Editorial
Editorials from the Guardian. All Guardian and Observer editorials can be found here
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Editorial: With more than 1,000 deaths from Covid every day for weeks, talk of looser restrictions is reckless. The prime minister should ignore his backbenchers
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Editorial: It is mad to be concerned about levels of government debt when so many people’s livelihoods and wellbeing are at stake
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Editorial: The BBC should argue for itself as a public utility, central to democratic life
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Editorial: There’s a growing backlash against Narendra Modi’s autocratic tendencies and the plutocrat donors who fund his party
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Editorial: Overwhelmed hospitals and sky-high daily deaths are the price of its mistakes. But ministers can still act to reduce the toll
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Editorial: Technological advances combined with tough emissions targets are bringing the end of petrol and diesel traffic into view
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Editorial: America and Britain are each emerging from disruptive internal periods. The alliance between them must be rooted in realism about the present, not fantasy about the past
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Editorial: Families face immiseration in a pandemic. They can’t hold on until a March budget. The chancellor needs to act and act now
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Editorial: The passing of power from a dangerous man to one set on healing his country is a relief. But American democracy remains in peril
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Editorial: Conservatives continue to obsess about the burden to business of red tape, except where it is real – at the EU border
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Editorial: The US has accused China of genocide against the Uighurs, while British MPs are pressing the government to take a tougher stand
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Editorial: The strong start of the UK’s inoculation programme doesn’t cancel out past failures. But it is a huge relief
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Editorial: The Russian opposition leader’s decision to return from Germany to Moscow was an act of remarkable courage
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Editorial: The prime minister should be ditching the economic doctrine that is causing so much misery. Instead, he is using Brexit to supercharge it
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Editorial: With no roadmap for peace, Israel risks being compared to the old South Africa
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Editorial: Working parents, and particularly mothers, are in an impossible bind. As minister for women, Liz Truss must take a stand
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Editorial: Democracy has been threatened by commercialising the swift spread of controversy and lies for political advantage
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Editorial: This gentle programme also tells a curiously poignant tale of British industrial history
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