The Guardian Articles

The Covid inquiry has spent the past three weeks delving into the UK vaccine rollout and the decision-making around new and existing therapies for infected and vulnerable people. Here we look at the key findings from the module, the fourth of 10, in the inquiry chaired by Lady Hallett.

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Pity Rachel Reeves, the chancellor of the exchequer. Before she had even got through

her highly anticipated “growth speech” on 29 January

AstraZeneca has cancelled plans for a £450m expansion of its manufacturing plant in Speke, Merseyside, blaming a cut in the funding on offer from the government.

Only two days after Rachel Reeves highlighted life sciences as a key UK strength, in a speech setting out

her plans …

The word “illegal” has been one of the terms most strongly associated with migrants in UK parliamentary debates over the past 25 years, research has found.

Findings from the Runnymede Trust, published on Friday, examine how politicians and the media have portrayed migrants, refugees and Muslims in their discourse.

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Watching televised sports in 2025 can feel a little like sitting through one long gambling commercial, interspersed by occasional flashes of actual games. Those sports, meanwhile, are played in venues and uniforms plastered with the logos of yet more betting houses, airing on broadcasts that sprinkle in mentions of gambling …

A novel use of technology could make refrigerators cheaper and more environmentally friendly, according to a report.

Domestic refrigerators and freezers consumed close to 4% of global electricity in 2019,

according to one estimate

Valuable farmland will be protected from housing, solar panels and onshore wind under a new

land use framework

The environment secretary, Steve Reed, will announce a consultation into how the limited land in England should be used and where is best to farm, …

Wiggling your ears might be more of a pub party piece than a survival skill, but humans still try to prick up their ears when listening hard, researchers have found.

Ear movement is crucial in many animals, not least in helping them focus their attention on particular noises and …

Voters in western democracies are turning away from mainstream political parties and towards populists because they are losing faith in their ability to implement meaningful change, a major report based on surveys of 12,000 voters has found.

The popularity of traditional centre-left and centre-right parties across major democratic countries has …

A 100 metre-wide asteroid has triggered global planetary defence procedures for the first time after telescope observations revealed it has a chance of colliding with Earth in 2032.

Asteroid 2024 YR4 was spotted by an automated telescope in Chile on 27 December last year but has since risen to the …