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Tue 15 Sept 2026

Today's debates

Variety's 2025 Power of Women Los Angeles, Presented by Lifetime - ArrivalsSydney Sweeney at Variety's 2025 Power of Women Los Angeles, Presented by Lifetime at the Beverly Hills Hotel on October 29, 2025 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Michael Buckner/Variety via Getty Images)
quote  Are you outraged by Sydney Sweeney – again? More fool you
Marina Hyde
‘Polls encourage us all to see politics as a kind of game within a game’.
quote  Polling turns politics into one big game. There are too many of them – and that does us no good
Jonathan Liew
Two policemen, one in a hi-vis vest and another with a bobby hat, look at a a tall pile of e-scooters and modified electric motorbikes fused together
quote  When is an ebike not an ebike? When it has a powerful, illegal engine. Get this menace off our roads
Peter Walker
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Polling station signs outside Canford Cliffs library during local council elections, Poole, 4 May 2023.
quote  Thank goodness Labour’s ‘shambolic’ plan to reorganise local councils has been paused. What was it thinking?
Polly Toynbee
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quote  The incoming ‘super’ El Niño will create chaos around the world – and we are far from ready for it
Bill McGuire
Sweden’s Social Democratic party leader Magdalena Andersson during her party’s election night celebration in Stockholm, 13 September 2026.
quote  Sweden’s far right is down, but not yet out. Left and centre leaders must seize this opportunity
Cas Mudde
A far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) rally in Magdeburg, Germany, on 5 September 2026.
quote  I know why many east Germans vote AfD. And no, it’s not an inherited longing for dictatorship
Carolin Würfel
Nigel Farage after his closing speech at Reform UK’s annual conference in Birmingham, 5 September 2026.
quote  As Reform celebrates £72m in donations, tell me this: are you ready to see two rich men buy our democracy?
Owen Jones
People hold banner reading no to islamophobia; don't scapegoat migrants
quote  Islamophobia is rising – and Britain’s politicians have been dangerously complacent in tackling it
Arun Kundnani
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Nigel Farage speaking at the Bitcoin Conference in Las Vegas in 2025.
The Guardian view on Reform UK: crypto billionaires must be stopped from undermining democracy
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Ben Jennings on Reform UK’s bumper weekend of donations – cartoon
Ben Jennings on Reform UK’s bumper weekend of donations – cartoon
 
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