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Fine ‘headphone dodgers’ if you will, but to really tackle antisocial behaviour, Britain should look to Japan | Emily Bratt

" Loudcasting " – playing audio, watching videos or talking on speakerphone in public spaces – is a form of antisocial behaviour that drives eight in 10 of people in the UK crazy, and I'm glad Andy Burnham is one of…

‘Our regional theatres are engines of growth. Labour should help them thrive’

Theatres and cultural venues bring communities together, give people opportunities to discover their talents, and help shape the identity of the places we call home. That experience has stayed with me throughout my…

Most levelling up projects still unfinished years after funding allocated

Data released under freedom of information laws and manually reviewed by the Guardian found 821 levelling up projects out of 1,347 were yet to be finalised as of May this year. Across the UK, 73 council areas that had a…

At Aberfan, I saw fathers digging for their missing children. And the lessons society should have learned, it hasn’t | John Humphrys

Correction: must not be trusted. Too sweeping? I might have thought so until 60 years ago this week when I stood alongside mothers weeping and praying as they watched their husbands digging for the bodies of their…

Ein Spaziergang mit Martin Blessing

Es bleibt die entscheidende Frage, wie viel von den zugesagten Milliarden tatsächlich frisches Geld ist und ob die deutsche Bürokratie das Tempo der KI-Revolution überhaupt mitgehen kann. Als ehemaliger…

Tory activist in 'contract killing broker' claim had worked for party HQ

It comes after Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch referred to them as "shocking allegations", adding that she did not "believe that person is a member anymore". A Conservative spokesman said Ross's party membership had…

What’s not on the ballot in Israel: Peace

The Eisenkot-led Change bloc has focused on Netanyahu’s role in the lead-up to the Oct. 7, 2023 massacre, pointing to the failures of his government and arguing he ignored warnings of a likely big Hamas attack. But the…

Inside the cyber flaw scramble that brought the AI threat to life

Cloudflare saw thousands in the 10 hours before the flaw was publicly announced, then tens of thousands in the 45 minutes after the announcement, hundreds of thousands within two hours, and now millions, Prince said.…

Andy Bloke appears vaguely normal on Gogglebox – but Kemi dodged a bullet

Life doesn't get more meta. The saving grace is that this episode of Gogglebox is a charity special for Stand Up to Cancer. Andy Burnham has requested that any journalist writing about the programme makes a donation to…

EU and China weigh next sectors for trade curbs

“I would like to see that we both have an understanding of what sectors we are going to focus on next,” he said. The intense engagement with China comes as the bloc seeks to rebalance mutual economic ties, which EU…