The Latest Breaking News on Comment

Listen here on your chosen podcast platform.

Politicians and policy-makers love to say it: “We must learn the lessons of Covid.” Indeed, a repeat of the last pandemic – in which more than seven million people died, schools shut and entire national economies were switched off – is something we ought to avoid. Which is why now…

There is a support system around every big star, but his turned out to be made up of predatory yes men, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

Imagine, for a moment, becoming haunted by the shadow of a salad vegetable. Not an exciting salad vegetable, like a radish, or even a suggestive salad vegetable, like a courgette. Just a plain old common-or-garden lettuce. Since her historic 49-day tenure as prime minister, Liz Truss’s comparative lettuce has refused…

I was only 26 when I learned I had the disease. I now use SPF religiously – but it shouldn’t cost me an extra 20% on every bottle, says campaigner Jessica Zbinden-Webster

The flagging Israeli leader has every reason to involve the US in a regional conflict, but this would be a huge mistake for Tehran, says the writer Seyed Hossein Mousavian

The late Queen apparently brought her own pillows. There are plenty of ways for ordinary passengers to improve their experience, too, says crew member Meryl Love

I smugly assumed I was offering my children a crash course in wholesomeness. The reality was quite different, says Guardian columnist Emma Brockes

The recent conviction of an activist who used the phrase at a rally in Berlin has widened a rift in German society, says writer Peter Kuras

The NSW Liberals are imploding as the result of a ‘mind-boggling’ administrative problem – but who hasn’t ruined their lives through a trivial screwup?

Those defending the right to be offensive want a safe space for themselves while shutting down dissenting voices, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff