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OPINION - Tim Walz, enjoy your honeymoon while it lasts because it will surely end

So, Kamala Harris has found the yang to her yin in Tim Walz, the hitherto unknown governor of Minnesota. He is white-haired and fat to her groomed and svelte, is a regular dad, a teacher and a gun owner, who does rural stuff like ice fishing which really isn’t Kamala’s…

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Politicians: there’s an easy remedy to the violence we’re seeing across the UK. Start telling the truth

Governments were scared to look soft on asylum seekers. In that vacuum, lies flourished, says Guardian writer Diane Taylor

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OPINION - The Standard View: Hate has no place in a city that celebrates diversity

Some 6,000 riot officers across Britain stand ready to intervene on a string of “Enough is Enough” events, with police monitoring reports of at least 30 possible gatherings.

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OPINION - Dylan Jones: Wear noise-cancelling headphones? You may be ruining London

Even though it doesn’t look like it, I regularly go to the gym, trying to stave off gravity and improve bone density by throwing myself around in my trainers twice a week. Recently, though, this has become something of a headache, and I mean this literally.

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Elon Musk is opening another school. Expect a very un-woke curriculum

The billionaire has been obsessed with education since pulling his kids out of ‘regular school’ 10 years ago. And he’s far from the only celebrity to dabble

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Here’s the real crisis facing the Tories: their older voters are dying off, and nobody’s replacing them

People used to shift rightwards with age. But the Conservatives have destroyed that prospect, and there’s no easy way out, says sociology lecturer Phil Burton-Cartledge

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The slogans, the geopolitics, and the fraught second liberation of Bangladesh

A new interim government headed by Nobel laureate Professor Mohammad Yunus, 84, is taking shape in Bangladesh following Sheikh Hasina’s ouster. Hasina, prime minister of Bangladesh since 2008, resigned and fled the country this week to escape a student-led mass revolt against her rule, plunging the nation of 174 million…

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Men are proving their masculinity by ... staring at nothing for hours on end. Could I hack it?

A six-hour journey with no screens, no music, no books: less ‘dopamine detox’, more absolute nightmare, says freelance writer Rich Pelley

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Big tech firms profit from disorder. Don’t let them use these riots to push for more surveillance

Live facial recognition can seem like a solution to criminality. But it magnifies injustice, and violates our civil liberties, says lawyer Shami Chakrabarti

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Long before I learned the word ‘hubris’ Little Athletics taught me a valuable lesson

With my 11-year-old mind focused on the Olympics, Grandpa took the time to train me for the 100 metres. Then came the 400 metres

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Index of misery: How the RBA’s inconsistency is harming households

The Reserve Bank is increasingly frustrated inflation won’t come down. Maybe it should look at the role governments play.

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New Zealand’s conservative turn sounds chillingly familiar to Indigenous Australians. Here’s why the Māori fight is our fight

Every attack on treaty, land rights, language, culture and self-determination for Māori will give Australia’s politicians more justification for their actions, or lack thereof

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Interest rates hold steady… just

The Reserve Bank considered a rate hike but ultimately held firm yesterday, and Tim Walz is Kamala Harris’ new running mate.

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Kamala Harris’s VP pick may signal a shift away from pivoting to the center

Tim Walz makes an affirmative case for progressive values as American values. That is a break from Democratic party norms

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The Guardian view on Kamala Harris’s vice-presidential pick: Tim Walz is a smart choice for Democrats

Editorial: The impact of running mates shouldn’t be overstated, but Kamala Harris’s selection of the progressive governor of Minnesota is good news

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The Guardian view on Labour and the trade unions: thrust together by more than history

Editorial: Sir Keir Starmer is right to recognise that Britain needs to move away from an economic model that seeks growth by making workers poorer

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Of course I love my children – just don’t assume I’ll like yours

Annoying, boring, bullying – some of the worst people I’ve encountered in my life have been kids

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OPINION - Tim Walz is everybody's favourite uncle, but also a tried and tested attack dog

Kamala Harris has enjoyed three weeks of astonishing momentum by capturing the “hope” represented by Barack Obama’s presidential campaign while copying the “basement” strategy of Joe Biden. Starting tonight at a rally in Philadelphia, she is embarking on a whistle-stop tour of six swing states designed to fire up enthusiasm…

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These riots are more than thuggery: they’re the outcome of 14 years of Tory race-baiting

Because the Conservatives had nothing to offer the people of the UK, they sought to refocus our attention on scapegoats, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Without building bye-laws, there will be only floods and fires, not smart cities

The coaching centre deaths in Delhi aren’t unprecedented. Twenty-seven years back, on a placid summer afternoon in south Delhi, 59 cinegoers perished in a fire at Uphaar theatre because all exits save one were blocked. Extra seating, in contravention of the approved capacity, was created by blocking the exits to…

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UK riots: Downing Street slams Elon Musk over ‘civil war’ post ...Tech & Science Daily podcast

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Trump once seemed invincible. Then Kamala Harris broke the spell

Despite his granitic unpopularity, Trump’s stunts always held attention. Now, Harris makes his act seem old

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OPINION - These nasty UK riots have revealed some worrying blind spots

To watch the UK in its present state from the vantage point of a holiday is a matter of shame: the images of crowds rampaging and threatening are on TV screens across the continent. The British state looks slow-footed, the police at the edge of control.

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Security, foreign designs, new power centres: Delhi’s Dhaka concerns checklist growing bigger

The unceremonious end of the Sheikh Hasina-led Awami League’s 15-year regime in Bangladesh has meant a delicate set of new equations in India’s northeastern neighbourhood.

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