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The Guardian is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in 1821 as The Manchester Guardian, and changed its name in 1959. Along with its sister papers The Observer and The Guardian Weekly, The Guardian is part of the Guardian Media Group, owned by the Scott Trust.
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Chamber of horrors: the best and worst Westminster insider novels
From hostile briefings and spad skulduggery to extramarital sex, there’s never been any shortage of bad behaviour in Westminster. But political scandal also makes brilliant fodder for novels. Corrupt, egomaniacal characters are natural-born protagonists. The historic corridors of parliament provide a cloistered, detail-rich setting. A culture of secrecy creates inevitable …
Will America’s first ‘right to sleep outside’ actually help unhoused people?
It leaves out the one right that would actually solve homelessness: housing.
Dante Ross: "the Forrest Gump of hip-hop"
“The Forrest Gump of hip-hop” sounds like an incongruous nickname. But Ross is thrilled with the title. “Gump is the connector,” he explains. “He’s connected to all these things. But you don’t really know who he is.”
'Lets get it done': council clear on new Swan Hill bridge
SWAN Hill Rural City Council has moved to eliminate any possibility of confusion about its preferred alignment for the new Swan Hill bridge.
‘Beowulf is lit AF’ – could ChatGPT really write good book blurbs?
“Blurb writing is a mini art form,” Iris Murdoch once wrote in a letter to former Penguin blurb writer Elizabeth Buchan. And like many other art forms, companies have been experimenting with the idea that it could be created without an artist. A German company that provides digital book distribution …
Is the UK in the grip of ‘greedflation’?
Millions of households in the UK are feeling a prolonged pinch as inflation eats away at their standard of living. Rising bills for weekly shopping, energy use and housing costs have meant many people are cutting back on luxuries and essentials. As the Guardian’s economics correspondent, Richard Partington, tells Michael …
‘It’s a failure of the system’: before Jordan Neely was killed, he was discarded
How did Jordan Neely fall through New York City's sprawling safety net?
Dryland farmers say council rate rise is unfair
DRYLAND farmers say they are being expected to unfairly bear the brunt of rate rises flagged in the Swan Hill Rural City Council draft budget for 2023-24.
Arinze Ifeakandu wins Dylan Thomas prize for ‘kaleidoscopic reflection of queer life in Nigeria’
The 28-year-old writer Arinze Ifeakandu has won the £20,000 Swansea University Dylan Thomas prize for a “kaleidoscopic reflection of queer life and love in Nigeria”. The prize, which recognises literary works by authors aged 39 or under, is one of the most prestigious awards for young writers. Ifeakandu’s debut short …
Music and mountains: a green city break in Slovenia
Rugged mountains, cave dragons and sustainable cuisine … Kranj packs a punch for a town aiming to leave little trace.
Anthony Anaxagorou wins Ondaatje prize for collection of postcolonial poetry
The poet Anthony Anaxagorou has won the £10,000 Ondaatje prize for a “beautiful” collection “that pushes the confines of form and language to locate a new aesthetic with which to address the legacies of colonisation”. The award, run annually by the Royal Society of Literature, recognises an outstanding work of …
Episode 6: Reparations
In the final episode of the series, Cotton Capital editor and Guardian journalist Maya Wolfe-Robinson looks at the subject of reparations. What do reparations mean for the communities and descendants of transatlantic enslavement – and what is the Guardian planning to do in its own programme of measures? In the …
Illustrated children’s biography of King Charles hits No 1 on UK book chart
A children’s biography of King Charles III has topped the UK book chart before the coronation on 6 May. Maria Isabel Sánchez Vegara’s King Charles is part of the Little People, Big Dreams series, which includes illustrated biographies of notable figures such as Stephen Hawking and Michelle Obama. The nonfiction …
Charles, William and Kate greet people outside Buckingham Palace – as it happened
Speaking of the Guardian’s attitude to the coronation and the monarchy in general, that was the topic of an editorial in print today. Here is an extract: The coronation is certainly not taking place because of public demand or enthusiasm for the monarchy or the new king. A mere 9% …
‘I thought they’d kill us’: how the US navy devastated a tiny Puerto Rican island
For 60+ years, the US Navy fired explosives on Vieques. Today, the islanders still suffer the devastating consequences.
Episode 5: Resistance
Guardian journalist and Cotton Capital special correspondent Lanre Bakare examines Black Mancunian history, beginning with the 1945 Pan-African Congress that took place in the city and shaped independence movements across Africa The Guardian journalist Lanre Bakare travels to Manchester, the city where the Guardian newspaper was founded, to learn more …
Swan Hill council ready to sign MOU on giant Goschen mine project
THE mammoth Goschen mine project is a step closer, with the design phase under way, Swan Hill Rural City Council ready to sign an agreement with the proponents, and an environmental effects statement soon to be released for public comment.
Episode 4: The Brazilian connection
During the transatlantic slave trade, more enslaved African people were taken to Brazil than any other country. Today, more than half of Brazil’s population identify as Black and there are more Black people in Brazil than any other country except Nigeria. But the country is still grappling with deep structural …
Who profits from blood plasma donations in the US? Politics Weekly America podcast
Kathleen McLaughlin has a rare chronic illness and needs regular treatments using people’s blood plasma. She started researching the US blood plasma industry a decade ago and has written a book, Blood Money, about what it says about class, race and inequality. This week, she speaks to Joan E Greve …
Episode 3: The Sea Islands
Journalist DeNeen L Brown travels to the Sea Islands in the US and meets the Gullah Geechee people – direct descendants of enslaved Africans who picked the distinctive Sea Island cotton prized by traders in Manchester.
Forty-three druggings, seven deaths: New York clubgoers face wave of violent robberies
How do you stay vigilant in venues meant to let you drop your defenses?
‘I could have made the same money at McDonald’s’: the Power Rangers on fame, regrets and their shock reunion
In the mid 1980s, the Israeli-American media mogul Haim Saban was stuck in a Tokyo hotel with nothing to watch on TV. Until, that is, he came across five spandex-wearing masked superheroes battling outlandish rubber monsters – and decided to adapt Japanese show, Super Sentai, for US TV, as Mighty …
My gothic pilgrimage to the set of Netflix’s Wednesday in Romania
Tourism here was once all about Dracula, but the Netflix show is drawing young visitors keen to see where the gothy teen unleashed mystery, mayhem and murder
Episode 2: The meaning of Success
Our second episode follows journalist Maya Wolfe-Robinson as she travels to Jamaica in search of the site of the former sugar plantation Success, once co-owned by the Guardian funder Sir George Philips.
Council slams water 'mismanagement' after fish kills
GROSS mismanagement by governments and water authorities was to blame for recent fish kills in the region’s lakes system, according to Swan Hill Rural City councillors.
My mum’s death was slow and painful – she deserved the choice to end her life
“Desperate for mum to die,” I texted my boyfriend in early March 2020. By then my mother, Mary-Anne, had spent months in a nursing home after two years of hospital treatments, surgeries, a ketogenic diet and a daily melange of drugs – all attempts to beat her brain cancer. As …
Trump’s day of reckoning in New York: Politics Weekly America podcast
On Tuesday, Donald Trump pleaded not guilty to 34 felony charges of falsifying business records for alleged hush money payments made during the 2016 presidential election. Joan E Greve speaks to the New York editor for Politico, Julia Marsh, amid a busy week for Manhattan The Guardian is editorially independent. …
Trump’s day of reckoning in New York: Politics Weekly America podcast
On Tuesday, Donald Trump pleaded not guilty to 34 felony charges of falsifying business records for alleged hush money payments made during the 2016 presidential election. Joan E Greve speaks to the New York editor for Politico, Julia Marsh, amid a busy week for Manhattan The Guardian is editorially independent. …