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Indexed articles, last 90 days
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Latest publication
Oct 1, 2026
Outlet visibility, for Guardian Australia
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Jul 8, 2026

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  1. Article · Oct 1, 2026 · Stephen Bates

    Dame Esther Rantzen obituary (opens the original)

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    Presenter and producer of That’s Life!, a TV series providing entertainment and consumer reporting, out of which came the Childline service For four decades Esther Rantzen, who has died aged 86, was one of the most recognisable figures on British television. A pioneering and influential female presenter and campaigner, she also set up the Childline telephone hotline for children to report abuse and bullying, and in her later years advocated the right to assisted dying for terminally ill people.

  2. Article · Aug 29, 2026 · Stephen Bates

    There is clearly trouble ahead for Harry and Meghan on their return to the UK. Here are five ways to avert it | Stephen Bates (opens the original)

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    With a sceptical public and hostility from a lot of the press, the Sussexes face quite a challenge. Still, they really could help themselves They’re back! Harry and Meghan’s quiet return to England this week, via Birmingham airport, was much anticipated but scarcely celebrated – no bunting or street parties. So far there are many questions but very few answers: not just “why return now?” and “why so suddenly?”, but also questions of security: who pays if not themselves, given that they are not w

  3. Article · Aug 28, 2026 · Stephen Bates

    King Harald V of Norway obituary (opens the original)

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    Monarch who opened up the Norwegian royal family and its palaces to the public, and married a commoner despite his father’s opposition King Harald V of Norway, who has died aged 89, Europe’s oldest serving monarch, was the country’s third king since it regained independence in 1905 following the dissolution of its union with Sweden. Although he ceased to be head of the Lutheran state church in 2012 and subsequently lost his constitutional status as “holy” six years later, he did exhibit the Scan

  4. Article · Aug 26, 2026 · Stephen Bates

    Paul Brown obituary (opens the original)

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    The Guardian’s environment correspondent at a time when international concern over the climate began to take hold Paul Brown, who has died aged 82, was a pioneering environment correspondent for the Guardian, and wrote on the subject for more than 40 years, continuing long after his retirement from the paper. His last column, published in November 2025, about the growing crisis of global warming, was written from his hospital bed in Luton, where he was being treated for terminal lung cancer, dia

  5. Article · Aug 18, 2026 · Stephen Bates

    Lord Horam obituary (opens the original)

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    Politician whose defection from the Labour party to the SDP and then the Conservatives caused Dennis Skinner to call him a ‘dirty double-rat’ Just about every parliament in modern times has thrown up MPs who change parties, but there have been very few such as John Horam, Lord Horam, who represented three parties in the Commons and furthermore served as a government minister for two of them. Horam, who has died aged 87, never reached cabinet rank but was a junior minister in James Callaghan’s La

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