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    PPE Medpro
    Man, 46, arrested in connection with criminal investigation

    Suspect understood to have been arrested on suspicion of offences including conspiracy to commit fraud
  • composite of Harry Dunn and Anne Sacoolas

    Harry Dunn
    Anne Sacoolas said she ‘drove like an American’, inquest told

General election 2024

  • Grant Shapps at Tuesday’s Conservative manifesto launch.

    Campaign catchup
    Defeatist Tories, cautious Greens, and the leader who really loves cars

  • Composite images from Chingford and Woodford Green

    ‘A lot of people won’t vote’
    Chingford voters unenthusiastic as Labour does battle with Faiza Shaheen

  • Rishi Sunak sitting in the centre of the illuminated and curved presenters' desk on Loose Women, surrounded by the four presenters

    From Partygate to Post Office to D-day
    Five ways ITV has shaken up the election

  • John Crace

    Rish! seems determined to achieve total humiliation. This isn’t politics, it’s art

    John Crace

News in focus

  • Pile of cocaine with images from Ecuador in the background

    ‘The cocaine superhighway’
    How death and destruction mark drug’s path from South America to Europe

  • Daniel Kebede poses for a photographic portrait in. shirt and cardigan with his arms folded

    ‘Labour’s honeymoon will be short-lived’
    Teachers’ union head warns of strikes by autumn

    Daniel Kebede, leader of the NEU, says members’ morale is at an all-time low and that Starmer must signal a radical change in policy
  • a glass of soda with ice and a straw

    Is aspartame bad for you?
    What we know about the sweetener’s health risks

    Some studies link the popular soda sweetener to higher cancer risk, but the links are weak and questions remain

Spotlight

  • A still from The Grab

    ‘The big story of the 21st century’
    Is this the most shocking documentary of the year?

    Six years in the making, jaw-dropping new film The Grab shows a secret scramble by governments and private firms to buy up global resources
  • Two young women or teenagers looking through vinyl records at a large records fair

    ‘We need to go places and touch things’
    The young people turning away from phones

  • Flew the coop … Feathers McGraw, seen on his release from prison.

    From Feathers McGraw to Mr Burns
    Kids’ TV’s all-time evillest villains

    Who is the most nefarious baddy? Will it be Grotbags? Skeletor? The Jack Straw lookalike in The Demon Headmaster?
  • Francoise Hardy in London, mid 1960s.

    Miniskirts and masculine looks
    How Françoise Hardy epitomised French chic – in pictures

    Celebrated for her insouciant cool and varied style, the late singer was a muse across decades of fashion. Here are some of her greatest ensembles
    • Ready to fly … Assemble’s Maria Lisogorskaya with a Ghanaian coffin on a rubble plinth.

      ‘A show you want to pick up and fondle’
      Assemble electrify the RA’s Summer Exhibition

    • Here’s to no whippersnappers … Adults enjoying adult conversation surrounded by other adults

      Pass notes
      Youth-free dining: Does banning men under 35 really make a restaurant sexier?

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      ‘Oxford study’
      Trolls are citing 'research' to demean Asian women in interracial relationships. But it doesn’t actually exist

    • The Simpsons family in front of their house

      The Simpsons to WWF
      The Sky TV Rishi Sunak would have missed out on

Opinion

  • The Green Party Launches Their General Election Manifesto<br>BRIGHTON, ENGLAND - JUNE 12: Parliamentary candidate Sian Berry (L) and Green Party co-leader Carla Denyer (R) prepare ahead of the manifesto launch on June 12, 2024 in Brighton, England. The Green Party Manifesto is launched today by co-leaders, Carla Denyer, the Green Party candidate for Bristol Central, and Adrian Ramsay, the Green Party candidate for Waveney Valley. Also attending is the Green Party member Sian Berry, candidate for Brighton Pavilion campaigning for the 4th July general election.(Photo by Alishia Abodunde/Getty Images)

    Who should hold the next prime minister to account? Our best hope lies with the Green party

    George Monbiot
    The party’s manifesto, which pledges to use a wealth tax to revitalise our public services, shows it can push Labour to raise its ambitions, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
  • Stephen Flynn (SNP), Carla Denyer (Greens) and Angela Rayner (Labour) during last week’s televised debate.

    I’m 91 and this may be my last chance to vote – I want to hear about policies, not D-day rows

    Sheila Hancock
  • Bukayo Saka of England dribbles with the ball past an Iceland defender.

    Bukayo Saka’s treatment after Iceland loss exposed familiar media failings

    Morgan Ofori
    Spotlight on Arsenal winger following England’s Euro 2024 warm-up defeat was an unwelcome reminder for black fans
  • *** BESTPIX *** TOPSHOT-FRANCE-GERMANY-POLITICS-HISTORY-WWII<br>TOPSHOT - French President Emmanuel Macron (L) and German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier stand together as they pay their respects during a ceremony marking the 80th anniversary of the massacre of 643 persons by Nazi German forces, in Oradour-sur-Glane, southwestern France, on June 10, 2024. On June 10, 1944, just four days after the Allied forces landed on the Normandy coast on D-Day, 643 inhabitants, including 247 children, were massacred in the tranquil village of Oradour-sur-Glane in southwestern France, by German Waffen-SS soldiers belonging to the 2nd SS Panzer Division "Das Reich". (Photo by Ludovic MARIN / POOL / AFP) (Photo by LUDOVIC MARIN/POOL/AFP via Getty Images) *** BESTPIX ***

    I feel squeamish talking to Germans about the war. Is it a British thing?

    Adrian Chiles
    The D-day commemorations have made us all reflect on the second world war. But I hesitated to talk to my German neighbour about it
    • Rishi Sunak visit to Greater Manchester<br>Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Home Secretary Suella Braverman during a visit to a hotel in Rochdale, Greater Manchester, for a meeting of the Grooming Gangs Taskforce. Picture date: Monday April 3, 2023. PA Photo. See PA story POLITICS Abuse. Photo credit should read: Phil Noble/PA Wire

      There is no recovery for the Conservative party until it purges itself of Reform-lite ideas

      Justine Greening
    • An election rally for the Greens in Vienna, Austria, 7 June 2024

      How can Europe’s progressives fight back? A coalition of losers is now their best hope

      Paul Taylor
    • British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak talks to journalists on his plane as he travels from Northern Ireland to Birmingham during a day of campaigning for this year's General Election due to be held on July 4, on Friday May 24, 2024. (HENRY NICHOLLS/Pool photo via AP)

      How to judge Rishi Sunak? Not as a politician, but as the great improv comic of our age

      Ian Martin
    • Photo shows two men holding a Straight Pride banner in Boston.

      Consider the plight of that poor oppressed majority: heterosexuals

      Arwa Mahdawi

Editorials & Letters

  • Conservative Party leader Rishi Sunak delivers the party's election manifesto at Silverstone Racetrack, Britain, on 11 June 2024.

    The Guardian view
    The Conservative manifesto is an exercise in fiscal fantasy and denial

  • Hong Kong activists hold a banner supporting the Hong Kong 47 and other political prisoners during a protest in Taipei, Taiwan, on Sunday.

    The Guardian view
    The rule of law in Hong Kong: the verdict of foreign judges is damning

  • Schoolchildren eating a meal.

    Letters
    Three steps that would stop children going hungry

  • Dr Michael Mosley in Cannes, France on 17 Oct 2022

    Letters
    Michael Mosley: just one thing we can do to remember him

Euro 2024

Sport

  • Transgender swimmer Lia Thomas has lost a legal case against World Aquatics at the court of arbitration for sport.

    Lia Thomas
    Transgender swimmer out of Olympics after losing legal battle

  • Sports Europe

    We’re in the middle of a non-stop sporting bloom – help us bring you a pitchside view

    Barney Ronay
    • Conor Gallagher prepares for England’s international friendly against Iceland.

      Transfer news
      Chelsea could offer Gallagher new contract

    • Pat Nevin looking through a window of his home

      Pat Nevin
      I didn’t want to be a player at first but in the end I loved it

    • The president of Ivory Coast Alassane Ouattara (centre) lifts the Africa Cup of Nations trophy after Ivory Coast defeated Nigeria in this year’s final.

      Africa Cup of Nations
      December move mooted to avoid Club World Cup clash

    • Celia Segura and Amaya García Gómez celebrate after Spain became the European Women's Under-17 champions

      Moving the Goalposts
      What we learned from the Women’s Under-17 Euros in Sweden

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    Environment
    Can Labour clean up England’s dangerously dirty water?

  • Cameron, leader of Britain's Conservative Party stands on top of Scott-Turner glacier on Svalbard<br>David Cameron, the leader of Britain's Conservative Party, stands on top of the Scott-Turner glacier with husky Troika on the island of Svalbard, Norway April 20, 2006. Cameron is visiting the Norwegian glacier to see the effects of climate change.

    From ‘hug a husky’ to ‘max out the oil’
    The Tory environmental journey

  • Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev gestures as he addresses the nation in Baku, Azerbaijan.

    Cop29
    Hosts Azerbaijan accused of media crackdown before September summit

  • Close-up of a spray can with someone pressing down the cap with gas coming out

    'Huge global success'
    Harmful gases destroying ozone layer falling faster than expected, study finds

From the UK

  • Two police officers surround a protester

    Metropolitan police
    Force ‘using human rights laws to block trooping the colour protest’

  • Jade Farnill and Elle Ideson perform the play 1988 by Hannah Scorer, in July 2023, during Out Loud, a Hull scratch night produced by Middle Child and Silent Uproar.

    Dramas in a crisis
    England’s theatres commit to new plays at perilous time for arts

    • Barnsley
      Man charged after objects thrown at Nigel Farage

    • Labour
      Shapps: Tories fighting to prevent ‘supermajority'

    • Sycamore Gap tree
      Trial date set for two men accused of felling tree

    • Legal & General
      Financial firm to expand pensions and sell housebuilder Cala

    • Exclusive
      Imelda Staunton and Olivia Colman call for urgent political support for the arts

    • Scotland
      Man appears in court charged with murder of West Lothian woman

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  • Black and white image of two people watching a ship sinking in the sea

    Antarctic
    Wreck of Shackleton’s ship Quest found, last link to ‘heroic age of exploration’

    The vessel, which sank off the coast of Canada in 1962, was used by the explorer on his final voyage to the continent
  • Smoke rises from fires on a hillside

    Lebanon
    Hezbollah fires big salvo of rockets at Israel after senior commander killed

  • Treasury secretary Janet Yellen

    US politics live
    US announces new sanctions on Russia over military invasion of Ukraine

  • African protesters waving placards with slogans such as "#stop eacop" and "divest from fossil fuels"

    Uganda
    Oil pipeline protester allegedly beaten as part of ‘alarming crackdown’

    • Netherlands
      Three men convicted of murdering Dutch crime reporter Peter de Vries

    • Spain
      Culture ministry publishes list of art seized during civil war

    • Hong Kong
      Remaining British judges face pressure to resign from top court

    • ‘Gutted’
      Champion eater Joey Chestnut banned from New York’s hotdog-eating contest

    • EU
      Import tariffs of up to 38% to be imposed on Chinese electric vehicles as trade war looms

    • ‘People will die’
      Biden’s border order will worsen migrants’ risks, experts say

Culture

  • Billie Eilish and Shabaka Hutchings.

    Best culture of 2024
    The top albums of the year

    Billie Eilish’s third is a triumph, Shabaka goes woodwind and Yunchan Lim makes the most thrilling piano debut of the decade … here are our music team’s picks of the best LPs from the first half of the year
  • Doja Cat on stage.

    Doja Cat review
    Bombastic show of strength from pop’s great contrarian

  • Ian Bostridge in Winterreise at Bath’s Ustinov studio.

    Winterreise review
    Agony and ecstasy as Bostridge and Drake bring Schubert’s song cycle to dramatic life

  • Bernard Wright, Ralph Fiennes, Simon Russell Beale and Paterson Joseph in a Royal Shakespeare Company production.

    ‘He queered the hell out of it’
    The man behind Shakespeare’s same-sex love sonnets

  • Two men in suits talk earnestly while a woman looks on from the sidelines

    Stage
    A Child of Science review – heartbreak and hard work behind birth of IVF

  • An image from the coming Tales of the Shire.

    Forget the AAAs
    Innovative indie developers were the real stars of Summer Game Fest

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Lifestyle

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    A moment that changed me
    I’m 58 and single since 1997. A Sex and the City meme transformed my life

    My first and only proper relationship ended the day after Princess Diana died. There followed years of dalliances and situationships, before I realised something crucial about myself
  • Christian Bale as Patrick Bateman in American Psycho.

    The sad, stupid rise of the sigma male
    How toxic masculinity took over social media

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    Felicity Cloake's masterclass
    How to make pasta puttanesca – recipe

  • How to cut the cost of cat ownership

    Deals on food and homemade toys
    Seven ways to cut the cost of cat ownership

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    Sexual healing
    I used to be a top, but it no longer works for me. How do I tell my partner I’ve become a side?

  • Chelsea Goodwin’s recipe for simple tuna spaghetti with lemon and garlic.

    Chelsea Goodwin’s quick and easy recipes
    Tuna spaghetti, pad see ew and butter bean stew

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    How is the election playing out in your WhatsApp groups?

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    Tell us which issues will decide this election

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From our global editions

  • The island nation of Nauru with an overlay of a barbed fence in the foreground.

    ‘What is our future?’
    The Nauru detention centre was empty. Now 100 asylum seekers are held there

    The number of asylum seekers at the centre has been slowly growing, with fears they will spend years trapped on the island
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    ‘My body will never be mine again'
    Child predators are using AI to create sexual images of their favorite ‘stars’

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    The high road
    I was struggling with sex in my first queer relationship. Then we started taking mushrooms

  • Oscar James Nedd in an undated image.

    Who is Mr X?
    How a true crime podcast helped identify a 1975 murder victim

  • ‘Firearms, arson, attacks on homes’
    The families in the eye of Ireland’s cocaine storm

  • A group of women each holding up their fingers and thumbs to make a 'W' shape

    ‘We’re writing history’
    Spanish women tackle Wikipedia’s gender gap

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    Labour’s path to a majority
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  • England Team Depart From St George's Park Ahead of Euro 2024 Campaign<br>BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND - JUNE 10: Trent Alexander-Arnold and Jude Bellingham of England board the plane as the England team travel to Germany ahead of their Euro 2024 campaign, at Birmingham Airport on June 10, 2024 in Birmingham, England. (Photo by Eddie Keogh - The FA/The FA via Getty Images)

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  • Mellow in yellow … an image from Shin Noguchi’s In Color In Japan: Selected and New Works

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