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3 days ago | 
theguardian.com | Hannah Moore |Rutger Bregman |Alex Atack |Tom Glasser |Homa Khaleeli |Elizabeth Cassin
“Moral ambition is the desire to stand on the right side of history before it is fashionable, to basically devote your career, your life, to some of the most pressing issues that we face as a species.”Rutger Bregman, historian and author of Moral Ambition, believes that too many of us are in what he calls “bullshit jobs”. “What I see is an enormous waste of talent,” he tells Hannah Moore.
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6 days ago | 
theguardian.com | Bethan Mckernan |Alex Atack |Elizabeth Cassin
On Monday, Israeli officials announced they were planning a new military offensive in Gaza, with aims of “conquering” the land and establishing a “sustained presence” there. “The offensive is called Operation Gideon’s Chariots,” Bethan McKernan, the Guardian’s Jerusalem correspondent, tells Lucy Hough. “It’s designed to make sure that there is an indefinite Israeli presence in the strip. That implies that there is no day after the war now.
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2 weeks ago | 
theguardian.com | Michael Safi |Mehdi Hasan |Alex Atack |Eleanor Biggs |Joel Cox |Elizabeth Cassin | +1 more
“So many things have shocked me about the past 100 days,” says the Guardian US columnist and author of Win Every Argument, Mehdi Hasan. “Even for me, even the person who was saying it’s going to be so bad, it’s much worse than even I thought.”What’s been shocking to Hasan about Donald Trump’s second term so far is not the policies – they were laid out on the campaign trail – but the lack of resistance.
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1 month ago | 
theguardian.com | Hannah Moore |Jessica Murray |Alex Atack |Priya Bharadia |Joel Cox |Elizabeth Cassin
“It’s been absolutely unbelievable,” William Timms, a pest controller, tells Hannah Moore. “Since March, calls have gone up 50%. Usually, I’m dealing with about three or four rodent jobs a day this time of year. And then I’ve got my insect jobs on top. “But I’ve had to put my insect jobs on the back burner, because I’m just being inundated with rat calls. I’m doing about nine or 10 a day at the moment.”Birmingham’s rubbish collectors have been on an all-out strike since early March.
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2 months ago | 
theguardian.com | Michael Safi |Alex Atack |Homa Khaleeli
A few weeks ago, Michael Safi travelled to north-east Syria, an area controlled by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces. Here, suspected foreign fighters for Islamic State – including those from Britain – have for years been imprisoned without charge and with no idea of when they would be released. Few prisoners in the camp say they are IS members.
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2 months ago | 
theguardian.com | Michael Safi |Alex Atack |Tom Glasser |Homa Khaleeli
After more than a decade of war, and half a century of repressive rule under Bashar al-Assad and his father, Syrians have a new ruler and a new future. Michael Safi spent a week travelling around the country, speaking to people about their surging hopes and joy – but also their fears of how fragile this peace could prove to be.
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2 months ago | 
theguardian.com | Helen Pidd |Henry Dyer |Eli Block |Joel Cox |Elizabeth Cassin |Alex Atack
Lord David Evans of Watford, 82, offered access to ministers during discussions about a commercial deal, an undercover investigation can reveal. Lord Evans was recorded explaining to Guardian undercover reporters – who were posing as property developers looking to lobby the government – on how to approach Angela Rayner, the deputy prime minister and housing secretary. An online meeting with Lord Evans took place six days before Christmas.
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2 months ago | 
theguardian.com | Michael Safi |Alex Atack |Homa Khaleeli |Sami Kent |Joel Cox
Michael Safi was in Lebanon in the summer, when it was on the brink of war between Israel and Hezbollah, the most powerful force in the country. Months later, in October, Israeli troops invaded Lebanon amid a wave of airstrikes and assassinations of top Hezbollah leaders and commanders. Michael returned this month and visited destroyed villages in southern Lebanon as civilians were returning to their homes.
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Feb 3, 2025 | 
theguardian.com | Michael Safi |Alex Atack |Rudi Zygadlo |Homa Khaleeli
Since the beginning of the war hundreds of thousands of people in Gaza have had to flee their homes. Many were repeatedly displaced. Then, finally last month, with the announcement of the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas came the chance to return. A chance to see what has remained of their homes, neighbourhoods and communities.
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Jan 17, 2025 | 
theguardian.com | Michael Safi |Bethan Mckernan |Alex Atack |Sami Kent
The Guardian’s Jerusalem correspondent Bethan McKernan explains the pact reached between Israel and Hamas to halt fightingOn Friday afternoon, after more than a year of continuous war between Israel and Hamas, the Israeli security cabinet ratified a ceasefire deal to stop the war in Gaza. The Guardian’s Jerusalem correspondent, Bethan McKernan, talks about what it will mean, and how it came about.
