The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical conceptsHow much poorer would the rich need to be to provide a basic minimum income for …
Need support levelling up, prime minister? Let Manchester help you | Andy Burnham
Levelling up must be a unifying force so the right towns receive the right resources to help narrow the north-south divideThis weekend, we welcome the prime minister and his government to Manchester and we do so with a big, positive offer: we can help …
The pandemic ought to be the turning point in the debate about private schools | Frances Ryan
The gulf in provision for private and state pupils has never been starker. Who can doubt now that they entrench privilege?Keir Starmer’s pledge earlier this week to end the lucrative tax breaks given to private schools has predictably brought out the u…
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How much poorer would the rich need to be to provide a basic minimum income for everyone?
The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical conceptsHow much poorer would the rich need to be to provide a basic minimum income for …
The Guardian view on Starmer’s Labour: time to take on the Tories | Editorial
The Labour leader must know his party faces existential implications if it suffers a historic fifth election defeatBritons usually eat more than 10m turkeys during the festive season. If the country were to run short of the yuletide bird then that may …
Cop26: Women must be heard on climate, say rights groups
Those worst hit by global heating are left out of talks, says feminist coalition calling for systemic changeWomen must be enabled to play a greater role at the Cop26 summit, as the needs of women and girls are being overlooked amid the global climate c…
Why do children in Britain always bear the brunt of Tory cuts? | Polly Toynbee
With such a cold and unfeeling government, it’s little wonder our birthrate is fallingThis is no country for babies. It’s no surprise the birthrate keeps falling when would-be parents face impossible obstacles. As in the 1930s, it happens in hard times…
The UN summit on food systems took two years to plan. It’s offered nothing to help feed families | Michael Fakhri
As the UN food systems summit takes place on Thursday, governments can do much more, writes Michael Fakhri, UN special rapporteur on the right to food The role of the UN’s dozens of independent experts, or special rapporteurs, is to report and advise o…
Black girls in England ‘twice as likely to be excluded from schools as white girls’
Data also shows that school exclusions for girls are growing at higher rate than for boysBlack and minority ethnic girls in England are more than twice as likely to be excluded from school as their white counterparts, according to a report.Equality cam…