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They lost their homes in the LA wildfires – now they're fighting climate gentrification
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- They lost their homes in the LA wildfires – now they're fighting climate gentrification
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- 13 hours ago
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- Within two days of Ellen Williams and her family losing their four homes in the LA megafires, real estate investors began calling. But she is fighting back against climate gentrification.
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As investors swoop in and try to pick up severely damaged properties across areas devastated by last year’s fires, Williams is resisting their offers and sticking to her family’s plan to return to Altadena. But she knows that other longtime residents can’t withstand the financial pressure that threatens to reshape her hometown.
Her message to the investors is clear: “How dare you? Within days of people losing their homes you want to give them an offer,” she told the Guardian. “We’re still processing, yet you want to put a value on land.”
#lawildfires #lafires #losangeles #altadena #usa #climategentrification #climatecrisis #black #latino
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- What do people in Greenland actually think about Trump's threats?
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- 6 days ago
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- Hours before high-stakes talks on Greenland’s future, Donald Trump has said it would be “unacceptable” for the Arctic Island to be anything less than “in the hands” of the US.
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Trump’s remarks came as the Danish and Greenlandic foreign ministers prepared to meet the US vice-president, JD Vance, and the secretary of state, Marco Rubio, in Washington to discuss the territory amid rising tensions after weeks of US pressure.
Earlier this week, Greenland’s prime minister, Jens-Frederik Nielsen, told a joint press conference with his Danish counterpart, Mette Frederiksen, that the island would not be owned or governed by Washington, saying “we choose Denmark.” Denmark used to run Greenland as a colony and continues to control its foreign and security policy.
The US president first raised the idea of a US takeover of Greenland in 2019, during his first term, ...
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- How Ukraine is surviving winter without power after Russian attacks
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- 6 days ago
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- People feel like the ‘Russians are trying to freeze them’, said Guardian’s Senior international reporter Peter Beaumont, who is in Kyiv where temperatures are expected to fall to -20C during the night.
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Many residents are forced to use emergency shelters to warm up and use electricity after a large-scale Russian attack on the capital on 9 January damaged energy facilities. Hundreds of homes have been left without power or heating after the strikes.
Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, said that Russia deliberately waited for freezing weather to make things worse for the Ukrainian people, and this was “a cynical Russian terror specifically against civilians.” Moscow gave no immediate response.
#ukraine #ukrainewar #winter #russia #weather
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- We asked trans youth athletes what school sports mean to them
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- 7 days ago
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- On Tuesday, the US supreme court is hearing oral arguments in two cases brought by trans athletes who challenged laws in West Virginia and Idaho barring trans girls from joining girls teams.
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Senior Guardian reporter Sam Levin, who writes about LGBTQ+ rights, spoke with trans youth athletes about what playing sports means to them – here’s what they had to say.
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#transgender #transition #transathletes #lgbtq #lgbt #usa #supremecourt
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- 'Don't take the smuggler route': how gangs punish migrants entering Europe
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- 7 days ago
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- On the border between Serbia and Hungary, the Guardian's Ashifa Kassam speaks to a group of migrants making the journey to Europe.
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Speaking under condition of anonymity, they tell her that smuggling gangs beat and torture migrants in order to extort money from them. Their advice to young people in their homelands is to keep studying, work hard and not to undertake the same journey.
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#migrants #immigration #aslyumseekers #refugees #europe
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- The Los Angeles wildfires devastated the city. Here's what happened next
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- 12 days ago
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- It’s been a year of recovery and reckoning in Los Angeles since the unprecedented wildfires erupted in the parched southern California hillsides and spread into the surrounding suburbs with shocking ferocity, killing 31 people.
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While rebuilding efforts are underway, progress has been slow. Thousands of displaced Angelenos remain in limbo.
Meanwhile, city officials, researchers, non-profits and new community groups combed through the horrors to puzzle together what went wrong, after the firestorm overwhelmed municipal water systems and outpaced elite firefighting crews, while evacuations slowed to a crawl along winding roads.
As the issues that defined the disaster and its recovery come into sharper focus, given the lack of coordination from federal agencies hollowed out by the Trump administration, the steep financial cost of rebuilding and the ever-growing threat of...
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- Uncertainty persists at Colombia-Venezuela border after Maduro’s Capture
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- 13 days ago
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- ‘The Americans have cut off the head of the monster but left the body in place” – that’s how some Venezuelans described the situation to the Guardian’s Tom Phillips, who was at the border between Venezuela and Colombia, at the Simón Bolívar International Bridge in Cúcuta.
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This strategically important region has been under close scrutiny since Maduro’s capture, which has crystallised widespread fears among Venezuelans and Colombians alike.
Phillips spoke to a number of people there, with them describing the mood as “uncertain”.
Nubiola Franco, 60, who crossed into Colombia early on Sunday morning to restock her general store, said there was a “tense calm” on the Venezuelan side. Behind her, a construction worker, Oxiel Pérez, 57, was shopping for his extended family in San Antonio, Venezuela, where he said many shops we...
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- Is it faster to run or take a tram in Toronto?
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- 14 days ago
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- “I don’t like winning. I really don’t. I really, really wish these streetcars were faster than me,” says Mac Bauer, who remains undefeated in his quest to highlight how sluggish the trams in Toronto, used by 230,000 people daily, truly are.
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His competition, with its distinctive red and white livery and five articulated cars, is the 511 streetcar, which traces a southward line toward Lake Ontario. Typically, the route is one of the slowest in the city, says Bauer, with turning cars halting the streetcar’s progress and forcing passengers to sit idly in traffic.
But ahead of Toronto’s role as a host to the Fifa World Cup, city workers have painted swaths of road red to give the streetcar priority. In racing terms, this gives the tram an edge – akin to how elite runners gain further advantage with carbon plates and ‘super shoes’.
Will ...
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- Rising hate crimes in England’s struggling villages
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- 21 days ago
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- Taj Ali is a Muslim journalist who has been collating evidence of rising hate crimes around the UK. He says 1970s and 80s-style racism is returning.
On a visit to Horden in the old mining villages of County Durham, he finds housing is the biggest issue facing the community but anger is being directed towards migrants and asylum seekers.
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- How to navigate difficult conversations about immigration at the dinner table
- Date posted
- 28 days ago
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- What do you do when a festive family conversation turns uncomfortable?
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Christmas dinner with family can sometimes feel tense, especially when topics like immigration or politics come up. While it’s tempting to shut down a difficult conversation or lead with facts alone, this can often lead to further resentment and division.
We spoke to Who Is Your Neighbour?, a charity with fifteen years of experience in facilitating non-judgmental conversations. They suggest that meeting people with empathy and asking curious questions can be more effective than simply walking away.
This year, the Guardian charity appeal is supporting grassroots organisations that work to heal social division and nurture hope in our communities. From refugee welcome initiatives to local youth clubs these charities provide a powerful antidote to hate and distrust.
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- Rising hate in the UK: 'Abusing Muslims is not going to fix this country'
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- 29 days ago
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- Hate crimes are rising around the UK, after a summer of flags going up on lamp-posts across the country and racist riots in 2024.
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Taj Ali is a Muslim journalist who has been collating evidence of these attacks. Even in big diverse areas there is a sense of fear, but what is life like for smaller ethnic minority communities in smaller towns? On his journey with video producers Christopher Cherry and Maeve Shearlaw he finds a sense of anger about the loss of community but people everywhere determined to roll up their sleeves and make things better.
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- 'He was struggling with his breath. I sat beside him and sang': the choir who sing to the dying
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- 1 month ago
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- Just as lullabies send babies to sleep, so songs can help those at the other end of life on their way. Nickie Aven, the leader of a Threshold Choir, reveals what they do - and the personal tragedies that convinced her we need to get better at dealing with death.
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- The Birth Keepers: how the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
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- 1 month ago
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- The Free Birth Society [FBS] is a US-headquartered business which promotes a radical version of freebirth, meaning giving birth without any medical assistance.
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Many women find FBS after searching online for birth options, and discovering its slick Instagram account, with 132,000 followers, and its hugely popular podcast, which has been downloaded 5m times.
Led by ex-doula Emilee Saldaya, with support from her business partner, fellow ex-doula Yolande Norris-Clark, FBS promotes wild pregnancy, meaning pregnancy without any prenatal care, dismisses serious pregnancy and labour conditions as ‘variations of normal’, and suggests that resuscitating newborn babies can be a form of ‘sabotage’. Our reporting indicates that FBS has generated revenues in excess of $13m to date.
A year-long investigation by investigative reporters Sirin Kale and...
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- Threshold: the choir who sing to the dying - documentary
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- 1 month ago
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- Dying is a process and in a person’s final hours and days, Nickie and her Threshold Choir are there to accompany people on their way and bring comfort.
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Through specially composed songs, akin to lullabies, the choir cultivates an environment of love and safety around those on their deathbed. For the volunteer choir members, it is also an opportunity to channel their own experiences of grief and together open up conversations about death.
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- How the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
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- 1 month ago
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- The Free Birth Society (FBS) is a multimillion-dollar business that promotes an extreme version of free birth, meaning women giving birth without medical assistance.
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The Guardian can now reveal that the organisation has been linked to dozens of cases of maternal harm and baby deaths around the world. After a year-long investigation, Sirin Kale and Lucy Osborne explain why some women they interviewed found FBS’s views so appealing, and why medical professionals say their claims about birth are dangerous
The Birth Keepers: I choose this – episode one ► https://www.theguardian.com/technology/audio/2025/dec/10/the-birth-keepers-i-choose-this-episode-one
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- Ready for war: how soldiers in Finland are ‘preparing for the worst’ against Russia
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- 1 month ago
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- On the doorstep of Father Christmas's ‘official’ hometown in northern Finland, soldiers from Finland and Sweden are practising drills in -18C cold as tensions between Europe and Russia continue to rise.
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With progress on a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine stalled, Vladimir Putin has warned that Russia is ‘ready’ for war with Europe if it starts it.
In recent weeks, thousands of Nato troops have descended on Finnish Lapland to train in the extreme cold and snow in one of western Europe’s largest military training areas. About 55 miles (90km) away is the Russian border, where the Finnish army says Russia is in the process of building up its military presence and infrastructure.
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- Migrant boats cross Europe's largest mass grave: 'Death comes in many forms on this route.'
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- It’s been 10 years since the so-called ‘migrant crisis’ began - when thousands of people fleeing war, persecution, and poverty sought refuge in Europe.
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A decade later, migration remains one of the continent’s most divisive and politicised issues.
The Guardian’s European community affairs correspondent, Ashifa Kassam, and video journalist Frances Ranken travel to the edges of ‘Fortress Europe’ to see firsthand how a decade of anti-immigrant policy is pushing migrants into the hands of smuggling gangs that are growing more powerful than ever.
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#migrants #meditteranean #migrantboats #migrantsmugglers #humantrafficking
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- Life Invisible: the fight against superbugs starts in the driest place on Earth | Documentary
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- 2 months ago
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- Cristina Dorador is on an urgent mission in the world’s highest desert, the Atacama in Chile.
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As the rise of drug-resistant superbugs kills millions per year, Cristina has made it her mission to uncover new, life-saving antibiotics in the stunning salt flats she has studied since she was 14. Against the magnificent backdrop of endless plains, microscopic discoveries lead her team of scientists to question how critically lithium mining is damaging the delicate ecosystem and impacting Indigenous communities
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- I'm a doctor and I've seen racism against NHS staff increasing
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- 2 months ago
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- “It seems like there is such an increase in events like this - with people of colour feeling unsafe coming to the workplace, which is about nurturing, caring for and nourishing the general public”, says *A, an NHS doctor in the north of England.
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She says she has seen racist incidents targeted at her colleagues, and herself, rising – and she’s not alone.
Earlier this month, the health secretary and the NHS England chief warned that an “ugly” racism reminiscent of the 1970s and 1980s has become worryingly commonplace again in modern Britain and NHS staff, 30% of whom are from a minority ethnic background, according to the healthcare service in England, are bearing the brunt of it.
“It’s shocking to see the levels of racism within our communities and across modern Britain today – levels that we have not witnessed for decades. We know our NHS is not immun...
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- Inside a migrant boat: 'these vessels are not safe in any way'
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- 2 months ago
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- During an investigation into Europe's harsh immigration policies, the Guardian's Ashifa Kassam finds a double decker boat used by people smuggling gangs to transport migrants and refugees across the Mediterranean sea.
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The vessels are packed with up to 300 asylum seekers with women and children hidden in the lower deck as it is perceived to be safer. Kassam says the boats are "deceptively sturdy" but are "incredibly deadly" if they flip.
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- Lynsey Addario: My life as a conflict photographer
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- 2 months ago
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- From frontlines to family life, Pulitzer-winning conflict photographer Lynsey Addario has experienced a lot in her career - travelling across the world for over 20 years.
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From reporting in Iraq to the tense situation of covering the war in Ukraine, Addario has spoken to us about how she manages to juggle her personal life with her job – as well as how important it is to maintain the dignity of the people she photographs.
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#lynseyaddario #warphotography #conflictphotography #photography #ukraine #iraq #sudan #pakistan
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- 'Poverty is exploding': Why these millionaires are asking to be taxed more
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- 2 months ago
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- Do you think millionaires should pay more tax?
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On a cold and rainy day, outside the Houses of Parliament, the group Patriotic Millionaires gathered by a bus splashed with the words ‘Tax us, the super-rich’.
Their campaign is aimed at getting the government to increase taxes for the super-rich ahead of the upcoming budget.
“This is the only way to stop the cost of living crisis“ said economist and YouTuber @garyseconomics, who says the low tax burden on the wealthy is helping fuel the problem of growing inequality in the UK.
“What I would like us to have is an honest and open conversation about how do you tax the rich more fairly in a way that is effective”, he says.
The gap between the richest and poorest 10% in the UK is now the highest in the developed world, apart from the US, according to a report by the Fairness Foundation.
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- Raising kids in Gaza war zone: 'if something happens to my children, let it happen to me too'
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- 2 months ago
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- Diana Shams gave birth to her second child, daughter Rose, in early 2023 in Gaza. Seven months later, one day into the latest war, they were forced to flee after a neighbour’s house was bombed.
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They moved repeatedly before finally making the journey south, sleeping in their car until a tent became available.
They have been living in and out of tents ever since.
Shams says that even the news reports people see cannot fully reflect what people in Gaza actually live through, especially mothers.
Shams did not intend to write a book, but had been collecting her thoughts by writing notes on her phone.
During a truce in early 2025, Shams and her family returned to their home and began cleaning away rubble and repairing it.
One of her friends abroad suggested she write a book about her experiences.
Her laptop was lost under...
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- What it’s really like for migrants coming into Europe today | On the Ground
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- 2 months ago
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- It has been 10 years since the migrant crisis began - when thousands of people fleeing war, persecution and poverty sought refuge in Europe. A decade later, migration remains one of the continent’s most divisive and politicised issues.
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Across Europe, anti-immigrant policies have hardened, physical border walls have gone up, and new barriers - both visible and invisible - continue to appear. As a result, migrants are forced on to ever more dangerous routes in search of safety. And the smuggling gangs that EU politicians claim to want to stop are growing more powerful than ever.
The Guardian’s European community affairs correspondent, Ashifa Kassam, and video journalist Frances Rankin travel to the edges of ‘Fortress Europe’ to find out what 10 years of tightening migration policy means for people on the move today.
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- Why AI slop video apps could kill online truth
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- 2 months ago
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- Has an AI video caught you out recently?
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The internet is in its AI slop era – and tech journalist Chris Stokel-Walker thinks we should be paying a lot more attention.
Stokel Walker has covered AI for years, and has been teaching people how to spot a fake. Then he saw Sora 2 – a new OpenAI tool for creating highly realistic AI videos.
“We have this alternative reality that’s just a few phone taps away” says Stokel-Walker.
While Sora 2 is currently only available in select countries including the United States and Japan, Stokel-Walker says it’s a “godsend” for people who want to muddy what’s true on the internet.
It used to be that to prove something was true, we’d say “show me the video evidence”, he says. “Now that’s no longer the case.”
Combined with a recent study by the cyber security company Imper...
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- Man freezes late wife but finds new partner
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- 2 months ago
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- Alan has promised his wife, Sylvia, that they will be cryogenically preserved upon death, and reunited in the future.
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However, when Sylvia dies all too soon, Alan, now 87, falls in love with another woman and is forced to reconsider his future plans. An extraordinary love story, told with humour and tenderness about how we deal with loss, our own mortality and the prospect of eternal life
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- Living on India's toxic landfill mountains
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- 2 months ago
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- Towering above Delhi, a toxic waste mountain dominates the skyline - feasted upon by birds, flies, vermin and cows, and emitting an inescapable stench of rot.
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These ‘trash mountains’ loom so large – several miles wide and more than 200ft (60 metres) high – that they are visible from across the city.
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Every day more than 10,000 tonnes of Delhi’s rubbish is discarded here - there is a whole ecosystem of people who make a living off it, and many begin working here as children.
The Guardian’s Hannah Ellis-Petersen visits the rubbish dump located in Bhalswa, where everything from vegetable peelings to glass bottles, plastic packaging, batteries, broken toys and discarded clothes end up.
Methane emissions from India’s thousands of dumpsites, the largest of which are in urban a...
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- Can Delhi clean up its toxic trash mountains? | On the Ground
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- 3 months ago
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- Towering above Delhi’s skyline, emitting an inescapable stench of rotting flesh, are giant mountains of rubbish. Several miles wide and more than 200ft (60 metres) high, they are visible from across the city and stand as symbols of Delhi’s inability to deal with its trash.
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Hannah Ellis-Petersen visited communities living in the shadow of Bhalswa’s overfilled landfill heaps, to see how they have become reliant on the mountain that is simultaneously poisoning them
Chapters:
00:00 – Cancer, heart disease and tuberculosis – Delhi's inability to deal with its rubbish
01:00 – Bhalswa: living on one of India's largest dump sites
03:15 – The true scale of India's garbage problem: no landfill, no life
05:15 – Doctors dealing the human toll of India's trash mountains
06:31 – The invisible killer and the worst air qu...
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- Why hurricanes should be named after oil bosses
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- 3 months ago
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- After Hurricane Melissa made landfall in Jamaica on Tuesday – the most powerful storm to strike the island since record-keeping began in 1851 – debate reignited over where the blame should lie.
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The British-Jamaican climate author Mikaela Loach explains:
“Instead of calling hurricanes nice, feminine names like Melissa. Instead we should name them after those who are responsible. So, for example, we can name Hurricane Darren after Darren Woods, the CEO of ExxonMobil, who pushes climate delay and climate denial.”
With 185mph winds and torrential rain, Melissa knocked out power lines, cut off the internet and demolished buildings – prompting some experts to suggest the extraordinary intensification of the hurricane may be a symptom of the rapidly heating oceans.
Researchers at Climate Central, a nonprofit organisation that analyses climate science, found th...
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- How young women are sex trafficked in broad daylight
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- 3 months ago
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- Tina Frundt is one of Washington DC’s most experienced specialists in protecting children from sex trafficking. In the downtown area of the city, she comes across suspected sex traffickers abducting minors - while the police look on.
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- The Welsh town that saw off Nigel Farage | Anywhere but Westminster
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- 3 months ago
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- In last week's byelection in the Welsh constituency of Caerphilly, Reform UK were the hot favourites, and the focus of huge attention.
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But as John Harris and John Domokos saw close-up, a Reform win failed to happen thanks to a story most of the media didn't see: how online fear and loathing were beaten back by community spirit, facts trumping fury, and everyday empathy
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- How Israel's 'apartheid legal system' has led to so many Palestinians being held in prison
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- 3 months ago
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- Harrowing testimonies of abuse and torture from Palestinians who have been held in Israeli jails have increased since 7 October, including those released last week as part of the increasingly fragile ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas.
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Earlier this week, at least 135 mutilated bodies of Palestinians returned by Israel to Gaza after the ceasefire had marks suggesting they were tortured and then killed during their detention at the notorious Sde Teiman detention centre, Palestinian doctors have said.
But the treatment of Palestinians once they get to prison is not the only problem with Israel’s justice system, human rights organisations warn.
“Civil rights organisations say that the Israeli prison system and the mass incarceration of Palestinians within the occupied Palestinian territories is another tool in the occupation's toolbox,” says Guardian reporter William Christou.
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- How children in the US are trafficked on social media | Documentary
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- 3 months ago
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- Tina Frundt is one of Washington DC’s most experienced specialists in protecting children from sex trafficking.
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Many of the youths she supports are targeted and exploited on social media platforms, which give traffickers unprecedented levels of access to their victims. Fighting to break this cycle, Tina works closely with law enforcement, social workers and parents to create an environment where some of America’s most vulnerable children can feel safe again
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- The red pill pipeline is 'a cult' - here’s how I escaped
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- 3 months ago
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- “I think it’s a very appealing thing to be the victim because it relinquishes any accountability or responsibility.”
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This is how James Lawrence* (not his real name), a young man in his mid-20s living in the US – who fell down the so-called “red-pill pipeline” around the age of 17 – described what it was like to be there.
A growing network of online communities known collectively as the “manosphere” is emerging as a serious threat to gender equality, as toxic digital spaces increasingly influence real-world attitudes, behaviours, and policies, the UN agency dedicated to ending gender discrimination has warned earlier this year.
The phrase ‘red pill’ comes from a scene in the 1999 film The Matrix, in which Laurence Fishburne’s character offers Keanu Reeves a choice to take the “red pill” to see “how deep the rabbit hole goes”. The rabbit hole, i...
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- Louvre heist: how thieves stole ‘priceless’ Napoleonic jewels in seven minutes
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- 3 months ago
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- Thieves made off with priceless Napoleonic jewels during a spectacular daylight heist over the weekend at the Louvre in Paris.
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In a highly professional raid, four balaclava-wearing thieves pulled up outside the museum on a road along the Seine River.
Two of the thieves broke in through the window using an angle grinder and other power tools, gaining access to the Apollo gallery.
They then smashed glass displays and grabbed jewellery - in total eight pieces were stolen.
💎 A necklace and a pair of earrings originally given by Napoleon I to his second wife, Empress Marie-Louise.
💎 A diadem (similar to a tiara), brooch and decorative bow belonging to Napoleon III’s third wife, Empress Eugénie. The diadem is dotted with nearly 2,000 diamonds.
💎 A tiara, necklace and single earring from a sapphire set worn by – among others – Marie-Amelie, the last quee...
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- How Gen Z protesters are forcing change from Madagascar to Morocco
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- 3 months ago
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- “Gen Z gave us the victory,” one activist told our reporter Rachel Savage in Place du 13 Mai in Madagascar’s capital, Antananarivo, after weeks of demonstrations led by young people which toppled the country’s leader.
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In September, a leaderless group calling itself Gen Z Madagascar quickly formed online with Facebook and Instagram accounts. They coordinated on Discord, a platform mainly used for socialising while gaming, and the secure messaging app Signal. Many only knew each other by aliases, members said earlier this month.
The protests began over shortages of water and electricity, but swelled into broader anger at the political elite in one of the world’s poorest countries, where the average annual income was just $545 last year, compared with $13,664 globally.
The initial response by security forces to the protests was violent: at least 22 people were killed and more than 100 injured. ...
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- The city that reveals Britain's biggest problem: nowhere to live | Anywhere but Westminster
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- 3 months ago
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- After a long summer defined by flags, protests and tensions over immigration and asylum, John Harris and John Domokos go back to Liverpool to explore the lives of people dealing with a huge housing crisis, while trying to stop the issue exploding into hate and division.
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- Ice has detained our father in Chicago, we’ll protest for as long as it takes
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- 3 months ago
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- Outside an Ice processing center in the suburbs of Chicago, the Guardian spoke to two siblings wait for updates about their father, who had been detained by immigration authorities.
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Our reporter Oliver Laughland met the pair outside the Broadview Ice Facility in Chicago, where Donald Trump's Ice deployment, codename Operation Midway Blitz, has been met by a defiant wave of sustained protests.
Since this video was filmed, the sisters' father has been transferred to another facility.
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- Three threats to the Gaza peace deal
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- 3 months ago
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- Israel and Hamas have agreed to the initial phase of a ceasefire plan in Gaza, pausing hostilities in the devastated territory and bringing the best hope yet of a definitive end to a bloody two-year war that has killed tens of thousands, destabilised much of the Middle East and prompted protests around the world.
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The US president, Donald Trump, announced the agreement, saying all of the hostages held in Gaza would be released soon and Israel would withdraw troops to an agreed line as the first step to a “strong, durable, and everlasting peace”.
The Israeli security cabinet is due to approve the deal tonight. However, the thornier, long-term parts of the plan still need to be negotiated.
Reporting from Tel Aviv’s ‘hostages square’, the Guardian’s William Christou looks at three questions that still need answering.
For our full explainer on what has been agreed for the first pha...
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- The View From the latest Palestine Action protest
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- 3 months ago
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- Almost 500 people were arrested on suspicion of supporting Palestine Action as protesters gathered at Trafalgar Square in London on Saturday for the third demonstration organised by campaign group Defend Our Juries.
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Participants had gathered to show their opposition to the government's proscription of Palestine Action as a terrorist group, and to protest against Israel’s continuing military campaign in Gaza.
The protest went ahead despite calls from the prime minister, Keir Starmer, to postpone it in the wake of a terror attack on a synagogue in Manchester.
One demonstrator speaking to the Guardian said: “As a Jewish person I’m here today to show there’s no contradiction … between being concerned, deeply concerned, about the violence committed to the congregation in Manchester and being concerned about the violence co...
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- A friendship forged on Ukraine’s frontline
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- 3 months ago
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- This film explores the space between "us" and "them", a poetic meditation on closeness, distance and what happens when war stops being a story about others.
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When war breaks out in Ukraine, Alisa Sopova sees her world turned upside down. A journalist in Donetsk, the newspaper where she works vanishes overnight and she starts working as a translator for western journalists. Life is crumbling around her. Then she meets Anastasia Taylor-Lind, a British war photographer who chooses not to rush to the front, instead observing everyday moments of resilience - birthdays, picnics, weddings. A deep bond emerges between these two women doing crucial work exposing the reality of war.
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Directed and edited by Paolina Stefani
DOP, photographer and producer Anastasia Taylor-Lind
Narrator and producer Alisa Sopova
Field producer in Uk...
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- Democratic candidate protesting Ice says party leadership is missing the moment
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
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- Kat Abughazaleh has been on the frontlines protesting Ice’s crackdown in Chicago while also running for Congress as a Democrat.
Guardian reporter Oliver Laughland joined Abughazaleh outside the Broadview Ice Facility. The facility has become a regular site for protests, where people try to block vans carrying individuals who have been apprehended by Ice.
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- Mass arrests at Palestine Action protest: ‘I’m 73 and never hurt a fly’
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- 4 months ago
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- Protesters gathered in London at Trafalgar Square on Saturday, with the third demonstration organised by campaign group Defend Our Juries going ahead despite pleas from Keir Starmer to postpone it in the wake of a fatal terror attack on a synagogue in Manchester.
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Participants had gathered to show their opposition to the government's proscription of Palestine Action as a terrorist group, and to highlight the ongoing famine, war and genocide in Gaza. The Guardian spoke with protesters and bystanders as almost 500 people were arrested.
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- How this TikTok deal puts US media control into the hands of the super-rich
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- 4 months ago
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- Almost half of adults under 30 in the US get their news from TikTok, according to the Pew Research Center. But who's going to own this hugely influential app?
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Donald Trump has signed an executive order outlining the terms of a deal to transfer TikTok to a US owner to let it continue to operate in the country, ending months of legal limbo.
Under the plan, US investors will take over the majority of TikTok’s operations and take charge of a licensed copy of the app’s powerful recommendation algorithm. American companies are expected to own about 65% of the US version of the spun-off company, while ByteDance and Chinese investors will own less than 20%.
But, critics are concerned that the arrangement would give Trump’s billionaire allies a degree of control over US media that would be vast and unprecedented.
“It’s incredibly troubling how quickly media moguls are capturing the infor...
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- Fighting ICE: how Chicago is resisting Trump’s immigration crackdown | Anywhere but Washington
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
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- In the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk killing, the Guardian's Oliver Laughland and Tom Silverstone head to Chicago, where Donald Trump's Ice deployment, codename Operation Midway Blitz, has been met by a defiant wave of sustained protests at the Broadview Ice facility.
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Chapters:
00:00 – 'Ice is operating as a secret police' – protests outside Broadview Ice facility, Illionois
01:45 – Donald Trump's sweeping immigration crackdown
02:19 – Ice protests escalate
03:01 – At a shrine to Turning Point USA's Charlie Kirk
05:28 – How Trump's rhetoric is tearing families apart
06:10 – Kat Abughazaleh interview at her campaign office: 'Representation isn't appeasement'
08:26 – Ice expands its presence in Chicago, neighbourhood watch groups push back
11:03 – A Charlie Kirk memorial service that feels like a Trump rally
12:42 – 'This isn't...
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- Ukraine's frontline photographer: this is not just another assignment | Documentary
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
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- When the war breaks out in Ukraine, Alisa is thrown into a life she wasn't expecting. Working as a translator for foreign journalists she meets British war photographer Anastasia, who chooses not to rush towards the front, instead observing quiet moments of everyday resilience - birthdays, picnics, weddings.
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A unique friendship forms as the two women strive to collapse the emotional distance between “us” and “them”. Their bond deepens as war wounds them both —transforming this into a poetic meditation on closeness, distance, and what happens when war stops being a story about others.
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- Why are planes cheaper than trains in Europe?
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- 4 months ago
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- When travelling around Europe you might be wondering – why are trains so much more expensive than planes?
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According to a recent Greenpeace study, aviation remains one of Europe’s most climate-damaging and unjust forms of transport.
Short-haul flights are still cheaper than the equivalent train journeys on the majority of cross-border routes in Europe, creating a perverse incentive that encourages polluting air travel, according to the report published in August.
“The environmental cost of planes is huge, with flights emitting five times more carbon per passenger kilometre than trains on average,” said Greenpeace UK’s head of politics, Ami McCarthy.
“While climate impacts like heatwaves, droughts and wildfires are causing devastation across the UK and the rest of Europe, the government should not reward the most polluting form of travel.”
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- Inside a narco sub used by Colombian drug lords
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- 4 months ago
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- 'Fumes and the smell of cocaine': Inside a Colombian drug smuggling submarine
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Two narrow wooden bunk-beds, on either side of the wheelhouse, offer the only resting space. A plastic windscreen is the only window to the world.
This is the reality anyone would have to face on board a dungeon-like “narco-submarine” investigators say was days away from starting a hellish three-week, 3,730-mile (6,000km) journey across the Atlantic to Europe with hundreds of millions of pounds worth of cocaine on board.
What was going through the mariners’ minds, embarking on a voyage they must have feared they would not survive? What had driven them to accept such a mission? The answers to those questions, like the identities of the sailors, remain a mystery to Brazilian police.
Colombian drug lords first started using narco-subs – in reality handmade semi-submersibles that travel just under the surfa...
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- How therapists are using video games like Minecraft to help vulnerable children
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- 4 months ago
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- ‘When I started offering Minecraft counselling, I’ve had parents just rush to me and say: «I think you might be able to reach my child and nobody else has been able to do that».’
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This is what Ellie Finch, a UK-based counsellor who started thinking about using games in therapy in 2012 when she began playing Minecraft with her nieces, told us.
In 2020, the pandemic forced Finch to practice counselling online and she realised that she could reach the young people more effectively through playing video games with them.
‘I realised pretty quickly that providing counselling to children and young people via video calls had quite a few limitations and I noticed that many of them were playing video games,’ Finch said.
Minecraft has proved particularly useful in therapy for a number of reasons, writes journalist Keith Stuart, who covers video games and digital culture for the Guardian. ...
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- ‘We should all be furious about the UK’s two child benefit limit’
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- 4 months ago
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- Child poverty in the UK is now at record levels, with 4.5 million kids living in poverty.One of the biggest drivers of this is the controversial two child limit policy, which caps universal credit and tax credits to a family’s first two children.
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With the Labour government’s Child Poverty Strategy due imminently, many charities and campaigners have called for this brutal policy to be scrapped. This move looks a step closer after Downing Street’s preferred candidate to be Labour’s deputy leader, Bridget Phillipson, said the policy had “punished and pushed children into hardship” and the cap’s abolition was “on the table”.
But what’s life actually like for mums under the limit and will the government listen to growing calls to abolish the austerity-era policy?
Journalist and poverty campaigner Terri White spea...
