Editorial
Editorials from the Guardian. All Guardian and Observer editorials can be found here
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Editorial: Institutions are the bedrock of our society and they echo our biases. In a time of political, economic and social division, we must ensure that they can check them too
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Editorial: There have been at least 2,000 drownings already this year. This is a moment for the revived EU to show some solidarity
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Editorial: Pyongyang’s latest missile launch is a potent reminder that little time is left to slow the North’s weapons programme. Talks are unpalatable – but necessary
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Editorial: Half the cabinet wants to lift the 1% cap on public sector pay. But finding the money to pay for it is a Tory chancellor’s nightmare
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Editorial: In a speech in Versailles, France’s centrist leader seized his moment. The contrast with Theresa May’s agenda is a sobering one
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Editorial: The arts are a British success story. Now they need more resources, more boldly distributed
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Editorial: A united European front, not pandering, is the right response to the US president’s visit
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Editorial: As the region marks 20 years since its return to China, there is rightly concern about its future
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Editorial: Kensington and Chelsea council has failed to manage the fallout of the disaster. Ministers should put the local authority into special measures and send in a new team to take over the running of it
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Editorial: In a hung parliament, ministers must defer much more to MPs and that is a healthy development for democracy
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Editorial: A public inquiry established the facts of the 1989 disaster. Finally it has been decided that trials will apportion guilt where necessary. Never again must we take so long for justice to prevail
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Editorial: There are things that money just can’t measure, and nature is valuable because it can’t have a price
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Editorial: The SNP exists to lead Scotland out of the United Kingdom. But the tide is not running the nationalists’ way and may even have turned against them
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Editorial: The prime minister is governing as if she has a majority and a mandate. She needs to learn that she has neither
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Editorial: We need to recover faith in the scrutinising pressure of a truly independent, diverse media. Concentrating more power in the hands of a rightwing billionaire won’t help
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Editorial: As home secretary Theresa May was right to challenge Britain’s police about costs and efficiency. As prime minister she must ensure police have the resources to protect the public
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Editorial: Dame Moira Gibb’s remarkable report exposes a long and shameful pattern of sympathy for the wrong people
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Editorial: Twelve months after the EU referendum, Theresa May’s latest Brussels trip reveals that the EU is leaving Britain behind, not the other way round
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Editorial: The Bank of England’s chief economist is right to say a casualised, de-unionised and atomised labour market has weakened workers’ ability to bid up wages. He’s wrong to say it may be time to raise interest rates
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Editorial: At 31, the country’s new heir could have a long reign ahead of him. The reverberations are likely to be felt far beyond its borders
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Editorial: The minority government’s programme junks many of the things it wanted to do, in favour of measures it thinks it can get away with
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Editorial: The board finally acted to force the chief executive’s resignation. But the change may only be superficial
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Editorial: The noose is tightening around Islamic State at a time when the Middle East is in tumult. Miscalculations or accidental incidents could easily spark a wider conflagration, whose spiralling effect no one could then control
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Editorial: There was much in the chancellor’s rescheduled Mansion House speech that fits with what Britain needs. But his party remains its own worst enemy over Brexit
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Editorial: This latest dreadful act is also a timely reminder of the experience of Islamophobia that Muslims in Britain endure
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