Podcast Episode · Today in Focus · 6 October · 31min

Populist or Pragmatist: Who Is the Real Andy Burnham? – The London Scottish Drill Hall, 95 Horseferry Rd, London, Wed 9 Sep 2026 - Hosted by The Londoner and The Mill For the best part of 20 years, An...

Populist or Pragmatist: Who Is the Real Andy Burnham? – The London Scottish Drill Hall, 95 Horseferry Rd, London, Wed 9 Sep 2026 - Hosted by The Londoner and The Mill For the best part of 20 years, An...

Guardian US beauty columnist Jessica DeFino explores the rise of ‘tweakments’ and cosmetic procedures – and the pressure it puts on everyone to get something done

Exclusive: British garden staple becomes plant most frequently reported as suffering in heat, charity reports

In the wake of the new PM’s bold pledge, Helen Pidd heads to a village for homeless people in Greater Manchester, where the former mayor first promised to take action

Embassy Village offers 40 canal-side flats and support with budgeting, cooking and finding work, to help men start new lives and rediscover community

MP for Warrington North shares her experience as a complainant in a rape trial where the man she accused was acquitted

The Reform UK leader has a lucrative side-hustle sending paid-for Cameo messages. But an analysis of more than 4,000 of them show they include videos for a neo-Nazi group and a rioter. Henry Dyer repo...

Reform and the Greens both insist they can win Gorton and Denton from Labour – and if they do, it could be another nail in the prime minister’s coffin. Helen Pidd reports on how the candidates and vot...

When it first returned to our screens, people said Gladiators was a tired format. They had clearly forgotten the joy of watching half-clad hulks with silly names go to battle, says superfan Helen Pidd...

I toddled round the ward giving sweets to old women and wondering why so many of them were clutching teddies. It taught me not to be scared of people with mental illness

Nigel Farage’s party is gunning for power – so what is it like in the places where they’ve already got it? We embedded with Lancashire county council to find out what happens when rhetoric meets reali...

Helen Pidd heads to Crawley, West Sussex, the place in the UK with the highest number of asylum seekers and supported refugees relative to its population

As Kim Kardashian’s All’s Fair sets a new low for TV, we revisit every single thing our critics have mercilessly panned. Brace yourself for the Mount Rushmore of rubbish!

Former Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro has been handed a 27-year sentence for an attempted coup – is there any way his political career can continue? Tom Phillips reports

Daily News Podcast · Updated daily · Hosted by Nosheen Iqbal and Helen Pidd, Today in Focus brings you closer to Guardian journalism. Combining storytelling with insightful analysis and personal testi...

Helen Pidd grew up in Morecambe, and life in seaside towns has only got harder since she was a teenager. She went back to find out why

A year after Southport, what’s driving the turmoil in Essex? Ben Quinn reports

£6 a pint, £199 a month for gym membership, £1,200 to rent a studio flat? The Guardian’s former North of England editor asks if the city she’s worked in for 12 years is changing for the better – or wo...

The Guardian has announced a number of appointments.

The annual brass band battle, fought across villages on the old Lancashire-Yorkshire border, is part Wacky Races and part Brassed Off

How did this enormous, impressive new Indian restaurant outsmart a struggling industry?

Guardian journalist Archie Bland describes the day his seven-week-old son stopped breathing, and the life he has led in the two years since

Guardian journalist Archie Bland describes the day his seven-week-old son stopped breathing, and the life he has led in the two years since

‘Dogfight’ between Labour and Reform UK is turning ugly after Nigel Farage’s party put immigration centre stage

Helen Pidd heads to the industrial town before this week’s byelection. How will Labour fare in its first big electoral test since taking power? Kiran Stacey reports

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