Zoe Williams

3 days ago | theguardian.com | Zoe Williams

Much of the world doesn’t have a clue what to do about child poverty, or even when to do it. In the UK the Labour government recently delayed its flagship policy on tackling the issue until the autumn. But if you’re looking for inspiration, it might be worth asking what Slovenia has been getting right. The country has the lowest rates of child poverty in Europe. Why? The glaringly obvious reason is that Slovenia is a very economically equal country.

3 days ago | theguardian.com | Zoe Williams

‘I think what Trumpism is about, is an understanding that the system in America is not working for working-class people,” says Bernie Sanders, sat in the Guardian’s offices in London. “In a phoney, hypocritical way, Trump has tapped into that. His quote-unquote ‘solutions’ will only make a bad situation worse.”Bernie Sanders. Photograph: Linda Nylind/The GuardianIn person, Sanders’ 83 years read differently than in photograph, perhaps because of how conversational he is.

4 days ago | theguardian.com | Zoe Williams

On Wednesday, UK trade secretary Jonathan Reynolds will meet US trade representative Jamieson Greer in order to discuss a UK exemption from the tariffs on steel. It’s not that I feel unequal, intellectually, to the task of keeping up with the tariffs, what we stand to gain from an exemption, what we stand to lose. It’s not even that the US flip-flops so chaotically that it’s almost pointless to follow it minute by minute.

6 days ago | theguardian.com | Zoe Williams

Sue, 58, LancasterOccupationEarly retired primary headteacherVoting record A diehard Lib Dem, but will vote tactically and loves Labour’s Cat Smith, who she says is a great local MPAmuse bouche She’s a governor of two independent schools in Kazakhstan, one in its capital, Astana, and one in AlmatyEmma, 44, LancasterOccupation Geography lecturerVoting record Used to vote Labour, but was put off by their stance on the Palestinian cause and their attitude to the left.

1 week ago | freitag.de | Zoe Williams

Es ist eine großartige Zeit, Ladenbesitzer zu sein und ein Warenangebot zu präsentieren, das all jene anspricht, die mit dem Zusammenbruch der Zivilisation rechnen. „Es fing mit Covid an“, sagt Justin Jones, Betreiber des Online-Handels UK Prepping Shop, dessen Sortiment von Notnahrung und Kurbelradios bis hin zu Armbrüsten und Schutzwesten reicht. Seine Kunden sind Prepper, also Personen, die nicht nur mit der Apokalypse rechnen, sondern sich auch intensiv und fortwährend darauf vorbereiten.