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UK strategy of backing several Covid vaccines seems to be paying off

Posted on Apr 14, 2021

The government has said the decision by Johnson & Johnson to delay the supply of its Covid vaccine to Europe, while the US investigates reports of six cases of unu


W Galen Weston, Canadian retail tycoon behind Primark and Selfridges, dies at 80

Posted on Apr 14, 2021

W Galen Weston, the patriarch of one of Canada’s wealthiest families and a retail titan, has died aged 80. Weston was the third generation of his family to lead Geor


Ousted Myanmar ambassador says his relatives ‘forced into hiding’

Posted on Apr 14, 2021

Myanmar’s ousted ambassador to the UK has said that friends and relatives at home have been forced into hiding after the country’s military regime removed him from


Queen returns to royal duties four days after death of Prince Philip

Posted on Apr 14, 2021

The Queen has returned to royal duties, four days after the death of the Duke of Edinburgh, to mark the retirement of her household’s most senior official. The monar


Tongs at the ready for a spicier barbecue season this summer

Posted on Apr 04, 2021

Whatever the rights or tongs of the great British barbecue, retailers and food experts are predicting that the season will come with, well, extra seasoning this year a


If your dog goes for my sheep, then I will shoot, UK farmers warn walkers

Posted on Apr 04, 2021

Farmers are warning that attacks on livestock by dogs are reaching “epidemic proportions” as they brace themselves for a surge in dog attacks heading into peak lambing


The Observer view on Boris Johnson's plans to increase nuclear weapons

Posted on Apr 04, 2021

T he announcement that US and Iranian negotiators will join talks in Vienna this week to resurrect the 2015 nuclear deal with Tehran is a rare adv


The US used to fear federal spending, but Biden knows the mood has changed

Posted on Apr 04, 2021

F rom a European perspective, Joe Biden’s plans for a $2 trillion boost to spending on infrastructure is not a radical statement of intent. The mo


Across the UK, environmental protest is surging. So why don't we hear about it?

Posted on Apr 04, 2021

H ow many local environment campaigns does it take for the issues they raise to be recognised as part of a national problem? Ten? Twenty, maybe? W


Yes, we need a more nuanced debate about race. But this flawed report fails to deliver it

Posted on Apr 04, 2021

B ritain is less racist than it was 40 years ago. Many minority groups in Britain still face racism. Both those claims can be (and are) true. So a


UK restaurants and pubs see surge in bookings for planned reopening

Posted on Apr 04, 2021

Restaurants and bars with outdoor seating say bookings are at unprecedentedly high levels before a possible reopening next Monday, with people eager not to miss their


Lack of Covid help puts medical research at risk, UK charities warn

Posted on Apr 04, 2021

Medical charities have expressed dismay at the UK government’s failure to act over hundreds of millions of pounds of research that is at risk because of the catastroph


From bikes to booze, how Brexit barriers are hitting Anglo-Dutch trade hard

Posted on Apr 04, 2021

It is now three months since Boris Johnson declared that his Brexit deal would be unalloyed good news for UK businesses and consumers alike. But the true picture is gr


Yemeni family's asylum claims to be looked at together after Home Office U-turn

Posted on Apr 04, 2021

A family of asylum seekers from Yemen who were told they could not remain together in the UK because the father travelled to the country by plane and his three sons ar


'It’s given me faith back in humanity': the lockdown volunteers – a photo essay

Posted on Mar 27, 2021

G oodgym, a community of runners and cyclists from all over the UK, take on missions within their local area that combine getting fit with doing g


How George Floyd's death inspired change in two Manchester schools

Posted on Mar 27, 2021

Last spring, as the UK began emerging from the first Covid lockdown but schools remained closed, teachers Charlene Shaw-Morgan and Khaleekh Khalique found a moment to


Tell us: what are your experiences of racism in UK schools?

Posted on Mar 27, 2021

A Guardian investigation has found a growing number of pupils, parents, activists and educators are highlighting the hidden epidemic of racism in UK schools. We want


Suez canal: Japanese owner of stricken ship talks of plan to refloat it

Posted on Mar 27, 2021

Urgent salvage efforts are continuing along the banks of the Suez canal to free a container ship that has been stuck there for nearly four days causing a major jam of


Regional museums break ranks with UK government on return of Benin bronzes

Posted on Mar 27, 2021

Regional UK museums could lead a wave of repatriations of disputed Benin bronzes – most of them looted by British forces in 1897 – in defiance of the British governmen


Garden furniture sales lift UK retail as outdoor socialising looms

Posted on Mar 27, 2021

Spending on home improvements and garden furniture in February, in preparation for the restart of outdoor socialising in England next week, helped the retail sector st


China imposes sanctions on UK MPs, lawyers and academic in Xinjiang row

Posted on Mar 27, 2021

China has imposed sanctions on 10 UK organisations and individuals, including the former leader of the Conservative party Iain Duncan Smith, over what it called the sp


British Business Bank launched probe into Greensill Capital before collapse

Posted on Mar 27, 2021

Britain’s state-owned business bank launched an investigation into Greensill Capital, and loans it extended to Sanjeev Gupta’s steel empire, months before the lender c


A picture book can paint a thousand words

Posted on Mar 27, 2021

W ith reference to your editorial on the picture book (The Guardian view on the picture book: not just for children, 19 March), how have we manage


The Guardian view on China, Xinjiang and sanctions: the gloves are off

Posted on Mar 27, 2021

China’s response to criticisms of horrifying human rights violations in Xinjiang is clear and calculated. Its aims are threefold. First, the sanctions imposed upon ind