Editorial
Editorials from the Guardian. All Guardian and Observer editorials can be found here
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The Guardian view on the Green party: narrow the focus, win the argumentEditorial: There are critics on the sidelines who say the Green party isn’t needed any more. But without it, vital policies will slide down the agenda
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The Guardian view on the big banks: shake them up, pleaseEditorial: The market in high-street banking is huge, lucrative and dysfunctional, yet the regulator does not plan to make it work much better
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The Guardian view on the Eurovision song contest: how to protest and surviveEditorial: Jamala’s song about the fate of the Crimean Tatars in the Stalin era stands in a long and glorious tradition of political music making
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The Guardian view on the higher education white paper: the customer is always ripe – for fleecingEditorial: The government wants colleges and universities to work for the economy by filling the skills gap and for society by promoting social mobility. But it’s the student who is expected to pay
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The Guardian view on the referendum debate: from hype to hysteriaEditorial: Hitler is not a trump card to play in the debate over UK membership of the EU
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The Guardian view on elections in the Philippines: a leap into the unknownEditorial: Rodrigo Duterte, the Philippines’ new president, could prove to be a very loose cannon indeed
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The Guardian view on migration: we need a stronger stateEditorial: Statistics will never console the people who feel they don’t count
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The Guardian view on term-time holidays: give them a breakEditorial: School holidays based on pre-industrial social rhythms are struggling to cope with the pattern of modern lives and the global consumer culture
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The Guardian view on charter renewal: round one to the BBCEditorial: The director general has won some big arguments but there is a lot in the detail that needs to be clarified before victory can be declared
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The Guardian view on Dilma Rousseff’s impeachment: the political system should be on trial, not one womanEditorial: The president is brought low by her enemies, but can they give Brazil the new start it needs?
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The Guardian view on armed drones: a new code for a new form of warfareEditorial: Drone warfare is both lethal and real. Governments, including the UK, must stop looking in the other direction. An international legal code is the best hope of a rules-based approach
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The Guardian view on sex abuse: lessons from home and abroadEditorial: The campaigns platform 38 degrees has taken down a petition against the BBC political editor because of misogynistic abuse. French women journalists and politicians are calling out bad behaviour. Is the sexist writing on the wall at last?
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The Guardian view on corruption: David Cameron should look closer to homeEditorial: Britain wags its finger at dodgy money in poor countries – even while the City pushes the cash into tax havens
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The Guardian view on European politics: Vienna callingEditorial: The resignation of the Austrian chancellor, under pressure from a resurgent far right, is frightening in its own right. But it also betrays the chill political winds blowing across a whole continent
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The Guardian view on the EU debate: David Cameron makes a serious caseEditorial: Now that the elections are over, the battle for Britain in Europe will move centre stage. David Cameron’s sense of history is simplistic, but his latest case for remaining in the EU started to raise the tone
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The Guardian view on statistics and NHS reforms: Jeremy Hunt’s number gamesEditorial: The health secretary says his plans for a ‘seven-day NHS’ could save 11,000 lives annually. But the more the experts examine that number, the shakier it looks
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The Guardian view on artificial intelligence: look out, it’s ahead of youEditorial: There is a tendency to see intelligence where it does not exist. But it is just as wrong to fail to see where it is emerging
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The Guardian view on the housing bill: ideological overreachEditorial: The government’s slapdash legislative plans have led to some much-needed second thoughts. But instead of its own lack of grip it’s blaming parliament and wants to reduce its powers
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The Guardian view on England’s local elections: the map’s unchanged, but mayors could move thingsEditorial: Jeremy Corbyn avoided the predicted Waterloo, in elections where few seats changed hands. And Sadiq Khan’s win in London is a moment for progressive politics to stop introspecting, and start demonstrating what it can do
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The Guardian view on the Scottish and Welsh elections: doing it their own wayEditorial: Big wins were predicted for the SNP in Scotland and for Labour in Wales. They both delivered – but underneath the surface the results show politics across these islands are getting more volatile
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The Guardian view on Syria: the agonies of AleppoEditorial: There can be no meaningful settlement to the civil war without an elusive, enduring truce in the shelled-out remains of what was once a nation’s second city
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The Guardian view on Jeremy Hunt and the doctors: stop fighting, start talkingEditorial: No one’s winning in this dangerous industrial dispute. At last there’s an opportunity to find a settlement. Both sides should grasp it
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The Guardian view on Donald Trump: only one way to stop him nowEditorial: America’s Republicans have consistently failed to come up with ways of stopping Donald Trump from taking over their party. But the blame must be shared more widely too
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The Guardian view on Cameron’s offer to refugee children: it’s the least he could doEditorial: The prime minister bowed to the threat of defeat. Some lone child refugees will be given a home in the UK. It is a welcome concession, but not nearly enough
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The Guardian view on counter-terrorist propaganda: a crude weapon in the battle for hearts and minds
The Guardian view on counter-terrorist propaganda: a crude weapon in the battle for hearts and minds
Editorial: Covert messaging can be counterproductive. The answer to the jihadis, and anyone else who seeks to divide society, is to uphold the values that liberal democracy relies on -
The Guardian view on graduates and employment: degrees but not destinationsEditorial: Swingeing fee increases have not interrupted the breathtaking growth of the British university industry. But there is a depressing mismatch between the burgeoning graduate population and limited openings in real graduate jobs
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The Guardian view on the local elections: ignore England at your perilEditorial: The whole British electorate has a vote this week. But the key signals about the next general election will be the state of opinion in the rest of England, rather than London or Scotland
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The Guardian view on the trade union bill: unprincipled and unnecessaryEditorial: The government has been forced to back down on some key changes, but this is still a nasty undemocratic piece of partisan law-making
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The Guardian view on the state and the market: the end of ‘hands-off’ economicsEditorial: The financial crisis exposed how public guarantees underpinned private profits in banking. Now the BHS saga reveals how the rewards for owning businesses of other sorts are also unmatched by payment of a proper price for failure
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The Guardian view on Spain’s political impasse: no relief yet in sightEditorial: The new politics ends in muddle as a weary country prepares to vote again
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The Guardian view on London’s mayoral race: elect Citizen KhanEditorial: An able politician, Sadiq Khan edges his rivals on the housing crisis. And the divisive Conservative campaign run against him is all the more reason to make this Muslim the mayor
The Guardian view on Libya: a nation’s tragedy, a continent’s problem