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2 days ago | 
theguardian.com | Richard Sprenger |Frances Rankin |Christopher Cherry |Ken Macfarlane |Noah Payne-Frank |Temujin Doran | +1 more
From anxious children unable to cope with school to those with more complex, profound disabilities, support for Send children in England is broken, with underfunded local authorities delaying legal obligations to support families and increasing numbers of parents unable to work, burnt out, judged and even suffering PTSD from attempting to navigate the system. The Guardian meets parents and children from across the country to get a sense of the scale of the issue
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1 month ago | 
theguardian.com | Temujin Doran |Noah Payne-Frank |Christopher Cherry |Richard Sprenger
The prison population in England and Wales has doubled in the last 30 years, with overcrowding now endemic across the system. But the government's strategy of easing this pressure by granting early release to thousands of offenders has had a knock-on effect. With many lacking stability on the outside, reoffending rates are high, exacerbating the existing problem.
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2 months ago | 
theguardian.com | Temujin Doran |Bruno Rinvolucri |Richard Sprenger
Channel 1 is a new rolling news channel with a difference – its stories are scripted, edited and presented by AI. Available in more than 30 languages and able to transmit bespoke news stories faster than ever, its threat to the mainstream media is clear. But can we trust it? And would anybody actually watch a channel that lacks the human touch? The Guardian visited the channel’s creators in Los Angeles to find out more – and to audition for a role
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
theguardian.com | Temujin Doran |Noah Payne-Frank |Frances Rankin |Richard Sprenger
Darren Parkinson is one of about 2 million people living with long Covid in England and Scotland. The illness is having a detrimental impact on his life, stopping him from being the kind of active and involved parent the wants to be to his two children. The Guardian has spent a year with Darren and his family to document his journey as he tries to recover from long Covid and come to terms with his new reality
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Oct 15, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Richard Sprenger |Kyri Evangelou |Jem Talbot |Sinead McCausland |Temujin Doran
American research group Ocearch has more than 15 years’ experience in catching, tagging and tracking great white sharks all over the world, contributing to filling in the many gaps in knowledge about the ocean predator. Ocearch came to Europe for the first time in the summer, hoping to study the elusive Mediterranean great white – about which little is known.
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Sep 24, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Richard Sprenger |Bruno Rinvolucri |Temujin Doran
Tech entrepreneur Justin Harrison is on a mission to fundamentally change how we experience loss, using artificial intelligence to recreate the essence of dead loved ones from their digital footprint. His company, You, Only Virtual is part of a growing worldwide 'grief tech' industry harnessing AI to attempt to replace what has naturally departed.
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Sep 11, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Richard Sprenger |Kyri Evangelou |Noah Payne-Frank |Temujin Doran
In the rolling hills of central Italy sits Honeydew, an eco-community created as a direct response to the isolation of the Covid pandemic, enabled by modern technology and aiming to address the profound changes the climate crisis looks set to bring. With stated aims to spread the project globally, the Guardian visited Honeydew to see how founder Benjamin Ramm's vision for the future is playing out, and to learn how sustainable such eco living projects really are.
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Apr 18, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Richard Sprenger |Adam Sich |Ken Macfarlane |Temujin Doran |Katerina Valaskova
Homelessness is on the rise globally, and the Czech Republic has the highest rate in central and eastern Europe. The Guardian visited Prague, for a long time a popular destination for tourists, to see how even this sector caters for the city’s visitors - and to meet the range of people aiming to tackle the causes of homelessness in all its forms.
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Jan 11, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Adam Sich |Richard Sprenger |Ken Macfarlane |Temujin Doran
The UK capital's ultra-low emission zone charges the drivers of more polluting road vehicles every time they enter the city. But since the Ulez was extended to the whole of London by the city's mayor, Sadiq Khan, the backlash has become increasingly ferocious.
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May 15, 2023 | 
theguardian.com | Richard Sprenger |Kyri Evangelou |Temujin Doran
Poland has a deep and historic relationship with coal, importing huge amounts despite producing yet more locally. With the energy crisis biting, fuelled by the war in Ukraine, the country’s government withdrew restrictions on burning materials and subsidised coal, creating huge air quality issues, particularly in the industrial south – reversing 10 years of hard work by air pollution campaigners in the process.
