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Europe Is Losing Control of Its Migration Policy

For more than a decade, the European Union has struggled to develop a coherent and credible migration policy. Despite repeated promises of comprehensive reform,...

The right hates The Odyssey because of its ‘wokeness’ – but it missed an even bigger threat to its worldview | Peter Swallow

For years, a small but vocal corner of the extremely online right has looked to the ancient world to justify its polluted brand of...

Isaac Hammouch – Ceuta: The Unanswered Questions Behind the Exodus of Thousands of Moroccans

Thousands of Moroccans attempted to reach the Spanish enclave of Ceuta within hours, under circumstances that continue to raise questions. Between social...

Liechtenstein’s archaic abortion laws need to be modernised. But a prince is standing in the way | Gabriella Alvarez-Hummel

The first person Maria* called when she found out she was pregnant was her doctor. The second person was a lawyer. The single mother...

Traffic, mobiles, music … let’s turn the volume down | Letters

Your editorial is right that noise pollution deserves to be treated as a public-health issue rather than a mere irritation (The Guardian view on...

The Guardian view on global corporate tax: a $500bn prize that states must seize | Editorial

Governments are told that public services must shrink because money is tight. Yet a new Tax Justice Network report says that countries could capture...

The Guardian view on drought: hot, dry conditions make inequality starker | Editorial

Compared with rising heat-related deaths, and devastating wildfires in the Cairngorms and Suffolk, the announcement that the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) is considering moving its hydrangea collection...

Why we’re all obsessed with Jimothy the raccoon, the internet’s animal of the moment | Elle Hunt

Anyone who enjoys memes (who doesn’t?) has surely by now accumulated a mental menagerie of internet-famous animals. Mine include: Grumpy Cat, the Ikea monkey,...