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Middle East crisis: mediators push on with Gaza ceasefire talks amid fresh strikes – as it happened
Talks in Egypt and Qatar are focused on forging a deal to pause the 14-month-old war and release Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners
Daniel Lavelle
20, Dec, 2024 @4:01 PM

‘A whole new world opened up’: the radical project taking Israel-Palestine into schools
Issues often deemed too controversial for the classroom are bread and butter for Parallel Histories, which teaches children to see hot-button topics from both sides
Helen Pidd and Courtney Yusuf
14, Dec, 2024 @1:11 PM

Growing up with Nigel Farage: inside Reform UK’s push for the next election
The party claims it has almost 100,000 members, more than the Lib Dems, whose hyperlocal strategy it aims to emulate
Helen Pidd and Natalie Ktena
22, Nov, 2024 @6:00 AM

They were best mates. Then one had a baby, while the other struggled. Two brutally honest takes on what happens when motherhood affects friendship
They both had something the other wanted. Could their relationship survive?
Helen Pidd and Alexandra Topping
16, Nov, 2024 @10:00 AM

‘This is our culture’: what Earl of Devon thinks hereditary peers bring to Lords
As Labour looks to stop all dukes and earls sitting in second chamber, Charles Courtenay defends the ‘long view’ they represent
Helen Pidd and Eli Block
23, Sep, 2024 @5:00 AM

Keir Starmer faces rebellion as 53 Labour MPs abstain over winter fuel and one votes with Tories – as it happened
Conservative motion to block winter fuel payment cut defeated but 53 Labour MPs abstain and one, Jon Trickett, votes with the Tories
Andrew Sparrow
10, Sep, 2024 @5:36 PM

‘I didn’t expect to win’: Labour’s new MPs adjusting to Commons life
With more than half of parliament’s intake new to the job, many are still in a transition from their former careers
Helen Pidd and Lucy Hough
02, Sep, 2024 @2:11 AM

Sea swims, sensational Scandinavian food - and the odd disagreement: Interrailing with my 75-year-old mum
Taking the train from Manchester to Oslo led to 10 action-packed days me and my Zumba-going mum would never forget
Helen Pidd
31, Aug, 2024 @6:00 AM

Beccy Barr obituary
Other lives: BBC regional news presenter who changed to a new career as a firefighter
Helen Pidd
14, Aug, 2024 @4:18 PM

Jenga, dodgeball and no phones: a London school’s radical 12-hour day
All Saints Catholic College aiming to ‘give children their childhood back’ by breaking their screen addictions
Helen Pidd and Courtney Yusuf
14, Jun, 2024 @7:02 AM

‘I wanted to scrape it from my eyeballs’: critics on their zero-star savagings
Sometimes a film, gig or sex-positive puppet show is so excruciating that awarding it one star just isn’t damning enough. How do writers who’ve written zero-star reviews feel about the worst shows they’ve ever seen now?
Lucy Mangan, Rebecca Nicholson, Alexis Petridis, Wendy Ide and Helen Pidd
23, May, 2024 @12:29 PM

‘My mum had to tell me I had HIV’: the former blood transfusion poster boy campaigning for infected victims
Andy Evans was injecting his own clotting protein at three, and was 13 when he found it had given him HIV. Now he campaigns for fellow survivors – and the truth about the contamination scandal
Helen Pidd and Natalie Ktena
17, May, 2024 @6:00 AM
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