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Nimbys can’t stand in the way of Labour’s legacy: a 21st-century new town boom
Polly Toynbee
Which do Enfield’s Tories and Greens value more – a golf course or thousands of new homes? It’s a question of political values, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee
Cities sweltering and the smell of the middle ages: has the climate crisis killed Instagram’s Euro summer?
Brigid Delaney
The Nepal and Tibet flood is a warning: melting snow and ice will bring more disasters around the world
Bill McGuire
The datacentre power spat highlights a hidden truth: we’re not building renewables fast enough to meet our needs
Alison Reeve
The law won’t save us from Meta’s ‘pervert glasses’. The only solution is mockery
Jonathan Liew
Defence spending is an insatiable beast. John Healey is right to tame it
John McTernan
More and more undergrads are living at home. That’s a crying shame – here’s why
Rohan Sathyamoorthy
Nuclear submarines in a major city? Sure why not!
The hill I will die on: No self-respecting adult should use the term ‘picky bits’
Laura Snapes
Columnists
Italy may ban staring at your phone while crossing the street. Why stop there?
Dave Schilling
The rebranding of ‘Lake America’ is Trump’s desperate attempt to distract us
Arwa Mahdawi
Dolly Parton was the polar opposite of our bullying president
Robert Reich
Trump’s midterm campaign theme is unrequited love
Sidney Blumenthal
Dolly Parton brought divided Americans together. What can we learn from her?
Margaret Sullivan
Jon Ossoff went low on Natalie Harp. The plan worked
Moira Donegan
This is the question Democrats should ask voters in order to win this November
Robert Reich
ICE’s tactics look increasingly like torture
Judith Levine
Stores are selling Halloween stuff in August. Time has lost all meaning
Dave Schilling
It’s a miracle: Natalie Harp has turned Republicans into feminists
Arwa Mahdawi
Trump’s new attorney general poses a huge threat to abortion rights
Moira Donegan
With ICC sanctions, Trump wants to make the world safe for war criminals
Kenneth Roth
Has Trump no shame about all the money he has made since being in office?
Francine Prose
We are finally witnessing the decline of corporate Democrats
