Editorial
Editorials from the Guardian. All Guardian and Observer editorials can be found here
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Editorial: Theresa May has established herself in many voters’ minds as a believable leader and the Labour leader has not. Unless Jeremy Corbyn can change that dramatically in the next month, his party will suffer
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Editorial: The trial of Jakarta’s governor and his tough sentence is a worrying sign of the sway exerted by hardline Islamist groups. Politicians should push back
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Editorial: Theresa May talks big but doesn’t deliver on cleaning up Britain’s polluted cities
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Editorial: Emmanuel Macron’s politics have been shaped by an electoral system that required him to reach out and compromise. Theresa May’s are shaped by a system that does not
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Editorial: French voters have averted the catastrophe of a Marine Le Pen presidency. The task for Emmanuel Macron is to deliver change, prosperity, unity and healing
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Editorial: Unexploded munitions, landmines and improvised devices kill thousands of civilians annually. They must be removed for communities to recover
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Editorial: The council elections show Theresa May on course for general election triumph. Opponents of her hard Brexit plans must respond or face an even worse defeat
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Editorial: Even in an age of diverse, imaginative and varied TV series, one genre retains a remarkable grip on the public’s imagination
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Editorial: Two decades after Gordon Brown allowed the Bank to set interest rates, it must answer new questions about its role and responsibilities
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Editorial: The Duke of Edinburgh’s retirement is a reminder of the contradictions in the idea of ‘modern monarchy’
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Editorial: Theresa May seems to think everyone is out of step but her. But MPs will only hold her to account if they demand the tools for the scrutiny job
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Editorial: The persecuted Rohingya Muslim minority know they cannot wait for Aung San Suu Kyi’s help. Others must step up
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Editorial: Defeating Marine Le Pen is not enough. The French centrist must build a coalition to re-unite his divided country
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Editorial: Parents are lending more than ever to help their children buy property – and entrenching inequality as they do so. More decent, affordable homes are needed
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Accounts of the Downing Street meeting between the PM and the commission president are certainly one-sided. But the two sides need to talk to each other more cooperatively
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The twelve members of the UK Supreme Court are all white and all but one of them are men. Change is long overdue
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Editorial: New Labour was a product of its time. History may judge it more kindly than many of today’s critics
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Editorial: It is not enough for scientists to be right. They must also be politically adept
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Editorial: It is no surprise dissembling has been the defining feature of his first 100 days. If he admitted the truth of his shambolic presidency, it would shorten its span
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Editorial: In embracing the past as a way of tackling the present, he remains a constant reminder of the power of words to tell us about the world we all live in
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Editorial: The high court shouldn’t have been asked to decide on this. But it has rightly ruled against the government’s latest efforts to delay action on air quality
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Editorial: A focus on trivia and personality is nothing new, but recent campaigns have accelerated a decline in proper scrutiny
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Editorial: The shortest parliament for 45 years ends next Tuesday. Now make Theresa May answer for her actions
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Editorial: Though Labour now has a plan to leave the EU, it has avoided spelling out in detail how Britain can depart without a deal in place. This may be embarrassing, but it is politically necessary
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Editorial: People are dying from shortages and state violence as Nicolás Maduro clings to power
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Editorial: In the Bennite era, the left wanted the leader to follow conference policy in the election manifesto. Jeremy Corbyn now seems to have adopted the opposite approach
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Editorial: Egyptian forces appear to have shot detainees in cold blood. There are too many signs that a military dictatorship in a key Arab nation is losing control in the sands of the Sinai
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Editorial: In the first round in the race for the Élysée, the postwar parties have been humbled. France has voted for change
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Editorial: In 2010, David Willetts illuminated the equality divide between young and old. Since then things have only got worse
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Editorial: The presidential poll takes place after a terrible terrorist attack and will decide politics far beyond the nation’s borders. If we had a vote it would be for Emmanuel Macron to turn back the tide of xenophobia
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Editorial: The freedom to embarrass the powerful, even in a bad cause, is vital to journalism and to a free society
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