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  • Keir Starmer

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    Labour vows to ban fire and rehire after war of words with unions

    Plans revealed in new leaked dossier sent to unions ahead of crunch meeting with Keir Starmer
  • Image of a wildfire with a temperature gauge graphic superimposed on it

    'I could not feel greater despair'
    World’s top climate scientists expect global heating to blast past 1.5C target

  • Natalie Elphicke with Keir Starmer in his parliamentary office in the House of Commons after it was announced she had defected to Labour.

    'Is Farage next?'
    Keir Starmer sparks Labour anger with decision to admit Natalie Elphicke

  • Sir Paul Marshall speaking at an event

    GB News
    Joint owner loses fight over £34m of secretly salvaged silver

    • Scotland
      First minister John Swinney appoints Kate Forbes as deputy

    • Steve Albini
      Alt-rock musician and producer of Nirvana and Pixies dies aged 61

    • US
      House quashes Marjorie Taylor Greene motion to oust speaker Mike Johnson

    • Domestic abuse
      Survivors ‘put in danger by early prison release of perpetrators’

    • Trinity College Dublin
      University agrees to divest from Israeli firms after student protest

    • Garrick club
      Chair says ‘exceptional lady members’ may be fast-tracked

News in focus

  • Staff working at the bar of BrewDog Waterloo, London

    BrewDog
    Little remains of company's ‘punk’ ethos as co-founder steps down

  • Israel’s far right national security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir attends cabinet meeting in Jerusalem in 2023.

    Israel
    Netanyahu’s political survival in hands of far-right ministers

    Reliance on extremist allies such as Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich distancing prime minister from Israeli public
  • Keir Starmer looks at Natalie Elphicke, who is looking towards the camera

    Suspension, Rashford and a second job
    The controversies of Natalie Elphicke

    Dover MP, who claimed her now former husband’s seat in 2019, has been criticised in the past by Labour

Spotlight

  • Inside No 9.

    Inside No 9 review
    Nothing short of miraculous

    Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton have been making these ingenious, heartstopping chillers for a decade now – and the final series kicks off with perhaps the most meaningful episode yet
  • man playing a guitar

    Steve Albini was a button-pushing musician of uncompromising brilliance

    Alexis Petridis
  • Indigo Girls.

    ‘Coming out, it was like a veil was lifted’
    Indigo Girls on homophobia, hope and their big Barbie moment

    With Margot Robbie belting out one of their songs on screen and an inspiring new documentary, It’s Only Life After All, the folk rock duo are gaining new recruits to their fiercely devoted fanbase
  • John Crace

    Natalie Elphicke’s queasy welcome shows Labour will turn no one away

    John Crace
    • Kris Hallenga of Copafeel photographed in Cornwall, May 2021

      Kris Hallenga obituary
      Campaigner who founded the CoppaFeel! cancer awareness charity

    • Kevin Durand as Proximus Caesar in Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes.

      Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes review
      Future simians swing through cinematic jungle

    • Six hundred years of wonders … the five works chosen by Jonathan Jones.

      Insight! Sensitivity! Genius!
      Our critic picks the top five masterpieces in the National Gallery

    • The XXL pain au chocolat from Philippe Conticini

      Pass notes
      Would you pay £28 for a pain au chocolat? Even a really photogenic one?

Opinion

  • Keir Starmer and Natalie Elphicke.

    Natalie Elphicke is a hard-right Tory. Her defection sums up Labour’s contempt for progressive voters

    Owen Jones
    It was hailed as a triumph: it is anything but. It reveals a party that’s lost its moral compass
  • Ben Jennings on Natalie Elphicke’s defection from the Conservatives to Labour – cartoon

    Cartoon
    Ben Jennings on Natalie Elphicke’s defection from the Conservatives to Labour

  • Man in a dinner jacket, adjusting his bow tie

    Standing in my boxers, blindfolded and full of shame, I remembered why I hate getting dressed up

    Adrian Chiles
    My day-to-day fashion style is that of an unmade bed. One attempt to smarten up had horrible consequences
  • Stephen Fry after the vote to allow women as members at the Garrick Club.

    After 200 years, women can join the Garrick. Now for the task of making it share power, not hoard it

    Jemima Olchawski
    Last night’s membership vote is a step in the right direction, but this remains a closed, elite institution, says Jemima Olchawski, chief executive of the Fawcett Society
    • Flooded fields near Newark, Nottinghamshire on 5 January 2024.

      I’m a British farmer. Here’s the scary truth about what’s happening to our crops

      Guy Singh-Watson
    • European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen at the European Economic Congress in Katowice, Poland, 7 May 2024

      Ursula von der Leyen is now a household name – and that could be Europe’s salvation

      Catherine De Vries and Isabell Hoffmann
    • Composite photo of two men

      Drake and Kendrick Lamar don’t get that women’s pain isn’t a punchline

      Tayo Bero
    • Gustave Courbet’s L’Origine du Monde (1866), defaced by performer Deborah de Robertis.

      Hurrah for the Courbet vandals: defacing the vulva painting is basic feminism

      Dale Berning Sawa

Editorials & Letters

  • Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer with former Conservative MP Natalie Elphicke in his parliamentary office in the House of Commons.

    The Guardian view
    MPs crossing the floor: a triumph of political theatre over substance

  • FILE - Streets are flooded after heavy rain in Sao Sebastiao do Cai, Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil.

    The Guardian view
    The climate emergency: we cannot afford to despair

  • Child reading a book

    Letters
    Bring back the pleasure of reading in classrooms

  • Demonstrators in Berlin protesting against tightening of asylum laws last year.

    Letters
    A lesson from Germany on how Britain should treat asylum seekers

Sport

Climate crisis

  • ‘We can’t defeat nature but we can be climate-resilient’
    How plant roots can help stop landslides

  • People on boats move through floodwater on a flooded street in Porto Alegre

    South America
    Disease and hunger soar in Latin America after floods and drought, study finds

  • Satellite image

    Brazil
    Flooding in Rio Grande do Sul: then and now

  • Aerial view of the Humboldt glacier, in Merida, Venezuela

    Venezuela
    Humboldt glacier shrinks down to an ice field

From the UK

  • Labour conference 2016<br>Shadow Secretary of State for International Development Kate Osamor speaks during the second day of the Labour Party conference in Liverpool. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Picture date: Monday September 26, 2016. See PA story LABOUR Main. Photo credit should read: Danny Lawson/PA Wire

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    Osamor has Labour whip restored after investigation into Gaza genocide comments

    Exclusive: MP apologised for saying on eve of Holocaust Memorial Day that Gaza should be remembered as a genocide
  • Barry McCaffrey and Trevor Birney speaking to journalists outside the Royal Courts of Justice in London

    ‘Orwellian’
    Northern Ireland police spied on investigative journalists, tribunal told

  • Side by side CCTV images of Ann and Bernard McDonagh

    Port Talbot
    Couple admit ‘dine and dash’ offences with £1,000 in unpaid bills

  • Philip Davies MP

    Philip Davies
    Tory MP takes £500-an-hour job at slot machine company

    • Andrew Tate
      Influencer served with UK civil proceedings papers at Romania home

    • Armed forces
      UK chief urges US to ‘stay strong’ and resist isolationism

    • Cambridgeshire
      Woman who caused cyclist to fall into car’s path has manslaughter conviction quashed

    • Dudley
      Viral hate campaign targeted teacher after fake racist video shared

    • British Gas
      Boss says all UK households should be forced to fit smart meters

    • Russia
      UK to expel defence attache as sanctions escalate

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Around the world

  • Mohammad Rasoulof at the 70th Cannes film festival.

    Mohammad Rasoulof
    Iranian director sentenced to eight years in prison and flogging

  • David Lammy smiling in a navy suit and burgundy tie

    David Lammy
    Shadow foreign secretary tells US Republicans he can find ‘common cause’ with Trump

    • Luis Rubiales
      Disgraced Spanish football chief to stand trial for World Cup kiss

    • Nicaragua
      Nation cancels Chinese plan for controversial canal 10 years on

    • David Miliband
      Former foreign secretary condemns ‘absurd’ lack of cooperation between EU and UK

    • Elon v OpenAI
      Judge disqualified after challenge from Musk’s lawyers

    • Peta
      Animal rights group unveils Kristi Noem ‘ghoulish monster’ Halloween costume

    • Meta
      Inquiry into child sexual abuse on platforms leads to arrest of three men

Culture

  • Phedon Papamichael on the set of Downsizing in 2017.

    ‘We were the magicians’
    Cinematographer Phedon Papamichael on 40 years of film-making

    He has collaborated with an array of star directors, and is currently at work on James Mangold’s Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown. He explains why US film-making is like the army, and British cinema is more like a factory job
  • Crow Country screenshot

    Crow Country review
    Breathtaking survival horror game that harks back to Silent Hill

  • Billy Connolly in Big Banana Feet.

    Dawn of the Big Yin
    Rediscovered film shows Billy Connolly on the road to comedy glory

  • Diane Abbott (centre) and other MPs in 1987.

    'The legacy of the radical left'
    The Searchers by Andy Beckett review

  • OlliOlli World, a tremendous game by Roll7.

    Pushing Buttons
    With creative developers shutting everywhere, the future of games looks bleaker and boring

  • Italian Radicals at the Barbican.

    BBCSO/Brabbins: Italian Radicals review
    Politically charged, expressive and technical

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Lifestyle

  • Stores with smells

    ‘It’s the brand speaking to you’
    The scent firms making smells for businesses

    As brick-and-mortar retail stores compete with e-commerce, chains are spending heavily to immerse customers in bespoke fragrances
  • An event organised by the Offline Club at Café Brecht in Amsterdam, where no phones are allowed.

    ‘I feel more connected with humanity’
    The club where phones are banned – and visitors pay for the privilege

  • Felicity Cloake's cheesecake topped with raspberries.

    Felicity Cloake's masterclass
    How to make American baked cheesecake

  • Jeremy Strong wearing a baseball cap and a suit as Kendall Roy in HBO's Succession

    Fashion
    Why regenerative garments are the ultimate status symbol

  • Sam Pyrah

    A moment that changed me
    I thought fitness was my superpower. Then I realised it was a ball and chain

  • Alice Zaslavsky Eggpant bake<br>Alice Zaslavsky prepares an eggplant bake. Melbourne. Australia

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    Alice Zaslavsky’s low-fuss recipe for stuffed eggplant parmigiana

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    UK pharmacists
    Share you experience of drug shortages

  • Kris Hallenga and her twin sister Maren Hallenga during a flashmob for breast cancer charity CoppaFeel!

    Breast cancer
    How have you been affected by the CoppaFeel! campaign?

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    Housing
    Have you bought a house in the UK with your friend?

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  • Former U.S. President Donald Trump appears at court in New York<br>Stormy Daniels is questioned by prosecutor Susan Hoffinger before Justice Juan Merchan during former U.S. President Donald Trump's criminal trial on charges that he falsified business records to conceal money paid to silence porn star Stormy Daniels in 2016, in Manhattan state court in New York City, U.S. May 7, 2024 in this courtroom sketch. REUTERS/Jane Rosenberg

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    Former president has yet to decide his VP pick – and it’s turning into a pageant of its own

    It’s less than six months until election day, and Donald Trump is choosing his running mate. It’s quite the spectacle
  • Hamado Dipama, who is from Burkina Faso, realised he had overlooked the line in the newspaper advert saying: ‘Germans only.’

    ‘Double punishment’
    The racial discrimination in Europe’s rental housing market

  • Model dressed in clothes salvaged from waste fashion poses at a vast dump in the desert

    Castoffs to catwalk
    Fashion show shines light on vast Chile clothes dump visible from space

  • Half the image shows a Chinese flag hanging from a building; the other half shows the Belgrade skyline and busy motorway

    ‘Countries are now forced to confront it’
    Rise in Chinese espionage arrests alarms Europe

  • A foreground of three high, rounded window frames and a man in silhouette, with smoke rising from an urban landscape beyond him.

    Analysis
    Joe Biden’s ‘red line’ is an invasion of Rafah. So what happens if Israel attacks?

  • Solomon Islands MP Cathy Nori.

    ‘I can rise above expectations’
    The woman breaking barriers in Pacific politics

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    Explained
    What went wrong with the electronic passport gates at UK airports?

  • People hold placards with phrases such as 'no to mandatory vaccines'.

    General elections
    What conspiracy theories are UK MPs being told to look out for?

  • Men walk down the steps of a building. They wear matching pink and blue ties

    ‘No longer remotely defensible’
    Garrick’s decision to admit women shows times have changed

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