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Good morning. Everyone who has worked in the arts, from the heads of major institutions to the creatives who depend on their funding, has been warning for years about the dire state of the sector. As investment dwindled and contempt for arts and humanities education became mainstream – fuelled by …

Re your editorial (

The Guardian view on Britain’s broken economy: ‘That’s your bloody GDP, not ours’, 13 February

), we are frequently reminded of the inadequacy of GDP growth as an objective, given that it

includes the money spent

on dealing with pollution, sickness, crime etc. But …

Walmart

on Thursday forecast sales and profit for its latest fiscal year below Wall Street estimates, suggesting that the world’s largest retailer expects inflation-weary consumers to pull back after several quarters of solid growth.

Walmart shares, which had risen about 72% in 2024 and hit a record …

In the tumultuous German election campaign, which has been rocked by jaw-dropping US interference, a spate of violent attacks and rare fears for the country’s political stability, all eyes have been locked on the party most likely to finish second.

When the dust settles after Sunday’s vote and conservative opposition …

Residents of Godstone in Surrey have been evacuated from their homes amid fears that two large sinkholes in their high street could trigger a gas explosion. Here we look at what causes sinkholes, whether they are becoming more common and what can be done to prevent them.

What are sinkholes?

2 April 2000: Scotland 19-13 England

That

bonkers 38-38 draw in 2019

clearly has to be up there. But the world’s oldest international fixture takes on a different complexion in even-numbered years. Edinburgh’s cold, malty air, the walk down past Haymarket (before the trams), the distant hills, …

Amid the rubble of Saraqib, some of the wall graffiti dating back to its time as a centre of the the 2011 Arab spring uprising remains. “The revolution will go on,” one reads. “Tomorrow the sun rises,” says another.

A week after the astonishing rout of Bashar al-Assad by rebel …

Andrew Bailey had warned there would be a bump in the road. But after inflation jumped by more than expected to 3% in January, the Bank of England governor could be in for a rockier ride than anticipated.

For the chancellor,

Rachel Reeves

, too, it will be …

After a pair of first descents near her home in the Canadian Rockies, Christina Lustenberger headed to Pakistan’s Karakoram Range in April 2024 for her second attempt to ski the west face of

the Great Trango Tower

.

“I’d seen a photo of the towers from a friend …

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