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The Narrow Road to the Deep North review – immensely powerful TV

This adaptation of the Booker prize-winning novel spanning three timelines is a visceral, passionate drama starring Ciarán Hinds and Jacob Elordi. What bracingly confident televisionThere is an overwhelming darkness to [...]

Who needs quinoa? 17 overlooked and affordable superfoods, from peas and potatoes to popcorn and even sugar

Can’t afford goji berries, spirulina or turmeric – or just don’t like the taste? Most kitchens are full of healthy but unglamorous alternatives. Nutrition experts name their favouritesWhat is a [...]

Again and again, we are shocked by the treatment of learning-disabled people. Yet we never learn from the past | John Harris

A landmark book exposes the history of loathing that underpins such scandals as Winterbourne View. It has received next to no attentionBBC Radio 4 has just aired a short series [...]

‘Too loud’, ‘too messy’, ‘too much’ … why should women be expected to shrink and shut up?

As Lena Dunham’s new show reminds us, whether they’re at work or on a date, women are expected to tone it down if they want to get on. What if [...]

14 ways to keep your houseplants alive while you’re on holiday (and how to revive them when you get back)

Heading off for summer? From self-watering pots to plant straws, these expert hacks will keep your plants hydrated and happy• Beat the heat: expert tips for keeping cool in hot [...]

Suella, Jacob, even Liz? Inside Reform’s unofficial plan to bag a Tory big beast

Officially, the party says there is no mission to court Conservative defectors, but insiders suggest otherwise, and warn against the dangers of doing soAt last year’s GB News Christmas party, [...]

NHS facing ‘absolutely shocking’ £27bn bill for maternity failings in England

Exclusive: Legal actions rise after death or injury of hundreds of babies and women in recent yearsThe NHS is facing an “absolutely shocking” £27bn bill for maternity failings in England, [...]

Government launches Orgreave inquiry, 40 years after clashes at miners’ strike

Move follows decades of campaigning over violent policing and collapsed prosecutions at South Yorkshire coking plantExplainer: Why now and what are the crucial questions it seeks to answer?The confrontation at [...]

Average UK house asking price registers steepest monthly drop for 20 years

Rightmove blames the 1.2% fall in new sellers’ prices on the end of stamp duty discounts and more homes coming on to the marketThe average price of homes coming up [...]

Five arrested as more than 1,000 protesters gather outside Essex asylum hotel

Demonstrators chant ‘send them home’ and ‘save our kids’ as bottles and flares thrown at police blocking entranceFive people have been arrested after more than 1,000 demonstrators gathered outside a [...]

Children of elderly UK couple jailed by Taliban call for release before they ‘die in custody’

Barbie Reynolds, 76, and husband Peter, 80, have been held for five-and-a-half months without charge The children of an elderly couple imprisoned by the Taliban in Afghanistan have urged the [...]

Four arrested under Terrorism Act during Liverpool pro-Palestine protest

Merseyside police says material in support of Palestine Action was reportedly seen in possession of protestersFour people were arrested on suspicion of terrorism offences during a pro-Palestine protest in Liverpool [...]

Superbugs could kill millions more and cost $2tn a year by 2050, models show

Exclusive: Research on burden of antibiotic resistance for 122 countries predicts dire economic and health outcomesSuperbugs could cause millions more people to die worldwide and cost the global economy just [...]

Water ombudsman to be created amid sweeping changes in England and Wales

Environment secretary to make announcement on Monday as part of review that is expected to abolish OfwatA new water ombudsman will be announced on Monday by the environment secretary, Steve [...]

JD Vance to spend summer family holiday in the Cotswolds

US vice-president also plans to visit London and Scotland next month He made his name with a memoir set among the hillbillies of the rugged Appalachians – yet it seems [...]

The confrontation at Orgreave: a visual timeline

In the early summer of 1984, 8,000 miners and supporters gathered to picket a coke works in South Yorkshire. They were met by a force of 6,000 police officersGovernment launches [...]

Caught between a fossil fuel past and a green future, China’s coal miners chart an uncertain path

As the world’s largest greenhouse gas emitter shifts to cleaner energy, some families fear being left behindGazing over the remains of his home, Wang Bingbing surveys a decades-old jujube tree [...]

Storm brews over Nationwide chief executive’s pay package worth up to £7m

Critics say building society has strayed too far from its roots with the compensation package likely to be rubber-stampedIt has been a career-defining summer for Debbie Crosbie. Three years after [...]

‘Coupledom is very oppressing’: Swedish author Gun-Britt Sundström on the revival of her cult anti-marriage novel

As her million-selling 70s novel, Engagement, is translated into English for the first time, the Swedish author talks about life at 80, finding the ideal love, and why her generation [...]

Standup Susie McCabe looks back: ‘I knew very early on that I was different from other girls. Everyone else did, too’’

The Glaswegian comic on her close bond with her nana, coming out in a conservative, Catholic society, and how a friend’s choice comment kickstarted her careerBorn in Glasgow in 1980, [...]