Posted by The Guardian | Sep 15, 2026 | First-time buyers, George Osborne, Help-to-buy scheme, House prices, Housing, Labour, Mortgages, Politics, Property, Rachel Reeves, The Guardian, UK news |
Exclusive: George Osborne’s programme to reduce costs for first-time buyers delivered £25bn in social value in UK last yearGeorge Osborne’s scheme to reduce costs for first-time buyers represented “very high value for money”,...
Read MorePosted by The Guardian | Sep 15, 2026 | Benedict Cumberbatch, Climate crisis, Conservation, Culture, Documentary films, Environment, Environmental activism, Ethical and green living, Film, Nature documentaries, Television & radio, The Guardian |
From Obama’s chef to a big cat obsessive, the actor has gathered experts from Alaska, the Amazon and beyond for a film about how to heal our besieged planet. He talks about naysayers, elephant tusks – and the wonders of...
Read MorePosted by The Guardian | Sep 15, 2026 | Life and style, Piracy at sea, Somalia, The Guardian, World News |
Chirag Bahri was working on board a tanker when six men seized it. For almost eight months, he and his colleagues were held captive, an experience that would change his life for everIt was at noon on 8 May 2010 when the pirates...
Read MorePosted by The Guardian | Sep 15, 2026 | Alternative für Deutschland (AfD), Europe, European Union, Germany, The far right, The Guardian, World News |
Grievance politics has grown in the east of the country where I was born. But west Germans have hard questions to answer tooThe fear that a fascist, far-right movement would rise to power again in Germany has been with me since...
Read MorePosted by The Guardian | Sep 15, 2026 | Asia Pacific, China, Taiwan, Television, Television & radio, The Guardian |
Dismissed in Taiwan as simply propaganda, the Long Watch, or Jiaofeng, has proved a sensation across the strait with its references to real-life crisesAfter shaking off the people trailing her through a crowded market and...
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