The metal equipment in this outdoor gym at a south London park is all made from melted knives taken off the streets. Now it’s become a focus for people to sharpen their skills and strengthIt looks like Jay Chris is waving to the crowd with his legs. Th…
Bringing in the army won’t halt petrol crisis, says fuel industry boss
Business chiefs accuse ministers of being ‘missing in action’ amid growing backlash against governmentMinisters have been told that petrol queues in some parts of the country have become worse and army help will not relieve the problem, amid a growing …
The Metropolitan police canteen culture that shielded Sarah Everard’s killer
The murder of a woman by a serving officer has exposed the Met, once labelled institutionally racist, to accusations that it is also institutionally misogynistWithin the vast neoclassical headquarters of the Metropolitan police in central London, the f…
Pomes pounded out
Luke Davis waits for the muse to strike [16 mins] sitting on a lawn-chair in the sun on the South Bank in London: paper loaded in a Brother de Luxe manual typewriter, ready for someone, anyone, to ask for a poem on a pay-what-you-will contract.
Al Gore puts $600M into UK Green energy-tech startup Octopus Energy Group
Former Vice President Al Gore has invested $600 million of equity into UK energy startup Octopus Energy Group via his Generation Investment Management vehicle, taking a stake of approximately 13% in the business. The investment means Octopus has attained a valuation of around $4.6 billion. Octopus has made a name for itself in energy circles […]
SquadPal is a social app to help remote working teams gel
The future of office work, post-COVID-19, is driving plenty of startup activity. Not just around core business needs like comms (Zoom, Slack et al.) — but entrepreneurs are also competing to come up with the perfect tool to recreate the social serendipity of office life in order to make dispersed workers feel a bit more […]
Sarah Everard’s killer might have been identified as threat sooner, police admit
Details of indecent exposure claims emerge as ex-Met officer Wayne Couzens is given whole-life sentencePolice have accepted they may have had enough clues to identify Wayne Couzens as a threat to women before he raped and killed Sarah Everard.Couzens w…
Kate Wilson: after spy cops case the Met is beyond redemption
The woman at the centre of a human rights claim against police gives her response to the rulingIt is 10 years since I first sat down with a group of eight women to discuss bringing an assault case against the Metropolitan police. We were reeling from t…
The Guardian view on the police and women: face up to the problems | Editorial
The murder of Sarah Everard has crystallised a crisis of faith in the service. It is time for a wider reckoningThe disappearance of Sarah Everard in London in March sparked a wave of outrage at the violence women face. Following the sentencing of her k…
UK class action-style suit filed over DeepMind NHS health data scandal
A U.K. law firm is bringing a class-action style claim over a patient health data scandal that dates back to 2015 and involves the Google-owned AI company DeepMind, after it was quietly passed medical information on more than a million patients by an NHS Trust as part of an app development project. Law firm Mishcon […]