New fresco discovered at Pompeii: Paris kidnaps Helen. 'We're not taking the dog' - 'Well I'm not leaving him here'

How on earth is Michelle Donelan still in post?

This headline/pic combo reminds me of the legendary - and perhaps apocryphal – Lib Dem story in which Ed Davey was despatched to a horse sanctuary ahead of a by-election for a photoshoot to show it was a 'two-horse race', only to find there was one horse there.

A blank space on today’s WSJ A1 where Evan Gershkovich’s reporting should be, one year after his arrest on patently false charges. Russia should free him now

Princess of Wales receiving chemotherapy treatment for cancer theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/m…

Killer quote from one participant in Lord Ashcroft's Thanet and Portsmouth focus groups: conservativehome.com/2024/03/22/lor…

Strong letter from Cameron. 'It is an enormous frustration that UK aid for Gaza has been routinely held up waiting for Israeli permissions...The main blockers remain arbitrary denials by... Israel'. Says UK 'gravely concerned' that aid 'stalled, delayed or rejected' at border.

‘Is this how I die?’ Do read this, from the wonderful John Crace (warning: I had to have a little cry half way through)… theguardian.com/society/2024/m…

The head of the civil service Simon Case has followed the head of MI6 and resigned membership of the men-only Garrick club

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Head of MI6 resigns his Garrick club membership

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Spot on Hannah White

Simon Case claims he joined the all-male Garrick because he believed 'profoundly' in reform of the 'antediluvian' bar on women from within - when quizzed by Liam Byrne at liaison sub committee.
Rather a niche way to show profound devotion to the cause of equality....

🚨 Rare job alert 🚨 We are looking for a North of England reporter to join our crack northern team while I’m away presenting Today in Focus workforus.theguardian.com/jobs/337/

We're running an online seminar/Q&A on Monday afternoon about being an intern at the IfG - if you or anyone you know might be interested in applying for our internships (applications for communications intern open now, research interns opening in the next few weeks), do tune in!

To hammer home just how hard the local elections will be for Sunak, here's a front page from the last time many of these seats came up.

It was peak 'vaccine bounce'. Starmer was on the verge of quitting after losing Hartlepool.

That is where the Tories are falling from in May.

PFI strikes again. The gift from new labour that just keeps on taking. ‘How difficult is it to bake a potato?’: fed-up head hits out at school’s caterers theguardian.com/education/2024…

I’m briefly crawling out of the trenches of maternity leave to announce my book Scattered is coming out on 6th June. It will be published by the brilliant Bloomsbury Books UK

I’ve been working on it for four years and I’m excited/terrified to put it out into the world!

Workplace #AI , #robots and #trackers

are bad for quality of life, Institute for the Future of Work study finds

theguardian.com/business/2024/… #fintech #futureofwork #ArtificialIntelligence #MachineLearning #GenerativeAI #GenAI Heather Stewart The Guardian

Big English nursery chains are making bumper profits and taking on large debts. Great to work with Joseph Rowntree Foundation Carmen Aguilar García Heather Stewart to bring light to this essential but under-researched sector.

New w/ Rowena Mason + matthew weaver -
Frank Hester asked if there was “no room for the Indians” and suggested staff climb on a train roof during a crowded meeting, before saying he made “a lot of jokes about racism”.

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