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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 | Michael Safi |Julian Borger |Eleanor Biggs |Lucy Hough |Olivia Lee
It’s been five days since Israel launched attacks on Iran and the war seems to be escalating. Hundreds of people have been killed and Israeli forces have issued an evacuation order for part of Tehran. Iran has managed to evade Israel’s defences with missiles. The Guardian’s senior international correspondent, Julian Borger, explains to Michael Safi that Israel’s war aims seems to have changed.
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1 week ago | 
theguardian.com | Michael Safi |Julian Borger |Eleanor Biggs |Lucy Hough |Olivia Lee
It has been five days since Israel launched attacks on Iran and the war seems to be escalating. The civilian death toll is rising and Israeli forces have issued an evacuation order for parts of Tehran. Meanwhile, Iran has managed to evade Israel’s defences with missiles. The Guardian’s senior international correspondent, Julian Borger, explains to Michael Safi that Israel’s war aims seem to have changed• You can support the Guardian at theguardian.com/fullstorysupport
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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 | Michael Safi |Patrick Wintour |Eli Block |Eleanor Biggs |Rudi Zygadlo |Elizabeth Cassin | +1 more
“We must call this what it is. It is extremism. It is dangerous. It is repellent. It is monstrous.”Last week, the words of British foreign secretary, David Lammy, in the House of Commons on Israeli cabinet ministers’ calls to “purify Gaza” marked a shift in the UK’s position on Israel’s offensive. Lammy announced that Britain would be suspending negotiations with Israel over a new free trade deal.
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1 month ago | 
theguardian.com | Helen Pidd |Nesrine Malik |Eleanor Biggs |Rudi Zygadlo |Sami Kent
On Monday, Keir Starmer announced the government’s latest proposals to reduce immigration. The plans included restricting visas for students and skilled workers, tightening up English language requirements and – perhaps most drastically – aiming to end all overseas recruitment of social care workers by 2028. Yet maybe more notable than the policies was the language Starmer used to introduce them.
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1 month ago | 
theguardian.com | Lucy Hough |Eleanor Biggs |Kate McCusker |Ivor Manley |Homa Khaleeli |Elizabeth Cassin
“I worry a lot about a kind of world war one-type scenario,” former White House Russia adviser Fiona Hill tells Lucy Hough, “in which the prevailing system is broken down, and you get a whole outbreak of conflicts that meld together.”“People are always asking: ‘What should we be worried about in the future?’ We should be worried about the here and now.”Fiona reflects on what another term of Trump and Putin in power means for Europe and the rest of the world.
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1 month ago | 
theguardian.com | Michael Safi |Harriet Sherwood |Eleanor Biggs |Sami Kent
On Wednesday, 133 cardinals will gather in the Sistine Chapel to select the next pope. It is called the conclave and it is one of the oldest election processes in the world. For days – perhaps even weeks – the cardinals in Rome will vote again and again until one candidate wins a two-thirds majority. Then, and only then, will they be named as the successor to Pope Francis. It is, as Guardian journalist Harriet Sherwood explains, an election rich in ceremony and ritual.
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1 month 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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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.
