Anushka Asthana
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Syria, Afghanistan, Ukraine: how many refugee crises can the world cope with?
On the borders of Turkey, a six-metre high wall in the snow is holding back a tide of people desperate to find a haven from tyranny, says Anushka Asthana of ITV News → Read More
Marina Hyde on five years of watching the political circus
For Anushka Asthana’s last episode, the beloved columnist makes a rare appearance to survey an era of tumult and twerps – and explain how she took it all very seriously … through jokes → Read More
The fight to get ready for a pandemic Olympics
Tom Bosworth was ready for Tokyo 2020. Then the pandemic struck and he caught coronavirus. This is how he got himself to the starting line → Read More
Is it possible to make the internet safe for children? – podcast
A new design code for websites, aimed at children, will soon come into force. How much difference will it make – and is a child-safe internet possible? → Read More
The people searching for missing family members during the pandemic – podcast
Hannah’s brother Paul dropped out of contact almost a decade ago. She never stopped thinking about him – and, as it did for many others, the pandemic led her to try to find him again → Read More
The government’s rape review: an apology, but will anything change?
The government has said sorry to thousands of rape victims who have been failed by the criminal justice system. But survivors want cases reopened and justice finally done → Read More
Euro 2020: what would it mean if England could actually
After decades of disappointment, England stand on the brink of making their first major final since 1966. Max Rushden explores what it would mean if the nice guys could finish first at last → Read More
Why do powerful men have affairs?
After Matt Hancock was forced to resign when a secret relationship was exposed, the couples therapist Orna Guralnik explores the cocktail of ego and vulnerability that leads some senior figures to risk it all → Read More
How the Batley and Spen byelection turned toxic
Maya Wolfe-Robinson visits the Labour-held West Yorkshire seat of Batley and Spen, which votes in an increasingly heated byelection tomorrow → Read More
Matt Hancock’s downfall
Boris Johnson has a new health secretary this week after the resignation of the man tasked with leading the government’s Covid response. But there are plenty of unanswered questions, says Jonathan Freedland → Read More
Young, hot and bothered: going through menopause in my 30s
Harriet Gibsone tells the scary, sad, and surprisingly funny story of going early menopause – and hoping for a baby → Read More
The new Brexit crisis for Northern Ireland’s unionists
From a leadership fiasco to the fallout of the ‘sausage wars’, the Democratic Unionist party’s stance on Brexit has forced it to contend with a new – perhaps even existential – set of problems. What will they mean for the region’s future? → Read More
Police corruption and the unsolved murder of Daniel Morgan – podcast
The brutal murder has become Britain’s most investigated killing – but 34 years later it remains unsolved and mired in findings of police corruption → Read More
Do we have to learn to live with Covid-19? – podcast
The Guardian’s health editor, Sarah Boseley, weighs up the race between vaccines and variants and explains why the end of the pandemic does not mean the end of Covid-19 → Read More
Karim’s story: Egypt’s crackdown on human rights workers – podcast
Ten years since the Arab spring rocked Egypt and removed its president, the country is still detaining human rights workers and locking up political prisoners → Read More
Why England’s footballers are so determined to keep taking the knee
England’s footballers will take the knee before their match against Scotland at Wembley tonight in an anti-racism protest that has divided supporters. Liam Rosenior and Paul MacInnes reflect on how football became enmeshed in the culture wars → Read More
Is the truth out there? The US government prepares its landmark report on UFOs
A hotly anticipated US government report on decades of mysterious sightings of UFOs is due for release this month. The Guardian’s Adam Gabbatt and former Ministry of Defence employee Nick Pope investigate → Read More
What went wrong with the Covid-19 response in the US? – podcast
Lawrence Wright has been writing about pandemics for decades, so was ideally placed to report on the political response to Covid-19 in the US → Read More
GB News enters the culture war
To its critics, it is a British Fox News; to its creators, it is a vital correction to a liberal London-centric media. Can Andrew Neil’s upstart news channel change the face of British broadcasting? → Read More
The G7 and a crucial moment for the climate
The world’s richest democracies will come together in Britain this week with global heating high on the agenda. Can they match big promises with concrete action? → Read More