Murderous heat, an endangered food supply, decimated landscapes: embrace the Mediterranean life | George Monbiot

As climate disaster stares us in the face, the radical right says ‘Embrace the Mediterranean life’. Embrace death, more like it, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Palantir paid just £2m corporation tax in UK in 2024 despite lucrative public sector contracts

Software group benefits from global systems and accounting practices ‘that enable tax to be shirked’, says union boss

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NHS radiographers report rise in overt racist abuse by patients

Survey reveals medics were called ‘monkeys’ and ‘dirty foreigners’, and patients refused to be seen by black or Asian staff

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Barnes Wallis – aircraft designer

Barnes was the second son of Charles and Edith, born in 1887 in Ripley in Derbyshire where his father had an unsuccessful medical practice and where his mother longed to be home in Woolwich. The fa…

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Why Andy Burnham’s devolution pledge will be tricky to deliver | Richard Partington

Sharing income tax with England’s regional mayors could tackle inequality but many councils are ill-equipped for an enlarged role

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Decades on from the US’s disastrous campaign in Afghanistan, Trump is making all the same mistakes | Simon Tisdall

The president has blundered into a ‘forever war’ with Iran he can’t win, but refuses to end. Such hubris has a long history, says Guardian foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisdall

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Army of robot ‘nandroids’ join Burnham’s planned revoluti...

Artificial intelligence-enabled droids are providing company and medical assistance to residents in care homes, cutting costs and freeing up staff

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The Guardian view on England’s centralised state: Andy Burnham must unbundle it | Editorial

Editorial: Devolution should finance transport, skills and industry, not become a rightwing contest to promise the largest tax giveaway

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British Manufacturing History from Industrial Revolution through steam, electricity, automobiles, ships, aircraft to chemicals, plastics and pharma

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Turn failing water firms into not-for-profit cooperatives, MPs and mayors tell PM

Labour politicians say mutualised model puts public in control without adding debt to government’s balance sheet

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The Guardian view on prolonging kidulthood: Britain prices young adults out of independent life | Editorial

Editorial: More young people live with parents as low wages, insecure work and unaffordable housing turn family support into another source of inequality

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I’ve seen what can confound Farage on his home turf: optimism. People need a politics that offers them that | Owen Jones

You can’t blame his constituents in Clacton for their pessimism – because they have been let down for years, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

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Winners and losers since 1951 – Rolls-Royce and Bentley

Reading through my book Vehicles to Vaccines’, some companies jump out as conspicuous success stories, and some less so. Beneath the surface there are many hundreds of smaller British manufac…

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Battles loom over social care, but this fight must be won. At last, we have a PM who believes that | Polly Toynbee

Burnham seems ready to use his power and influence. He understands the depth of this crisis: the task is persuading all those still in denial, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

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Blow to NHS as Royal Mail raises prices for bulk users by a third

Average 25% increase for letters such as marketing, bills and medical appointment notices from 5 October

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My generation shouldn’t be scared of a care tax – we’re paying one already | Gaby Hinsliff

Andy Burnham would need to sell it to people like me. The right will call it a ‘death tax’ – why not a service for ageing well, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

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Andy Burnham has made a bold start – but convincing people that change is possible will take much more | Frances Ryan

The new PM’s greatest task has long weighed down the left: convincing voters there are actually better days ahead, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan

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Every new UK home should have air conditioning, say Liberal Democrats

Exclusive: Party says housing stock ‘woefully unprepared’ for extreme heat and new rules for builders must be set

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Andy Burnham vows to use his ‘political capital’ to fix social care system

PM says that without rapid action the NHS could effectively collapse, in first full interview since entering No 10

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Ed Miliband indicates development and climate will be at heart of UK foreign policy

Exclusive: Foreign secretary to take up World Bank seat and play active role in shaping changes to global lender

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Prime Minister – put the arts in your 10-year plan for the UK | Campaign for the Arts

Sign our petition urging the UK Government to build a country where the arts are available from childhood, accessible to all and thriving everywhere.

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Warrington manufacturing history

The Mersey valley reveals evidence of of extensive settlement in the Neolithic period (4000 BC onwards). With the coming of the Romans, Warrington lay half way between Middlewich and Wigan and was …

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Miliband has been relentlessly attacked for net zero; what will happen now?

Tories, Reform, fossil fuel industry and some in his party lined up against decarbonisation target as energy secretary

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The Guardian view on humanities cuts in universities: academic departments are more than cost centres | Editorial

Editorial: Literature, the arts and social sciences must not be sacrificed as higher education funding is squeezed

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With PM Burnham, we’ll get warmth, audacity and knowhow. For everything else, cling to hope | Polly Toynbee

He looks the part, with a rise as impressive as his speeches, but is that enough? You cannot know if someone is up to the job until they have to do it, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

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Our 5 Asks for Andy Burnham

Andy Burnham must seize the moment to build a bold, forward-looking agenda for his administration to lead the UK towards a new European future.

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Be bold, Andy Burnham. The cupboard is not as bare as por...

The next PM’s daring is an invaluable asset that could unlock economic mechanisms to find funds for vital public spending

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Trump, not Iran, is the world’s greatest danger. He’s a one-man weapon of mass destruction | Simon Tisdall

As the bombing starts again, it’s clear the president has dragged the US into a limitless fiasco – and the world into an economic quagmire, says Guardian foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisdall

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