London’s Science Museum forced to cut ties with oil giant – and faces pressure over other sponsors
Campaigners welcome ‘seismic shift’ and urge museum bosses to review links with other fossil fuel sponsors
Leading questions
I feel despair about the state of the world. How can I find the courage to not abandon hope?
Hope is something we choose – and sustain for the sake of others, writes advice columnist Eleanor Gordon-Smith. Seek out others who are looking for reasons to keep going
'Spy cops' scandal
Spy cop who led special branch admits wrongly accusing activist of bomb plot
‘Our backs are against the wall’: French grassroots mobilise against far right
Other lives
Joan Winfield obituary
June 2024
Baillie Gifford boycotts achieve nothing
Our Baillie Gifford boycotts aren’t about tearing down the arts – they’re about building them up
Tom Jeffreys
The rural network, Victoria
A Gaza ceasefire pilgrimage walks 45km through central Victoria – in pictures
Woke capitalism is not to be sneered at. Gen Z is a mighty force for change
Martha Gill
New York’s Fat Beach Day gives plus-size people a space to be themselves
Kenya’s first nuclear plant: why plans face fierce opposition in country’s coastal paradise
Ugandan oil pipeline protester allegedly beaten as part of ‘alarming crackdown’
Baillie Gifford book festival protesters are losing the plot
‘It’s our duty to fight for freedom’: the Los Angeles teen who fought for change and won
Nils Pratley on finance
Book festival activists are making absurd demands over Baillie Gifford
Nils Pratley
‘It’s all we have’: young climate activists on the state of politics around the world
Climate activist defaces Monet painting in Paris
May 2024
Activists hold three-day protest in EU election run-up as green agenda slips
Campaign groups in 127 cities demand urgent climate action amid fears of far-right gains
Alarm as German climate activists charged with ‘forming a criminal organisation’
Action against Letzte Generation could have ‘immense chilling effect’ on climate protest, campaigners say
Why is New York University making protesters watch The Simpsons as punishment?
Arwa Mahdawi
In what a professor calls an ‘intellectual embarrassment’, the school is requiring students to complete a bizarre training