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08/02/2025

I’ve seen how dance can transform lives. I urge the government to put it back where it belongs – at the heart of the curriculum, says Shirley Ballas, head judge on Strictly Come Dancing

08/02/2025

It was once a left-field choice but now, like the Aperol spritz before it, my favourite pint has lost its lustre. Anyone for a Murphy’s? asks culture writer Lauren O’Neill

08/02/2025

The US president’s real-estate fantasies rely on the erasure of Gaza’s people and culture. Now we must act to preserve them, says Palestinian lawyer and writer Raja Shehadeh

07/02/2025

Editorial: The US president’s attack on an essential institution speaks volumes about his broader foreign policy

07/02/2025

Editorial: Hit novels by Sarah J Maas and Rebecca Yarros offer more than s*x and escapism. They have reclaimed the fantasy genre for women

07/02/2025

Letters: Dr Tom McClelland on the consequences of AI consciousness, Michael Webb on protecting creative industries, and Prof Virginia Dignum and Prof Wendy Hall on the need for a global regulatory framework

07/02/2025

Letters: Scientists around the world are leading research into cold fusion as an alternative to fossil fuels so it should not be dismissed as pseudo-scientific, say MIT-based researchers. Plus a letter from Huw Price

07/02/2025

Letters: Dr Scott Allan Orr says prehistoric and medieval sites deserve greater respect and funding. Dr Nick Merriman sets the record straight on staffing. Plus a letter from Philip Rutnam

07/02/2025

Letters: Antony Barlow recalls an earlier Labour government’s policy and Linda Karlsen says education is the key, while Sue Jackson is concerned by humanities cuts at universities

07/02/2025

Letter: Football’s world governing body is working with the International Trade Union Confederation to safeguard standards in Saudi Arabia, writes Bryan Swanson

07/02/2025

Letters: Tyrannical things | Trump’s Gaza plan | Trump Jr’s duck | Laundry | Adrien Brody’s nose

07/02/2025

Rarely has a US president proposed an idea more repugnant than this Gaza plan, with its appeal to old enmities, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

07/02/2025

The US president’s plans for the Strip suggest his pro-settler advisers are in the ascendant

07/02/2025

Hailed as a progressive triumph, now it’s mired in scandal and acrimony. If that’s not a film for our troubled times, what is? asks Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

07/02/2025

Research shows that not all hours spent glued to a screen are created equal, so I’m actively encouraging nutritional content such as Minecraft, says Guardian columnist Emma Brockes

07/02/2025

He eulogises the 25th incumbent, William McKinley, but on tariffs and imperialism, Trump is learning the wrong lessons, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

07/02/2025

We are the post-pandemic flâneurs: stepping out of social media silos to meet people and connect with the world around us

07/02/2025

The decimation of USAid is already having a terrible effect in some of the poorest places on the planet. It damages America: it will harm us all, says Gordon Brown, the UN’s special envoy for global education

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