US-based airline aims to tread where other have failed – and in the teeth of the Covid pandemicA low-cost airline service with a brand new business class cabin, flying London to New York? As Frank Sinatra might have said: if you can make it there, in t…
Serious questions raised by solitary confinement in prisons | Letters
Emma Ginn and Annie Viswanathan on the effect of solitary confinement on immigration detainees and Dean Kingham on prisoners abandoned to close supervision centres. Plus, Howard Thomas on steps towards sending fewer people to prisonProlonged solitary c…
Scientists warn of risks in easing UK controls for vaccinated arrivals
Edinburgh epidemiologist concerned about spread of ‘escape mutants’ that may defy vaccinesScientists have said that the lifting of restrictions for fully vaccinated arrivals to the UK from the EU and US, which begins from Monday, is not without risk.Fr…
Cost of moving home rises as UK removals firms put up prices
Prices rise by up to 25% as firms cover wage increases to attract staff amid post-Brexit lorry driver shortageThe cost of moving home is on the rise as removals firms are forced to put up prices following difficulties in hiring drivers.Some removals fi…
Salmond blogger Craig Murray hands himself in to police to begin jail term
Ex-diplomat found in contempt of court over ‘jigsaw identification’ of women who accused former first minister of sexual assaultCraig Murray, the former British ambassador to Uzbekistan, has handed himself into police in Edinburgh as he faces an eight-…
Dawn Raids apology and an injured cat in Turkey: Weekend’s best photos
The Guardian’s picture editors select photo highlights from around the world Continue reading…
Scottish independence vote will happen if public wants it, says Michael Gove
Gove says referendum will occur if there is ‘a settled will in favour’, as Ian Blackford says voters have already spokenThe UK government would not stand in the way of another vote on Scottish independence if it is the “settled will” of voters, Michael…
Brexit and Covid have created the perfect moment for the politics of crackdown | John Harris
We feel besieged and imperilled, and the Johnson government is seizing the chance to weaken our most fundamental libertiesIf you were wondering when the widely predicted post-Brexit dystopia might move beyond the imaginings of TV scriptwriters and into…
Ten years after the riots in Birmingham, a mother still seeks justice for sons’ death
Shazad Ali and Abdul Musavir went into the city to protect their business as rioters clashed with police but never returnedIn her golden years Rukaya Begum’s home should have been full of the patter of grandchildren’s feet and the hustle of family get-…
Man, 19, arrested after girl, 15, dies at north Wales holiday park
Man is in custody after what police described as ‘domestic incident’ in Ty Mawr in TowynA man has been arrested after a 15-year-old girl died at a holiday park in north Wales.Police officers were called to Ty Mawr holiday park in Towyn, near Abergele, …