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This week's furore is microplastics researchers' ozone moment. If they fail, the powerful plastics lobby will step into the breach, says science journalist and author Debora MacKenzie ...

As head of an immigration charity, I've seen firsthand how hostility and toxicity have reached unprecedented levels, says outgoing Refugee Council CEO Enver Solomon ...

For the sake of British Jews and British Muslims - and those of us who believe in multiculturalism - lessons must be learned from the Villa Park row, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff ...

The right is unafraid to show its might on the world stage - meanwhile the PM is tinkering with potholes, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty ...

Carl Schmitt wanted empires that dominated the small countries in their orbits. But the US president's chaotic actions are not that strategic, says Brendan Simms, director of the Centre for Geopolitics at Cambridge University ...

For A$30k you could have a remote employee see inside your home via a walking, talking machine with a chilling blank face. Count me out ...

Editorial: The US president delights in his inconsistency. But his short-term victories have profound long-term costs for his country and the world ...

Farage was all smiles as the Tory rightwinger he once called a 'fraud' defected to Reform. Will it be big enough for the both of them? Keep watching, says Guardian columnist Zoe Williams ...

Survivors of the regime like me are reliving our nightmares as brave Iranians fight for their freedom. They say they have nothing to lose but their chains, says women's rights activist and torture survivor Nasrin Parvaz ...

Call it tall poppy syndrome or the nonchalant olympics, but we've grown accustomed to an almost nonexistent form of flirting from the local male species ...