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29.11.2022

Bookshop.org is what the publishing world has been waiting for | Books | The Guardian

Following its success in the US, the ethical platform Bookshop.org has arrived in the UK, marking an exciting new chapter for independent stores online

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Gold surges nearly 2% to new record high; UK food inflation slows and fuel prices fall while clothes prices rise

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16.04.2025

Global carmaker shares rise on tariff exemption hopes; British Steel to get furnace supplies today | Business | The Guardian

Markets cheered by Donald Trump’s latest (potential) climbdown on tariffs; JD Vance sees good chance that US and UK will strike ‘great agreement’ on trade

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18.04.2025

Global economic growth will slow amid Trump tariffs, IMF warns – as it happened | Business | The Guardian

Live, rolling coverage of business, economics and financial markets as ECB reduces main interest rate from 2.5% to 2.25%, the seventh cut in a year

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22.04.2025

US dollar hits three-year low after Trump intensifies attack on Fed chair Powell – business live | Business | The Guardian

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22.04.2025

Questionable value of school executive roles | Academies | The Guardian

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22.04.2025

Blind student 'dragged from Oxford Union chamber by his ankles' | University of Oxford | The Guardian

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22.04.2025

Harvard sues Trump administration over efforts to ‘gain control of academic decision-making’ | Harvard University | The Guardian

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22.04.2025

Oxford University identifies 145 artefacts looted in Benin raid | University of Oxford | The Guardian

Plundered items likely to be returned to Nigeria include brass plaques, bronze figures and musical instruments

‘Silicon Six’ accused of avoiding almost $278bn in US corporation taxes over 10 years | US taxation | The Guardian

Analysis finds Amazon, Meta, Alphabet, Netflix, Apple and Microsoft averaged 18.8%, compared with 29.7% US average

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15.04.2025

Trump administration freezes $2.3bn in funds after Harvard defies demands – as it happened | US news | The Guardian

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16.04.2025

Apple airlifted iPhones worth $2bn from India in March as Trump tariffs loomed | Trump tariffs | The Guardian

Tech giant stepped up production and chartered cargo flights with at least six jets to ensure sufficient inventory

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17.04.2025

Apple iPad Air M3 review: the premium tablet to beat | iPad | The Guardian

New iPad has laptop-level power, reliable battery life, great video call camera and a choice of screen sizes

Mind over body: the trouble with treating chronic conditions | Health | The Guardian

Letters: Readers respond to an extract from Dr Suzanne O’Sullivan’s book on the pathologising of mental health problems and behavioural disorders

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29.03.2025

Inside the luxury Melbourne retreat where women pay $6,500 to get in touch with their vaginas | Sexuality | The Guardian

Eight participants – most of them ‘lesbian first-timers’ – are invited to shed shame and revel in pleasure

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05.04.2025

Nettles and flowers at my father’s funeral | Plants | The Guardian

Brief letters: Good uses for nettles | Noisy restaurants | Playfair code | Evil Office

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16.04.2025

Shilajit: male influencers claim it boosts testosterone and libido, but what does the science say? | Donna Lu | The Guardian

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Sex, patriotism and Donald Trump cologne: the US adverts that explain the 00s | Art | The Guardian

The final book in Jim Heimann’s survey of a century of US advertising takes us to a decade where Apple sold a new way of living and mermaids hawked Evian. It’s a ‘swan song’, he says – for his series but also the industry as a whole

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13.04.2025

Big brands send out barrage of junk food ads before obesity rules bite | Children's health | The Guardian

Advertising on snacks rises 26% compared with last year, months before restrictions on promoting unhealthy food come into force

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13.04.2025

‘Ghost stores’: the online retailers promoting closing-down sales for physical shops that don’t exist | Scams | The Guardian

Australia’s consumer watchdog says it is investigating complaints of social media ads purporting to be from local boutiques

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16.04.2025

ASA bans Brazilian liquid butt lift ads from six UK cosmetic treatment providers | Plastic surgery | The Guardian

Providers reprimanded for pressuring customers, exploiting women’s insecurities or trivialising medical risks

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19.04.2025

Lang Lang review – captivating, astonishing and disorientating | Classical music | The Guardian

In a programme of Fauré, Schumann and Chopin, the pianist’s take felt at times wilfully eccentric as in his hands, this familiar music became quite alien.

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20.04.2025

The week in classical: Khovanshchina; Carmen review – the parallels with modern Russia are unmissable | Classical music | The Guardian

Mussorgsky’s apocalyptic unfinished opera is given a fierce new lease of life by the McBurney brothers, Esa-Pekka Salonen and an exceptional young mezzo

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20.04.2025

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This San Francisco session released for Record Store Day sets spoken word to Ackamoor’s uncompromising but joyous spiritual jazz

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22.04.2025

‘Be playful, try new things!’ The Southbank Centre’s Mark Ball on his new festival, Multitudes | Southbank Centre | The Guardian

The arts centre’s artistic director is on a mission to bring new audiences to the joys of classical music. He explains why mixing it with circus, grime, poetry, and film might be the way to do it

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22.04.2025

Country diary: Watching bats until it’s too dark to see | Animals | The Guardian

Stafford: On the top floor of a former shoe factory, the city reveals its wild side

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22.04.2025

Vets exposing shocking animal welfare breaches at Australian export abattoirs face ‘enormous risk’ | Animal welfare | The Guardian

Lawyers urge government to protect veterinarian whistleblowers who monitor animal welfare and food safety for trading partners such as the US and EU

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22.04.2025

Country diary: In the wake of an emperor | Environment | The Guardian

Dartmoor, Devon: The moor is a sea of spring heather, but it’s the urgent flight of a manic moth that catches my eye

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22.04.2025

Wild chimpanzees filmed by scientists bonding over alcoholic fruit | Animal behaviour | The Guardian

Footage of apes consuming fermented breadfruit leads researchers to ask if it may shed light on origins of human feasting

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19.02.2025

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Ben Lamm of ‘de-extinction’ specialist Colossal Biosciences not only has plans to bring back prehistoric creatures, but also preserve those on the verge of vanishing

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07.03.2025

Reviving the woolly mammoth isn’t just unethical. It’s impossible | Adam Rutherford | The Guardian

At a time when US scientists are under attack from their own government, the illiteracy around these elephantine fantasies is dangerous, says geneticist Adam Rutherford

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13.03.2025

Bone fragments of oldest known human face in western Europe found in Spain | Archaeology | The Guardian

Remains are of an adult member of an extinct species who lived up to 1.4m years ago, researchers say

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15.03.2025

Primordial surf: ‘microlightning’ in mist may have sparked life on Earth, study finds | Evolution | The Guardian

Tiny lightning streaks in fine spray can power chemical reactions that generate molecules for life, scientists say

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24.12.2024

‘Security through obscurity’: the Swedish cabin on the frontline of a possible hybrid war | Sweden | The Guardian

Amid claims of sabotage of undersea cables, a small wooden structure houses a key cog in Europe’s digital connectivity

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29.01.2025

Threat of cyber-attacks on Whitehall ‘is severe and advancing quickly’, NAO says | Cybercrime | The Guardian

Audit watchdog finds 58 critical IT systems assessed in 2024 had ‘significant gaps in cyber-resilience’

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19.02.2025

Global ransomware payments plunge by a third amid crackdown | Cybercrime | The Guardian

Money stolen falls from record $1.25bn to $813m as more victims refuse to pay off criminal gangs

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29.03.2025

Birthday freebies: how to cash in on UK retailers’ gifts and discounts | Saving money | The Guardian

Join a loyalty scheme and you often get a reward or discount on your special day – but it may have strings attached

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23.03.2025

Saddle up: 10 of the best horse riding breaks in Europe | Horse riding holidays | The Guardian

From camping in Gypsy caravans in Cumbria, to trekking in Transylvania and cantering through olive groves in Crete

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27.03.2025

London’s Design Museum takes a deep dive into our love affair with swimming | Cultural trips | The Guardian

From art deco lidos to 1980s Speedos, the curator of a new exhibition on swimming and style talks about the inspiration behind it

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06.04.2025

To Hades and back: my family holiday in Parga, Greece | Travel | The Guardian

With its white sand, sparkling sea, olive groves and echoes of ancient myths, a holiday in Greece’s beautiful Parga makes you very glad to be in the kingdom of the living

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22.04.2025

The extraordinary rise of bakery tourism: ‘People travel from all over the world. It’s mind-blowing!’ | Food | The Guardian

Beer crawls are out and bakery crawls are in, with people arranging whole days, weekends or even holidays around the search for the perfect loaf or croissant

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21.04.2025

Oscar Piastri storms to Saudi Arabian F1 GP win and now leads title race | Formula One | The Guardian

McLaren driver’s win catapulted him 10 points clear in the title race after Max Verstappen paid the price for a first-lap penalty

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21.04.2025

Oscar Piastri ‘proud’ after becoming first Australian in 15 years to lead F1 title race | Formula One | The Guardian

Oscar Piastri put Australia on top of the F1 world championship for the first time since 2010 with his Saudi Arabian Grand Prix victory

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21.04.2025

F1: Oscar Piastri wins Saudi Arabian GP to lead drivers’ standings – as it happened | Formula One | The Guardian

The Australian won his third race from five this season as Max Verstappen came second after a five-second penalty

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22.04.2025

Verstappen’s pseudo-silence spoke volumes of the dissatisfaction in F1 | Formula One | The Guardian

The world champion went from one masterclass on the track to another off it with his discontent at recent FIA rule changes

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15.04.2025

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Napoli eased past Empoli to move three points behind Serie A leaders Inter, while Atlético prevailed 4-2 against La Liga’s bottom club Valladolid

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15.04.2025

Stricken Sevilla turn once again to Caparrós as owners keep up circus act | La Liga | The Guardian

Fourth spell begins for club’s eighth head coach inside three seasons, in wake of fourth defeat in a row

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20.04.2025

European football: Barcelona roar back to beat Celta, Las Palmas shock Atlético | European club football | The Guardian

Barcelona fought back from 3-1 down to beat Celta Vigo 4-3 in a rollercoaster encounter in La Liga

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21.04.2025

European football: Orsolini last-gasp bicycle kick dents Inter’s title charge | European club football | The Guardian

Bologna shocked the Serie A leaders with a stunning stoppage-time winner while in Spain Real Madrid scored a late goal of their own to beat Athletic Bilbao

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Have you been using the pandemic to catch up on long classic novels? | Books | The Guardian

NaNoWriMo: how to make best use of the annual writing month | Books | The Guardian

A Brief History of Seven Killings: unwieldy, occasionally tedious – and magnificent | Marlon James | The Guardian

Bookshop.org is what the publishing world has been waiting for | Books | The Guardian

Economy

Asian shares sell off as US curbs on Nvidia chip sales to China fuel trade fears; UK inflation slows to 2.6% – business live | Business | The Guardian

Global carmaker shares rise on tariff exemption hopes; British Steel to get furnace supplies today | Business | The Guardian

Global economic growth will slow amid Trump tariffs, IMF warns – as it happened | Business | The Guardian

US dollar hits three-year low after Trump intensifies attack on Fed chair Powell – business live | Business | The Guardian

Education & Personal Development

Questionable value of school executive roles | Academies | The Guardian

Blind student 'dragged from Oxford Union chamber by his ankles' | University of Oxford | The Guardian

Harvard sues Trump administration over efforts to ‘gain control of academic decision-making’ | Harvard University | The Guardian

Oxford University identifies 145 artefacts looted in Benin raid | University of Oxford | The Guardian

Technology

‘Silicon Six’ accused of avoiding almost $278bn in US corporation taxes over 10 years | US taxation | The Guardian

Trump administration freezes $2.3bn in funds after Harvard defies demands – as it happened | US news | The Guardian

Apple airlifted iPhones worth $2bn from India in March as Trump tariffs loomed | Trump tariffs | The Guardian

Apple iPad Air M3 review: the premium tablet to beat | iPad | The Guardian

Health

Mind over body: the trouble with treating chronic conditions | Health | The Guardian

Inside the luxury Melbourne retreat where women pay $6,500 to get in touch with their vaginas | Sexuality | The Guardian

Nettles and flowers at my father’s funeral | Plants | The Guardian

Shilajit: male influencers claim it boosts testosterone and libido, but what does the science say? | Donna Lu | The Guardian

Marketing

Sex, patriotism and Donald Trump cologne: the US adverts that explain the 00s | Art | The Guardian

Big brands send out barrage of junk food ads before obesity rules bite | Children's health | The Guardian

‘Ghost stores’: the online retailers promoting closing-down sales for physical shops that don’t exist | Scams | The Guardian

ASA bans Brazilian liquid butt lift ads from six UK cosmetic treatment providers | Plastic surgery | The Guardian

Music

Lang Lang review – captivating, astonishing and disorientating | Classical music | The Guardian

The week in classical: Khovanshchina; Carmen review – the parallels with modern Russia are unmissable | Classical music | The Guardian

Idris Ackamoor Ankhestra, Rhodessa Jones, Danny Glover: Artistic Being review – powerful live set from the Afrofuturist and friends | Jazz | The Guardian

‘Be playful, try new things!’ The Southbank Centre’s Mark Ball on his new festival, Multitudes | Southbank Centre | The Guardian

Nature & Animals

Country diary: Watching bats until it’s too dark to see | Animals | The Guardian

Vets exposing shocking animal welfare breaches at Australian export abattoirs face ‘enormous risk’ | Animal welfare | The Guardian

Country diary: In the wake of an emperor | Environment | The Guardian

Wild chimpanzees filmed by scientists bonding over alcoholic fruit | Animal behaviour | The Guardian

Science

‘It won’t end like Jurassic Park!’ The man who wants to bring the mammoth and dodo back to life | Biotechnology industry | The Guardian

Reviving the woolly mammoth isn’t just unethical. It’s impossible | Adam Rutherford | The Guardian

Bone fragments of oldest known human face in western Europe found in Spain | Archaeology | The Guardian

Primordial surf: ‘microlightning’ in mist may have sparked life on Earth, study finds | Evolution | The Guardian

Software

‘Security through obscurity’: the Swedish cabin on the frontline of a possible hybrid war | Sweden | The Guardian

Threat of cyber-attacks on Whitehall ‘is severe and advancing quickly’, NAO says | Cybercrime | The Guardian

Global ransomware payments plunge by a third amid crackdown | Cybercrime | The Guardian

Birthday freebies: how to cash in on UK retailers’ gifts and discounts | Saving money | The Guardian

Travel

Saddle up: 10 of the best horse riding breaks in Europe | Horse riding holidays | The Guardian

London’s Design Museum takes a deep dive into our love affair with swimming | Cultural trips | The Guardian

To Hades and back: my family holiday in Parga, Greece | Travel | The Guardian

The extraordinary rise of bakery tourism: ‘People travel from all over the world. It’s mind-blowing!’ | Food | The Guardian

Other Sports

Oscar Piastri storms to Saudi Arabian F1 GP win and now leads title race | Formula One | The Guardian

Oscar Piastri ‘proud’ after becoming first Australian in 15 years to lead F1 title race | Formula One | The Guardian

F1: Oscar Piastri wins Saudi Arabian GP to lead drivers’ standings – as it happened | Formula One | The Guardian

Verstappen’s pseudo-silence spoke volumes of the dissatisfaction in F1 | Formula One | The Guardian

Food

Cocktail of the week: Yari Club’s spiced sake – recipe | Cocktails | The Guardian

Meera Sodha’s egg recipes: kimchi and cheddar okonomiyaki and Thai fried egg salad | Food | The Guardian

Cocktail of the week: Seed Library’s cloud sour – recipe | Cocktails | The Guardian

Shiki, Norwich: ‘Unexpectedly reasonable’ – restaurant review | Food | The Guardian

Football (Soccer)

European football: Scott McTominay double keeps Napoli on Inter’s title trail | European club football | The Guardian

Stricken Sevilla turn once again to Caparrós as owners keep up circus act | La Liga | The Guardian

European football: Barcelona roar back to beat Celta, Las Palmas shock Atlético | European club football | The Guardian

European football: Orsolini last-gasp bicycle kick dents Inter’s title charge | European club football | The Guardian

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