Palantir to Pegasus: How states use spyware against women Digital tech is being used to intimidate women activists beyond national borders. It’s called gender-based digital transnational repression. Here’s what you should know

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How tech turned against women As AI-generated sexualised images proliferate and app-facilitated abuse spreads, we are sleepwalking into a new age of gender inequality. It is time to regulate properly

"Until AI tools are released with safety-by-design guardrails built in, there will be men who use them for violently misogynistic purposes" Laura Bates on how Gen AI is facilitating abuse and exacerbating gender inequality www.ft.com/content/60e2...

Failure to compensate pelvic mesh implant victims ‘morally unacceptable’, say campaigners Thousands of women with life-changing complications still in limbo two years after call for financial redress

Campaigners have described the governments failure to compensate women harmed by pelvic mesh as "morally unacceptable" and "insulting". Saturday marked two years since the publication of the Hughes report and campaigners still fighting for compensation www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

ICE plans $100 million ‘wartime recruitment’ push targeting gun shows, military fans for hires An internal ICE document shared among immigration officials details plans to use influencers and geo-targeted ads to rapidly hire thousands of deportation officers.

New: We got an internal ICE document revealing its $100 million ad plan to bring in 14,000 new hires: deals with "tactical" influencers; ads to gun & military buffs; and geo-targeting phones around NASCAR races and gun shows.

A "wartime recruitment" mode with paramilitary branding: wapo.st/44QrP5j

Number of people who say Britons must be born in UK is rising, study shows Exclusive: Research finds ‘worrying’ surge in support for hard-right narratives on national identity

The number of people who believe “Britishness” is something you are born with has almost doubled in two years… www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Proof that dogs, like humans have neophilia: Olive has a dog bed that is much bigger, much comfier yet she is determined to sleep on this TINY chihuahua sized bed that I won in a raffle simply because new and shiny

‘Cocaine, gold and meat’: how Colombia’s Amazon became big business for crime networks Armed groups have moved in to the space left by the Farc after the civil war, cutting down rainforest to control land and build thousands of kilometres of smuggling routes

Since 2018, armed groups have built more than 8,000km of roads across the Amazon in Colombia largely benefiting organised criminals. Colombias environmental destruction driven by international demand for cocaine, gold, meat. Fascinating read www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

All the president’s millions: how the Trumps are turning the presidency into riches From Vietnam to the Balkans, Donald Trump’s family has launched a global dealmaking blitz since his re-election

I've done a deep dive into the Trump family's global moneymaking campaign. The White House says there's no conflict of interest. But from Serbia to Vietnam to crypto it's being called "pay to play" on a vast scale. If you have info, get in touch @theguardian.com
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Why did Donald Trump Jr turn up in a tiny British enclave looking for money? Meetings in Gibraltar are the latest twist in worldwide campaign that is enriching the US president’s family

The Trump trail has taken me to Gibraltar. To answer a question: Why did the son of the most powerful man on the planet show up at a law firm in a tiny British outpost one Friday this November looking for money? @theguardian.com
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Each year, word of the year gets darker. ‘Six-seven’ may be annoying – but it’s bucked that trend | Coco Khan Some might regard this slang as ‘brain rot’, but the first word of the year just for tweens and teenagers could be the most hopeful development of 2025, says writer and podcaster Coco Khan

Very happy to see the case for
Six-seven being made www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... was always with the kids on that one!! 6~7 x

Starmer calls on Farage to apologise to his alleged victims of racial abuse at school Prime minister says Reform leader’s explanations about alleged comments are ‘unconvincing to say the least’

NEW: Keir Starmer has called on Nigel Farage to apologise to his school contemporaries who claim the Reform leader racially abused them while at Dulwich College.

‘Deeply shocking’: Nigel Farage faces fresh claims of racism and antisemitism at school Bafta-winning director among contemporaries urging contrition and apology from Reform UK leader, who denies the allegations

Exclusive: ‘Deeply shocking’: Nigel Farage faces fresh claims of racism and antisemitism at school

Bafta-winning director among contemporaries urging contrition and apology from Reform UK leader, who denies the allegations

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Reading the post-riot posts: how we traced far-right radicalisation across 51,000 Facebook messages Tracing profiles of those charged with online offences in summer 2024 helped us map a thriving social ecosystem trading far-right sentiment and political disillusionment

We used genAI for the categorisations, applying rigourous checks, in keeping with our editorial guidance on its use.
Our full methodology is here 👇

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Only a third of recommendations to tackle endemic racism in UK implemented Guardian analysis exposes lack of action taken despite major reports published over the past 40 years

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"REVEALED: LANDLORDS AND HOTELS ARE 'CASHING IN' ON HOMELESSNESS CRISIS"

@kiranstacey.bsky.social / @michaelgoodier.bsky.social / @olivialeejourno.bsky.social for @theguardian.com.

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Hotel owners are overcharging city councils.

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Property guardians: caretaker solutions to sky-high city rents London professionals are taking advantage of reduced rents in vacant buildings in often unusual spaces

Cheap rent, space and in zone 1? Your laughing! I spoke to individuals making the impossible possible www.theguardian.com/money/2025/a...

‘I hate it’: Manchester commuters back ban out-loud music on public transport Lib Dem move to ban practice is broadly welcomed, though some feel the party should focus on more important things

Lib Dems are proposing a ban on people playing music out loud on public transport so I joined commuters to ask what they think! www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

‘It will be beautiful to see our kids grow up with this’: how communities around the world are planting trees City residents are working out how to fill their streets with trees as evidence grows of their benefits

A lovely article on how communities planting trees are coming closer together by @olivialeejourno.bsky.social. I've just organised a group of residents on a WhatsApp to water our new 6 fruit trees: 5/6 currently have a guardian! Will update you all after Easter.

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‘He is innocent’: family of deported Venezuelan rebukes Trump claims Brother of Francisco Javier García Casique spotted him in a video showing scores of Venezuelan prisoners being taken to notorious El Salvador prison

“I never in my life thought I would see my brother like that – handcuffed, his head shaved, in a prison for murderers, where they put rapists and kidnappers. It is very painful because he is innocent,” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

Two weeks PAID work experience working at The Guardian’s London Headquarters for Black, Asian or Minority Ethnic aspiring journalists. Closes 30th March.

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‘A Quest for Evidence’: What Drew Leading Women Data Journalists to the Field For International Women’s Day we spoke to data journalists from Argentina, Kenya, Sweden, and Turkey to find out why they chose this path and what challenges still remain.

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Laughter not laptops: cafe culture fights back against keyboard invaders Cafe owners seeking convivial atmosphere as well as better turnover are starting to deter remote workers

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Paid work experience in London head office for working-class youngsters keen on journalism

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Why is Spain’s economy booming? Thanks to migration – which proves xenophobia doesn’t pay | María Ramírez With Spanish GDP growth leading Europe last year, diversity is making us richer – not only financially but culturally, too, says journalist María Ramírez

"Spain stands as a model for how migration can energise an economy and a society"

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‘It feels enveloping and calming’: the London house wrapped in cork Designer Nina Woodcroft has created an energy-efficient family home that is also a useful conversation starter

In lighter news this iconic London cork wrapped house runs completely fossil fuel free! www.theguardian.com/environment/...

wrote an explainer on alternatives to spot on flea treatments after studies show they have a huge impact on nature - damaging rivers and killing baby birds

As a young reporter, I was sent to cover the Moorgate train disaster. I had no idea it had killed my father Laurence Marks was a 25-year-old journalist when he was asked to cover the biggest catastrophe in the City of London since the blitz. That day would change his life forever

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‘What joy! What damn joy!’: vanilla boom transforms fortunes of Colombia’s farmers In El Valle, the world’s second-most expensive spice is not just providing an economic lifeline but also helping to preserve rich biodiversity As he wanders around a corner of his land, inspecting his crops, Luilly Murillo González stops and leans down…

‘What joy! What damn joy!’: vanilla boom transforms fortunes of Colombia’s farmers

They say a name like mine can hold you back in life, but I will never change it | Xaymaca Awoyungbo An unusual name can have a detrimental impact on your life and finances – but in my experience, it also has advantages, says football writer Xaymaca Awoyungbo

Loved this article and also interesting to learn that Xaymaca ( the authors name) was the name given to modern-day Jamaica by the Taino people. It became Jamaica because of mispronunciation by Spanish colonists which then stuck

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We ignore Sudan at our peril. This campaign of mass murder and rape will have global consequences | Nesrine Malik Almost two years into the war, Sudan is facing anarchy, famine, genocide – and ambivalence from the rest of the world, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

“Fatigue with bloodshed, with deadlock, with long grinding wars from Europe to the Middle East are rendering Sudan’s conflict simply another disaster whose sharp edges are blunted by the fact that death, starvation and impunity have become a norm.”

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