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‘A shambles’: voters prepare for the local elections

"This country almost needs a coup," one voter said

The robots are entering No 10

Already tackling social ills nationwide, hi-tech comes to the heart of power

Who killed Just Stop Oil?

The radical climate protest group delighted supporters and infuriated opponents in equal measure. So where are they now?

Purpose in the deep freeze: people and politics at Unilever

The company is struggling to balance commercial performance with social justice

Inside the government’s secretive crisis control room

The SitCen team is working on a tool which will give officials access to real-time crisis data, such as public health risks. One thing they can't predict: human behaviour

Injured Gazan children will be allowed into the UK for treatment

The elite university tearing itself apart to please Trump

Students in detention, free speech threatened, a paranoid campus divided. JD Vance called for attacks on American universities… and now New York truly is a battleground

Climate issues could still sway the Australian election

Eco matters have fallen down the agenda since 2022 but, a week before the polls, voters are still looking for alternatives to the main parties

‘He was our grandfather’: crowds gather in Rome for the Pope's final farewell

The faithful lined the streets for a solemn – if sometimes festive – spectacle

Rob Burrow’s wife is staying life’s course

The London Marathon has given Lindsey Burrow a new focus through grief

Tributes pour in for Virginia Giuffre, a ‘light for survivors’

Giuffre’s suicide has revealed the cost of justice for Jeffrey Epstein’s victims

‘Trump and Putin want to destroy Europe’

Mar-a-Lago and Moscow share a worldview where ‘mighty’ powers can carve up the globe. It's a misreading of the modern world

The picture: Trump and Zelensky at St Peter’s Basilica

It is an extraordinary image: the leaders of America and Ukraine facing each other, locked in conversation before the funeral of Pope Francis. Laura Cumming wonders who chose such a telling spot for this momentous encounter

‘I feel I’m with Elsie’: the Southport dad in the race of his life

David Stancombe is running in the London Marathon to raise money for projects in memory of his daughter, one of three girls who died in the attack on a dance class last year

Maurice Glasman: Labour’s Trump card

With a hotline to both the White House and Downing Street, the Labour peer and his campaign group Blue Labour are having a moment. Ahead of local elections, he talks about his invitation to Trump’s inauguration – and how Keir Starmer can see off Reform

North Korea and Russia try to reshape the world order

North Korean ‘cannon fodder’ helps Moscow and gives Pyongyang valuable battlefield experience

Prince Harry’s appeal to his family deserves a magnanimous response

I fled Moscow with my laptop, three lipsticks and a can of hairspray

The Russian film critic was forced to leave her homeland, family and friends or face years in prison after denouncing the invasion of Ukraine