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The Guardian view on Barack Obama’s midterms defeat: he must try harderEditorial: The president faces a hostile legislature, and working with it will not be easy. But the world cannot afford for him to drift into lethargy. He must pick up the pieces and lead
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The Guardian view on criminalising drinking in pregnancy: no cheersEditorial: Who will benefit from the bid to criminalise a woman who damaged her baby by drinking in pregnancy?
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The Guardian view on GCHQ: kickstarting the wrong debateEditorial: The new surveillance chief says he wants to talk about privacy. Good. But he seems more interested in pointing fingers at the tech giants than reconsidering GCHQ’s own role
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The Guardian view on naming Ann Maguire’s murderer: Will Cornick was a child but he forfeited his anonymityEditorial: The teacher’s death was premeditated, public and cruelly violent
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The Guardian view on David Cameron’s dangerous game in Europe: he is putting Britain’s future at riskEditorial: The prime minister needs friends and allies. He must not alienate Angela Merkel and others who might yet strike a deal
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The Guardian view on the chancellor’s misleading letters to taxpayers. The watchdog must interveneEditorial: The government has produced a divisive, highly partisan account of Whitehall’s spending. This is shameless ` electioneering
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The Guardian view on the future of the World Service: preserve and protect this jewel in the BBC’s crownEditorial: The BBC must fight to preserve a World Service that other countries would kill for
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The Guardian view on who should lead the transitional government in Burkina FasoEditorial: No more presidents for life in Africa: that is the message from Ouagadougou
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The Observer view on Barack Obama and the US midterm electionsObserver editorial: The US president deserves far more credit for his reforms than he is presently being given
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The Observer view on ‘family-friendly’ policiesObserver editorial: Iain Duncan Smith wants civil servants to apply ‘family-friendly’ tests to all new policies. He should look at the coalition’s own record first
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The Guardian view on Fiona Woolf and the child sex abuse inquiryEditorial: The government now faces the difficult task of finding an acceptable figure to head the inquiry, but it should also redraw the impossibly far-ranging terms of reference
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The Guardian view on the effectiveness of British foreign aid: a sharper focus on everyday corruptionEditorial: Poor people in underdeveloped countries suffer from endless petty corruption. British aid programmes should be redesigned to make this less likely, even if this offends governments
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The Guardian view of the US midterms: plenty to shout aboutEditorial: Barack Obama has a good record. The Democrats should defend it more assertively
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The Guardian view on protests against taxing the internet in Hungary: Europe needs to show its supportEditorial: The net is the last platform for criticism and dissent in Hungary. Europe should back the protests against taxes that would limit its use
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The Guardian view on Halloween: a game we all can playEditorial: We need a festival for autumn, death and darkness. But does it have to be so tacky?
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The Guardian view on drugs policy: time for the politicians to study the evidenceEditorial: The Home Office’s new study shows being tough on drugs has no effect on drug use, only on its costs
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The Guardian view on Scotland and the EU referendum: the question needs an answerEditorial: Nicola Sturgeon’s call for a Scottish veto moves the debate about the future of the union onto fertile territory
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The Guardian view on gender inequality in the UK: time to change the factsEditorial: Britain’s gender gap remains too big. If we don’t tackle it, things will only get worse
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The Guardian view on the refugee crisis: Europe must meet this moral challengeEditorial: There are practical steps that can be taken to help thousands of desperate people
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The Guardian view on the state of Britain’s armed forces after the final withdrawal from HelmandEditorial: The British army’s reputation has suffered in Iraq and Afghanistan: it was asked to do too much and it offered to do too much
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Steve Bell on the return of UK troops to Iraq – cartoon
Defence secretary Michael Fallon says officers will be involved in strategic and advisory role
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Steve Bell on Nigel Farage – cartoon
Ukip leader Nigel Farage described visiting the poppy art installation at the Tower of London as humbling and awe-inspiring
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Steve Bell on Germany's stance on EU freedom of movement – cartoon
Official says Germany wants an engaged UK within EU but principle of free movement should not be meddled with
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First Dog on the Moon on Australian immigration – cartoon
Too many asylum seekers on boats? Try the Australian solution. It works!
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Martin Rowson on the Scottish Labour party – cartoon
Jim Murphy's qualities saw him plough his own furrow during the Scottish referendum campaign with his 100-town tour, speaking while standing on two Irn-Bru crates – now they make him the dominant candidate in the contest for the leadership of the Scottish Labour party
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Tayo Fatunla on the UK drugs policy – cartoon
Prime minister David Cameron says no to drugs policy review after report fails to find link between tough laws and levels of illegal substance use
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Martin Rowson on David Cameron – cartoon
The deputy Labour leader, Harriet Harman, wore a feminist T-shirt at prime minister's questions following David Cameron's refusal to don the garment as part of a campaign for Elle magazine
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Martin Rowson on the Home Office and the refugee crisis – cartoon
The Home Office has defended its decision to end British support for search-and-rescue operations for migrants in danger of drowning in the Mediterranean
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First Dog on the Moon on Afghanistan – cartoon
International forces touted the Gizab's uprising against the Taliban as a success story of civil courage and a milestone in the decade-long war – but now the district is about to fall back under the control of the insurgents
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Martin Rowson on David Cameron and the EU bill – cartoon
The EU bill comes as Cameron is wrestling with dilemmas over Britain's future in Europe and making increasingly eurosceptic gestures to the restless backbenchers who want to deal with Nigel Farage's Europe rejectionists
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Martin Rowson on the NHS and Tesco – cartoon
Survey finds pessimism among UK population, particularly women and poorer people, over future of national health service
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First Dog on the Moon on Isis – cartoon
A US airdrop of arms to besieged Kurds in Kobani appears to have missed its target and ended up in the hands of Islamic State (Isis) militants
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Steve Bell on peerages – cartoon
Sir Andrew Green, the long-term chairman of the thinktank MigrationWatch UK, has been made a peer by David Cameron
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Steve Bell on David Cameron's plans to curb EU migrants – cartoon
Prime minister to lay out plans before Christmas on curbing the rights of EU migrants to work in Britain
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Martin Rowson on the Vatican and gay rights – cartoon
Pope Francis appears to have lost out to powerful conservatives in the Roman Catholic church after bishops scrapped language that had been hailed as a historic warming of attitudes towards gay people
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First Dog on the Moon on the Ebola outbreak – cartoon
The Ebola outbreak continues in west Africa, but its effect on western countries is not as great as many in the media imply
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Steve Bell on David Cameron and EU immigration – cartoon
David Cameron is expected to make clear that he has hardened his position and has decided that restrictions will have to be imposed on citizens from current EU member states
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Steve Bell on Lord Freud and welfare reform – cartoon
Labour calls for welfare minister to be sacked for saying some disabled people were 'not worth' the minimum wage
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Steve Bell on the English votes for English laws debate – cartoon
SNP condemns broken promises while Labour says it will boycott a 'Westminster stitch-up'
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Steve Bell on the 2015 general election debates – cartoon
BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Sky News plan to include Ukip leader Nigel Farage in election debates but not Greens and SNP
Alex from Target was a fake corporate meme? That's not viral – it's offensive
Listen to sex workers – we can explain what decriminalisation would mean
The RSPCA should not be allowed to kill cats
Europe’s new left parties can make the dreams of 1968 come true
Yes there is misogyny among gay men – but our sexist world is the problem
Lord Falconer and Giles Fraser clash on the assisted dying bill – video
Lord Falconer argues that the bill would relieve enormous suffering while Giles Fraser says he has a 'tin ear to the complexity' of the matter
David Cameron must focus on Britain’s interests, not on those of Eurosceptics
2014 was an election of firsts for Republican women. But it wasn't a 'win' for women at all
America just took a wrong turn. It's time to take a hard left
Ideas for 6-7 November
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Do you prefer the arts to football?
Melvyn Bragg has said that more people are involved with the arts than that watch the Premier League, and urged the BBC to put on more arts programming. Do you agree?
What do you tell your father when he's ready to die? Dignity shouldn't be illegal
The real reason doctors are being instructed in the ethics of waste
Remembrance Sunday should not be dominated by religion
We know how to eradicate tax abuse. So why aren’t businesses doing it?
The centre cannot hold under austerity, in Britain or Europe
Australia's racist constitution is a stain on our country. Do we care enough to change it?
Australian immigration: First Dog talks through the cartoon – audio
Too many asylum seekers? Try the Australian solution. It works!
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Greg Hunt's leaked messages: First Dog talks through the cartoon – audio
When Brenda the civil disobedience penguin stumbles across some naughty messages, what she learns could bring down the government
Aboriginal people must not negotiate with politicians who assault their land rights