Owen Jones meets Extinction Rebellion: 'We're the planet's fire alarm' - video

For the last 10 days Extinction Rebellion has blocked roads, railways and bridges in a campaign of peaceful civil disobedience. Now that the period of action has wound down, Owen Jones asks some of the organisers what they have achieved, what they’re planning next and whether it’s capitalism itself that they should be protesting against

Fri, 26 Apr 2019 20:01:06 GMT

Tell us what it's like running or joining a family business

If your family has a business that multiple generations have been involved in, we’d like to hear from you

Have your family worked for or owned a business for generations? We’d like to know about the challenges and highlights of being part of a business that has been influenced by generations of your family.

Perhaps you currently work for the family business, or are planning to go into it at a later date? Or maybe you’ve inherited a family enterprise that involves a craft or skill that is now a rarity and you want to keep it going, or even modernise it. Do you and other family members agree on the direction of your work or has there been friction?

Thu, 25 Apr 2019 12:15:01 GMT

Amnesty International staff braced for redundancies

Up to 70 jobs will go amid concerns that cuts will marginalise Amnesty causes such as torture and the arms trade

Human rights workers at Amnesty International are braced for scores of redundancies after the management admitted to a hole in its budget of up to £17m to the end of 2020.

Up to 70 jobs will go in voluntary and compulsory layoffs amid a slump in donations and a multi-million pound increase in spending on fundraising, the Guardian has learned. Staff have been told the organisation will be reshaped in line with the vision of recently appointed secretary general, Kumi Naidoo, who wants to increase Amnesty’s work on climate change and economic rights. There are concerns that cuts will marginalise in depth research on totemic Amnesty causes such as the death penalty, torture and the arms trade.

Sat, 27 Apr 2019 05:00:42 GMT

Anna Sorokin proves we’re all soft touches for glamour scammers | Rebecca Nicholson

There’s a reason why the story of the sham heiress is fascinating – in our phoney world any one of us could be conned

On Thursday, in a New York courtroom, Anna Sorokin was convicted of a litany of charges: four counts of theft of services, three of grand larceny and one of attempted grand larceny. The story of her brief, bright career as a scammer, when she floated around the city claiming to be an heiress called Anna Delvey, on a cycle of borrowing and defaulting, has proved so gripping that it is already being turned into competing projects. A New York magazine report from 2018 was optioned for Netflix; a Vanity Fair story, written by the photojournalist who had been swindled by Sorokin (and who testified against her), is being adapted for HBO by Lena Dunham.

Sorokin’s convictions, for which she faces a prison sentence and deportation to Germany, make her the latest in a line of high-level fakers elevated to celebrity status by our fascination. It’s no wonder that Netflix and HBO are involved in turning the saga into entertainment: from the Fyre festival to Elizabeth Holmes, the disgraced CEO of Theranos (not, in a week of Avengers overload, to be confused with Thanos), tales of people promising something they could never, or never intended to, deliver are everywhere.

Sat, 27 Apr 2019 14:00:09 GMT

Police reassess terror warning signs as hunt for accomplices goes on

Series of incidents being reconsidered as red flags militants were becoming more violent

All day people were coming in and out of the house with the pale-pink walls, and neighbours were becoming suspicious. An elder in the village of the eastern Sri Lankan city of Kalmunai was summoned to confront the men who had rented the property a few weeks before.

The discussion soon became tense, and a tall, well-built man whom the elder did not recognise walked out of the house carrying an automatic weapon. “You have no business being here,” he said, according to the elder, firing a few rounds into the air and sending neighbours fleeing.

Sat, 27 Apr 2019 15:13:29 GMT

Can a home-testing kit tell me if I’m menopausal? | Zoe Williams

It turns out that numbers don’t necessarily tell the whole story

• Fitness tips: what you need to know about perimenopause

“Are you sure you want to do a home hormone test?” my editor asked. “Are you sure it’s not too personal?” Why would that be personal, I think. This is stuff I make without trying. It’s not even as revealing as keeping a food diary. Then two tests arrived from medical test-by-post company Thriva; one female baseline hormone test and one menopause test, so I realised that actually, yeah, that is pretty personal.

There are a couple of reasons why someone might want to test. If you’re trying to figure out why you’re not getting pregnant, you can wait a long time for investigations on the NHS. If you’re having menopausal symptoms, you might want to confirm the hunch so you can make a decision about hormone replacement therapy (HRT). If you’re just curious... well, this is what happened with me.

Sat, 27 Apr 2019 06:00:41 GMT

Terror in Sri Lanka – podcast

On Easter Sunday, explosions across Sri Lanka killed hundreds of people and wounded many more. As the country reels in shock, Michael Safi describes reporting in the aftermath. Plus: the Guardian’s chief political correspondent, Jessica Elgot, on what to expect from Brexit now parliament is back

On Easter Sunday, eight explosions killed more than 321 people in Sri Lanka, including 45 children, and left over 500 wounded. It was among the worst terrorist attacks worldwide since 9/11.

The Sri Lankan government has been criticised for a serious security lapse before the suicide bombings, after it was alerted that the terrorist group National Thowheeth Jama’ath was planning to attack churches, but failed to take action against them or pass on the warning. Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the bombings, though as yet there is no evidence to back this up. Sri Lanka’s defence minister said it appeared the attacks were in retaliation for the recent mass shooting in Christchurch, New Zealand.

Wed, 24 Apr 2019 02:00:08 GMT

Anonymous comes to town: the hackers who took on high school sexual assault in Ohio – documentary

The sleepy rustbelt town of Steubenville, Ohio, was once best known for high school sports and as the birthplace of Dean Martin. But when a teen sexual assault committed by two members of the football team surfaced, the shadowy hacker group Anonymous caught wind of the story and decided to intervene. After publishing videos and social media from the night of the assault to their millions of online followers, they sparked viral outrage and demands for #JusticeforJaneDoe. They unleashed a passionate mob and their actions divided the small town, but in the process gave strength to generations of women forced to hide abuse. This film asks, when it seems like nothing will change, when is it OK for outsiders to intervene?

Thu, 18 Apr 2019 11:00:22 GMT

Mario Vrancic blasts Norwich past Blackburn and into the Premier League

Norwich confirmed their return to the Premier League with a swagger, winning here with the brio that has become a leitmotif under their German manager, Daniel Farke. Marco Stiepermann scored early and Mario Vrancic soon added a second and, despite Lewis Travis’s goal for Blackburn, Norwich never looked like collapsing to a defeat that would have delayed their promotion to the top flight after a three-year absence. They will go up as title winners if they earn a point or more next week at Aston Villa.

Norwich knew it would take freakish results in the last week of the season to deny them promotion but Farke was warning against complacency. Few managers know better than him how quickly fortunes can change. There were some Norwich fans who wanted rid of him earlier this season, when his team mustered one win in their first six league matches, an ominous start on the back of last season’s ho-hum 14th-place finish. But the faithless did not get their wish and instead Farke demonstrated the benefit of giving a good manager time to cultivate a fluent team.

Sat, 27 Apr 2019 20:27:01 GMT

The week in wildlife – in pictures

Hungry bears, busy bees and disappearing penguins

Fri, 26 Apr 2019 16:20:57 GMT

Trieste half-marathon accused of racism in excluding Africans

Organisers say move is intended to highlight the exploitation of African athletes in Europe

The organisers of a half-marathon in the northern Italian city of Trieste have been accused of racism over their decision to exclude African athletes from the race.

Fabio Carini, the president of Apd Miramar, the company organising the 5 May event, said the decision to only open the race to European participants was to call out the exploitation of African runners.

Sat, 27 Apr 2019 14:03:17 GMT

‘We’re just proud to be Spanish’: why the far right is finding fertile ground

Vox could sway some 10% of voters in today’s election, many of them from neglected towns like Parla near Madrid…

The tramline that snakes through Parla passes an Extremaduran food shop dense with chorizo, cheese, ham and honey, a billboard for a real estate company catering to the Chinese community and the Titanic grocery shop, which offers couscous and not just halal meat but “100% halal meat”.

On either side of its winding tracks, on shopfronts, on faces, on clothes and in the conversations overheard on the streets, is written the story of the many and varied communities that have fuelled Parla’s growth over the past 50 years, transforming this small town half an hour from Madrid into a commuter sprawl of 128,000 people. Despite the town’s proximity to the capital, many of its residents feel overlooked and forgotten by successive central, regional and local governments.

Sat, 27 Apr 2019 17:00:11 GMT

Leftwing activists join gilets jaunes for peaceful Paris protest

Figures from radical left and trade unionists join march as clashes break out in Strasbourg

Thousands of trade unionists and activists from leftwing parties marched with gilet jaune (yellow vest) protesters through Paris on Saturday to present a united front against French President Emmanuel Macron’s latest reforms package.

The demonstration, which passed off peacefully, came before the main gilets jaunes march in the eastern city of Strasbourg, where protesters clashed with police trying to enforce a ban in parts of the city centre.

Sat, 27 Apr 2019 17:01:43 GMT

Iran accused of ‘playing games’ over Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe

Husband Richard Ratcliffe angry at retraction of prisoner swap deal but still hopes for release on health grounds

The husband of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, the British-Iranian woman detained in Iran since 2016 on spying charges, has accused the authorities in Tehran of “playing games” with his family’s hopes, as he called on the Foreign Office to escalate its attempts to secure her release by the summer.

Richard Ratcliffe said he was still hopeful his wife would soon be released on health grounds, after she was finally allowed to have tests and MRI scans to determine whether the lumps in her breasts are cancerous. But speaking a day after the Iranian foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, appeared to retract an offer of a prisoner swap, Ratcliffe spoke angrily of the authorities who have separated his wife from him and their four-year-old daughter, Gabriella.

Sat, 27 Apr 2019 12:00:06 GMT

Federal election week three roundup: kicking goals, avoiding questions – video

Each week of the 2019 Australian federal election campaign, Guardian Australia takes a quick look back at the hot topics. Week three began with a combative, half-hour interview with Barnaby Joyce which failed to shed any light on a Murray-Darling water deal. Bill Shorten was more polite, but not much more forthcoming, on Labor's approach to Adani. On the other hand, there was a heap of sport and plenty of circus action

Fri, 26 Apr 2019 07:55:05 GMT

#enough is not enough if PFA wants to be convincing on anti-racism | Daniel Taylor

Reactions to the social-media boycott show the players’ union still has much to do to win over sceptics and persuade Twitter et al to act

It wasn’t easy at first to know what to make of the Professional Footballers’ Association’s #enough campaign. It was difficult to be sure if it was genuinely the work of its equalities team or an idea dreamt up by a PR agency. A suspicious mind might have wondered whether the relevant people needed some positive publicity after all that unfortunate business with Gordon Taylor and, even if you were willing to give them the benefit of the doubt, I couldn’t help but feel they were pushing their luck to think a 24-hour boycott of social media, a hashtag and a new buzzword would make a lasting difference.

More than anything, it all felt, well, a bit tame. This was the first time ever in England and Wales that the people who play the sport professionally had been invited to protest, as one, about the racism many of them have to endure. It needed something impactful. Yet, somehow, I am not sure this was it. Unless I am being unfair to assume the general response at Uefa and Fifa headquarters could probably be summed up, in modern parlance, with the shrugged-shoulder emoji. And, regrettably, I don’t think I am.

Sat, 27 Apr 2019 20:00:14 GMT

Extinction Rebellion activists stage die-in protests across globe

Environmental protesters lie on ground at transport hubs, venues and shopping centres

Extinction Rebellion supporters around the world have held a series of mass die-ins to highlight the risk of the human race becoming extinct asa result of climate change.

Sat, 27 Apr 2019 18:15:19 GMT

US issues warrant for accused ringleader of North Korean embassy raid in Spain

Adrian Hong Chang sought by Spain in connection with alleged raid, but lawyer says this is based on ‘unreliable’ North Korean account

US authorities are focused on southern California in their manhunt for a one-time human rights activist accused of leading a violent takeover of North Korea’s embassy in Spain, according to a federal arrest warrant unsealed on Friday.

Adrian Hong Chang is wanted by Spain in connection with the alleged embassy raid in February, but his lawyer denounced the US Justice Department for seeking his arrest and extradition based on “the highly unreliable accounts of North Korean government witnesses”.

Sat, 27 Apr 2019 03:17:02 GMT

How we live together: the teenager and her dad

I think he’s perfect and I don’t want him to ever get a girlfriend

Chloe was in nursery and gearing up for school when she came to live with me full-time. All my focus was on giving her a warm and loving home. I think she was so young that the change didn’t upset her and we quickly got into a routine that suited us both. She remembers living next door to her friends but doesn’t remember living with her mum and sadly she hasn’t had contact with her for a long time. I’d encourage any man in a similar position to get support from Dadshouse.

Sat, 27 Apr 2019 08:30:01 GMT

Is it worth carbon offsetting flights – and how should I do it?

I’m worried about the environment, but I’m not sure which schemes I can trust

Every week a Guardian Money reader submits a question, and it’s up to you to help him or her out – a selection of the best answers will appear in next Saturday’s paper.

Like Emma Thompson, I take flights but am worried about the impact on the environment. I see various “carbon offset” schemes but never know what it is I’m really paying for, and which companies or sites I should really trust. Is it a good thing to spend money on, and which is best?

Sat, 27 Apr 2019 06:00:52 GMT

From 'consent football' to 'pin the organ on the body': sex education around the world

As the British debate around how to talk to children about sex intensifies, teachers and students explain how it’s done across the globe

Adults have long been squeamish over talking to children about sex. We have a history of complicated and conflicting attitudes: sex has been seen as simultaneously joyous and desirable (so long as it is between a young couple after marriage and in the interest of begetting babies), but also as dark and dirty, something from which children must be protected.

Religion and paternalism, rooted in a historic cult of virginity at marriage and the ownership of women, continue to influence the debate over sex and relationship education (SRE) around the globe. Even in countries such as the UK, many adults do not feel comfortable with the idea that children can have sexual feelings, particularly if they are LGBT feelings. The parents who object to the government plans for sex education in primary schools talk of the need to “protect childhood innocence”, as if sex is something corrupting or wrong.

Sat, 27 Apr 2019 07:00:47 GMT

Bernardine Evaristo: ‘I want to put presence into absence’

The British writer on bringing more black female characters into fiction, her experimental style, and exploring non-mainstream history

Bernardine Evaristo is the award-winning British-Nigerian author of eight books. Born in London in 1959, she is professor of creative writing at Brunel University London and a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Her new novel Girl, Woman, Other spans 20th- and 21st-century Britain and features 12 interconnected characters, mostly women, black and British.

Your new novel focuses closely on people who are often ‘othered’. What were your motivations?
I wanted to put presence into absence. I was very frustrated that black British women weren’t visible in literature. I whittled it down to 12 characters – I wanted them to span from a teenager to someone in their 90s, and see their trajectory from birth, though not linear. There are many ways in which otherness can be interpreted in the novel – the women are othered in so many ways and sometimes by each other. I wanted it to be identified as a novel about women as well.

Sat, 27 Apr 2019 17:00:13 GMT

High-density megacities: the photographs of Michael Wolf

Hong Kong-based photographer Michael Wolf is best known for Architecture of Density, which shows the city’s tower blocks as dramatic geometric abstractions, and Tokyo Compression, which captures rush hour on the Japanese capital’s subway. He died this week aged 64

How Michael Wolf captured the melancholy of our teeming cities

Fri, 26 Apr 2019 16:37:55 GMT

How to be an agile business: lessons from TransferWise and Farmdrop

Success in a digital age means building a solid IT infrastructure that supports the core business needs of your company

When ethical grocer Farmdrop first launched in 2012, founder Ben Pugh wanted to create an online farmers’ market connecting customers with producers selling local, seasonal food. In terms of technology, it wasn’t terribly sophisticated – customers would log on, place an order and pick it up at an allotted time each week at a nominated “drop” spot, often a local pub, town hall, school or cafe.

It was an interesting concept, but one that was slow to take off. “We just weren’t growing at the rate we wanted to, to become sustainable as a business,” marketing manager Damian Hind says. “It was when we decided to move to home delivery that the service became all the more compelling and customers were much more interested.”

Mon, 28 Jan 2019 14:44:50 GMT

A letter to my grandmother, who watched fiery terror destroy Guernica

‘You told me how you saw waves of planes arriving, heard the crump of bombs and the terrible noise’: the letter you always wanted to write

I’ll write this in English as you are long dead. I never really knew you – my mother was young and you were old – and I met you just a handful of times.

I remember only one conversation with you, standing on the balcony of a flat near Bilbao in Spain, in about 1975. It was my aunt’s home, although it was your home really. It was the same balcony from which my aunt would later throw herself to her death.

Sat, 27 Apr 2019 05:45:41 GMT

Mo Farah believes lessons learned will help in his London Marathon bid

Britain’s No1 has endured a tough few days away from running but hopes he can get back on track and challenge the marathon world record holder, Eliud Kipchoge

Storm Hannah may have blown over but the clouds hanging over Sir Mo Farah have stubbornly refused to dissipate. As he prepared for Sunday’s London marathon, he has been on the front pages and the back, accused of starting a “brawl” with another athlete, getting shirty with a gym instructor for “copying his routine” and not paying a hotel bill.

To make matters worse he has also faced renewed questions over his relationship with the controversial coach Jama Aden, who faces doping charges by Spanish police, as well as more negative stories in Sunday’s papers. And yet, as Farah prepares to line up for the London Marathon, he is convinced he can do better than last year, when he finished third on a broiling hot day.

Sat, 27 Apr 2019 21:00:16 GMT

Public thinks EU referendum was bad idea, says poll

Opinium finds even Conservative voters on balance think it would have been better for UK not to have held vote

More than half the public – 55% – now think it would have been better never to have held the EU referendum given the difficulties of reaching an agreement on Brexit, according to the latest Opinium/Observer poll.

Strikingly, more Conservative voters (49%) now think the referendum was a bad idea than believe it was the right thing to have done (43%).

Sat, 27 Apr 2019 18:51:10 GMT

Fab-u-lous! Dancing queen Darcey Bussell at 50 – in pictures

Darcey Bussell, former Royal Ballet principal and Strictly Come Dancing judge, turns 50 on 27 April. We look back at the career of the most famous British ballerina of her generation

Sat, 27 Apr 2019 06:00:46 GMT

The Heat of the Moment review – a firefighter’s memoir of survival

A fire officer with an extraordinary life story provides a vivid account of the horrors of facing the flames

It’s no surprise that the TV rights to this memoir by the firefighter Sabrina Cohen-Hatton have been snapped up; her life story is more dramatic than most soap operas. Homeless at 15 after the death of her father, she sold the Big Issue on the streets for two years before joining the fire service, the first woman ever to serve in her Welsh valleys posting: “I wanted to help rescue other people because no one had rescued me.” In 18 years, she has attended countless incidents, from warehouse fires to road accidents. She has risen up the ranks to become deputy chief fire officer in Surrey, and has led major incident rooms for the Westminster and Finsbury Park terror attacks.

Who should she rescue first, the children trapped in a car with their dead father, or the unconscious man in the other vehicle?

Sat, 27 Apr 2019 10:00:09 GMT

Scotland's salmon crisis: 'Anglers only want one. But it's just not happening'

On the Tweed, Atlantic fish have all but disappeared. Changes out at sea are stopping them coming back

Kevin Patterson was delighted when he saw the salmon suddenly jump from the Tweed. Moments later, it happened again and then once more. Such sightings have become remarkably rare. “We’ve got to the stage where we say: ‘Bloody hell, I saw a salmon,’” he said. “That’s a good-sized fish.”

Patterson has been a ghillie, a Gaelic term for attendant, on this mile-long stretch of the Tweed for nearly 30 years. He gives expert advice to his anglers, and this is one of the worst seasons in living memory. The Atlantic salmon that once crowded the water have disappeared.

Sat, 27 Apr 2019 06:00:51 GMT

Kurt Weill opera silenced by Nazis to be heard again after 80 years

Comic work by German composer has been reinterpreted for modern audiences

German composer Kurt Weill is ranked high among the best of the 20th century and his music remains popular outside the classical world, from the enduring jazz standard Mack the Knife in his Threepenny Opera, to the Alabama Song covered by the Doors and David Bowie. But not all of Weill’s melodies survived the Nazi clampdown on Jewish culture.

Now, thanks to the work of an academic at University College London, a suppressed Weill stage hit that posed a puzzle for modern musicians is to be revived and performed in a fresh translation. The research of Michael Berkowitz, professor of Jewish history at UCL, in collaboration with the show’s new translator and director, Leo Doulton, has unlocked the mystery of The Tsar Wants His Photograph Taken and made it clear why this satirical work of 1927 was once so heavily suppressed. A performance on 4 May, the first with a full professional cast and orchestra for almost 40 years, will at last set the opera in its proper context, after 80 years of being largely ignored both in Germany and elsewhere.

Sat, 27 Apr 2019 13:30:00 GMT

Idris Elba marries Sabrina Dhowre in Morocco

British actor and Canadian model exchange vows at hotel in Marrakesh, according to British Vogue

Idris Elba has tied the knot with girlfriend Sabrina Dhowre in a ceremony in Morocco.

In photographs shared by British Vogue on Instagram, the bride wore a custom gown by Vera Wang, while the Luther actor wore a bespoke suit by Ozwald Boateng.

Sat, 27 Apr 2019 13:39:38 GMT

Are our blueberries radioactive? The fallout from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster 30 years on

On 26 April 1986, the worst nuclear accident in human history occurred in the No 4 reactor of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Soviet Ukraine. Kate Brown has spent years researching the cover-up that took place afterwards. Plus: Rory Carroll reflects on the legacy of the Northern Irish journalist Lyra McKee

Chernobyl was the worst nuclear accident in human history and its legacy is still being felt today. The public is often led to believe that the exclusion zone, a depopulated 20-mile circle around the blown plant, safely contained Chernobyl radioactivity. But there is a second zone in southern Belarus. In it, people lived for 15 years in levels of contamination as high as areas within the official zone until the area was finally abandoned in 1999.

That is just one of the things Kate Brown discovered during the 10 years she spent interviewing doctors, scientists and international officials involved in the Chernobyl disaster and scouring over 20 archives to unearth never-before-seen documents. She talks to Anushka Asthana about the impact of international organisations lying about the disaster and why we should be asking far more questions about the global health effects of radioactivity as we enter a new nuclear age.

Fri, 26 Apr 2019 04:50:30 GMT

How two decades of digitalisation has changed business – and why it shows no sign of stopping

Virtually no industry – from recruitment to manufacturing – remains untouched by the digital revolution. Senior business leaders reflect on this profound transformation

James Reed, chairman of recruitment firm Reed, recalls, as a child, queuing with his mother at the bank and being so bored, until ATMs made it possible to access cash at any time – day or night – without waiting around.

“Similarly, when it came to job hunting, I knew there was a quicker, more effective way for people looking for their next role,” he says. “I could see immediately that the internet was the perfect tool for people to look for jobs in their own time, whenever and wherever they wanted, and so reed.co.uk was born.” In 1995, reed.co.uk became the first recruitment website offered by a recruitment agency in the UK, and within two years the online portal became a prime source of applicants for the business. Initially built to find and hire talent for the recruitment agency itself, in 2007 reed.co.uk became a fully fledged business in its own right.

Thu, 13 Dec 2018 14:30:48 GMT

Buy your own classic Guardian print: Sparring stags

In our Guardian archive series this week, on opportunity to own a Murdo MacLeod image of a pair of sparring stags on Rum, in the Inner Hebrides

Last summer, a team of scientists descended on Rum, in the Inner Hebrides, to tag red deer calves in order to track and gather data on them throughout their lives. The deer outnumber people on the island by about 30 to one, has the animals have been the subject of research since 1953, with individuals being monitoring since 1972. These three-year-old stags, captured by the photographer Murdo MacLeod, are boxing – a dominance interaction where neither stag is willing to back down. Bouts last a few seconds and usually settle the matter. The first calf this year is expected in early May, with the peak calving season in late May and early June. The research project has become one of the longest and most complete scientific studies of a wild population of animals anywhere in the world.

Fri, 26 Apr 2019 11:00:22 GMT

A short history of Brexit for the confused and bewildered – video explainer

With Brexit now on hold for up to six months, it is a good time to take stock and look back at the major moments of the last three years. It’s been a turbulent, confusing series of events which have not led the UK any closer to a solution

Sat, 20 Apr 2019 01:13:27 GMT

Fall of Bashir risks leaving Sudan prey to rival regional powers

Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Egypt compete with Iran, Turkey and Qatar to exploit political turmoil after deposal of president

In Sudan’s fresh minted revolution it is not only the country’s old military guard, once associated with the deposed former president Omar al-Bashir, whom protesters view with deep suspicion.

Last week the Egyptian embassy in Sudan’s capital, Khartoum, was also the scene of protests and chants aimed at President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. “Tell Sisi,” the crowd shouted. “This is Sudan! [Egypt’s] borders stop at Aswan!”

Sat, 27 Apr 2019 17:15:51 GMT

Going offline: the benefits of a break from the internet

Life gets simple, quickly, when you unplug the web. The best way to do it is to go off-grid, as our writer has discovered from Wales to the US
• Off-grid family holidays: Tim Dowling’s rules

On the first day we kept checking our phones, even after they had died. Maddy, who was quite young at the time, seemed to find the absence of screens inexplicable, as if she was being unfairly punished. What kind of a holiday fails to deliver the basics of human existence, like an iPad? She slept a lot. It was only on the third day that we tried the fishing rods. From the veranda of the cabin I hooked a small roach. Then we tried dropping a line from the raft and she got a catfish.

One day I got up soon after dawn and couldn’t find Maddy at all. Then I saw her, sitting out on the raft in the centre of the small lake, her back to me. She was singing to herself and fishing. Our off-grid retreat to the woods of the Dordogne was working.

Sat, 27 Apr 2019 09:00:03 GMT

From spicy beans to a fishy traybake: Yotam Ottolenghi’s 30-minute recipes

Yotam cuts down the time with a trio of recipes you can make in half an hour (or so): fried tofu, a salmon and potato bake and a spicy bean brunch

The irony of a column about 30-minute dishes was not lost on me and the team, as we grinned, sheepishly, at such an apparently simple yet challenging task. We decided not to stray too far beyond our natural habitat by keeping the flavours complex and the ingredient lists, um, generous. So to stay within the time limit, we had to resort to microwaving potatoes (heaven forbid), opening tins and generally operating like cheetahs in the kitchen. So, here you have it: uncharacteristically easy, half-hour meals (give or take a minute or two).

Sat, 27 Apr 2019 08:30:02 GMT

Lyra McKee mourners showed politicians they must move, says priest

Priest who officiated at journalist’s funeral says mourners highlighted appetite for leaders to enter talks

Mourners who “put pressure on” Northern Irish party leaders to join the standing ovation at the funeral of murdered journalist Lyra McKee symbolised an appetite for politicians to work together again, the priest who officiated at her funeral has said.

Mckee, 29, was shot by dissident republicans during clashes with police in Derry on 18 April.

Sat, 27 Apr 2019 09:28:27 GMT

Macron's right-hand woman: ‘He doesn't need another flatterer’

Sibeth Ndiaye is the plain-speaking communications guru who has been by the French president’s side since he was an ambitious minister. As she joins his cabinet, she talks about their political differences, les gilets jaunes, Brexit and racist attacks

During his rise to power, Emmanuel Macron, France’s youngest modern leader, was often seen surrounded by a close-knit group of identikit white male advisers in suits, fellow graduates of elite political schools, soon nicknamed “the Mormons” for their uniformity. But one woman stood out: Senegalese-born Sibeth Ndiaye, his media communications supremo. The straight-talking 39-year-old in a biker jacket played a key role in crafting Macron’s image as the change-making outsider; the man who built a new centrist party in order to fight the far-right Marine Le Pen, with his intriguing personal story as a gifted school pupil who married his drama teacher, Brigitte.

Often, when Ndiaye briefed the Paris media establishment on Macron’s policy ideas, she was the only minority ethnic person in the room. She remembers the exact moment Macron really understood how this felt. It was 2015, he was an ambitious economy minister in government under the Socialist president François Hollande, and she was organising the media scrum following him at an aviation show in a hangar north of Paris. But the police kept blocking her way. “Every time we got to a stand, the security cordon would stop me going through,” she says when we meet in her office. “Usually I’m incredibly strong in those situations. But this time – I don’t know why, maybe I was tired – I just cracked and I sat down and cried.” The local police chief stepped in and personally escorted her through the event.

Sat, 27 Apr 2019 09:00:05 GMT

Kim Kardashian’s budding law career takes celebrity hubris to a whole new level | Hadley Freeman

A-listers have a habit of thinking they are gifted at everything – and not always to other people’s benefit

I recently met a well-known actor at a party, and we talked, as one often does with successful actors, about his work. Eventually he asked me what I did, so I told him. “Journalist, eh? I’ve always thought I’d be rather good at that,” he replied. And maybe he would be because, let’s be honest, the kind of journalism I do is not brain surgery. But even if it were, he probably would have made a similar response: “Brain surgeon, huh? I fancy I’d be a dab hand at that.” I have great admiration for people who make sharp left turns in their career – an actor one day, a firebrand politician the next, like the mighty Glenda Jackson – rather than staying in the same job for ever, out of fear they can’t do anything else. But the only people who casually tell me they could do my job, or indeed any job, are celebrities.

Famous people have a habit of believing they are gifted at, well, everything, and not always to other people’s benefit, as anyone who ever found themselves in an Ibizan club on one of Paris Hilton’s DJ nights knows well. This is what happens when an enormous ego is inflated further by wealth and sycophants. Princess Margaret, in the misguided belief she was a gifted singer, famously once regaled obediently enthusiastic guests with Cole Porter tunes. Francis Bacon, drunk to the eyeballs, booed loudly, and the princess, astonished, ran off in humiliation. “Her singing really was too awful. Someone had to stop her,” Bacon later said.

Sat, 27 Apr 2019 08:00:03 GMT

Into thin air: Carol Ann Duffy presents poems about our vanishing insect world

To mark the end of her poet laureateship, Duffy introduces new poems celebrating the beauty and variety of an insect world facing extinction by Alice Oswald, Daljit Nagra, Paul Muldoon and more

Which is lovelier and more true: “Brexit means Brexit” or “Where the bee sucks, there suck I”? The ugly meaninglessness of Theresa May’s dire mantra, wailed as David Cameron fled to the shed, is a prime cause of our current political chaos, just as surely as Ariel’s sweet song continues to remind us of our vital connection to the natural world. When we demean language, we demean our lives, our society and ultimately our planet. Poetry stands against this, timelessly, in Sappho, Shakespeare, John Donne, Emily Dickinson ...

I could have invited the poets gathered here to write about Brexit, but there is something more important. Earlier this year, the journal Biological Conservation published the first global scientific review of the insect population, recording that more than 40% of species are declining and a third are endangered. The journal concludes, “unless we change our ways of producing food, insects as a whole will go down the path of extinction in a few decades. The repercussions this will have for the planet’s ecosystems are catastrophic.” As school children all over the world demonstrate against climate change and Extinction Rebellion carry their trees on to Waterloo Bridge, here are several newly commissioned poems, and one of mine, that celebrate and properly regard insects, as poets have done since Virgil. Everything that lives is connected and poetry’s duty and joy is in making those connections visible in language. Carol Ann Duffy

Sat, 27 Apr 2019 08:00:06 GMT

Global youth movements: tell us about your grassroots campaigns

We want to hear about movements and campaigns led by young people from around the world

The past year has seen two of the most powerful youth protest movements in decades. When 16-year-old Greta Thunberg started a school strike calling for climate action, she sparked a global campaign – now more than 1.4 million schoolchildren have taken part in strikes.

Last March, young people in the US rallied together in March for Our Lives after the school shooting in Parkland, Florida, making it one of the biggest youth protests in the country’s history.

Thu, 25 Apr 2019 13:00:04 GMT

San Diego synagogue shooting: one dead and three injured

Suspect in custody for attack mayor describes as “hate crime”
Shooting took place during Passover celebration

Police in San Diego County have detained one man for questioning following a shooting at a Poway, California synagogue Saturday morning that left one person dead and at least three injured.

The fatality was confirmed by Poway mayor Steve Vaus, who called the incident a “hate crime”.

Sat, 27 Apr 2019 20:50:28 GMT

Marker Wadden, the manmade Dutch archipelago where wild birds reign supreme

A silted-up lake has been transformed into the latest addition to the map of the Netherlands – and an eco-haven teeming with wildlife

It takes about an hour on the ferry, across often choppy waters, to reach the newest bit of the Netherlands. For those sailing in from the port of Lelystad, the first sign of the Marker Wadden is a long finger of sand dunes designed to protect against flooding.

“You see the cormorants, the black birds?” asks the environmentalist Roel Posthoorn, pointing skywards.

Sat, 27 Apr 2019 19:30:14 GMT

Tips, links and suggestions: what are you reading this week?

Your space to discuss the books you are reading and what you think of them

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Welcome to this week’s blogpost. Here’s our roundup of your comments and photos from last week.

Oreo is a lost novel from 1975 novel by Fran Ross. Reedist says it deserves to be rediscovered:

Mon, 22 Apr 2019 14:00:22 GMT

A week with Extinction Rebellion – podcast

Last week, central London was brought to a standstill when thousands of protesters blocked sites including Waterloo Bridge in a ‘climate rebellion’ organised by Extinction Rebellion. The Guardian reporter Damien Gayle has been with the protesters from the start, while Matthew Taylor, the Guardian’s environment correspondent, assesses their demands

Today marks the end of Extinction Rebellion’s latest campaign, in which thousands of protesters blocked roads in central London, bringing widespread disruption to the capital. The 10 days of demonstrations resulted in more than 1,000 arrests and helped attract 30,000 new volunteers, and are being described by the group as the biggest acts of civil disobedience in recent British history, far exceeding the expectations of the organisers.

The Guardian reporter Damien Gayle has been with the protesters throughout the campaign. He tells India Rakusen about the founders of Extinction Rebellion, the purpose of the demonstrations and what he feels about criticism that the movement is too white and privileged.

Thu, 25 Apr 2019 02:00:37 GMT

People assume I'm middle class – don't they know I grew up playing darts?

Not many writers come of age in pubs, standing at the oche. But, as memoirist Cathy Rentzenbrink writes, you can learn a lot from boozers and bullseyes

I won the Snaith and District Ladies’ Darts Championship when I was 17. I was the youngest ever winner. There was a presentation evening where a newsreader from Look North handed out trophies; I got an extra one for getting a 180 during the match. The presentation evening was at Drax Club, and I had to leave my sixth-form college in Scunthorpe early so that I could get there in time. I explained this to my English teacher, whose class I’d miss. “Darts?” he said. “How unusual.” I didn’t get the impression he thought it was unusual in a good way. Still, he let me go. I was an eager student and had recently got a very good mark for my essay on The Bell Jar.

You don’t find much about darts in literature. Martin Amis is a fan. There’s a lot of darts in his novel London Fields. In one of Sylvia Plath’s letters to her mother she writes about her and Ted Hughes having a game in a pub when they are staying with his parents in Yorkshire. I wonder what they were playing and who won? Around the clock? 501? Maybe they both got stuck on double one. That’s called “being in the madhouse” and can go on for ages. Maybe they got bored and decided to settle it by going up for bull. It doesn’t feel like a realistic scene, does it? Darts and literature go together like… not much, really.

Sat, 27 Apr 2019 11:00:11 GMT

Trump sends support to NFL draft pick who called Kaepernick a 'clown'

Trump tells new 49ers DE Nick Bosa: ‘Stay true to yourself’
Bosa, 21, deleted posts that criticized Colin ‘Crappernick’

When college athlete and future NFL star Nick Bosa realized he might get drafted to a team in liberal San Francisco, he started deleting some of his more conservative-minded tweets and posts on social media.

If he was hoping to let it all wash away and let his football do the talking, Donald Trump has severely messed up his plans.

Sat, 27 Apr 2019 19:30:10 GMT

A day of Brexit chaos – podcast

Anushka Asthana joins her colleagues in Westminster on a chaotic and extraordinary day in British politics as Theresa May attempted to build support for her Brexit deal while members of her cabinet resigned in protest. Plus: in an exclusive extract from her autobiography, Michelle Obama reveals how she met her husband, Barack

Theresa May lost two of her Brexiter cabinet ministers in a frenzied morning at Westminster. Dominic Raab, the Brexit secretary, and Esther McVey, the work and pensions secretary, resigned in protest at the prime minister’s Brexit deal.

Anushka Asthana headed straight to Westminster for one of the most chaotic days in British politics in years. The Guardian’s Dan Sabbagh explains how the hard Brexiters are gathering letters of no confidence in a bid to remove May, while the Labour party stands ready to take power if the government collapses and a general election is required.

Fri, 16 Nov 2018 03:00:51 GMT

Cyclone Kenneth: at least five dead as heavy rain lashes Mozambique

Experts say storm could move back out to sea and intensify again, as water levels rise

Mozambique’s government urged many people to seek higher ground on Saturday in the wake of Cyclone Kenneth, fearing flooding and mudslides in the days ahead as heavy rain lashed the region.

At least five people were killed, the government said. Mozambique’s disaster management agency said one person had died in Pemba city and another in hard-hit Macomia district, while residents on Ibo Island said two people had died there. Details of the fifth death were not immediately available.

Sat, 27 Apr 2019 15:01:39 GMT

Elaine Kasket: ‘There is no digital rule book for grief’

The counselling psychologist and author of All the Ghosts in the Machine discusses one of the most contentious issues of our age

Elaine Kasket is a counselling psychologist based in London. Her first book, All the Ghosts in the Machine: Illusions of Immortality in the Digital Age, examines the ethical and technical issues surrounding our data when we die.

If I were to fall under a bus tomorrow, what would happen to my Gmail and Facebook accounts?
Under contract law, privacy ceases on the point of death. But what’s interesting about this area is that big tech treats the erstwhile account holder and their data almost with the same contractual reverence as they would when this person was alive. So they end up privileging that concept over the needs, requests and wishes of the next of kin.

Sat, 27 Apr 2019 13:00:09 GMT

Anti-vaxxers are taking populism to a new, deadly level | Gaby Hinsliff

From the US to Italy, a distrust of elites and expertise is now becoming a public health crisis

The two men rode into the village on a motorbike, eyewitnesses said, and opened fire. They left one woman dead and another injured, and a trail of fear in their wake. Both women were vaccination workers trying to save children from polio, and in parts of Pakistan that is a dangerous thing to be. Medical teams have repeatedly been attacked amid rumours, fuelled by Islamist militants, that a national drive to eradicate the disease is cover for a western plot to sterilise children or gather intelligence.

In Nigeria, too, the extremist group Boko Haram has murdered vaccination workers, attempting to frighten families out of having their babies protected. British parents don’t know how lucky we are, with our nice, safe NHS surgeries and our children who have the vast unfathomable luck to be born right here and now: winners of the historical lottery, a generation for whom the eradication of so many infectious diseases is within sight. Or it could be, if some in the west seemingly weren’t doing their damnedest to die of ignorance instead.

Sat, 27 Apr 2019 04:59:39 GMT

‘The move to the cloud has liberated me’: three CIOs on their evolving roles

Tech leaders from Amnesty International, PwC and the Arizona Department of Child Safety reflect on how the CIO role has changed, with more focus on strategy and less on tech support

Linda Jewell, CIO, Arizona Department of Child Safety
Linda Jewell can’t let down her customers: children needing support in Arizona. “There are a lot of systems to support child welfare, that’s my charge,” she says, noting that it’s a balance between building new capabilities and what she refers to as “the run” – the day-to-day maintenance such as keeping networks operational and data secure. “I certainly prefer the strategy side to the run side – it’s more fun.”

Part of Jewell’s strategic work is reacting to legislative changes. “I can make recommendations or assess the impact that they will have on the data we collect, whether it’s privacy or sharing of information,” she explains. But four years ago, an even larger project was placed on her desk: fully separating her department from another agency, which housed all its IT systems. That came alongside new federal rules around reporting and maintenance of child-welfare systems. “We took that opportunity to look at what the pain points were,” she says.

Mon, 12 Nov 2018 13:21:35 GMT

Avengers: Endgame review – a giddily cathartic final battle

The climactic instalment of the blockbuster series is a galvanising victory lap and the ultimate love letter to superfans

It’s only taken 11 years and 22 feature-length films, but the end of Marvel’s Avengers series is in sight. Sceptics might feel assailed by the 181-minute running time; a three-hour movie is the ultimate act of fan service. A pleasant surprise, then, those three hours zip by at lightspeed.

To recap: in 2018’s Avengers: Infinity War, evil Thanos (Josh Brolin) seized control of all six “infinity stones”, wiping out 50% of the Marvel Cinematic Universe and erasing many beloved characters from existence. Endgame picks up in the aftermath, skipping ahead five years. Grief has softened some of the Avengers (Chris Hemsworth’s Thor has acquired a drinking problem and a beer belly) and calcified others (Jeremy Renner’s Hawkeye has taken up street fighting with petty criminals).

Sat, 27 Apr 2019 14:00:11 GMT

‘I got here speaking no English. Now I’m a Thai boxing coach’

Amro Ghanem, 24, on how he made ends meet after arriving from Italy – and how martial arts changed his life

Name: Amro Ghanem
Age: 24
Income: £24,000 - £27,000
Occupation: Professional boxer

When I arrived in London I couldn’t speak a word of English. Not even “hello”. Nothing.

Sat, 27 Apr 2019 06:00:50 GMT

Technology cuts children off from adults, warns expert

UCL professor says digital world disrupts family life, risking mental health of youngsters

One of the world’s foremost authorities on child mental health today warns that technology is threatening child development by disrupting the crucial learning relationship between adults and children.

Peter Fonagy, professor of Contemporary Psychoanalysis and Developmental Science at UCL, who has published more than 500 scientific papers and 19 books, warns that the digital world is reducing contact time between the generations – a development with potentially damaging consequences.

Sat, 27 Apr 2019 19:48:55 GMT

Lyra McKee: 29-year-old journalist shot dead in Derry – video obituary

Lyra McKee was fatally wounded during rioting in Derry on Thursday night, becoming what is believed to be the first journalist killed in the UK since Martin O'Hagan was shot in Lurgan, County Armagh, in 2001. The 29-year-old was an acclaimed Northern Irish journalist, who wrote about the Troubles and campaigned for LGBT rights

Fri, 19 Apr 2019 12:59:38 GMT

Joe Biden raises $6.3m in a day, surpassing Democratic 2020 rivals

Nearly 97,000 people donated in first 24 hours, campaign says following Thursday launch

Joe Biden’s campaign raised $6.3m in the first 24 hours, staffers said – beating out Bernie Sanders and Beto O’Rourke to top the Democratic field.

The campaign said 96,926 people donated money on the first day, which averages out at $65 per person.

Sat, 27 Apr 2019 01:57:47 GMT

Tell us: have you stayed in a relationship after a betrayal?

If your relationship survived infidelity or another kind of betrayal by you or your partner we’d like to hear from you

Did you, or your partner, betray your relationship – whether through infidelity, financial dishonesty, secrecy or another kind of deception? Did you subsequently decide to remain together? We would like to hear from readers willing to share their stories of staying or getting back together after putting the event or situation behind you.

Tell us about what happened and what motivated you both to stay together afterwards. Did it affect you and your partner differently? How has your relationship changed since? Tell us about any challenges you faced since deciding to stay together and how you overcame these. Perhaps you feel that it has changed your relationship for the better – either way, we’d like to hear about it.

Wed, 24 Apr 2019 15:09:48 GMT

Shooting hoops: aerial views of basketball courts – in pictures

Auckland-based photographer Petra Leary uses drones to capture aerial images of basketball courts across New Zealand. “My idea was to show the variety of styles and colours of the courts, and the geometry of the markings that people who use or pass these daily would never otherwise see,” she says. Her Daily Geometry project began in 2017 and currently comprises 10 photographs – recently shortlisted for the 2019 Zeiss photography award. She hopes to extend the project across the world. Bird’s Eye, a documentary about Leary and her project, will be ready later in the year. “A friend of mine gave me a turn on his drone a few years ago and I was instantly hooked,” she says. “Drone photography allows people to see how the most basic and simple objects are sometimes the most eye-catching from a different perspective.”

Sat, 27 Apr 2019 16:00:10 GMT

Book clinic: which books will make me a better parent of an adopted teenage girl?

Jacqueline Wilson recommends some titles whose mothers, real and fictional, are endearingly flawed

Q: What can I read to help me parent an (adopted) 13-year-old angry daughter better?
Charity fundraiser, 58, Dorset

A: Children’s author Jacqueline Wilson, whose new book, Dancing the Charleston, is out now, writes:
There are lots of self-help books about parenting teenagers, but surprisingly little fiction about being a supermum. I can only think of one fictional mother whose teenage girls adore her: Marmee in Little Women. She is a good mother, tactful and kind, but I’m afraid I’ve always thought of her as Smarmee, as she’s so smug and sure of herself.

Sat, 27 Apr 2019 17:00:14 GMT

I'm on a lads' night out and my friend's just been homophobic. What do I do? | Romesh Ranganathan

It wasn’t an ironic joke. It wasn’t for shock effect. I think he meant it.

The lads’ night out. It feels almost embarrassing to use those words in 2019, but that is what I engaged in last week. When I say lads, I’m pushing the word to the limits of its application. Seven men whose best days are behind them went out in their best clothes, looking like Uber drivers at a work do.

I am still not drinking, and informed everyone at the start of the evening. The response was 10 to 15 minutes of expressions of surprise and disappointment. This hurt for two reasons. First, it showed my friends to be less than fully supportive of my quest for self- improvement and, second, it showed they don’t read my bloody column.

Sat, 27 Apr 2019 06:00:47 GMT

In the shallow: why does Hollywood hate pop music?

Natalie Portman’s new film Vox Lux is the latest to convey the genre as empty and miserable, while country, rock and rap are revered

“In 2011, Celeste had drunk herself blind … during a stint of binge-drinking household cleaning products.” So states Willem Dafoe’s narrator in the final act of Vox Lux, the new Natalie Portman-starring film about a globe-straddling pop star. Rather than the glitz of stardom, this is a film that lurks in the dark underbelly of the pop world.

In the first half of the movie, Celeste is a teen star-in-the-making (played by Raffey Cassidy); in the second, Portman plays a messy pop diva with hints of Madonna, Britney, Gaga, Ariana and – according to the film’s director, Brady Corbet – Kanye West. At points in between she has a daughter while still in her teens, disgraces herself with a racist meltdown and becomes implicated in a terror attack. At no point does she seem to be having fun. Maybe that’s what 21st-century pop is all about, at least in the movies, where losing credibility and suffering a tragic downfall are recurring themes.

Sat, 27 Apr 2019 09:00:07 GMT

Bernie Sanders is the most feminist 2020 candidate, as far as I'm concerned | Arwa Mahdawi

Sanders is far from perfect, but it is ridiculous to claim that he is beloved purely by arrogant white bros

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Sat, 27 Apr 2019 12:00:07 GMT

Mauricio Pochettino fears home defeat shatters Spurs’ spirit for Ajax

• Tottenham manager worries over team mood for Tuesday
• ‘It’s a setback,’ for hopes of top-four finish and facing Ajax

Mauricio Pochettino feared that the 1-0 home defeat by West Ham had not only inflicted a blow to Tottenham’s top-four hopes but changed the mood at the club before the first leg of their Champions League semi-final against Ajax on Tuesday.

Michail Antonio scored the goal for West Ham, which was the first Spurs had conceded at their new stadium, and it was also the first time in five matches that Pochettino’s team had done anything other than win here.

Sat, 27 Apr 2019 16:44:38 GMT

The 20 photographs of the week

Extinction Rebellion activists in London, the revolution in Khartoum, the suicide bombings in Sri Lanka and the fighting near Tripoli – the week captured by the world’s best photojournalists

Sat, 27 Apr 2019 07:02:39 GMT

Inside Ronnie Wood’s cottage studio

The hellraiser-turned-artist shows us round his home atelier

Approaching the electric gates to Ronnie Wood’s art studio in a Hertfordshire village, I’m convinced I’ve got the wrong address. In a location so quiet you could hear a guitar-pick drop stands an exquisite stone cottage. It’s pure Beatrix Potter – and it promises a glimpse into a very different Wood to the hellraiser everyone thinks they know.

We’ve never met, but Wood bounds out and hugs me like an old friend before offering to make me tea and honey. Yes, you heard right. I resist the urge to ask if he could throw in some brown sugar.

Sat, 27 Apr 2019 15:00:09 GMT

Home Office investigated over English test cheating claims

National Audit Office acts as MPs warn scandal could be ‘bigger than Windrush’

A government watchdog has launched an investigation into the Home Office’s decision to accuse about 34,000 international students of cheating in English language tests, and will scrutinise the thinking behind the subsequent cancellation or curtailment of their visas.

More than 1,000 students have been removed from the UK as a result of the accusation and hundreds have spent time in detention, but large numbers of students say they were wrongly accused. Over 300 cases are pending in the court of appeal as hundreds attempt to clear their names. MPs have warned that this immigration scandal could be “bigger than Windrush”.

Sat, 27 Apr 2019 05:00:42 GMT

Plastic in paradise: the battle for the Galápagos Islands' future – video

The Galápagos Islands are supposedly one of the most pristine locations on the planet, but plastic pollution arriving by sea is threatening this unique habitat and wildlife. Leah Green travels to the islands to see how our reliance on plastic is affecting even the most remote of locations, and to see how the archipelago is hoping to lead the worldwide fight against plastic

Wed, 03 Apr 2019 07:00:37 GMT

Mexico: President Amlo's criticism sparks death threats to newspaper

Andrés Manuel López Obrador promised to protect the press, but his barbs have resulted in journalists being harassed

Andrés Manuel López Obrador swept the Mexican left into power with promises of respecting the press and ending the killing of journalists.

Sat, 27 Apr 2019 10:00:06 GMT

The story isn’t ‘crowgate’ – it’s Britain’s heedless killing of birds | Alex Preston

Farmers’ fury with Chris Packham over shooting ‘pests’ hides more pressing issues

Last week, TV naturalist Chris Packham woke to a scene out of Game of Thrones. Hanging in front of the gate of his New Forest home (a gate whose lock had been glued shut), two dead crows swung by their necks in the breeze. Packham cut them down, called a cab (he couldn’t get his car out of the drive) and carried on.

It was the latest chapter in the strange history of the “general licences”, a story that has seen petitions and counter-petitions, threats and smears and says a great deal about the caustic and polarised nature of debate in Britain in 2019.

Sat, 27 Apr 2019 18:00:12 GMT

Therapy saved a refugee child. Fifty years on, he’s leading a mental health revolution

Psychologist Peter Fonagy tells of his own struggles in early life as the Anna Freud charity that he heads opens a major new centre for traumatised children

In 1967, a young Hungarian refugee sent to live in Britain planned on ending his life. “At 16 I was a very depressed adolescent, I had suicidal ideation, I had suicidal plans,” Peter Fonagy recalls. “If I was assessing myself now I would be very worried about me, because I knew exactly how I was going to do it. The reason is not that subtle or surprising: I was a Hungarian boy, who had landed in England and was not able to speak English.”

Lodging with a family in Kew Gardens, west London, the young Fonagy did not want to eat, or leave his room. He hated talking to people and was struggling academically. “I was massively inhibited. I was at a secondary modern school with kids who failed the 11-plus whose main interest was football.”

Sat, 27 Apr 2019 19:30:14 GMT

Haggis, whisky ... double beds: the new romance of the sleeper train

The revamped service from London to Scotland hopes to revive the luxury and glamour of overnight train travel

On Sunday evening, the longest passenger train on Britain’s mainland rail network will pull out of Euston and head for the Scottish Lowlands. Several hundred customers, in 16 coaches, will be transported overnight with eight carriages arriving in Glasgow and eight in Edinburgh on Monday morning.

This is a regular, nightly service. But tonight’s Caledonian Sleeper trip will be different: travellers will be able to journey in double beds, use en-suite toilets, eat fine Highland food, enjoy modern air conditioning, and experience a wide range of whiskies in the train’s Club Car.

Sat, 27 Apr 2019 14:59:08 GMT

Digital transformation: how traditional companies can keep pace with change

Established businesses can get caught out by the rapid pace of digital transformation, but, according to industry experts, a gradual progression can still lead to success

Every brand, organisation and company needs to transform to keep up with the pace of technological change, to keep costs low and customer service high and fight off rivals new and old – or risk being left behind.

Just ask Blockbuster, Kodak and countless other firms that failed to react quickly enough to the digital revolution, says Mark Basham, CEO of AXELOS, best practice solutions provider. “Business has transformed enormously on the back of technology, and service providers that haven’t acknowledged those changes, or haven’t changed fast enough, have paid the price,” he explains.

Wed, 10 Apr 2019 11:45:18 GMT

'It's an outrage': Putin attacks 18-month prison term for Maria Butina

Russian president says sentence an attempt by US to ‘save face’
Butina guilty of conspiring to infiltrate US conservative circles

Vladimir Putin on Saturday described as “an outrage” the sentencing of Russian gun rights activist Maria Butina to 18 months in prison in the US, calling her treatment a travesty of justice.

Sat, 27 Apr 2019 13:28:26 GMT

Corbyn launches bid to declare a national climate emergency

Labour will attempt to force Commons vote as it is revealed that the government has failed to spend anti-pollution cash

Labour will this week force a vote in parliament to declare a national environmental and climate change emergency as confidential documents show the government has spent only a fraction of a £100m fund allocated in 2015 to support clean air projects.

Jeremy Corbyn’s party will demand on Wednesday that the country wakes up to the threat and acts with urgency to avoid more than 1.5°C of warming, which will require global emissions to fall by about 45% from 2010 levels by 2030, reaching “net zero” before 2050.

Sat, 27 Apr 2019 21:30:16 GMT

From fan mail to fiction: the letters from famous authors that made me a writer

As a schoolgirl Julie Myerson wrote to the likes of Daphne du Maurier and John Betjeman. Here, she reveals how their generous replies shaped the person she became

On Wednesday 24 September 1975, I was at home in Nottingham, off school with a “tummy upset”. “Had a bowl of cornflakes this morning,” I wrote in my Nationwide Building Society diary, “and 10 minutes later they were in the washbowl upstairs!! It’s Lucozade and arrowroot for me today!” Never one to stint on the exclamation marks, I might even have helped myself to a few more had I known that, many miles away in her imposing grey slate house in Cornwall, my literary idol was at that very moment sitting down to pen me a postcard. Yes, really!!!!

“Dear Julie, How nice of you to write to me and I am so glad you enjoy my books. This is my home and appears in my novel The House on the Strand, which I think you would enjoy as much as the others. Good luck to the ‘O’ level exam in November and to the ‘A’ levels which will follow later. I’ve temporarily deserted writing novels for historical biography and it’s hard work! Yours sincerely, Daphne du Maurier.”

Sat, 27 Apr 2019 15:00:08 GMT

Gentrification is erasing black cemeteries and, with it, black history | Christopher Petrella

Local activists are fighting to save Boyd Carter cemetery, a historic black burial ground in West Virginia in the path of a pipeline

Black burial sites are struggling for survival. Such struggles should be interpreted as elemental battles over the meaning, matter, and worth of black life, history, and memory. Take the Boyd Carter cemetery in Jefferson county, West Virginia, a historic African American burial ground that’s been active since 1902. In early April 2019, the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection approved a permit for a natural gas pipeline extension to be placed within feet of the historic cemetery. If built, the pipeline would transport gas to a planned heavy manufacturing facility roughly a quarter-mile to the east.

In conjunction with the pipeline’s projected path, the state’s department of transportation has privately expressed its intentions to widen the road adjacent to the cemetery to transport heavy machinery to the industrial plant. Any road widening would most certainly disrupt bodies at rest.

Sat, 27 Apr 2019 14:56:42 GMT

Valtteri Bottas beats Lewis Hamilton to Azerbaijan pole

• Mercedes pair lock out front row ahead of Sebastian Vettel
• Charles Leclerc crashes out in Q2 in the other Ferrari

Tiny margins proved the differential in qualifying for the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, where Valtteri Bottas rode the knife’s edge to take pole but, in stark contrast, Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc pushed too hard and paid the price. Bottas took the top spot with a superb lap in front of his Mercedes teammate, Lewis Hamilton, in second.

Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel was third and, with his teammate Leclerc crashing out, the Scuderia were left once again licking their wounds as Mercedes made it count when it mattered.

Sat, 27 Apr 2019 15:28:52 GMT

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