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    EU trade
    UK ready to build ‘closer, more mature’ trade links with EU

  • A yellow Covid warning sign in Cardiff, Wales, during the pandemic

    Coronavirus
    Woman wins payout after Boss coughed in her face during Covid pandemic

    • US
      Trump shooting motive remains elusive as FBI pores over suspect’s home town

    • Social care
      Hospital discharges limiting home care in England, councils say

    • Water industry
      Every water firm in England and Wales under investigation over sewage spills

    • Climate crisis
      Climate crisis is making days longer, study finds

    • Africa
      Kidnappings soar in central Africa’s ‘triangle of death’

    • Science
      Butter made from CO2 not cows tastes like ‘the real thing’, claims start up

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    Northern Ireland
    ‘DUP took us for fools’: few in North Antrim mourn fall of House of Paisley

  • Michael Towers - ADHD - Longread

    ADHD
    ‘A diagnosis can sweep away guilt’: the delicate art of treating ADHD

    The long read:For children with ADHD, getting the help they need depends on being correctly diagnosed. As a doctor, I have seen how tricky and frustrating a process that can be
  • A woman on a tree-lined path stands near two dogs

    Israel
    ‘I’ve seen many wars’: residents along Israel’s Lebanon boundary brace for conflict

    Few remain in Rosh HaNikra, a seaside kibbutz on Israel’s northern front, as war with Hezbollah looms

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    Life and style
    Brat summer: is the long era of clean living finally over?

    Charli xcx’s new album, Brat, highlights how many young women currently aspire to live – dirty, hedonistic, happy and bra-less. Well, it beats journalling after a long day of pilates...
  • Hannah Platt posing with bouffant red hair and a stylised nosebleed that meets her red lipstick

    Comedy
    Hannah Platt: ‘I’m a crotchety old man trapped in the body of a little girl’

  • A metered water bill from Water Plus claimed a church owed £500.

    Consumer champions
    Debt collectors are chasing my 84-year-old mother over a water bill

    Water Plus wants £500 it says a tiny Methodist church in Cheshire owes
  • A man holds a large piece of seaweed over his head

    On our plate
    ‘Instead of crisps, kids could eat snacks from the sea’: the forager chef looking to revolutionise Chile’s diet

    From ‘sea carrots’ to the rubbery luga, Rodolfo Guzmán is on a mission to transform seaweed’s unique salty flavours into irresistible bites
    • Hidden depths of flavour … miso soup.

      Food
      The miso miracle: how to use the ingredient that makes every dish delicious

    • Gendarmes, soldiers and Resistance fighters escort German prisoners through Paris during the city’s liberation on 25 August 1944.

      Book of the day
      Paris ’44: The Shame and the Glory by Patrick Bishop review – a gripping account of the City of Light’s liberation

    • South Wheal Frances in Camborne is part of the Cornish mining world heritage site

      Travel
      Where tourists seldom tread, part 10: four more towns with hidden histories

    • An illustration of a heatpump with a figure scratching their head and a photograph of a gas boiler in the background.

      Mythbusters
      Will heat pumps cause blackouts?

Opinion

  • Reform party leader Nigel Farage speaking to the media following his election win in Clacton-on-Sea, Essex, 5 July

    I went to see how the Tories are handling defeat – and found Faragism and a total lack of reflection

    Polly Toynbee
    Even after election wipeout, the Conservatives are too blinded by ideology to see their voters don’t want a Reform merger
  • Labour Cuts

    We are public sector workers – this is how more cuts would wreck our NHS, courts, councils and universities

    Our panel responds
  • A group of people in a crowd hold up red signs reading 'Trump' and 'Make America great again.'

    Trump is an authoritarian who must not win. Saying that is not inciting violence

    Jan-Werner Müller
    No one should accept the idea that that opposing Trump’s authoritarian aspirations is equal to incitement to violence
  • Britain’s citizens' climate assembly in Birmingham in 2020

    Citizens’ assemblies could work wonders for Labour and Britain – but only if they’re more than a talking shop

    Richard Wilson
    In France and Ireland, assemblies are laboratories of democracy. They can be here too, if politicians commit to adopting their ideas
    • Food bank items at Peckham Pantry in London.

      Where’s the cash for child hunger? Labour is running out of time to find it

      Frances Ryan
    • Upset black woman reads bad news in letter

      The secret social housing scandal: when your parent dies – and you are evicted in days

      Kwajo Tweneboa
    • Keir Starmer with US president Joe Biden and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy at a Nato summit in Washington DC, 11 July 2024

      How can Keir Starmer keep Britain safe? As the US withdraws, he must renew the UK’s role in Europe

      Mark Leonard
    • Lisa Nandy in Downing Street on 5 July 2024

      Forget the football! Eleven days into a Labour government, here are reasons to be hopeful

      Zoe Williams

Editorials & Letters

  • Three boys in Ukraine pretend to be soldiers in one of Francis Alÿs’s films about children at play

    The Guardian view
    Outdoor play: ministers should give it a whirl

  • Giorgia Meloni with Viktor Orbán.

    The Guardian view
    The far right in Brussels: the centre must do more than hold

  • The shadow of a young girl or boy playing on a swing.

    Letters
    Even Nigel Farage opposes the two-child cap. Labour must scrap it

  • A mugshot of Lucy Letby.

    Letters
    The Lucy Letby trial and the limits of expert opinion

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Climate crisis

  • Firefighters help a woman into an ambulance for heat-related symptoms

    US
    Millions face extreme temperatures as heat dome covers US midwest and east

  • Smoke billows from a large steel plant in China

    Climate crisis
    China’s emissions of two potent greenhouse gases rise 78% in decade

  • A yellow electric Renault 5

    Electric vehicles
    Sceptics say EVs will overwhelm the grid. In fact, they could be part of the solution

  • Ed Miliband walks along a street in London.

    Cop29
    Ed Miliband to lead UK negotiations at Cop29 climate summit

From the UK

  • Deputy prime minister Angela Rayner walks outside Downing Street, wearing a white dress

    Devolution
    Labour to invite England’s ‘devolution deserts’ to take on more power

    Angela Rayner writing to council leaders without devolved responsibilities to offer chance for greater autonomy
  • Gordon Brown speaking at the LSE

    Education
    Gordon Brown calls on ministers not to scrap T-level qualification

  • The Ukrainian flag is flown above the roof of 10 Downing Street in London alongside a union jack, April 2022. Both flags are seen against a bright blue sky with just a small dark triangle of the roof, a chimney and some scaffolding also in the picture.

    Immigration
    Ukrainian refugees at risk of homelessness and exploitation in UK, report finds

  • Rare surviving 17th-century decorative paper cuttings discovered under floorboards at Sutton House

    Heritage
    Rare examples of 17th-century paper-cutting ‘saved from skip’ to go on display

    • Care
      Fifth of UK hospices cutting services amid funding crisis, finds report

    • Defence
      UK and its allies face ‘deadly quartet’ of nations, says defence expert

    • Society
      ADHD digital test approved for NHS use in England and Wales

    • Spain
      Body found in area where Jay Slater went missing in Tenerife

    • Education
      Rich-poor education gap grows for 16-year-olds in almost all of England

    • Youth justice
      Feltham YOI found to be most violent prison in England and Wales

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  • Palestinians mourning at Al-Aqsa Martyr's Hospital in Deir al-Balah, Gaza.

    Israel-Gaza war live
    US warns of ‘serious concern’ about recent civilian casualties in Gaza

    The US secretary of state reportedly told senior Israeli leaders they must do more to reduce civilian casualties
  • Joe Biden talks to people welcoming him after stepping off Air Force One in Las Vegas, Nevada.

    US
    Biden says he meant ‘focus on’ Trump when asked about ‘bullseye’ remark

  • US Federal Reserve Chair Powell speaks at the Economic Club in Washington, DC.

    Business live
    UK grocery inflation falls to 1.6%; Fed chair Powell hints at US rate cuts

  • Hundreds of people stand with their hands on their heads as security forces wearing all black walk through.

    Human rights
    Thousands of children swept up in El Salvador mass arrests, rights body says

    • Animals
      Reptiles targeted across Bangladesh after rise in sightings of Russell’s viper

    • Elon Musk
      Billionaire reportedly plans to give $45m a month to pro-Trump Super Pac

    • Rwanda
      Rwanda's Paul Kagame cruises to crushing election victory

    • Environment
      World’s rarest whale may have washed up on New Zealand beach

    • Trump trials
      Judge dismisses criminal classified documents case against Trump

    • European Union
      Top EU officials to boycott informal meetings hosted by Hungary

Culture

  • A man and a woman hold onto a ladder and each other as they scale the side of a building

    Film
    Skywalkers: A Love Story review – ‘rooftopping’ couple chase thrills in Netflix documentary

    A daredevil Russian couple who climb to the tops of skyscrapers make for both frustrating and thrilling protagonists in this hit-and-miss documentary
  • Annabel Scholey and Louise Brealey with cheering women in blue uniforms, gloves and hairnets in background

    Film
    Chuck Chuck Baby review – emotionally charged musical drama rules the roost

  • Jenna Coleman as Ember in The Jetty

    TV
    The Jetty review – could this be the new Happy Valley?

  • Close-up of woman and daughter

    Film
    Janet Planet review – mother-daughter relationship unfolds in dreamy summer haze

  • Aemond Targaryen (Ewan Mitchell) in House of the Dragon

    TV
    House of the Dragon: season two, episode five recap – here come some newbies to turn up the heat again

  • Isobel Yeung meets a criminal who sells stolen UK mobile phones to gangs in China in Dispatches: Britain’s Unsolved Crimewave

    TV tonight
    The UK neighbourhoods where 100% of crimes go unsolved

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    I dreamed my best friend was gossiping about me. Why did I feel hurt after?

    Dream emotions can carry over, but our memories of dreams aren’t always accurate. Here’s what experts say
  • ‘I got a call from Webster’s saying, we put your name in the dictionary, and it means outstanding, unbelievable’ … Beamon in South Carolina.

    Fascinating Olympians
    Abused, expelled, orphaned at eight months: how athlete Bob Beamon beat the odds – and became a legend

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    Pass notes
    Holey socks: should we all follow Jude Bellingham’s lead?

  • Boots and other items on display in a Burberry Group store in London

    Analysis
    Burberry must end emphasis on shock factor and focus on being loved again

  • A person darning socks

    Closet clinic
    Darn it! How to mend holey socks at home

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    The pet I'll never forget
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    Samoa
    ‘Our whole country is behind them’: Samoa’s weightlifters chasing Olympic glory

  • Woman in a hijab trying to feed three tiny babies with bottles in a tent.

    Israel-Gaza war
    Living in a tent with premature triplets: how fear and anxiety haunt Gaza’s new mothers

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    Spain
    ‘Huge scars’: novelist finds a fractured Spain in its half-built houses

  • Keir Starmer speaks at a Nato event.

    Politics
    Starmer must use EPC forum to offer hopeful vision for Europe’s future

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