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  • Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer during the Labour Party local elections campaign launch at the Black Country & Marches Institute of Technology in Dudley

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    Starmer launches local election campaign but warns Labour can’t easily reverse council funding crisis

  • Closeup of Angela Rayner's face

    Angela Rayner
    Labour deputy leader denies wrongdoing over council house sale amid police review

  • Thames Water repair site in central London.

    Thames Water
    Nationalisation threat as investors pull plug on funding

  • George Gilbey in 2014, entering the Celebrity Big Brother house.

    George Gilbey
    Gogglebox star dies at 40 in workplace accident

    • For Women Scotland
      Transgender judge seeks leave to intervene in UK court case over legal definition of ‘woman’

    • London
      Man seriously injured in stabbing on train

    • Live
      Russia-Ukraine war: Putin rules out attacks on Nato countries

    • Dignitas
      UK membership soars by 24% as assisted dying in Scotland moves closer

    • Economy
      Blow for Sunak as revised figures confirm UK did go into recession last year

    • Energy bills
      UK households urged to submit meter readings ahead of price cut

News in focus

  • Heidi Dawson inside the control suite for Studio 11, at Quay House, Salford.

    ‘Know your audience’
    BBC 5 Live chief on the station’s staying power

  • a child dragging a basket of stones at a construction site in India

    India's sandstone
    How child labour makes the paving stones beneath our feet

    The long read: Despite promises of reform, exploitation remains endemic in India’s sandstone industry, with children doing dangerous work for low pay – often to decorate driveways and gardens thousands of miles away
  • RiverSewage search

    Sewage crisis
    How polluted is your local river?

    Rivers in north of England among most polluted, shows new data. Search your postcode to see how sewage spills into your local river

Spotlight

  • Nick Cave

    ‘It’s against nature to bury your children’
    Nick Cave on love, art and the loss of his sons

    The musician and artist discusses mercy, forgiveness, making and meaning
  • A meat stall at a Christmas market in Frankfurt

    The planetary health diet
    ‘People mustn’t feel meat is being taken from them’

  • A woman checks the scent on her wrist.

    The experts
    Perfumers on 20 ways to make you, your house and your laundry smell fabulous

    From picking a perfect fragrance to spraying your radiators and getting rid of the worst stinks, here is how to make sure your life always smells sweet
  • Mykhailo Mudryk, Jude Bellingham and Florian Wirtz

    Euro 2024 power rankings
    A look at the 24 teams going to Germany

    Our writers break down all 24 teams that have qualified for this summer’s European Championship
    • A wolfdog under trees in the snow

      ‘We’d like to shoot them all’
      Growing army of wolfdogs raises hackles across Europe

    • Mick Jagger, USA

      Rare and raw
      Never before seen Rolling Stones

    • A shelf of DVDs for sale

      ‘Rental places will surge back’
      Readers on the fight to preserve physical media

    • The medieval Swiss town of Gruyères

      Rail route of the month
      Cheese, chocolate and a magical ride to the Swiss town of Gruyères

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  • Tony Blair, Bill Clinton and Sam Bankman-Fried in 2022.

    Sam Bankman-Fried will grow old in jail. But don’t forget those who basked in his orbit

    Aditya Chakrabortty
    If the high-rollers surrounding the disgraced FTX founder had any qualms about taking his money, they didn’t show it
  • Golborne Road street on Saturday market day with flea market stalls Notting Hill district London England UK Europe<br>C8BB5D Golborne Road street on Saturday market day with flea market stalls Notting Hill district London England UK Europe

    ‘Neighbourhood restaurants’ – really? These Instagrammable imposters are nothing of the sort

    Lauren O'Neill
  • White man wearing blue suit and red tie speaks into microphone

    Want to make it in the Republican party? Pledge allegiance to the Big Lie

    Robert Reich
    After a Trump-backed purge of the RNC this month, promoting the 2020 stolen election lie has become a litmus test for loyalty
  • Donald Tusk

    Rightwing populists have many countries in their grip. Come to Poland: see how they can be pushed back

    Anne McElvoy
    Donald Tusk is working on a great transformation, but it is a hugely difficult project, says writer and broadcaster Anne McElvoy
    • Illustration of woman with pram passing homeless person

      Britain seems stuck in a doom loop of poverty. I have a plan to raise billions to address that

      Gordon Brown
    • Judges resign from men-only Garrick Club in Covent Garden, London, England, Uk - 25 Mar 2024<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Vuk Valcic/ZUMA Press Wire/REX/Shutterstock (14401108f) Exterior view of the Garrick Club as reports state that at least four judges have resigned from the club in Covent Garden following the backlash over its men-only membership. Judges resign from men-only Garrick Club in Covent Garden, London, England, Uk - 25 Mar 2024

      I’m a Garrick member. The exclusion of women is the opposite of liberal. It is out of date and wrong

      Simon Jenkins
    • LinkedIn.

      Why has LinkedIn become so weird?

      Coco Khan
    • Ella Baron on record sewage discharges by England’s water companies – cartoon

      Guardian Opinion cartoon
      Ella Baron on record sewage discharges by England’s water companies

Editorials & Letters

  • Evan Gershkovich

    The Guardian view
    Evan Gershkovich’s year behind bars: Moscow should free him now

  • Kate Garraway

    The Guardian view
    Unpaid care: time to heed Kate and Derek’s story

  • To Let and For Sale signs

    Letters
    AI can help us find the right policies to fix the housing crisis

  • Margaret Thatcher, the prime minister, after she handed over a copy of the deeds of 39 Amersham Road, Harold Hill, to the Greater London Council's 12,000th council house buyer, James Patterson and his wife Maureen. With them are their three children, twins Vernon and Martin and 16-year-old Leisa.

    Letters
    Right to buy is an abuse of public funds for political ends

  • A person in a hi-vis jacket walking away from the camera towards a large dirt mound or hill

    Scraping away generations of forgetting
    My fight to honour the Africans buried on St Helena

  • Annina Van Neel Hayes laying lilies outside the door of a brick building

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    'Perpetuating a lie'
    British overseas territory St Helena urged to return remains of 325 formerly enslaved people to Africa

  • The remote island of St Helena, a British overseas territory, is best known for Napoleon's tomb – the island's biggest tourist attraction. While overseeing the construction of a long-awaited airport on the island, Annina van Neel learns that the remains of thousands of formerly enslaved Africans have been uncovered, unearthing one of the most significant traces of the transatlantic slave trade in the world

    29:18

    Documentary
    Buried: how we choose to remember the transatlantic slave trade

  • Slave revolt in Jamaica from 1832, and a British West African Squadron war ship from 1827

    It’s not unpatriotic to tell the whole truth about Britain and the end of slavery

    Ella Sinclair
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  • Emissions from an oil refinery

    Fossil fuels
    Surge of new oil and gas activity threatens to wreck Paris climate goals

  • People in Central Park, New York

    Weatherwatch
    Sinking US cities increase risk of flooding from rising sea levels

  • The French president, Emmanuel Macron, speaking at the Brazil-France economic forum in São Paulo on Wednesday

    EU
    Emmanuel Macron calls proposed Mercosur trade pact ‘very bad deal’ lacking strong climate commitments

  • Pasta with asparagus and green peas<br>Spaghetti with asparagus and green peas

    Diet
    Plant-heavy ‘flexitarian’ diets could help limit global heating, study finds

  • A swam swimming in sewage on the River Thames in Windsor, Berkshire

    Sewage
    Regulators urged to act over record discharge

    Government asked to put ‘people and planet before profits’ as analysis shows potential illegal discharging of raw sewage
  • Frank Hester

    Frank Hester
    Tory donor raised complaint about NHS contract with health secretary

  • Nick Hardwick in 2018.

    Nick Hardwick
    No 10 accused of blocking ex-Parole Board chair to be health ombudsman

  • The King with the Princess of Wales

    Monarchy
    King lauds friendship ‘in time of need’ in first comments since Kate's diagnosis

    • Crooked House pub
      Owners appeal against rebuild order

    • ‘Cultural and social vandalism’
      Mass redundancy plans at Goldsmiths attacked

    • Garrick Club
      Lawyer who raised ‘boys’ club’ concerns over judgment accused of misconduct

    • Lord Geidt
      Ex-Boris Johnson ethics adviser found to have broken Lords rules

    • Gordon Brown
      Former PM calls for new poverty fund to halt slide into ‘hungry decade’

    • Conservatives
      Controversial attack ad on Sadiq Khan made solely by Tory HQ, source says

  • Palestinians gather to inspect damage of the destroyed building belonged to the Dhaheer family, after an Israeli attack on Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip

    Live
    Middle East crisis: US and Israel in talks to revive Washington trip to discuss Rafah

    Israeli PM had cancelled officials’ US visit to discuss planned offensive in southern Gaza after the US refused to veto a UN security council vote on a ceasefire
  • A person holding a pack of pills

    Women's health
    Hormone medication could increase risk of brain tumours – study

  • Daniel Kahneman, an Israeli-American psychologist and Nobel laureate, has died aged 90

    Daniel Kahneman
    Renowned psychologist and Nobel prize winner dies at 90

  • Kenya police patrol the streets of Nairobi, Kenya, Tuesday, March.12, 2024. Kenya agreed in October to lead a U.N.-authorized international police force to Haiti, but the Kenyan High Court in January ruled the plan unconstitutional, in part because of a lack of reciprocal agreements between the two countries. Kenya and Haiti signed agreements Friday, March 1, 2024 to try to salvage a plan for the African country to deploy 1,000 police officers to the troubled Caribbean nation to help combat gang violence that has surged to unprecedented levels. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)

    ‘It’s mission impossible’
    Fear grows in Kenya over plan to deploy police to Haiti

    • United Nations
      Saudi Arabia picked to lead women’s rights forum despite ‘abysmal’ record

    • Joe Lieberman
      Former US senator and vice-presidential nominee, dies at 82

    • Moscow concert attack
      Fear death toll higher after reports of up to 100 missing

    • US
      Suspect held after four killed and seven injured in Illinois stabbings

    • Donald Trump
      Ex-lawyer should be disbarred for his role in 2020 election, says judge

    • Israel
      Settlers call for UN agency’s closure in Jerusalem protest

  • A cow with the sun blazing between its horns.

    Book of the day
    Choice by Neel Mukherjee review – parables for our times

    A bleak, brilliant moral maze of a novel about ethical dilemmas, from global poverty to the climate crisis
  • An American flag flying at Guantanamo Bay.

    Best podcasts of the week
    Guantánamo gets the Serial treatment

  • Adorable and cynical … Po (Jack Black) and Zhen (Awkwafina) in Kung Fu Panda 4

    Kung Fu Panda 4 review
    Jack Black and Awkwafina in hurricane of slapstick more miss than hit

  • Nicola Coughlan and Lydia West on Big Mood.

    TV tonight
    Nicola Coughlan and Lydia West’s ode to female friendship

  • Author Wycliffe Hill and his ‘plot genie’ device for coming up with storylines.

    The deep roots of AI
    Literary Theory for Robots by Dennis Yi Tenen review

  • Exquisite … Ryuichi Sakamoto: Opus

    Ryuichi Sakamoto: Opus review
    A stark, emotional finale from master musician

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    Free lunches, brain breaks and happy teachers
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