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1 week ago | 
theguardian.com | Michael Safi |Adam Curtis |Eleanor Biggs |Courtney Yusuf
Adam Curtis is a journalist who delves deep into the BBC archive to make films about the ideas and feelings that define our times. In his latest series of films, Shifty, Curtis charts how Margaret Thatcher and her government transformed Britain by transferring power to the world of finance and by promoting a radical individualism.
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1 week ago | 
theguardian.com | Nosheen Iqbal |Emma Graham-Harrison |Eli Block |Natalie Ktena |Olivia Lee |Joel Cox | +1 more
Israel faced growing international pressure earlier this month as hundreds of starving people in Gaza were killed as they tried to reach aid distribution sites. Since Israel launched its attacks on Iran on Friday, however, that diplomatic outcry has largely disappeared.
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2 weeks ago | 
theguardian.com | Michael Safi |Patrick Wintour |Natalie Ktena |Ivor Manley |Joel Cox |Courtney Yusuf
Laila Soueif, 69, has been on hunger strike in London for more than 250 days in an effort to secure the release of her son, the activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah, from jail in Egypt. As diplomatic pressure mounts, she is now in a critical condition. Alaa’s sister Mona Seif describes to Michael Safi the toll that imprisonment has taken on her brother, her mother’s determination to do whatever she can to secure his release, and the difficulty of coming to terms with her mother’s decision to risk her life.
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3 weeks ago | 
theguardian.com | Michael Safi |Chris Stokel-Walker |Eleanor Biggs |Olivia Lee |Joel Cox |Courtney Yusuf
Over the weekend, Dario Amodei, the chief executive of Anthropic, arguably Open AI’s greatest rival, issued a stark warning. He claimed that AI’s rapid advancement could lead to the disappearance of half of all entry-level white-collar jobs in the next one to five years, as well as 10-20% unemployment levels in the United States by the end of the decade. “Everyone I’ve talked to has said this technological change looks different.
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1 month ago | 
theguardian.com | Helen Pidd |Gary Younge |Courtney Yusuf |Rudi Zygadlo |Sami Kent
“We have people who can write about this,” the journalist Gary Younge remembers an editor once telling him about a column he had written on Bosnia. “Can you add an ethnic sensibility to this?”For Younge, being one of the few black columnists in the British press has not been easy; rather, it has been a constant struggle, he explains, to avoid being pigeonholed as a journalist only ever interested in race.
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1 month ago | 
theguardian.com | Helen Pidd |Philip Oltermann |Courtney Yusuf |Elizabeth Cassin
Frederick Augustus Voigt was the Manchester Guardian’s Berlin correspondent between 1920 and 1932. In this episode, two fellow former Berlin correspondents, Helen Pidd and Philip Oltermann, discuss Voigt’s incredible reporting on the rise of Nazi Germany. “I think he saw that it was important not to give the Nazis the ‘both sides’ treatment,” Philip says.
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2 months ago | 
theguardian.com | Kiran Stacey |Helen Pidd |Hattie Moir |Eleanor Biggs |Tom Glasser |Courtney Yusuf | +1 more
Runcorn, a town in Cheshire, has not been the most politically interesting place in recent memory. In fact Runcorn and Helsby has been a safe Labour seat for decades. Then the MP Mike Amesbury resigned after punching a constituent, triggering a byelection. Now Reform UK are nipping at Labour’s heels in the battle for the ward. Helen Pidd has been out in the town to find out what voters think about the government and Nigel Farage.
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2 months ago | 
theguardian.com | Helen Pidd |Lanre Bakare |Courtney Yusuf |Homa Khaleeli
When Guardian arts and culture correspondent Lanre Bakare was growing up, he learned the same Black British history as many of us did. It was a series of singular events: the docking of the Windrush in 1948, unrest in Notting Hill or Brixton, the murder of Stephen Lawrence. All important, but all firmly focused on the capital.
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2 months ago | 
theguardian.com | Helen Pidd |Amy Hawkins |Eleanor Biggs |Joel Cox |Courtney Yusuf
After a fortnight in which Donald Trump’s “liberation day” tariffs evolved into an escalating trade war with China, a sense of defiant nationalism has been building in the east Asian country.
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2 months ago | 
theguardian.com | Michael Safi |Courtney Yusuf |Homa Khaleeli |Elizabeth Cassin |Ta-Nehisi Coates
“This is a cultural president. Make no mistake about it.”For Ta-Nehisi Coates, the award-winning writer and journalist, the US president, Donald Trump, and his allies clearly understand the power of story-telling in politics. Coates has recently written a new book, The Message, and he tells Michael Safi that the stories told in TV, films, literature and beyond are not a distraction from politics today but are actively shaping it.
