The GuardianPizza The Domino’s ‘pizza checker’ is just the beginning – workplace surveillance is coming for youThe Guardian - Arwa MahdawiHello? Is that Domino’s? I would like a large cheese pizza with an ominous side of surveillance, please. Earlier this year, Domino’s, the worldwide purveyor of mediocre pizza, introduced a snazzy tool
The GuardianBrexit At first, I accepted Brexit. Now it’s become clear that we must not leave the EUThe Guardian - Martin KettleThough we don’t always admit it, lots of us pro-Europeans have spent the years since the Brexit referendum trying to juggle two essentially irreconcilable views of what should happen next. One is that,
The GuardianOpinion Congratulations, Esther Duflo. The world needs more female economistsThe Guardian - Jill PriluckThis week, MIT’s Esther Duflo became the second female economist to win a Nobel prize. She and her husband, Abhijit Banerjee, also of MIT, and Michael Kremer of Harvard University, shared the award “for
The GuardianElizabeth Warren Who won the Democratic debate? Our panelists' verdictThe Guardian - Arwa Mahdawi, Jessa Crispin, Art Cullen, Lloyd Green and Derecka PurnellArwa Mahdawi: ‘Warren is the frontrunner and Sanders was on fire’ Tuesday’s crammed stage meant real debate was impossible and, with the exception of a few heated disagreements, it was basically a conga
The GuardianOpinion Bernie Sanders proved he's still got it, even as Elizabeth Warren dominatedThe Guardian - Nathan RobinsonIf the question looming over Tuesday’s Democratic debate was “has Bernie still got it?” the answer was yes. He still had it – for the 10 minutes or so that he was allowed to speak. Even though Bernie has
The GuardianElizabeth Warren Elizabeth Warren was attacked from all sides in debate – and she barely batted an eyeThe Guardian - Moira DoneganOn Tuesday night, 12 candidates crammed on to the stage at Ohio’s Otterbein University. It was the first time that so many Democratic presidential hopefuls have shared the same stage on one night. But
The GuardianClimate Today, I aim to get arrested. It is the only real power climate protesters haveThe Guardian - George MonbiotA few hours after this column is published, I hope to be in a police cell. I don’t yet know what the charge will be, where I will be arrested or when, but I know that if I go home this evening without
The GuardianOpinion These are busy times for ‘No 10 source’. Journalists should refuse to be playedThe Guardian - Peter GeogheganThe more journalists report unsourced claims, the less government will engage on the record The prime minister’s bonhomie with Leo Varadkar after their talks in the Wirral last Thursday took many by surprise.
The GuardianEuropean Union The EU praises ‘the common good’, but its words ring hollowThe Guardian - Lea Ypi“The greatest challenge of our times,” Donald Tusk declared in a speech a few days ago in Athens, “is how to make out of politics what it once was: acting and thinking for the common good.” At the moment,
The GuardianOpinion Europe can’t keep shutting its eyes to the disaster in SyriaThe Guardian - Natalie NougayrèdeThese past few days have been a watershed for Europe. I’m not thinking about Brexit, but about Syria – which increasingly looks like our 21st-century Spanish civil war. Western and European defeat in (by
The GuardianOpinion ‘Impostor syndrome’ is a pseudo-medical name for a class problemThe Guardian - Nathalie OlahThe term “impostor syndrome” has enjoyed a lot of airtime in recent years, yet it’s always troubled me. One person who I’m sure has never suffered from it is Boris Johnson. Between fortifying racists humiliating
The GuardianHong Kong Why China fears sending the tanks into Hong KongThe Guardian - Howard W FrenchTwo decades ago, many scholars began predicting that as China’s creation of wealth continued to speed ahead, the country would cross a threshold. Once a substantial new middle class had been created, reasoned,
The GuardianScott Morrison Scott Morrison is a master at shifting responsibility. But even God can't help him nowThe Guardian - Richard DennissIt looks like we're in for a long, hot summer with more mass fish kills, more dead livestock, more regional unemployment When Barnaby Joyce starts making more sense about inequality than Scott Morrison,
The GuardianPauline Hanson Dear Scott Morrison, I am so scared my ex-husband will kill me I keep a notebook marked 'for the coroner'The Guardian - AnonymousI am writing to express my deep concern about your recent announcement of a joint parliamentary inquiry into family law and child support. I write to you from a position of significant experience as a
The GuardianOpinion The 'internet SS': how the Halle murders follow a template established in ChristchurchThe Guardian - Jeff SparrowAt one point during the video feed he streamed on Twitch, the gunman who killed two people outside a synagogue in Halle in Germany smirks to the camera, “nobody expects the internet SS”. The Halle murders
The GuardianMan Booker Prize The Booker prize judges have exposed the doublethink behind our arts awardsThe Guardian - Charlotte HigginsYou can see the dilemma. On the one hand, there is a bestselling novel that has nailed a political moment, by a writer hailed as a prophet of our times. On the other, there is a verse novel capturing hidden
The GuardianTechnology (India) The Guardian view on automating poverty: OK computers?The Guardian - EditorialAcross the world, governments are investing in machines that they hope will run their social security systems and other services more cheaply and effectively than humans. The Guardian’s Automating Poverty
The GuardianOpinion The Guardian view on racism and football: time for Uefa to step upThe Guardian - EditorialLong before the footballers of Bulgaria and England walked on to the pitch of Sofia’s Stadion Vasil Levski on Monday evening, their Euro 2020 qualifying match had become a test of something far more important
The GuardianFacebook How Facebook shot themselves in the foot in their Elizabeth Warren spatThe Guardian - Ellen Goodman and Karen KornbluhOver the weekend, Facebook likened itself to a broadcaster – inadvertently asking to be regulated. This was in the third round of an argument with Elizabeth Warren over the company’s choice to run Donald
The GuardianRecep Tayyip Erdoğan Erdoğan’s calamitous Syrian blunder has finally broken his spell over TurkeyThe Guardian - Simon TisdallGetting rid of Erdoğan is a matter for the Turks. And it wouldn’t be quite as difficult as it might sound If Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Turkey’s belligerent president, were a true patriot with his country’s
The GuardianRace & Ethnicity The real voter fraud is this government’s new ID planThe Guardian - Zubaida HaqueWhat do you do when a government proposes a policy solution to a “crisis” that doesn’t exist? On Monday, the Queen announced the “electoral integrity bill”, which would require voters to show an approved
The GuardianEuropean Union Any Johnson Brexit deal sows seeds of future confrontation with the EUThe Guardian - Rafael BehrIt is understood well enough in Brussels that Brexit and Trumpism are ideological siblings Boris Johnson wanted to be prime minister long before he wanted to take Britain out of the EU. The novelty of
The GuardianRussia Zelenskiy's brush with Trump won't help him end Ukraine's warThe Guardian - Liana SemchukAt a press marathon in Kyiv last week, Volodymyr Zelenskiy declared that his mission was to be the Ukrainian president who would “end the war”. That’s a tough ask for a former comedy actor who had barely
The GuardianOpinion How Macron discovered the soft power of the working classThe Guardian - Christophe GuilluyThe gilets jaunes are not represented by a party, trade union or leader. Their independence seems to mirror the estrangement of the elites “Progressive politics is doomed if it exists only to promote interests
The GuardianOpinion Bernie Sanders is right, it’s time to redistribute economic powerThe Guardian - Mathew LawrenceOligarchy rules the United States: the republic has been ransacked, its commonwealth privatised, and rentierism runs amok. The richest 10% of Americans capture an estimated 97% of all capital income –
The GuardianClimate The climate revolution must be accessible – this fight belongs to disabled people tooThe Guardian - Hannah DinesLet the plastic straw ban be the first and last anti-disabled, pro-climate legislation Last week, the Paralympian James Brown tried to glue himself to the top of a plane as part of Extinction Rebellion’s
The GuardianEncryption Without encryption we will lose all privacy. This is our new battlegroundThe Guardian - Edward SnowdenIn every country of the world, the security of computers keeps the lights on, the shelves stocked, the dams closed, and transportation running. For more than half a decade, the vulnerability of our computers
The GuardianOpinion Catalonia’s separatists were jailed for sedition, but brought down by hubrisThe Guardian - Giles TremlettSome things are impossible. Catalan independence is currently one of them. The stiff jail sentences handed down to the leaders of the separatist campaign that peaked in 2017 with a banned referendum, violence
The GuardianBusiness Don’t put off starting a business, waiting for the perfect time. That time is nowThe Guardian - Emma Kerslake for IndigenousXAt the recent launch of the Indigenous Business Month, its co-founder, Michelle Evans, spoke about ingenuity in the Indigenous business sector and the many forms it takes. For me “ingenuity” in the Indigenous
