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General election 2024

  • David Cameron

    Conservatives
    David Cameron quits Tory frontbench as Sunak names interim top team

  • A prison officer walks across an empty landing of a prison

    Prisons
    Labour must avoid release of high-risk offenders in prison plans, charity warns

  • Members of Iran's Revolutionary Guards participate in a military parade in Tehran.

    Exclusive
    Labour unlikely to rush into proscribing Iran’s Revolutionary Guards

  • Rishi Sunak

    Conservatives
    Tories split over timeline to elect leader with Sunak hoping to quit by autumn

News in focus

  • Stéphane sitting on the side of a fountain pool

    France
    ‘It’s going to be a mess’: uncertainty tempers election relief in Lyon

  • A computer illustration of Lactobacillus bacteria (depicted in red and orange), the main component of the human small intestine microbiome.

    Analysis
    Do gut microbes have a role in autism itself?

    Autistic people are more prone to certain gut problems – and a disrupted microbiome could be part of the reason
  • Family members of victims of Boeing Max 8 crashes hold up photographs of their loved ones

    Boeing
    ‘They can’t move on’: families of Boeing crash victims demand justice

    As Boeing’s safety crisis intensifies, relatives of victims of the 2018 and 2019 crashes are still fighting for accountability

Spotlight

  • An Apple iPhone 15.

    Technology
    The best Apple iPhones in 2024 – tested, reviewed and ranked

    Looking for a new iPhone, or a good deal on a refurbished handset? Our expert has assessed and rated the current crop of Apple smartphones
  • The British territory of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean.

    Chagos Islands
    Purgatory in paradise: how a shipwreck off Diego Garcia led to three years of hell and horror

  • Rachel Reeves walking through open double doors towards camera

    Less is more from Starmer and Reeves in contrast to Tory sound and fury

    John Crace
    There’s been an energy to Starmer’s slumber and beneath the chancellor’s surface dullness there lies hope
  • woman sitting at a desk

    Documentary
    ‘They couldn’t stop themselves’: what do we really know about serial killers?

    FBI pioneer Ann Burgess developed groundbreaking ways to examine and investigate those with a compulsion to kill, the focus of a fascinating new docuseries
    • Untitled #80 (1980).

      Art
      Cindy Sherman: ‘Little girls play dress-up – but I was always trying to be a monster instead of a fairy’

    • Illustration of a person lying on their back with a ball between their knees

      Halfway there: a column about midlife
      First my left knee, then my right: my middle-aged body’s betrayal

    • 1927's new show Please Right Back

      Stage
      Edinburgh festival 2024: 12 tips for families

    • Neil Dudgeon as DCI John Barnaby, Nick Hendrix as DS Jamie Winter and Kate Robbins as Lyra Kaine in The Blacktrees Prophecy.

      Pass notes
      ‘Some violent moments’: does Midsomer Murders really need a trigger warning?

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Sport

Opinion

  • Angela Rayner leaves 10 Downing Street in a green Me+Em suit

    Angela Rayner’s suit and Victoria Starmer’s secret power: why do I suddenly smell sexism?

    Zoe Williams
  • Former British Home Secretary Suella Braverman speaks during the National Conservatism conference in Brussels, Tuesday, April 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

    Leaderless, rudderless, purposeless – the Tories have just one chance to stave off extinction

    Justine Greening
  • Ella Baron on the French election results – cartoon

    Cartoon
    Ella Baron on the French election results

    The surprise win of the leftwing alliance has kept the Marine Le Pen and the far right from power
  • France's far-right National Rally supporters react after second round of legislative elections<br>epa11465873 Member of Parliament for the French right-wing party National Rally (Rassemblement National, RN), Marine Le Pen (R) smiles as she addresses journalists at the party's headquarters after preliminary results of the second round of the French parliamentary elections, in Paris, France, 07 July 2024. France voted in the second round of the legislative elections on 07 July. According to the first official results, the left-wing New Popular Front (Nouveau Front populaire, NFP) was ahead of President Macron's party and Le Pen's far-right National Rally (RN). EPA/CHRISTOPHE PETIT TESSON

    In a referendum on Le Pen, French voters said ‘non’. This opportunity must not be squandered

    Paul Taylor
    France may rediscover a taste for moderate social democracy – and find out that compromise is not a dirty word
    • Keir Starmer.

      Cleaning up our fetid politics is Keir Starmer’s toughest task yet. Here’s how he can do it, fast

      Polly Toynbee
    • Illustration by Guardian Design

      Le Pen has been defeated by the left, but who will govern France?

      Our panel responds
    • Dr Ian Paisley tosses pancakes<br>STANDLALONE. DUP leader Dr Ian Paisley is interviewed at Galgorm Manor Hotel, in his own constituency of Ballymena, during the run up to March 7 Northern Ireland Assembly elections. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Picture date: Tuesday February 20, 2007. V sign gesture fingers

      Unionism in Northern Ireland is dying out – just look at the fall of the house of Paisley

      Emma DeSouza
    • Bottles of R Whites lemonade, made by drinks company Britvic, sit on a conveyor belt at Britvic's bottling plant in London<br>Bottles of R Whites lemonade, made by soft drinks company Britvic, sit on a conveyor belt at Britvic's bottling plant in London March 25, 2009. REUTERS/Luke MacGregor (BRITAIN BUSINESS)

      Nils Pratley on finance
      Compelling deal for Carlsberg but lacking in fizz for Britvic investors

      Nils Pratley

Editorials & Letters

  • A rally at Place de la République, Lyon, after the results of the second round of the 2024 legislative elections were announced.

    The Guardian view
    The French election: time to build a republican future

  • Joe Biden at an independence day celebration, Washington, 4 July

    The Guardian view
    Joe Biden’s re-election bid: democrats can’t go on like this

  • Keir Starmer hosts his first Cabinet at 10 Downing Street

    Letters
    Positivity and pride in Britain’s new political era

  • University lecturer writing on a blackboard

    Letters
    Inept managers have left universities at crisis point

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Climate crisis

  • With the San Francisco skyline behind them, people fish off a jetty

    Environment
    Temperatures 1.5C above pre-industrial era average for 12 months, data shows

  • A person walks on the street protecting herself from the sun with a parasol and using a handheld fan in the late of afternoon on 5 July 2024, in Tokyo, Japan. The capital of Japan is swept by intense heatwave with temperatures above 35 degrees Celsius in Tokyo.

    Japan
    Heatstroke alerts issued across Japan as heatwave leads to four deaths

  • Emissions rise from smokestacks at a coal power plant

    Medical research
    Air pollution can decrease odds of live birth after IVF by 38% – study

  • Leafy pond in East Lavant, near Chichester

    Politics
    ‘Blue wall’ of Tory seats collapsed because of green issues, say Greenpeace

From the UK

  • A grand school building

    London
    Former girls’ school in London to reopen as pioneering youth hub

  • Jonathan Haskel looks out of a window in the Bank of England building

    Inflation
    Bank of England should keep interest rates on hold, says policymaker

    • Liverpool
      ‘We want to ruffle a few feathers’: Liverpool gallery confronts colonial past

    • General election
      Voter ID rule may have stopped 400,000 taking part in election, poll suggests

    • Water industry
      Keir Starmer urged to act on water bill rises in England and Wales

    • Courts
      Parents accused of Darlington murder of 14-year-old daughter appear in court

    • Labour
      Thornberry ‘sorry and surprised’ not to be in cabinet

    • Assisted dying
      Woman who admitted ending terminally ill son’s life in 1981 dies

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Around the world

  • Palestinians carry their belongings as the flee

    Israel-Gaza war
    Thousands of Palestinians flee amid heavy Israeli attack on Gaza City

    Civil emergency service says dozens killed in strikes launched after Israeli military issued evacuation orders
  • person wearing yellow and person wearing black walk down dark corridor

    World
    More than 2 million without power as Hurricane Beryl makes landfall in Texas

Culture

  • ‘We bonded over John Waters films’ … the Grid in 1994, with Richard Norris front.

    How we made
    ‘We knew a banjo house record would annoy the techno bores’: how the Grid made Swamp Thing

    ‘It was a smash in loads of countries. When we played it at London’s Ministry of Sound club, there was a girl staring at Roger’s banjo like she’d never seen one before’
  • A 1920s painting of a Dutch woman in traditional costume with a deep gash across her neck.

    Art
    Slashed painting owned by Stephen Fry’s mother tells chilling story of fleeing from Nazis

  • man dressed in costume with a crown photographed in blue-ish light

    Film
    ‘Opened my whole world up’: inside Oscar-tipped prison theater drama Sing Sing

  • Jon Landau<br>FILE - Jon Landau stands for a portrait at the 95th Academy Awards Nominees Luncheon, Feb. 13, 2023, at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif. Landau, an Oscar-winning producer who worked closely with director James Cameron on “Titanic" and the “Avatar” series, has died, announced in a statement Saturday, July 6, 2024. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, File)

    Film
    Jon Landau obituary

  • Large pink brain looks like a tree against a blue background. Two people in white suits hold a ladder that another person is climbing into the canopy. Another person sweeps up fallen debris

    The big idea
    Why your brain needs other people

  • Playwright Dominique Morisseau in Manhattan in 2021.

    Theatre
    ‘Friends and family were afraid, anxious, heartbroken’: Dominique Morisseau on the decline of Detroit

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  • Château de la Roche Courbon, 17th century castle and gardens, Saint-Porchaire, Charente-Maritime, France

    Cognac to Bordeaux
    Treat your senses with a tour of south-west France

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    Your route to a memorable Normandy holiday – in pictures

  • Saint-Emilion vineyard under the autumn sunview of the cloché of Saint-Emilion from its vineyard

    Boats, bikes and hot-air balloons
    A grand tour of Nouvelle-Aquitaine – in pictures

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Lifestyle

  • Illustration of woman running past people waiting at a bus stop that is in front of big letters saying 5am

    Health
    The cult of 5am: is rising at dawn the secret of health and happiness?

    It has been called the morning miracle – getting up before everyone else and winning the day. But does it actually make you more productive and focused?
  • A proud mother duck leads her ducklings across a blue lake in Springtime.<br>P12NEY A proud mother duck leads her ducklings across a blue lake in Springtime.

    Alex Bellos's Monday puzzle
    Did you solve it? Simple puzzles almost everybody gets wrong

  • A pen lies beside a notepad on which is written: 'Don't date a bartender'

    Women
    The memo: could one missed message have saved me a lifetime of regret?

  • A closeup of the face of a red fox in a meadow.

    The pet I'll never forget
    The fox I invited into my home – but never quite trusted

  • Vrbo's website underneath a magnifying glass

    Your problems, with Anna Tims
    Vrbo’s luxury property bore no relation to the listing

  • People standing in a room with a large image of a model in a white dress on the wall

    Fashion
    Immersive Vogue show lifts curtain on catwalks past and present

Take part

  • Junior doctors strike. Protest at Northallerton Friarage Hospital, 27/6 2024. Photo ©: Mark Pinder +44 (0)7768 211174 pinder.photo@gmail.com

    NHS
    Junior doctors: what do you want to see from the next government?

  • A general view of staff on an NHS hospital ward.

    Nursing
    Nursing students in the UK: have you considered leaving before graduating?

  • Anyone who started university between 2012 and 2022 is now paying 7.6% interest on what they borrowed, meaning that almost all will see their loans go up by more than they repay this year.

    Student finance
    Are you struggling to pay off an outstanding UK university student loan?

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    The reader interview
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From our global editions

  • close-up of white columns frame US flag

    Analysis
    How might a rogue president use the US supreme court immunity ruling?

    A first pass shows just how much damage a president could do to the rule of law when no longer constrained by it
  • A photographic collage showing the colours of Guyana's flag, a map of Guyana, oil pipelines, deforestation and some of the people featured in the article

    The Latin oil rush
    Guyana banks on future as a ‘Latin Qatar’ in high-stakes gamble over oil production

  • David Lammy with Annalena Baerbock

    Foreign Office
    Operation reset: Lammy’s mission to reconnect gets off to flying start

  • Busy street scene with cars, vans and a young man pulling a cart. A large banner with the Palestinian flag stands above buildings in the background

    Israel-Gaza war
    ‘I panic when my phone rings’: the plight of Palestinians in Jordan

  • Keir Starmer talking on speakerphone

    Analysis
    Starmer heads for first Nato summit stressing continued Ukraine support

  • Family members of victims of Boeing Max 8 crashes hold up photographs of their loved ones

    Boeing
    ‘They can’t move on’: families of Boeing crash victims demand justice

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  • Jacqueline Crooks pictured among a collage showing children in a park, a library sign, Tower Bridge, a for rent sign, social housing blocks, and headlines about energy bills

    General election
    My home town: how London changed under Conservative rule

  • Thieves use vulnerable man to take out £28,000 bank loan

    Scams
    ‘It’s very troubling’: thieves use vulnerable man to take out £28,000 bank loan

  • Oliver Waack-Jürgensen of the Berlin Cannabis Club High Ground said: ‘The situation with the authorities is totally unclear.’

    Germany
    Cannabis legalisation hampered by most German of substances: red tape

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    Politics Weekly Westminster: Starmer’s first week – podcast

  • A hedgehog in an urban garden in Manchester. Photograph: Whittaker Geo/Alamy

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    Where the wild things are: the untapped potential of our gardens, parks and balconies – podcast

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    Keir Starmer’s first weekend in power - podcast

  • Trent Alexander-Arnold celebrates after scoring his penalty.

    Football Weekly
    England hold nerve to sink Swiss and set up Netherlands clash – Football Daily

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    Weekend
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  • People stand in and around a damaged building

    Photos of the day
    A damaged hospital and a clogged canal

    The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world
  • A blurred picture of people passing through a station with arrows pointing in different directions on the floor.

    Japan
    Tokyo’s oldest train line

  • People sheltering from rain under a Wimbledon towel.

    Sport
    Rain, set and match: a day at Wimbledon 2024

  • Andy Murray shouts out during his debut match on Wimbledon Centre Court against David Nalbandian in 2005

    Sport
    Andy Murray’s two decades at Wimbledon – in pictures

  • Commuters, Evening Train, Penn Station, New York, 1958 (detail).

    Photography
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  • Blue and white striped blazers with carnations in their buttonholes, hanging up

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