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Dining across the divide: ‘Parents giving their kids smartphones, then asking for bans are outsourcing their responsibilities’

An Arsenal fan and a Manchester United fan might not agree on football teams, but could they find common ground on mobile phones and AI?

The Guardian - UK · Feb 15

Dining across the divide: ‘I felt like the atmosphere was quite hostile’

They clashed on net zero, diversity and fashion. Was the chocolate-chip ice-cream the only thing they did agree on?

The Guardian - UK · May 4, 2025

‘I think we inspired the knickerless couple’: the story of the Guardian Blind date duo who tied the knot, six years after that first kiss

Emily and Sophie were sent out to dinner in the grip of a heatwave. But 34C temperatures and even a scoring blunder couldn’t stop the romance …

The Guardian - UK · Sep 21, 2024

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Dining across the divide: ‘I couldn’t get on board with her equating the Taliban and the democratic government of Ukraine’

They both vote Labour and listen to The Rest Is Politics, but will they agree on the royal family or arming Ukraine?

The Guardian - UK · Apr 18, 2024

The labour of fruits: night-time in New Covent Garden market – a photo essay

Guardian photographer Jill Mead pays a midnight visit to New Covent Garden market, the largest wholesale fruit, vegetable and flower market in the United Kingdom

The Guardian - UK · Mar 22, 2024

‘People always gossiped about our sleeping arrangements!’ How 100 people share a happy home in the Netherlands

It took six years to persuade the Dutch authorities that CW Delft wasn’t just a hippy dream. Four decades on, it’s still thriving. What’s the secret?

The Guardian - UK · Feb 13, 2024

Frank Bowling sells signed prints to buy art supplies for 100 schools

Abstract painter hopes to inspire young people with fine art after government cuts made it the ‘preserve of the elite’

The Guardian - UK · Feb 12, 2024

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England brings in biodiversity rules to force builders to compensate for loss of nature

From this week, development must result in more or better natural habitat than before, in a move hailed as one of the world’s most ambitious

The Guardian - UK · Feb 12, 2024

London council rips out playgrounds to build houses – then runs out of cash

Experts say boarded-up communal space illustrates crisis in social housing funding and need to protect play areas

The Guardian - UK · Feb 9, 2024

‘We just held hands and jumped!’ How one of Britain’s happiest, healthiest communes was built

It took 13 years of dreaming, peril and hard graft before the first residents moved into Cannock Mill – an eco-village that tackles both the climate crisis and loneliness

The Guardian - UK · Jan 30, 2024

Flowers everywhere? England’s ambitious scheme to restore wildlife hangs in the balance

Government scheme, due to launch this month, promises to protect and enhance biodiversity, but remains dogged by delays and uncertainty

The Guardian - UK · Jan 8, 2024

‘This is a lifeline’: the pub serving free Christmas lunches every year

Sarah and Mick Dore, at the Alexandra in Wimbledon, maintain a tradition of welcoming those who find themselves alone

The Guardian - UK · Dec 22, 2023

My week of Christmas jobs: ‘There is bad news. Dancer has diarrhoea’

Are festive jobs a cut above the rest? And which is best: Santa, reindeer wrangler, elf, sprout farmer, snowman’s helper or rollercoaster tester?

The Guardian - UK · Dec 19, 2023

A year on the River Thames, part four – in pictures

The fourth instalment in a series of photo essays looking at the life on the Thames. From dawn sculls to a duck derby and container barges, Jill Mead, a longtime London resident and urban photographer, shares the stories of the many characters working on and enjoying the river

The Guardian - UK · Nov 13, 2023

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The Guardian - UK · Nov 7, 2023

At 17, I was jailed for a murder I didn’t commit – and spent seven life-changing years in prison

Basic police checks would have shown Sam Hallam wasn’t at the scene of the crime, but these weren’t carried out until he had spent much of his youth inside. He explains why he is still fighting for justice, years after his release

The Guardian - UK · Nov 3, 2023

Sam Johnstone: ‘To stand in goal and see what’s in front of you, I think it’s lonely’

Sam Johnstone, who has established himself at Crystal Palace, tells Jacob Steinberg it is harder than ever to be a goalkeeper

The Guardian - UK · Oct 16, 2023

Why we should all dig into poo – all you need is a spoon

Cowpats in a Cambridge meadow offer vital lessons in how a host of tiny creatures sustain our planet

The Guardian - UK · Sep 29, 2023

How British refuse collectors won their strikes and became a model for successful trade unionism

As mountains of rubbish built up in Tower Hamlets and elsewhere, authorities were forced to listen, says Polly Smythe, labour movement correspondent at Novara Media

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The Guardian - UK · Sep 26, 2023

Family of dead para launch legal challenge to Northern Ireland legacy legislation

The law, which is preventing an investigation into the murder of Pte Tony Harrison in 1991, is a breach of the ECHR, his family argue

The Guardian - UK · Sep 25, 2023

A new start after 60: I spent my career in IT – but rediscovered my childhood love of music at 70

Chris Raven enjoyed woodwork and music as a boy but ended up working in a very different field. He finally united his two passions after retirement, with a career as a specialist flute maker

The Guardian - UK · Sep 15, 2023

‘We get bombarded’: study reveals ‘shocking’ impact of online abuse on girls

Happiness among girls and young women in UK at lowest since 2009 as 37% report being sent upsetting content

The Guardian - UK · Sep 4, 2023

‘I’m worried about her safety’: parents voice fears over school’s concrete

Parents outside a secondary school in west London describe impact of the alert over crumbling concrete

The Guardian - UK · Aug 24, 2023

‘We have brothers, sons, lovers – but they can’t live here!’ The happy home shared by 26 women

With residents aged from 58 to 94, New Ground is the UK’s first cohousing community exclusively for older women. Setting it up was an 18-year battle – but with soaring numbers of people living alone, is this an idea whose time has come?

The Guardian - UK · Aug 22, 2023

‘Neglected’ but beloved youth theatre on west London estate forced to close

SPID theatre raised £2.6m for renovation but says Kensington and Chelsea council has not carried out repairs

The Guardian - UK · Jul 27, 2023

‘Rude magnificence’ restored: following in the footsteps of pioneering naturalist Gilbert White

More than 230 years ago, the country parson celebrated the small but vital elements that gave the English landscape its ‘wild majesty’. Today, Hampshire’s farmers and volunteers are honouring his legacy

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