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UK parents: share your experience on the impact of online content on children | Kate Winslet used her Bafta speech to ask the government for more protection against ‘harmful’ content on social media. Winslet who won best actress award for her role in I am Ruth , which explores the relationship between mother and child (played by daughter Mia Threapleton) dealing with mental health pressure from so... | BAD |
It’s time to root out toxic Tony Danker and his creepy cronies, the old boys’ network must be dis | YOU can tell a lot about a person by their reaction when they are told it’s time to go. And Tony Danker , who was dismissed as director-general of the Confederation of British Industry after allegations of misconduct , didn’t exactly cover himself in glory this week. Rather than just accept the fact that it was time ... | BAD |
Keir Starmer has a blank piece of paper where his policies should be – it will be no surprise if Tories w | FORGET the polls and the focus groups. This is the week we’ll find out for sure if voters believe Sir Keir Starmer has what it takes to be PM. Elections are the only real test of public opinion. Thursday’s town hall skirmishes will reveal who is on track to win in 2024. After 13 years of Tory chaos, coups and convulsio... | BAD |
Wednesday briefing: Are standardised tests failing children? | Good morning. Almost everything about adulthood stinks, but it has one important benefit: nobody can ever make you take another exam. Who among us looks back fondly on turning over a sheaf of paper to find out which particular gaps in your knowledge are about to be ruthlessly exposed? And who doesn’t feel a shiver of s... | GOOD |
Press freedom should not be subject to the whims of MPs | The House of Commons will today hold a general debate on Ukraine, the first for several weeks. It is right that the military, diplomatic and political implications are regularly discussed in Parliament. This is the biggest geo-political crisis in Europe since 1945 and the conflict is turning into a proxy stand-off betw... | BAD |
Donald Perkins obituary | The particle physicist Donald Perkins, who has died aged 97, made seminal discoveries about the structure of the proton, and nuclear interactions at extreme energies, and first proposed the use of beams of pion particles in cancer therapy. His career spanned the birth of particle physics, as it emerged from studies of ... | GOOD |
‘Paris agreement’ for nature imperative at Cop15, architects of climate deal say | The architects of the Paris agreement have urged world leaders to reach an ambitious sister deal for nature at the Cop15 biodiversity conference this December while warning that limiting global heating to 1.5C is impossible without protecting and restoring ecosystems. On biodiversity day at the Cop27 climate conference... | GOOD |
You be the judge: should my girlfriend stop taking free samples from the same shop? | Irene goes to the same place every day for free hot chocolate – it’s so embarrassing My girlfriend Irene and I have different attitudes when it comes to customer service and free samples. I think this is down to the fact that Irene is from LA. Americans aren’t really bothered about stuff like going into the same shop e... | GOOD |
MPs and peers do worse than 10-year-olds in maths and English Sats | MPs and peers tasked with completing a year 6 Sats exam have scored lower results on average than the country’s 10-year-olds. MPs including Commons education select committee chair Robin Walker took part in the exams, invigilated by 11-year-olds, at a Westminster event organised by More Than A Score, who campaign for t... | GOOD |
Labour to restore whip to Neil Coyle after suspension over drunken abuse | Labour is to restore the party whip to Neil Coyle after the MP was suspended for drunken abuse and making racist comments to a journalist. Coyle was suspended in February last year after a complaint by Henry Dyer, a political reporter for the Insider website who now works for the Guardian, about the behaviour of the MP... | GOOD |
Look at what hedge funds really do – and tell me capitalism is about ‘rewarding risk’ | Coming up with economic policy is a difficult, unforgiving task. To make the best of it, it helps to work with an accurate model of how the economy works. If you use a misleading model and act on it, you can’t reasonably expect good outcomes: in that scenario, we end up, as JM Keynes warned in the 1930s, with “madmen i... | BAD |
A Brighter Tomorrow review – Nanni Moretti’s new film is bafflingly awful | Nanni Moretti is the Italian director who will always have a place in our hearts, not least for his masterly The Son’s Room (2001), in my view the greatest Cannes Palme d’Or winner of the century so far . And more recently his cinephile comedy Mia Madre (2015) was tremendous. But his new film in competition is baffling... | BAD |
IPL 2023: the state of play, stars so far and how England players are faring | Not much, just the first 68 games. The IPL is a curious beast: the biggest tournament in cricket, the richest in any ballgame, the greatest show in Asia – and yet eminently missable . Its bosses at the Indian board still haven’t worked out how to give it meaning. It works for the players and coaches, who get massive fe... | GOOD |
Australian Olympic boxer Harry Garside charged with assault | Olympic boxing medallist Harry Garside has been charged with assault after being arrested on his return to Australia from filming reality TV series I’m a Celebrity. Garside was taken into custody at Sydney international airport on Tuesday. Police launched an investigation into reports of an alleged domestic violence-re... | GOOD |
Fairbuds XL review: the excellent noise-cancelling headphones you can fix yourself | On first impressions, the Fairbuds XL are just another set of big, plush noise-cancelling Bluetooth headphones. But their novel design allows them to be easily dismantled for simple at-home repairs, making them some of the most sustainable on the market. Produced by repairable and Fairtrade electronics pioneer Fairphon... | GOOD |
German economy in recession after high prices take toll | Germany has fallen into recession, fresh figures have revealed, after high prices took a bigger toll on the country’s economy than originally estimated. Updated data released by German’s federal statistical office on Thursday showed gross domestic product (GDP) fell by 0.3% in the first quarter compared with the previo... | GOOD |
‘I can’t track him down to return his family album’: the things our exes left behind that we can’t bear to get rid of | Gwynne (left), now 38 and a producer in New York We met in 2007, when we were both living in New York. I had just moved from Kansas and Paul was a friend of a friend of my sister’s, who I was living with at the time. He was a Brit, working for a totally shady company that went door to door around all the pharmacies in ... | GOOD |
Gill Dorer obituary | My mother, Gill Dorer, who has died aged 78, was, among many things, director of services at Arthritis Care, a member of the General Medical Council (GMC), a director of the charity Relate and a magistrate. She sat on the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and the Chartered Society of Physioth... | GOOD |
A local’s guide to Brighton: the best galleries, museums, restaurants and pubs | Travel blogger Ellie Seymour ( ellieandco.co.uk ) has been based in Brighton for nearly 20 years. She is the author of the guidebooks Secret Brighton and Secret Sussex You can’t visit the seaside city of Brighton without having fish and chips, and where to get the best is hotly debated. One of my favourite spots is the... | GOOD |
Hollywood hypocrites fawn over ‘wife beater’ Johnny Depp but they’d never do that for female abuser, says U | NO one can deny that a seven-minute standing ovation for a man found by a judge in an English High Court case to be a domestic abuser is quite an achievement. Premiering his new film, Jeanne du Barry, at the Cannes Film Festival , Johnny Depp lapped up the warmth and applause from the audience and fans alike. This was ... | BAD |
Archbishop of Canterbury to criticise small boats bill in House of Lords | The archbishop of Canterbury will make a rare intervention in the House of Lords to join dozens of peers condemning the government’s flagship asylum bill. Justin Welby will argue against measures championed by Rishi Sunak and Suella Braverman that seek to criminalise people seeking refuge in the UK if they arrive on sm... | GOOD |
I took my kids to the playground without bringing my phone – and it was a revelation | It is a truism of parenting that it goes so fast, but as anyone who has been forced to sit on a bench and watch their children run tireless circuits of the playground knows, sometimes it goes so slowly you feel as if you’re losing your mind. I know people who will do anything to avoid playground duty, will beg their fr... | BAD |
Spanish police make arrests over ‘hate crimes’ targeting Vinícius Júnior | Spanish police have arrested three people in connection with the racist abuse suffered by Real Madrid’s Brazilian forward Vinícius Júnior during a match with Valencia on Sunday, and detained a further four suspects over an effigy of the player that was hung from a bridge in Madrid four months ago. In a brief statement ... | GOOD |
New rail strikes targeting FA Cup final and Epsom Derby amount to a spiteful punishment beating for the | THE new rail strikes are even more spiteful than we’ve come to expect. Britain is used to walkouts orchestrated by unions both to extract more money and cause chaos for the Tories they despise. Aslef’s latest timing amounts to a punishment beating for the public . So much for working-class struggle! These stoppages, l... | BAD |
GPs and pharmacies are the very heart of our communities. Here’s how we’ll transform them | PEOPLE sometimes talk about their GP as if they were a close friend or even a member of the family. When I was growing up, that was the reality. My dad was a GP and Mum ran the local pharmacy. They were at the heart of our community, the friendly face of the NHS and the first port of call for anyone worried about their... | BAD |
After the earthquakes, it’s women and girls in Turkey feeling the aftershocks | In Turkey’s southern province of Hatay, one of the most ravaged cities in the recent earthquakes , 25-year-old Alev Altun, the mother of two young children, became homeless in one night, like thousands of others. Having nowhere to go, she agreed to take refuge in the house of her ex-husband, on his invitation, assuming... | BAD |
Paralysed man walks using device that reconnects brain with muscles | A man who was paralysed in a cycling accident in 2011 has been able to stand and walk with an aid after doctors implanted a device that reads his brain waves and sends instructions to his spine to move the right muscles. Gert-Jan Oskam, 40, was told he would never walk again after breaking his neck in a traffic acciden... | GOOD |
Banned British sprinter CJ Ujah cleared of deliberately taking drugs at Olympics | The British 100m sprinter CJ Ujah has been cleared of deliberately taking banned drugs by the Athletics Integrity Unit and the World Anti-Doping Agency, and will be free to return to competition next year. Ujah led off Team GB men’s 4x100m relay team as they won silver at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021 only to test positiv... | GOOD |
UK immigration stats: headline figure will not tell the whole story | The release of official statistics is often the focus of political scrutiny, but the latest annual figures for overall net migration to the UK, due Thursday at 9.30am, are sufficiently anticipated they have prompted two separate policy announcements already. On Tuesday, Suella Braverman rushed through a plan to reduce ... | BAD |
Tory pledge to build 40 ‘new’ England hospitals likely to be delayed until after 2030 | The health secretary is set to signal a major delay to one of the headline promises in the last Conservative manifesto by suggesting the delivery of 40 new hospitals in England is likely to be pushed back until after 2030. In a move that will spark anger among MPs who wanted “spades in the ground” before the next elect... | GOOD |
The Guardian has called everything from gardening to the countryside racist – but the real problem is t | A PRETTY cast-iron rule in life is that people are what they accuse you of. Nowhere is this truer than in the modern Left’s obsession with calling everyone else a racist. If you believe in controlled borders you are a “racist”. If you believe in limiting immigration you are a “racist”. If you are proud of your country ... | BAD |
This is no victory day for Vladimir Putin | At the outset of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine , May 9 was seen by many analysts as the likely end of the operation. The assumption was that Moscow’s overwhelming military would soon subjugate its neighbour, forcing a surrender and the removal of the government in Kyiv to be replaced by a pro-Kremlin leadership. This wa... | BAD |
One in five people in UK suffer from misophonia, researchers find | If the sound of someone chewing gum or slurping their tea gets on your nerves, you are not alone. Researchers say almost one in five people in the UK has strong negative reactions to such noises. Misophonia is a disorder in which people feel strong emotional responses to certain sounds, feeling angry, distressed or eve... | GOOD |
Premier Inn owner surpasses pre-Covid profits as travellers seek deals | The owner of Premier Inn has said profits have surpassed pre-pandemic levels as the UK’s biggest budget hotel chain benefits from a surge in demand from cost-conscious holidaymakers. Whitbread, which runs almost 900 hotels in the UK and Germany as well as restaurant chains including Beefeater, Bar & Block and Brewers F... | GOOD |
Central banks ‘risk losing trust if they cannot tame inflation’ | Central banks risk losing public trust if they fail to bring down high rates of inflation found across the developed world, according to the boss of the body that advises them. Agustín Carstens, the director of the Bank of International Settlements, said central bankers needed to maintain a tough stance against inflati... | GOOD |
John Sentamu forced to step down from C of E after failing to act on abuse claims | The former archbishop of York has been forced to step down from duties after failing to act on allegations of sexual abuse. John Sentamu last week rejected the findings of a report that found he failed to act on disclosures that a C of E vicar repeatedly raped a teenage boy in the 1980s. He claimed the report’s author,... | GOOD |
Putin doesn’t care that 20,000 of his soldiers are dead, he’ll get more – unless powerful forces in Moscow | IN the struggle for freedom in Ukraine, a crater-strewn quagmire called Highway T0504 is taking on historic significance. It is the last route out of the city of Bakhmut for the country’s troops, whose fierce resistance has taken the lives of an estimated 10,000 Wagner Russian mercenaries in the past six months, accord... | BAD |
Carmelo Anthony’s flawed genius hit different because I saw his faults in myself | I wasn’t prepared for Carmelo Anthony’s retirement announcement . One, because I thought he would, and should, play a few more years. He was still in game shape and could bring a veteran scoring presence to any team in the NBA. The second reason is because I am in the middle of the most consequential separation of my a... | GOOD |
$209bn a year is what fossil fuel firms owe in climate reparations. We want that paid | The truth is out, and it lays bare big oil’s plunder of the environment for commercial greed. Academics now estimate that the 21 top fossil fuel behemoths are liable for an estimated US$209bn annual reparation bill arising from their exploitation. But what’s more scandalous is that the governments and private investors... | GOOD |
ABC news chief regrets not defending Stan Grant earlier amid racist attacks | ABC news chief Justin Stevens says he regrets not defending Stan Grant earlier as the Q+A host faced racist attacks on social media fuelled by what he described as a “relentless campaign” against the ABC’s coronation broadcast from News Corp. Stevens accused News Corp of targeting the ABC because it was “trying to chip... | GOOD |
Michael Vaughan returns to BBC cricket coverage for Ashes summer | Michael Vaughan is to return to the BBC and play a key part in its cricket coverage this summer after being earlier this year cleared of making a racist remark during his time as a player at Yorkshire. The former England captain will broadcast on England’s first home Test this year, against Ireland at Lord’s, and for t... | GOOD |
Whatever comes next, Bayern Munich must rip it up and start again | One of German football’s primary cliches is that of Bayern-Dusel – an undeserved helping of fortune that would help them somehow get it over the line in the last knockings, however well or badly they had played. A sense of inevitability. If you make your own luck in this game, though, Bayern Munich have not made nearly... | GOOD |
Greek PM’s election win driven by recovery from economic crisis | If voters handed the prime minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s conservative New Democracy party a thumping 20-point win and its best result since 2007 on Sunday, it was at least partly because they credited him with steering Greece to economic safety. Three mammoth bailouts totalling €280bn averted disaster during a decade-... | BAD |
Nvidia gains $185bn in value after predicting AI-driven boom in chip demand | The value of the US tech company Nvidia has soared by a quarter after it predicted a boom in demand for its computer chips to meet the needs of artificial intelligence products such as ChatGPT . Nvidia’s share price rose by 25% in early trading on the back of the announcement, and gave it a market valuation of more tha... | GOOD |
The Guardian view on American-Chinese relations: looking beyond governments | Richer and more complex stories lie behind dominant narratives, as the British Museum’s fascinating new exhibition, China’s Hidden Century , reminds us. It challenges the conventional wisdom that the country’s “long 19th century” was solely a time of decay and decline. It documents domestic turmoil and aggression and p... | BAD |
Fubar review – Arnie’s a natural comedian in this unstoppably daft crime drama | It is painful for a parent to realise that their darling daughter has grown up into a foul-mouthed, substance-abusing brawler. So Arnold Schwarzenegger isn’t exactly pleased when it happens to him in this unstoppably daft hokum. When Schwarzenegger – AKA undercover CIA agent Luke Brunner – arrives at the baddies’ lair ... | BAD |
How training dogs to chase bears might just save a grizzly or two | The dog is moving through the grasses of the open meadow, closely followed by bear biologist Carrie Hunt, who is observing his reactions as he sees the grizzly bear carcass for the first time. “Find it,” says Hunt, encouraging the two-month-old puppy. The puppy’s ears and tail are up as he approaches the bear cautiousl... | GOOD |
Builders picking Lotto ball 39 had best chance of winning UK national lottery in 2022 | Builders were once again the luckiest by employment type among national lottery players in a year when more than one millionaire was made each day. The trade was followed by teachers, drivers, retail workers and administration staff, said Camelot, operator of the lottery. In a roundup of facts for 2022 Camelot also fou... | GOOD |
University of York’s favourite mallard is a dead duck, fear staff | Long Boi, the grand old duck of York, is presumed dead after going missing for several weeks, leaving behind grieving students at his favourite university watering holes. The 70cm-tall drake was celebrated at the University of York for his unusual height and gregarious nature, delighting students with his appearances a... | GOOD |
Eleven things you shouldn’t miss in more than 1,000 pages of 2023 federal budget papers | This year’s budget is made up of 997 pages of spending and revenue measures across four budget papers, along with a 74-page glossary, 48 press releases, a 15-page speech, plus sundry fact sheets, bills, portfolio budget statements and explanatory memorandums. In short, it’s a lot of reading, even for a six-hour lock-up... | GOOD |
Bashar al-Assad seizes his chance for a comeback after Syrian earthquake | Walking through Aleppo in Syria last month, Bashar al-Assad did not look like a man shouldering the fate of a nation. As he posed for photos with locals, who queued to meet him inspecting damage from the earthquake that had devastated parts of northern Syria , Assad appeared to show as much relief as concern for victim... | GOOD |
GPs in Australia ask for all contraceptives to be subsidised and end to abortion ‘postcode lottery’ | All contraceptives should be government subsidised, Medicare rebates for IUD insertion should be increased and larger quantities of contraception pills should be dispensed at once to make abortion and contraception more accessible , the peak body for general practitioners says. In its submission to the Senate inquiry i... | GOOD |
Labour government would invest more in NHS England, says Starmer | Keir Starmer has signalled that a Labour government would pump more funding into the NHS in England as he outlined his plans to make the health service “fit for the future”. The Labour leader agreed that he was prepared to put his “money where [his] mouth is” on investing in the future of the health service. He told th... | GOOD |
Martin Lewis: ‘We must stop calling it a student loan’ | The consumer finance champion Martin Lewis has highlighted the impact of the new arrangements for student loans, saying some school-leavers may no longer consider a degree is worth the cost. “There is a fundamental misunderstanding about how student loans work, because they are demonised as debt, but under this plan th... | GOOD |
Potential antidote found for toxin in world’s most poisonous mushroom | Scientists believe they have found a potential antidote for a potent toxin found in the world’s most poisonous mushroom , the death cap. The death cap mushroom, Amanita phalloides , is responsible for about 90% of mushroom-related deaths globally. Its principal toxin is a peptide called α-Amanitin, a type of amatoxin w... | GOOD |
Inequality starts before birth – so child benefits should too | By the time children start school in the UK, those from low-income backgrounds are already an average of four months behind their peers in terms of educational development. The gap only widens from there. By the end of primary school, it’s nine months. By the time they take their GCSEs, 18 months. Inequality grows expo... | GOOD |
Distance runner given eight-year ban for doping after Covid story unravels | The New Zealand distance runner Zane Robertson has been given an eight-year ban for doping after his claim that he was mistakenly injected with EPO after seeing doctors for a Covid jab was exposed. Robertson, who won a bronze medal at the 2014 Commonwealth Games and has competed in the past two Olympics, initially test... | GOOD |
Nuclear fusion ‘holy grail’ is not the answer to our energy prayers | You report on the alleged “breakthrough” on nuclear fusion, in which US researchers claim that break-even has been achieved ( Breakthrough in nuclear fusion could mean ‘near-limitless energy’, 12 December ). To go from break-even, where energy output is greater than total energy input, to a commercial nuclear fusion re... | GOOD |
Nine out of 10 people in Syrian camps have been displaced multiple times | Nine out of 10 people living in the squalid camps for the internally displaced in north-west Syria have been made homeless multiple times, according to a new survey. February’s devastating earthquake in Turkey and Syria, which killed tens of thousands of people, compounded an already desperate situation with an estimat... | GOOD |
Academics condemn ‘threats’ against Oxford Union in Kathleen Stock row | A group of Oxford academics claim “coercion and financial threats” are being used to force the Oxford Union debating club to cancel an appearance by Kathleen Stock. Stock, a former university professor who argues that transgender people cannot expect all the rights afforded by biological sex, is due to speak at the Oxf... | GOOD |
As an ex-BBC presenter, I want to hear a vision that goes beyond cut, cut, cut | Do we still think public service broadcasting matters? For those of us who do, these are worrying times. “The public service broadcasting system is undoubtedly facing an existential threat,” warns the former chair of ITV and much else, Peter Bazalgette. ITV, he reveals, has not yet decided to reapply for a new public s... | GOOD |
South Korea’s truth commission to investigate dozens of foreign adoptions | South Korea’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission will investigate the cases of dozens of South Korean adoptees in Europe and the US who suspect their origins were falsified or obscured during a child export frenzy in the mid-to late 20th century. Thursday’s decision opens what could be South Korea’s most far-reaching ... | GOOD |
Recipes for Ramadan: Sally Mousa’s qatayef (folded pancakes), five ways | The Muslim holy month of Ramadan ends this weekend when the sighting of the new crescent moon heralds the start of a new lunar month. The previous month of fasting is followed by the three-day festival of Eid al-Fitr, a time for gifts, new clothes, feasting, and for visiting friends and family bearing trays of home-bak... | GOOD |
Oxford University cuts ties with Sackler family over links with opioids | The University of Oxford will cut its ties with the Sackler family, whose wealth came from addictive opioid drugs, removing the family’s name from buildings, galleries and positions funded through their donations. The university’s governing council approved the measure to strip the Sackler name from two galleries in th... | GOOD |
Giro d’Italia: Geraint Thomas holds firm as Filipo Zana earns home stage 18 win | The Italian road race champion, Filippo Zana, outpaced Thibaut Pinot in a dramatic two-man final sprint in Val di Zoldo on Thursday to clinch his first grand tour win on stage 18 of the Giro d’Italia. Pinot led the dash for the finish line after a typically swashbuckling performance in the Dolomites, only for Zana to l... | GOOD |
Can you solve it? Succession | Today’s puzzles are about succession, with a lower case ‘s’. (Apols to readers hoping to find a discussion of the TV series. Although I have made an attempt at making one of the questions relevant.) First down the runway is Japanese puzzle master Nob Yoshigahara’s masterpiece, one of the most perfect brainteasers of al... | GOOD |
Manchester Arena attack survivor demands ‘truth’ from MI5 | A man left paralysed by the Manchester Arena attack has said he wants the truth and not “excuses” from MI5, as it faces damning criticism from an inquiry into the atrocity. Martin Hibbert said he wanted to know “why it happened and how it happened” when the inquiry publishes its long-anticipated final report about the ... | GOOD |
‘A gamechanger’: new meningitis vaccine hailed as major step | An effective, affordable meningitis vaccine has been successfully tested in Africa, raising hopes for the elimination of a disease that kills 250,000 people a year . The NmCV-5 vaccine, developed by the Serum Institute of India and global health organisation Path , will protect against the five main meningococcal strai... | GOOD |
Inflation is set to fall sharply and the weather’s looking up – let’s be thankful for small mercies | NOT long ago almost no one under 50 had any memory of the horrors of inflation. What a grim lesson the last two years have been. The average family has paid an estimated £5,455 extra to stay afloat thanks to the effects of Covid and war. Inflation wrecks economies. It makes eating, heating and driving much pricier, ha... | BAD |
Porsche may withdraw backing after DP World Tour suspends LIV Golf rebels | The DP World Tour is on a possible collision course with one of its tournament sponsors after suspensions handed to LIV rebels ruled Paul Casey and Martin Kaymer out of next month’s European Open in Hamburg. Both former Ryder Cup players had entered the event; Casey is an ambassador for Porsche, the title sponsor, whil... | GOOD |
The Spin | May creaks into June. The first block of the County Championship is in the can, the sun’s meek rays gather a little more strength and the damp English loam begins to sweat. So too the collective palms of the England cricket fan. A conjoined pulse quickens as thoughts, daydreams, hopes and fears become inordinately focu... | GOOD |
Search History by Amy Taylor review – sharp and pacy cautionary tale for the extremely online | This review begins with a confession: I’m a lurker. I once found a website through which you can watch people’s Instagram stories without them knowing; multiple times a day, I typed in the name of the ex of the man I was seeing. I searched everything she posted – photos of food, selfies, songs – for hints about their r... | GOOD |
Luton’s Kenilworth Road is crumbling but deserves a Premier League chance | Shortly before 8pm last Tuesday, a remarkable act of transfiguration took place at Kenilworth Road. At that precise moment, Luton’s cramped and crumbling old stadium, with a capacity barely above 10,000, became a raging, roaring, hot-headed monster. The noise barely stopped for the next 90 minutes, at which point Luton... | BAD |
John Cooper obituary | My grandad, John Cooper, who has died aged 96, was an electrical engineer. Throughout his life and work he was open to new ideas and embraced education and other cultures. His own life experiences fostered a deep concern for the welfare of others. Born in Reading, John was the eldest son of Maurice, a master draper, an... | GOOD |
A moment that changed me: I was in my 20s and depressed – then my mother moved into my bed | The first night back from the hospital, I tried not to cry. In the dark, I squinted at the wall clock. The thick black hand hovered around the three. I lay propped up against pillows and towels. My baby’s body was hot and furious. Her little head fit in the palm of my hand. I was convinced I was holding her wrong. That... | GOOD |
Fears for England’s frog and toad population after drought | Frog and toad populations in England have been devastated by climate breakdown, conservationists fear, after the drought dried up their breeding ponds last year. Usually at this time of year, ponds are full of jelly-like frog and toadspawn . But conservationists have found the habitats to be bare, with no amphibians or... | GOOD |
US banker paid £73m dividend in 2021 after firm won millions in UK Covid contracts | An American banker was paid a £73m dividend in 2021 after his firm won hundreds of millions in Covid contracts, figures show. Banks Bourne, the sole owner of the medical company Tanner Pharma, took the sum from Tanner’s UK division, Companies House records show. While Tanner Pharma, based in Charlotte, North Carolina, ... | GOOD |
Coronavirus treatments: What progress is being made? | Vaccines have transformed the pandemic, but there is still a huge need for drugs which can treat Covid.
Immunity from vaccines can wane, and access is still a major problem around the world. Also, new variants emphasise the possible need for a back-up.
There are now many drugs that target the virus or our body in d... | BAD |
Leonard Cohen could shake it off like Taylor Swift | Re long concerts ( ‘They’re an endurance test!’ Will Taylor Swift begin the era of the three-hour concert?, 23 March ), I recall Leonard Cohen’s gig at London’s 02 Arena in 2013. He played for more than three hours, around 30 songs, with no costume changes – just a few doffs of the hat. He was 78. Graeme Evans Highgate... | GOOD |
Stock market reforms would ‘pass greater risk to investors’, FCA says | The UK’s financial regulator has warned reforms to stock market listing rules will pass greater risks on to investors in British companies, as it presses ahead with changes designed to reverse a decline in London’s position as a top financial centre. The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) on Tuesday night said it plans ... | GOOD |
Revealed: almost 1,000 rapes in prisons in England and Wales since 2010 | Nearly 1,000 rapes were reported to have taken place in prisons since 2010, exclusive data obtained by the Observer from police forces in England and Wales can reveal. A further 2,336 sexual assaults were reported to police in the same period, and experts warned that the true figure for both crimes may be far higher be... | GOOD |
Donald Trump to publish delayed Middle East ‘peace plan’ | Donald Trump will unveil his much-delayed Middle East “peace plan” alongside the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu , on Tuesday amid Palestinian protest and a rising global chorus of doubt about its timing and substance. The US president said on Monday that he would announce the plan at noon Washington time (1... | GOOD |
Camelot refused to help me save my sick uncle’s funeral plan | My widowed uncle is receiving palliative care for brain cancer and is no longer able to handle his affairs. His daughter had power of attorney (POA) but she died of cancer last year, and the rapid decline in his health left no time for me to become the replacement guardian. The issue is, he has a funeral plan that is p... | GOOD |
Can we still handle the truth? Journalism, ‘alternative facts’ and the rise of AI | We all have moments in life when we know something big is happening, that we are stepping into a new and consequential experience, and our mind takes a mental Polaroid, an intensely clear snapshot of what that moment looks like and how it feels, and then stores it away in a file marked “important”. Well, my mind does a... | GOOD |
Andy Murray withdraws from French Open as Daniil Medvedev wins in Rome | Andy Murray has withdrawn from this year’s French Open . The second grand slam of the year begins next week, but after struggling to find his best form on clay recently, the Scot will prioritise a busy grass-court schedule in the build-up to Wimbledon. Murray was beaten in the first round of the Italian Open and earlie... | GOOD |
Dark energy could be created inside black holes, scientists claim | Nothing sucks more than a supermassive black hole, but according to a group of researchers, the enormous objects found at the heart of many galaxies may be driving the expansion of the cosmos. The radical claim comes from an international team who compared growth rates of black holes in different galaxies. They conclud... | GOOD |
At least 12 people dead after crowd crush at football stadium in El Salvador | At least 12 people have died with more than 100 injured in a crowd crush at a football stadium in El Salvador on Saturday, the Central American country’s government has confirmed. Alianza FC and Club Deportivo Fas were playing the second leg of their playoff quarter-final game at the Estadio Cuscatlán in San Salvador, ... | GOOD |
Covid vaccines: How fast is progress around the world? | More than 11.8 billion doses of coronavirus vaccines have been administered, in at least 197 countries worldwide.
However, there are vast differences in the pace of progress in different parts of the world.
Some countries have secured and delivered doses to a large proportion of their population - but others are s... | BAD |
Kissinger at 100: how his ‘sordid’ diplomacy in Africa fuelled war in Angola and prolonged apartheid | The men who sat down for dinner at the Hotel Bodenmais in West Germany on 23 June 1976 were exclusively white, although the issue to be discussed was the path to majority black rule in Rhodesia . At the table was John Vorster, prime minister of apartheid South Africa. With him were ambassadors, diplomats and security o... | BAD |
IVF works for the lucky few. After a decade, I finally realised I wasn’t one of them | Is it possible to become addicted to fertility treatment? When does spending tens of thousands of pounds on IVF with no guarantee that it will actually work become a gambling problem? These are the questions I am searching for answers to as I meet virtually with a doctor from a top London fertility clinic. “Women are a... | BAD |
The Guardian view on Johnson’s legacy: Sunak is trapped by his own complicity | There are many lessons still to learn from the pandemic, but there is no mystery about Boris Johnson’s conduct. He broke the rules of lockdown and lied about it. The exposure of his behaviour drained public support away from him and his party. Those facts are not altered by news that fresh allegations relating to the u... | BAD |
Vladimir Putin’s latest strategic miscalculation | Among the many strategic blunders made by Vladimir Putin in attacking Ukraine, arguably the biggest was to assume that it would stop the expansion of Nato. It has had the opposite effect, with Finland and Sweden, both traditionally neutral countries, now ready to sign up to the alliance. They have seen what has happene... | BAD |
Ban smoking and tax fruit juice, says George Osborne | Smoking should be banned and the sugar tax extended to include fruit juice and milkshakes, George Osborne has said. In 2016, the Conservative former chancellor announced a sugar tax on soft drinks such as Coca-Cola and Irn Bru, claiming the money would be used to provide more sports funding for primary schools. It was ... | GOOD |
Trump’s pre-election diplomatic offensive glosses over awkward realities | The White House was festooned with the flags of four nations. There were trumpet blasts, multiple signatures on various pieces of paper, and much weighty talk about blood and history – everything you might expect from a peace deal. And not just any peace deal. The agreements signed in Washington on Tuesday were titled ... | GOOD |
I really do love my kids – but being away from them is utter bliss | Much of the thought behind this column is to balance the highs and lows of parenting, celebrating its joys as much as I lament its tedium. I have mined the latter for laughs as much as any parent, but I hope I’ve put across that, for all the easy jokes about how terrible parenting can be, it’s also genuinely enjoyable,... | GOOD |
I'm disabled but was told I won't receive critical care if I get Covid. It's terrifying | Towards the end of last year, I’d just got my life back on track after a long stay in hospital. I was discharged with round-the-clock care that transformed my life. I am disabled and the care package I was on before I was admitted to hospital didn’t provide enough support; I was admitted to a ward with problems associa... | BAD |
We smile at an unexpected windfall, and daydream all the harder when times are tough | I didn’t plan to begin my Friday morning with a little light Googling of new cars. I can’t afford to buy one myself. But having dived down this unexpected rabbit hole, I was at least able to confirm my hunch that Joe Thwaite, who with his wife, Jess, has just won £184m on the National Lottery , could – and doubtless wi... | BAD |
Alberto Dainese sprints to Giro stage win as Geraint Thomas holds on to lead | Alberto Dainese timed his sprint to perfection in a breathless finish to win Wednesday’s stage 17 at the Giro d’Italia, a 195km ride from Pergine Valsugana to Caorle. The Ineos Grenadiers rider Geraint Thomas continues to lead the overall standings, 18 seconds ahead of João Almeida (UAE Team Emirates) with Primoz Rogli... | GOOD |
Lee Rigby’s mother remembers ‘gentle, imperfect’ son 10 years after murder | Lyn Rigby, the mother of the murdered soldier Lee Rigby , says she speaks to her son every morning and can still feel his presence a decade after he was killed. Fusilier Rigby, 25, was killed on 22 May 2013 by terrorists near his barracks in Woolwich, south London. His attackers, Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale... | GOOD |
Who says clothes aren’t a matter of life or death? In Succession they’re both | In the days after my mother’s death, I spent a lot of time online looking for shoes to wear to her funeral. Not an obvious reaction to grief. But while I had a dress – a black one with pretty red peonies that I kept rolled up in my bag when her illness began to accelerate during the summer – we were in lockdown so the ... | GOOD |
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