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What’s left after this World Cup? A kind of messy hope

Kazakhs cheering Uzbeks, Bengalis wild for Argentina … This tournament was once a playground for nationalism. Now it shows how flimsy that allegiance is, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Liew

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Britain has become addicted to pressing the ‘new PM’ button – and I don’t see how Burnham avoids it

He’s almost certain to become the UK’s seventh leader in a decade. And with the rightwing press and the algorithm against him, he’s basically a meat sacrifice, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Liew

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Our efforts to record Tiananmen atrocity

Brief letters: Tiananmen Square protests | Switching from X | So to Speke | JD Vance | Binary understanding

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Why do the right’s Henry Nowak protests look like a party? Distasteful as it is, they’re having fun

Booze, laughter and football chants: the British right are relishing what they see as their George Floyd moment, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Liew

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We’d love to leave X, but sadly have little choice

Letters: Mat Watkinson and Keith Flett respond to Jonathan Liew’s article asking why many self-professed progressives still use Elon Musk’s social media platform

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If you’re still on Elon Musk’s X, ask yourself this: why?

Some argue that quitting the platform formerly known as Twitter cedes the space to malign actors. But it’s an open sewer, beyond redemption, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Liew

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David Attenborough is not just a national treasure: he is also the most radical person on TV

The naturalist is venerated as a cuddly Paddington Bear, but he’s more than that. Don’t let the superficial backslaps obscure the political critique he makes, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Liew

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Guardian Sport and Jonathan Liew win top prizes at SJA Awards

Guardian Sport received two top prizes at the prestigious Sports Journalists’ Association’s British Sports Journalism Awards on Monday evening.

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We were told the 2026 World Cup would be a unifying force. The reality is far different

The original plans for this summer’s tournament could scarcely sound much different than what we seem to have in store

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A hundred years after her birth, we still over-revere Queen Elizabeth II. The monarchy? Not so much

To survive, the house of Windsor must maintain the illusions it once sustained. That is clearly no longer possible, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Liew

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Here’s the danger: if Labour doesn’t offer a radical solution to the energy-price crisis, others will

Money-off vouchers won’t do. Instead, the government needs to offer a lasting vision for energy security – because we already know what Reform’s is, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Liew

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A corner of north London where food has become a battleground in the Israel-Gaza war

First comes the hummus: studded with chickpeas, anointed with a little reservoir of olive oil, greedily smeared up with hunks of pitta bread and messy fingers. Then the tabbouleh, then some homemade falafels, and then the lentil soup, and already the senses are overloaded, plates and bowls spilling off the…

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Pubs are for everyone. Don’t let Reform make them the political property of the boorish hard right

Farage and Anderson’s sums aren’t the only thing that doesn’t add up about their plan to save the great British pub, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Liew

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Copyrighted art, mobile phones, Greenland: welcome to our age of shameless theft

The human impulse to steal has been accelerated by AI, inequality and our political leaders – with profound consequences, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Liew

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A linguistic own goal from Starmer’s critics

Letters: Readers respond to Jonathan Liew’s article on rude chants on the football terraces about the prime minister

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When crowds direct offensive chants at Keir Starmer, who’s to blame? I’m afraid he is

The PM’s technocrat tendencies and lack of obvious backbone make him a target for amorphous rage, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Liew

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Spiteful or fair? Reeves’s mansion tax plan proves divisive

Letters: Robert Appleford says in the real world, this tax penalises hard-working families, while Tom Holden feels there is an increasing lack of any sense of privilege. Plus letters from Vicky Mills and Kit Jackson

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Won’t somebody please think of England’s poor £2m homeowners? Oh, wait – everyone already is

Contrast the furious reaction to Rachel Reeves’s ‘mansion tax’ to the response offered to those living with real housing injustice: indifference, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Liew

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Why a vibrant, multicultural London scares the right

Letters: Readers respond to an article by Jonathan Liew on rightwing condemnation of the capital

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Say what you like about ‘Sadiq Khan’s no-go hellscape’ – Britain’s cities prove the rightwing agitators wrong

To rightwing populists, places of fluidity and freedom will always be the enemy, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Liew

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Standing with Maccabi’s football hooligans against local police – is that what patriotism looks like now?

Tommy Robinson is said to be going to Villa Park as a Maccabi Tel Aviv fan. Do the politicians jumping on this bandwagon care what they are doing, asks Guardian columnist Jonathan Liew

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We know what the comedians got out of the Riyadh comedy festival. What about the Saudi regime?

The tawdry event was an ultimately doomed attempt by the Saudi government to buy the kind of authentic grassroots culture it is unwilling to countenance, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Liew

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Why Britain must not get taken in by Dubai’s skin-deep glitz

Letters: Readers responding to Jonathan Liew’s article on Reform UK’s admiration for the emirate

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The populist right wants to remake the UK in the image of Dubai. We should all be careful what they wish for

Politicians and influencers eulogise the emirate as a place of cleanliness, convenience and low crime. The truth is far darker, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Liew

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Racist and intolerant – is this the Britain we want to become?

Letters: Readers respond to Jonathan Liew’s article about the effects of the toxic debate on immigration and the rise of the far right

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