More than 17,000 brand new items have been donated for Afghan mothers and their children in less than a week by members of the public and businesses keen to help them
Footfall in UK high streets and retail parks last month hit its highest level since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic as increased domestic tourism boosted consumer a
Calum Maclean and Jenny Graham had grown tired of several daylong hikes across Alpine ridges, and were in search of genuine novelty. They were surprised to find it a l
Scrapping free prescription charges for people over 60 and raising the qualifying age to 66 could have a devastating impact on the health of tens of thousands of older
A sweeping set of regulations governing how online services should treat childrenâs data have been welcomed by campaigners as they come into effect. The Age Approp
Household energy bills are to rise after prices on the UK’s wholesale electricity market soared to a record high last month, furthering concerns about more families be
T he Azores archipelago (Açores in Portuguese) lies about 1,000 miles west of mainland Europe and is made up of nine volcanic islands: São Miguel
W hen Louise Glück won the Nobel prize last year, she was, to many in the UK, an unknown quantity. Even though she had been garlanded with litera
A s a community organiser says at the start of this documentary, the name Toxteth â apparently hardly used in the area pre-1981 â has become s
UK homeowners made a rare net repayment of mortgage debt in July as the tapering of the stamp duty holiday in England and Northern Ireland fuelled a drop in housing ma
There have been many studies published recently on the prevalence of racism in the international aid sector. They have ranged from definitions of racial equity withi
Vegan environmental activists have blockaded a dairy distribution centre in Buckinghamshire, which they say handles one-tenth of the milk supply in the UK, while a doz
Dominic Raab has rejected US claims that Britain was indirectly responsible for the suicide attacks at Kabul airport last week because it insisted that the Abbey gate
Sir Tom Stoppard has revealed how his staunch criticism of communist regimes in his plays, born out of his own past as a Jewish child refugee from Czechoslovakia, set
The Scottish Greens’ co-leaders, Patrick Harvie and Lorna Slater, are to become ministers in the Holyrood government – the first time representatives of the party have
Thousands of officers will receive public order training in the run-up to the Cop26 summit in Glasgow in November, Police Scotland has said. About 10,000 officers fr
MPs are scrambling to rescue more than 7,000 constituents and family members trapped in Afghanistan, according to figures provided to the Guardian, dwarfing the only e
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Larry Elliott (So what’s so wrong with labour shortages driving up low wages?’, 29 August) doesn’t acknowledge that there are upwards wage pressures everywhere from Ge
A s the gates of hell closed on Kabul, they were among the last to make it out. They landed in the early hours of Sunday morning, to a hero’s welc
While the UK’s formal evacuation of its own nationals and Afghans seen as eligible to be taken out has ended, there is confusion over how many more people could have b
COAST Tenuta Uva Rosa, Puglia Over on the other side of Puglia’s heel of Italy, the waters of the Ionian Sea are crystal clear, especially off the beaches eithe
UK business confidence has hit a four-year high, thanks to growing optimism about the post-Covid recovery, but companies highlighted concerns about staff shortages, wh
T he remarkable Portuguese director Manoel de Oliveira, who died in 2015 at the age of 106 and made movies right until the very end, often seems t