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Nov 28, 2020

OK~deep breath~I wrote about my year in a psychiatric unit, my 20 year battle with anorexia, how poverty & homelessness can fuel mental illness & why the postcode lottery for treatment must end. But mainly, I wanted to write about slowly getting better 🌱

'I was at war with my body': my year as a day patient on an eating disorders ward

At 32, I was given a choice: go to hospital every day – or risk a long wait to become an inpatient. Could I face down the demons that had stalked me since I was a child?

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Moya Lothian-McLean

@mlothianmclean

In the

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this AM writing on being relieved to discover I am not a 'soft royalist' and the surreal nature of watching a nation fall into monarchist step

I have never felt more lonely in my republicanism, or more wedded to it | Moya Lothian McLean

If you approve of the current system, you’re committed to preserving inequality, says Moya Lothian-McLean, a contributing editor at Novara Media

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"Discussion of the monarchy, our politics, our constitution, is something to be vigorously aired, not shut down or even temporarily suppressed," writes

@labourlewis

Amid the mourning, we republicans should look and learn – but we must not be silenced | Clive Lewis

Although the arguments against this system of privilege are strong, it is important to understand why it endures, says MP and republican Clive Lewis

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@labourlewis

Sep 16

1/8 Discussion of the monarchy, our politics, our constitution, is something to be vigorously aired. Not shut down or temporarily suppressed. Read more in my article here:

Amid the mourning, we republicans should look and learn – but we must not be silenced | Clive Lewis

Although the arguments against this system of privilege are strong, it is important to understand why it endures, says MP and republican Clive Lewis

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Roared at this epic by

@MarinaHyde

Britain has become One Nation Under Brands, detained in our Center Parcs lodgings | Marina Hyde

When the revolution against corporate twee comes, I’ll be down the front with a plastic putter and a bow and safety arrow, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

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David Conn

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Sep 16

Inspiring achievement and ambitions expressed by

@nyima_j

@missaneesaahmed

and

@morgankofori

, who have been selected for this year's

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Scott Trust bursary; read their profiles here.

Scott Trust Bursary students 2022-23

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Sep 15

The classiest guy in the business....Amazing piece, this.

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Aditya Chakrabortty

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· Sep 15

It’s one law for King Charles the billionaire and another for his struggling subjects. My column theguardian.com/commentisfree/

Frances Ryan

@DrFrancesRyan

Sep 13

Liz Truss’s energy and tax plan will give the wealthiest families ‘twice as much support’ as anyone else, new research shows. The richest will receive av. £4,700 in support - whilst the poorest get £2,200. As Liz would say: “It. Is. A. Disgrace.”

Liz Truss energy and tax plan ‘will give richest families twice as much support’

Thinktank says richest tenth of UK households would receive £4,700 on average, and poorest tenth £2,200

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Sep 9

Quite a week.

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Jessica Elgot

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Sep 6

If adopted, the policy will potentially mean that the four-year-olds starting school today could be paying back these supplements on their future energy bills as adults.

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Simon Jack

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· Sep 6

2/Energy companies would take out government guaranteed loans to bridge the gap between the wholesale price in the market and the fixed price they are charging customers. Those loans would be repaid over the next 10-20 years through supplements to customer bills...

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"Johnson will probably be written about as a tragically flawed protagonist who flew too close to the sun, or whatever," writes

@NesrineMalik

. He reached for Cincinnatus not Icarus but the intuition is the same

Blame the greasers, not the piglet, for the mess left by Boris Johnson | Nesrine Malik

How quickly those who enabled his reckless and dishonest leadership turned against him. What exactly did they expect?, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

Sep 5

"One of the most telling aspects of that speech was when she promised to “deliver” on the NHS and then stopped in what felt almost like mid-sentence. Deliver what, exactly, and how? She couldn’t say." Brilliant piece by

@gabyhinsliff

A prime minister must get the big calls right. On the cost of living crisis, Truss got it badly...

She takes office with a handbrake turn on her flagship policy – how can anybody ever trust her judgment now, asks Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

Aug 29

"The leadership campaign has been run like a company takeover bid, the pitch to Tory voters like that of a junior associate finding himself unexpectedly in a position to vie for partner". Brilliant brilliant

@NesrineMalik

Not too Tory, a little bit Blair and a whole lot of brown: how Sunak’s formula failed | Nesrine...

In running his leadership like a corporate takeover bid, he looked like a man willing to say absolutely anything to win, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

Aug 28

“Truss’s final plan to deal with the cost of living is a closely guarded secret,” reports the Sunday Times, reassuringly.

John Harris

@johnharris1969

Aug 27

I'm so old I can remember when it was cars & holidays, not your most basic living costs

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Aug 27

Moving house for approx the 8090th time and decided I’m finally going to slim down the collection of books I’ve been lugging about for 20 odd years. Why do I feel so guilty?!

Aug 26

Today feels like a good day to talk about our series, the Heat or Eat Diaries, in which we have regular columnists writing about their lives on the front line of Britain's cost of living emergency. Here, Liz reacts to the energy price cap announcement

I never thought I’d be grateful for my auto-immune illness. But a doctor’s letter means at least my...

No matter how hard people like me try, we’ll never be able to pay the obscene amounts energy companies are charging, says single mum Liz

Aug 26

"Whether in politics, policy or the media, those at the top, nourished on platitudes and drunk on careerism, just cannot handle what stares us in the face."

@chakrabortty

absolutely capturing the gravity of today

These are energy bills many Britons simply can’t afford. Some will pay with their lives | Aditya...

This price hike threatens to create a whole new class of poor, and it is clear our wretched politics will do nothing to protect them, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

Aug 26

“No government ministers were available this morning” says Today programme as energy bills soar by 80%

Aug 25

A beautiful tribute to Liverpool by

@mariabreslin

In Liverpool we are shocked, grieving and furious – but we will not let violence define our city |...

Things were getting better before the killing of Olivia Pratt-Korbel, and that won’t change, says Liverpool Echo editor Maria Breslin

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Aug 25

"Twelve years – you’ve done bugger all about it." This is the moment an angry member of the public interrupted a press interview with Health Secretary Steve Barclay to ask him why the Government has done “nothing” about lengthy waits for ambulances

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"Poke it in the eye...hope for the best"

An escaped 18ft python found its way into a Hampshire home – it’s more common than you think | Paul...

Even the most experienced reptile keepers can get caught out by a restless serpent. But there are simple ways to stay safe, says herpetologist Paul Rowley

Aug 25

I’m somehow on the cover of today’s G2 blowing bubbles! For a piece about rediscovering childhood joy which you can read right here theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2

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wielding her lyrical scalpel with a precision and majesty most surgeons would be proud of. Bravo. 👏👏👏

Roll up, roll up and meet the watery overlords pumping sewage on to our shores this summer | Marina...

Why focus just on the politicians where there are plenty of CEOs out there with excrement on their hands, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

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Tory conference: LGBT group unveils politics-themed condoms

Aug 22

"The BBC understands dozens of MPs were approached to feature on the contraceptives but either declined or did not respond."

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LGBT+ Conservatives unveil politics-themed condoms to promote sexual health at Birmingham gathering.

Aug 19

Another excellent, moving and devastatingly rage-inducing piece from

@chakrabortty

on the former steel village of Shotton, north Wales - and what it says about our awol political system

One Welsh town offers a window on to the catastrophe facing Britain. But where are the politicians?...

In Shotton, a pioneering food company is being forced to make up for the gaping holes in the welfare state, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

Aug 18

"I don’t eat when I read files – it can make me feel sick." Amazing piece by Dr Rebecca Myers on her life as a prison psychiatrist

I have spent 25 years treating serious sexual offenders – this is what I’ve learned | Rebecca Myers

Sexual offenders can be deceitful and cruel. But they may also be ashamed and desperate to change. Helping them is the only way to prevent more victims, says forensic psychologist Rebecca Myers

Aug 10

Beautiful Ben Jennings tribute to Raymond Briggs

Ben Jennings on the looming cold winter – cartoon

It won’t be a magical Christmas for many Britons as fuel prices climb

Jessica Elgot

@jessicaelgot

Aug 10

💥Exc - Gordon Brown sets out a plan for the winter. He calls on the government to cancel the price cap and open talks with energy companies on setting lower prices. Energy firms unable to offer lower bills should be temporarily re-nationalised.

Gordon Brown says energy firms unable to offer lower bills should be temporarily re-nationalised

Former PM calls for energy price cap to be scrapped and new lower prices renegotiated by government

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The PM we could do with right now

We must tax profits now, freeze energy price rises - and if necessary bring suppliers into the...

Without urgent action, families are seeing nothing more than pain now and pain later. There is a way through, says former prime minister Gordon Brown

Thom Yorke

@thomyorke

Aug 10

“ This is how a country falls apart ..”

Britain faces crisis upon crisis, and our leaders are absent. This is how a country falls apart |...

Inflation, energy bills and stagnant wages could mean destitution for millions. But Conservative ideology forbids offering answers, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Builder taken to hospital after being knocked out by bottle of pee dropped from crane in #Sussex

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Nesrine Malik

@NesrineMalik

Aug 8

‘Truss and lately Sunak, are learning that a base created from lies can only be sustained by lies. It is too late to start telling a different story. Both Tory members and party leaders are trapped in a simulation’. This week’s column

It’s the culture war games – and the last Tory contenders are on the run from reality | Nesrine...

Johnson is on his way out but the ‘war on woke’ is here to stay: it’s all they have to talk about as the economy crumbles, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

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Aug 5

Never underestimate Kay Burley!

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@gabyhinsliff

· Aug 5

Me on a leadership contest divorced from reality, into which some reality temporarily intruded yesterday theguardian.com/commentisfree/

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Aug 4

Latest in our series of regular columns from people on the frontline of the cost of living emergency - by John, a single dad of two, from London. "I’m on a prepaid energy meter, so boycotting my bills will only achieve cutting myself off," he writes.

Rent strikes and bill boycotts are a great in principle - but I’d end up with no electricity and an...

I’m on a pre-pay energy meter in a rented flat so I could only dream of radical action. No, people like me will have to carry on grinning and bearing it, says James from London

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Jul 26

"In queer clubs, some choose to skip the ritual taking-off of T-shirts, fearing the prolonged skin-on-skin contact of an intimate dance will put them at risk." Brilliant, chilling piece by

@OwenJones84

on the impact of monkeypox.