David Attenborough’s Secret Gardens is all very cool but in my garden I seem to have captured on film … a fairy?
Katy Guest
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Deputy opinion editor at the Guardian (sometime book publisher/ editor; occasional reviewer/ events chair; former bricklayer; full-time cat lady; DMs open)
Hat tip to the Guardian headline writers today, somebody's on fire over on the news desk: www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/j...
Don’t Cry for free outside theatre as Evita scene moved offstage in West End
Paying audiences divided over staging in which they get video feed of Rachel Zegler singing on balcony to passersby
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It’s summer in the park so I got my knees out and had an ice cream.
“Benefit cuts with a red rosette are no different from those stained blue. And yet cuts signed off by a Labour government are in a sense particularly brutal. They come with a tinge, not just of fear, but despair and betrayal.” My col. in tomorrow’s paper www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
These cruel benefit cuts will rob security from so many – but Labour will lose something crucial too | Frances Ryan
The worst reforms since George Osborne will teach voters that politicians really are all the same. Is it worth it? asks Guardian columnist Frances Ryan
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It’s that time of year again! The Guardian is opening its two-week work experience for underrepresented journalists: disabled people, POC, and now working class. It is paid at the London living wage. This scheme changed my life. Go on, give it a go: workforus.theguardian.com/entry-level-...
Things in the garden, Feb 2025. I tidied up some rotten old leaves and found a bit of spring underneath.
This column has been the second most read on the whole Guardian site today and it’s all credit to Rosy who literally used her last voice to speak out about this country’s care crisis. Please do continue to read and share. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
A reader with a terminal illness emailed in despair. What she told me should shock us all | Frances Ryan
Rosy is unable to move, breathe or eat unassisted. Yet NHS assessors think it’s fine to leave her alone for hours at a time, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan
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Superb, moving & enraging journalism from @francesryan.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
A reader with a terminal illness emailed in despair. What she told me should shock us all | Frances Ryan
Rosy is unable to move, breathe or eat unassisted. Yet NHS assessors think it’s fine to leave her alone for hours at a time, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan
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Blue Monday was a great day here as one magnificent colleague brought in the unwanted Bounties from a box of Celebrations and I ate most of them.
Things in the garden, Jan 2025: nemesia and viola hanging on; hellebore and primrose coming through.
I saw first-hand how the grooming scandal is being weaponised. This is what Starmer must do | Gaby Hinsliff
I saw first-hand how the grooming scandal is being weaponised. This is what Starmer must do | Gaby Hinsliff
There is a nagging sense that justice still has not been done. At a Reform rally, I watched Nigel Farage exploit that “Sophie” was 12 years old when she walked into Oldham police station to report a sexual assault. For a vulnerable child, first…
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Two flowers still clinging on and two coming out in my garden on Christmas Day.
Brilliantly evocative piece here by John Harris.
John Harris@johnharris1969.bsky.social · 2y agoLatest from me: this year, the time I spent travelling around a surreal, forlorn, often broken country was brilliantly soundtracked by English Teacher's This Could Be Texas, an album for our times www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Merry Solstice, one and all, at last! Here’s to everything getting brighter from here on in.
I will be joining my colleagues at the Guardian and Observer who are on strike for 48 hours. It ends at 23.59 GMT on Friday 13 December. For more information please follow bsky.app/profile/gonu... and @NUJofficial, or visit nuj.org.uk/savetheobserver
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I will be joining my colleagues at the Guardian and Observer who are on strike for 48 hours. I will be back at work on Friday. For more information please follow bsky.app/profile/gonu... and @NUJofficial, or visit nuj.org.uk/savetheobserver
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They’ve released the Christmas Discourse Schedule! Lots to look forward to this year.
'The readiness to repudiate identity politics & group them under “bad woke” is less about policy and more about the fact that social justice never really found a home amongst liberals, who were happy to capture its energy but not its demands.' The week's column www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
‘Woke’ didn’t lose the US election: the patrician class who hijacked identity politics did | Nesrine Malik
Why is this simple explanation being so widely embraced? Because it does not require a commitment to real, structural change, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
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Here’s what I learned at #COP29. Rows aside, an unstoppable transition to clean energy is happening, says UK's Ed Miliband - Britain wanted much better outcomes on many issues, but seeing the ambition at the conference gives me hope for the future www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Here’s what I learned at Cop29. Rows aside, an unstoppable transition to clean energy is happening | Ed Miliband
Britain wanted much better outcomes on many issues, but seeing the ambition at the conference gives me hope for the future, says energy secretary Ed Miliband
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I'm all for the willing suspension of disbelief. However ... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Great movies can play fast and loose with history. But not Gladiator II with its rhinos and cafe culture | Charlotte Higgins
It’s hard to know where to begin when presented with the full, lavish spread of historical inaccuracy offered by this sequel, says Charlotte Higgins, the Guardian’s chief culture writer
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With excellent timing, @alcs-uk.bsky.social has joined Bluesky. Don't forget to update your accounts by the 30 November deadline. And if you're a writer and you haven't joined, you're missing out on royalties collected on your behalf. It's a no-brainer. NUJ and SoA members join for free.
So far this app thinks I’m into cats (OK, easy guess), corvids (brilliant, loving it) and, err, corgis??
Never knew this was the content I was looking for until I found it.
Dr Owen Emmerson@drowenemmerson.bsky.social · 2y agoOne of the beautiful creations I consulted on in #WolfHall is this gorgeous reproduction of the Book of Hours in which #AnneBoleyn & Henry VIII wrote messages to each other, recreated by the gifted Chris Rosser. It is a small detail, but one which makes my geeky heart sing 💜
"Evidence-based policy does work, but you have to own it, explain it and stay the course." - sensible advice to governments of all stripes from @willhaycardiff.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Wales’s 20mph speed limit saves lives and money. So why has it become a culture-war battlefield? | Will Hayward
In a world of online outrage, evidence is no longer enough – for a policy to work, politicians must explain it and stick by it, says Guardian columnist Will Hayward
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