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1 week ago | 
theguardian.com | Rajeev Syal |Garry Blight |Paul Scruton |Lucy Swan |Harvey Symons
England in the 1840s was a place of dizzying industry, rapid urbanisation and technological progress. Among the proliferation of inventions, a new type of building was unveiled to the world. A prison, K-shaped with long corridors made of sure, thick walls, and small windows in cold, solitary cells. The design of Pentonville was heralded by the fashionable print media of the day.
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Dec 20, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Marcus Christenson |Pamela Duncan |Sean Clarke |Garry Blight
Sometimes it feels as if it does not matter if you vote or not because your effort is not going to make a difference. Every now and then, however, there is a contest – whether that is the 2016 US election or the Guardian’s top 100 best male footballers in 2024 – where the result is so tight that a few people may very well have made a difference.
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Dec 17, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Marcus Christenson |Pamela Duncan |Steven Bloor |Garry Blight
Next Generation 2017: 20 of the best talents at Premier League clubsThe Guardian picks the best prospect from each club born between 1 September 2000 and 31 August 2001, an age band known as first-year scholars. Check the progress of our 2016 class | 2015 | 2014
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Dec 3, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Rich Laverty |Pamela Duncan |Garry Blight |Steven Bloor
Next Generation 2017: 20 of the best talents at Premier League clubsThe Guardian picks the best prospect from each club born between 1 September 2000 and 31 August 2001, an age band known as first-year scholars. Check the progress of our 2016 class | 2015 | 2014
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Nov 5, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Anna Leach |Ed Gargan |Niels de Hoog |Sean Clarke |Harry W. Fischer |Rich Cousins | +2 more
Electoral college votesElectoral college votes46,180,303 votes (46.0%)52,294,763 votes (52.0%)First results expected after 18.00 EST (15.00 PST or 23.00 GMT)LeadHoldFlipUndeclaredLeadHoldFlipUndeclaredChange map viewLong a Republican stronghold, Georgia has become more of a battleground due to its growing black electorate. In 2020, Biden won by less than 12,000 votes. In 2022, Republican Brian Kemp won by 7.5 percentage points.
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Nov 5, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Anna Leach |Ed Gargan |Niels de Hoog |Sean Clarke |Harry W. Fischer |Rich Cousins | +2 more
Electoral college votesElectoral college votes0 votes (0.0%)0 votes (0.0%) How does the US election work? The winner of the election is determined through a system called the electoral college. What is the electoral college and how does it work? Each of the 50 states, plus Washington DC, is given a number of electoral college votes, adding up to a total of 538 votes. More populous states get more electoral college votes than smaller ones.
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Oct 15, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Marcus Christenson |Steven Bloor |Garry Blight
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Oct 14, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Marcus Christenson |Steven Bloor |Garry Blight
We pick the best youngsters at each club born between 1 September 2007 and 31 August 2008, an age band known as first-year scholars. Check the progress of our classes of 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 … and look at the editions from further back
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Sep 3, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Garry Blight |Sam Levine
In recent years there has been growing criticism of the electoral college system in the US because it has allowed a tiny number of Americans to determine the outcome of the presidential election. In 2020, about 43,000 votes among Wisconsin, Georgia and Arizona – a mere 0.03% of the votes cast nationwide – allowed Joe Biden to win. In 2016, about 80,000 combined votes gave Donald Trump his winning margins in key swing states. How does this happen?
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Jul 5, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Pip Burkett |Garry Blight
Following a landslide election victory, Keir Starmer’s Labour government faces a range of urgent priorities both home and abroad, from a prison’s overcrowding crisis and huge NHS waiting lists to the wars in Gaza and Ukraine. Below we list the members of the new cabinet and the main tasks that await them.
