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‘Tax break tart’: hospitality tipped to exploit summer VAT cut on children’s meals

The Guardian • 2 months ago

As bosses ridicule the chancellor’s scheme, one venue is offering a £25 ‘kids’ menu of snails and anchovy butter toastRestaurants and pubs are expected to devise “enterprising” schemes to exploit a tax break on meals for under-18s, after one venue launched a menu for “kids” featuring wild burgundy snail salad and anchovy butter toast.Rachel Reeves last month announced a temporary cut in VAT on chi...

Wednesday briefing: In a new era of far-right organising, how can we tackle hate?

The Guardian • 2 months ago

In today’s newsletter: The far right are using social media to foster division, from Southampton to Belfast, but there are calls for clear and urgent ways to counter digital radicalismGood morning. Ten years after the murder of the MP Jo Cox by a rightwing extremist in the run-up to the Brexit referendum, her sister Kim Leadbeater, now herself a MP, issued a clear and urgent summons.In an intervie...

Woman says she ‘didn’t understand mental health’ before daughter experiencing acute psychosis killed another child

The Guardian • 2 months ago

Girl told mother she thought about killing people ‘all the time’, inquest into 10-year-old Biddy Porter’s death hearsFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe mother of a child killer did not understand mental health and consulted a naturopathic herbalist about concerns for her teenage daughter, an inquest has been told.Two...

BBC presenter Ashley Cain called women ‘slags’, ‘sluts’ and ‘bitches’

The Guardian • 2 months ago

Exclusive: Cain has been lauded by corporation for his appeal to young men despite history of abusive and misogynistic remarks• Warning: this article contains sexually explicit, offensive languageA BBC presenter lauded by the corporation for his appeal to young male audiences has a history of making abusive and misogynistic remarks about women, whom he has variously called “slags”, “sluts”, “psych...

A nation shaped by rain: exhibition celebrates Scotland’s wettest obsession

The Guardian • 2 months ago

Minnie the Minx and Macbeth feature in National Library’s exploration of how rainfall has shaped Scottish science, literature, history and identityIt seems fitting that, 250 years ago, one of Scotland’s foremost scientists took a close interest in what is arguably the country’s most famous feature: rainJames Hutton, celebrated by Scots as the father of modern geology, went so far as to write a for...

John Lewis injects £20m into Glasgow city centre store in wider branch reboot

The Guardian • 2 months ago

Upgrade to Buchanan Galleries part of £50m spend this year and £800m by 2029 to revive appeal of department storesJohn Lewis is to spend £20m on a revamp of its Glasgow store in the city centre’s Buchanan Galleries in a vote of confidence in the shopping mall not long ago scheduled for demolition.It is the largest cash injection within a wider plan to spend £50m this financial year on refreshing i...

Fashion tycoon Bernard Arnault accused of stranglehold over French business press

The Guardian • 2 months ago

Arnault’s addition of leading weekly to stable of publications raises concerns about media ownership in FranceHe is known as the “wolf in cashmere” – the owner of the world’s biggest luxury group whose brands including Louis Vuitton, Dior and Tiffany have made him one of the world’s richest people.But Bernard Arnault, a close friend of Donald Trump, is under fire from journalists’ unions in France...

Sierra Leone’s first lady refuses to condemn FGM without ‘reliable data’ on harms

The Guardian • 2 months ago

Exclusive: health professionals, survivors and politicians voice concerns in open letter over comments by Fatima Maadi Bio, who denies supporting the practiceThe first lady of Sierra Leone has denied that she supports female genital mutilation amid rising anger around her perceived approval of the practice.But in an exclusive response to the Guardian, Fatima Maada Bio, the wife of President Julius...

Lib Dems to urge Labour to drop ‘torpor and timidity’ on EU and rejoin single market

The Guardian • 2 months ago

Exclusive: Ed Davey to make call ahead of 10th anniversary of Brexit vote, in strengthening of party’s position on EUThe Lib Dems will urge Andy Burnham to end Labour’s “torpor and timidity” towards the EU as they call for the UK to rejoin the single market, in a notable strengthening of their own position.Ahead of the 10th anniversary of the Brexit vote next week, Ed Davey will challenge Burnham ...

Ghana to advance reparatory justice at first major gathering since landmark UN resolution

The Guardian • 2 months ago

Heads of state and participants from more than 80 countries at three-day event in Accra to pursue actionable commitments to reconciliation and restitutionGhana is hosting a conference to advance the continent’s push for reparatory justice after the adoption of the landmark United Nations (UN) resolution declaring the trafficking of enslaved Africans as the gravest crime against humanity.Heads of s...

Pauline Hanson says Australia ‘must be monocultural’ in National Press Club speech

The Guardian • 2 months ago

One Nation leader denounces high immigration levels, Islam, transgender rights, the ABC and the Guardian in inflammatory addressPauline Hanson has declared Australia cannot be multicultural and must exist as a “monocultural society”, warning high migration had caused the country lose its identity and national values.In an inflammatory address to the National Press Club in Canberra, the One Nation ...

Australia news live: ‘Honestly you never give up’ – Pauline Hanson again threatens to ban Guardian after question about daughter at National Press Club

The Guardian • 2 months ago

One Nation leader to speak at press club for first time in her political career. Follow today’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastKyle Sandilands has settled his legal dispute with ARN Media with a $12m cash payment over three years, but Jackie O Henderson’s $82m claim against the broadcaster will continue.The shock jock agreed to drop his $85m lawsuit against KII...

British Council faces more job cuts to help pay off £197m loan

The Guardian • 2 months ago

National Audit Office says agency proposes closing operations in 11 countries as part of turnaround planThe British Council faces cutting its workforce further and closing operations in 11 countries as it struggles to repay a crippling £197m Covid-era government loan that threatens its survival, the public spending watchdog has said.The UK’s soft-power agency remains loss-making six years on from ...

Lives and incomes lost as Ebola takes toll on Bunia’s public-facing workers

The Guardian • 2 months ago

A headteacher, a motorcycle taxi driver and a travel agent are among those who are counting the human and economic cost of the virusJustin Keno watches more than 400 pupils stream through the Nelson Mandela school’s gate each morning, and wonders which of them might be carrying Ebola.The institution’s principal has done everything he can to prevent the spread of the virus: installing hand-washing ...

Australia news live: Pauline Hanson attacks renewables, multiculturalism and ABC in National Press Club speech briefly interrupted by banner stunt

The Guardian • 2 months ago

One Nation leader to speak at press club for first time in her political career. Follow today’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastKyle Sandilands has settled his legal dispute with ARN Media with a $12m cash payment over three years, but Jackie O Henderson’s $82m claim against the broadcaster will continue.The shock jock agreed to drop his $85m lawsuit against KII...

Australia news live: Hanson attacks renewables, multiculturalism and ABC in Press Club speech interrupted by banner stunt

The Guardian • 2 months ago

One Nation leader to speak at press club for first time in her political career. Follow today’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastKyle Sandilands has settled his legal dispute with ARN Media with a $12m cash payment over three years, but Jackie O Henderson’s $82m claim against the broadcaster will continue.The shock jock agreed to drop his $85m lawsuit against KII...

‘Enraged’ union boss defends naming and shaming Victorian Labor MPs who had ‘zero conversations’ with voters

The Guardian • 2 months ago

Candidates must ‘work their ass off’ to stop One Nation or expect withdrawal of union support, Trades Hall Council secretary saysFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe head of Victoria’s powerful Trades Hall Council has defended naming and shaming 23 state Labor MPs and candidates for having “zero conversations” with the...

Australia news live: Pauline Hanson calls for ‘monocultural’ society as first Press Club speech briefly interrupted by banner stunt

The Guardian • 2 months ago

One Nation leader to speak at press club for first time in her political career. Follow today’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastKyle Sandilands has settled his legal dispute with ARN Media with a $12m cash payment over three years, but Jackie O Henderson’s $82m claim against the broadcaster will continue.The shock jock agreed to drop his $85m lawsuit against KII...

Australia news live: Pauline Hanson begins Press Club speech with call for ‘monocultural’ society

The Guardian • 2 months ago

One Nation leader to speak at press club for first time in her political career. Follow today’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastKyle Sandilands has settled his legal dispute with ARN Media with a $12m cash payment over three years, but Jackie O Henderson’s $82m claim against the broadcaster will continue.The shock jock agreed to drop his $85m lawsuit against KII...

Tasmanian devil Mary found 2km from her Gold Coast theme park home after two weeks on the run

The Guardian • 2 months ago

Carnivorous animal taken to hospital in an unstable condition after escaping from quarantine facility in Paradise Country on 2 JuneAfter two weeks eluding thermal imaging drones and teams of zookeepers, a Tasmanian devil on the run in the Gold Coast has finally been found – and taken to hospital in an unstable condition.The devil, Mary, escaped a quarantine facility in Paradise Country theme park ...

Australia news live: Pauline Hanson delivers first Press Club address as One Nation announces plan to halve tobacco excise

The Guardian • 2 months ago

One Nation leader to speak at press club for first time in her political career. Follow today’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastKyle Sandilands has settled his legal dispute with ARN Media with a $12m cash payment over three years, but Jackie O Henderson’s $82m claim against the broadcaster will continue.The shock jock agreed to drop his $85m lawsuit against KII...

Australia news live: Pauline Hanson to deliver National Press Club address; missing Tasmanian devil found and rushed to hospital

The Guardian • 2 months ago

One Nation leader to speak at press club for first time in her political career. Follow today’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastKyle Sandilands has settled his legal dispute with ARN Media with a $12m cash payment over three years, but Jackie O Henderson’s $82m claim against the broadcaster will continue.The shock jock agreed to drop his $85m lawsuit against KII...

Will a ban keep the UK’s kids off social media? – podcast

The Guardian • 2 months ago

Governments around the world want to keep under-16s off YouTube, TikTok and Instagram. Australia has introduced a ban and now the UK is doing the same. Stephen Byrne and Chris Stokel-Walker reportKeir Starmer announced on Monday that he wanted to ban under-16s from social media. Parents were calling out for more controls he said. But their children … well, their children have other ideas.“Snapchat...

US midterm primaries 2026: Mike Collins projected to win Republican nomination for US Senate in Georgia – as it happened

The Guardian • 2 months ago

This live blog is now closed.With 55% of the vote counted in Georgia, NBC News projects Mike Collins will defeat former football coach Derek Dooley to win the Republican primary for the US Senate. Collins currently leads by 10 points, 55% to 45%.The Associated Press has not yet made a call, but NBC’s analysis is based on the fact that Collins is doing better than Dooley in the votes cast on electi...

Georgia runoff: Republican voters choose Trump-backed conservative to face Jon Ossoff

The Guardian • 2 months ago

Representative Mike Collins defeats former college football coach Derek Dooley, while Rick Jackson selected as governor pickGeorgia’s Republican primary runoff voters chose US representative Mike Collins over former college football coach Derek Dooley to lead the party’s bid to challenge US senator and rising Democratic star Jon Ossoff in November’s midterm elections.They also selected billionaire...