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Our dog’s affections remain a sweet mystery even as Odie turns five today

Dog and human finding companionship is understandable – what baffles us is why Odie seeks out our eldest son’s bed even when he’s not home

The Guardian - AU

In Gaza we’re trapped in an endless maze of waiting – for peace, for the deaths to stop and for our lives to begin again

A ceasefire was announced on 10 October. But despite ‘peace’ being on the lips of world leaders ever since, we Palestinians are still under siege and afraid, says Palestinian writer Aya Al-Hattab

The Guardian - UK

OPINION - Sadiq Khan: I want to rewild London. First storks, then beavers (yes, really)

White storks are coming back to London for the first time in 600 years

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Fat, fearless and over 50: thanks to my TikTok outfit posts, I feel powerful and seen

After a debilitating illness, they’ve given me a reason to get out of bed – and I now have TikTokers who love me back, says founder of muminthemadhouse.com, Jen Walshaw

The Guardian - UK

The hill I will die on: Washing-up bowls are horrible and should be banned

These unhygienic, offensive lumps of plastic do everything the sink does, and less. It’s time to get rid, says comedy writer Jason Hazeley

The Guardian - UK

Our king, our priest, our feudal lord – how AI is taking us back to the dark ages

Since the Enlightenment, we’ve been making our own decisions. But now AI may be about to change that, says Joseph de Weck, a fellow with the Foreign Policy Research Institute

The Guardian - UK

There’s an itsy-bitsy fear I want to overcome. I will never be a fan, but can I at least be Normal about spiders?

In order to be less scared, I imagine the huge Australian huntsman as a girlie, just chilling and listening to us yap. It sounds dumb, but it worked (a little bit)

The Guardian - AU

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My five-year-old daughter is learning to love cricket. It’s a source of delight in a difficult summer

Watching the Ashes has felt like a small bright spot. Something to cheer about when our hearts are broken

The Guardian - AU

Starmer needs to tell a better Christmas story about Labour

THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: If Labour is to avoid catastrophe in the May local elections, the prime minister and his cabinet need to pull together and deliver both action and good news

The Independent UK

The Guardian view on May 2026 elections: a new political geography is coming into view across Britain

Editorial: Over the holiday period, the Guardian leader column is looking ahead at the themes of 2026. Today we look at the impact of devolution on growing volatility of party political allegiance

The Guardian - UK

How the French fell in love with family-driven memoirs and autofiction

Matriarchs, absent fathers and troubled childhoods: 2025 was the year French literature focused on family, says writer Anne-Laure Pineau

The Guardian - UK

Did 2025 mark the end of British parliamentary democracy as we know it?

The conventions and rituals that define the way we do politics rapidly eroded this year – setting the UK on a course into the unknown, says Guardian columnist Andy Beckett

The Guardian - UK

Is India’s environment minister lying about the new definition of the Aravallis?

The #SaveAravalli campaign stands out in an unexpected way. At a time when most protests against the government are quickly branded “anti-national” or dismissed as the work of “Urban Naxals,” that script hasn’t been rolled out here.

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Wild animals are great gift givers – and there’s one present in particular I’d love to receive for Christmas

Penguins hand over pebbles; scorpionflies give spitballs. But I’m hankering after a sea sponge presented by a dolphin, says science writer Helen Pilcher

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The hill I will die on: Fruit with meat? What kind of pervert are you?

Please don’t ever offer me cranberry sauce with my roast turkey – that’s just jam on your Christmas dinner, and who wants that, asks Guardian Opinion deputy editor Katy Guest

The Independent UK

Thanks to Independent readers, young people will have a safe haven to call for help

THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: Our readers have generously donated £165,000 in our Christmas appeal, so Missing People is now well on its way to launching SafeCall to give a supportive ear to a young person in distress

The Guardian - AU

This Christmas, peace won’t come from the politics of envy. It will come only by building a more equal Australia

Wealth is shifting upwards, basic universal services are outsourced and improving the lives of the Australians doing it toughest is being ignored. So where can we find hope?

The Guardian - UK

When my father first came to the UK, people bonded and looked after him. Would that happen now?

I’ve taken in refugees from time to time, and formed lasting ties with them. It’s time to stop demonising those in need, says journalist and author Nell Frizzell

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OPINION - 'My childhood in London was busy, energetic and colourful — I'd never raise my kids in the countryside'

More and more friends with young children are packing themselves off to sleepy villages. I can’t imagine anything worse, says Claire Cohen

The Guardian - UK

A key question for every believer: does God approve of Santa Claus? I hope so, or I’m in trouble

The great Santa deception arguably breaches the ninth commandment (‘Thou shalt not bear false witness’), but I think God would cut us some slack, says vicar Ravi Holy

Evening Standard

OPINION - The Standard and Winnie the Pooh

On Christmas Eve, 100 years ago, the first Pooh story appeared in the Evening News, which later merged with the Standard

The Guardian - UK

No bickering around the Christmas tree! If your family are trapped by their algorithms, here’s the way out

My research on social media shows high levels of misinformation and disconnect. Here’s how to talk to kith and kin this week without tears and tantrums, says academic Dr Kaitlyn Regehr

The Guardian - UK

The hill I will die on: Being late can be the height of good manners and decorum, actually

Instead of seeing etiquette as a set of categorical rules, we should recognise that poor form can actually have good consequences, says writer Rachel Connolly

The Guardian - UK

Labour is living in a fool’s paradise if it thinks it has plenty of time to turn Britain around

Going into 2026, the economy has little forward momentum and things may get worse before they get better, says Guardian columnist Larry Elliott

The Independent UK

The hope and heartbreak of Kate McCann

THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: By supporting SafeCall, the mother of Madeleine McCann, who went missing in 2007, hopes her experience will be a light in the dark for the 72,000 children who disappear every year

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