Wedged between the Mar Dyke Valley and Lakeside Retail Park, the former Arena Essex Raceway is not your usual wildlife haven. Where once stock cars and speedway bikes lined up to cross the fini...

Exclusive: Special rapporteur for poverty cites mainstream parties’ ‘extremely dangerous’ them-or-us dialogue Decades of efforts by mainstream politicians to roll back welfare programmes have given rise to an “extremely dangerous” discourse that has helped fuel the rise of the far right and rightwing populists in countries around the world, a top UN expert has told the Guardian. From London to Lisbon, politicians from centre-right and centre-left parties alike have steadily eroded social programmes, fostering a sense of scarcity and creating fertile ground for the stirring up of anti-migrant sentiment, said Olivier De Schutter, the UN special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights. Continue reading...

For too long, the UK press have bullied people, harassed grieving families, and destroyed lives, all to sell papers. We’ve all seen the heartbreaking consequences. They’ve hacked phones, listened to ...

Real time data coming out of the world’s climate measurement systems should be stopping us in our tracks. The latest estimate by climate scientist Dr Karsten Haustein shows that, this week, the Earth ...

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From stringent legislation to grassroots action, Australia and Spain lead the way in tackling children’s use of mobile phones and tablets If the advent of the affordable mobile phone has given parents a new way to stay in touch with their ­children, it…

Fascism thrives when democracy falters. From funding Reform to vigilance, here’s how we protect our future

Tool uses machine learning to analyse medical data for red flags relating to undiagnosed atrial fibrillation Thousands of strokes could be averted in the UK each year after doctors developed an algorithm that spots patients at risk by scanning millions…