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• Extreme weather could destroy our food supplies

  October 7, 2026 · 1 hr 2 min

  The summer just passed was the hottest on record. Next year, the scientists predict, will be even hotter. And what will happen between these two infernos? Respite? Wrong. More extreme weather. Storms, droughts, and floods will sweep the…

• A wave of childlessness is sweeping the whole world

  September 30, 2026 · 43 min

  In Japan, couples can rent a grandchild in order to make them feel less bereft on special occasions. In South Korea, dog stroller sales have overtaken pram sales. And in France, deaths outnumbered births for the first time since the Second…

• Owen Jones: Hubris haunts the West

  September 23, 2026 · 1 hr 3 min

  Owen Jones burst onto the scene in 2011 with his bestselling book Chavs: the demonisation of the working class. Since then his activism and journalism has followed the ebbs and flows of the left in UK politics, his own push and pull…

• China's history is on the table

  September 9, 2026 · 46 min

  Fuchsia Dunlop has dedicated much of her life to eating Chinese food. If you’re interested in Chinese cuisine and culture, you may have come across her through television programmes, heard her on the radio, or cooked one of her…

• Life as a leftist has been a complete failure

  September 2, 2026 · 34 min

  Alexei Sayle has never much cared for a conventional view of the world. Born in 1950s Liverpool to committed communist parents, he was named after Maxim Gorky - real name Alexei Maximovich Peshkov. Dyed-in-the-wool Marxism, in other words…

• Is Trump a Russian asset?

  August 19, 2026 · 57 min

  In 2011, Luke Harding was ordered to leave Russia - the first Western journalist to be exiled since the fall of the Soviet Union. As the Guardian's senior correspondent, he continued to watch Russia from afar, covering WikiLeaks, Edward…

• Is Britain a liberal country?

  August 12, 2026 · 42 min

  Most people would say that Britain is, by and large, a liberal country. Individuals have the freedom to express their individual beliefs, others are expected to accept this difference in opinion with a certain level of tolerance. Our…

• The man who sold the World Cup

  August 5, 2026 · 34 min

  For ten years Gianni Infantino has run FIFA more or less unchallenged - cosying up to Putin, the Saudis, and above all Trump, and turning the World Cup into the most commercially aggressive tournament the sport has ever seen.  Then a few…