s torrent of nonconsensual deepfakes isn’t its first scandal and won’t be its last. Responsible governments should simply ban it

The Guardian - AU

My favourite Lebanese restaurant has closed and I am bereft. Abdul’s, I’m sorry I took you for granted

For decades, the Sydney institution promised smooth hummus, abrupt service and unchanging decor. It was my family’s alternate living room. Where to turn to now?

Evening Standard

OPINION - ‘Seeing the Iran protests makes me wonder if I’ll ever be able to return’

As protests continue in Iran, Amira Arasteh has been forced to confront the idea that she may never again see the country she grew up visiting

The Independent UK

Never mind the barnacles, HMS Labour is lost at sea

THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: U-turns in moderation should be praised when they steady the ship, but Labour’s series of lurching volte-faces suggests a prime minister who has lost his grip on the tiller

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on Labour policy U-turns: a dangerous pattern that corrodes confidence

Editorial: It is better to correct policy than persist in error, but Keir Starmer cannot afford to keep signalling his lack of coherent direction

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on Labour’s plan for railways in the north: a slow train coming

Editorial: Proposals to relaunch Northern Powerhouse Rail are welcome and overdue. But passengers and commuters will believe it when they see it

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