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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" version="2.0"> <channel> <title>The Guardian</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/uk</link> <description>Latest news, sport, business, comment, analysis and reviews from the Guardian, the world's leading liberal voice</description> <language>en-gb</language> <copyright>Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. 2024</copyright> <pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2024 11:03:17 GMT</pubDate> <dc:date>2024-05-19T11:03:17Z</dc:date> <dc:language>en-gb</dc:language> <dc:rights>Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. 2024</dc:rights> <image> <title>The Guardian</title> <url>https://assets.guim.co.uk/images/guardian-logo-rss.c45beb1bafa34b347ac333af2e6fe23f.png</url> <link>https://www.theguardian.com</link> </image> <item> <title>Wes Streeting praises archbishop over call for Labour to scrap two-child benefit cap</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/may/19/wes-streeting-praises-archbishop-over-call-for-labour-to-scrap-two-child-benefit-cap</link> <description><p>Shadow minister says it is Justin Welby’s job to speak out but Labour could not commit to scrapping policy</p><p>Wes Streeting has praised the archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, for calling on Labour to scrap the two-child benefit cap, saying it was “literally his job” to speak out on such matters.</p><p>Streeting, the shadow health secretary, said he did not like the cap, which <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/apr/06/labour-urged-to-end-two-child-benefits-cap-as-research-reveals-policy-pushing-families-into-poverty">campaigners say has pushed</a> hundreds of thousands of families into poverty, but that the party could not commit to ending it until it knew how this would be financed.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/may/19/wes-streeting-praises-archbishop-over-call-for-labour-to-scrap-two-child-benefit-cap">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/welfare">Welfare</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/politics">Politics</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/uk">UK news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/justin-welby">Justin Welby</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/wes-streeting">Wes Streeting</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/labour">Labour</category> <pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2024 10:10:40 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/may/19/wes-streeting-praises-archbishop-over-call-for-labour-to-scrap-two-child-benefit-cap</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/de7ae9b99b65c1592fd384054a2fa32c1316b6c8/0_134_4032_2419/master/4032.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=7e468932dc7bd09a600576a415e034a7"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Leon Neal/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/de7ae9b99b65c1592fd384054a2fa32c1316b6c8/0_134_4032_2419/master/4032.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=956a486bdcac41c3d811c1ef8de63ad7"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Leon Neal/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Peter Walker</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-19T10:10:40Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Home Office in threat to deport disabled man to Nigeria after 38 years in UK</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/19/home-office-in-threat-to-deport-disabled-man-to-nigeria-after-38-years-in-uk</link> <description><p>Anthony Olubunmi George, 61, has been refused leave to remain despite living most of his adult life in Britain</p><p>A disabled man who has lived in the UK for 38 years has been <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/mar/18/mps-vote-to-throw-out-amendments-to-rwanda-deportation-bill">threatened with removal</a> from the UK by the Home Office.</p><p>Anthony Olubunmi George, 61, came to the UK at the age of 24 in 1986 from Nigeria. He has not left the UK since and has no criminal convictions. In 2019, he had two strokes, which left him with problems with speech and mobility.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/19/home-office-in-threat-to-deport-disabled-man-to-nigeria-after-38-years-in-uk">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/immigration">Immigration and asylum</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/home-office">Home Office</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/nigeria">Nigeria</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/uk">UK news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/africa">Africa</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/politics">Politics</category> <pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2024 10:00:33 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/19/home-office-in-threat-to-deport-disabled-man-to-nigeria-after-38-years-in-uk</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/da28410ea3127e445d64b5edff4bfcf974c71682/0_212_756_454/master/756.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=5b045efae02354363b002c29f16f98d9"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Supplied</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/da28410ea3127e445d64b5edff4bfcf974c71682/0_212_756_454/master/756.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=8ed1df8d3d6552abec1e4c81d752782a"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Supplied</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Diane Taylor</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-19T10:00:33Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Israel-Gaza war live: at least 20 people killed in strike on refugee camp in central Gaza, says hospital</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/may/19/israel-gaza-war-live-people-killed-in-strike-nuseirat-refugee-camp-gaza</link> <description><p>The al-Aqsa Martyrs hospital says the strike hit a house in Nuseirat camp with reports that rescuers are searching for missing people in the rubble</p><ul><li><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/israel-hamas-war">Read more of our Israel-Gaza war coverage here</a></li></ul><p>Here is a video of the Israeli war cabinet minister, <strong>Benny Gantz</strong>, threatening to resign if Benjamin Netanyahu fails to adopt an agreed plan for Gaza:</p><p>Here are some of the latest images coming out from the newswires:</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/may/19/israel-gaza-war-live-people-killed-in-strike-nuseirat-refugee-camp-gaza">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/israel-hamas-war">Israel-Gaza war</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/israel">Israel</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/hamas">Hamas</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/middleeast">Middle East and north Africa</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/world">World news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/palestinian-territories">Palestinian territories</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/benjamin-netanyahu">Benjamin Netanyahu</category> <pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2024 11:00:24 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/may/19/israel-gaza-war-live-people-killed-in-strike-nuseirat-refugee-camp-gaza</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/d063a47384e29788e186d2d11cc5dfadc61d7d2c/0_284_5760_3456/master/5760.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=b34a2cc5f73398d94c3fb765a4fa4b25"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/d063a47384e29788e186d2d11cc5dfadc61d7d2c/0_284_5760_3456/master/5760.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=cc406d37f849496f83bd085d095b9626"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Yohannes Lowe</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-19T11:00:24Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>‘I am ready for a rematch’: Usyk looks to family and future after world title win</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/sport/article/2024/may/19/oleksandr-usyk-undisputed-world-heavyweight-boxing-tyson-fury-ukraine-family-tears</link> <description><ul><li>Ukrainian sheds tears after split-decision win over Tyson Fury</li><li>‘I thought I did enough but I’m not a judge’, says Fury</li></ul><p>Oleksandr Usyk, the new undisputed heavyweight champion of the world, broke down in tears but shrugged off concerns that he might have suffered a fractured jaw while <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/article/2024/may/19/oleksandr-usyk-wins-undisputed-world-heavyweight-boxing-crown-tyson-fury">defeating Tyson Fury in a riveting battle in Riyadh</a>. After he was taken to a local hospital for a routine MRI scan which cleared him, Usyk returned to the Kingdom Arena where he had beaten Fury on a split decision.</p><p>Talking freely, without any apparent pain, Usyk confirmed that he had needed just four stitches to close a small cut above his eye. Immediately after the fight, while still in the ring, Usyk had said, “Thank you so much to my team. It’s a big opportunity for my family, for me, for my country. It’s a great day.”</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/article/2024/may/19/oleksandr-usyk-undisputed-world-heavyweight-boxing-tyson-fury-ukraine-family-tears">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/boxing">Boxing</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/tyson-fury">Tyson Fury</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/oleksandr-usyk">Oleksandr Usyk</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/sport">Sport</category> <pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2024 05:28:59 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/sport/article/2024/may/19/oleksandr-usyk-undisputed-world-heavyweight-boxing-tyson-fury-ukraine-family-tears</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/45f2168d309bec81ff6a64df59e6813276ef87f0/8_64_3110_1866/master/3110.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=f729f12b76b6ae1a717b2110e7276194"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Nick Potts/PA</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/45f2168d309bec81ff6a64df59e6813276ef87f0/8_64_3110_1866/master/3110.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=76f138777fdeff9c065ae3d6fdc29a2d"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Nick Potts/PA</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Donald McRae in Riyadh</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-19T05:28:59Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Boy dies and second in critical condition after getting into difficulty in River Tyne</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/19/teenage-boy-dies-second-critical-condition-river-tyne-ovingham</link> <description><p>Emergency services called to report of 14-year-old and 13-year-old in river near bridge in Ovingham</p><p>A 14-year-old boy has died and a 13-year-old boy is in a critical condition after getting into difficulty in the River Tyne in Northumberland, police have said.</p><p>Northumbria police received a report about two teenage boys in the river near a bridge in Ovingham, a village west of Newcastle upon Tyne, shortly after 3.30pm on Saturday.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/19/teenage-boy-dies-second-critical-condition-river-tyne-ovingham">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/northumberland">Northumberland</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/newcastle">Newcastle</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/uk">UK news</category> <pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2024 10:14:32 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/19/teenage-boy-dies-second-critical-condition-river-tyne-ovingham</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/ec3655f015c3ae14ac92f34b22d6bc3e44fbe68d/0_281_5184_3110/master/5184.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=c74a1516f99a7d399bb3bae75f9b42d1"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: David Taylor Photography/Alamy</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/ec3655f015c3ae14ac92f34b22d6bc3e44fbe68d/0_281_5184_3110/master/5184.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=3efdf392267e1ba8bc707c620ce40d19"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: David Taylor Photography/Alamy</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Jessica Murray</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-19T10:14:32Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Eurostar reverses wheelchair policy that left user stranded, after Observer campaign</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/may/19/eurostar-wheelchair-policy-passengers-stranded-observer-campaign-assistance</link> <description><p>Passengers were left abandoned and humiliated after operator banned staff from providing assistance</p><p>Eurostar has reversed a new accessibility policy that left a wheelchair user stranded and has retrained its London staff following pressure from the <em>Observer</em>.</p><p>Travellers with disabilities claimed that they would be barred from Eurostar services after the company <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/money/2024/apr/08/left-stranded-and-humiliated-by-eurostars-new-wheelchair-policy">banned its London staff from pushing passenger wheelchairs</a>. Those who require assistance were told they must travel with a companion or cancel their ticket if they were unable to access services unaided, according to passengers who contacted the <em>Observer</em>.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/may/19/eurostar-wheelchair-policy-passengers-stranded-observer-campaign-assistance">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/business/eurostar">Eurostar</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/disability">Disability</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/business/business">Business</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/society">Society</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/travel/travel">Travel</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/business/rail-industry">Rail industry</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/travel/railtravel">Rail travel</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/rail-transport">Rail transport</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/transport">Transport</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/uk">UK news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/france">France</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/europe-news">Europe</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/money/consumer-rights-money">Consumer rights</category> <pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2024 05:00:28 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/may/19/eurostar-wheelchair-policy-passengers-stranded-observer-campaign-assistance</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/80a4e467dc9811a7b3800809384746f1dc3d18fd/0_395_6000_3600/master/6000.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=b5bb776940ca849dbc12813a1c73f5cc"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Kiran Ridley</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/80a4e467dc9811a7b3800809384746f1dc3d18fd/0_395_6000_3600/master/6000.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=5056f1a9b9858e30196099d105678a42"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Kiran Ridley</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Anna Tims</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-19T05:00:28Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Rishi Sunak faces cabinet backlash over plans to curb foreign student visas</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/19/rishi-sunak-faces-cabinet-backlash-over-plans-to-curb-foreign-student-visas</link> <description><p>Education secretary Gillian Keegan, Jeremy Hunt and David Cameron oppose move, while university leaders warn of economic and cultural impact</p><p>Rishi Sunak is facing a cabinet revolt over plans to scrap a graduate visa scheme that allows overseas students to live and work in the UK for up to two years after graduation.</p><p>Under pressure from some on the right of his party to demonstrate that the Tories are tougher on immigration than Labour, Downing Street is considering further restricting or even ending<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/education/article/2024/may/13/uk-universities-drop-international-students-visa-doubts"> the graduate scheme</a>, which some believe can be used as a backdoor entry route to the UK.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/19/rishi-sunak-faces-cabinet-backlash-over-plans-to-curb-foreign-student-visas">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/immigration">Immigration and asylum</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/education/universities">Universities</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/education/students">Students</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/education/education">Education</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/education/higher-education">Higher education</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/uk">UK news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/rishi-sunak">Rishi Sunak</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/gillian-keegan">Gillian Keegan</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/davidcameron">David Cameron</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/suella-braverman">Suella Braverman</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/robert-jenrick">Robert Jenrick</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/york">York</category> <pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2024 05:00:28 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/19/rishi-sunak-faces-cabinet-backlash-over-plans-to-curb-foreign-student-visas</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/c1012335927f4cc4a5f62c628a33d48b706ff863/975_555_4713_2828/master/4713.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=47824eb9631b17b744bf1be7384e513a"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Reuters</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/c1012335927f4cc4a5f62c628a33d48b706ff863/975_555_4713_2828/master/4713.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=c5b450348fbf4566f47a13a264ce2b87"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Reuters</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Toby Helm Political editor</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-19T05:00:28Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Viagogo ‘mistakenly’ listed resale of England football match tickets</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/money/article/2024/may/19/viagogo-mistakenly-listed-resale-of-england-football-match-tickets</link> <description><p>Website blames human error for the advert, now removed, for about 100 seats when practice is illegal in UK</p><p>The ticket trading website Viagogo has apologised for “mistakenly” advertising tickets to an upcoming England football match, despite the fact that the resale of football tickets is illegal in the UK.</p><p>Cris Miller, managing director of Viagogo,has previously said the company does not resell football tickets. But Viagogo was advertising about 100 seats at Wembley for England’s 7 June friendly against Iceland, a warm-up for this summer’s Euro 2024 tournament in Germany.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/money/article/2024/may/19/viagogo-mistakenly-listed-resale-of-england-football-match-tickets">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/money/viagogo">Viagogo</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/money/money">Money</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/football/fa">The FA</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/uk">UK news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/football/football">Football</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/money/ticket-prices">Ticket prices</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/money/consumer-affairs">Consumer affairs</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/business/business">Business</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/sport">Sport</category> <pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2024 10:43:27 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/money/article/2024/may/19/viagogo-mistakenly-listed-resale-of-england-football-match-tickets</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/b3bdca66c992cd3dd281f857c60b9a7186b442ba/0_0_1936_1161/master/1936.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=a2df112b6cf7917cdb85d471461ba118"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Viagogo</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/b3bdca66c992cd3dd281f857c60b9a7186b442ba/0_0_1936_1161/master/1936.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=b95fe42bd25d43b44d7c6868c4d74504"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Viagogo</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Rob Davies</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-19T10:43:27Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Slovak PM Robert Fico out of immediate danger four days after shooting, says deputy</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/19/slovakia-pm-robert-fico-out-of-immediate-danger-four-days-after-shooting-says-deputy</link> <description><p>Fico remains in intensive care but has ‘emerged from immediate threat to his life’, Robert Kaliňák tells reporters</p><p>Slovakia’s prime minister, Robert Fico, is out of immediate danger but remains in intensive care four days after he was shot by a gunman, the country’s deputy prime minister has said.</p><p>“He has emerged from the immediate threat to his life, but his condition remains serious and he requires intensive care,” Robert Kaliňák, Fico’s closest political ally, told reporters.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/19/slovakia-pm-robert-fico-out-of-immediate-danger-four-days-after-shooting-says-deputy">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/robert-fico">Robert Fico</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/slovakia">Slovakia</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/europe-news">Europe</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/world">World news</category> <pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2024 10:53:04 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/19/slovakia-pm-robert-fico-out-of-immediate-danger-four-days-after-shooting-says-deputy</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/172e2c22e98435ce865dc1270bafb475e0ef4f15/0_149_4483_2690/master/4483.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=221d307b7092e9ca844150a1dbe02d19"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Ferenc Isza/AFP/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/172e2c22e98435ce865dc1270bafb475e0ef4f15/0_149_4483_2690/master/4483.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=d1ca2262df36c1fad92dca80fbc09552"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Ferenc Isza/AFP/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Sam Jones and agencies</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-19T10:53:04Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>‘Loud-mouthed bully’: CS Lewis satirised Oxford peer in secret poems</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/books/article/2024/may/19/loud-mouthed-bully-cs-lewis-satirised-oxford-peer-in-secret-poems</link> <description><p>Exclusive: Chronicles of Narnia author detested HC Wyld so intensely he wrote mocking verse in a copy of his own book</p><p>CS Lewis loathed one of his fellow Oxford academics so much that he satirised him in a series of seven previously unpublished poems that have been discovered.</p><p>The <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/mar/07/cs-lewis-lost-letters-reveal-his-grief-over-his-wifes-death">Chronicles of Narnia author</a> simply could not stand HC Wyld, deriding his lectures as elementary and dismissing his snobbery and his bullying of students, referring to him in his diary as “the cad”.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/article/2024/may/19/loud-mouthed-bully-cs-lewis-satirised-oxford-peer-in-secret-poems">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/books/cslewis">CS Lewis</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/education/oxforduniversity">University of Oxford</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/books/books">Books</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/culture">Culture</category> <pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2024 09:00:31 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/books/article/2024/may/19/loud-mouthed-bully-cs-lewis-satirised-oxford-peer-in-secret-poems</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/43d7a2e47a3085d584910354fae2064f372960fa/0_1128_2128_1276/master/2128.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=9cd83eba8f9112c17407974d26bf7243"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: taken from picture library</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/43d7a2e47a3085d584910354fae2064f372960fa/0_1128_2128_1276/master/2128.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=5bf620a729a4711d534c214e47c8f172"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: taken from picture library</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Dalya Alberge</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-19T09:00:31Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Post Office scandal: how did Paula Vennells, an ordained priest, fall so far and so fast from grace?</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/19/paula-vennells-post-office-scandal-ordained-priest-horizon-it-inquiry</link> <description><p>The former chief executive and archbishop’s confidant appears at the Horizon IT inquiry this week to explain her role in the affair that wrecked the lives of so many of her staff</p><p>When Paula Vennells was appointed chief executive of the Post Office in 2012, it felt like a true meeting of minds. The Post Office had long prided itself as the most trusted brand in Britain and here was a woman who, unusually among chief executives, was unashamed in emphasising, above all else, her personal ethical values.</p><p>Vennells was a committed Christian, an ordained minister, who gave sermons at her local parish church, in Bromham, Bedfordshire. A confidant of the archbishop of Canterbury (Justin Welby reportedly supported her – unsuccessful – candidature to become bishop of London in 2017) she had no hesitation, in her seven years as head of the 350-year-old institution, in moralising about the fundamentals of her leadership, while overseeing a billion-pound revamp of Post Office operations. As the keynote speaker for a Faith in Business forum in 2016, Vennells referenced the wisdom of King Solomon, in exercising her responsibilities as CEO (for which she was paid about £5m during her tenure): “Now, Lord my God … give your servant a discerning heart to govern your people and to distinguish between right and wrong … in administering justice …”</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/19/paula-vennells-post-office-scandal-ordained-priest-horizon-it-inquiry">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/post-office-horizon-scandal">Post Office Horizon scandal</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/business/post-office">Post Office</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/business/business">Business</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/uk">UK news</category> <pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2024 11:00:33 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/19/paula-vennells-post-office-scandal-ordained-priest-horizon-it-inquiry</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/309cd48d6aa2add1141d09dce3b3bb49f475a82a/389_0_3194_1917/master/3194.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=d36fc6ac3eaeda841207c09aad58e18c"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Illustration: Guardian Design/Observer Design</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/309cd48d6aa2add1141d09dce3b3bb49f475a82a/389_0_3194_1917/master/3194.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=893c4f1dc67785dc485541dd9840c391"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Illustration: Guardian Design/Observer Design</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Tim Adams</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-19T11:00:33Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Trump turns trial into circus as Biden tries to focus minds on economy</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/19/trump-trial-republican-biden-economy</link> <description><p>As a slew of Republicans went to the hush-money trial to show their fealty to their boss, the president tried to rise above it</p><p>Donald Trump last week turned his New York fraud trial into a political circus and a platform for his election campaign while Joe Biden struggled to persuade voters that they’re wrong about the economy.</p><p>Trump engineered a parade of leading Republicans to demonstrate their allegiance outside the courthouse in downtown Manhattan even as his trial laid bare the swamp that is the former US president’s professional and personal life.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/19/trump-trial-republican-biden-economy">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/donaldtrump">Donald Trump</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/donald-trump-trials">Donald Trump trials</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-news">US news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/world">World news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/joebiden">Joe Biden</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/business/useconomy">US economy</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/business/business">Business</category> <pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2024 10:00:33 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/19/trump-trial-republican-biden-economy</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/41066d82c6f5fabb0e3592fa6c8e3e03f0ff2954/0_0_3000_1800/master/3000.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=67df60d2f73e5edf973eb27d24b21a65"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Steven Hirsch/Reuters</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/41066d82c6f5fabb0e3592fa6c8e3e03f0ff2954/0_0_3000_1800/master/3000.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=01a69bf4d6434fd6d95f45219b3b3213"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Steven Hirsch/Reuters</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Chris McGreal in New York</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-19T10:00:33Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Inflation in the UK is about to tumble. But how far – and for how long?</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/may/19/inflation-in-the-uk-is-about-to-tumble-but-how-far-and-for-how-long</link> <description><p>The chancellor will have good news to pass on this week. But he knows the cost of living crisis may not be over yet</p><p>Jeremy Hunt knows it. Rachel Reeves knows it too. The Office for National Statistics will come bearing good news on Wednesday when it releases the latest inflation figures. The only real question is just how good the news will be.</p><p>In the year to March, annual inflation as measured by the consumer prices index <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/apr/17/uk-inflation-falls-bank-of-england-interest-rates">stood at 3.2%</a>. The figure for April will be a lot lower and if Hunt gets lucky it might even fall as low as the government’s 2% target.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/may/19/inflation-in-the-uk-is-about-to-tumble-but-how-far-and-for-how-long">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/business/inflation">Inflation</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/business/economics">Economics</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/business/business">Business</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/jeremy-hunt">Jeremy Hunt</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/politics">Politics</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/uk">UK news</category> <pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2024 06:00:28 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/may/19/inflation-in-the-uk-is-about-to-tumble-but-how-far-and-for-how-long</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/bfee4364dbaaec4e13e6269fbdb59c6cca9a7d4b/0_133_8256_4954/master/8256.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=7fbf78dd3f242be471f2565c0c29f8ad"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: WPA/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/bfee4364dbaaec4e13e6269fbdb59c6cca9a7d4b/0_133_8256_4954/master/8256.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=8395ccdebde984fe719cba05353b3199"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: WPA/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Larry Elliott</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-19T06:00:28Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>‘It was smart to marry the competition’: meet the ‘power couples’ who work together</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/article/2024/may/19/it-was-smart-to-marry-the-competition-meet-the-power-couples-who-work-together</link> <description><p>Meet four couples who are married to each other – and the job. Yes, it can get shouty, but knowing your partner so well brings unexpected benefits, both to the working relationship and to time at home</p><p><em><strong>Chris Cartlidge and Lucy Khan</strong></em></p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/article/2024/may/19/it-was-smart-to-marry-the-competition-meet-the-power-couples-who-work-together">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/marriage">Marriage</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/money/work-and-careers">Work & careers</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/family">Family</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/lifeandstyle">Life and style</category> <pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2024 08:00:30 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/article/2024/may/19/it-was-smart-to-marry-the-competition-meet-the-power-couples-who-work-together</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/8d7d0ea09ba99e10bb0297415a7bbf1bf32f25a7/0_266_5671_3403/master/5671.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=88e8d6e18b5f6b083595110975333622"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Murdo MacLeod/The Guardian</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/8d7d0ea09ba99e10bb0297415a7bbf1bf32f25a7/0_266_5671_3403/master/5671.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=a93b92f4a5894731717fd8ea2035f721"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Murdo MacLeod/The Guardian</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Michael Segalov</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-19T08:00:30Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>‘My time has come!’: feminist artist Judy Chicago on a tidal wave of recognition at 84</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/article/2024/may/19/judy-chicago-revelations-serpentine-gallery-interview</link> <description><p>On the eve of her UK retrospective Revelations, the veteran US feminist artist known for her large collaborative art installation pieces such as The Dinner Party – and for dividing the critics – is in celebratory mood</p><p>On-screen interviews can be a bit low-key, the victim of time lags and muffled human connections. But not the one on which I’ve just embarked, an experience I can only describe as psychedelic from the off. First to appear on my laptop is Donald Woodman, who sits and chats to me while we wait for Judy Chicago, the celebrated artist and his wife of 38 years, to arrive (a position in which I suspect he quite often finds himself).</p><p>Woodman, who is a photographer, has bleached blond hair, bright blue glasses, and gold polish on his nails, which he now waves at me. Apparently, he and Chicago have been going to the same manicurist for years, a routine so entrenched, it’s virtually part of their artistic practice. “It’s fun,” he says. “When I got married to her, I was wearing nail polish. You can’t let only the women adorn themselves. But it’s also a break from work, because it means I have to sit down for two hours.” The couple are famous workaholics, and their days – they live and work in an old railroad house in Belen, a small town in New Mexico – begin early and end late. “Last night, Judy came in and went straight to bed without any dinner,” he tells me, and I can’t quite tell from his tone whether he is proud or completely exhausted. (Maybe both: he is, after all, 78, and Chicago is 84.)</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/article/2024/may/19/judy-chicago-revelations-serpentine-gallery-interview">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/art">Art</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/serpentine-gallery">Serpentine Gallery</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/feminism">Feminism</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/artanddesign">Art and design</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/culture">Culture</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/hans-ulrich-obrist">Hans Ulrich Obrist</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/lifeandstyle">Life and style</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/installation">Installation</category> <pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2024 09:00:32 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/article/2024/may/19/judy-chicago-revelations-serpentine-gallery-interview</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/342833c39b5e4f09c0fd1f530e0d0670634c466c/0_853_7087_4253/master/7087.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=01b6f17d1deb394bbbac7ea859badf30"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Donald Woodman/The Observer</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/342833c39b5e4f09c0fd1f530e0d0670634c466c/0_853_7087_4253/master/7087.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=80ecc9261a39cd51c94ffc720ebcfbcb"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Donald Woodman/The Observer</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Rachel Cooke</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-19T09:00:32Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>‘It’s all been preposterous’: Stephen Merchant on fame, standup and the pressures of cancel culture</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/culture/article/2024/may/19/its-all-been-preposterous-stephen-merchant-on-fame-standup-and-the-pressures-of-cancel-culture</link> <description><p>From The Office sidekick to standup legend and a serial killer, the multitalented Stephen Merchant is impossible to pin down. He talks about cancel culture, why pubs are more interesting than outer space and hanging out with Christopher Walken</p><p>Stephen Merchant has always been obsessed by the idea of the ordinary man “thrust into extraordinary circumstance”. Since he was a kid in Bristol, the son of a plumber and a nursery nurse, those were the kinds of films he sought out and the stories he wrote, about normal people who experience something that “jolts them out of their life and gives them a way of reframing it”. He’s talking to me from his office in Nichols Canyon, LA, in a house once owned by <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/ellen-degeneres">Ellen DeGeneres</a>, where he lives with his partner of seven years, actor Mircea Monroe. It’s early morning there, the white light offering shadows of shifting leaves, and he wears a black baseball cap and speaks thoughtfully without pause. Is he, I ask, that ordinary man? “Well, possibly,” he says, slowly. “Maybe. Yeah.”</p><p>Merchant’s early career is perhaps better known than the success that followed. He met Ricky Gervais when he got a job as his assistant on the radio station XFM and the two went on to write and direct <em>The Office </em>in 2001, quietly changing expectations of British comedy for ever. Then there was some acting, a lot of very popular radio and standup. In his 2011 show, <em><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2011/sep/14/stephen-merchant-hello-ladies-review">Hello Ladies</a></em>, which later became a sitcom, he talked about his height: “6ft 7in is too big… Growing up I spent as much time as possible in the distance.”</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/article/2024/may/19/its-all-been-preposterous-stephen-merchant-on-fame-standup-and-the-pressures-of-cancel-culture">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/culture">Culture</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/lifeandstyle">Life and style</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/stephen-merchant">Stephen Merchant</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/television">Television</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/film/film">Film</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/tv-and-radio">Television & radio</category> <pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2024 06:00:27 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/culture/article/2024/may/19/its-all-been-preposterous-stephen-merchant-on-fame-standup-and-the-pressures-of-cancel-culture</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/13c2042d9d898be366883adbf41528c1b8f8bfa3/231_513_8025_4815/master/8025.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=0fe8c5f400dd98ea0ff0417c54219b24"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Jessica Chou/The Observer</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/13c2042d9d898be366883adbf41528c1b8f8bfa3/231_513_8025_4815/master/8025.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=fd4284e02667dcc3f1fab593268e65ec"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Jessica Chou/The Observer</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Eva Wiseman</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-19T06:00:27Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>‘The insults and screaming took their toll’: the worst time of my life as a chef</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/food/article/2024/may/19/the-insults-and-screaming-took-their-toll-the-worst-time-of-my-life-as-a-chef</link> <description><p>In this extract from her memoir, A Woman’s Place Is in the Kitchen, Sally Abé recalls the job she had to leave<br><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/2024/may/19/chef-sally-abe-its-only-when-i-go-into-a-male-dominated-kitchen-that-i-notice-the-friction">• Read the interview with Sally Abé</a></p><p>‘You’ll never amount to anything, young lady.” These are words that no one, no matter what industry they are in, ever wants to hear. If you’re a chef, it’s likely someone will have screamed them in your face at least once. For me, it happened at a restaurant I don’t include on my CV. I have never admitted that I worked for this chef in interviews and rarely speak about my experience, even to friends and family. Because I don’t want to trash someone’s reputation for the sake of my own, I’m not going to use the real name of the restaurant or of anyone who worked there. However, people need to understand that places like this exist, and that the experience was formative, if awful. So, let’s call the restaurant “Jeff’s” after the chef patron, then let me tell you about the worst time of my career.</p><p>I wanted to work at the Ledbury, a restaurant in Notting Hill that everyone was talking about but after trying to arrange a trial a couple of times and not being able to make the dates work, I looked elsewhere as my notice period at Claridge’s was coming to an end and I needed to have money coming in. I settled on Jeff’s.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/food/article/2024/may/19/the-insults-and-screaming-took-their-toll-the-worst-time-of-my-life-as-a-chef">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/food/food">Food</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/books/food">Food and drink books</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/books/autobiography-and-memoir">Autobiography and memoir</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/books/books">Books</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/business/fooddrinks">Food & drink industry</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/culture">Culture</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/food/restaurants">Restaurants</category> <pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2024 10:00:32 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/food/article/2024/may/19/the-insults-and-screaming-took-their-toll-the-worst-time-of-my-life-as-a-chef</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/9e8f51c4c45e15c33f445e6047f578db3fdd904a/0_2065_4872_2923/master/4872.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=03e8571e2f3ffcef0d1b12f8cb56937e"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Sophia Spring/The Observer</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/9e8f51c4c45e15c33f445e6047f578db3fdd904a/0_2065_4872_2923/master/4872.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=fe46493c4a7e1baa62dbcdb66e6e089f"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Sophia Spring/The Observer</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Sally Abé</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-19T10:00:32Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Arabic Flavour, Aberystwyth: ‘Food that tells a story’ – restaurant review</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/food/article/2024/may/19/arabic-flavour-aberystwyth-food-that-tells-a-story-restaurant-review</link> <description><p>Ghofran Hamza is on a solo mission to bring glorious Syrian cuisine to lucky mid-Wales</p><p><strong><a href="https://arabic-flavour.square.site/">Arabic Flavour</a>, 4 Northgate Street, Aberystwyth SY23 2JS (01970 228 078). Starters and meze £4.75-£8.25, mains £14.50-£18.95, desserts £2.95-£7.75, wines from £21</strong></p><p>Occasionally, during the wait for our starters at <a href="https://arabic-flavour.square.site/">Arabic Flavour</a>, one of us would pop off to the loo; a moment of magical thinking perhaps, in which a sudden absence from the table could somehow make the food arrive. They would stop by the kitchen door to sneak a look in through the window, willing there to be more people in there. Perhaps the rest of the brigade had simply popped out when last we looked. But no, there really was just one person in that kitchen doing everything: the compact, completely focused and utterly poised figure of <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/jun/25/happy-endings-the-syrian-refugees-restaurant-that-you-helped-thrive">Ghofran Hamza</a>, the young Syrian refugee by way of Lebanon, who is determined to tell her 21st-century story at the stove. The lack of kitchen personnel means a dinner at Arabic Flavour is unlikely to be quick. Do not go ravenously hungry. Prepare a few conversational gambits. Perhaps do not go in a large group. But really, do go.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/food/article/2024/may/19/arabic-flavour-aberystwyth-food-that-tells-a-story-restaurant-review">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/food/food">Food</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/food/restaurants">Restaurants</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/lifeandstyle">Life and style</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/travel/restaurants">Restaurants</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/travel/travel">Travel</category> <pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2024 05:00:26 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/food/article/2024/may/19/arabic-flavour-aberystwyth-food-that-tells-a-story-restaurant-review</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/3eec411459a962321059be4f0344fef3ddaddccc/0_207_7754_4652/master/7754.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=32a9a88366746d7d60c71f2764f3467f"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Francesca Jones/The Observer</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/3eec411459a962321059be4f0344fef3ddaddccc/0_207_7754_4652/master/7754.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=9ba41a7a2ecaf52f35a1b2d273463b36"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Francesca Jones/The Observer</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Jay Rayner</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-19T05:00:26Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Gen-Z students are choosing a trade over college. That shows they’re smart</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/education/article/2024/may/19/gen-z-trade-school</link> <description><p>Young people are increasingly opting to train as plumbers, electricians, welders and carpenters and similar vocations</p><p>Just this past week I stopped by a local convenience store around 6am for a coffee before a long drive. The store at that time was – unsurprisingly – filled with contractors doing the same before their early-morning jobs started. Most of the contractors that I saw were younger and in their 20s. It was noticeable. And apparently, I’m not the only one noticing.</p><p>According to a recent article in the <a href="https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/gen-z-trades-jobs-plumbing-welding-a76b5e43?mod=mhp">Wall Street Journal</a>, a growing number of gen-Zers are flocking to the construction trade.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/education/article/2024/may/19/gen-z-trade-school">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/education/vocational-education">Vocational education</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/business/us-small-business">US small business</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/business/construction">Construction industry</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/business/business">Business</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/education/education">Education</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-news">US news</category> <pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2024 11:00:35 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/education/article/2024/may/19/gen-z-trade-school</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/3c62ab45399917daf34f7121d5052d692af78127/0_256_4488_2693/master/4488.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=5e5b3c1887678f126240296ce11782f9"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Boston Globe/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/3c62ab45399917daf34f7121d5052d692af78127/0_256_4488_2693/master/4488.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=76f85eb988eb4875a5b7281a7be7beb4"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Boston Globe/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Gene Marks</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-19T11:00:35Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>‘More like therapists’: adult virgins turn to Nevada brothels for sex – and healing</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/may/19/nevada-legal-brothels-adult-virgins</link> <description><p>The oldest profession is helping a generation of young men who have intimacy-stunted lives due to social media and internet porn</p><p>At Bella’s Hacienda Ranch, a brothel on the outskirts of the rural Nevada truckstop town of Wells, a half-priced special for adult male virgins this May has gone off with a bang.</p><p>What may seem like a publicity stunt has compassion behind it. May is Mental Health Awareness Month in the US, and the brothel’s 74-year-old<strong> </strong>namesake owner and operator, Madam Bella Cummins, wants to raise awareness of what she describes as a “virginity epidemic”. She blames digital platforms supplanting young people’s in-person, “IRL” experiences, leading to stunted social development. Brothels, she argues, offer a safe space to work through resulting feelings of anxiety, shame and isolation.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/may/19/nevada-legal-brothels-adult-virgins">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/sex-work">Sex work</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/men">Men</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/mental-health">Mental health</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/sex">Sex</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/nevada">Nevada</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/health">Health</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-news">US news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/society">Society</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/lifeandstyle">Life and style</category> <pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2024 11:00:36 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/may/19/nevada-legal-brothels-adult-virgins</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/c0272bced212501f8d0cb6b93071011c90bffd59/0_183_6016_3609/master/6016.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=12ed8349830b731c759a50364c6d6acd"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Courtesy Bella's Hacienda Ranch</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/c0272bced212501f8d0cb6b93071011c90bffd59/0_183_6016_3609/master/6016.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=079a2fe9f693fd34023c155c85089b08"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Courtesy Bella's Hacienda Ranch</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Dan Hernandez in Las Vegas</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-19T11:00:36Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>A night with the Murdle squad… and hundreds of crime writers</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/books/article/2024/may/19/murdle-bristol-crimefest-crime-thrillers-gt-karber</link> <description><p>Half a billion thrillers were bought in the UK in the past 10 years. Can a visit to the Bristol CrimeFest – this year featuring GT Karber, creator of the world-conquering whodunnit series Murdle – help pin down why the genre is booming?</p><p>Sitting at the bar during a convention of crime writers at the Grand hotel in Bristol, nursing a pint, an exciting and inspired thought comes to mind: hey, wouldn’t this be a perfect setting for a murder mystery!</p><p>One thing that you learn quite quickly at a convention of crime writers, however, is this: there are no new murder mystery plotlines under the sun.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/article/2024/may/19/murdle-bristol-crimefest-crime-thrillers-gt-karber">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/books/crime">Crime fiction</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/festivals">Festivals</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/books/fiction">Fiction</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/books/books">Books</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/culture">Culture</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/books/thrillers">Thrillers</category> <pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2024 11:00:34 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/books/article/2024/may/19/murdle-bristol-crimefest-crime-thrillers-gt-karber</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/5e7b114f03460fbe4afca81eca2f695ab428181d/0_31_2480_1488/master/2480.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=b5257f51535f6117fd7ee32f4d0cd05c"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Illustration: Guardian Design</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/5e7b114f03460fbe4afca81eca2f695ab428181d/0_31_2480_1488/master/2480.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=3668bfa2725b4c4865dacba5825d1334"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Illustration: Guardian Design</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Tim Adams</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-19T11:00:34Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Premier League 2023-24 fans’ verdicts, part two: Liverpool to Wolves</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/football/article/2024/may/19/premier-league-2023-24-fans-verdicts-part-two-liverpool-to-wolves</link> <description><p>Fans review the season with one game to play: the stars, the flops and the moments that made them smile</p><ul><li><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/football/article/2024/may/19/premier-league-2023-24-fans-verdicts-part-one-arsenal-to-fulham">Part one: Arsenal to Fulham</a></li></ul><p>Back at Wembley winning a trophy, and we’ve made it back to the Champions League, so it’s pretty good. It was a season of two halves really. At New Year we were flying, then came the injuries and then came the dip. The manager has given everything, again, and today will be an outpouring of love and thanks to him. In Germany he is known as a <em>Menschenfanger</em>, a people catcher, someone who has a positive effect on those around him. For us, he’s been a dream catcher, too. He gave us belief and he gave us the best of times. He made us happy. <strong>8/10</strong>.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/football/article/2024/may/19/premier-league-2023-24-fans-verdicts-part-two-liverpool-to-wolves">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/football/premierleague">Premier League</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/football/liverpool">Liverpool</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/football/lutontown">Luton Town</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/football/manchestercity">Manchester City</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/football/manchester-united">Manchester United</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/football/newcastleunited">Newcastle United</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/football/nottinghamforest">Nottingham Forest</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/football/sheffieldunited">Sheffield United</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/football/tottenham-hotspur">Tottenham Hotspur</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/football/westhamunited">West Ham United</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/football/wolves">Wolverhampton Wanderers</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/football/football">Football</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/sport">Sport</category> <pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2024 07:00:30 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/football/article/2024/may/19/premier-league-2023-24-fans-verdicts-part-two-liverpool-to-wolves</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/2b0a2d5001a1dbd610507b97048b20a9e7a9757f/0_0_5589_3353/master/5589.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=2c8982faa183fe44a1b1c80156275959"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Jacques Feeney/Offside/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/2b0a2d5001a1dbd610507b97048b20a9e7a9757f/0_0_5589_3353/master/5589.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=64695d788865ed150ddf0dedd885e636"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Jacques Feeney/Offside/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Observer fans' network</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-19T07:00:30Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>WSL 2023-24 season review: our writers’ best and worst</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/football/article/2024/may/19/wsl-2023-24-season-review-our-writers-best-and-worst</link> <description><p>The best players, most thrilling games and finest signings – plus the biggest flops and greatest gripes of the eventful season</p><p>It has to be <strong>Khadija Shaw</strong>. Bunny’s output speaks for itself with 21 goals in 18 games, including a run of three hat-tricks in four games at the turn of the year. For a moment it seemed as though Lauren James would match Shaw’s goal tally but the Manchester City striker’s commanding presence has set her apart from anyone else in the WSL this season. <strong>Xaymaca Awoyungbo</strong></p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/football/article/2024/may/19/wsl-2023-24-season-review-our-writers-best-and-worst">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/football/womens-super-league">Women's Super League</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/football/womensfootball">Women's football</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/football/football">Football</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/sport">Sport</category> <pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2024 08:00:30 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/football/article/2024/may/19/wsl-2023-24-season-review-our-writers-best-and-worst</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/4b657a8d931ef662eebb95d8fe1271c5f72225f0/0_0_5000_3000/master/5000.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=945a84fb188a5e545e267c244103c98e"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Composite: Guardian Picture Desk</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/4b657a8d931ef662eebb95d8fe1271c5f72225f0/0_0_5000_3000/master/5000.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=80b4220b6a95062ba0f8e006b6ae4541"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Composite: Guardian Picture Desk</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Suzanne Wrack, Sophie Downey, Sarah Rendell, Emillia Hawkins and Xaymaca Awoyungbo</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-19T08:00:30Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>The making of Jimmy Anderson: ‘Like a golden nugget falling into your lap’</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/sport/article/2024/may/19/the-making-of-jimmy-anderson-like-a-golden-nugget-falling-into-your-lap</link> <description><p>A phone call from an impressed parent helped ignite the storied career of England’s greatest ever fast bowler</p><p>It all started with a phone call. “It was highly unusual for Val to ring me. In fact I don’t think she ever did before or since, that wasn’t her style at all,” says John Stanworth, recalling how Valerie Brown, the wife of the then captain of Burnley CC, Peter Brown, telephoned one Sunday evening in the late-90s.</p><p>It would be a tipoff worth interrupting <em>Antiques Roadshow</em>. A different kind of rare and inestimable commodity was about to be unearthed. “Val just said: ‘The lads and Peter keep talking about this lad, he’s a bowler. Have you heard of James Anderson?’”</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/article/2024/may/19/the-making-of-jimmy-anderson-like-a-golden-nugget-falling-into-your-lap">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/jimmy-anderson">Jimmy Anderson</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/england-cricket-team">England cricket team</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/lancashire">Lancashire</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/cricket">Cricket</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/sport">Sport</category> <pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2024 07:00:30 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/sport/article/2024/may/19/the-making-of-jimmy-anderson-like-a-golden-nugget-falling-into-your-lap</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/57309d0f62e2d019d1addbab747c4e1a0ab8d481/0_50_3132_1879/master/3132.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=260f40108cd0e180df3693ce142b5657"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Tom Shaw/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/57309d0f62e2d019d1addbab747c4e1a0ab8d481/0_50_3132_1879/master/3132.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=08a3ec3b6d2d0670a4f5f13a1e68f499"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Tom Shaw/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>James Wallace</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-19T07:00:30Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Bigger, yes, but better? Pep Guardiola tweaks template for latest City kick to line | Jonathan Wilson</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/article/2024/may/18/manchester-city-bigger-team-premier-league-title-race</link> <description><p>Champions have become less guardiolista<em> </em>to allow Haaland to flourish and it is telling the best player of late has been Gvardiol</p><p>Familiarity inevitably breeds, if not contempt, then at least discernment. When Leicester won the Premier League what mattered was not how they had done it but merely that it had been&nbsp;done.</p><p>You could talk about the performances of N’Golo Kanté, Jamie Vardy and Riyad Mahrez, pontificate about how Claudio Ranieri had developed Nigel Pearson’s side or dwell on the significance of the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/feb/04/richard-iii-dna-bones-king">discovery of Richard III’s body </a>under a car park, but fundamentally all that mattered was that they had defied the laws of football finance and logic and that they had done it. But as Manchester City <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/football/article/2024/may/17/manchester-city-pep-guardiola-premier-league-title">edge towards a sixth title in seven years</a>, the manner of the win feels important.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/article/2024/may/18/manchester-city-bigger-team-premier-league-title-race">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/football/manchestercity">Manchester City</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/football/premierleague">Premier League</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/football/pep-guardiola">Pep Guardiola</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/football/football">Football</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/sport">Sport</category> <pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2024 21:33:50 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/article/2024/may/18/manchester-city-bigger-team-premier-league-title-race</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/a91e1d6c9224d4ae9d71349d3db5107240134434/0_0_5000_3000/master/5000.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=64d4c30d9a00d3dcdbd1a521b9170042"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Composite: Observer design</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/a91e1d6c9224d4ae9d71349d3db5107240134434/0_0_5000_3000/master/5000.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=7585edea57f962617a8cb5a0f23eb2f9"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Composite: Observer design</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Jonathan Wilson</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-18T21:33:50Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Gaël Monfils: ‘I’m getting a little bit old. People forget that I still have it’</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/sport/article/2024/may/19/gael-monfils-im-getting-a-little-bit-old-people-forget-that-i-still-have-it</link> <description><p>The Frenchman has battled with injuries and perceptions to remain one of tennis’s great entertainers at the age of 37</p><p>At any tournament in almost any part of the world, one of the certainties over the past 20 years is that whenever Gaël Monfils plays, fans are present. Tennis, after all, is entertainment, and there have been few greater entertainers than the 37-year-old. He is <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wJj-g3ASpA&amp;amp;ab_channel=TennisTV">one of the purest athletes</a> the sport has seen and displays immense skill, feel and showmanship. At his best, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWMQJEf3pL8">Monfils makes tennis look so easy</a>.</p><p>But the Frenchman is adamant that it is not. Especially not in the final years of his career: “[People say] ‘Ah, Monfils is not disciplined’,” he says smiling, from the grounds of the Italian Open on the eve of the tournament. “Guys, don’t think this because I’m enjoying myself on the court. The work I do outside is big.”</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/article/2024/may/19/gael-monfils-im-getting-a-little-bit-old-people-forget-that-i-still-have-it">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/tennis">Tennis</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/frenchopen">French Open</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/sport">Sport</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/olympic-games-2024">Paris Olympic Games 2024</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/olympic-games">Olympic Games</category> <pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2024 07:00:31 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/sport/article/2024/may/19/gael-monfils-im-getting-a-little-bit-old-people-forget-that-i-still-have-it</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/1e839aa6127378ce0646566db6eead304bfb9a40/0_184_4924_2955/master/4924.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=00e2e8451e67796b5e9336d90a7b457b"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Stéphane Cardinale/Corbis/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/1e839aa6127378ce0646566db6eead304bfb9a40/0_184_4924_2955/master/4924.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=b44be06b6add6763333511196cb4b010"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Stéphane Cardinale/Corbis/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Tumaini Carayol</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-19T07:00:31Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Morikawa and Schauffele end third day of US PGA at top as Lowry equals record</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/sport/article/2024/may/19/morikawa-and-schauffele-end-third-day-of-us-pga-at-top-as-lowry-equals-record</link> <description><ul><li>Californian Schauffele looking for his first major</li><li>Shane Lowry races up leaderboard with a 62</li></ul><p>It was only going to take something special to switch discussion around this US PGA Championship away from Scottie Scheffler and his brush with Louisville law enforcement. The world No 1 unravelled on day three here, which was entirely understandable given the strain associated with four charges, including one for assaulting a police officer.</p><p>Shane Lowry took it upon himself to create a fresh and uplifting storyline. The Irishman stood on Valhalla’s 18th green over a putt of 11ft 6in which could have created history. If he found the bottom of the cup with his birdie attempt, he would have posted the first 61 in major history.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/article/2024/may/19/morikawa-and-schauffele-end-third-day-of-us-pga-at-top-as-lowry-equals-record">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/uspga">US PGA</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/pga-tour">PGA Tour</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/european-tour">European Tour</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/golf">Golf</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/sport">Sport</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/us-sport">US sports</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/justin-rose">Justin Rose</category> <pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2024 23:03:34 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/sport/article/2024/may/19/morikawa-and-schauffele-end-third-day-of-us-pga-at-top-as-lowry-equals-record</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/44d399fc021c4174332a31d57d9cd21ec653dd4d/0_128_3836_2301/master/3836.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=ddc7def538fe7bee5e2a53a800f4d92a"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Michael Reaves/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/44d399fc021c4174332a31d57d9cd21ec653dd4d/0_128_3836_2301/master/3836.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=707afdae417518e01b031e79b2ebb296"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Michael Reaves/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Ewan Murray at Valhalla</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-18T23:03:34Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>County cricket: Lancashire v Durham, Sussex v Yorkshire and more – live</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/sport/live/2024/may/19/lancashire-v-durham-sussex-v-yorkshire-county-cricket-live</link> <description><ul><li>Updates from day three around the grounds (11am BST start)</li><li><a href="mailto:james.wallace.casual@theguardian.com">Email James</a> or share your thoughts in the comments below</li></ul><p><strong>Enjoyed this high level nonchalance from Keith Barker:</strong></p><p><strong>What better way to spend a Sunday morning</strong> than <s>a beer with breakfast</s> with the lugubrious tones of Vic Marks. He’s in fine fettle on the Somerset stream with Migael Pretorius keeping Joe Denly honest, zoning in on the pads and stumps. Denly quirts a single off the inside edge to bring Joey Evison onto strike. BOLWED ‘IM! Pretorius nips one back and sends the leg stump cartwheeling! Kent 147-6 and Somerset holding all the aces.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/live/2024/may/19/lancashire-v-durham-sussex-v-yorkshire-county-cricket-live">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/county-championship">County Championship</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/countychampionship1stdivisioncricket">County Championship Division One</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/countychampionship2nddivisioncricket">County Championship Division Two</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/essex">Essex</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/warwickshireccc">Warwickshire</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/lancashire">Lancashire</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/durham">Durham</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/nottinghamshire">Nottinghamshire</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/hampshire">Hampshire</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/somerset">Somerset</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/kent">Kent</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/surrey">Surrey</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/worcestershire">Worcestershire</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/derbyshire">Derbyshire</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/northamptonshire">Northamptonshire</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/glamorganccc">Glamorgan</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/middlesex">Middlesex</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/leicestershire">Leicestershire</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/gloucestershireccc">Gloucestershire</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/sussexccc">Sussex</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/yorkshire">Yorkshire</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/cricket">Cricket</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/sport">Sport</category> <pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2024 11:02:24 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/sport/live/2024/may/19/lancashire-v-durham-sussex-v-yorkshire-county-cricket-live</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/428dc1eaf6726c687c4f37c3754ee787346b7fc9/0_116_3359_2017/master/3359.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=fc4f560476cb2eb36cc9680c3a950db9"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Harry Trump/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/428dc1eaf6726c687c4f37c3754ee787346b7fc9/0_116_3359_2017/master/3359.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=281421bd5aad638d5cc69a9a6b9e85a2"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Harry Trump/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>James Wallace</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-19T11:02:24Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Emma Hayes ‘hasn’t got another drop to give’ after Chelsea WSL title triumph</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/football/article/2024/may/18/emma-hayes-hasnt-got-another-drop-to-give-after-chelsea-wsl-title-triumph</link> <description><ul><li>Exhausted Chelsea manager signs off with fifth successive title</li><li>‘I felt we deserved title,’ says Manchester City’s Gareth Taylor</li></ul><p>Emma Hayes said she doesn’t “have another drop to give” after bowing out as Chelsea manager with a fifth Women’s Super League title in a row, while Manchester City’s Gareth Taylor felt his team would have deserved to be champions.</p><p>Hayes spoke passionately and emotionally after her side won the league on goal difference with <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/football/article/2024/may/18/chelsea-thrash-manchester-united-to-win-wsl-title-as-hayes-bids-farewell">a 6-0 win at Manchester United</a>, her final game before she leaves to take over the US women’s national team in time for the Olympics. “I’d say it’s taken its toll, rather than changed me,” she said of her 12 years at the club. “I categorically cannot carry on. So, I am absolutely leaving at the right time. I don’t have another drop to give it.”</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/football/article/2024/may/18/emma-hayes-hasnt-got-another-drop-to-give-after-chelsea-wsl-title-triumph">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/football/womens-super-league">Women's Super League</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/football/chelsea-women">Chelsea Women</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/football/manchester-city-women">Manchester City Women</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/football/emma-hayes">Emma Hayes</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/football/womensfootball">Women's football</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/football/football">Football</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/sport">Sport</category> <pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2024 18:57:35 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/football/article/2024/may/18/emma-hayes-hasnt-got-another-drop-to-give-after-chelsea-wsl-title-triumph</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/0b53f9e04a94faaf1a36c9945d9b714a17939d92/0_312_5921_3552/master/5921.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=1859af2448f1770bbcaa121b40f6f59c"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Tom Jenkins/The Observer</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/0b53f9e04a94faaf1a36c9945d9b714a17939d92/0_312_5921_3552/master/5921.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=efe4ef78e98f62a6142439fe2e6f43bb"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Tom Jenkins/The Observer</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Suzanne Wrack at Old Trafford and Sophie Downey at Villa Park</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-18T18:57:35Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Rishi Sunak’s scare tactics aren’t going to work against a soothing Keir Starmer | Andrew Rawnsley</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/19/rishi-sunaks-scare-tactics-arent-going-to-work-against-a-soothing-keir-starmer</link> <description><p>As he demonstrated at the launch of his pledge cards, the Labour leader has succeeded in de-risking perceptions of his party </p><p>Who scares wins. That has been the motto of many, often successful Conservative election campaigns. Fear may not be an edifying strategy for securing power, but the Tories have repeatedly demonstrated that it can be highly effective. Time and again, they have persuaded voters that Labour is just too risky to be trusted with government. The “red scare” of 1924, whipped up with the aid of the fraudulent Zinoviev letter, brought an abrupt end to the short life of the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/jan/28/the-men-of-1924-britains-first-labour-government-peter-clark-the-wild-men-david-torrance-review-remarkable-story-first-labour-government-ramsay-macdonald">first Labour government</a>. The “tax bombshells” dropped on Neil Kinnock in 1992 exploded his dreams of <a href="https://www.markpack.org.uk/16135/labour-tax-bombshell-advert-1992-general-election/">becoming prime minister</a>. Tory claims that Ed Miliband would wobble atop a “<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/apr/17/david-cameron-labour-snp-coalition-of-chaos">coalition of chaos</a>” helped to floor that Labour hopeful in 2015. The big scare has often been a winning formula for the Tories.</p><p>So it was pretty much inevitable that Rishi Sunak would press a quivering finger on the fear button. Not least because he is so short of any other ideas for making the general election look competitive for his party. He’s previously tried marketing himself as Mr&nbsp;Stability, Mr&nbsp;Delivery and Mr Change. None of these iterations has put a dent in Labour’s headline poll ratings. They insistently place Sir Keir Starmer’s party about <a href="https://www.politico.eu/europe-poll-of-polls/united-kingdom/">20&nbsp;points ahead of the Tories</a>. In his most recent attempt at a relaunch, an exercise he performs almost as often as he changes his undies, the Tory leader tried another costume. This time he cloaked himself in the garb of Mr&nbsp;Security. In what Downing Street puffed as a big speech, the prime minister tried to chill the country’s bones with the warning that Britain is entering a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/may/13/rishi-sunak-to-fight-next-election-on-uk-security">very dangerous period</a>. His ostensible subject was the threat from “an axis of authoritarian states”. His electoral purpose was to try to build an argument that voters will be safer sticking with him than taking a punt on Labour.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/19/rishi-sunaks-scare-tactics-arent-going-to-work-against-a-soothing-keir-starmer">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/keir-starmer">Keir Starmer</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/labour">Labour</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/rishi-sunak">Rishi Sunak</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/conservatives">Conservatives</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/politics">Politics</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/uk">UK news</category> <pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2024 06:00:29 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/19/rishi-sunaks-scare-tactics-arent-going-to-work-against-a-soothing-keir-starmer</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/be8884db9aaedcef79942c1f55d77bf48ccc334a/38_85_5163_3099/master/5163.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=2491a27f61ebd4bd1edab84dd6033215"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Leon Neal/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/be8884db9aaedcef79942c1f55d77bf48ccc334a/38_85_5163_3099/master/5163.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=da3643e56eb01f6c2382fffee48f127d"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Leon Neal/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Andrew Rawnsley</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-19T06:00:29Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>US voters are increasingly polarised over politics, but Brits are far less stubborn | Torsten Bell</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/19/us-voters-are-increasingly-polarised-over-politics-but-brits-are-far-less-stubborn</link> <description><p>Pundits say rising negative feelings to other parties threatens democracy. Apart from in America, new research tells a different story</p><p>The frontrunner to be the next US president is spending his weeks in court, charged with a criminal offence related to an alleged sexual encounter with a porn star. This would normally be suboptimal from a campaign perspective, but to date is having <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/27/trump-hush-money-trial-maga-base">no effect on support</a> for Donald Trump.</p><p>Moreover, whether you think the US economy is going gangbusters or collapsing depends not on whether wages and employment are rising but on whether you side with Democrats or Republicans, with the latter currently reporting that economic conditions are <a href="https://data.sca.isr.umich.edu/fetchdoc.php?docid=75637">worse than in the depths of Covid</a>.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/19/us-voters-are-increasingly-polarised-over-politics-but-brits-are-far-less-stubborn">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/politics">Politics</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/conservatives">Conservatives</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/uk">UK news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/labour">Labour</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/donaldtrump">Donald Trump</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/republicans">Republicans</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/democrats">Democrats</category> <pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2024 08:30:31 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/19/us-voters-are-increasingly-polarised-over-politics-but-brits-are-far-less-stubborn</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/9100259d26be4ae4ddc0ba60099b80eb5686acb5/0_3_2166_1299/master/2166.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=a8f8db33f7ffe0b5e0c4f6826e268a6b"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Eduardo Muñoz/Reuters</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/9100259d26be4ae4ddc0ba60099b80eb5686acb5/0_3_2166_1299/master/2166.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=c1944da4c1c61975ea2bd4bb2d24a0cf"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Eduardo Muñoz/Reuters</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Torsten Bell</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-19T08:30:31Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>I haven’t tried Ozempic but I know how it feels | Megan Nolan</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/19/i-havent-tried-ozempic-but-i-know-how-it-feels</link> <description><p>Our desires are an essential part of who we are – as I discovered when I lost my appetite for six months</p><p>Mostly, walking down New York streets in spring sunshine is the cinematic, euphoric ideal of what it is to be alive. It’s the thing I looked forward to for decades. It meant to me, back then as a kid in Ireland, listening to songs about Lexington and 14th Street, freedom: an almost deranged amount of freedom.</p><p>Sometimes, though, walking down New York streets in spring sunshine is agonising in both a physical and spiritual sense. This may be so, for instance, if you have no health insurance and are very stupid. Like me. That was in February 2023. I had been in increasingly acute pain for days, but because of a stubborn ability to ignore bodily breakdown and also a reluctance to spend money on healthcare in the US when I was only visiting, I kept going until I collapsed into an urgent care centre that I luckily passed one evening as I was dragging myself with manic good cheer to another dinner, despite being barely able to walk.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/19/i-havent-tried-ozempic-but-i-know-how-it-feels">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/health">Health</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/diets-dieting">Diets and dieting</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/food/food">Food</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/new-york">New York</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/business/pharmaceuticals-industry">Pharmaceuticals industry</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/lifeandstyle">Life and style</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/society">Society</category> <pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2024 09:00:32 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/19/i-havent-tried-ozempic-but-i-know-how-it-feels</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/a3dcb03298b71a427343fed17b2b88d0f3c733b6/0_60_1969_1181/master/1969.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=52c07c5ac49bc4c956ee98d526fc02b1"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Illustration: David Foldvari/The Observer</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/a3dcb03298b71a427343fed17b2b88d0f3c733b6/0_60_1969_1181/master/1969.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=778e42f345dce0fc360bbce9fc432d72"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Illustration: David Foldvari/The Observer</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Megan Nolan</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-19T09:00:32Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>America’s approach to China’s rapid growth has lessons for us all | Larry Elliott</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/may/19/america-approach-china-rapid-growth-lessons-for-us-all</link> <description><p>Protectionism in the form of tariffs is justified but the focus will be on whether Beijing retaliates</p><p>The global economy is fragmenting and a new era of protectionism has dawned. Dreams by free marketeers of a frictionless world in which goods and services moved seamlessly from country to country are dead.</p><p>That was the clear message from Joe Biden’s decision last week to target China with a range of new, much <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/may/14/joe-biden-tariff-chinese-made-electric-vehicles#:~:text=As%20well%20as%20a%20tariff,%25%20to%2050%25%20on%20semiconductors.">higher tariffs </a>on electric vehicles and a range of other products crucial to sectors seen by the White House as vital to the future health of the US economy and to national security.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/may/19/america-approach-china-rapid-growth-lessons-for-us-all">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/business/business">Business</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/economy">Economic policy</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/business/economics">Economics</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/business/global-economy">Global economy</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/business/internationaltrade">International trade</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/business/useconomy">US economy</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/business/chinese-economy">Chinese economy</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/china">China</category> <pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2024 10:08:43 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/may/19/america-approach-china-rapid-growth-lessons-for-us-all</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/e8bc3ba424fd5cfb7a4323bdfd50bf3a5069c687/0_525_4000_2401/master/4000.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=08a61205829b2214dd527ae6f7f8f60a"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Costfoto/NurPhoto/Rex</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/e8bc3ba424fd5cfb7a4323bdfd50bf3a5069c687/0_525_4000_2401/master/4000.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=d865cc22a2022866f325e6918b6d567d"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Costfoto/NurPhoto/Rex</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Larry Elliott</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-19T10:08:43Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Jürgen Klopp brought not only victories but a fan’s passion for the game | Kenan Malik</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/19/jurgen-klopp-brought-not-only-victories-liverpool-but-a-fans-passion-for-the-game</link> <description><p>The Liverpool manager, who bows out today after nine years, knew football was ‘the most important of least important things’</p><p></p><p>‘It’s not so important what people think when you come in,” Jürgen Klopp <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mm-Eb_ZuyFg">observed on being&nbsp;unveiled as Liverpool manager</a> in October 2015. “It’s much more important what people think when you leave.”</p><p>Today is the day Klopp leaves. It is the final day of the Premier League season in England, and Manchester City will probably be (again) crowned champions. It is also the final day of Klopp’s tenure as Liverpool manager, a moment that will wring the emotions, and not just at Anfield. Football is deeply tribal, but Klopp stepping down is an event that resonates well beyond Liverpool supporters, even beyond the world of football.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/19/jurgen-klopp-brought-not-only-victories-liverpool-but-a-fans-passion-for-the-game">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/football/jurgen-klopp">Jürgen Klopp</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/football/liverpool">Liverpool</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/football/football">Football</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/sport">Sport</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/football/pep-guardiola">Pep Guardiola</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/football/premierleague">Premier League</category> <pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2024 06:00:29 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/19/jurgen-klopp-brought-not-only-victories-liverpool-but-a-fans-passion-for-the-game</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/f384a19d9e76179d64fda079f17099d997f459e2/0_108_2484_1490/master/2484.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=c0190684346fdbcb221e44ed559861e5"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Bradley Collyer/PA</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/f384a19d9e76179d64fda079f17099d997f459e2/0_108_2484_1490/master/2484.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=ba2615ee204a3a5adff0b74afabb22d1"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Bradley Collyer/PA</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Kenan Malik</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-19T06:00:29Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Grinding our bums, flashing our boobs: the internet is making juveniles of us all | Martha Gill</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/19/grinding-our-bums-flashing-our-boobs-the-internet-is-making-juveniles-of-us-all</link> <description><p>When people were offered a window between New York and Dublin, puerile behaviour beat bridging worlds</p><p>How will technology change us as a species? In Silicon Valley, all prophesies seem to have converged into one: that it will usher in some sort of planetary Buddhist revolution. To read its mission statements and watch its Ted Talks is to hear phrases such as “connectedness”, “common understanding” and “overcoming barriers”. You could probably pitch a social media platform and a spiritual handbook simultaneously these days: “This will lead humanity to smiling, peaceful enlightenment.”</p><p>The soothsayers in Hollywood, meanwhile, see it differently. Introduce new tech within a blockbuster film and things tend to go one of two ways. Awe and then terror, as the product wreaks havoc on the planet; or alternatively, the rise of an emotionless new society, where, surrounded by intelligent machines, people start behaving a bit like robots themselves. The stereotypical sci-fi citizen is cold, sombre, aloof and efficient. In the minds of scriptwriters, at least, tech will at some point leach the very humanity out of us.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/19/grinding-our-bums-flashing-our-boobs-the-internet-is-making-juveniles-of-us-all">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/internet">Internet</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/technology">Technology</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/art">Art</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/new-york">New York</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/sculpture">Sculpture</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/ireland">Ireland</category> <pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2024 06:30:28 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/19/grinding-our-bums-flashing-our-boobs-the-internet-is-making-juveniles-of-us-all</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/781aca607150086ab31bde62225ba79050613ba9/0_0_10667_6400/master/10667.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=b88e8375a67c864c3578270228946324"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Illustration:</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/781aca607150086ab31bde62225ba79050613ba9/0_0_10667_6400/master/10667.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=305339149817af0ea026596a9aa0ed2d"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Illustration:</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Martha Gill</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-19T06:30:28Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Simone Lia: Onomatopoeia – cartoon</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/culture/picture/2024/may/19/simone-lia-onomatopoeia-cartoon</link> <description><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/picture/2024/may/19/simone-lia-onomatopoeia-cartoon">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/lifeandstyle">Life and style</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/design">Design</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/artanddesign">Art and design</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/culture">Culture</category> <pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2024 07:00:29 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/culture/picture/2024/may/19/simone-lia-onomatopoeia-cartoon</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/ca3a8b5755d06c3f4a4726aa1578ab369aecf678/845_753_789_474/master/789.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=b5c67115bb55626311badb07235262cb"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Illustration: Simone Lia/The Observer</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/ca3a8b5755d06c3f4a4726aa1578ab369aecf678/845_753_789_474/master/789.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=7cd74a2a7e1d866bf20c741252a23aa1"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Illustration: Simone Lia/The Observer</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Simone Lia</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-19T07:00:29Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>We’ve got the talent and the tech. So why can’t Britain grow its own world-beaters? | Will Hutton</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/19/weve-got-the-talent-and-the-tech-so-why-cant-britain-grow-its-own-world-beaters</link> <description><p>Companies are deserting the FTSE because of a shortage of investment – but there is a solution</p><p>Britain had it&nbsp;in its power to be a genuine hi-tech superpower. Instead, the opportunity slipped through our fingers, as we have been “tech-stripped” on a monumental scale. On one estimate, up to half the FTSE 100 could <a href="https://www.institute.global/insights/economic-prosperity/transparency-accountability-predictability-protecting-national-security-through-uks-foreign">now be populated</a> by vigorous British tech companies but those are all now foreign owned with one exception, Sage. The implications for our industrial, business, services and even defence base are dire – one of the most important condemnations of the last 14 years.</p><p>The chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, complacently declared last week that this was just how capitalism operated – even as we learned that another <a href="https://www.standard.co.uk/business/london-stock-exchange-crisis-shares-exodus-buyouts-mergers-acquisitions-us-private-equity-market-b1154033.html">21 companies worth £24.6bn</a> had joined the exodus from the UK’s public markets this year alone. It was a variant of <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSU8N195055/">Philip Hammond’s comment in 2016</a> on Japanese SoftBank taking over yet another of our tech jewels, the chip designer ARM. What was obviously an exercise in technological vandalism was instead proof positive that Britain was “open for business”, a view echoed at the time by that other high priest of wealth generation, Nigel Farage. This reflex mantra of Tory ministers and Brexiters alike is a necessity: to say anything else would reveal the paucity of their world view.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/19/weve-got-the-talent-and-the-tech-so-why-cant-britain-grow-its-own-world-beaters">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/technology">Technology</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/business/economics">Economics</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/business/business">Business</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/business/stock-markets">Stock markets</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/money/national-insurance">National insurance</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/jeremy-hunt">Jeremy Hunt</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/politics">Politics</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/taxandspending">Tax and spending</category> <pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2024 07:00:31 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/19/weve-got-the-talent-and-the-tech-so-why-cant-britain-grow-its-own-world-beaters</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/fb08b97680de135ccfdb10a21bfdff13c05f8324/0_173_5183_3109/master/5183.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=6a3c308c5151a6506e8acda8a21c5602"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Bloomberg/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/fb08b97680de135ccfdb10a21bfdff13c05f8324/0_173_5183_3109/master/5183.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=8b5be86ae6807ac6acbdd339722d3911"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Bloomberg/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Will Hutton</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-19T07:00:31Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>The Observer view: it’s up to Israel’s allies to persuade Netanyahu to stop standing in the way of peace</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/19/the-observer-view-its-up-to-israels-allies-to-persuade-netanyahu-to-stop-standing-in-the-way-of-peace</link> <description><p>Even his defence minister knows that there can be no military solution to the war with Hamas</p><p>The emotional vow by Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, to “destroy” Hamas after it massacred about 1,200 people on 7&nbsp;October 2023 was understandable. But in practice it was never a realisable aim. Eight months into the ensuing conflict, more than 35,000 Palestinians are dead, yet Hamas is still fighting in parts of Gaza that Israel’s army thought it controlled, a new humanitarian crisis looms around Rafah, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/17/gaza-pier-aid-un-distribution">640,000 people</a> have been displaced again, and the agony of Israeli hostages and their families is daily renewed. <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/17/israel-recovers-bodies-of-three-hostages-taken-by-hamas-including-shani-louk">Three more bodies were recovered</a> on Friday.</p><p>Defeating Hamas remains a <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/western-nations-urge-israel-comply-with-international-law-gaza-2024-05-17/">vital objective</a> for Israel and most western and Arab governments, as well as ordinary people appalled by its actions. But, from the very first, Netanyahu has failed, or rather refused, to articulate a “day after” strategy for administering (and rebuilding) Gaza once its terrorist rulers are supposedly “destroyed”. Despite the evidence, he refuses to accept that military force alone will not work. Hamas’s defeat, if it is to be permanent, must be political, legal, economic and psychological as much as physical.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/19/the-observer-view-its-up-to-israels-allies-to-persuade-netanyahu-to-stop-standing-in-the-way-of-peace">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/israel-hamas-war">Israel-Gaza war</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/benjamin-netanyahu">Benjamin Netanyahu</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/israel">Israel</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/middle-east-peace-talks">Middle East peace talks</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/jake-sullivan">Jake Sullivan</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/palestinian-territories">Palestinian territories</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/middleeast">Middle East and north Africa</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/world">World news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/hamas">Hamas</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-news">US news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/gaza">Gaza</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/fatah">Fatah</category> <pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2024 05:30:27 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/19/the-observer-view-its-up-to-israels-allies-to-persuade-netanyahu-to-stop-standing-in-the-way-of-peace</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/275c5789fb1dc3df54c5e616c5c2ed4504eeef6e/291_228_1150_690/master/1150.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=cab29a49e1b54d21ba4af0fb2221b09f"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/275c5789fb1dc3df54c5e616c5c2ed4504eeef6e/291_228_1150_690/master/1150.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=3d93bc9e5fea2afce9573e1596f6f7b6"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Observer editorial</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-19T05:30:27Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Of course faith has a place in our society</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/commentisfree/article/2024/may/19/of-course-faith-has-a-place-in-our-society</link> <description><p>Keir Hardie and many others were inspired by their religion</p><p>I’m often puzzled by the antagonism that so many on the left express towards religion (“<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/12/faith-groups-schools-secular-britain">Faith groups want more say in secular Britain. Labour should tell them to go to hell</a>”). Keir Hardie, no less, made no secret of the fact that his passion for social justice was founded in his Christianity, and&nbsp;there are countless other examples of prominent socialists who were inspired by their faith. Up and down the land, religious charities of all denominations give practical help by feeding the hungry, sheltering the homeless and&nbsp;comforting the bereaved.<br><strong>Wilson Firth</strong><br>Colkirk, Norfolk<br></p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/commentisfree/article/2024/may/19/of-course-faith-has-a-place-in-our-society">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/religion">Religion</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/education/education">Education</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/education/schools">Schools</category> <pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2024 05:00:29 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/commentisfree/article/2024/may/19/of-course-faith-has-a-place-in-our-society</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/0358a2a74cd6e89c0f65ddb754ba12bcede8cffd/0_346_5184_3110/master/5184.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=218ea93d6bdad8b5cbd5310336a3b5ff"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: David Mbiyu/Alamy</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/0358a2a74cd6e89c0f65ddb754ba12bcede8cffd/0_346_5184_3110/master/5184.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=cf7a9132c5bd683b4b9cb66b54d4d3be"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: David Mbiyu/Alamy</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Guardian Staff</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-19T05:00:29Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>The Observer view on child poverty: Labour must tackle this scourge as soon as possible | Observer editorial</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/18/the-observer-view-on-child-poverty-labour-must-tackle-this-scourge-as-soon-as-possible</link> <description><p>Growing up in a poor household is one of the biggest barriers to opportunity, yet it affects millions of children</p><p>• <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/may/18/child-poverty-uk-scandal-britain-charities-families">Gordon Brown on the UK’s child poverty scandal</a><br>• <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/may/18/end-child-poverty-uk-five-things-to-know">Torsten Bell: We can easily end child poverty</a><br>• <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/may/18/archbishop-canterbury-urges-starmer-to-ditch-cruel-two-child-benefit-cap">Archbishop urges Starmer to ditch ‘cruel’ benefit cap</a></p><p>Almost one in three British children now <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/households-below-average-income-for-financial-years-ending-1995-to-2023">live in relative poverty</a>. Former prime minister Gordon Brown last week referred to this generation as <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/may/14/children-austerity-generation-need-rescue-plan-gordon-brown-sure-start">“austerity’s children”</a>: children who have known nothing but what it is to grow up in families where money concerns are a constant toxic stress, where a lack of a financial cushion means one adverse event can trigger a downward debt spiral, and where parents have to make tough choices about essentials such as food and heating. Rising rates of child poverty are a product of political choices; that we have a government that has enabled them is a stain on our national conscience.</p><p>The headline rate of child poverty is underpinned by other alarming trends. Two-thirds of children living in relative poverty, defined as 60% of median income, after housing costs, are in families where at least one adult works, a product of the number of low-paid jobs in the economy that do not allow parents to adequately provide for their children. Unsurprisingly, <a href="https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/SN07096/SN07096.pdf">child poverty rates are higher</a> in families where someone has a disability, and 58% of children from Pakistani and 67% of Bangladeshi backgrounds live in relative child poverty. Child homelessness is at record levels – more than 140,000 <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/mar/09/homeless-kids-england-childhood-temporary-housing-families">children in England are homeless</a>, many living for years on end in temporary accommodation that does not meet the most basic of standards. One in six children live in families experiencing food insecurity, and one in 40 in a family that has had to access a food bank in the past 30 days.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/18/the-observer-view-on-child-poverty-labour-must-tackle-this-scourge-as-soon-as-possible">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/children">Children</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/poverty">Poverty</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/child-benefits">Child benefits</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/socialexclusion">Social exclusion</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/benefits">Benefits</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/communities">Communities</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/society">Society</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/uk">UK news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/keir-starmer">Keir Starmer</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/labour">Labour</category> <pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2024 17:00:15 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/18/the-observer-view-on-child-poverty-labour-must-tackle-this-scourge-as-soon-as-possible</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/40e4f2d01fa08f18a253780ce9f8c3053fa7eab3/0_54_5472_3283/master/5472.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=1615f3f74133fc86e1a0d9a9c5c1a7cc"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Andrew Fox/Alamy</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/40e4f2d01fa08f18a253780ce9f8c3053fa7eab3/0_54_5472_3283/master/5472.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=c389150ca656ea4a1bd7e7b6261e9960"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Andrew Fox/Alamy</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Observer editorial</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-18T17:00:15Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>The Guardian view on antimicrobial resistance: we must prioritise this global health threat | Editorial</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/17/the-guardian-view-on-antimicrobial-resistance-we-must-prioritise-this-global-health-threat</link> <description><p>Patients are already dying as wonder drugs lose their effectiveness. International action is urgently needed</p><p>As apocalyptic horror stories go, it’s up there with the&nbsp;scariest. Yet it’s not fiction writers but top scientists&nbsp;who are warning of how the world could look once superbugs develop resistance to the remaining drugs against them in our hospital pharmacies. Patients will die who can currently be cured; routine surgery will become dangerous or impossible. Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) – it happens not only with bacteria but also viruses, fungi and parasites – is one of the top global public health threats facing humanity, <a href="https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/antimicrobial-resistance">says&nbsp;the World Health Organization</a> (WHO). It <a href="https://www.unep.org/resources/superbugs/environmental-action?gad_source=1&amp;amp;gclid=CjwKCAjwupGyBhBBEiwA0UcqaHIwyJ7wbWb-V_knPUAE8Kv4OVtTCtGgkFVt2kV0RXHC46woR24XgBoC78EQAvD_BwE">kills 1.3 million people</a> and contributes to 5 million deaths every year, predicted to be 10 million by 2050. In addition to the appalling human toll, it will increase the&nbsp;strain on and costs of health services. But is it high enough up the agenda? Covid-19 knocked it off, and the climate crisis gets more attention. AMR does not so&nbsp;often get top billing.</p><p>This week efforts have been made to change that, with<a href="https://www.un.org/pga/78/multi-stakeholder-hearing-on-antimicrobial-resistance/"> talks at the UN</a> triggering wider coverage chronicling the sorry plight we are in. From the pharmaceutical industry to the WHO to NHS England, the same tune is being played: we are not doing enough&nbsp;to avert disaster.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/17/the-guardian-view-on-antimicrobial-resistance-we-must-prioritise-this-global-health-threat">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/antibiotics">Antibiotics</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/science/drugs">Drugs</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/society">Society</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/business/pharmaceuticals-industry">Pharmaceuticals industry</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/business/business">Business</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/education/pharmacyandpharmacology">Pharmacy and pharmacology</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/nhs">NHS</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/health">Health</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/unitednations">United Nations</category> <pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2024 17:30:43 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/17/the-guardian-view-on-antimicrobial-resistance-we-must-prioritise-this-global-health-threat</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/dae1e6bf8af5edf456981c6f50ac8317bdbf3803/0_85_3383_2029/master/3383.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=380d6157e6eec5a6ed6c24b0d05a45e0"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Julien Behal/PA</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/dae1e6bf8af5edf456981c6f50ac8317bdbf3803/0_85_3383_2029/master/3383.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=35c2923e9d40dce370a80c4afa12c772"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Julien Behal/PA</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Editorial</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-17T17:30:43Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Brazil counts cost of worst-ever floods with little hope of waters receding soon</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/19/brazil-floods-toll</link> <description><p>Death toll in southern state of Rio Grande do Sul increasing daily as authorities plan four ‘tent cities’ for 77,000 displaced people</p><p>Three weeks after one of Brazil’s worst-ever floods hit its southernmost state, killing 155 people and forcing 540,000 from their homes, experts have warned that water levels will take at least another two weeks to drop.</p><p>The death toll across Rio Grande do Sul is still increasing daily, and more than 77,000 displaced people remain in public shelters, prompting the state government to announce plans to build four <a href="https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/cotidiano/2024/05/governo-do-rio-grande-do-sul-quer-construir-cidades-provisorias-para-desabrigados.shtml">temporary “tent cities”</a> to accommodate them.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/19/brazil-floods-toll">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/brazil">Brazil</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/world">World news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/americas">Americas</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/flooding">Flooding</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/environment">Environment</category> <pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2024 10:30:33 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/19/brazil-floods-toll</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/83d0aeb2e338572d75e08eda499304a307abba88/233_0_6976_4186/master/6976.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=e7f5121eb7f340431ffb48554e05dadb"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Jefferson Bernardes/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/83d0aeb2e338572d75e08eda499304a307abba88/233_0_6976_4186/master/6976.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=0ace43c5b0170ca291dd049e576226fa"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Jefferson Bernardes/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Tiago Rogero in Rio de Janeiro</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-19T10:30:33Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Eight climate activists arrested in Germany over airport protest</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/18/climate-activists-arrested-germany-munich-airport</link> <description><p>About 60 flights cancelled after members of Letzte Generation glue themselves to ground at Munich</p><p>Eight climate activists have been arrested after causing Munich airport to close, leading to about 60 flight cancellations.</p><p>Six activists broke through a security fence and glued themselves to access routes leading to runways, officials and local media reported.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/18/climate-activists-arrested-germany-munich-airport">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/germany">Germany</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/europe-news">Europe</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/world">World news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/protest">Protest</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/activism">Activism</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-crisis">Climate crisis</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/environment">Environment</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/activism">Environmental activism</category> <pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2024 11:42:29 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/18/climate-activists-arrested-germany-munich-airport</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/e261a2d15b432ed91c0ee6a830cbeb5208801b89/0_57_1697_1018/master/1697.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=6137e98bf9611a9eb482adef190390a3"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Karl-Josef Hildenbrand/AP</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/e261a2d15b432ed91c0ee6a830cbeb5208801b89/0_57_1697_1018/master/1697.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=f0efb3c36f399d5afc02d2368966c4b6"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Karl-Josef Hildenbrand/AP</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Agencies</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-18T11:42:29Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Sticky trick: new glue spray kills plant pests without chemicals</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/18/sticky-trick-new-glue-spray-kills-plant-pests-without-chemicals</link> <description><p>Edible oil droplets trap bugs without the harm to people and wildlife that synthetic pesticides can cause</p><p>Tiny sticky droplets sprayed on crops to trap pests could be a green alternative to chemical pesticides, research has shown.</p><p>The insect glue, produced from edible oils, was inspired by plants such as sundews that use the strategy to capture their prey. A key advantage of physical pesticides over toxic pesticides is that pests are highly unlikely to evolve resistance, as this would require them to develop much larger and stronger bodies, while bigger beneficial insects, like bees, are not trapped by the drops.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/18/sticky-trick-new-glue-spray-kills-plant-pests-without-chemicals">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/pesticides">Pesticides</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/environment">Environment</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/farming">Farming</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/insects">Insects</category> <pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2024 05:00:04 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/18/sticky-trick-new-glue-spray-kills-plant-pests-without-chemicals</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/fe219ae76a6f4f9c9f0926337542016bf1c9300f/0_172_5100_3061/master/5100.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=d320941d82603aa93a17719fbbbc8c18"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Loop Images/Universal Images Group/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/fe219ae76a6f4f9c9f0926337542016bf1c9300f/0_172_5100_3061/master/5100.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=d22b25afa924cf6d1653a334b3704a77"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Loop Images/Universal Images Group/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Damian Carrington Environment editor</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-18T05:00:04Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Think before you click – and three other ways to reduce your digital carbon footprint | Koren Helbig</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/may/18/how-to-reduce-digital-carbon-footprint-energy-consumption</link> <description><p>The invisible downside to our online lives is the data stored at giant energy-guzzling datacentres </p><p>It’s been called <a href="https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/blog/internet-climate-change-fixes/#:~:text=In%20her%20words%2C%20the%20internet,emissions%20than%20the%20aviation%20industry.">“the largest coal-powered machine on Earth</a>” – and most of us use it countless times a day.</p><p>The internet and its associated digital industry are estimated to produce about the <a href="https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200305-why-your-internet-habits-are-not-as-clean-as-you-think">same emissions annually as aviation</a>. But we barely think about pollution while snapping 16 duplicate photos of our pets, which are immediately uploaded to the cloud.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/may/18/how-to-reduce-digital-carbon-footprint-energy-consumption">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/internet">Internet</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/technology">Technology</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/carbon-emissions">Greenhouse gas emissions</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/pollution">Pollution</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/photography">Photography</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/coal">Coal</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/energy">Energy</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/email">Email</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/cloud-computing">Cloud computing</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/smartphones">Smartphones</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/environment">Environment</category> <pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2024 15:00:44 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/may/18/how-to-reduce-digital-carbon-footprint-energy-consumption</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/eb270dcc4ce66211f96f8cc9be77b2afc3a51ea9/0_301_5760_3457/master/5760.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=5a9656f2a83828f3de5f56a6c677fa90"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: David Levene/The Guardian</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/eb270dcc4ce66211f96f8cc9be77b2afc3a51ea9/0_301_5760_3457/master/5760.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=a8d3a74e2a0cc6f39e22c94585148ca0"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: David Levene/The Guardian</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Koren Helbig</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-17T15:00:44Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Heart patients forced to wait over a year for treatment in England</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/may/19/heart-patients-wait-year-treatment-england-disease-waiting-lists</link> <description><p>Waiting lists are at a record high, almost double since 2020, with heart disease being the largest cause of premature death in deprived areas</p><p>Fifteen hospital trusts across England each have more than 200 patients waiting longer than a year for heart procedures, NHS figures reveal.</p><p>The British Heart Foundation (BHF) warns that heart care waiting lists are now <a href="https://www.bhf.org.uk/what-we-do/news-from-the-bhf/news-archive/2024/may/heart-care-waits-rise-to-new-record-high">at a record high</a>, reaching 414,596 at the end of March 2024 in England, almost double what it was in 2020. The number of people waiting longer than a year for heart tests and treatments has risen to 10,893. Four years ago, the figure was just 53.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/may/19/heart-patients-wait-year-treatment-england-disease-waiting-lists">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/nhs">NHS</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/heart-disease">Heart disease</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/health">Health</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/england">England</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/uk">UK news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/heart-attack">Heart attack</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/hospitals">Hospitals</category> <pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2024 05:00:28 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/may/19/heart-patients-wait-year-treatment-england-disease-waiting-lists</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/0899f0cda841e28465ef30359281371ccda5910d/0_192_5706_3425/master/5706.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=fe5151e1f666e361199bc4aeef6c033f"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Oksana Krasiuk/Alamy</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/0899f0cda841e28465ef30359281371ccda5910d/0_192_5706_3425/master/5706.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=f4e7d73c20ce0694425253f7042074ca"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Oksana Krasiuk/Alamy</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Jon Ungoed-Thomas</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-19T05:00:28Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Schools in England send police to homes of absent pupils with threats to jail their parents</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/education/article/2024/may/19/schools-england-police-homes-absent-pupils</link> <description><p>‘Heavy-handed’ crackdown ignores underlying reasons for failure to attend classes, say critics</p><p>Some schools in England are sending police to the homes of children who are persistently absent, or warning them their parents may go to prison if their attendance doesn’t improve, the <em>Observer</em> has learned.</p><p>Headteachers say they are now under intense pressure from the government to turn around the crisis in attendance, with a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/education/2024/mar/21/record-numbers-of-pupil-absences-in-england-dfe-figures-show#:~:text=Disadvantaged%20children%20or%20those%20with,days%20of%20school%20last%20year.">record 150,000 children</a> at state schools classed as severely absent in 2022-23. From September, all state schools in England will have to share their attendance records every day with the Department for Education.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/education/article/2024/may/19/schools-england-police-homes-absent-pupils">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/education/school-attendance-and-absence">School attendance and absence</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/education/education">Education</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/education">Education policy</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/uk">UK news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/education/teaching">Teaching</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/gillian-keegan">Gillian Keegan</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/education/schools">Schools</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/politics">Politics</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/parents-and-parenting">Parents and parenting</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/family">Family</category> <pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2024 06:00:30 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/education/article/2024/may/19/schools-england-police-homes-absent-pupils</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/03b32e7a4d40dd2ccbf480bce5e050e4a9addc29/0_96_2718_1631/master/2718.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=974659e8a718147fd7d3eced9e36d0a8"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Ralph125/Getty Images/iStockphoto</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/03b32e7a4d40dd2ccbf480bce5e050e4a9addc29/0_96_2718_1631/master/2718.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=f15fb4badd7c9f36f0013f711355d0da"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Ralph125/Getty Images/iStockphoto</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Anna Fazackerley</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-19T06:00:30Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>‘A kick in the teeth’: Leeds artists fear loss of spaces is killing cultural scene</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/19/a-kick-in-the-teeth-leeds-artists-fear-loss-of-spaces-is-killing-cultural-scene</link> <description><p>Council spending cuts are forcing studios and venues to close, driving out the city’s creative businesses</p><p>Last year, the city of Leeds held a year-long <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2023/jan/10/i-get-knocked-down-leedss-year-of-culture-rises-from-the-ashes-of-brexit">celebration of culture</a>, complete with festivals, newly commissioned works of art and community projects. More than 1,000 events took place, with hundreds of volunteers and local schools taking part.</p><p>This year, however, artists and creatives in the West Yorkshire city are being forced out of their workshops and galleries, and say the dwindling number of spaces is crushing Leeds’s creative scene.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/19/a-kick-in-the-teeth-leeds-artists-fear-loss-of-spaces-is-killing-cultural-scene">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/leeds">Leeds</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/arts-funding">Arts funding</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/uk-city-of-culture">UK city of culture</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/uk">UK news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/culture">Culture</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/public-sector-cuts">Public sector cuts</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/society">Society</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/public-finance">Public finance</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/policy">Public services policy</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/politics">Politics</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/cities/cities">Cities</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/communities">Communities</category> <pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2024 07:00:30 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/19/a-kick-in-the-teeth-leeds-artists-fear-loss-of-spaces-is-killing-cultural-scene</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/81fe18fb399cf972a61b3d39a0e30c4ca372acfd/0_342_6720_4032/master/6720.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=addcd24c8779fcfc0eaa1e244d926ab7"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Gary Calton/The Observer</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/81fe18fb399cf972a61b3d39a0e30c4ca372acfd/0_342_6720_4032/master/6720.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=343e0c5c5afd77fc466c82d54d131157"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Gary Calton/The Observer</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Aneesa Ahmed</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-19T07:00:30Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Vampire finches and deadly tree snakes: how birds went worldwide – and their battles for survival</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/19/vampire-finches-birds-snakes-natural-history-museum-london</link> <description><p>A new exhibition at the Natural History Museum in London includes ‘tragic’ tales of species wiped out from their natural habitats</p><p>Douglas Russell, a senior curator at London’s <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/natural-history-museum">Natural History Museum</a>, was examining a collection of nests gathered on the island of Guam when he made an unsettling discovery.</p><p>“The nests had been picked up more than 100 years ago, and I was curating them with the aim of adding them to the museum’s main collection. They turned out to be one of the most tragic, saddest accumulations of objects I’ve ever had to deal with,” Russell told the <em>Observer</em> last week.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/19/vampire-finches-birds-snakes-natural-history-museum-london">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/wildlife">Wildlife</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/natural-history-museum">Natural History Museum</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/birds">Birds</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/conservation">Conservation</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/exhibition">Exhibitions</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/animals">Animals</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/environment">Environment</category> <category 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</media:content> <dc:creator>Robin McKie Science editor</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-19T09:00:32Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>‘Embrace the bog’: Chelsea flower show expert champions flood-proof garden</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/article/2024/may/19/bog-chelsea-flower-show-expert-champions-flood-proof-garden-climate-crisis</link> <description><p>As the prestige flower event begins, horticulturalists are shown how a waterlogged patch can help counter climate crisis</p><p>Gardeners should “embrace the bog” that has formed in backyards across the country after record rain, a designer at this week’s Chelsea flower show has said.</p><p><a href="https://www.naomislade.com/flood-resilient-garden">Naomi Slade will unveil her design for a floodproof garden</a> on 21 May, showing that even with the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/apr/22/fields-underwater-uk-farmers-navigate-record-rainfall-food-production-crisis-wet-weather">unusually wet weather</a> seen in recent months, British gardens can still be full of colourful flowers.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/article/2024/may/19/bog-chelsea-flower-show-expert-champions-flood-proof-garden-climate-crisis">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/gardens">Gardens</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/chelseaflowershow">Chelsea flower show</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/flooding">Flooding</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/extreme-weather">Extreme weather</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/plants">Plants</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/uk">UK news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/environment">Environment</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/lifeandstyle">Life and style</category> <pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2024 06:00:28 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/article/2024/may/19/bog-chelsea-flower-show-expert-champions-flood-proof-garden-climate-crisis</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/aada8a754a4ccd4219245a1eb3a9935f987805a2/0_158_5124_3076/master/5124.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=2341971e644d1d2aa5a41c4264f0ffa0"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Sophia Evans/The Observer</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/aada8a754a4ccd4219245a1eb3a9935f987805a2/0_158_5124_3076/master/5124.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=fae4cfbaa7ea741af8169cac71afd35e"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Sophia Evans/The Observer</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Helena Horton</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-19T06:00:28Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Third of voters believe Starmer was wrong to let Elphicke into Labour party</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/may/18/voters-starmer-wrong-elphicke-labour-party-opinium-poll-tory-mp-defection</link> <description><p>In latest Opinium poll, only 16% say accepting rightwing Tory MP’s defection was the right move – against 33% who see it as a mistake</p><p>More voters believe Keir Starmer was wrong to allow a rightwing Tory MP into Labour than think it was the right move, after anger from within the party’s ranks over the defection.</p><p>Natalie Elphicke, the Dover MP, said the Tories had become “a byword for incompetence and division” when she made her <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/may/08/conservative-mp-natalie-elphicke-defects-to-labour-party">shock departure to Labour</a> earlier in May. The party leadership regarded it as a major coup to win the support of the MP on the frontline of the Channel crossings issue that Rishi Sunak has attempted to prioritise. The move came despite concerns among MPs that her views conflict with Labour in a variety of areas.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/may/18/voters-starmer-wrong-elphicke-labour-party-opinium-poll-tory-mp-defection">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/keir-starmer">Keir Starmer</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/labour">Labour</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/politics">Politics</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/general-elections">General elections</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/uk">UK news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/conservatives">Conservatives</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/rishi-sunak">Rishi Sunak</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/polls">Opinion polls</category> <pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2024 19:00:14 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/may/18/voters-starmer-wrong-elphicke-labour-party-opinium-poll-tory-mp-defection</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/6db1af1b052f7f75d160dd2ee4766fe94c9a0214/0_123_3000_1800/master/3000.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=34abf1bcad0eb11f6675b52efdb8ef2d"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Gareth Fuller/PA</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/6db1af1b052f7f75d160dd2ee4766fe94c9a0214/0_123_3000_1800/master/3000.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=a79cda70fa2cdb2daf229ab75ee1826c"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Gareth Fuller/PA</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Michael Savage Policy Editor</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-18T19:00:14Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Fewer than one in 10 arts workers in UK have working-class roots</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/article/2024/may/18/arts-workers-uk-working-class-roots-cultural-sector-diversity</link> <description><p>The cultural sector falls short on other measures of diversity too, with 9o% of workers white, says new report</p><p>Six in 10 of all arts and culture workers in the UK now come from middle-class backgrounds, compared with just over 42% of the wider workforce, according to new research.</p><p>And while 23% of the UK workforce is from a working-class background, working-class people are underrepresented in every area of arts and culture. They make up 8.4% of those working in film, TV, radio and photography, while in museums, archives and libraries, the proportion is only 5.2%.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/article/2024/may/18/arts-workers-uk-working-class-roots-cultural-sector-diversity">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/class-issues">Class issues</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/culture">Culture</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/society">Society</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/inequality">Inequality</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/money/work-and-careers">Work & careers</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/money/discrimination-at-work">Discrimination at work</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/disability">Disability</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/uk">UK news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/social-trends">Social trends</category> <pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2024 17:00:13 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/article/2024/may/18/arts-workers-uk-working-class-roots-cultural-sector-diversity</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/81be0c3d084d5f079c20ec8cc4387ab0ef11dc46/0_102_5229_3138/master/5229.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=6c3fa94be8a7c4c808888985c01a85b4"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Caiaimage/Martin Barraud/Getty Images/iStockphoto</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/81be0c3d084d5f079c20ec8cc4387ab0ef11dc46/0_102_5229_3138/master/5229.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=1c154334e1c553efaf5fa12c28bdaa55"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Caiaimage/Martin Barraud/Getty Images/iStockphoto</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Rachael Healy</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-18T17:00:13Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Jeremy Hunt urged to honour pledge on infected blood compensation payouts</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/18/jeremy-hunt-urged-honour-pledge-infected-blood-compensation-payouts</link> <description><p>As the inquiry publishes its final report, the chancellor is under pressure to find £10bn to put right a longstanding injustice</p><p>The chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, will come under pressure to stay true to his word and sign off on immediate compensation payments totalling up to £10bn to victims of the contaminated blood scandal when the long-awaited final report on the affair is published on Monday.</p><p>The scandal is described as the worst treatment disaster in NHS history, with more than 3,000 people having died as a result of receiving contaminated blood products in the 1970s and 1980s. It is estimated that, even today, a person infected during the scandal dies every four days.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/18/jeremy-hunt-urged-honour-pledge-infected-blood-compensation-payouts">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/contaminated-blood-scandal">Contaminated blood scandal</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/jeremy-hunt">Jeremy Hunt</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/aids-and-hiv">Aids and HIV</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/uk">UK news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/society">Society</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/nhs">NHS</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/health">Health</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/hepatitis-c">Hepatitis C</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/politics">Politics</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/labour">Labour</category> <pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2024 18:00:13 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/18/jeremy-hunt-urged-honour-pledge-infected-blood-compensation-payouts</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/0a4b4c86d49fa8027bd6298eb8f0e614b5726b38/0_180_4875_2925/master/4875.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=adfe0ea50ea78b5b693b7bf4cfb8a4a3"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Toby Melville/Reuters</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/0a4b4c86d49fa8027bd6298eb8f0e614b5726b38/0_180_4875_2925/master/4875.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=263f632bd02d8e9d6bfdd7281805d89e"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Toby Melville/Reuters</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Toby Helm Political editor</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-18T18:00:13Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Nadhim Zahawi says it was a mistake for Tories to force Boris Johnson from No 10</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/18/nadhim-zahawi-says-it-was-a-mistake-for-tories-to-force-boris-johnson-from-no-10</link> <description><p>Former chancellor, who was one of those who urged Johnson to go, says Tories should have realised ‘Twitter was not the country’</p><p>Former chancellor Nadhim Zahawi has said he and his Conservative colleagues were wrong to force out Boris Johnson as prime minister in 2022.</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/jul/07/boris-johnson-resigns-as-conservative-leader-after-cabinet-revolt">Johnson resigned</a> after less than three years in No 10 after more than 50 resignations from government of MPs and staff and waves of backbenchers urging him to quit over the handling of the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/jul/04/chris-pincher-a-timeline-of-allegations-and-investigations">Chris Pincher affair</a> and <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/jul/01/scandal-timeline-tory-sleaze-boris-johnson">numerous other scandals</a>. He resigned as an MP <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/jun/09/boris-johnson-resigns-as-mp-with-immediate-effect-over-partygate-report">a year later</a>.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/18/nadhim-zahawi-says-it-was-a-mistake-for-tories-to-force-boris-johnson-from-no-10">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/nadhim-zahawi">Nadhim Zahawi</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/boris-johnson">Boris Johnson</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/politics">Politics</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/uk">UK news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/conservatives">Conservatives</category> <pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2024 20:30:04 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/18/nadhim-zahawi-says-it-was-a-mistake-for-tories-to-force-boris-johnson-from-no-10</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/2e83729567dac7d2eb5056b0f5ca04ff02532b38/0_110_3248_1948/master/3248.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=b2af7d56487660b5c73e5fa025a53794"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Victoria Jones/PA</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/2e83729567dac7d2eb5056b0f5ca04ff02532b38/0_110_3248_1948/master/3248.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=f2aa43fd48677ea54288978fffaee8b3"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Victoria Jones/PA</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Nadeem Badshah</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-18T20:30:04Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>£30,000 raised for Wirral ‘local legend’ denied UK citizenship</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/18/fundraiser-gathers-30000-for-newsagent-denied-uk-citizenship</link> <description><p>Nelson Shardey, 74, became tearful on hearing of support for effort to gain settled status after 50 years in UK</p><p>A retired 74-year-old newsagent who has lived in the UK for nearly 50 years said “tears were running” from his eyes after strangers fundraised more than £30,000 to support his legal fight to remain in the country.</p><p>Nelson Shardey, who has been described as a<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/15/wirral-local-legend-refused-indefinite-leave-to-remain-by-home-office"> Merseyside “local legend”,</a> is pursuing a legal challenge against the Home Office after he was refused indefinite leave to remain, despite living and working in the UK since 1977.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/18/fundraiser-gathers-30000-for-newsagent-denied-uk-citizenship">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/immigration">Immigration and asylum</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/merseyside">Merseyside</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/uk">UK news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/home-office">Home Office</category> <pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2024 13:08:15 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/18/fundraiser-gathers-30000-for-newsagent-denied-uk-citizenship</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/5d9f0bd8de1c078015d1bc191d23540e37fb9ceb/0_207_3500_2101/master/3500.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=9e2cc1e82d7967a270877802f014f45e"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Joel Goodman/The Guardian</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/5d9f0bd8de1c078015d1bc191d23540e37fb9ceb/0_207_3500_2101/master/3500.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=e50448a7f4eec3f6ee579427e33a7ffc"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Joel Goodman/The Guardian</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Neha Gohil Community affairs correspondent</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-18T13:08:15Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Georgian president vetoes ‘foreign influence’ law</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/18/georgia-president-vetoes-foreign-influence-law-protests</link> <description><p>Salome Zourabichvili says bill contradicts constitution but ruling party is expected to override her action in coming days</p><p>Georgia’s president has vetoed a “foreign agents” bill that has split the country and appealed to the government not to overrule her over a law she said was “Russian in sprit and essence”.</p><p>Salome Zourabichvil followed through on her stated intention to use her veto on Saturday although the governing Georgian Dream party has the votes to disregard her intervention.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/18/georgia-president-vetoes-foreign-influence-law-protests">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/georgia-news">Georgia</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/russia">Russia</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/protest">Protest</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/media/press-freedom">Press freedom</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/media/media">Media</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/world">World news</category> <pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2024 18:34:31 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/18/georgia-president-vetoes-foreign-influence-law-protests</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/a87437c69870be255bc46b3aba04969f5451a7ca/0_275_4288_2573/master/4288.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=19f5908ff3fcc60f65e755a38c1e1b7e"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Nicolo Vincenzo Malvestuto/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/a87437c69870be255bc46b3aba04969f5451a7ca/0_275_4288_2573/master/4288.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=ca068d93f9ad06cca1ee18f438a6456a"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Nicolo Vincenzo Malvestuto/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Daniel Boffey Chief reporter</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-18T18:34:31Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Indonesia’s Ibu volcano spectacularly erupts forcing nearby villages to evacuate</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/19/indonesias-ibu-volcano-spectacularly-erupts-forcing-nearby-villages-to-evacuate</link> <description><p>The volcano on the remote island of Halmahera spewed grey ash clouds into the sky as streaks of purple lightning flashed around its crater</p><p>A volcano on the remote Indonesian island of Halmahera has spectacularly erupted, spewing a grey ash cloud into the sky and forcing people from seven nearby villages to evacuate, authorities have said.</p><p>Mount Ibu erupted on Saturday evening, sending ash 4km into the sky, as streaks of purple lightning flashed around its crater, according to information and images shared by Indonesia’s volcanology agency.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/19/indonesias-ibu-volcano-spectacularly-erupts-forcing-nearby-villages-to-evacuate">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/indonesia">Indonesia</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/volcanoes">Volcanoes</category> <pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2024 03:25:59 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/19/indonesias-ibu-volcano-spectacularly-erupts-forcing-nearby-villages-to-evacuate</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/c27e1b1d1fd062b0dc474780dcc63fa9c84a18cd/0_245_4160_2496/master/4160.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=60cbcc7c34f9c9f385fd30724723b969"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: PVMBG/EPA</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/c27e1b1d1fd062b0dc474780dcc63fa9c84a18cd/0_245_4160_2496/master/4160.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=ec30083bfb0afc798674bfbd6fd61e78"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: PVMBG/EPA</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Guardian staff and agencies</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-19T03:25:59Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>French forces launch ‘major operation’ in New Caledonia, as unrest claims another life</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/19/new-caledonia-under-siege-says-local-official-as-unrest-claims-another-life</link> <description><p>Operation will aim to retake road linking airport with Noumea, as the capital’s mayor says the situation is ‘not improving’</p><p>French forces have launched a “major operation” to regain control of a road linking New Caledonia’s capital Noumea to the main international airport, as another person was killed in a sixth night of violent unrest.</p><p>Officials said more than 600 heavily armed gendarmes were dispatched to secure Route Territoriale 1, the main road connecting the capital with the airport. Flights to and from New Caledonia’s main island have been cancelled since the unrest began, stranding travellers and cutting off trade routes.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/19/new-caledonia-under-siege-says-local-official-as-unrest-claims-another-life">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/new-caledonia">New Caledonia</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/pacific-islands">Pacific islands</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/france">France</category> <pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2024 04:36:33 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/19/new-caledonia-under-siege-says-local-official-as-unrest-claims-another-life</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/51f913a1e165f72a9297df23bae0bc79392582ae/0_297_4558_2735/master/4558.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=18cfc29b085686c42ac94fbb5cd8c4c5"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Delphine Mayeur/AFP/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/51f913a1e165f72a9297df23bae0bc79392582ae/0_297_4558_2735/master/4558.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=c88aff96f59cbcf79845efc5445022a1"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Delphine Mayeur/AFP/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Guardian staff and agencies</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-19T04:36:33Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>German star at Cannes condemns ‘madness’ of protective culture for UK child actors</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/film/article/2024/may/19/german-star-at-cannes-condemns-madness-of-protective-culture-for-uk-child-actors</link> <description><p>Cast member of Palme d’Or contender shot in Kent says the high number of chaperones and intimacy coordinators on set was over the top </p><p>Is Britain leading the way in protecting young people and children from the potential traumas of working on a film set, or has it all gone far too far? Two of the most prominent European stars attending the Cannes film festival, both with high-profile premieres, have very different views.</p><p>Franz Rogowski, the acclaimed German actor who plays a key role in <em><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/article/2024/may/16/bird-review-andrea-arnold-barry-keoghan-cannes-film-festival">Bird</a></em>, British director Andrea Arnold’s contender for the top Palme d’Or prize, said this weekend that the proliferation of chaperones and intimacy coordinators that had been required on the shoot on location in Kent qualified as well-intended “madness”.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/article/2024/may/19/german-star-at-cannes-condemns-madness-of-protective-culture-for-uk-child-actors">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/film/cannes-2024">Cannes 2024</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/children">Children</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/metoo-movement">#MeToo movement</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/film/film">Film</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/culture">Culture</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/gender">Gender</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/world">World news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/europe-news">Europe</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/women">Women</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/film/andrea-arnold">Andrea Arnold</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/uk">UK news</category> <pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2024 07:00:31 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/film/article/2024/may/19/german-star-at-cannes-condemns-madness-of-protective-culture-for-uk-child-actors</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/16fb90e86d673ac99ad5eb4d7099401b4e4e668d/0_137_7009_4205/master/7009.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=be50bd4e7f38c293625c292c86e9b2c5"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Fraser Gray/Shutterstock</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/16fb90e86d673ac99ad5eb4d7099401b4e4e668d/0_137_7009_4205/master/7009.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=8abe44efaed511b348ecd8701b215c78"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Fraser Gray/Shutterstock</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Vanessa Thorpe in Cannes</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-19T07:00:31Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Assad officials face landmark Paris trial over killing of student and father</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/19/assad-officials-face-landmark-paris-trial-killing-student-father-syrian</link> <description><p>Prosecution of three high-ranking Syrian officials to be tried in absentia could pave way for president’s case</p><p>At midnight on 3 November 2013, five Syrian officials dragged arts and humanities student Patrick Dabbagh from his home in the Mezzeh district of Damascus.</p><p>The following day, at the same hour, the same men, including a representative of the Syrian air force’s intelligence unit, returned with a dozen soldiers to arrest the 20-year-old’s father Mazzen.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/19/assad-officials-face-landmark-paris-trial-killing-student-father-syrian">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/syria">Syria</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/bashar-al-assad">Bashar al-Assad</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/law/war-crimes">War crimes</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/law/human-rights">Human rights</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/france">France</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/law/law">Law</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/world">World news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/europe-news">Europe</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/middleeast">Middle East and north Africa</category> <pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2024 04:00:25 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/19/assad-officials-face-landmark-paris-trial-killing-student-father-syrian</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/f90063d8d3e5d592b4ad3e60861a1938c5b219a4/0_163_3500_2100/master/3500.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=477c09cba4b8b4a241aa65baef5f6887"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: SANA/Reuters</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/f90063d8d3e5d592b4ad3e60861a1938c5b219a4/0_163_3500_2100/master/3500.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=d1bed39a52d16914309865802ea6ca5c"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: SANA/Reuters</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Kim Willsher in Paris</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-19T04:00:25Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Rudy Giuliani indicted for role in Arizona fake-elector scheme</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/18/rudy-giuliani-indicted-arizona</link> <description><p>Ex-New York mayor last of 17 defendants to be served in plot to overturn Donald Trump’s election loss to Joe Biden in 2020</p><p>Former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani is the last of 17 defendants to be served an indictment in Arizona’s fake-elector case for his role in an attempt to overturn former president Donald Trump’s loss to Joe Biden in the 2020 election, the Arizona attorney general said.</p><p>Kris Mayes posted the news regarding the Trump-aligned lawyer on her X account late Friday.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/18/rudy-giuliani-indicted-arizona">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/rudygiuliani">Rudy Giuliani</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/arizona">Arizona</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/election-interference">Election interference</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-news">US news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/law/law-us">Law (US)</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-crime">US crime</category> <pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2024 22:42:14 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/18/rudy-giuliani-indicted-arizona</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/1aac9b8a5e744f78d5cf8107db0d64e05e393f68/0_400_6000_3600/master/6000.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=96fbb4d31a40d52b37f3be3820254df4"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Bonnie Cash/Reuters</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/1aac9b8a5e744f78d5cf8107db0d64e05e393f68/0_400_6000_3600/master/6000.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=555958fdb4c46ea92c1828a818cde4aa"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Bonnie Cash/Reuters</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Guardian staff and agencies</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-18T22:42:14Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Ukraine war briefing: Kyiv accuses Russia of targeting civilians in Kharkiv region</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/19/ukraine-war-briefing-kyiv-accuses-russia-of-targeting-civilians-in-kharkiv-region</link> <description><p>Ukrainian prosecutors investigating possible war crimes in Kharkiv and Vovchansk as Zelenskiy says his troops are fighting back: What we know on day 816</p><p><strong>Ukraine says Russian shelling targeted civilians in two cities in the north-eastern region of Kharkiv</strong> on Saturday. Ukrainian prosecutors said they were investigating as a potential war crime a Russian airstrike on a residential area of the regional capital Kharkiv in which six civilians were wounded, including a 13-year-old girl, 16-year-old male and an eight-year-old. Moscow denies deliberately targeting civilians but thousands have been killed and injured since its February 2022 invasion of Ukraine.</p><p><strong>In Vovchansk, a city just 5 km from the Russian border and about 70 km to the north-east of Kharkiv, Ukrainian prosecutors said Russian shelling killed a 60-year-old woman and injured three other civilian</strong>s. Two civilians – aged 70 and 83 – were killed when trying to leave Vovchansk by car, the Kharkiv regional prosecutor said. “The battle in the area of Vovchansk is ongoing,” Ukraine’s armed defences said. Only 100 residents remain in the town at the centre of <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/16/ukraines-defences-thin-on-ground-as-russia-advances-on-kharkiv">Moscow’s grinding push</a> that’s now largely in ruins.</p><p><strong>Across the border in Russia’s Belgorod region, Moscow’s defence ministry said its forces shot down a Tochka-U missile fired by Ukraine</strong>. A similar missile caused a Belgorod apartment building to collapse last week, killing at least 15 people, Russia said. Late on Saturday, Belgorod regional governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said a Ukrainian drone attack injured a woman and a man in the village of Petrovka. They were treated for shrapnel injuries in Belgorod, he wrote on the Telegram messaging app.</p><p><strong>President Volodymyr Zelenskiy reported successes by troops fighting a renewed Russian <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/18/volodymyr-zelenskiy-expects-russian-offensive-in-northeast-ukraine-to-intensify">assault in the Kharkiv region</a>. He said in his nightly video address that Ukrainian forces were on surer footing</strong>. “The occupier is losing its infantry and equipment, a tangible loss, even though, just as in 2022, it was counting on a quick advance on our land,” Zelenskiy said, referring to Russia’s initial invasion of Ukraine in February of that year. His remarks come a day after he warned Kyiv has only a quarter of the air defences it needs to hold the frontline.</p><p><strong>A divisive mobilisation law in Ukraine came into force on Saturday, as Kyiv struggles to boost troop numbers.</strong> The legislation, which was watered down from its original draft, will make it easier to identify every conscript in the country. It also provides incentives to soldiers, such as cash bonuses or money toward buying a house or car. Zelenskiy also signed two other laws Friday, allowing prisoners to join the army and increasing fines for draft dodgers fivefold.</p><p><strong>Russia’s defence ministry said its forces captured the village of Starytsia in the Kharkiv region on Saturday</strong>, eight days <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/18/nothing-to-go-back-to-residents-of-vovchansk-relive-the-nightmare-of-a-hasty-evacuation">after the new Russian push in the area began.</a></p><p><strong>Zelenskiy said his forces repelled an assault further south in the eastern Donetsk region around Chasiv Yar</strong>, a city seen as a key target in Russia’s campaign. “Our soldiers destroyed more than 20 units of the occupier’s armoured vehicles,” he said.</p><p><strong>In the village of Stanislav in the southern region of Kherson, governor Oleksandr Prokudin said a Russian drone strike killed</strong> a man about 40 years old and injured a woman. The battlefield accounts could not be immediately verified.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/19/ukraine-war-briefing-kyiv-accuses-russia-of-targeting-civilians-in-kharkiv-region">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/ukraine">Ukraine</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/russia">Russia</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/europe-news">Europe</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/volodymyr-zelenskiy">Volodymyr Zelenskiy</category> <pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2024 01:09:32 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/19/ukraine-war-briefing-kyiv-accuses-russia-of-targeting-civilians-in-kharkiv-region</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/f7b62880c07eb51fc271a1e80b431bf1159d4b32/0_151_4484_2692/master/4484.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=19b2583450a8013d2d3ed517584e76e0"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Valentyn Ogirenko/Reuters</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/f7b62880c07eb51fc271a1e80b431bf1159d4b32/0_151_4484_2692/master/4484.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=4c9b7a9164b761105f06cf1e83990a97"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Valentyn Ogirenko/Reuters</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Christine Kearney with Guardian writers and agencies</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-19T01:09:32Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Slovakian PM remains in serious condition as suspect appears in court</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/18/slovakian-pm-robert-fico-remains-in-serious-condition-as-suspect-appears-in-court</link> <description><p>Second operation to remove dead tissue has ‘contributed to a positive prognosis’ for Robert Fico, health minister says</p><p>Slovakia’s prime minister, Robert Fico, remained in a stable but serious condition as the man accused of trying to assassinate him made his first court appearance.</p><p>The Slovakian health minister, Zuzana Dolinková, said on Saturday that a two-hour surgery to remove dead tissue from multiple gunshot wounds had “contributed to a positive prognosis” for Fico.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/18/slovakian-pm-robert-fico-remains-in-serious-condition-as-suspect-appears-in-court">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/slovakia">Slovakia</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/robert-fico">Robert Fico</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/world">World news</category> <pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2024 13:42:40 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/18/slovakian-pm-robert-fico-remains-in-serious-condition-as-suspect-appears-in-court</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/273db2a75e172a79fa625504d661911d55e565ed/126_193_3386_2031/master/3386.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=d75aca36c552257f9d2dfb503f41879f"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Bernadett Szabó/Reuters</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/273db2a75e172a79fa625504d661911d55e565ed/126_193_3386_2031/master/3386.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=cd31c0bca0ffe665ee8727b561fe8426"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Bernadett Szabó/Reuters</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Associated Press in Bratislava</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-18T13:42:40Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Six-month-old shot repeatedly during standoff with child’s father in Phoenix</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/18/six-month-old-baby-shot-arizona-standoff</link> <description><p>Child is in hospital in a stable condition, as police say father was found dead of self-inflicted gunshot wound</p><p>A man suspected of shooting his 6-month-old son multiple times after taking the boy and his mother hostage was found dead of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound in the rubble of a suburban Phoenix home that caught fire during a swat standoff, police said.<br><br>The baby was reported to be in a critical but stable condition at a local hospital Saturday, police said in a statement. They said earlier his injuries suffered the day before were not believed to be life-threatening.</p><p>At about 3am on Friday, the father of the child allegedly broke into the home where the child and mother lived, according to police in Surprise, Arizona, about 30 miles north-west of Phoenix. The child’s father did not live in the house, police said, adding that the man held the mother and child hostage for several hours before the mother managed to escape.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/18/six-month-old-baby-shot-arizona-standoff">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/arizona">Arizona</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/gun-crime">Gun crime</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-crime">US crime</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/children">Children</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-news">US news</category> <pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2024 16:50:18 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/18/six-month-old-baby-shot-arizona-standoff</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/ce7d7457e9fa3b7bfa25d9792cb8370c78feaa97/0_400_6000_3600/master/6000.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=c169a2dbdbd09ef3d72d8a20d0c0be13"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Matt Rourke/AP</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/ce7d7457e9fa3b7bfa25d9792cb8370c78feaa97/0_400_6000_3600/master/6000.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=ce3f3a9e215095dd80fef3363640ab3d"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Matt Rourke/AP</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Maya Yang</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-18T16:50:18Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Navalny ally says he will ‘never give up’ in fight against Putin</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/18/alexei-navalny-ally-leonid-volkov-never-give-up-fight-putin</link> <description><p>Leonid Volkov, who was brutally attacked in March, says he shares his late friend’s belief in ‘beautiful Russia of the future’</p><p>Leonid Volkov, a close ally of the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, has vowed to “never give up” fighting against Vladimir Putin despite <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/18/volkov-attack-russia-return-to-cold-war-era-spying">recently being attacked outside his home</a>.</p><p>Navalny <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/01/anything-but-normal-navalny-laid-to-rest-amid-police-and-protesters">died in an Arctic prison in February</a>, which Volkov blamed directly on the Russian president.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/18/alexei-navalny-ally-leonid-volkov-never-give-up-fight-putin">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/alexei-navalny">Alexei Navalny</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/world">World news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/russia">Russia</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/vladimir-putin">Vladimir Putin</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/europe-news">Europe</category> <pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2024 14:46:26 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/18/alexei-navalny-ally-leonid-volkov-never-give-up-fight-putin</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/b281c6ef1cb8ac342ef1b1bdeeb1b4a7ea073736/0_0_6000_3602/master/6000.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=bed6920caf5bd91a89771f96c27a085a"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Jean-François Badias/AP</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/b281c6ef1cb8ac342ef1b1bdeeb1b4a7ea073736/0_0_6000_3602/master/6000.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=8c653f15904823cab546bd9ac52cf563"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Jean-François Badias/AP</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Agence France-Presse</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-18T14:46:26Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>English review – acclaimed Iran-set classroom drama is a bit too well-behaved</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/stage/article/2024/may/19/english-review-acclaimed-iran-set-classroom-drama-is-a-bit-too-well-behaved</link> <description><p><strong>The Other Place, Stratford-upon-Avon</strong><br>The RSC’s European premiere of Sanaz Toossi’s Pulitzer prize-winning play tailors its intriguing characters a little too neatly</p><p>Daniel Evans and Tamara Harvey’s opening season as co-directors of the RSC continues with a second first. After “a carnival adaptation” of Hanif Kureshi’s novel <em>The Buddha of Suburbia</em>, co-written by the author along with director Emma Rice (and <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/stage/article/2024/may/05/the-week-in-theatre-the-buddha-of-suburbia-rsc-wise-children-swan-stratford-emma-rice-hanif-kureishi-review-loves-labours-lost-royal-shakespeare-theatre-stratford-upon-avon-daniel-evans-tamara-harvey-new-era">reviewed by my colleague Susannah Clapp</a>), is this European premiere of Sanaz Toossi’s 2023 Pulitzer prize-winning play, <em><a href="https://www.rsc.org.uk/english/">English</a></em>.</p><p>Anisha Fields’s set is, unmistakably, a classroom: a frosted-glass wall, neon strip lighting, metal-legged tables, plastic bucket chairs and a whiteboard next to a door. Into the space strides Marjan. Beneath the heading “TOEFL – Test of English as a Foreign Language”, she writes: “English Only”, then underlines the words, once, twice, three times. Lightly played by Nadia Albina, this is deliciously funny. As the action progresses, however, the imperative instruction becomes a motor for identity crises and personality clashes among the characters (who speak English throughout: fluently when communicating in their native Farsi; haltingly in the target language).</p><p><em><a href="https://www.rsc.org.uk/english/">English</a></em> is at the Other Place, Stratford-upon-Avon, until 1 June, then transfers to the <a href="https://kilntheatre.com/whats-on/english/">Kiln</a>, London, 5-29 June</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/stage/article/2024/may/19/english-review-acclaimed-iran-set-classroom-drama-is-a-bit-too-well-behaved">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/stage/theatre">Theatre</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/stage/rsc">Royal Shakespeare Company</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/stage/stage">Stage</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/culture">Culture</category> <pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2024 10:30:33 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/stage/article/2024/may/19/english-review-acclaimed-iran-set-classroom-drama-is-a-bit-too-well-behaved</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/94f71eb51d8f5cb9183de8fc4681214a70c56cb9/0_388_5817_3490/master/5817.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=b454e80d3cddae7c634b167330341716"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Richard Davenport</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/94f71eb51d8f5cb9183de8fc4681214a70c56cb9/0_388_5817_3490/master/5817.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=a1fed7c9956e1c3bb03f0cc70d03984c"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Richard Davenport</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Clare Brennan</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-19T10:30:33Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Bermondsey Tales: Fall of the Roman Empire review – fast, furious and rather grating London crime caper</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/film/article/2024/may/19/bermondsey-tales-fall-of-the-roman-empire-review-fast-and-furious-caper-michael-head</link> <description><p>Who will take over the family drug business? Cue violence, treachery and too much shouting</p><p>The future of a south London crime family hangs in the balance. Mick Roman (Gary Webster), the cool head controlling a viper’s nest of warring egos, is gravely ill. But the question of succession in the family business (mostly drugs, some violence, lots of shouting) is hotly contested. Mick’s son Jimmy (Charlie Clapham) assumes he’s a cert, but his adopted brother Henry (Michael Head, who also directs) disagrees. And that’s before you factor in the treacherous women of the Roman family. This crime comedy has plenty of energy, as expected from a film that seems to be largely powered by cocaine, but it’s erratic and rather grating.</p><p>In UK and Irish cinemas now</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/article/2024/may/19/bermondsey-tales-fall-of-the-roman-empire-review-fast-and-furious-caper-michael-head">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/film/crime">Crime films</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/film/thriller">Thrillers</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/film/film">Film</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/culture">Culture</category> <pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2024 10:30:33 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/film/article/2024/may/19/bermondsey-tales-fall-of-the-roman-empire-review-fast-and-furious-caper-michael-head</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/470fc89ed557884f93256d6707c621ae7c3ca90d/0_0_5606_3363/master/5606.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=5d525fb819bcdb87557c74b854f2250c"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Ray Burn</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/470fc89ed557884f93256d6707c621ae7c3ca90d/0_0_5606_3363/master/5606.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=1dc4a1ddde97337c28463c3f5a1239b1"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Ray Burn</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Wendy Ide</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-19T10:30:33Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Tiger Stripes review – entertaining Malaysian horror shows its claws</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/film/article/2024/may/19/tiger-stripes-review-entertaining-malaysian-horror-shows-its-claws</link> <description><p>TikTok meets south-east Asian folklore in Amanda Nell Eu’s fierce directorial debut, an allegory about the onset of puberty</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/article/2024/may/07/director-who-disowned-her-film-in-order-to-get-an-oscar-tiger-stripes-amanda-nell-eu">Amanda Nell Eu</a>’s snarling debut is not the first film to harness body horror tropes as an allegory for the adolescent angst and the shame of female puberty. But this Malaysian production, which shares central ideas with Pixar’s <em><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/mar/13/turning-red-review-pixar-fizzing-journey-through-female-adolescence">Turning Red</a></em>, as well as genre films such as <em>Carrie</em> and <em><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2001/jun/29/culture.reviews">Ginger Snaps</a></em>, folds in a distinctive element of south-east Asian folklore and superstition, in addition to universal themes of preteen girl bullying.</p><p>Bursting on to the screen with an energetic dance routine – <em>Tiger Stripes</em> is as TikTok literate as it is fluent in the language of horror. Twelve-year-old Zaffan (Zafreen Zairizal) is the wildest of her circle of friends, but when she gets her period that feral energy takes on a disconcerting new dimension. The message is not always clear, but it’s an entertaining ride.</p><p>In UK and Irish cinemas now</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/article/2024/may/19/tiger-stripes-review-entertaining-malaysian-horror-shows-its-claws">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/film/horror">Horror films</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/film/film">Film</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/film/world-cinema">World cinema</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/culture">Culture</category> <pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2024 11:00:35 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/film/article/2024/may/19/tiger-stripes-review-entertaining-malaysian-horror-shows-its-claws</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/cbf558fde621af253e79c69d61bd6821e85f4e1d/382_0_3458_2076/master/3458.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=c57ecd34ae1874792d0cdf7695e3375f"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Akanga Film Productions</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/cbf558fde621af253e79c69d61bd6821e85f4e1d/382_0_3458_2076/master/3458.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=aa8cb7f93adcadaa78c437872f747107"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Akanga Film Productions</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Wendy Ide</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-19T11:00:35Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Two Tickets to Greece review – a holiday you may want to cut short</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/film/article/2024/may/19/two-tickets-to-greece-review-marc-fitoussi-laure-calamy-kristin-scott-thomas</link> <description><p>Great scenery and a joyous Kristin Scott Thomas are outweighed by one infuriating lead character in Marc Fitoussi’s friends reunited French comedy</p><p>The closest of schoolfriends in 1989, despite their wildly contrasting personalities, risk-averse introvert Blandine (Olivia Côte) and gobby showoff Magalie (<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/may/28/call-my-agent-laure-calamy-full-time-origin-of-evil-interview">Laure Calamy</a>) fell out spectacularly (full details are hazy, but it involved a boy) and lost touch. Now, thanks to the adult son of Blandine, who worries that his divorced mother is in danger of closing herself off from the world, the pair are reunited and find themselves embarking on the trip they dreamed of as teenagers: to the Greek island of Amorgos, location of the film <em>The Big Blue</em>. Except that, owing to erratic nightmare Magalie, they are kicked off the ferry for fare-dodging on to another island.</p><p><em>Two Tickets to Greece</em> has some appeal: stunning scenery, Instagrammable taverna chic and the unexpected pleasure of seeing a cast-against-type <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2020/jun/21/kristin-scott-thomas-alan-bennett-monologues-lockdown-i-want-action-camels-600-extras">Kristin Scott Thomas</a> letting her hair down as a boho jewellery designer. But the character of Magalie is so enraging that you would chuck yourself into the Aegean Sea rather than spend two weeks in her company.</p><p>In UK and Irish cinemas now</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/article/2024/may/19/two-tickets-to-greece-review-marc-fitoussi-laure-calamy-kristin-scott-thomas">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/film/comedy">Comedy films</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/film/film">Film</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/kristin-scott-thomas">Kristin Scott Thomas</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/culture">Culture</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/film/world-cinema">World cinema</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/film/drama">Drama films</category> <pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2024 10:00:32 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/film/article/2024/may/19/two-tickets-to-greece-review-marc-fitoussi-laure-calamy-kristin-scott-thomas</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/8cb97b6f7f66d6281d8f9446b95d29bdc0b70851/395_0_2477_1487/master/2477.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=b4f9d2814318c17dd6b396610d7c5e55"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Jérôme Prébois</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/8cb97b6f7f66d6281d8f9446b95d29bdc0b70851/395_0_2477_1487/master/2477.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=6766cddb86b99664809733e7bb939e44"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Jérôme Prébois</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Wendy Ide</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-19T10:00:32Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Boiling Point star Vinette Robinson: ‘Sometimes when dinner’s ready, I’ll shout Service!’</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/article/2024/may/19/vinette-robinson-boiling-point-doctor-who-sherlock-lazarus-project-gathering</link> <description><p>The actor on playing a pushy mother in new Channel 4 drama The Gathering, keeping her Bafta well away from the loo and why she’s an indie girl now</p><p>Actor Vinette Robinson, 42, is best known for playing chef Carly in the <em><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2023/oct/08/the-week-in-tv-boiling-point-partygate-beckham-bargain-review">Boiling Point</a></em> film and TV series, and civil rights campaigner Rosa Parks in <em><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2018/oct/21/doctor-who-recap-series-37-episode-3-rosa">Doctor Who</a></em>. After growing up in Bradford and training at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art, she began her career in theatre, including roles at the RSC and the National Theatre. Her other TV roles include <em>Sherlock</em>, <em>The Lazarus Project</em>, <em>Six Four</em>, <em>The A Word</em> and <em>Black Mirror</em>. She now stars in Channel 4 drama series <em>The Gathering</em>.</p><p><strong>How would you describe your new series</strong><strong>?<br></strong>It’s ostensibly a thriller but told from a character perspective, rather than from a police viewpoint. A girl called Kelly is attacked at an illegal rave. In each episode, you meet the people in her life who become suspects. Its themes are the trials and tribulations of that teen stage of life. A lot of it is about control – parents exerting it, how they lose it, how children gain it. It brings up lots of issues but it’s also joyful and captures the excitement of youth.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/article/2024/may/19/vinette-robinson-boiling-point-doctor-who-sherlock-lazarus-project-gathering">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/television">Television</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/culture">Culture</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/tv-and-radio">Television & radio</category> <pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2024 08:30:30 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/article/2024/may/19/vinette-robinson-boiling-point-doctor-who-sherlock-lazarus-project-gathering</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/25fc4f1e81e3f73ccc864982577b659a4b9f6486/455_231_3082_1848/master/3082.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=963a9bd860d6bcc82bcee4a408deafbb"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Suki Dhanda/The Observer</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/25fc4f1e81e3f73ccc864982577b659a4b9f6486/455_231_3082_1848/master/3082.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=1de05f9baebe632f561bc4f595f08508"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Suki Dhanda/The Observer</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Michael Hogan</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-19T08:30:30Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>In brief: Hey, Zoey; You Could Make This Place Beautiful; The Light Eaters – review</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/books/article/2024/may/19/in-brief-hey-zoey-sarah-crossan-you-could-make-this-place-beautiful-maggie-smith-the-light-eaters-zoe-schlanger-review</link> <description><p>A thoughtful meditation on love and loneliness via an AI-based sex doll; an outstanding debut memoir of infidelity’s aftermath; and a passionate and insightful botanical study</p><p><strong>Sarah Crossan<br></strong><em>Bloomsbury, £16.99, pp320</em></p><p>To order <em><a href="https://guardianbookshop.com/hey-zoey-9781526619860">Hey, Zoey</a></em>, <em><a href="https://guardianbookshop.com/You-Could-Make-This-Place-Beautiful-9781805302452">You Could Make This Place Beautiful</a></em><a href="https://guardianbookshop.com/You-Could-Make-This-Place-Beautiful-9781805302452"> </a>or <em><a href="https://guardianbookshop.com/The-Light-Eaters-9780008445348">The Light Eaters</a></em> go to <a href="https://guardianbookshop.com/">guardianbookshop.com</a>. Delivery charges may apply</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/article/2024/may/19/in-brief-hey-zoey-sarah-crossan-you-could-make-this-place-beautiful-maggie-smith-the-light-eaters-zoe-schlanger-review">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/books/books">Books</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/books/fiction">Fiction</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/books/autobiography-and-memoir">Autobiography and memoir</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/books/scienceandnature">Science and nature books</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/culture">Culture</category> <pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2024 10:00:32 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/books/article/2024/may/19/in-brief-hey-zoey-sarah-crossan-you-could-make-this-place-beautiful-maggie-smith-the-light-eaters-zoe-schlanger-review</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/ca86f2eadae726d97cbe603f91f27b328bd54abc/0_515_5470_3282/master/5470.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=81fa64455e2f6a023ff9f41996ef4264"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: David Myers</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/ca86f2eadae726d97cbe603f91f27b328bd54abc/0_515_5470_3282/master/5470.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=e80f4f269f8a7d6ab75f79dfe38e43f9"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: David Myers</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Hannah Beckerman</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-19T10:00:32Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Vintage fashion to upcycling: five great reasons to visit the Westfield Good Festival</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/the-future-of-sustainable-entrepreneurship/article/2024/may/09/vintage-fashion-to-upcycling-five-great-reasons-to-visit-the-westfield-good-festival</link> <description><p>From denim workshops to lessons on mending household items, Westfield’s Europe-wide festival gives visitors the chance to transform their wardrobes and reduce waste</p><p>As consumers, we’ve all come to appreciate that individual changes to our behaviours can have a collective impact on efforts to protect the planet and reduce environmental damage.</p><p>The <a href="https://www.westfield.com/united-kingdom/london/events-detail/the-westfield-good-festival-is-back!" rel="nofollow">Westfield Good Festival</a>, which is taking place at Westfield shopping centres across Europe this month, aims to help consumers make these kind of changes to their behaviour. The event, in collaboration with brands and with organisations working in the community, will showcase activities and initiatives to inspire people to embrace the circular economy and get creative with repairing and repurposing. “Brands and consumers can share insights, best practice and motivate one another towards adopting eco-friendlier shopping habits,” says Katie Wyle, UK head of shopping centre management for Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield (URW).</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/the-future-of-sustainable-entrepreneurship/article/2024/may/09/vintage-fashion-to-upcycling-five-great-reasons-to-visit-the-westfield-good-festival">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/the-future-of-sustainable-entrepreneurship/the-future-of-sustainable-entrepreneurship">The future of sustainable entrepreneurship</category> <pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2024 09:10:07 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/the-future-of-sustainable-entrepreneurship/article/2024/may/09/vintage-fashion-to-upcycling-five-great-reasons-to-visit-the-westfield-good-festival</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/5a5a4f3826dfe93effed766cad75465006199912/0_0_2999_1800/master/2999.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=09c74257fa704e04d75563b17578c7da"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Rafal Wojnowski/PR</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/5a5a4f3826dfe93effed766cad75465006199912/0_0_2999_1800/master/2999.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=d8d52e629985356f0eb3531ccbd36aee"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Rafal Wojnowski/PR</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Alison Coleman</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-09T09:10:07Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Is your online business ready for a physical space? Six ways to tell</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/the-future-of-sustainable-entrepreneurship/2023/jun/01/is-your-online-business-ready-for-a-physical-space-six-ways-to-tell</link> <description><p>Westfield’s new competition could land you a trading spot in one of Europe’s best shopping destinations. But are you ready to rise to the challenge?</p><p>For many businesses, launching exclusively online is a safe option, enabling them to start building with lower overheads, fewer commitments and a chance to test the water. But there often comes a time when a more visible, physical presence is required. The <a href="https://grandprix.westfield.com/en/challenges/challenge-2023" rel="nofollow">Westfield Grand Prix</a> is giving sustainable businesses that very opportunity – the chance to win a free retail space in one of the two London Westfield centres for up to 12 months. Winners will also receive a contribution to pay for design and fit-out, together with personalised guidance and financial support from design and retail experts, as well as in-centre advertising created by the retail media agency Westfield Rise.</p><p>Most entrepreneurs would jump at the chance to sell their wares in one of the world’s most iconic malls. But before taking the leap, your readiness should be considered. How do you know when your business is ready?</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/the-future-of-sustainable-entrepreneurship/2023/jun/01/is-your-online-business-ready-for-a-physical-space-six-ways-to-tell">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/the-future-of-sustainable-entrepreneurship/the-future-of-sustainable-entrepreneurship">The future of sustainable entrepreneurship</category> <pubDate>Thu, 01 Jun 2023 13:14:23 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/the-future-of-sustainable-entrepreneurship/2023/jun/01/is-your-online-business-ready-for-a-physical-space-six-ways-to-tell</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/b61df8e3855026ae74d1cce860feaa2821f4d4f7/0_70_5472_3283/master/5472.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=5d5ccc190de27ca15cae2e29e9dc9d0d"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Xavier Lorenzo/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/b61df8e3855026ae74d1cce860feaa2821f4d4f7/0_70_5472_3283/master/5472.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=d193470a61094ec48a4cf9d0615d0baa"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Xavier Lorenzo/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Ellen Manning</dc:creator> <dc:date>2023-06-01T13:14:23Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>How to make a memorable business pitch: entrepreneurs reveal seven top tips</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/the-future-of-sustainable-entrepreneurship/2023/jun/01/how-to-make-a-memorable-business-pitch-entrepreneurs-reveal-seven-top-tips</link> <description><p>From knowing your figures to speaking from the heart, three business owners share their secrets for winning investors with a knockout presentation</p><p>Motivational speakers and life coaches love to tell us that if we can dream it, we can do it. But coming up with an initial idea for a product, service or business is only the start of the journey; try as you might, simply manifesting the cash to fund your startup just isn’t going to cut it.</p><p>What budding tycoons actually need to move them up to the next level is investors. Whether the money might come from a personal contact, venture capitalist, or angel investor, a stand-out marketing deck and killer pitch are required. It’s a tried and tested route that most businesses will have to engage in to achieve their potential.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/the-future-of-sustainable-entrepreneurship/2023/jun/01/how-to-make-a-memorable-business-pitch-entrepreneurs-reveal-seven-top-tips">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/the-future-of-sustainable-entrepreneurship/the-future-of-sustainable-entrepreneurship">The future of sustainable entrepreneurship</category> <pubDate>Thu, 01 Jun 2023 13:15:28 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/the-future-of-sustainable-entrepreneurship/2023/jun/01/how-to-make-a-memorable-business-pitch-entrepreneurs-reveal-seven-top-tips</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/90898b090888b96e4bc96a5870b350c27f5ab4a1/0_17_1733_1040/master/1733.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=8bcc64562e7034d55e52560a761ff969"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Bruce And Rebecca Meissner/Stocksy United</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/90898b090888b96e4bc96a5870b350c27f5ab4a1/0_17_1733_1040/master/1733.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=df04387f6200595fa3621fcabf488422"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Bruce And Rebecca Meissner/Stocksy United</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Laura Martin</dc:creator> <dc:date>2023-06-01T13:15:28Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>‘You have to fail, to learn’: three entrepreneurs on the value of a business pitch gone wrong</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/the-future-of-sustainable-entrepreneurship/2023/jun/01/you-have-to-fail-to-learn-three-entrepreneurs-on-the-value-of-a-business-pitch-gone-wrong</link> <description><p>While the initial knock-back may sting, the insights you gain from an unsuccessful presentation can propel you to success</p><p>It’s a big moment for any entrepreneur. The pitch can make all the difference when it comes to securing investment, getting stocked, gaining customers – or being selected as the winner of the <a href="https://grandprix.westfield.com/en/challenges/challenge-2023" rel="nofollow">Westfield Grand Prix</a>, where the prize is a free retail space in one of the two London Westfield Centres for up to 12 months, along with a contribution to pay for design and fit-out. When it comes to opportunities that could be a gamechanger, a lot is riding on one brief moment that makes up a pitch. But what happens if it goes wrong?</p><p>Ask any entrepreneur about their failed pitches, and they’ll have plenty of examples. But most have something else in common too: the firm view that those failed pitches helped them move on to better things.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/the-future-of-sustainable-entrepreneurship/2023/jun/01/you-have-to-fail-to-learn-three-entrepreneurs-on-the-value-of-a-business-pitch-gone-wrong">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/the-future-of-sustainable-entrepreneurship/the-future-of-sustainable-entrepreneurship">The future of sustainable entrepreneurship</category> <pubDate>Thu, 01 Jun 2023 13:12:52 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/the-future-of-sustainable-entrepreneurship/2023/jun/01/you-have-to-fail-to-learn-three-entrepreneurs-on-the-value-of-a-business-pitch-gone-wrong</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/924f0debef832c9a790340bbd4fc4c42f906fe2a/0_115_1733_1040/master/1733.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=7b6e22e7ceea7f1e964058989f1555e3"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Victor Torres/Stocksy United</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/924f0debef832c9a790340bbd4fc4c42f906fe2a/0_115_1733_1040/master/1733.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=cacf247664d5ae8ebb7dc049a70b98a6"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Victor Torres/Stocksy United</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Ellen Manning</dc:creator> <dc:date>2023-06-01T13:12:52Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Academic and doctor Chris van Tulleken: ‘Ultra-processed products are food that lies to us’</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/food/article/2024/may/19/academic-and-doctor-chris-van-tulleken-ultra-processed-products-are-food-that-lies-to-us</link> <description><p>The author on how his mission to improve our national diet began – and where it needs to go</p><p>Chris van Tulleken has suggested we meet at his local pizza place, <a href="https://sweetthursday.co.uk/">Sweet Thursday,</a> in Hackney, east London. If the choice seems counterintuitive for a man with a mission to improve our national diet, he puts me right when we sit down. “Pizza has become emblematic of junk food,” he says, “but proper homemade pizza is very healthy.”</p><p>At Sweet Thursday, purist Italian chefs work their fresh sourdough bases in an open kitchen (rumour has it they are so purist in this vocation that they draw the line at making salad). But it is not just authenticity that counts, it is also community. Van Tulleken lives around the corner; the owner grew up nearby and this is where local families tend to come to catch up or to celebrate. “Above all, a restaurant should never be just a way of extracting money in exchange for nutrition,” Van Tulleken says. “Or for paying dividends to offshore investors. And I think these things are actually obvious even if you don’t live, like me, in a world of nutritional studies.”</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/food/article/2024/may/19/academic-and-doctor-chris-van-tulleken-ultra-processed-products-are-food-that-lies-to-us">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/nutrition">Nutrition</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/science/nutrition">Nutrition</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/health">Health</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/food/food">Food</category> <pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2024 11:00:33 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/food/article/2024/may/19/academic-and-doctor-chris-van-tulleken-ultra-processed-products-are-food-that-lies-to-us</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/bcbab87f88cbc47d67fb8cdd94fd02e161f0df47/0_26_1800_1080/master/1800.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=1cace62ba9198d035e0d1d9aba86f965"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Illustration: Lyndon Hayes/The Observer</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/bcbab87f88cbc47d67fb8cdd94fd02e161f0df47/0_26_1800_1080/master/1800.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=e05d19afbf9f014c486f42c420078315"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Illustration: Lyndon Hayes/The Observer</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Tim Adams</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-19T11:00:33Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Ruby Bhogal’s secret ingredient – ginger, in all forms</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/food/article/2024/may/19/ruby-bhogals-secret-ingredient-ginger-in-all-forms</link> <description><p>Mum added it to pretty much everything and I start every day with ginger and hot water</p><p>I should be a ginger spokesperson – I love it in every form. My all-time favourite is stem ginger. It’s underused in baking although not by me. One bulb will be quite zingy, but if you grate or finely dice half a bulb and mix it through a standard vanilla sponge mix, it adds a nice level of warmth. You can use the syrup as a glaze. I have a recipe for a sticky-toffee, self-saucing pudding that has chocolate and stem ginger in the sauce.</p><p>I grew up having ground ginger in curries, with my mum adding it to pretty much everything. You can add fresh ginger to curry bases as well, which gives a different flavour profile. I always keep root ginger in the freezer, never in the fridge, so it lasts longer. And whether a dish is sweet or savoury, I’ll always grate it straight in, using a very fine grater. It is a good way of introducing the flavour without it being too “bitty” or risk someone biting into a massive chunk of it – I get it’s not everyone’s cup of tea.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/food/article/2024/may/19/ruby-bhogals-secret-ingredient-ginger-in-all-forms">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/food/food">Food</category> <pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2024 11:00:35 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/food/article/2024/may/19/ruby-bhogals-secret-ingredient-ginger-in-all-forms</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/6f2818cea0d044bb217304f5b1a23e8f66332685/0_0_8254_4955/master/8254.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=2efcdff49c41a9c5c574c7899284a4e4"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Tim Gainey/Alamy</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/6f2818cea0d044bb217304f5b1a23e8f66332685/0_0_8254_4955/master/8254.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=f9fe33b72b5be1ef5b0f24245ecebad6"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Tim Gainey/Alamy</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Interview by Holly O'Neill</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-19T11:00:35Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Medina date – a cookery course in Morocco</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/travel/article/2024/may/19/medina-date-a-cookery-course-in-morocco</link> <description><p>In the coastal city of Essaouira, our writer masters the ceremonial art of tea-pouring and learns how to make flaky chicken pastilla and gazelle horns with almond paste and orange blossom water</p><p>It is early morning on the edge of Essaouira’s medina and the famous Atlantic winds are picking up. The sea looks tawny and wild, the sky is darkening by the minute. It begins to rain, heavily. Even the windsurfers who flock here all year round seem to have vanished. Market traders huddle and the place seems deserted. What better time to stay inside and learn about the ancient and warming Moroccan art of making tea?</p><p>We are at <a href="https://www.lateliermadada.com/en/">L’Atelier Madada</a>, a kitchen studio offering cookery classes in what used to be an old almond warehouse. Now it is all exposed brickwork, concrete floors and steelwork surfaces along with a kitchen shop and café known for its great coffee. Classes here are about a lot more than tajines and couscous, although they cover those, too. You can master pastillas (traditional flaky pastry chicken pies) and gazelle horns (crescent-shaped pastries filled with almond paste and orange blossom water). And, of course, there is mint tea, a symbol of tradition, hospitality and friendship, served all day long and after every meal.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/travel/article/2024/may/19/medina-date-a-cookery-course-in-morocco">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/travel/travel">Travel</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/lifeandstyle">Life and style</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/travel/morocco">Morocco holidays</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/travel/travelfoodanddrink">Food and drink</category> <pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2024 10:00:33 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/travel/article/2024/may/19/medina-date-a-cookery-course-in-morocco</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/0b62bee5aaefbc71319e18e68af154bf4e57a753/0_514_7811_4685/master/7811.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=2ddc1de66b7b77dc45d6d2f5e8e5f346"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Walter Bibikow/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/0b62bee5aaefbc71319e18e68af154bf4e57a753/0_514_7811_4685/master/7811.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=88622a928022a8c018c09cd2ec9d9cfd"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Walter Bibikow/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Emma Cook</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-19T10:00:33Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>A toy globe bursting with information is a great tool…</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/article/2024/may/19/a-toy-globe-bursting-with-information-is-a-great-tool</link> <description><p>Even if we’re not sure what to do with it just yet</p><p>‘Gloob!’ says my daughter. This is what she calls the globe that sits on a shelf in our sitting room. It’s one of my favourite among her neologisms, and one we’re unlikely to grow sick of hearing. This is primarily because ‘gloob’ is one of the best syllables to hear pronounced by a ginger two-year-old, but also because time spent with her gloob means many precious minutes of self-directed play, allowing us a break from the more full-on supervision she so typically prefers.</p><p>Nana and Grandad bought the gloob for our son’s fifth birthday. It’s around 60cm in diameter, battery operated and comes with a stylus attached. It’s mounted on a base with a small LCD screen, which displays facts and figures about anything you point the stylus toward. It offers wildly detailed information on population, demography and national customs. Each creature mentioned is delineated by class and notes are given on its diet and herding patterns.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/article/2024/may/19/a-toy-globe-bursting-with-information-is-a-great-tool">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/family">Family</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/parents-and-parenting">Parents and parenting</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/lifeandstyle">Life and style</category> <pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2024 08:30:31 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/article/2024/may/19/a-toy-globe-bursting-with-information-is-a-great-tool</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/cc57d1a4602bb6ed7c568e73c3f37fd459f9d5c5/298_133_4520_2712/master/4520.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=6a6e4e8353d3845c0ceeb9ef224b9b7d"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Getty / Guardian Design</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/cc57d1a4602bb6ed7c568e73c3f37fd459f9d5c5/298_133_4520_2712/master/4520.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=2afe08cf2452b15dc7b965f51a08ae23"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Getty / Guardian Design</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Séamas O’Reilly</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-19T08:30:31Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Colour fast: bright paints to refresh a family home</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/article/2024/may/19/colour-fast-bright-paints-to-refresh-a-family-home</link> <description><p>Whenever this creative couple feel like a change at home, they reach for the paint tin…</p><p>The house didn’t look like much at first sight. From the outside, it wasn’t particularly attractive. It only had three rooms, a kitchen and a bathroom, while the top floor was an unused attic. But Jenny and Jens Brandt Grönberg immediately saw the potential; the little house radiated a cozy atmosphere and, importantly, it was affordable. “It suited us that it wasn’t all that big,” says Jenny. “We didn’t have the budget to buy a bigger house, and we had a clear priority to live as cheaply as possible, so that we could be at home with our children as much as possible, and also to give us time to work on our shared passion for art and photography.”</p><p>Jenny, a photographer, and Jens, a graphic designer and illustrator, together with son Frank (13) and daughter Viola (18) have lived in their house just outside Ystad in southern Sweden for 17 years now, but inside everything is in a state of constant motion and process. An eternal play with art and colours, furniture and design is the couple’s shared enthusiasm. For them, an experimental and imperfect approach to furnishing provides more value than a home fixed and finished – painting the door in a nice new colour will always be more important than getting that loose handle fixed.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/article/2024/may/19/colour-fast-bright-paints-to-refresh-a-family-home">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/interiors">Interiors</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/homes">Homes</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/lifeandstyle">Life and style</category> <pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2024 10:00:33 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/article/2024/may/19/colour-fast-bright-paints-to-refresh-a-family-home</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/60043467633d357f3117206015778943e4a87d0b/0_2943_5464_3277/master/5464.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=6b5ca9dc19fbe07241a57c180fc83a2b"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Photographer Christina Kayser O/Living Inside</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/60043467633d357f3117206015778943e4a87d0b/0_2943_5464_3277/master/5464.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=3e8a74ea8e976d48c452d35c5fa646cc"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Photographer Christina Kayser O/Living Inside</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Eva Julie Klitgaard Fürst</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-19T10:00:33Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Are you a LAT couple enjoying living apart together?</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/article/2024/may/19/are-you-a-lat-couple-enjoying-living-apart-together</link> <description><p>One couple, two home addresses… it’s certainly tempting</p><p>A growing number of couples, a new report says, are Living Apart Together – “LAT.” So: this is when you maintain both a romantic relationship and your own private home, and it’s led by older women who (according to <em>Brides </em>magazine) are prioritising a newfound freedom. “After years of taking care of their husbands and children, these women seek a new chapter where their individual needs are at the forefront.” I mean, I love it, obviously. I love that this is the new “When I’m an old woman I shall wear purple”, when I’m an old woman I shall get my own bedroom, these women finding their voices, their sexuality, their freedom in their 50s, but it also highlights how, the world being the way it is, these versions of utopia are only available to the wealthy.</p><p>Who wouldn’t want their own house just so, their bathroom untouched by other feet, unlittered with half-empty bottles of Head &amp; Shoulders shampoo? Who would honestly say no, if money were no object, to a room of their own and all the nudity, slobbiness, collecting of curios and war rugs that implies? It’s like when parents break up and the modern advice is for their children to remain in the family house while the parents move into separate flats. Three homes! If they had the luxury of those kinds of choices, I counter, perhaps the parents wouldn’t have broken up in the first place. It reminds me of the best divorce I’ve ever heard about, where the parents simply moved into different wings of their manor house and the children didn’t really notice anything had changed at all.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/article/2024/may/19/are-you-a-lat-couple-enjoying-living-apart-together">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/lifeandstyle">Life and style</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/relationships">Relationships</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/marriage">Marriage</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/family">Family</category> <pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2024 07:00:29 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/article/2024/may/19/are-you-a-lat-couple-enjoying-living-apart-together</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/3d682ee2673c6e1fa3b981930d95400e2ad7351c/0_82_7360_4417/master/7360.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=fa6622b3b1db050539e457e3cc07779b"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Westend61/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/3d682ee2673c6e1fa3b981930d95400e2ad7351c/0_82_7360_4417/master/7360.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=d69966e8f78605447a6a40564233e198"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Westend61/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Eva Wiseman</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-19T07:00:29Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Chelsea Women fans: share your views on Emma Hayes’ departure</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/football/article/2024/may/16/chelsea-women-fans-share-your-views-on-emma-hayes-departure</link> <description><p>We would like to hear from Chelsea Women fans about how they feel about the Emma Hayes era coming to an end</p><p>After 11 years as Chelsea manager, Emma Hayes is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/football/2023/nov/04/emma-hayes-to-leave-chelsea-at-end-of-wsl-season">to step down at the end of the season</a>.</p><p>We would like to hear from Chelsea Women fans about how they feel about Emma Hayes’ tenure coming to an end. What did her time with the club mean to you?</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/football/article/2024/may/16/chelsea-women-fans-share-your-views-on-emma-hayes-departure">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/football/emma-hayes">Emma Hayes</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/football/football">Football</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/sport">Sport</category> <pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2024 14:03:40 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/football/article/2024/may/16/chelsea-women-fans-share-your-views-on-emma-hayes-departure</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/96f04990342751bdd4dda75746246f22a0b0a3fd/0_174_3500_2101/master/3500.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=f02482f092fed7f367b89f5ac1e6a69a"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Mike Egerton/PA</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/96f04990342751bdd4dda75746246f22a0b0a3fd/0_174_3500_2101/master/3500.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=1d9dea86a6ebefd4bd56da0a25281c26"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Mike Egerton/PA</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Guardian community team</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-16T14:03:40Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Carers in the UK: have you been threatened with prosecution for benefit fraud?</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/apr/08/carers-in-the-uk-have-you-been-threatened-with-prosecution-for-benefit</link> <description><p>We’d like to hear from carers in the UK who have been investigated for alleged benefit fraud by the DWP</p><p>Tens of thousands of unpaid carers looking after disabled, frail or ill relatives <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/apr/07/unpaid-carers-allowance-payment-prosecution-earnings-rules">are being forced to repay huge sums to the government and threatened with criminal prosecution</a> after unwittingly breaching earnings rules by just a few pounds a week.</p><p>People who claim the £81.90-a-week carer’s allowance for looking after loved ones while working part-time are being forced by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to pay back money that has been erroneously overpaid to them, in some cases running to more than £20,000, or risk going to prison.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/apr/08/carers-in-the-uk-have-you-been-threatened-with-prosecution-for-benefit">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/carers">Carers</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/benefits">Benefits</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/society">Society</category> <pubDate>Mon, 08 Apr 2024 10:54:31 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/apr/08/carers-in-the-uk-have-you-been-threatened-with-prosecution-for-benefit</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/638de48c6c890320c7d3c49aa536983ec34e8b99/0_210_6256_3755/master/6256.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=02991b08b349e8621779f0293874fb6c"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: HighwayStarz/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/638de48c6c890320c7d3c49aa536983ec34e8b99/0_210_6256_3755/master/6256.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=c4ebe90ab865e6ea6009356309a8b021"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: HighwayStarz/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Guardian community team</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-04-08T10:54:31Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Tell us: do you have a portrait of King Charles in your workplace?</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/15/tell-us-do-you-have-a-portrait-of-king-charles-in-your-workplace</link> <description><p>We would like to hear from people who have seen a portrait of the king in a public building and how they feel about it</p><p>Oliver Dowden, the deputy prime minister, is offering portraits of the king to <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/news/more-public-institutions-can-apply-for-a-portrait-of-the-king">all Church of England churches, as well as job centres, coastguards, universities and other public institutions</a>, having previously offered them to local authorities, court buildings, schools, police forces and fire and rescue services.</p><p>Do you have a portrait of the king in your workplace and how do you feel about it? Or have you seen a portrait of the king in a public building and how do you feel about it?</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/15/tell-us-do-you-have-a-portrait-of-king-charles-in-your-workplace">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/prince-charles">King Charles III</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/monarchy">Monarchy</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/uk">UK news</category> <pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2024 10:49:05 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/15/tell-us-do-you-have-a-portrait-of-king-charles-in-your-workplace</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/a9cc461953be4f40e6e6848c9b771c79fdbc5089/0_577_2704_1622/master/2704.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=ed943b23509f488e502c9d592797a07a"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Hugo Burnand/Royal Household 2024/Cabinet Office/PA</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/a9cc461953be4f40e6e6848c9b771c79fdbc5089/0_577_2704_1622/master/2704.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=39bbc4fdcc226498c8ea6294cdd85896"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Hugo Burnand/Royal Household 2024/Cabinet Office/PA</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Guardian community team</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-15T10:49:05Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Tell us: have you recently become more engaged with the natural world?</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/15/tell-us-have-you-recently-become-more-engaged-with-the-natural-world</link> <description><p>From birdwatching to gardening, we would like to hear from people who have a renewed interest in nature, </p><p>Have you recently become intrigued by nature? We would like to hear from people who have recently become more engaged with the natural world, from birdwatching to gardening. Whether it was because of an amazing documentary or a new bird-identifying app, tell us what piqued your interest below.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/15/tell-us-have-you-recently-become-more-engaged-with-the-natural-world">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/environment">Environment</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/birdwatching">Birdwatching</category> <pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2024 14:47:51 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/15/tell-us-have-you-recently-become-more-engaged-with-the-natural-world</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/c9d97c177af26e36f1647bd6341c1300e1f9c86a/0_176_5100_3061/master/5100.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=733d72f3cf52262159aff0fbc7fc1fec"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Danita Delimont/Alamy</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/c9d97c177af26e36f1647bd6341c1300e1f9c86a/0_176_5100_3061/master/5100.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=f3a85cdfb533d0ef60da18a87f8828be"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Danita Delimont/Alamy</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Guardian community team</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-15T14:47:51Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>‘Such a hot mess’: turmoil inside the world of US beauty pageants</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/19/us-beauty-pageants-miss-usa</link> <description><p>A Miss USA winner has handed back her crown, and another champion has resigned – is the lustre of the pageant starting to wear off?</p><p>The US beauty pageant industry, in a concise summation made last week, is “such a hot mess”.</p><p>Two reigning beauty queens have stepped down in as many weeks, and there may be more turbulence to come to an area of showbusiness that promotes a sheen of perfection – at least among its contestants – but is increasingly seen as out of date with modern social mores.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/19/us-beauty-pageants-miss-usa">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-news">US news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/celebrity">Celebrity</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/world">World news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/lifeandstyle">Life and style</category> <pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2024 11:00:35 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/19/us-beauty-pageants-miss-usa</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/0fd9b5fee395c2400480976e3bfbd5dd277457eb/0_2_6000_3600/master/6000.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=dccde0263f5af08ede3cfc1acaa063ad"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: HONP/AP</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/0fd9b5fee395c2400480976e3bfbd5dd277457eb/0_2_6000_3600/master/6000.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=6888486d3deb0e73dc8d976e8a52ba10"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: HONP/AP</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Edward Helmore in New York</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-19T11:00:35Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>‘Shouldn’t we be proud?’: new Stalin statues symbolise Georgia’s battle to control the past as well as the present</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/19/stalin-statues-georgia-kremlin-street-protests</link> <description><p>Trend is being linked to Kremlin-inspired ‘foreign influence’ bill that has led to huge street protests</p><p></p><p>Vasil Berdzenishvili, 47, was happy to take a moment out from washing his car to talk about Joseph Stalin. He looked across at the bronze bust of the Soviet leader next to the slide in the children’s park and nodded.</p><p>Yes, he was pleased that his village of Mukhrani, 30 miles north of the Georgian capital Tbilisi, had honoured this man. “There were plus and minuses but he was very powerful, the most powerful, he won a war, a generalissimo – and he was Georgian,” he beamed.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/19/stalin-statues-georgia-kremlin-street-protests">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/georgia-news">Georgia</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/joseph-stalin">Joseph Stalin</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/europe-news">Europe</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/world">World news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/russia">Russia</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/eu">European Union</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/protest">Protest</category> <pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2024 08:00:31 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/19/stalin-statues-georgia-kremlin-street-protests</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/fe25abe02d0c6748875b8ff1cd1ed973a0ef7b64/0_230_5267_3162/master/5267.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=438ea57398801d1e7245cb73bf252c5a"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Alexander Bagrationo/The Guardian</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/fe25abe02d0c6748875b8ff1cd1ed973a0ef7b64/0_230_5267_3162/master/5267.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=7aad31164090f71b3f374f9f3b57b019"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Alexander Bagrationo/The Guardian</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Daniel Boffey in Mukhrani</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-19T08:00:31Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>‘Modern death is clinical, antiseptic’: the festival that wants to revive the Irish wake</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/19/modern-death-clinical-antiseptic-festival-irish-wake-rite-of-passage</link> <description><p>Artists, singers, writers and scholars gather in County Mayo as a ‘clarion call’ to protect the rite of passage they believe is under threat</p><p>It was a scene once common in homes across<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/ireland"> Ireland</a>: a body in an open coffin surrounded by family, friends and acquaintances who shared stories, sang songs, ate sandwiches, and sipped tea or perhaps something stronger. Over three days they bade farewell to the dead in humanity’s oldest rite.</p><p>The Irish wake is part of a tradition practised in some form by every culture dating back thousands of years, a ritual to comfort the bereaved and acknowledge loss.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/19/modern-death-clinical-antiseptic-festival-irish-wake-rite-of-passage">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/ireland">Ireland</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/europe-news">Europe</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/death-and-dying">Death and dying</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/society">Society</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/bereavement">Bereavement</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/lifeandstyle">Life and style</category> <pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2024 04:00:25 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/19/modern-death-clinical-antiseptic-festival-irish-wake-rite-of-passage</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/c817f66396591ad24711bcf2eb6f02fc41d50160/0_218_3240_1944/master/3240.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=8281fc2626670631dec0b1111fdb511a"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: GRANGER/Historical Picture Archive/Alamy</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/c817f66396591ad24711bcf2eb6f02fc41d50160/0_218_3240_1944/master/3240.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=b9ee62f86d9c1bb9cc64f4a1725e028f"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: GRANGER/Historical Picture Archive/Alamy</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Rory Carroll Ireland correspondent</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-19T04:00:25Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Netflix’s One Hundred Years of Solitude brings fame to Gabriel García Márquez’s Colombian hometown</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/books/article/2024/may/18/netflix-gabriel-garcia-marquez-colombian-one-hundred-years-of-solitude</link> <description><p>Locals hope TV adaptation of One Hundred Years of Solitude will bring new life to Aracataca, birthplace of author’s magical realism</p><p>In sweltering mid-afternoon heat, children splash in the clear water of the canal that threads through town as elderly neighbours look on from rocking chairs on the porches of their sun-washed houses. Butterflies spring from every bush, sometimes fluttering together in kaleidoscopes.</p><p>At the foot of Colombia’s Sierra Nevada mountains, about 20 miles from the Caribbean coast, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/oct/22/last-novel-of-gabriel-garcia-marquez-stands-in-tribute-to-his-defiance-of-dementia">Gabriel García Márquez’s</a> fictional world of Macondo lives on.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/article/2024/may/18/netflix-gabriel-garcia-marquez-colombian-one-hundred-years-of-solitude">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/books/gabrielgarciamarquez">Gabriel García Márquez</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/colombia">Colombia</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/media/netflix">Netflix</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/world">World news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/americas">Americas</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/books/books">Books</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/culture">Culture</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/books/fiction">Fiction</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/television">Television</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/tv-and-radio">Television & radio</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/media/media">Media</category> <pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2024 15:00:11 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/books/article/2024/may/18/netflix-gabriel-garcia-marquez-colombian-one-hundred-years-of-solitude</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/bcf54e84421bb4062f1e37dfc4f34948731cc17b/0_167_5000_2999/master/5000.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=a3d47d2d7a43f57c7622d24a9c78b50c"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Nathalia Angarita/New York Times/Redux/eyevine</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/bcf54e84421bb4062f1e37dfc4f34948731cc17b/0_167_5000_2999/master/5000.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=c9fb30330022519cca1941ef7a62779c"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Nathalia Angarita/New York Times/Redux/eyevine</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Luke Taylor in Aracataca, Colombia</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-18T15:00:11Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Lai Ching-te, the political brawler who went from a Taiwan mining village to the presidency</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/19/new-taiwan-president-lai-ching-te-profile-bio-details</link> <description><p>Friends and analysts say Lai’s tough upbringing in a working-class family has prepared him well for his next opponent: China</p><p>The house itself is a modest, two-storey dwelling on a larger parcel of picturesque land. Mist floats down from the jungled hills behind, settling in the narrow lane that winds towards the rundown remnants of a mine.</p><p>The only people there on the day the Guardian visits are curious tourists. They are there for one thing: to see the family home of Lai Ching-te, Taiwan’s next president.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/19/new-taiwan-president-lai-ching-te-profile-bio-details">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/taiwan">Taiwan</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/asia-pacific">Asia Pacific</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/china">China</category> <pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2024 20:00:16 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/19/new-taiwan-president-lai-ching-te-profile-bio-details</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/124bcba565b69fccf23baede8cfca97e638b6b39/0_335_5460_3276/master/5460.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=3e97f923ee727f259466bd44065ae73e"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Helen Davidson/The Guardian</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/124bcba565b69fccf23baede8cfca97e638b6b39/0_335_5460_3276/master/5460.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=53f05adea450a955c748de505b92b28a"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Helen Davidson/The Guardian</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Helen Davidson and Chi Hui Lin in Wanli, Taiwan</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-18T20:00:16Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>‘Personalising stuff that doesn’t matter’: the trouble with the Zoe nutrition app</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/science/article/2024/may/18/zoe-nutrition-app-diet-tim-spector-wellness-science</link> <description><p>The wellness project claims to help users make ‘smarter food choices’ based on ‘world-leading science’. But many scientists claim its fee-based services are no better than generic advice</p><p>“Your body is unique, so is the food you need.” This is the central credo of personalised nutrition (PN), as professed by its leading UK advocate, the health science company Zoe. Since its launch in April 2022, 130,000 people have subscribed to the service – at one point it had a waiting list of 250,000 – which uses a pin prick blood test, stool sample and a wearable continuous glucose monitor (CGM) to suggest “smarter food choices for your body”.</p><p>Like other companies working in this space, Zoe has all the hallmarks of serious science. Its US equivalent <a href="https://www.levelshealth.com/">Levels</a> counts among its advisers many respected scientists, including Robert Lustig, famous for raising the alarm about the harms of <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/aug/24/robert-lustig-sugar-poison">refined carbohydrates such as sugar</a>. Zoe is fronted by King’s College London scientist Tim Spector and claims to be “created with world-leading science”.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/article/2024/may/18/zoe-nutrition-app-diet-tim-spector-wellness-science">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/science/nutrition">Nutrition</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/science/science">Science</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/apps">Apps</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/technology">Technology</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/diets-dieting">Diets and dieting</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/lifeandstyle">Life and style</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/health">Health</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/society">Society</category> <pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2024 12:00:06 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/science/article/2024/may/18/zoe-nutrition-app-diet-tim-spector-wellness-science</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/7f4a447ad8e23edfc7672c0c05ae338b049914d9/0_31_2480_1488/master/2480.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=c79bcd70a401b5e6e1632407d46acc79"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Illustration: Guardian Design</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/7f4a447ad8e23edfc7672c0c05ae338b049914d9/0_31_2480_1488/master/2480.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=09a419e23fb90258b82b45158c1f905f"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Illustration: Guardian Design</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Julian Baggini</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-18T12:00:06Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>‘People haven’t woken up to the scale of this’: Gordon Brown on the UK’s child poverty scandal</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/may/18/child-poverty-uk-scandal-britain-charities-families</link> <description><p>A quarter of Britain’s children live below the poverty line. Near his Fife home, the former PM shows how charities help families and says this issue must be a priority for any government</p><p>• <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/18/the-observer-view-on-child-poverty-labour-must-tackle-this-scourge-as-soon-as-possible">The Observer view: Labour must tackle this scourge</a><br>• <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/may/18/end-child-poverty-uk-five-things-to-know">Torsten Bell: We can end child poverty</a><br>• <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/may/18/archbishop-canterbury-urges-starmer-to-ditch-cruel-two-child-benefit-cap">Archbishop urges Starmer to ditch ‘cruel’ benefit cap</a></p><p>Outside a warehouse squeezed between a waste recycling plant, an auto parts outlet and a scaffolding company in Lochgelly, Fife, a blur of figures in hi-vis jackets are busily packing boxes into headteacher Ailsa Swankie’s car. Not for the first time, she is taking delivery of household essentials, hygiene products and food from the area’s heaving “multibank” – an institution she describes as an “absolute lifeline”.</p><p>The specific items differ with each pick-up – sometimes toilet rolls, other times washing powder or hot water bottles, donated by local businesses or sourced cheaply. But the need for each trip is always the same: an increasing number of families at her school who have found themselves struggling to afford what should be basic products. “We do have a lot of working families who work very, very hard, but they’re still really struggling,” Swankie says. “If I took nappies back to school, they’d all be gone by 3pm.”</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/may/18/child-poverty-uk-scandal-britain-charities-families">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/poverty">Poverty</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/food-poverty">Food poverty</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/food-banks">Food banks</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/business/cost-of-living-crisis">UK cost of living crisis</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/scotland">Scotland</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/gordon-brown">Gordon Brown</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/education/education">Education</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/politics">Politics</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/socialexclusion">Social exclusion</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/society">Society</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/uk">UK news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/children">Children</category> <pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2024 17:00:13 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/may/18/child-poverty-uk-scandal-britain-charities-families</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/5cbcdb0b1eedb55f4fc65f28270f9b311614239d/1790_1108_4892_2935/master/4892.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=00105426e9b68fe07e83d781d3c158c8"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Katherine Anne Rose/The Observer</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/5cbcdb0b1eedb55f4fc65f28270f9b311614239d/1790_1108_4892_2935/master/4892.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=620a00203dc7fc50d2983ccd8103d468"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Katherine Anne Rose/The Observer</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Michael Savage Policy Editor</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-18T17:00:13Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>‘Clean water is a basic right’: protesters against sewage in seas and rivers gather across the UK</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/18/clean-water-protesters-sewage-seas-rivers-uk-water-companies</link> <description><p>Surfers and families vent their frustration with water companies after more news of poisoned drinking water and polluted lakes</p><p>“Cut the crap” and “Fishes not faeces” read some of the many colourful slogans at Gyllyngvase Beach in Falmouth where hundreds of protesters gathered on Saturday to demand action over the scourge of <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2024/mar/27/englands-sewage-crisis-how-polluted-is-your-local-river-and-which-regions-are-worst-hit?embedded_webview=true">sewage pollution</a> in British waterways.</p><p>Wearing fancy dress and waving inflated plastic poops, they paddled into the bay on surfboards, kayaks and standup paddle boards – as did protesters at more than 30 other events across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland – with the Cornish charity Surfers Against Sewage leading the way.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/18/clean-water-protesters-sewage-seas-rivers-uk-water-companies">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/pollution">Pollution</category> <category 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scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Jonny Weeks/The Observer</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/5819a03428e3e1bfb1aa675664c979e1e1128145/0_137_5852_3512/master/5852.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=f3dd928f30df69f027955e9143283de8"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Jonny Weeks/The Observer</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Jonny Weeks</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-18T17:16:23Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>‘Once you take choice away, there’s nothing left’: assisted dying edges closer in Jersey, but can they protect against a ‘duty to die’?</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/may/18/once-you-take-choice-away-theres-nothing-left-assisted-dying-edges-closer-in-jersey-but-can-they-protect-against-a-duty-to-die</link> <description><p>Hospice patient Lynne Cottignies welcomes proposals to make it legal to help eligible people end their lives. Many others have serious concerns</p><p>Lynne Cottignies has been planning her funeral. A wicker coffin and a church service with Ave Maria and All Things Bright and Beautiful, followed by a wake at the Royal Jersey golf club where she was lady captain a few years ago. Later, close friends and family will scatter her ashes on a beach near her Jersey home, a spot where they have enjoyed happy sunset barbecues.</p><p>Between now and then, Cottignies, 71, faces the prospect of increasing and potentially unbearable pain as the cancer that started in her breast spreads. “I’ve had a lot of different chemo treatments, and just about every side-effect possible. But now time’s up. I’m too weak for anything else.”</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/may/18/once-you-take-choice-away-theres-nothing-left-assisted-dying-edges-closer-in-jersey-but-can-they-protect-against-a-duty-to-die">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/assisted-suicide">Assisted dying</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/society">Society</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/law/law">Law</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/jersey">Jersey</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/channelislands">Channel Islands</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/uk">UK news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/europe-news">Europe</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/hospices">Hospices</category> <pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2024 10:00:04 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/may/18/once-you-take-choice-away-theres-nothing-left-assisted-dying-edges-closer-in-jersey-but-can-they-protect-against-a-duty-to-die</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/00b91f16524ad1f06520c6a2bb82c5613d21dedd/0_139_4173_2504/master/4173.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=4eac9eb35908125f9958fbd3e7c86702"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: David Ferguson/The Guardian</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/00b91f16524ad1f06520c6a2bb82c5613d21dedd/0_139_4173_2504/master/4173.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=6d796b77b3f30e61f9c28adf8e765634"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: David Ferguson/The Guardian</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Harriet Sherwood</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-18T10:00:04Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Experience: my fiance died on our wedding day – and then I discovered his secret life</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/article/2024/may/17/experience-my-fiance-died-on-our-wedding-day-and-then-i-discovered-his-secret-life</link> <description><p>It was like I was trapped in a movie – with a hideous plot twist</p><p>I met Eric on a dating app in early 2018<strong> </strong>when I was living in New York. He was handsome, talkative and interesting. I was falling for him – but there was something he needed to know. In 2015, I’d been in love with a guy called Mike. On my 30th birthday, my parents threw me a party at their house. Everyone was having a great time until I heard my brother scream Mike’s name. As I ran towards the noise, I saw Mike on the ground by my parents’ pool.<strong> </strong>He’d slipped into the water and wasn’t breathing. I frantically tried to do CPR on him, but he remained unconscious.</p><p>At the hospital, I was told that Mike wouldn’t ever wake up. No one knows how he got hurt. He broke some bones in his back, and had a brain injury, but we don’t know how that happened.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/article/2024/may/17/experience-my-fiance-died-on-our-wedding-day-and-then-i-discovered-his-secret-life">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/lifeandstyle">Life and style</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/marriage">Marriage</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/family">Family</category> <pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2024 09:00:34 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/article/2024/may/17/experience-my-fiance-died-on-our-wedding-day-and-then-i-discovered-his-secret-life</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/ea5164456658be8420ed00cede7e67f99c6f7932/266_785_5569_3342/master/5569.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=e48d4086388f1c1abdf6b1f4986d54d8"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Ben Zucker/The Guardian</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/ea5164456658be8420ed00cede7e67f99c6f7932/266_785_5569_3342/master/5569.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=84eb5b202ef1e0e5407d26fa4f90613c"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Ben Zucker/The Guardian</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Kaitlin Palmieri</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-17T09:00:34Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>David Copperfield ‘was in my nightmares’: the women alleging sexual misconduct - video</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2024/may/16/david-copperfield-was-in-my-nightmares-the-women-alleging-sexual-misconduct-video</link> <description><p>A Guardian US investigation is reporting allegations of sexual misconduct and inappropriate behaviour by illusionist David Copperfield. Testimonies from two women, both of whom are portrayed by actors, describe their alleged experiences and the impact it had on their lives. Copperfield denies all of the allegations and has never been charged with criminal wrongdoing</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2024/may/16/david-copperfield-was-in-my-nightmares-the-women-alleging-sexual-misconduct-video">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-news">US news</category> <pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2024 14:22:15 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2024/may/16/david-copperfield-was-in-my-nightmares-the-women-alleging-sexual-misconduct-video</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/6bdc6e7ce1ce8da7332339f1d661031ae3724e73/60_0_1800_1080/master/1800.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=63ac307ec7e976e3106a6f5ca932db0d"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: REX/Getty</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/6bdc6e7ce1ce8da7332339f1d661031ae3724e73/60_0_1800_1080/master/1800.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=8b63b82123d5da65eb7406b46ba3155e"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: REX/Getty</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Lucy Osborne, Stephanie Kirchgaessner, Laurence Topham, David Levene, Kyri Evangelou, Alex Healey, Ali Assaf, Maeve Shearlaw, Michael Hudson, Katie Lamborn and Christian Bennett</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-16T14:22:15Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Four kids left: The Thai school swallowed by the sea – video</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/environment/video/2024/may/15/four-kids-left-the-thai-school-swallowed-by-the-sea-video</link> <description><p>Ban Khun Samut Chin, a coastal village in Samut Prakan province, Thailand, has been slowly swallowed by the sea over the past few decades. This has led to the relocation of the school and many homes, resulting in a dwindling population. Currently, there are only four students attending the school, often leaving just one in each classroom. The village has experienced severe coastal erosion, causing 1.1-2km (0.5-1.2 miles) of shoreline to disappear since the mid-1950s</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/video/2024/may/15/four-kids-left-the-thai-school-swallowed-by-the-sea-video">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-crisis">Climate crisis</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/environment">Environment</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/thailand">Thailand</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/south-and-central-asia">South and central Asia</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/world">World news</category> <pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2024 10:47:18 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/environment/video/2024/may/15/four-kids-left-the-thai-school-swallowed-by-the-sea-video</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/814c6c8fcc19e29687f9c7e20c3810ddbd1b6dff/60_0_1800_1080/master/1800.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=e785e7c57daaa92bdf24f296b1a62764"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: AFP/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/814c6c8fcc19e29687f9c7e20c3810ddbd1b6dff/60_0_1800_1080/master/1800.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=fed6ca15acc85498ae39a2cccd5dc81e"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: AFP/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Christopher Cherry, Rebecca Ratcliffe, Sawitree Wongketjai, Alex Healey and Temujin Doran</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-15T10:47:18Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>British surgeon in Gaza speaks out as Israel offensive deepens in Rafah – video</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2024/may/14/british-surgeon-in-gaza-speaks-out-as-israel-offensive-deepens-in-rafah-video</link> <description><p>British surgeon Dr Omar El-Taji has been in Gaza for more than a week with medical nonprofit Fajr Scientific, working in one of Gaza’s largest remaining hospitals as Israel’s invasion of Rafah deepens. The European hospital, which was founded by Unrwa with a grant from the EU, has limited resources and fewer local staff to deal with high numbers of patients being admitted with devastating injuries. ‘These people have gone through this for six to seven months now, they cannot go through this any more,’ says El-Taji, who is currently living at the hospital after the medical team’s safe house was evacuated. The Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has so far rejected US pressure to hold off on a full-scale attack, claiming Rafah is the last stronghold of Hamas and that Israel can only achieve its war aims by killing militants and leaders in the city</p><ul><li><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/14/israeli-tanks-residential-areas-idf-push-further-rafah">Israeli tanks reach residential areas as IDF pushes further into Rafah</a></p></li></ul> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2024/may/14/british-surgeon-in-gaza-speaks-out-as-israel-offensive-deepens-in-rafah-video">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/gaza">Gaza</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/israel-hamas-war">Israel-Gaza war</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/middleeast">Middle East and north Africa</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/world">World news</category> <pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2024 17:49:54 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2024/may/14/british-surgeon-in-gaza-speaks-out-as-israel-offensive-deepens-in-rafah-video</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/190016159265ba0bd6e7f6e448d2dc2de3b7049b/60_9_1785_1071/master/1785.png?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=cfc0f9cbc5d668896d97112a99f985e1"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Guardian</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/190016159265ba0bd6e7f6e448d2dc2de3b7049b/60_9_1785_1071/master/1785.png?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=75631c9b1319fee584ab774b42c3046d"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Guardian</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Lauren Hurrell, Albert Villa Alsina and Nikhita Chulani</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-14T17:49:54Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Clashes at Georgian parliament as 'foreign agents bill' passes – video</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2024/may/14/clashes-at-georgian-parliament-as-foreign-agents-bill-passes-video</link> <description><p>Georgian protesters opposed to a 'foreign influence' bill picketed the Georgian parliament amid a major police presence during the third, and final reading of the bill. Police attempted to disperse demonstrators and people were seen being detained. The 84-30 vote has cleared the way for the bill to become law. The draft now goes to the president, Salome Zourabichvili, who has said she will veto it, but her decision can be overridden by another vote in parliament, which is controlled by the ruling party and its allies. Government critics and western countries have criticised the new bill as authoritarian and Russian-inspired</p><p></p><ul><li><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/14/georgia-parliament-approves-foreign-agent-bill-amid-ongoing-protests">Georgia parliament approves ‘foreign agent’ bill amid ongoing protests</a></p></li></ul><p></p><ul><li><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/may/01/why-are-georgians-protesting-against-foreign-agents-bill-explainer">Why are Georgians protesting against a ‘foreign agents’ bill?</a></p></li></ul> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2024/may/14/clashes-at-georgian-parliament-as-foreign-agents-bill-passes-video">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/georgia-news">Georgia</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/europe-news">Europe</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/protest">Protest</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/world">World news</category> <pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2024 16:56:59 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2024/may/14/clashes-at-georgian-parliament-as-foreign-agents-bill-passes-video</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/ea0f67febf32475f31dfacb25b1905faa4b834ca/0_438_6720_4032/master/6720.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=7993520b1ec86764179e459a49bc287a"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: EPA</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/ea0f67febf32475f31dfacb25b1905faa4b834ca/0_438_6720_4032/master/6720.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=45cbf61f3fcf292795daa61cc6b49328"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: EPA</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator /> <dc:date>2024-05-14T16:56:59Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Why genocide is so hard to prove – video</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/law/video/2024/may/09/why-genocide-is-so-hard-to-prove-video</link> <description><p>South Africa's case against Israel over allegations of genocide before the international court of justice has raised a central question of international law: what is genocide and how do you prove it? It is one of three genocide cases being considered by the UN's world court, but since the genocide convention was approved in 1948, only three instances have been legally recognised as genocide. Josh Toussaint-Strauss looks back on these historical cases to find out why the crime is so much harder to prove than other atrocities, and what bearing this has on South Africa's case against Israel and future cases</p><p></p><ul><li><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/law/2024/apr/03/what-is-the-genocide-convention-and-how-might-it-apply-to-the-uk-and-israel">What is the genocide convention and how might it apply to the UK and Israel?</a></p></li><li><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/28/famine-is-setting-in-icj-orders-israel-to-unblock-gaza-food-aid">‘Famine is setting in’: UN court orders Israel to unblock Gaza food aid</a></p></li></ul> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/law/video/2024/may/09/why-genocide-is-so-hard-to-prove-video">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/law/international-court-of-justice">International court of justice</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/law/international-criminal-court">International criminal court</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/southafrica">South Africa</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/israel">Israel</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/israel-hamas-war">Israel-Gaza war</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/world">World news</category> <pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2024 11:19:24 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/law/video/2024/may/09/why-genocide-is-so-hard-to-prove-video</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/4398783eb3c3cde9a06d460cc8ca75c766b714e0/120_0_1800_1080/master/1800.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=f9e7ed379e8b5dfac05ed73c29699b88"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Guardian Design</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/4398783eb3c3cde9a06d460cc8ca75c766b714e0/120_0_1800_1080/master/1800.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=929d63b410cfab2fc7aba45eb0fb7c3c"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Guardian Design</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Josh Toussaint-Strauss Joseph Pierce Ali Assaf Ryan Baxter</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-09T11:19:24Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>‘Cringeworthy’: what people in Dover think of Labour and Keir Starmer – video</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/politics/video/2024/may/10/cringeworthy-what-people-in-dover-think-of-labour-and-keir-starmer-video</link> <description><p>Keir Starmer appeared in Dover and Deal alongside the Labour party’s newest MP, the former Tory Natalie Elphicke, to announce the scrapping of the Rwanda deportation scheme if Labour is elected. The Guardian spoke to people in Dover to get their reaction</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/video/2024/may/10/cringeworthy-what-people-in-dover-think-of-labour-and-keir-starmer-video">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/politics">Politics</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/immigration">Immigration and asylum</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/migration">Migration</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/kent">Kent</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/keir-starmer">Keir Starmer</category> <pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2024 17:39:27 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/politics/video/2024/may/10/cringeworthy-what-people-in-dover-think-of-labour-and-keir-starmer-video</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/7d73dd6fbbac9fbe752a8c88622b60d99ed351f3/60_0_1800_1080/master/1800.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=ab5ceb1fed27d8d13e16320ae3592dff"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Guardian</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/7d73dd6fbbac9fbe752a8c88622b60d99ed351f3/60_0_1800_1080/master/1800.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=1d6f8ef1c6fc4ef712f36e963222016f"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Guardian</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Bruno Rinvolucri</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-10T17:39:27Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>‘Disrupt whenever possible’: police clash with protesters blocking bus to Bibby Stockholm – video</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/video/2024/may/03/disrupt-whenever-possible-police-clash-with-protesters-blocking-bus-to-bibby-stockholm-video</link> <description><p>Hundreds of protesters prevented an attempt to collect asylum seekers from a south London hotel and transfer them to the Bibby Stockholm barge. The Guardian witnessed crowds blocking the bus and the road outside the Best Western hotel in Peckham before police were able to move in and break up the protest. The bus eventually left the area after seven hours, with no asylum seekers onboard</p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/02/london-protesters-block-coach-peckham-asylum-seekers-bibby-stockholm">London protesters block transfer of asylum seekers to Bibby Stockholm</a></p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/video/2024/may/03/disrupt-whenever-possible-police-clash-with-protesters-blocking-bus-to-bibby-stockholm-video">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/immigration">Immigration and asylum</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/bibby-stockholm">Bibby Stockholm</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/uk">UK news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/rwanda">Rwanda</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/protest">Protest</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/home-office">Home Office</category> <pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2024 10:39:26 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/video/2024/may/03/disrupt-whenever-possible-police-clash-with-protesters-blocking-bus-to-bibby-stockholm-video</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/44bf7c3af4aee229ed5bb9fa4c61f2bddab4a75b/0_0_5472_3282/master/5472.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=225a7c7206150b3646480bbf6759dc3c"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: The Observer</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/44bf7c3af4aee229ed5bb9fa4c61f2bddab4a75b/0_0_5472_3282/master/5472.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=0645a29b7de8e300e83df6f69df78436"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: The Observer</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Adam Sich, Bruno Rinvolucri and Temujin Doran</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-03T10:39:26Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>'Fed up of politics': the view from Blackpool on byelection day – video</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/politics/video/2024/may/02/the-view-from-blackpool-on-election-day-fed-up-of-politics-video</link> <description><p>Ahead of the byelection in Blackpool South, the Guardian takes the temperature in the once prosperous northern coastal town, with many voters expressing complete apathy and disdain for the state of politics. </p><p></p><p>The area is going to the polls because the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/mar/26/dirty-rotten-scoundrel-blackpool-voters-dismayed-by-tory-mp-scott-benton">former Tory MP Scott Benton resigned</a> after being found guilty of breaching standards rules in a lobbying scandal. Labour is hopeful of taking back the seat, which Benton won with a majority of 3,690 in 2019</p><p></p><ul><li><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/may/02/polls-open-in-england-may-local-elections-tories-braced-for-heavy-losses"><strong>Polls open in England’s local elections with Tories braced for heavy losse</strong></a></p></li><li><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/may/02/tories-rishi-sunak-elections-leader-change">Analysis: <strong>Will Tories dump Rishi Sunak if election results worse than expected?</strong></a></p></li></ul> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/video/2024/may/02/the-view-from-blackpool-on-election-day-fed-up-of-politics-video">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/local-elections-2024">Local elections 2024</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/blackpool">Blackpool</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/uk">UK news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/labour">Labour</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/brexit-party">Reform UK</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/conservatives">Conservatives</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/localgovernment">Local government</category> <pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2024 06:57:16 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/politics/video/2024/may/02/the-view-from-blackpool-on-election-day-fed-up-of-politics-video</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/73d14a9281cc5c0361ae6d79db1005c4feadc586/0_0_1800_1080/master/1800.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=4101408cc50ec35acea9afd7bb5ec1e9"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: The Guardian</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/73d14a9281cc5c0361ae6d79db1005c4feadc586/0_0_1800_1080/master/1800.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=b37dc1c0fcfc7c5316cbdbab8d4f389b"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: The Guardian</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Maeve Shearlaw, Christopher Cherry and Katie Lamborn</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-02T06:57:16Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Marina Hyde on Russell Brand’s baptism; plus ‘deepfake’ cheerleaders: the woman wrongly accused over a viral video – podcast</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/audio/2024/may/18/marina-hyde-russell-brand-deepfake-cheerleaders-weekend-podcast</link> <description><p>Marina Hyde: ‘So Russell Brand was baptised in the Thames, and all his sins were washed away. Cheaper than a lawyer, I suppose’; plus Jenny Kleeman meets Raffaella Spone, the woman accused of creating and circulating a damaging ‘deepfake’ video of teenage cheerleaders. The problem? Nothing was fake after all.</p><p></p><p><br></p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/audio/2024/may/18/marina-hyde-russell-brand-deepfake-cheerleaders-weekend-podcast">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/lifeandstyle">Life and style</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/russell-brand">Russell Brand</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/bear-grylls">Bear Grylls</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/deepfake">Deepfake</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/artificialintelligenceai">Artificial intelligence (AI)</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/gymnastics">Gymnastics</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/religion">Religion</category> <pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2024 04:00:02 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/audio/2024/may/18/marina-hyde-russell-brand-deepfake-cheerleaders-weekend-podcast</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/4e0591dfe6ace71496d3eaaefc629f0bf78e2d6d/63_378_1299_779/master/1299.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=6c7ecfc87a2f5db501c5afa3f7d5063b"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: @russellbrand</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/4e0591dfe6ace71496d3eaaefc629f0bf78e2d6d/63_378_1299_779/master/1299.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=c48cf0fdd5fd210c419336ef052f6212"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: @russellbrand</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Hosted by Savannah Ayoade-Greaves; written by Marina Hyde and Jenny Kleeman; narrated by Briony Rawle and Laurence Bouvard; produced by Rachel Porter; the executive producer was Ellie Bury.</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-18T04:00:02Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>‘Super cute please like’: the unstoppable rise of Shein – podcast</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2024/may/17/super-cute-please-like-the-unstoppable-rise-of-shein-podcast</link> <description><p>It is taking fast fashion to ever faster and ever cheaper extremes, and making billions from it. Why is the whole world shopping at Shein? By Nicole Lipman</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2024/may/17/super-cute-please-like-the-unstoppable-rise-of-shein-podcast">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/fashion-industry">Fashion industry</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/internet">Internet</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/business/manufacturing-sector">Manufacturing sector</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/business/retail">Retail industry</category> <pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2024 04:00:28 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2024/may/17/super-cute-please-like-the-unstoppable-rise-of-shein-podcast</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/2dff9f90972707b6284f4ed86a11edc6eeaca30e/0_153_4000_2400/master/4000.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=cd29b014ba6a97b412f83def04958996"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Bloomberg/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/2dff9f90972707b6284f4ed86a11edc6eeaca30e/0_153_4000_2400/master/4000.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=6f42ec23dfa2bda7e6cc01f04b4462aa"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Bloomberg/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Written by Nicole Lipman and read by Norma Butikofer. Produced by Nicola Alexandrou. The executive producer was Ellie Bury</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-17T04:00:28Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>The children of the contaminated blood scandal – podcast</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2024/may/17/the-children-of-the-contaminated-blood-scandal-podcast</link> <description><p>It is the NHS’s worst treatment disaster – with 30,000 patients infected. Two survivors, Ade Goodyear and Andy Evans, explain why it took so long for it to be brought to light</p><p><strong>Ade Goodyear</strong> was 15 when he was told he had contracted HIV. Like about 30,000 other NHS patients – including more than 300 children – who were given blood transfusions or commercial blood products before 2019, he was infected by contaminated blood. Some patients got HIV and hepatitis C from blood transfusions after childbirth or other medical procedures. Ade was infected with HIV at the medical centre of his school.</p><p>Pupils at his Treloar’s college, which had a specialist haemophilia unit, were among those given injections of a blood plasma product called factor VIII concentrate. Concerns had been raised a decade before by the World Health Organization because it was a commercial product that mixed plasma from tens of thousands of often high-risk donors. If one had an infection such as HIV, it could contaminate the whole batch.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2024/may/17/the-children-of-the-contaminated-blood-scandal-podcast">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/contaminated-blood-scandal">Contaminated blood scandal</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/uk">UK news</category> <pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2024 02:00:24 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2024/may/17/the-children-of-the-contaminated-blood-scandal-podcast</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/66a98995e173fce2cb7706362d27b2c3bc7876b4/0_0_5908_3544/master/5908.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=d3ce73edad264ea4bd0d9d4c1ebb2622"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Justin Tallis/AFP/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/66a98995e173fce2cb7706362d27b2c3bc7876b4/0_0_5908_3544/master/5908.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=9beb304cbcd620488b966bf8efcea817"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Justin Tallis/AFP/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Presented by Helen Pidd with Andy Evans and Adrian Goodyear; produced by Natalie Ktena, Ruth Abrahams and Solomon King; executive producer Homa Khaleeli</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-17T02:00:24Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>The Premier League’s race for Europe and Celtic’s title – Football Weekly Extra podcast</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/football/audio/2024/may/16/the-premier-league-fight-for-europe-and-celtic-title-football-weekly-extra-podcast</link> <description><p><a href="https://twitter.com/maxrushden">Max Rushden</a> is joined by <a href="https://twitter.com/bglendenning">Barry Glendenning</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/kickback_nedum">Nedum Onuoha</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/JohnBrewin_">John Brewin</a> as Manchester United and Chelsea get important wins in their hunt for European football next season</p><p><strong>Rate, review, share on <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/football-weekly-the-guardian/id188674007?mt=2">Apple Podcasts</a>, <a href="https://soundcloud.com/guardianfootballweekly">Soundcloud</a>, <a href="https://audioboom.com/channel/football-weekly">Audioboom</a>, <a href="https://www.mixcloud.com/guardianfootballweekly/">Mixcloud</a>, <a href="https://www.acast.com/footballweekly">Acast</a> and <a href="http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/guardianuk/football-weekly">Stitcher</a>, and join the conversation on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/GuardianPodcasts/">Facebook</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/guardianaudio">Twitter</a> and <a href="mailto:footballweekly@theguardian.com">email</a>.</strong></p><p>On the podcast today: the race for fifth/sixth and Europa League football next season is still alive – Chelsea could still catch Spurs and only Manchester United winning the FA Cup would earn Newcastle a spot.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/football/audio/2024/may/16/the-premier-league-fight-for-europe-and-celtic-title-football-weekly-extra-podcast">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/football/football">Football</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/sport">Sport</category> <pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2024 11:47:30 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/football/audio/2024/may/16/the-premier-league-fight-for-europe-and-celtic-title-football-weekly-extra-podcast</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/07519a6ddcaefbe27588f38ccabaab5c28f1af30/107_509_5643_3386/master/5643.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=5db98efc8aedecec082b42b245f4067f"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Robbie Jay Barratt/AMA/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/07519a6ddcaefbe27588f38ccabaab5c28f1af30/107_509_5643_3386/master/5643.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=8bcefc1c747973f4ea262ef4b73cd64b"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Robbie Jay Barratt/AMA/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Presented by Max Rushden with Barry Glendenning, Nedum Onuoha, John Brewin and Tariq Panja. Produced by Joel Grove and our executive producer is Phil Maynard.</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-16T11:47:30Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>AI, algorithms and apps: can dating be boiled down to a science? – podcast</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/science/audio/2024/may/16/apps-and-algorithms-can-dating-be-boiled-down-to-a-science-podcast</link> <description><p>Last week the founder of the dating app Bumble forecasted a near future dating landscape where AI ‘dating concierges’ filter out prospective partners for us. But does AI, or even science, really understand what makes two people compatible? Madeleine Finlay speaks to Amie Gordon, assistant professor of psychology at the University of Michigan, to find out what we know about why two people go the distance, and why she and her colleague associate professor of sociology Elizabeth Bruch, are designing their own dating app to learn more.</p><p><em>Clips: Bloomberg</em></p><p><strong><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/apr/28/the-science-isnt-there-do-dating-apps-really-help-us-find-our-soulmate">Read more about Amie’s app here</a></strong></p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/audio/2024/may/16/apps-and-algorithms-can-dating-be-boiled-down-to-a-science-podcast">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/science/science">Science</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/dating">Dating</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/science/psychology">Psychology</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/film/love-and-friendship">Love & Friendship</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/technology">Technology</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/lifeandstyle">Life and style</category> <pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2024 04:01:00 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/science/audio/2024/may/16/apps-and-algorithms-can-dating-be-boiled-down-to-a-science-podcast</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/fc78600621efc9c3c450a17fc7cf6164c7452c21/0_0_3196_1918/master/3196.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=045bc3f672b094fdb386d09df8fce0a3"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Westend61/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/fc78600621efc9c3c450a17fc7cf6164c7452c21/0_0_3196_1918/master/3196.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=14b65a188078e95495a1032fc15413ec"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Westend61/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Presented by Madeleine Finlay, produced by Joshan Chana, sound design by Tony Onuchukwu, the executive producer was Ellie Bury</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-16T04:01:00Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>What keeps the world’s top climate scientists up at night? – podcast</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2024/may/16/what-keeps-world-top-climate-scientists-up-at-night-podcast</link> <description><p>Hundreds of climate experts expect global temperatures to rise to at least 2.5C (4.5F) above preindustrial levels by 2100. Damian Carrington reports</p><p>When the Guardian’s environment editor, <strong>Damian Carrington</strong>, decided to survey the world’s top climate scientists, he had no idea how many of them would want to participate.</p><p>“I was astonished by the flood of responses that came back,” he tells <strong>Hannah Moore</strong>.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2024/may/16/what-keeps-world-top-climate-scientists-up-at-night-podcast">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-crisis">Climate crisis</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/science/scienceofclimatechange">Climate science</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ipcc">Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/carbon-emissions">Greenhouse gas emissions</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/extreme-heat">Extreme heat</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/environment">Environment</category> <pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2024 02:00:55 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2024/may/16/what-keeps-world-top-climate-scientists-up-at-night-podcast</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/2116771e0438be71cb9b0f4a0758a349b96788b4/0_0_4999_3000/master/4999.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=64f083c8cf5ab2ba50be1d9f1026bce7"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Illustration: Tamara Uribe/Guardian Design</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/2116771e0438be71cb9b0f4a0758a349b96788b4/0_0_4999_3000/master/4999.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=9e456eabed4dd18d84fd9463b30518f8"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Illustration: Tamara Uribe/Guardian Design</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Presented by Hannah Moore with Damian Carrington; produced by Ruth Abrahams and Rudi Zygadlo; executive producer Elizabeth Cassin</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-16T02:00:55Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Donald Trump comes face to face with former fixer Michael Cohen – podcast</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/politics/audio/2024/may/15/donald-trump-comes-face-to-face-with-former-fixer-michael-cohen</link> <description><p>This week, it was Donald Trump’s former fixer Michael Cohen’s turn to take the stand in the hush-money trial in New York. Cohen walked the jury through the steps he says he took to make any potential story that would damage Trump’s image go away, in advance of the 2016 election.</p><p>The defence is trying to chip away at Cohen’s credibility, to sow seeds of doubt among the jury listening to his testimony. So how did he do? Jonathan Freedland asks former federal prosecutor Ankush Khardori what he makes of the prosecution’s star witness so far</p><p><em>Archive: Fox News 5, CBS News, CNN, Sky Australia</em></p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/audio/2024/may/15/donald-trump-comes-face-to-face-with-former-fixer-michael-cohen">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-politics">US politics</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/donald-trump-trials">Donald Trump trials</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/michael-cohen">Michael Cohen</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/donaldtrump">Donald Trump</category> <pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2024 18:23:32 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/politics/audio/2024/may/15/donald-trump-comes-face-to-face-with-former-fixer-michael-cohen</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/bbee40af7f1d8d8d26721fabd8534361919ac060/0_64_5000_3000/master/5000.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=f9713b3a20ae2d88d401e3d2ea8f9a62"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: David Dee Delgado/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/bbee40af7f1d8d8d26721fabd8534361919ac060/0_64_5000_3000/master/5000.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=81c722fa165e038a8ce94279e29f3f93"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: David Dee Delgado/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Presented by Jonathan Freedland, with Ankush Khardori, produced by Danielle Stephens and the executive producer is Maz Ebtehaj</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-15T18:23:32Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Sign up for the Fashion Statement newsletter: our free fashion email</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/global/2022/sep/20/sign-up-for-the-fashion-statement-newsletter-our-free-fashion-email</link> <description><p>Style, with substance: what’s really trending this week, a roundup of the best fashion journalism and your wardrobe dilemmas solved, direct to your inbox every Thursday</p><p>Style, with substance: what’s really trending this week, a roundup of the best fashion journalism and your wardrobe dilemmas solved, delivered straight to your inbox every Thursday</p><p><strong><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/email-newsletters">Explore all our newsletters:</a></strong><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/email-newsletters"> whether you love film, football, fashion or food, we’ve got something for you</a></p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global/2022/sep/20/sign-up-for-the-fashion-statement-newsletter-our-free-fashion-email">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/info/newsletter-sign-up">Newsletter sign-up</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/fashion">Fashion</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/lifeandstyle">Life and style</category> <pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2022 11:06:20 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/global/2022/sep/20/sign-up-for-the-fashion-statement-newsletter-our-free-fashion-email</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/12c671d139fa632a086b16c6f14d5b89e3112b42/0_0_760_456/master/760.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=508fababeea59acb47ea95260fc9af3e"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Illustration: Guardian Design</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/12c671d139fa632a086b16c6f14d5b89e3112b42/0_0_760_456/master/760.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=5fd50304077d238107069ed31d1f835d"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Illustration: Guardian Design</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator /> <dc:date>2022-09-20T11:06:20Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Sign up for the Guardian Documentaries newsletter: our free short film email</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/info/2016/sep/02/sign-up-for-the-guardian-documentaries-update</link> <description><p>Be the first to see our latest thought-provoking films, bringing you bold and original storytelling from around the world</p><p>Discover the stories behind our latest short films, learn more about our international film-makers, and join us for exclusive documentary events. 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Bohm – then Dorothea Israelit – was 14 at the time and the journey took her to England as a refugee; she lodged with a family in Hassocks in the heart of the Sussex countryside. She did not see her parents – eventually sent by Russian forces, separately, to detention camps in Siberia – for another 20 years. The separation, she later said, gave her a profound sense of impermanence; the Leica felt like one antidote to that: “The photograph fulfils my deep need to stop things from disappearing,” she wrote. “It makes transience less painful.”</p><p>Over her long life – Bohm <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2023/mar/27/dorothy-bohm-obituary">died last year</a> aged 98 – that need never left her. This picture, taken in Lisbon in 1996, is included in a small exhibition and a wonderful retrospective book of the photographer’s work, <em>Dorothy Bohm at 100</em>, in which notable friends and fellow photographers pay tribute to her pioneering influence. Her career began when she set up a portrait studio in Manchester in 1946, but she subsequently travelled extensively with her camera across Europe and beyond, before settling in London, where she was a prime mover in creating the Photographers’ Gallery in 1971.</p><p><em><a href="https://www.beameditions.uk/dorothy-bohm">Dorothy Bohm at 100</a> </em>is published by Beam Editions on 20 June (£35). A print sale <a href="https://thephotographersgallery.org.uk/whats-on/dorothy-bohm-100">exhibition of her work</a> is at the Photographers’ Gallery, London W1 until 23 June</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/article/2024/may/19/the-big-picture-dorothy-bohm-on-the-streets-of-lisbon">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/photography">Photography</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/exhibition">Exhibitions</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/artanddesign">Art and design</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/books/art">Art and design books</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/culture">Culture</category> <pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2024 06:00:28 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/article/2024/may/19/the-big-picture-dorothy-bohm-on-the-streets-of-lisbon</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/92b32ed93e6891e4c26aafe43728ebde1747e384/0_114_1764_1057/master/1764.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=be3b4575f7b1b79c21d1bb81a97b001e"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: © Dorothy Bohm, Courtesy of the Photographers Gallery, London</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/92b32ed93e6891e4c26aafe43728ebde1747e384/0_114_1764_1057/master/1764.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=cb53818a6e587d3010dae66bdfecaebd"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: © Dorothy Bohm, Courtesy of the Photographers Gallery, London</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Tim Adams</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-19T06:00:28Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Mythology, heritage, identity: student work at New York’s International Center of Photography</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2024/may/18/students-international-center-photography-exhibition</link> <description><p>These images highlighting themes of climate resilience, personal trauma and identity are part of an exhibition of the work of students from more than 25 different countries</p><ul><li>The annual student showcase will be on view at the International Center of Photography in New York from 18 May until 2 September</li></ul> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2024/may/18/students-international-center-photography-exhibition">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/photography">Photography</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/artanddesign">Art and design</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/culture">Culture</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/new-york">New York</category> <pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2024 16:00:11 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2024/may/18/students-international-center-photography-exhibition</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/ae6aeb3351b3a7d49cde9f13f529d928606f95f9/0_372_2140_1283/master/2140.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=ca93b625b0e46cddbbdf4012dba75de4"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Adriel Michelle</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/ae6aeb3351b3a7d49cde9f13f529d928606f95f9/0_372_2140_1283/master/2140.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=77b69b619def8e47c3065b6b044d197c"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Adriel Michelle</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Guardian Staff</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-18T16:00:11Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Mesmerising microbes: bacteria as you’ve never seen it before – in pictures</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2024/may/18/beautiful-bacteria-encounters-in-the-microuniverse-tal-danino</link> <description><p>Tal Danino’s day job at Columbia University, New York, is engineering “living” medicines. “We program microbes for cancer therapy using synthetic biology,” he says. As a side hustle he manipulates and photographs the microbial world; his images are collected in a book, Beautiful Bacteria. Taking bacteria from substances such as wastewater, dental plaque or kimchi, Danino lets them multiply in a petri dish, adding dyes. The results are artworks differing from the digital enhancements often made in scientific photography to make images more informative. Indeed, he says, the microbes deserve some credit: “They do often deviate from our plans, becoming active collaborators in the creation of the work.” <br><br><em>Beautiful Bacteria: Encounters in the Microuniverse</em> is published by Rizzoli (£38.50). To order a copy for £33.88 go to <a href="http://bookshop.com/">guardianbookshop.com</a> or call 020-3176 3837</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2024/may/18/beautiful-bacteria-encounters-in-the-microuniverse-tal-danino">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/photography">Photography</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/science/microbiology">Microbiology</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/books/books">Books</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/science/science">Science</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/culture">Culture</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/artanddesign">Art and design</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/science/biology">Biology</category> <pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2024 16:00:11 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2024/may/18/beautiful-bacteria-encounters-in-the-microuniverse-tal-danino</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/739134733e8597c8394b72d1642904c9d88726cd/0_0_6000_3600/master/6000.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=42167c11a0637fa780742c625dbac6af"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Rizolli</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/739134733e8597c8394b72d1642904c9d88726cd/0_0_6000_3600/master/6000.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=89f922998f1eaece4c5b6bbc47b4e1af"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Rizolli</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Ian Tucker</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-18T16:00:11Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Girls’ night: the teenage ritual of preparing to go out – in pictures</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/gallery/2024/may/18/girls-night-the-teenage-ritual-of-preparing-to-go-out-in-pictures</link> <description><p>For her debut book, the Irish photographer Eimear Lynch travelled around Ireland to photograph groups of girls immersed in the, often lengthy, ritual of dressing up and applying their makeup together</p><p>Girls’ Night is available now <a href="https://www.ideanow.online/eimear-lynch-girls-night">from IDEA</a></p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/gallery/2024/may/18/girls-night-the-teenage-ritual-of-preparing-to-go-out-in-pictures">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/fashion">Fashion</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/ireland">Ireland</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/northernireland">Northern Ireland</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/lifeandstyle">Life and style</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/uk">UK news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/youngpeople">Young people</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/society">Society</category> <pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2024 06:00:09 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/gallery/2024/may/18/girls-night-the-teenage-ritual-of-preparing-to-go-out-in-pictures</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/3d99ad486e9d31383c3447ac15803f855bf2417f/0_36_1500_900/master/1500.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=7efcc6927277e92869897ded84e98738"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Eimear Lynch</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/3d99ad486e9d31383c3447ac15803f855bf2417f/0_36_1500_900/master/1500.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=f5372cb76ecd1ee9313175501fd250a6"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Eimear Lynch</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Chloe Mac Donnell</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-18T06:00:09Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>‘I hope people wonder what the man is doing’: Carla Vermeend’s best phone picture</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/article/2024/may/18/i-hope-people-wonder-what-the-man-is-doing-carla-vermeends-best-phone-picture</link> <description><p>The photographer and her husband came across an abandoned boat while out walking and took the opportunity to float a surreal idea</p><p>Every September, Carla Vermeend and her husband go on holiday to Terschelling island, in&nbsp;the Netherlands.</p><p>“It has lots of nature, right in the middle of the&nbsp;Wadden Sea, which&nbsp;is listed by Unesco&nbsp;as a&nbsp;world heritage site,” says Vermeend, a Dutch photographer. During their visit in 2014, the couple were walking by&nbsp;the sea together.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/article/2024/may/18/i-hope-people-wonder-what-the-man-is-doing-carla-vermeends-best-phone-picture">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/photography">Photography</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/lifeandstyle">Life and style</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/art">Art</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/artanddesign">Art and design</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/culture">Culture</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/mobilephones">Mobile phones</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/smartphones">Smartphones</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/photography">Photography</category> <pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2024 09:00:02 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/article/2024/may/18/i-hope-people-wonder-what-the-man-is-doing-carla-vermeends-best-phone-picture</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/c89fab7c1556b7a2806eec083ad02543d5139ac4/0_514_6872_4124/master/6872.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=14f734c19d8802fafb136e4913bd5dd7"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Carla Vermeend</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/c89fab7c1556b7a2806eec083ad02543d5139ac4/0_514_6872_4124/master/6872.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=d23deb46c513f8387fdd7795d2a9c6e7"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Carla Vermeend</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Grace Holliday</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-18T09:00:02Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>The week around the world in 20 pictures</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2024/may/17/the-week-around-the-world-in-20-pictures</link> <description><p>War in Gaza, the Russian offensive in Kharkiv, protests in Georgia, the Northern lights and the Cannes Film Festival: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/_twenty_photos_/">the last seven days as captured by the world’s leading photojournalists</a></p><p><strong><em>Warning: this gallery contains images that some readers may find distressing</em></strong></p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2024/may/17/the-week-around-the-world-in-20-pictures">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/photography">Photography</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/artanddesign">Art and design</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/culture">Culture</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/world">World news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/israel-hamas-war">Israel-Gaza war</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/hamas">Hamas</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/gaza">Gaza</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/israel">Israel</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/middleeast">Middle East and north Africa</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/palestinian-territories">Palestinian territories</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/ukraine">Ukraine</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-crisis">Climate crisis</category> <pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2024 18:30:38 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2024/may/17/the-week-around-the-world-in-20-pictures</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/670337ab4ccc4776d008ed284a54f1a9360367a1/0_416_6240_3744/master/6240.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=b74cfe9f00da251ce832e866b6d9d089"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: George Ivanchenko/Anadolu/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/670337ab4ccc4776d008ed284a54f1a9360367a1/0_416_6240_3744/master/6240.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=d3a241133747850c0dd61a45cb038af4"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: George Ivanchenko/Anadolu/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Jim Powell</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-17T18:30:38Z</dc:date> </item> </channel></rss> If you would like to create a banner that links to this page (i.e. this validation result), do the following:
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