Marjan Kalanaki

2 months ago | theguardian.com | Ajit Niranjan |Raphael Hernandes |Marjan Kalanaki

The crowd had crammed into a concert hall in central Berlin to hear crunch-time election pitches from Robert Habeck and Annalena Baerbock, the high-profile Green ministers in charge of Germany’s economy and diplomacy. But to the surprise of some supporters, it took half an hour for anyone in the environment-rooted party to mention the climate.

Jun 3, 2024 | theguardian.com | Alex Hern |Marjan Kalanaki

The Conservative party is pursuing an “ostrich strategy” on Facebook, spending almost all of its ad budget since the beginning of the year in constituencies that were once marginal but are now looking more like surefire losses, Guardian analysis shows. The strategy is known within the party as the “80/20” approach, in which it focuses all its spending on the 80 seats it came closest to losing in 2019 and the 20 seats it came closest to winning.

Mar 3, 2024 | theguardian.com | Shanti Das |Marjan Kalanaki |Zeke Hunter-Green

Hundreds of newly established care providers have been granted licences by the Home Office to sponsor workers from abroad, despite being newly established and having no track record of providing services in Britain, the Observer can reveal. Suspected bogus companies with copy-and-paste websites, fake-looking reviews and PO boxes as addresses are among those granted licences allowing them to sponsor workers to come to the UK.

Mar 3, 2024 | business-humanrights.org | Shanti Das |Marjan Kalanaki |Zeke Hunter-Green

"‘Pretty dodgy’: alarm over suspect care agencies granted Home Office licence to act as visa sponsors”Hundreds of newly established care providers have been granted licences by the Home Office to sponsor workers from abroad, despite being newly established and having no track record of providing services in Britain, the Observer can reveal…Sponsor licences have been granted to newly formed firms that have never filed company accounts and are only a few months old.

Nov 23, 2023 | theguardian.com | Maeve McClenaghan |Rob Evans |Henry Dyer |Zeke Hunter-Green |Marjan Kalanaki

The king is profiting from the deaths of thousands of people in the north-west of England whose assets are secretly being used to upgrade a commercial property empire managed by his hereditary estate, the Guardian can reveal. The Duchy of Lancaster, a controversial land and property estate that generates huge profits for King Charles III, has collected tens of millions of pounds in recent years under an antiquated system that dates back to feudal times.