Tag: choices
‘Painful choices’ remain over tribute to Grenfell Tower victims
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Bereaved relatives of those killed in the Grenfell Tower fire and the community living in its shadow are struggling to agree on the best way to commemorate the disaster. Next month marks five years since a fire engulf...
Putin’s choices filled with peril on eve of Victory Day parade
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On the brink of its May 9 Victory Day celebrations, Russia looks very far from triumph in its war in Ukraine. And all of its options going forward are fraught with danger. After a disastrous assault on Kyiv, Russia is...
No year 7 surge as school first choices rise in parts of England
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An expected surge in pupils applying for state secondary school places has failed to materialise in London, Manchester and other parts of England, allowing more families to gain their first choice of schools. The numb...
NHS Food Scanner app will use barcodes to suggest healthier eating choices
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An updated government app will use barcodes to encourage families to switch to healthier food as part of efforts to tackle Britain’s child obesity crisis. The new feature, announced on Monday as part of the Better Hea...
Covid live: Omicron will lead to difficult choices, says UK health boss; India reports more than 22,000 infections
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Sajid Javid says Omicron wave of infection will ‘test the limits of finite NHS capacity even more than a typical winter’; India death toll rises by 406
You are what you eat? Why food choices shouldn’t be a proxy for class
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The British like to think that they have a uniquely profound understanding of class. In truth, it’s the opposite. The arcane rules of the country’s class system mean we have a deranged understanding of our divisions, ...
Naomi Campbell’s motherhood is good news, but most women don’t have her reproductive choices
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Earlier this week, supermodel Naomi Campbell created a social media storm by posting a picture of her hand cradling a small baby’s feet with the caption: “A beautiful little blessing has chosen me to be her mother.” W...
The Guardian view on post-Brexit trade: only hard choices are left
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There is agreement across the Conservative party that free trade is a good thing, in theory. Unity is harder to sustain over practical detail, as has become clear through negotiations on a deal with Australia. The agr...
The Motherhood Project review – difficult choices, disparate voices
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In one of the 15 monologues here, Juno Dawson observes that motherhood is still conflated with womanhood. It is a crucial point and this series is both a meditation on what it means to be a modern-day mother as well a...
John Oliver: US unemployment chaos is ‘the result of deliberate choices’
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John Oliver trained his focus on the dysfunctional, maddening unemployment system on Sunday’s Last Week Tonight, nearly a year into a pandemic recession which has left millions of Americans without jobs or a functiona...