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Sorry, Sydney, I think it’s my fault you lost the AFL grand final

Was my football-mad family having breakfast with me the flap of the butterfly’s wing that cursed the Swans’ chances?

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I tried not to ‘sane wash’ Trump’s Pennsylvania speech. It was impossible

The thing about reporting on Trump is, quite often, you have to meet him more than halfway just to turn what he says into sentences.

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Big Fish, Little Fish: Australia’s national literature is being swallowed up

Two independent book publishers were recently absorbed by larger companies. This doesn’t bode well for the health of our literary culture.

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Benjamin Netanyahu is triumphant after Hassan Nasrallah’s assassination. But will it change anything?

There is no doubt this is an unprecedented blow to Hezbollah’s leadership and to the organisation itself.

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Labor confirms first consecutive surplus in 15 years — but it won’t save Queensland

Treasurer Jim Chalmers will confirm a surplus of $15.8 billion, and fears of all-out war in the Middle East have grown as Israel continues its simultaneous bombing of Gaza, Lebanon and, now, Yemen.

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The Guardian view on Israel’s killing of Hassan Nasrallah: dragging the Middle East towards disaster

Editorial: As Benjamin Netanyahu flouts the will of his nation’s essential ally, the death of Hezbollah’s leader in Lebanon has deepened the region’s crisis

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on the other influencers: a golden era for science education

Editorial: YouTube isn’t always a stupefaction engine. Curious children and other autodidacts have unrivalled access to knowledge

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The Substance is gory – but the real body horror is that 70% of women dislike the size of their breasts

Demi Moore’s gory satire The Substance made me think about self-image, bodily autonomy – and our worrying obsession with cosmetic surgery, writes Emma Beddington

The Guardian - UK

Brexit, Farage, Corbyn all sparked passion – but there’s no sign of that at either party conference

In Liverpool and Birmingham party machines whir on, while blood-stirring debate is absent from the agenda, says Guardian columnist John Harris

The Guardian - UK

Yimbys hear this – simply building more homes won’t solve our housing crisis

The ‘yes in my back yard’ voices are getting louder, but housebuilding quality is more important than quantity, says writer and curator Phineas Harper

The Guardian - UK

Britain’s prehistoric attitude to drugs isn’t working. Why not learn from Texas?

Cherrypicking what has worked from decriminalisation abroad is far preferable to building more prisons, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

The Guardian - UK

Starmer’s tiny gaffe has made him a sausage to fortune

If the Labour leader can’t make a minor slip in a speech without being accused of being anti-Israel, no wonder he’s retreated to Arsenal’s corporate box

The Guardian - UK

Bringing an end to child poverty really ought to be an economic no-brainer

Growing up poor blights children’s lives, and results in lower work and health outcomes that cost the exchequer long term

The Guardian - UK

He cries, he forages, but redemption may still elude cast away Phillip Schofield

There may yet be a way for cancelled celebrities to come back, without resorting to eating badger gizzards on reality TV

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Can liberal conservatism survive the remaking of the right? We’ll soon find out

The struggle between liberalism and reactionary strands of thought has gnawed away at the Tories since the party’s dawn

The Guardian - UK

Any ice-age telepaths out there? Please explain why Netflix is revisiting Ancient Apocalypse

A catastrophe is indeed looming in letting Graham Hancock return with his oddball theories, now with Keanu Reeves in tow

The Guardian - UK

The Observer view on Sudan: decisive action is needed to avert catastrophe, but where is the will?

Despite UN speeches, the international community is largely absent as the African nation lurches towards catastrophe

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The Observer view: youth mobility must be part of post-Brexit reset

Keir Starmer’s parochial stance on mooted scheme is short sighted and bodes ill for resetting relationship with Brussels

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Urgent memo from his anxious ministers to Sir Keir Starmer: you need to get a grip of No 10

A better Britain can’t be built in a day, but unless voters see tangible changes soon, their patience will continue to run out

The Guardian - UK

In their inhumanity, conflicts in Gaza and Ukraine offer a shared, brutal vision of the future of war

By acting with impunity and tearing up the rulebooks, warmonger leaders are setting an alarming precedent

The Guardian - UK

What’s the secret of the supercentenarians? They don’t really exist

Many people say they’re living to 100-plus years. But research lauded with an Ig Nobel prize shows some claims are spurious

The Guardian - UK

It’s useful that the latest AI can ‘think’, but we need to know its reasoning

OpenAI o1, AKA Strawberry, appears to be a significant advance, but its ‘chain of thought’ should be made public knowledge

The Guardian - UK

Enough of the ‘anti’ politics. We Conservatives need a bold new vision

As the Tories gather in Birmingham, a former minister argues that the party must become more inclusive, with a focus on aspiration

Newslaundry

Behind Shinde’s custodial death: A culture of ‘instant justice’, political slugfest and polls

The Bombay High Court has turned its skeptical gaze on the Maharashtra police’s version of the custodial death of Akshay Shinde, the accused in the Badlapur sexual assault on two minor girls. Early this week, Shinde was shot dead in an alleged encounter by the Thane police.

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Rashid factor in J&K elections: BJP is killing two birds with one stone

Whether or not there is an element of manipulation in the creation of the Engineer Rashid factor in the Jammu and Kashmir legislative assembly elections, it is benefitting the BJP in two ways.

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