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The Guardian view on Britain’s religious right: using and abusing faith in the pursuit of power | Editorial 5 Απριλίου 2026

A professed desire to protect the country’s Christian identity is cover for a divisive politics which ignores the central message of the gospelsIn an interview conducted a few days after the beginning of Lent, Reform UK’s Muslim home affairs spokesperson, Zia Yusuf, outlined a new policy to prevent churches being converted to mosques. This was […]

The Guardian view on Japan’s hidden century: cheap money, global risk | Editorial 5 Απριλίου 2026

Ultra-low rates turned the yen into easy cash for bankers. But the carry trade now binds global markets to decisions in TokyoIn 2015, Clyde Prestowitz’s book Japan Restored imagined a Japanese century emerging from upheavals such as an Israeli attack on Iran. While conflict now grips the Middle East, there are few indications of the revolutionary […]

The Guardian view on the US and Europe: the UK tried to be a bridge, but Trump likes to burn them | Editorial 3 Απριλίου 2026

The president’s outbursts on allies and Nato were further confirmation that Europe cannot wait to bolster security – and Britain must play its part“She had no more surprises for him; the unexpected in her behaviour was the only thing to expect,” Henry James wrote in his novel Daisy Miller. Leaders dealing with Donald Trump surely […]

The Guardian view on the Women’s Library at 100: a cause for celebration but not complacency | Editorial 3 Απριλίου 2026

The ups and downs of the collection launched by Millicent Fawcett make it an apt symbol of an ongoing struggleWhen the Women’s Library opened a century ago, the movement it documented appeared triumphant. Most British women had gained the vote in 1918, and in 1928 suffragist campaigners would ensure that they held it on the […]

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