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China's feminist Nomadland: The grandma who left an abusive husband for the open road
56-year-old Su Min decided to leave her abusive relationship and embark on an open-ended solo road trip. In China, where women are frequently expected to serve the role of a dutiful housewife and support their husbands, her decision to...
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Why horror keeps creeping into black drama
Shows such as I May Destroy You, Atlanta and Insecure depict a wide spectrum of black life, from hilarity to mundanity – but all these shows, at times, also have an impending sense of doom. This feeling of horror, this looming sense of...
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Freezing to death: the migrants left to die on the Poland-Belarus border
Migrants are dying in Poland's forested border with Belarus, as the countries are locked in a geopolitical standoff. Polish authorities accuse Belarus of deliberately abandoning migrants near its border in an attempt to destabilise the...
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UK: I'm British. Island mentality innit
‘I’m British. Island mentality innit.’ A bailiff clears out the house of an unsuspecting couple, but is angered by their surprise. Why should he care – British values have always put individualism at the cost of everything else haven’t...
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Julian's Wait - visiting the man paralysed after an incident outside a nightclub
In 2013 Julian Cole was arrested by six police officers outside a nightclub in Bedford. His neck was broken. He is now paralysed and suffers from severe brain damage. In this film, his mother, Claudia, continues her years of visiting him...
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Why we should be paying more for parking
Charging more for parking could save the environment, ease congestion and inject energy back into the high street. But how? The Guardian's Peter Walker explains that we've been thinking about parking all wrong: it's not a right, but...
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Why Christmas was once illegal
In the 17th century, Christmas was banned in England and its territories for 17 years. Shops were forced to stay open, public drinking and festive feasting were illegal, mince pies were seized, even putting up foliage as decoration was...
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Shopping lists from Ukraine's frontlines: Manchester's response to Putin's war
Since the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, members of Manchester’s Ukrainian community have been in constant contact with family caught up in the conflict. They’ve also been coordinating aid efforts that respond to what people...
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Waiting for the enemy: inside Ukraine's reserve army preparing to defend Kyiv
Many civilians who remain in the Ukrainian capital have signed up to become military reservists, and are busy preparing the city for an expected ground attack by Russian forces. Student film-maker Volodymyr Yurchenko, 22, says he is...
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On the Ukraine frontline: 'Only the dead aren't afraid'
With tensions escalating along the border with Russia, Luke Harding visits troops in Ukraine's Donbas region to gauge the mood ahead of a possible invasion. The war here has continued since 2014, when pro-Russian separatists seized...
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From naked protests to challenging Museveni: Uganda’s 'rudest feminist' on the campaign trail
Stella Nyanzi is Uganda's most outspoken, self-described radical queer feminist. She has been imprisoned for her activism and is known for her attention-grabbing naked protests and poetry. In an election campaign that has become...
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Uber files whistleblower comes forward: 'We sold people a lie'
In an exclusive interview with the Guardian, the former Uber lobbyist Mark MacGann speaks publicly for the first time to reveal the story behind the Uber files — a leak of more than 124,000 documents that show how the US tech giant...
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A Syrian refugee in Scotland: 'I'm one of the lucky ones'
Ayman is one of about 3 million Syrian refugees living outside his homeland. After nine of his friends were killed in Damascus, Ayman used his student visa to flee to the UK, leaving his wife and twin boys behind. 'We didn't expect civil...
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Why 'stronger borders' don't work
Thousands of people die annually trying to cross borders. It’s often argued stronger borders and more checks would deter people from making dangerous crossings. But how accurate is this? Maya Goodfellow explores what the current border...
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Staged Sex: Role of the Intimacy Co-Ordinator
The role of the intimacy coordinator has become more important in the wake of the Harvey Weinstein allegations and the broader #MeToo movement. Ita O'Brien works on the set of a short film, Keep Breathing, breaking down the choreography...
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Heroin to Holyrood? Man behind 'illegal' drug van runs for Scottish parliament
Peter Krykant, who operates a van in Glasgow where people can safely take illegal drugs, is running for Holyrood as part of a campaign calling for the Scottish government to establish legal sites. A former heroin addict, he is pushing...
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A Ukrainian village brutalised by Russia, and the youth rebuilding homes and hope
Young Ukrainians from Kyiv are organising 'Repair Together' weekends to help poor villages devastated by Russian occupation by cleaning up and rebuilding homes for free. Tetiana Burianova was traveling in Peru when war broke out, and...
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On the ground with Penguin, the Thai protest leader risking jail
The Guardian follows Parit Chiwarak, known as Penguin, one of Thailand's prominent protest leaders as he helps organise one of the biggest anti-government rallies in years. He and many other young people are risking prison to demand a...
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How the Covid pandemic has led to more Channel crossings
A record number of people are expected to cross the Channel to the UK in small boats this year to claim asylum.Amid the coronavirus pandemic, more than 10,000 people have already made the dangerous and potentially fatal 21-mile journey...
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Ukraine's frontline: trench warfare, drones and defending a ghost town
Just a few miles from the Ukraine's southern frontline, Russian missiles have been pummelling a village near Zaporizhzhia, and turned a newly refurbished medical clinic into a ravaged, abandoned shell. The Guardian’s Luke Harding and...
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The Germans sneeze loudly': refugees on their adopted homelands
A record number of refugees arrived in Europe between 2015 and 2016. First comes the excitement but soon they realise it is not entirely like home. Two years have passed and refugees living in UK, Spain, France and Germany tell whether...
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Neuro-cuisine: exploring the science of flavour
Tamal Ray, anaesthetist and baker, Professor Charles Spence, experimental psychologist at the University of Oxford and chef Jozef Youssef embark on a journey to decode the science of flavour. Professor Spence and Jozef challenge Tamal to...
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Murdered in Mexico: the final interview with a legendary journalist
Margarito Martínez Esquivel was Tijuana's best-known street-level police and crime photojournalist – a local legend who covered killings, car crashes and natural disasters. Then, at lunchtime on 17 January 2022, as the 49-year-old set...