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How the Windrush generation transformed music in Britain

There was a black musical presence in Britain many centuries before the arrival of the HMT Empire Windrush at London’s Tilbury dock.

The Conversation

Unravelling the Windrush myth: the confidential government communications that reveal authorities did not want Caribbean migrants to come to Britain

In the twilight hours of June 21 1948, a weathered five-deck troopship transporting 1,027 passengers moored off Gravesend on the south bank of the river Thames. That evening, immigration officials would begin carefully processing those aboard. The following afternoon, passengers would walk off the gangplank, finally stepping foot on British…

The Conversation

Celebrities join forces to help Britain’s army of unpaid carers

New research has found 89 percent of unpaid carers weren’t prepared for the responsibility of looking after someone

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Watch live as Rishi Sunak opens Ukraine Recovery Conference in London

Watch live as Britain hosts the latest Ukraine Recovery Conference.

The Independent UK

New National Portrait Gallery collection to be ‘representative of Britain today’

The Inspiring People project is focused on inclusivity and representing people who have been previously overlooked.

The Independent UK

Why are British five-year-olds 7cm shorter than western peers?

Five-year-olds in Britain are on average up to seven centimetres shorter than their equivalents in other wealthy nations, The Times reported. The average five-year-old boy in the UK is 112.5cm tall, against 119.6cm in the Netherlands. The average girl is 111.7cm tall, while her Dutch counterpart stands at 118.4cm. Professor…

The Week

Sunak had a chance to rise above Johnson’s toxic legacy – and he blew it

A politician who came to office promising integrity and accountability has shown the stupidest kind of cowardice, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

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UK weather: Brits to be engulfed by Spanish plume in 72 hours with blistering 31C heat

The hot conditions are set to continue in Britain with the south likely to hit highs of 31C this week, thanks to the 'Spanish plume', where the European country could peak at 44C in some places

Daily Mirror

Sunak to pledge £2.35 billion in loan guarantees at Ukraine Recovery Conference

The Prime Minister will tell the London summit that Britain will stand with Ukraine ‘as long as it takes’.

The Independent UK

'George Osborne is either utterly deluded or a shameless knave'

Rejecting obvious evidence that his spending cuts weakened Britain’s health and social care services before Covid is the self-denial of an arrogant Conservative

Daily Mirror

Labour MP's Windrush grandparents were dedicated to rebuilding post-war Britain

Marsha de Cordova says their legacy not only lives on in Britain’s cherished institutions but in the individual lives rebuilt in homes, in gardens, in kitchens, and social clubs

Daily Mirror

The Guardian view on David Cameron and George Osborne: a duo’s dangerous delusions

Editorial: The Covid inquiry reveals the architects of austerity are unmoved by their wrecking of public services ahead of the pandemic

The Guardian - UK

Lammy: Labour will ‘turn page on era of acrimony’ with EU and improve trade deal

The shadow foreign secretary said the British public are feeling the effects of soured relations ‘in their pockets’.

The Independent UK

Jeremy Hunt calls mortgage crisis summit as experts urge banks to help those struggling

Jeremy Hunt has summoned bosses from Britain’s leading banks to Downing Street to urge them to do more to support customers

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My parents taught me resilience - that's how Windrush generation survived, says Dawn Butler

Dawn Butler's parents came to the UK from Jamaica in the 1950s and saw England as the 'mother country' - but they were shocked at the racism they suffered

The Guardian - UK

Lusty singalongs and Brexit portents: the eternal flame of The Wicker Man soundtrack

With British folk songs done by a New Yorker, the soundtrack disappeared for decades – but has now become a touchstone for artists journeying to a nation’s dark heart

Evening Standard

What is Labour’s Green Prosperity Plan?

The UK’s opposition party has revealed how it hopes to achieve a greener Britain by 2030 if it gets into power

The Independent UK

‘I’m one of Britain’s youngest grans – and it’s the best thing that has ever happened’

Support worker Ruth Clayton, from Lincoln, says she initially tried to talk Rose out of having birth

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David Cameron left Britain exposed to the pandemic – where’s the outrage?

Boris Johnson’s party antics of course deserve scrutiny, but a chief architect of our woeful Covid response has virtually got away with it, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

Wales Online

UK-wide sporting event to come to Cardiff to show how we can fight climate change

The biggest sporting celebration of climate action and nature ever attempted across Britain will be coming to Cardiff this July.

Evening Standard

George Osborne says Conservative austerity programme helped UK cope with Covid pandemic

Former Chancellor George Osborne has defended his austerity policies in government, insisting they in fact helped Britain to cope better with the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic.

The Independent UK

Watch as Antony Blinken and James Cleverly hold press conference in London to discuss war in Ukraine

Britain's foreign secretary James Cleverly and US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, held a press conference in London to discuss the ongoing conflict in Ukraine.

The Independent UK

Osborne rejects claims austerity depleted NHS ahead of coronavirus pandemic

The former chancellor argued his cuts may have better prepared Britain to combat Covid-19.

Evening Standard

Roughly 60% of Londoners say housing crisis has worsened since last general election

Looking across the whole of Britain, the poll also showed that a majority (52 per cent) of Conservative voters believe not enough social housing is being built

Evening Standard

OPINION - Where’s Margaret Thatcher in the new National Portrait Gallery mural?

She’s been dead for 10 years but I rarely read the news without thinking of her. More than any other figure of recent history, Margaret Thatcher created modern Britain, in all its dysfunction and despondency. Housing misery, asthmatic public services, crumbling infrastructure, badly privatised industries such as the waterworks, which…

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