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Children and nurseries are being failed by this government
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As a single mother of a five-year-old and former nursery owner, your editorial (28 July) on childcare costs resonated with me, and my own experiences over the past five years. I struggle to understand why we continue ...
Bolivia’s corrupt system failed to stem femicide. Now, feminists are fighting back
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In parts of La Paz, every surface is papered with layers of bleached and peeling posters: adverts for events, jobs, apartments – and missing women. In 2021, there were at least 108 femicides in Bolivia, among the high...
The Guardian view on Boris Johnson and housing: old and failed answers
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Conservative optimists, whose numbers are thinner on the ground now, tried on Thursday to frame Boris Johnson’s housing speech in Blackpool as a reset of his leadership. There were several fatal flaws in this claim. T...
Home Office cancels flight to deport Kurdish failed asylum seekers to Iraq
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The Home Office has cancelled a chartered deportation flight to Iraq that was due to depart from the UK on Tuesday evening. Up to 30 Kurdish people who have been refused asylum were facing deportation to northern Iraq...
Morrison government failed to show cashless debit card scheme works, auditor general says
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The auditor general has been highly critical of the former government’s handling of the cashless debit card, finding the Morrison government had not demonstrated whether the scheme was working despite operating trials...
Fights broke out as top-down approach to Lismore flood response failed, inquiry told
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Lismore residents have told of fights breaking out between members of the public trying to help and officials attempting to implement a failed “top-down” approach during the height of the flood emergency. Several comm...
Investigation finds school failed vulnerable children and misled Ofsted
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An independent investigation into allegations of misconduct at a top London state school – including safeguarding breaches, discrimination, bullying and favouritism – has found that “on the balance of probabilities” e...
Sweden’s failed integration creates ‘parallel societies’, says PM after riots
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Sweden’s prime minister has said the Scandinavian country has failed to integrate many of the immigrants who have settled there over the past 20 years, creating a nation of “parallel societies … living in different re...
Rebekah Vardy’s bid to sell story about drink-driving player failed, court hears
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Rebekah Vardy attempted to sell a story about the arrest of footballer Danny Drinkwater to the Sun newspaper – only to be turned down because the tabloid had already been leaked the story by an individual at the polic...
Greater Manchester police ‘failed children in the past’, says chief constable
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One of the UK’s biggest police forces has historically failed children and was “borderline incompetent” in the way it previously dealt with organised grooming gangs, its current chief constable has said. Stephen Watso...
Police failed woman who killed herself in Blackburn cell, inquest finds
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Police officers failed a vulnerable and suicidal woman after arresting her and putting her in a police cell where she killed herself, an inquest jury has found. Kelly Hartigan-Burns, 35, died in December 2016 after sh...
LA promised housing for residents of tent city but dramatically failed, report reveals
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On 24 March last year, hundreds of police officers descended on Los Angeles’ Echo Park Lake to evict the community of unhoused residents that had swelled there during the pandemic. After police arrested protesters opp...
Paws off: protecting clothes from your pets (and what to do when you’ve failed)
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In between lockdowns last year, I spent a week in Gippsland with a friend and her border collie, Queenie. The first morning, Queenie came bounding into my room, leapt on my bed and wriggled around until I got up and t...
Long after Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is home and Boris Johnson’s gone, we’ll remember how he failed her
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Just when you thought you couldn’t take any more bad news, a sudden bright spot on the horizon: Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, along with another detained British-Iranian Anoosheh Ashoori, are flying back to the UK from T...
Gove steps in to fill empathy gap after Home Office declared failed state
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Somehow the memo never reached Priti Patel. Ever since Boris Johnson asked her to be home secretary, Priti Vacant had confidently assumed the government’s default position had been to be unpleasant to foreigners. Wave...
Keir Starmer says PM’s ‘failed energy policy’ is causing bills to rocket
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Keir Starmer has accused Boris Johnson of presiding over a “failed energy policy” that is resulting in rocketing bills, as he called for the government to invest in nuclear and renewable energy sources and insulate ho...