Blake Stephenson tells fringe meeting at Tory conference that the town is ‘a very dangerous place’ with ‘ghettoes’

PM has praised Abu Dhabi group as ‘huge partner’ in reshaping Manchester, but critics say this ignores public cost of city’s transformation

Britain’s nursing union axes Teva UK as commercial partner over links to Israel’s military and corporate track record

Have you had the shingles vaccine on the NHS or privately because you hoped it might lower your dementia risk? We’d like to hear from you

Changes in guidance and science seem to have little impact on millions of devastated lives. It’s a social crisis playing out behind closed doors, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

El Niño poses critical threat to nations’ defences, says Ed Miliband in presentation to global foreign ministers

ALT: Elmo

John Mitchinson explains why Tolkien’s ‘The Lord of the Rings’ is the wrong role model for Big Tech

One of the many pleasures of Philip Hensher’s new A History of the Novel in Britain is his advocacy for Nevil Shute, a writer who enjoyed success in the middle decades of the 20th Century but has been neglected ever since.

The different stories of the Cambridge academics Jason Arday and James Orr reveal the wider cultural and ideological forces around hierarchies and structural power – and who gets to belong in our inst...

Firms manage $7.3tn in assets and could afford to transition away from fossil fuels yet invest in natural gas and coal-fired plants to power datacenters

Party leader, Nigel Farage, ‘humbled’ by contributions from billionaires as Harborne addresses ‘media speculation’