Politics
Revealed: Britain's contracts with Palantir hit £1bn
Newly surfaced disclosures reveal the government has spent or agreed to spend at least £992m with Peter Thiel’s controversial AI company – as pressure mounts on Andy Burnham to block them. Max Colbert reports
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Sleepless in Slough: the residents who fear for their failing health in Europe’s data centre capital
With an estimated 40 facilities packed tightly together in the town, local people say their quality of life is being ruined by strange and unsettling noise pollution. Brenna Spain reports
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‘I see what’s happening to Rachel; it scares me’: the woman who dared to face down Piddington’s anti-migrant storm
Natasha Walter talks to Rachel Marsh, the resident of the newly ‘independent’ Oxfordshire village whose anti-racist BBC interview led to abuse, doxxing and death threats
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‘What you’re being asked to do is look away. Just look away’: Omar El Akkad on watching the horror in Gaza from the west
The author of One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This talks to Ramita Navai about conflict, apathy, and the privilege of living ‘on the launching side of the missiles’
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‘The UK has been promoted to Russia’s main opponent’: Luke Harding on Putin, Trump and the potential for a new European war
The Guardian foreign correspondent, who was expelled from Moscow in 2011, tells Carole Cadwalladr he thinks the Kremlin, struggling to make headway with its invasion, will attempt a provocation against the west – and possibly soon
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I was there for the Daphne Caruana Galizia verdict. It was like hearing a court rule the Earth is flat
Stephen Grey, who spent years investigating the tycoon accused of masterminding the journalist’s murder, says his outrageous acquittal has left a grieving family without justice – and yet still not without hope
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Britain isn’t too soft on migrants; it’s too soft on Patriot Platform
Between a Home Office determined to seem tough, and a police force too slow – or too scared – to act against far-right disorder, the country is entering dangerous territory, writes Nick Lowles
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From ‘human printer’ to headline-maker: meet Trump’s devoted aide Natalie Harp
The 35-year-old runs behind the president’s golf cart in case he needs hard copies of things to read, and credits him with curing her cancer. Now that’s what you call an assistant, writes Hannah Jane Parkinson
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‘We go where the silence is’: Amy Goodman of Democracy Now! on Trump, violence and the power of bearing witness
The pioneering independent reporter, now the subject of a documentary, talks to Carole Cadwalladr about surviving a massacre and the current threats to the media
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Adele Walton: The Online Safety Act is supposed to make Britain’s internet a safe space – yet it can’t touch the site linked to my sister’s death
Ofcom says it has used all its powers and can do no more against a pro-suicide forum. For bereaved families like mine, only a public inquiry can explain why
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‘At the heart of change is always protest’: Misan Harriman on Gaza, George Floyd and the spirit of activism
At a special Nerve screening of a new documentary about his work, the acclaimed photographer and campaigner sat down with Carole Cadwalladr and director Andy Mundy-Castle for an in-depth discussion of race, culture, cancellation and more
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He was looking for a job, now he’s found a job: Burnham, Manchester and the power of the Smiths
The band inspired the UK's new PM as a teenager. Now his generation has reached middle age, he is using their lyrics to explain policy – and perhaps even speak to a new electoral coalition with adherents from left and right, writes Jude Rogers
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