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The US supreme court’s ruling on trans people in sports is an assault on bodily autonomy | Judith Levine
NEWS | 09 July 2026
Last week, the US supreme court ruled that states may restrict participation in girls’ and women’s sports to “biological females” and exclude transgender athletes from competing. It also vindicates Donald Trump’s February 2025 executive order “Keeping Men out of Women’s Sports”. The ruling on women’s sports, West Virginia et al v BPJ, was the Trump administration’s latest assault on bodily autonomy. They recruit nature as an ally to the religious principle of gender “complementarity”: men are strong, women weak; men should lead and women submit. Trump’s executive order “Men in Women’s Sports” transmits the same message: transgender women are men, period.

Top Stories:
Why does JD Vance keep saying loony things? | Margaret Sullivan
NEWS | 09 July 2026
Given how impetuous Donald Trump is, his vice-president, JD Vance, strikes some Americans as a more stable alternative. And he clearly wants to be president; he’s as ambitious as they come. Why, then, does he keep saying such loony things? The well-known Jesuit priest Father James Martin SJ pushed back hard, noting Jesus’s clear message of caring for strangers and saying Vance had it all wrong. As CNN’s Harry Enten put it recently, he’s a historically unpopular vice-president.

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World:
So it’s Trump 1, Belgium 4 – and the world rejoices. Nothing like failed chicanery to bring us together, is there? | Marina Hyde
NEWS | 09 July 2026
No one, however, feels remotely sorry for Fifa president Infantino, to whom the focus must now decisively shift. “We express our disbelief at such an unprecedented, incomprehensible and unjustifiable decision.” It had, Uefa declared, “crossed a red line”. A red line? A red line?! But for now, Trump and Infantino are free to poison their own tournament.

Current Events:
Guardian US opinion pitch guidelines
NEWS | 09 July 2026
If you’d like to submit a pitch about any other subject, please click here to read the pitch guidelines for our UK and Australian colleagues, who cover everything else. Put the topic of your opinion piece in the subject line of an email. If you’re emailing our designated pitch email account (us.opinion@ theguardian.com), please offer specifics. We are committed to showcasing a range of issues, stories and voices on Guardian US Opinion; it’s just difficult to get to know you from an email address. We’re usually looking for 600-800 word opinion pieces that are traditional persuasive pieces (i.e., it has a thesis, supporting evidence and conclusion) or first-person stories tied to a news topic.

News Flash:
Britain’s dysfunctional dynamic: the public wants change, but those in power always tell them it’s not possible | Andy Beckett
NEWS | 09 July 2026
In an old, often anxious and conservative country, the perception of risk is a potent political weapon. To see that Brexit or Britain’s involvement in the 2003 invasion of Iraq might not end well did not require huge foresight. Another, even more important and biased way in which our political discourse treats risk concerns the wider state of the country. There are more major parties, and more ways for opponents of reform to make their views widely and quickly known. That’s why they’ve revolted so often over the past decade.

Latest:
In Britain, Europe, the USA, almost everywhere – maxxing the all-you-can-eat buffet is the people’s sport | Emma Brockes
NEWS | 09 July 2026
Since Covid, vacation trends in Britain have skewed increasingly towards formalising this country’s latent maximalist instincts when it comes to enjoying our holidays. But while both explanations might be true, they overlook what I would suggest is the bigger draw of the all-inclusive – the pleasures of cracking the Challenge of the Buffet. (I went only once, to the buffet at Caesars Palace, where like a child emerging from 1940s Britain I was brought almost to tears in the cake room.) The restaurant critic at the New York Times takes the view that, when it comes to buffet strategy, one should avoid cheap, filling fare like pasta. At the end of the holiday, one of my children said to me, “You have to stop talking about the ham.” But I won’t.

Breaking:
Populism unites Le Pen and Farage. But she is a step closer to power
NEWS | 09 July 2026
And the electronic tag (which Le Pen had promised she would not campaign wearing)? The judges found that Le Pen was at the heart of an elaborate fake jobs scam, and sentenced her to prison. Note how Le Pen and Farage, as populists, derive confidence from weaponising democratic institutions (electoral systems, judiciaries, parliaments) as persecutors or bypassing them altogether. Will he really fall in line and accept his fate as a potential PM to Le Pen? In 2022, Le Pen also lost out to Emmanuel Macron but the margin of defeat was narrower.

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After losing to the Mail, Prince Harry seems doomed to a sad life in California. And he did it to himself | Stephen Bates
NEWS | 09 July 2026
The prince might reflect that he has brought many of his troubles on himself. Worse still, his obsessive campaign against the tabloid press has dragged other people, most notably Doreen Lawrence, with him into a legal case he was unlikely ever to win. The Mail simply could not afford to lose, especially against the prince, and it was relentless in fighting the case. Dacre was particularly hurt by Lawrence after the Mail championed the family when their son Stephen was killed by white south London thugs in 1993. View image in fullscreen Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan, at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, 28 October 2025.

This Just In:
Datacentres are a ticking timebomb. We must make sure AI’s benefits outweigh the costs | Nicki Hutley
NEWS | 09 July 2026
The economic, environmental and social consequences of this datacentre investment boom are profound. If we are going to call datacentres infrastructure, they should have to face examination as to whether their benefits outweigh the costs, just as any other projects would. Waste heat from datacentres is also a significant problem: intense energy going in turns into heat. From here, we could continue to be a “technology taker”, with some productivity benefits, or we could become “a world-class adopter and creator and exporter of AI technology”. Looking at the datacentre and AI landscape and their associated costs, it has not succeeded.

Today:
Farage told me he would quit politics after Brexit. Now, mired in scandal, he should do it and mean it | Simon Jenkins
NEWS | 09 July 2026
Nigel Farage’s Reform UK is still running ahead of all other parties, and he is ahead of all other current leaders. He exploited race as a populist issue, coded as immigration, but had little interest in any wider political programme. Whenever I met Farage in advance of the 2016 referendum – occasionally we would talk over breakfast – I found his commitment to Brexit specific. Prior to the Brexit referendum I recall Farage addressing a hall of hostile students at the London School of Economics. At least for a while, his following will continue to split the right-of-centre vote, thus offering British politics the greatest of ironies.

Top Stories:
Through the teargas, I saw something missing from German politics for too long: hope | Scott Roxborough
NEWS | 09 July 2026
Some leading figures in and around the AfD have discussed removing German people with migrant backgrounds who they argue are not truly German. Instead of aggression and fear, what I felt in the middle of that group of protesters was something missing from German politics for far too long: hope. For months before the AfD conference, Widersetzen activists went door to door, speaking with local residents and building alliances with community groups. That’s why Erfurt felt different. Widersetzen didn’t stop the AfD conference.

World:
The great carbon capture con: behold the wasted billions Burnham could claw back | George Monbiot
NEWS | 09 July 2026
The government could cancel its deranged, disastrous carbon capture and storage (CCS) programme at no cost to public welfare: in fact, it would greatly reduce the harm we will suffer. Buried in an arcane side document is a government commitment to pay a “premium” for the hydrogen produced by the CCS programme for 15 years. The Climate Change Committee claims that the role of CCS is “limited to sectors where there are few, or no, alternatives”. The great majority of CCS will be attached to new fossil fuel-burning power stations, wood-burning power stations and hydrogen production from fossil gas. Its insistence that we need hydrogen made from fossil gas is also baseless.

Current Events:
UK housebuilders have far too much power. Now a £4.5bn lawsuit could change that for good | Peter Apps
NEWS | 09 July 2026
But in the UK, volume housebuilders and their preferred model of speculative development routinely provide most of our new homes. He asked the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) to carry out a full market study into volume housebuilders. Meanwhile, buyers – with higher mortgage rates to service – are far less interested in a new-build semi than they were 10 years ago. The overall lesson is clear: this model of building new homes is not serving us well. The dominance of the big builders needs to break – at least a bit – for any new model to truly flourish.