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The Guardian view on Trump’s apocalyptic threats: a sign not of strength, but of moral and strategic weakness | Editorial 6 Απριλίου 2026

An expletive-ridden post on social media shamed the office of the US president. Its substantive message, if acted on, would be a war crimeArticle 52 of the first additional protocol to the Geneva conventions prohibits attacks on civilian targets. It is on those grounds that the international criminal court has issued arrest warrants for Russian […]

The Guardian view on Cambridge’s £190m gift: billionaires won’t fix universities’ problems | Editorial 6 Απριλίου 2026

Philanthropy increases the gap dividing highly selective, elite higher education from the rest. Ministers need a plan for the sector overallAbout 2% of UK universities’ income came from donations and endowments in 2024-25 – slightly less than the previous year. At a time when charitable giving overall is down, the announcement last week of a record […]

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 […]