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Rightwingers warn of another blaze of summer riots in Britain – but they’re the ones striking the match

Grim predictions of ‘societal collapse’ and ‘civil war’ will hit home so long as Labour fails to address the country’s problems, says Guardian columnist John Harris

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Reading deeper into Virginia Woolf’s vicious diary entry

Letter: Maggie Humm says the author’s recollection of encountering a group of learning-disabled people is surely a defence mechanism and projection

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Again and again, we are shocked by the treatment of learning-disabled people. Yet we never learn from the past

A landmark book exposes the history of loathing that underpins scandals like Winterbourne View. It has received next to no attention, says Guardian columnist John Harris

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No, Glastonbury does not reflect a new England

Letters: Readers respond to an article that described people at the music festival as the voice of the silent majority

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At Glastonbury, I saw what England’s silent majority really looks like. Why aren’t politicians listening?

Orthodox politics no longer represents how people feel about the world. Sooner or later, something will have to give, says Guardian columnist John Harris

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“George Martin came up to me that morning and said, ’Oh, I’ve got a poser for you... I know it’s never been done before, can you do it?“: The story of the greatest thing The Beatles ever recorded

How Sgt. Pepper's epic finale was created

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After disability benefits, is Labour really about to target the educational rights of special needs children?

Noise has been building about restricting help for kids who badly need it. As a special needs parent, I can tell you: it’s terrifying, says Guardian columnist John Harris

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“It’s a circle of freaks and I don’t want to be involved”: How the Oasis vs Blur chart battle marked Britpop's cultural peak, and the beginning of its end

1995’s chart battle between Oasis and Blur cemented the two bands as Britpop’s warring kings, but creatively, the movement was unravelling

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Look at Labour’s cruel attitude towards disability benefits, then tell me Keir Starmer cares about ‘human dignity’

These proposed cuts will turn people’s lives into a nightmare. No wonder they are scared about where this all might lead, says Guardian columnist John Harris

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British politics is in a loop and it’s Farage’s vision that’s stuck on repeat

Unlike Keir Starmer and his cabinet, Reform UK’s leader actually understands and exploits the rules of engagement in our digital age, says Guardian columnist John Harris

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It’s crunch time for Starmer and Reeves: either build social housing or lose the next election

As the clock ticks down to this week’s spending review, a lack of secure homes remains a defining issue in the UK. For Labour, the stakes couldn’t be higher, says Guardian columnist John Harris

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Family carers of all ages need looking after too

Letters: Readers respond to a column by John Harris about the need to include unpaid carers in the political conversation

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“He was the only one who found it necessary to perform - which was useless”: The Beatle who had to be cut from Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon

The making of Pink Floyd’s 1973 masterpiece originally featured a cameo from one Paul McCartney - but his contribution didn’t impress Roger Waters…

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Passed over, targeted, fined – but is the magnificence of family carers finally being recognised?

Britain’s army of unpaid support has been excluded from the political conversation. I didn’t expect to find hope in a book by a party leader, writes Guardian columnist John Harris

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A Labour lost in the weeds can’t rebuild this country. Starmer must regain his nerve

Labour has good ideas and years left to change Britain. Why is it acting as if its time is almost up, asks Guardian columnist John Harris

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Want to know how the world really ends? Look to TV show Families Like Ours

The Danish drama is piercing in its ordinariness. In the real world, the climate crisis worsens and authoritarians take charge as we calmly look away, says Guardian columnist John Harris

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“John said, ‘I don’t know where to go from here.’ So Paul said, ‘Well, I’ve got this other song I’ve been working on.’ They joined the two bits together to make one song”: The story of the greatest thing The Beatles ever recorded

How Sgt. Pepper's epic finale was created

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Music legend Smokey Robinson accused of sexual assault and rape by former housekeepers

The Motown legend has been accused by four of his former employees of sexual assault and rape, which the women say took place between 2007 and 2024.

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Smokey Robinson accused of sexual assault by four women in $50m lawsuit

Ex-housekeepers accuse Motown legend of sexual battery, false imprisonment, negligence and gender violence

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The English question now isn’t about Reform or party politics: it’s the rage that means we can’t talk to each other any more

My time in Lincolnshire highlighted our country’s most serious problem: the disconnection that means solutions can’t be reached, says Guardian columnist John Harris

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Those who prefer a map to an app abound in the age of GPS

Letters: Readers respond to a piece by John Harris on how we are increasingly leaving navigation to our phones

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Monday briefing: As Just Stop Oil disbands, how will we remember the radical climate activist group?

In today’s newsletter: Notorious for its disruptive protests, the group’s radical tactics may be best known as a turning point in climate resistance

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We now leave navigation to our phones. The result: more of us are getting hopelessly lost

The blue dot of GPS has cut us off from a basic human skill. It’s no wonder mountain rescuers are being called out so often, asks Guardian columnist John Harris

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RFK’s statements prove autistic people and their families everywhere should fear Trump and his allies

The idea that autism is some aberration that can be cured is typical of a movement that celebrates simplistic thinking and loathes human difference, says Guardian columnist John Harris

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Underdogs: The Truth About Britain’s White Working Class review – a complicated class portrait

Journalist Joel Budd travels around Britain demolishing Brexit myths in a nuanced study of a social group too often reduced to a cartoon by politicians

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