Nine lessons for the US from Viktor Orbán’s defeat | Kenneth Roth As US elections approach, the Hungarian prime minister’s loss is a reminder that history does not march relentlessly toward autocracy

Nine lessons for the US from Viktor Orbán’s defeat | Kenneth Roth www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

US spending on ‘reckless’ Iran war could have saved 87m lives, says UN Head of UN’s humanitarian agency frustrated that $2bn weekly cost of conflict comes amid big cuts to aid budgets

US spending on ‘reckless’ Iran war could have saved 87m lives, says UN www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Trump’s presidency is what evil looks like: absurd, frightening, cruel | Nesrine Malik Commentators have said that the US president’s clownishness and lack of ideology somehow make him less dangerous. They’re wrong, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

Trump’s presidency is what evil looks like: absurd, frightening, cruel | Nesrine Malik www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

$30m an hour: big oil reaping huge war windfall from consumers, analysis finds Exclusive: Climate action blockers including Saudi Arabia, Russia and major fossil fuel firms set to make extra $234bn by end of 2026

$30m an hour: big oil reaping huge war windfall from consumers, analysis finds www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Orbán’s defeat holds lessons for US: ‘Autocrats may rise, but are not invincible’ Stunning loss of rightwing populist in Hungary carries symbolic significance for opponents of Donald Trump

Orbán’s defeat holds lessons for US: ‘Autocrats may rise, but are not invincible’ www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Israeli forces fire teargas at schoolchildren holding West Bank sit-in Incident took place in small village on day pupils were due back in class for first time in more than 40 days

Israeli forces fire teargas at schoolchildren holding West Bank sit-in www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

A series of posts from journalist Mark Chadbourn reporting on the acceptance speech of Péter Magyar after Hungarian elections: Péter Magyar: "Our country wants to live again. It wants to be a European country again." Mark Chadbourn• @chadbourn.bsky.social • 24m Magyar's speech is powered. From a contact in the audience: "He's basically just asked all the puppets, all the supreme justices, all the heads of media, all the heads of the ministries to leave their jobs tomorrow and not wait to be fired." •.. Mark Chadbourn• @chadbourn.bsky.social • 22m He's announced that Hungary will join the European Prosecution Office so anyone in the country can be charged. Mark Chadbourn• @chadbourn.bsky.social • 21m Magyar: "No mercy, they will need to take responsibility for all their actions." ... Mark Chadbourn• @chadbourn.bsky.social • 20m Magyar says he's starting work with the EU and NATO immediately. "The EU doesn't have to worry anymore."

From new Hungarian Prime Minister Péter Magyar's acceptance speech tonight. This is the absolute BARE MINIMUM platform for any Democrat running for President in 2028.

Hungary election live: ‘We have done it,’ Magyar tells jubilant Budapest as Orbán’s 16-year rule ends Long-serving prime minister beaten by opposition after early results showed clear lead

Hungary election live: ‘We have done it,’ Magyar tells jubilant Budapest as Orbán’s 16-year rule ends www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

Hi, I just signed this! We’re trying to break the record for the UK's biggest ever thank you card - dedicated to everyone in our community who makes life a bit easier. The neighbour offering a helping hand, the kids’ football ref, etc. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/si...

Want to know capitalism’s endgame? Just look at private equity – it has captured our everyday lives | Hettie O'Brien These companies now own everything from nurseries to care homes, squeezing vital services for profit while we foot the bill, says Hettie O’Brien, author of The Asset Class: How Private Equity Turned C...

Want to know capitalism’s endgame? Just look at private equity – it has captured our everyday lives | Hettie O'Brien www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Raise taxes on companies profiteering from Iran war Millions across the UK are already struggling just to get by. Bills are rising, wages aren’t keeping up, and families are being pushed to the brink. As the impacts of the Iran war ripple through the g...

The Iran war is making everything more expensive for us, but some companies are cashing in. Don't think that's right? Sign the petition now demanding they are taxed more on their record profits to help us all with the cost of living. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ra...

Trump’s Iran war is holding him hostage | Sidney Blumenthal If there is any consistency to Trump’s policy, it is a series of frantic attempts to justify his original blunder and extricate himself from its dire consequences

Trump’s Iran war is holding him hostage | "this war ranks in the annals of war among those launched willfully through ignorance and sheer stupidity." - Sidney Blumenthal
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Keep our pharmacies open! I just signed the campaign calling on Wes Streeting to stop our pharmacies closing

I just signed the petition calling on Wes Streeting to keep our pharmacies open! Can you sign too? act.38degrees.org.uk/act/Keep-pha...

Trump’s war in Iran exposes US’s shift from a global guardian to an arbiter of chaos The US is recklessly spreading economic havoc among global friends and foes while suffering little harm itself

Trump’s war in Iran exposes US’s shift from a global guardian to an arbiter of chaos www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Trump calls voting by mail ‘cheating’ just days after voting by mail President called practice ‘mail-in cheating’ at Monday event after voting in Florida House race via mail

Trump calls voting by mail ‘cheating’ just days after voting by mail www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Stop Palantir taking over our public services! Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir.

Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

Campaign groups rail against Palantir, but the UK contracts keep coming AI analytics firm has become influential in Whitehall, and FCA deal gives it yet more access to data

Campaign groups rail against Palantir, but the UK contracts keep coming www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Dear allies of America, please don’t confuse our president with us | Robert Reich We are trying our best to resist him, contain him and remove him from office as quickly as we possibly can. Thank you for your patience

Dear allies of America, please don’t confuse our president with us | Robert Reich www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

We need to be honest about Iran – and how our rampant greed for oil is causing mayhem | George Monbiot Oil has empowered capitalism, and some of the world’s most exploitative regimes. Move away from it and we can solve some of the key issues we face, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

We need to be honest about Iran – and how our rampant greed for oil is causing mayhem. Oil has empowered capitalism, and some of the world’s most exploitative regimes. Move away from it and we can solve some of the key issues we face.| George Monbiot www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Trump thinks brute force will arrest the US’s decline. His heavy-handed actions in Iran are only accelerating it | Owen Jones From Venezuela to the Middle East, this is gangsterism fused with colonialism. It repudiates the moral language through which US power once justified itself, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

Trump thinks brute force will arrest the US’s decline. His heavy-handed actions in Iran are only accelerating it | Owen Jones www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

‘Trump is aiming for dictatorship’. That’s the verdict of the world’s most credible democracy watchdog | Martin Gelin Sweden’s V-Dem Institute warns that the US is no longer a liberal democracy. And autocracy is creeping across Europe too, says writer Martin Gelin

‘Trump is aiming for dictatorship’. That’s the verdict of the world’s most credible democracy watchdog | Martin Gelin www.theguardian.com/world/commen...

UK energy prices are soaring – and propagandists want to sell you a false reason why | George Monbiot The war on Iran has put fossil-fuel prices centre stage, but don’t believe those who tout ‘maximising the North Sea’ as our salvation, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

UK energy prices are soaring – and propagandists want to sell you a false reason why | George Monbiot www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Children killed, a school turned into a graveyard: even in wartime, we can’t accept this | Gordon Brown There are rules and world leaders must insist they be honoured in practice and in spirit. After this atrocity in Iran, a more effective tribunal for crimes against children is essential, says former p...

Children killed, a school turned into a graveyard: even in wartime, we can’t accept this | Gordon Brown www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The first lesson of war is ‘know your enemy’ – and Britain’s enemy now is Donald Trump | Simon Tisdall As the Iran disaster escalates, the US president should be seen as an enemy whose actions threaten the lawful, democratic way of life everywhere, says Guardian foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisdal...

The first lesson of war is ‘know your enemy’ – and Britain’s enemy now is Donald Trump | Simon Tisdall www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

While people feel the foundations of their lives are shaking, this deep crisis will continue | Clive Lewis The partisan debate since the Gorton and Denton byelection risks blinding us to the truth. People are rejecting wholesale the way our politics has developed, says Labour MP Clive Lewis

While people feel the foundations of their lives are shaking, this deep crisis will continue | Clive Lewis www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

What a US$ 345 million judgment means for Greenpeace - Greenpeace International A US court has just sided with fossil fuel pipeline giant Energy Transfer and ordered Greenpeace International and Greenpeace entities in the US to pay US$ 345 million.

So let’s be clear: this type of corporate bullying is designed to rob us of our rights and freedoms. 

But we will not be silenced.

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Quit ChatGPT: right now! Your subscription is bankrolling authoritarianism | Rutger Bregman As a historian, I’ve studied the major consumer boycotts of history. We can take down ChatGPT and send a powerful signal to Silicon Valley, says author and historian Rutger Bregman

Quit ChatGPT: right now! Your subscription is bankrolling authoritarianism | Rutger Bregman www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The Guardian view on parliament’s role in war on Iran: MPs should vote before Britain gets sucked in | Editorial Editorial: Sir Keir Starmer draws a narrow legal distinction. But if British bases enable a wider US-Israeli campaign, the UK risks sliding into an unlawful conflict

The Guardian view on parliament’s role in war on Iran: MPs should vote before Britain gets sucked in | Editorial www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

David Squires on … Gianni Infantino’s accomplishments in 10 years as Fifa supremo Our cartoonist on a decade of magic moments in the big job for world football’s leading ‘man of the people’

David Squires on … Gianni Infantino’s accomplishments in 10 years as Fifa supremo www.theguardian.com/football/pic...

End the sewage pollution scandal We're sick of it. Sick of the lies, sick of the greed, and sick of a system rigged against us. This is a scandal and this dirty business must end. For more than 30 years water companies have put corpo...

Did you watch Dirty Business? I can't believe how much water companies have gotten away with. They're putting profit before public health - it’s a scandal and the Government MUST take action! Sick of sewage? Add your name to the petition today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/pr...