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Catch the latest Financial News EventsMapped: how the world is losing its forests to wildfires
Wildfires now destroy twice as much tree cover per year as two decades ago – a crisis fuelled by climate changeThe world is losing forests to fire at an unsustainable rate, experts have warned.Wildfires have always been part of nature’s cycle, but in recent decades...
Keir Starmer tells MPs he is open to Australian-style social media ban
PM says he has shifted position after becoming alarmed at reports about five-year-olds spending hours on screensKeir Starmer has told MPs he is open to the idea of an Australian-style ban on social media for young people after becoming concerned about the amount of...
Wes Streeting criticises Labour colleagues who blame Whitehall for blocking reform – UK politics live
Health secretary says: ‘If we tell the public that we can’t make anything work, then why on earth would they vote to keep us in charge’Here is Jessica Elgot’s report on Wes Streeting’s speech. (See 9.45am.)Here is a fuller version of the quote from Wes Streeting’s...
‘Uncomfortably relatable’: writers on their favourite unlikeable movie characters
With debate still swirling over the unlikeable nature of Marty Supreme’s careless protagonist, Guardian writers have picked their all-time love-to-hate leadsSpoilers aheadI can remember seeing As Good As It Gets in theaters as a teenager and being pleasantly startled...