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UK parents: share your experience on the impact of online content on children | Kate Winslet used her Bafta speech to ask the government for more protection against ‘harmful’ content on social media. Winslet who won best actress award for her role in I am Ruth , which explores the relationship between mother and child (played by daughter Mia Threapleton) dealing with mental health pressure from so... | BAD |
It’s time to root out toxic Tony Danker and his creepy cronies, the old boys’ network must be dis | YOU can tell a lot about a person by their reaction when they are told it’s time to go. And Tony Danker , who was dismissed as director-general of the Confederation of British Industry after allegations of misconduct , didn’t exactly cover himself in glory this week. Rather than just accept the fact that it was time ... | BAD |
Keir Starmer has a blank piece of paper where his policies should be – it will be no surprise if Tories w | FORGET the polls and the focus groups. This is the week we’ll find out for sure if voters believe Sir Keir Starmer has what it takes to be PM. Elections are the only real test of public opinion. Thursday’s town hall skirmishes will reveal who is on track to win in 2024. After 13 years of Tory chaos, coups and convulsio... | BAD |
Wednesday briefing: Are standardised tests failing children? | Good morning. Almost everything about adulthood stinks, but it has one important benefit: nobody can ever make you take another exam. Who among us looks back fondly on turning over a sheaf of paper to find out which particular gaps in your knowledge are about to be ruthlessly exposed? And who doesn’t feel a shiver of s... | GOOD |
Press freedom should not be subject to the whims of MPs | The House of Commons will today hold a general debate on Ukraine, the first for several weeks. It is right that the military, diplomatic and political implications are regularly discussed in Parliament. This is the biggest geo-political crisis in Europe since 1945 and the conflict is turning into a proxy stand-off betw... | BAD |
Donald Perkins obituary | The particle physicist Donald Perkins, who has died aged 97, made seminal discoveries about the structure of the proton, and nuclear interactions at extreme energies, and first proposed the use of beams of pion particles in cancer therapy. His career spanned the birth of particle physics, as it emerged from studies of ... | GOOD |
‘Paris agreement’ for nature imperative at Cop15, architects of climate deal say | The architects of the Paris agreement have urged world leaders to reach an ambitious sister deal for nature at the Cop15 biodiversity conference this December while warning that limiting global heating to 1.5C is impossible without protecting and restoring ecosystems. On biodiversity day at the Cop27 climate conference... | GOOD |
You be the judge: should my girlfriend stop taking free samples from the same shop? | Irene goes to the same place every day for free hot chocolate – it’s so embarrassing My girlfriend Irene and I have different attitudes when it comes to customer service and free samples. I think this is down to the fact that Irene is from LA. Americans aren’t really bothered about stuff like going into the same shop e... | GOOD |
MPs and peers do worse than 10-year-olds in maths and English Sats | MPs and peers tasked with completing a year 6 Sats exam have scored lower results on average than the country’s 10-year-olds. MPs including Commons education select committee chair Robin Walker took part in the exams, invigilated by 11-year-olds, at a Westminster event organised by More Than A Score, who campaign for t... | GOOD |
Labour to restore whip to Neil Coyle after suspension over drunken abuse | Labour is to restore the party whip to Neil Coyle after the MP was suspended for drunken abuse and making racist comments to a journalist. Coyle was suspended in February last year after a complaint by Henry Dyer, a political reporter for the Insider website who now works for the Guardian, about the behaviour of the MP... | GOOD |
Look at what hedge funds really do – and tell me capitalism is about ‘rewarding risk’ | Coming up with economic policy is a difficult, unforgiving task. To make the best of it, it helps to work with an accurate model of how the economy works. If you use a misleading model and act on it, you can’t reasonably expect good outcomes: in that scenario, we end up, as JM Keynes warned in the 1930s, with “madmen i... | BAD |
A Brighter Tomorrow review – Nanni Moretti’s new film is bafflingly awful | Nanni Moretti is the Italian director who will always have a place in our hearts, not least for his masterly The Son’s Room (2001), in my view the greatest Cannes Palme d’Or winner of the century so far . And more recently his cinephile comedy Mia Madre (2015) was tremendous. But his new film in competition is baffling... | BAD |
IPL 2023: the state of play, stars so far and how England players are faring | Not much, just the first 68 games. The IPL is a curious beast: the biggest tournament in cricket, the richest in any ballgame, the greatest show in Asia – and yet eminently missable . Its bosses at the Indian board still haven’t worked out how to give it meaning. It works for the players and coaches, who get massive fe... | GOOD |
Australian Olympic boxer Harry Garside charged with assault | Olympic boxing medallist Harry Garside has been charged with assault after being arrested on his return to Australia from filming reality TV series I’m a Celebrity. Garside was taken into custody at Sydney international airport on Tuesday. Police launched an investigation into reports of an alleged domestic violence-re... | GOOD |
Fairbuds XL review: the excellent noise-cancelling headphones you can fix yourself | On first impressions, the Fairbuds XL are just another set of big, plush noise-cancelling Bluetooth headphones. But their novel design allows them to be easily dismantled for simple at-home repairs, making them some of the most sustainable on the market. Produced by repairable and Fairtrade electronics pioneer Fairphon... | GOOD |
German economy in recession after high prices take toll | Germany has fallen into recession, fresh figures have revealed, after high prices took a bigger toll on the country’s economy than originally estimated. Updated data released by German’s federal statistical office on Thursday showed gross domestic product (GDP) fell by 0.3% in the first quarter compared with the previo... | GOOD |
‘I can’t track him down to return his family album’: the things our exes left behind that we can’t bear to get rid of | Gwynne (left), now 38 and a producer in New York We met in 2007, when we were both living in New York. I had just moved from Kansas and Paul was a friend of a friend of my sister’s, who I was living with at the time. He was a Brit, working for a totally shady company that went door to door around all the pharmacies in ... | GOOD |
Gill Dorer obituary | My mother, Gill Dorer, who has died aged 78, was, among many things, director of services at Arthritis Care, a member of the General Medical Council (GMC), a director of the charity Relate and a magistrate. She sat on the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and the Chartered Society of Physioth... | GOOD |
A local’s guide to Brighton: the best galleries, museums, restaurants and pubs | Travel blogger Ellie Seymour ( ellieandco.co.uk ) has been based in Brighton for nearly 20 years. She is the author of the guidebooks Secret Brighton and Secret Sussex You can’t visit the seaside city of Brighton without having fish and chips, and where to get the best is hotly debated. One of my favourite spots is the... | GOOD |
Hollywood hypocrites fawn over ‘wife beater’ Johnny Depp but they’d never do that for female abuser, says U | NO one can deny that a seven-minute standing ovation for a man found by a judge in an English High Court case to be a domestic abuser is quite an achievement. Premiering his new film, Jeanne du Barry, at the Cannes Film Festival , Johnny Depp lapped up the warmth and applause from the audience and fans alike. This was ... | BAD |
Archbishop of Canterbury to criticise small boats bill in House of Lords | The archbishop of Canterbury will make a rare intervention in the House of Lords to join dozens of peers condemning the government’s flagship asylum bill. Justin Welby will argue against measures championed by Rishi Sunak and Suella Braverman that seek to criminalise people seeking refuge in the UK if they arrive on sm... | GOOD |
I took my kids to the playground without bringing my phone – and it was a revelation | It is a truism of parenting that it goes so fast, but as anyone who has been forced to sit on a bench and watch their children run tireless circuits of the playground knows, sometimes it goes so slowly you feel as if you’re losing your mind. I know people who will do anything to avoid playground duty, will beg their fr... | BAD |
Spanish police make arrests over ‘hate crimes’ targeting Vinícius Júnior | Spanish police have arrested three people in connection with the racist abuse suffered by Real Madrid’s Brazilian forward Vinícius Júnior during a match with Valencia on Sunday, and detained a further four suspects over an effigy of the player that was hung from a bridge in Madrid four months ago. In a brief statement ... | GOOD |
New rail strikes targeting FA Cup final and Epsom Derby amount to a spiteful punishment beating for the | THE new rail strikes are even more spiteful than we’ve come to expect. Britain is used to walkouts orchestrated by unions both to extract more money and cause chaos for the Tories they despise. Aslef’s latest timing amounts to a punishment beating for the public . So much for working-class struggle! These stoppages, l... | BAD |
GPs and pharmacies are the very heart of our communities. Here’s how we’ll transform them | PEOPLE sometimes talk about their GP as if they were a close friend or even a member of the family. When I was growing up, that was the reality. My dad was a GP and Mum ran the local pharmacy. They were at the heart of our community, the friendly face of the NHS and the first port of call for anyone worried about their... | BAD |
After the earthquakes, it’s women and girls in Turkey feeling the aftershocks | In Turkey’s southern province of Hatay, one of the most ravaged cities in the recent earthquakes , 25-year-old Alev Altun, the mother of two young children, became homeless in one night, like thousands of others. Having nowhere to go, she agreed to take refuge in the house of her ex-husband, on his invitation, assuming... | BAD |
Paralysed man walks using device that reconnects brain with muscles | A man who was paralysed in a cycling accident in 2011 has been able to stand and walk with an aid after doctors implanted a device that reads his brain waves and sends instructions to his spine to move the right muscles. Gert-Jan Oskam, 40, was told he would never walk again after breaking his neck in a traffic acciden... | GOOD |
Banned British sprinter CJ Ujah cleared of deliberately taking drugs at Olympics | The British 100m sprinter CJ Ujah has been cleared of deliberately taking banned drugs by the Athletics Integrity Unit and the World Anti-Doping Agency, and will be free to return to competition next year. Ujah led off Team GB men’s 4x100m relay team as they won silver at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021 only to test positiv... | GOOD |
UK immigration stats: headline figure will not tell the whole story | The release of official statistics is often the focus of political scrutiny, but the latest annual figures for overall net migration to the UK, due Thursday at 9.30am, are sufficiently anticipated they have prompted two separate policy announcements already. On Tuesday, Suella Braverman rushed through a plan to reduce ... | BAD |
Tory pledge to build 40 ‘new’ England hospitals likely to be delayed until after 2030 | The health secretary is set to signal a major delay to one of the headline promises in the last Conservative manifesto by suggesting the delivery of 40 new hospitals in England is likely to be pushed back until after 2030. In a move that will spark anger among MPs who wanted “spades in the ground” before the next elect... | GOOD |
The Guardian has called everything from gardening to the countryside racist – but the real problem is t | A PRETTY cast-iron rule in life is that people are what they accuse you of. Nowhere is this truer than in the modern Left’s obsession with calling everyone else a racist. If you believe in controlled borders you are a “racist”. If you believe in limiting immigration you are a “racist”. If you are proud of your country ... | BAD |
This is no victory day for Vladimir Putin | At the outset of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine , May 9 was seen by many analysts as the likely end of the operation. The assumption was that Moscow’s overwhelming military would soon subjugate its neighbour, forcing a surrender and the removal of the government in Kyiv to be replaced by a pro-Kremlin leadership. This wa... | BAD |
One in five people in UK suffer from misophonia, researchers find | If the sound of someone chewing gum or slurping their tea gets on your nerves, you are not alone. Researchers say almost one in five people in the UK has strong negative reactions to such noises. Misophonia is a disorder in which people feel strong emotional responses to certain sounds, feeling angry, distressed or eve... | GOOD |
Premier Inn owner surpasses pre-Covid profits as travellers seek deals | The owner of Premier Inn has said profits have surpassed pre-pandemic levels as the UK’s biggest budget hotel chain benefits from a surge in demand from cost-conscious holidaymakers. Whitbread, which runs almost 900 hotels in the UK and Germany as well as restaurant chains including Beefeater, Bar & Block and Brewers F... | GOOD |
Central banks ‘risk losing trust if they cannot tame inflation’ | Central banks risk losing public trust if they fail to bring down high rates of inflation found across the developed world, according to the boss of the body that advises them. Agustín Carstens, the director of the Bank of International Settlements, said central bankers needed to maintain a tough stance against inflati... | GOOD |
John Sentamu forced to step down from C of E after failing to act on abuse claims | The former archbishop of York has been forced to step down from duties after failing to act on allegations of sexual abuse. John Sentamu last week rejected the findings of a report that found he failed to act on disclosures that a C of E vicar repeatedly raped a teenage boy in the 1980s. He claimed the report’s author,... | GOOD |
Putin doesn’t care that 20,000 of his soldiers are dead, he’ll get more – unless powerful forces in Moscow | IN the struggle for freedom in Ukraine, a crater-strewn quagmire called Highway T0504 is taking on historic significance. It is the last route out of the city of Bakhmut for the country’s troops, whose fierce resistance has taken the lives of an estimated 10,000 Wagner Russian mercenaries in the past six months, accord... | BAD |
Carmelo Anthony’s flawed genius hit different because I saw his faults in myself | I wasn’t prepared for Carmelo Anthony’s retirement announcement . One, because I thought he would, and should, play a few more years. He was still in game shape and could bring a veteran scoring presence to any team in the NBA. The second reason is because I am in the middle of the most consequential separation of my a... | GOOD |
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