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2 weeks 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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4 weeks 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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1 month 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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1 month 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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1 month 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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1 month 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.
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1 month ago | 
theguardian.com | Helen Pidd |Bethan Mckernan |Tom Glasser |Elizabeth Cassin |Courtney Yusuf
Israeli forces shot dead 15 Palestinian paramedics and civil defence workers on 23 March and buried them in a mass grave in the Tel al-Sultan district of Rafah. The Israeli military claimed their vehicles had been “advancing suspiciously” and without headlights or flashing emergency lights. When the UN and Palestinian Red Crescent exhumed the bodies, however, they found a phone that belonged to Rifat Radwan, one of the paramedics killed. He had recorded the last minutes of his life.
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1 month ago | 
theguardian.com | Michael Safi |Eli Block |Priya Bharadia |Courtney Yusuf
Just after midnight on Tuesday, EDT time, the wall of tariffs Donald Trump announced last week came into effect. The new system upends decades of precedent from the world’s strongest economy and has sent global markets reeling. The Guardian’s senior economics correspondent, Richard Partington, explains to Michael Safi the dynamics of a market crash and a trade war and how together they may contribute to the onset of a global recession.
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2 months ago | 
theguardian.com | Hannah Moore |Rebecca Ratcliffe |Eli Block |Joel Cox |Courtney Yusuf
“It took around four to five minutes for the earthquake to shake and then it stopped and shook again. It is the most severe earthquake I have experienced in my life.”Esther J is a reporter based in Bangkok, Thailand, more than 600 miles (966km) away from her home country of Myanmar – the epicentre of last week’s 7.7 magnitude earthquake.
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2 months ago | 
theguardian.com | Michael Safi |Patrick Wintour |Pjotr Sauer |Eleanor Biggs |Raphael Boyd |Tom Glasser | +2 more
After weeks of diplomatic tension, on Tuesday the US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, announced that Ukraine had signed up to a 30-day ceasefire agreement. As the Guardian’s diplomatic editor, Patrick Wintour, explains to Michael Safi, this deal would cover the whole of Ukraine and by accepting it, Ukraine will again receive military aid and intelligence sharing from the US.
