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The GuardianHumanityUnited Kingdom
Islamophobia is rising – and Britain’s politicians have been dangerously complacent in tackling it | Arun Kundnani

Islamophobia is rising – and Britain’s politicians have been dangerously complacent in tackling it | Arun Kundnani

Mainstream figures have been enabling anti-Muslim racism, creating the ideal conditions for the rise of hard-right political partiesFive years ago, many Muslims wondered if the prejudices they faced were set to fade away. The “war on terror” was dwindling in prominence, and new enemies such as Russia seemed to be displacing fears of Islamic terrorism. Yet Britain’s Islamophobia has only intensified since then. A poll published in July found that into British society. Earlier in the summer, it was reported that in the last year, and a quarter in a public place.The evidence of a worsening climate for Muslims has been mounting since two summers ago, when racist riots erupted across the UK, targeting mosques and asylum hostels. Watching I was disturbed by the parents who brought their young children to watch while mobs attempted, with apparently murderous intent, to break into the buildings. It was not only hardened far-right activists but a much broader cross-section of British society that was willing to participate in racist violence directed at Muslims or asylum seekers assumed to be Muslim.Arun Kundnani is editorial director of Monthly Review PressDo you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a response of up to 300 words by email to be considered for publication in our section, please .

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The GuardianHumanityUnited Kingdom
How enslavement became state-backed operation supported by Conservative and Lib Dem forerunners

How enslavement became state-backed operation supported by Conservative and Lib Dem forerunners

Tory and Whig MPs were central to funding trafficking of enslaved people and many opposed abolition of the slave trade There is a British culture of celebrating the abolition of slavery without acknowledging that the country enslaved and trafficked millions of African people for centuries. The newly published Register of British Slave Traders, which documents the thousands of investors in Britain’s near 250-year trafficking of more than 3 million enslaved African people, shows that it was a state-backed operation, fully supported by both major political parties at the time, the Tories and Whigs – the forerunners of today’s Conservatives and Liberal Democrats respectively.

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The TelegraphScandalNorth West England
Manchester United season-ticket holders believe club have turned against them

Manchester United season-ticket holders believe club have turned against them

It is a little more than five weeks since Luca Black resigned as the under-21 representative on the Manchester United Fans’ Forum after reaching the grim conclusion that it was being stripped of any real power by a club driving an ever-growing wedge between themselves and supporters. “I said to someone the other day that it’s like the parable of the boiling frog,” Black explained.

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The GuardianFootballNorth West England
Febrile Manchester derby awaits amid growing rift between United fans and club

Febrile Manchester derby awaits amid growing rift between United fans and club

City heading to a fortress but home supporters will protest before kick-off over club’s drive against ticket toutsManchester United’s nine victories from 10 Premier League games at Old Trafford in 2026 cast their stadium as a fortress Manchester City aim to ransack on Sunday, to join Leeds in departing with three points during this calendar year.Michael Carrick has overseen the division’s highest home points-per-game return in that span: 2.7, ahead of Arsenal’s 2.27 (from 12 matches) and Manchester City’s 2.25 (11); and his side have scored the most goals: 26, to City’s 23, and the champions’ 20.

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The GuardianEconomyUnited Kingdom
Bank of England urged to slow or halt bond-selling to slash UK borrowing costs

Bank of England urged to slow or halt bond-selling to slash UK borrowing costs

Economists urge John Healey to press Bank to change policy that is costing the exchequer billions of pounds Economists have urged the chancellor, John Healey, to press the Bank of England to slow down its bond-selling programme that has already cost the exchequer billions of pounds. The Bank’s monetary policy committee (MPC) meets this week to not only decide the level of interest rates but also whether they should freeze or slow the sale of government bonds, known as gilts, bought as part of the rescue operation after the 2008 banking crash.

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The GuardianWar & ConflictUkraine
Putin would rather keep killing than admit he’s lost. As a winter of misery looms in Ukraine, Nato must step in | Simon Tisdall

Putin would rather keep killing than admit he’s lost. As a winter of misery looms in Ukraine, Nato must step in | Simon Tisdall

The Russian leader is ploughing on with his forever war – and each day is a crime against humanity. Western democracies cannot simply sit on their handsUkraine’s people face a winter from hell. Thwarted on the battlefield, Russia is stepping up systematic, daily attacks on civilians, their homes, schools, hospitals, workplaces, and the vital infrastructure that sustains human life. of terrifying daytime ballistic missile and jet-drone strikes on Kyiv and other cities are destroying , pharmaceutical and medical facilities, logistics centres and warehouses. The result is sharply rising civilian casualties and growing shortages of food and other essentials. As a freezing winter approaches, Russia will Ukraine’s water supplies and power grid, cutting off electricity to millions. This is Vladimir Putin’s version of darkness at noon. He’d rather kill everybody than admit he’s lost.Russia’s leader reportedly told Donald Trump this week that his “special military operation”, now in its fifth year, . Trump may believe him. Western analysts certainly don’t. , his regime is under growing domestic economic and public pressure to wind down the war. Yet Putin seems to think one last big push can finally break Ukraine’s will. Trump’s renewed meddling – after months of inertia, he sent his patsy envoys, , back to Moscow last weekend (they also visited Kyiv for the first time) – perpetuates Kremlin delusions of victory. Now there’s talk of more talks. And all the while, Putin kills and kills. Each day is a crime against humanity.Simon Tisdall is a Guardian foreign affairs commentator

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The GuardianHumanityUSA
Mahmoud Khalil sues Columbia University over years of alleged anti-Palestinian discrimination

Mahmoud Khalil sues Columbia University over years of alleged anti-Palestinian discrimination

Lawsuit accuses university of ‘deliberate indifference’ and failure to respond to ‘persistent and coordinated harassment’ Mahmoud Khalil announced on Monday that he’s sued Columbia University, accusing the New York City school he attended of a years-long history of anti-Palestinian discrimination, indifference to harassment, and retaliation. Khalil, a US green card holder of Palestinian descent, was a graduate student at Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) when he was arrested at his university apartment by federal immigration agents in March 2025, the first of a number of foreign nationals that the Trump administration has detained and sought to deport over their pro-Palestinian advocacy.

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The GuardianWar & Conflict
Macklemore dropped from Ed Sheeran’s US tour after ‘free Palestine’ speech

Macklemore dropped from Ed Sheeran’s US tour after ‘free Palestine’ speech

The American rapper will no longer support Sheeran’s US leg of Loop tour after comments at MetLife Stadium show Macklemore has been dropped from the remainder of the US leg of Ed Sheeran’s Loop tour, after the American rapper drew headlines for saying “free Palestine” on stage at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey. In a brief speech between songs on 4 September, the Grammy-winning artist told the audience he wanted the people of Gaza and “the occupied West Bank” to know “we have not forgotten about them”, prompting a petition from the Israeli American Council demanding his removal from the tour.

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The GuardianDiplomacyEire (Ireland)
Donald Trump says he would ‘love’ to see united Ireland

Donald Trump says he would ‘love’ to see united Ireland

US president say on visit to republic that unification will happen eventually so ‘may as well happen now’• Donald Trump has said he would “love” to see a united Ireland and that it “may as well happen now”.The US president appeared to endorse the push for constitutional change on the island at the start of a two-day visit to Ireland on Saturday. The unexpected intervention prompted a swift rebuttal from the UK government and Northern Ireland’s unionist leaders.

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The GuardianScandalUSA
Ex-CIA director John Brennan subpoenaed in Trump ‘grand conspiracy’ investigation

Ex-CIA director John Brennan subpoenaed in Trump ‘grand conspiracy’ investigation

Subpoena is among a flurry issued in recent weeks as part of DoJ inquiry into alleged conspiracy against Trump The former CIA director John Brennan has been subpoenaed to testify next month before a Florida grand jury as part of a Department of Justice investigation into whether former law enforcement and intelligence officials conspired against Donald Trump, one of his lawyers said Monday. Ken Wainstein, an attorney for Brennan, disclosed in a court filing that prosecutors last Thursday presented him with a subpoena for Brennan to appear before a grand jury in Fort Pierce, Florida, on 15 October.

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The GuardianScandalUSA
DHS officers raise concerns over potentially illegal voter searches and unreliable data, whistleblower says

DHS officers raise concerns over potentially illegal voter searches and unreliable data, whistleblower says

Officers were instructed to search state voter databases and create federal records on suspected non-citizen voters despite concerns over the process Department of Homeland Security (DHS) lawyers told officers investigating voter fraud they would not be held responsible for violating state laws around accessing voter registration information, an anonymous whistleblower revealed on Monday. DHS officers also had concerns about the reliability of the data they were working with, the whistleblower said. The Trump administration has ramped up its investigation into noncitizen voting ahead of the midterm elections. Noncitizen voting is extremely rare and the effort has only turned up a handful of cases so far.

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The TelegraphHumanityWestern Europe
The Kremlin view of Nazism in Germany is the mirror image of the truth

The Kremlin view of Nazism in Germany is the mirror image of the truth

Apart from the winners themselves, no one can be more delighted by the Alternative fur Deutschland’s victory in the elections for the regional parliament for Saxony-Anhalt than Vladimir Putin. The Russian President’s special envoy, Kiril Dmitriev, enthused that this was an “historic win.” The point is that the AfD had campaigned, in part, on a call for an end to German military aid to Ukraine, and to lift all economic sanctions on Moscow.

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The GuardianImmigrationIsrael
Israeli minister threatens to strip Israeli film-makers of citizenship over Gaza documentary NAZA

Israeli minister threatens to strip Israeli film-makers of citizenship over Gaza documentary NAZA

Miki Zohar accuses Oscar-winning directors Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor of ‘treason against the state’Israel’s culture minister has called for the Oscar-winning Israeli directors of , a documentary about the country’s mass killing of civilians in Gaza, to be stripped of their citizenship, accusing them of “treason against the state”.NAZA, which was produced by the Guardian, is named for an acronym used by Israel’s intelligence service to indicate how many civilians it expects to die in an airstrike on Gaza.

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The GuardianElectionsBrazil
‘A coin flip’: on the campaign trail as Brazil’s far right edges back to power

‘A coin flip’: on the campaign trail as Brazil’s far right edges back to power

Neck-and-neck with Lula in polls, Flávio Bolsonaro fires up his base in the bellwether state of Minas Gerais – starting at the scene of his father’s stabbing A giant banner of Brazil’s incarcerated former president Jair Bolsonaro fluttered in the morning breeze as his eldest son, Flávio, touched down at an airfield on the fringe of a city that will soon help decide the future of one of the biggest democracies on earth. “Brazil is rudderless. Brazil has no president and Brazil needs a president – and that president is Flávio Bolsonaro,” the far-right senator declared as he waded into the flock of supporters who had gathered to welcome him to Juiz de Fora, one of the largest cities in the battleground state of Minas Gerais.

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The GuardianAILondon
AI-linked stocks slide after tech bosses call for slowdown in ‘reckless’ development

AI-linked stocks slide after tech bosses call for slowdown in ‘reckless’ development

Donald Trump dismisses attempts to increase controls on artificial intelligence as ‘sick conspiracy’ AI-linked stocks tumbled on Monday after the bosses of Anthropic, OpenAI and SpaceX called for a slowdown in AI “reckless” development, citing fears the technology could soon run out of control. Shares in the semiconductor designer Nvidia – the world’s most valuable company – were down 3% by early afternoon in New York, while Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) slid 4.4% and Micron Technology and Sandisk shares slumped by 5%.

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The GuardianAI
‘Too little, too late’: critics perplexed and suspicious of AI leaders’ call for a slowdown

‘Too little, too late’: critics perplexed and suspicious of AI leaders’ call for a slowdown

From the Trump administration to AI experts, plans by the Anthropic boss to boost safety have spawned a largely negative responseThe safety debate that ignited when whistleblowers last week warned that the most advanced AI poses to humanity should come with a health warning: side effects include whiplash. It was only seven days ago that AI enthusiasts were cheerily toying with OpenAI’s newest model GPT-6 Astra which was marketed in part as a lifestyle tool to help people book tennis courts, run fashion companies and order takeaways.By Wednesday, cutting-edge AI started to look a lot less appealing when the resigning Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon warned “the people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade”. Yes, he was talking about artificial superintelligence – an as-yet-nonexistent version of the technology that outcompetes humans in most domains – but his comments, and the chorus of experts that echoed him, jangled plenty of nerves.

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The GuardianHumanityFrance
‘Signs of violence’: asylum seekers arriving in France injured after being deported from UK

‘Signs of violence’: asylum seekers arriving in France injured after being deported from UK

French health service documents injuries including fractures and bruising after detention and return under ‘one in one out’ scheme Multiple injuries including bruising and fractures have been documented by a health service supporting people returned to France under the controversial “one in, one out” scheme. The pilot scheme involves one asylum seeker who crosses the Channel in a small boat being returned to France in return for another in northern France being legally brought to the UK to claim asylum. The scheme is due to end on 1 October.

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The GuardianHumanityAustralia
Pauline Hanson says she’s sorry ‘if I offended people’ with Indigenous Australians remarks

Pauline Hanson says she’s sorry ‘if I offended people’ with Indigenous Australians remarks

One Nation leader had been condemned by figures from across the political spectrum over the newly resurfaced podcast comments Pauline Hanson has made a qualified apology after describing Indigenous Australians as the “most primitive race on Earth”, saying she did not intend to upset people and said she was sorry “if I offended people”. The One Nation leader has been under fire from all sides of the political spectrum after the comments from a podcast in September 2025 resurfaced.

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The GuardianImmigrationAustralia
Pauline Hanson’s immigration cuts will cost ‘many billions of dollars’ to implement, former top official says

Pauline Hanson’s immigration cuts will cost ‘many billions of dollars’ to implement, former top official says

Former department deputy says One Nation’s hardline approach would require huge funding for enforcement, legal costs and detention centres Get our new political email, free app or daily news podcast Enforcement of Pauline Hanson’s hardline immigration cuts would cost “many, many billions of dollars” and require widespread compliance checks across aged care facilities and some of the country’s biggest construction sites, a former senior immigration official has said. The One Nation leader on Monday announced plans to cut the number of temporary migrants in Australia by more than 750,000 over three years, targeting international students and family members of skilled migrants.

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The GuardianClimateUSA
US ends limits on coal and gas plant emissions, removing key tool to battle climate crisis

US ends limits on coal and gas plant emissions, removing key tool to battle climate crisis

Trump’s EPA strips itself of regulation ability, gutting Clean Air Act in what experts say is a gift to planet polluters On the heels of the hottest summer ever recorded in the US, the Trump administration has said it will erase any limits on emissions from coal and gas plants that are dangerously heating up our planet. The US Environmental Protection Agency said it will strip itself of its ability to regulate greenhouse gas emissions coming from power plants under the Clean Air Act, removing a key tool to address the climate crisis.

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The GuardianImmigrationUSA
Alligator Alcatraz held detainees in cages the size of phone booths, DHS watchdog says

Alligator Alcatraz held detainees in cages the size of phone booths, DHS watchdog says

Office of inspector general’s report says practice at Florida immigration jail is not aligned with ‘humane treatment’ Before the facility was shuttered, detainees at Florida’s “Alligator Alcatraz” federal immigration jail were frequently locked in outside metal cages no bigger than a phone booth, according to a damning government watchdog report that said the practice “does not align with standards for humane treatment”. The findings from the office of the inspector general of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) were published on its website – and offer rare criticism of the Trump administration by one of its own agencies.

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The GuardianPoliticiansLondon
Monday briefing: What do Reform’s record-setting donations mean for the party – and our politics?

Monday briefing: What do Reform’s record-setting donations mean for the party – and our politics?

In today’s newsletter: As Labour MPs scramble to realign later today around a bill that could stop donations like this in their tracks, a look at new game-changing donations to a party engulfed in financial scandalsGood morning. Nigel Farage has a confirmed talent for upending the laws of political gravity, and this weekend has been no exception, as he declared himself “humbled” by two donations of £36m each from cryptocurrency tycoons Ben Delo and Christopher Harborne.I’d shoehorn a joke about buses in here but, honestly, this feels too consequential for that.Economy | Former chancellor George Osborne said Britain’s economy had “fallen off a cliff” since Brexit – and that rejoining the European Union’s customs union .Technology | Sam Altman and Elon Musk backed Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s call to “slow the pace” of AI development. Amodei an AI swarm could otherwise become capable of “taking over the entire internet” within a year.Sweden | With most of the votes counted, Sweden’s national election remained , with left-wing parties holding a lead of just a single seat according to a partial tally by the election authority.Ukraine | A train carrying Boris Johnson and the former CIA chief David Petraeus of a Russian drone strike that hit a train engine near the Poland-Ukraine border, according to Ukrainian Railways.Travel | The air traffic control outage that caused thousands of flights to be grounded across the UK earlier in the week was caused by a military aircraft entering “spurious” flight data into the system, .Monday | First ministers of Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland will meet in Cardiff to discuss moves towards self-determination across the nations.Tuesday | The final report of the Thirwall Inquiry into events at the neonatal unit where Lucy Letby worked will be published. Letby was sentenced to 15 whole-life terms for murdering seven infants and attempting to murder seven others.Thursday | Canada’s prime minister, Mark Carney, will address the European parliament.

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The GuardianScandalUnited Kingdom
Reform’s Robert Jenrick ‘very confident’ £72m donations are ‘perfectly legal’ – as it happened

Reform’s Robert Jenrick ‘very confident’ £72m donations are ‘perfectly legal’ – as it happened

Party’s economic spokesperson says donations are a ‘breakthrough moment’ as Labour’s Angela Rayner warns of possible retrospective actionWill also point out here that across the Sunday politics shows this morning, neither Labour nor the Tories ruled out accepting such huge sums from crypto-billionaires in the future.Nigel Farage says that donations just go to putting Reform on a “more level playing field” with the more established parties.

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The GuardianDiplomacyLondon
UK ministers urged to act after US flies out diplomat accused of possessing indecent images of children

UK ministers urged to act after US flies out diplomat accused of possessing indecent images of children

US officials reportedly raided envoy’s London home and took him to American airbase without warning Met policeBritish ministers face calls to act after US authorities secretly flew out of the UK a diplomat accused of possessing indecent images of children.US officials reportedly raided the diplomat’s London flat last month before taking him to an American airbase and flying him out of the country, without warning the Metropolitan police.

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The GuardianMarketsSouth America
‘Carbon fever’ threatens hard-won Indigenous rights in Bolivian Amazon

‘Carbon fever’ threatens hard-won Indigenous rights in Bolivian Amazon

Leaders in Pando region denounce opaque deals over carbon credits as government and companies rush to monetise Amazon rainforest after 2024 rulingIn the village plazas of Pando, a remote northern Amazonian region of Bolivia, the main talk is no longer just about the next harvest. One pressing issue is the “invisible air” being sold to foreigners who regularly visit their communities.In June 2024, the country’s constitutional court on a funding mechanism linked to carbon markets. Since then, Indigenous leaders of three ethnic groups – the Tacana, Ese Ejja and Cabineño – have complained about companies and foundations that arrive with offers of “climate solutions”, often during the ever more frequent droughts or floods.

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