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The Guardian view on Trump’s civilisational threats: the words that fuel war must be condemned | Editorial 10 Απριλίου 2026

Military euphemisms can be deadly. Yet the brutal rhetoric of the US and Israel is proving still more lethal“Metaphors can kill,” the linguist George Lakoff wrote in an influential essay on the Gulf war. “The use of a metaphor with a set of definitions becomes pernicious when it hides realities in a harmful way.” He […]

The Guardian view on dystopias for our times: the American nightmare | Editorial 10 Απριλίου 2026

Margaret Atwood’s The Testaments and the Oscar-winning film One Battle After Another are grim parables of today. But they are not without hopeAs Margaret Atwood has said, all dystopian fiction is “really about now”. No wonder the genre is flourishing. This week Atwood’s bleak vision of a future America as a patriarchal theocracy returned to […]

The Guardian view on Hungary’s election: a bellwether contest for the global far right | Editorial 9 Απριλίου 2026

Defeat for Viktor Orbán on Sunday would be celebrated in Brussels, mourned in Washington and Moscow, and would give his country its democracy backHungary has a population of less than 10 million and an economy that produces a modest 1.1% of the European Union’s GDP. But on Sunday it will hold the most important election […]

The Guardian view on reversing the two-child benefit limit: a moment to celebrate | Editorial 9 Απριλίου 2026

More is needed to tackle inequality and deprivation in Britain, but the importance of this week’s step must be recognisedFairness was what the then chancellor George Osborne said he was aiming at when he introduced the two‑child benefit cap. Each child costs a family more, he argued, and yet only some consider the full costs […]

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