Home secretary insists prime minister meant everything he said on immigration – except the stuff he didn’t mean to say It wasn’t so much the content of the government’s immigration bill as the language. That was what really got to people. Even Nigel Farage said he would have dialled it […]
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The film version of A Pale View of Hills, the Nobel-winner’s tale of loss, exile and a pregnant radioactive bride, is about to premiere at Cannes. The writer explains why this story is so personal to him Kazuo Ishiguro still remembers where he was when he wrote A Pale View […]
A week after Reform cleans up at the local elections, the prime minister decides it’s time to ‘take back control’ The Guardian view on Labour’s immigration plan: cohesion isn’t helped by talk of ‘strangers’ You know how it is. You get on the 87 at the Vauxhall depot and you […]
Six-month-old Palestinian girl’s painfully emaciated body symbolised starvation in Gaza Siwar Ashour was born into war and hunger and has known nothing else. She is now in real danger of dying without ever having known a moment of peace or contentment. The six-month-old Palestinian girl, whose painfully emaciated body symbolised […]
One day I set myself the project of watching all of his movies, and finished about three months later. There was one film I really hated – and I wish he’d do more romcoms Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email When I was growing up, I always told my […]
The government’s claims about immigration driving down wages are so demonstrably untrue, it’s hard to feel the appropriate level of outrage I would love to know what exactly happens, in the top-level meetings where the prime minister decides to be even tougher on immigration. Is there anyone in there saying: […]
US kids are falling prey to a sophisticated network of scammers who extort thousands – and push some victims to suicide A TikTok video shows a young man fanning out a stack of $100 bills. A second flexes his designer clothes. Another man posts a video of himself dancing and […]
She said, ‘Come and stay at my house. I’ll look after you and we’re going to get you into rehab’ Read more in the Kindness of strangers series By the time I was 19, my life had spiralled out of control – I was homeless and destitute, my infant son […]
What is the equivalent of a Couch to 5k or parkrun for swimmers? Do I need loads of expensive gear? And should I join a club? Here’s how I learned to love the pool Mine is a familiar story: I used to hate even the idea of running. But, in […]
Trump can have his ‘victory days’. I want something to commemorate Britain’s love of Judi Dench, or its hatred of a sleepless night I’m not being deliberately contrarian – I am a person of peace – but I’ve decided bank holidays are rubbish. They are on my mind because May […]