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The GuardianHumanityEngland
The Register that shatters the myth of Britain’s role in profiting from enslavement

The Register that shatters the myth of Britain’s role in profiting from enslavement

In this month’s newsletter: for Caribbean scholars, the evidence of how deeply slavery shaped Britain’s wealth has never been in doubt. Plus, heritage walks in Manchester • Don’t get Cotton Capital delivered to your inbox? Sign up here Welcome to this month’s Cotton Capital newsletter. I’m Ahmed Reid, coming to you from Jamaica, where I am programme manager for the Guardian’s Legacies of Enslavement team. The recently published Register of British Slave-Traders, reported exclusively in the Guardian, lists 13,000 men and women who invested in and profited from the trafficking of more than three million enslaved Africans between 1563 and 1807.

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The GuardianHumanityIslamic World
US, Israeli and European far-right figures to gather for conference in Israel

US, Israeli and European far-right figures to gather for conference in Israel

Trump’s counter-terrorism ‘czar’, Sebastian Gorka, was scheduled to speak at conference but White House says he will no longer attend A National Conservatism (NatCon) conference beginning today in Jerusalem advertises a talk from the Trump administration’s anti-terrorism czar alongside speeches from far-right Israeli politicians, European figures who have faced disciplinary action over alleged antisemitism, and Christian nationalist and far-right figures from the United States. The Jerusalem event is perhaps the most significant recent gathering to feature large contingents of Israeli nationalists alongside Christian nationalists and far-right European nationalists from a milieu sometimes shadowed by accusations of antisemitism.

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The GuardianSex & IdentityUSA
Trump is fueling a culture of misogynistic impunity | Robert Reich

Trump is fueling a culture of misogynistic impunity | Robert Reich

The allegations against seven men at Cornell University come amid a climate of belligerent sexism Last month, a young woman filed a lawsuit against Cornell University, alleging that two years ago the university had failed to protect her from being raped by seven men at a fraternity house near the university campus. She also sued the fraternity. The lawsuit has plunged the university into a crisis and invited criticism of the district attorney, Matthew Van Houten, who decided there wasn’t enough evidence to bring criminal charges against the seven men. Robert Reich, a former US secretary of labor, is a professor of public policy emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a Guardian US columnist and his newsletter is at robertreich.substack.com. His new book, Coming Up Short: A Memoir of My America, is out now in the US and in the UK

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The GuardianHumanityArgentina
‘They take our water, our soil’: protesters fight ‘foreignisation’ as Javier Milei encourages land sales in Argentina

‘They take our water, our soil’: protesters fight ‘foreignisation’ as Javier Milei encourages land sales in Argentina

The country’s far-right president is courting billionaire investors by removing a block on foreign ownership of land and natural resources On 19 September, Marta Sahores, an 84-year-old chemistry professor and activist who has mobilised against mega-mining projects for more than two decades, took to the streets in Argentina. Alongside workers, retirees, students, Indigenous groups and human rights organisations, Sahores was there to protest against the country’s far-right president, Javier Milei. During the marcha de la bronca – the “march of anger” – protesters held signs reading, among other rallying cries, “The land is not for sale”. Marching in Esquel, a town nestled in the foothills of the Andes in Chubut province, she also held up a sign defending the country’s water resources against what she called the government’s “handover” to investors.

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The GuardianHumanityUnited Kingdom
As it happened: Israel condemns Green party passing ‘Zionism is racism’ as a ‘stain on history of UK’

As it happened: Israel condemns Green party passing ‘Zionism is racism’ as a ‘stain on history of UK’

Party formally adopts policy which equates Zionism with racism, as all Green party votes to adopt policy that equates Zionism with racism On Friday the Times revealed that Katie Lam, the communities secretary, told a meeting in private earlier this year that the state pension system needs a fundamental overhaul. Speaking in June, when she was a frontbencher but not yet in the shadow cabinet, Lam was asked at a meeting with activists if she thought the pensions triple lock was sustainable. She replied: Ultimately I think what we will need in the end is an entirely new pension system. I mean, a baby that is born today has a 20% chance of living to be 100 and I don’t think we can fund one in five people half of their lives, you know, for the first 20 and the last 30 years. But obviously if you are 90 you probably can’t go out and get a job right, so I think you have to be realistic about how you would taper that and bring that in across the population. The fact is, the triple lock and pensions are things that people have contributed to. Conservatives believe that if you have contributed, then you deserve to get your state pension.

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The GuardianHumanityNashville
Christa Pike is conscious and speaking after botched execution attempt, lawyers say

Christa Pike is conscious and speaking after botched execution attempt, lawyers say

The prisoner received two doses of pentobarbital last Wednesday as authorities tried to put her to death Christa Pike, a Tennessee prisoner who survived the state’s attempt to execute her, is awake and speaking as she receives treatment at a hospital, her attorneys said on Tuesday. Pike, 50, survived two doses of pentobarbital as Tennessee officials attempted to put her to death in a case that shocked many in America and created headlines around the world. She was set to be the first woman executed in Tennessee in more than 200 years.

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The GuardianHumanityUnited Kingdom
UK regulator FCA to investigate how it handled Epstein whistleblower who took his own life

UK regulator FCA to investigate how it handled Epstein whistleblower who took his own life

British banker Simon Andriesz helped to expose alleged ties between late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and US commerce secretary Howard Lutnick A top UK regulator has launched an investigation into how it handled a whistleblower – who highlighted alleged ties between the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and the US commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick – after he took his own life. The British banker Simon Andriesz died late last month aged 57, the campaign group Transparency Task Force, of which he was a member, confirmed over the weekend.

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The GuardianScandalGermany
Germany arrests former intelligence chief over alleged spying

Germany arrests former intelligence chief over alleged spying

August Hanning served as president of federal intelligence service from 1998 to 2005 A former head of Germany’s foreign intelligence service has been arrested on suspicion of treason and spying on behalf of an overseas intelligence agency, prosecutors have said. August Hanning, 80, was head of the federal intelligence service (BND) – which operates outside Germany to gather information across the fields of political, economic, and military intelligence – between 1998 and 2005.

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Irish IndependentScandal
Gianni Infantino faces fresh World Cup eligibility scandal over Congo’s goalkeeper

Gianni Infantino faces fresh World Cup eligibility scandal over Congo’s goalkeeper

Fifa president Gianni Infantino is facing fresh questions over a World Cup disciplinary issue, this time related to DR Congo’s goalkeeper. The New York Times and Le Monde have reported that lawyers for world football’s global governing body became aware in March that Lionel Mpasi was allegedly ineligible, and advised a variety of sanctions which could be imposed, including disqualifying DR Congo from the intercontinental play-off against Jamaica later that month and banning Mpasi.

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Daily PostSportsCongo
World Cup: Fifa finds DR Congo goalkeeper, Mpasi was ineligible to play against Nigeria

World Cup: Fifa finds DR Congo goalkeeper, Mpasi was ineligible to play against Nigeria

Fifa has found that Democratic Republic of Congo, DRC, goalkeeper, Lionel Mpasi, was ineligible to play for the country throughout the 2026 World Cup qualifying campaign. Investigations by Le Monde and The New York Times claim Fifa’s legal team found that Mpasi, who holds French and Congolese nationality, had not completed the required process to […] World Cup: Fifa finds DR Congo goalkeeper, Mpasi was ineligible to play against Nigeria

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The GuardianScandalMumbai
India’s supreme court demands answers over changes to voter roll

India’s supreme court demands answers over changes to voter roll

Modi government, election body and its head issued notices after removal of millions from lists prompts mass protests India’s supreme court has demanded accountability from the government and the senior election body over a controversial exercise that has led to the deletion of tens of millions of voters from the electoral roll and prompted mass protests. Demonstrations have erupted across the country in recent days as opposition parties, student groups and the youth-led Cockroach movement have demanded the resignation of Gyanesh Kumar, the head of the Election Commission of India (ECI).

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The GuardianHumanityEire (Ireland)
The Lost Children of Tuam review – deeply serious retelling of Ireland’s devastating tragedy

The Lost Children of Tuam review – deeply serious retelling of Ireland’s devastating tragedy

Monica Dolan is superb as the amateur historian who uncovered the horror of mass graves at a mother and baby home in this Liam Neeson produced drama The children were never lost; if a baby goes missing, the police get called, social services become involved. The babies born at the mother and baby home run by nuns in the town of Tuam in County Galway were discarded: up to 796 tiny bodies thrown away, some in an old sewage tank. The amateur historian who uncovered the horror of the mass graves at the St Mary’s mother and baby home is Catherine Corless, superbly played here by Monica Dolan. Produced by Liam Neeson, and based on a 2017 New York Times article, The Lost Children of Tuam is a painful, devastating film. It feels scraped clean of anything unnecessary that might trivialise, fiction-ise or movie-ise what happened at St Mary’s, home to thousands of unmarried women and children between 1925 and 1961. “It gets me out of the house,” Corless says when she starts a course in local history. She turns detective after becoming interested in the children from St Mary’s, and what she uncovers is that babies died at a rate of nearly one a fortnight at the home – from whooping cough, measles, malnutrition and other childhood illnesses. Eventually, she obtains nearly 800 death certificates, but cannot find burial records for the babies. There are no graves.

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The GuardianScandalFrance
France braces for national day of school protests as boy loses hand

France braces for national day of school protests as boy loses hand

Thousands expected to join marches of support on Tuesday across the country amid growing concerns over police response Europe live – latest updates France is bracing itself for a national day of protests and high-school blockades as a youth protest movement gathers pace amid a growing debate over the scale of the police response. In one incident, a 15-year-old protesting against what demonstrators said were France’s dilapidated ⁠and understaffed ​schools ‌had his hand ‌blown off outside a high school in the northern town of Lens, the local prefect François-Xavier Lauch ‌said.

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The GuardianElectionsRio de Janeiro
Far right on the march and Lula’s failures: key drivers of Flávio Bolsonaro’s Brazil surge

Far right on the march and Lula’s failures: key drivers of Flávio Bolsonaro’s Brazil surge

Experts say strength of evangelical church and perception that Lula is too old also helped propel Jair Bolsonaro’s son to first-round election win On Sunday night, as the scale of the far-right triumph in Brazil sank in, an adapted football chant rang out in one of Rio’s most leftwing areas. “Let’s turn this around, Lu-laaaaa! Let’s turn this around, Lu-laaaaa! Let’s turn this around, Lu-laaaaa!” crestfallen progressives bellowed while drowning their sorrows after witnessing an excruciating election setback for their leader, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

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The GuardianAISachsen-Anhalt
Rightwing ‘great replacement’ fears mask tech's real great replacement | Jason Stanley

Rightwing ‘great replacement’ fears mask tech's real great replacement | Jason Stanley

While adherents to the racist theory condemn a shadowy global elite, Silicon Valley is working toward the replacement of humans with AI Across the world, “great replacement” theory has been employed again and again as the political foundation for fascism. Some of its fundamental tenets, such as the view that “whites are a dying minority”, have been amplified by tech billionaires and their platforms. According to the version of this theory most employed in Europe and the United States, white replacement theory, white populations are being “replaced” by non-white populations, a replacement engineered by a shadowy global elite. For example, the need for skilled labor is supposedly being used by global elites as an excuse to bring in non-white immigrants to replace white workers. An AfD-led state government will develop a strategy for Saxony-Anhalt focused on technological upgrading, digitalization, and AI. This strategy is intended to help alleviate bottlenecks in the local labor market. Furthermore, it aims to avoid the immigration of skilled workers from culturally dissimilar backgrounds. Some cultures have produced vital advances; others remain dysfunctional and regressive. All cultures are now equal. Criticism and value judgments are forbidden. Yet this new dogma glosses over the fact that certain cultures and indeed subcultures … have produced wonders. Others have proven middling, and worse, regressive and harmful.

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The GuardianHumanityEgypt
Egyptian journalist faces terrorism charges after entire newsroom detained

Egyptian journalist faces terrorism charges after entire newsroom detained

Calls for release of six Matsadaash staff after one is charged, while whereabouts of other five remain unknown An Egyptian journalist has been charged with joining a terrorist group, days after an entire newsroom was detained in what rights groups have said is a crackdown on press freedoms. Last week, authorities arrested six journalists from the independent fact-checking and investigative platform Matsadaash – literally meaning “don’t believe” – accusing them in a statement of being unlicensed and publishing false news on behalf of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood.

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The GuardianScandalUSA
‘Using the presidency to line his pockets’: could claims of corruption fuel backlash against Trump?

‘Using the presidency to line his pockets’: could claims of corruption fuel backlash against Trump?

Experts say president is vulnerable amid discontent over rising prices – and the US public has ample cause for complaint In Donald Trump’s telling, he’s a model of incorruptible self-sacrifice. “I’m the only president that donated his salary,” he told a group of cheering supporters at a Hispanic heritage month celebration in the White House last week, before conceding that George Washington – “a very wealthy person” – might have beaten him to the punch.

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The GuardianGlobal AffairsUSA
Sorry, but I’m bringing my iced coffee to the job interview | Tayo Bero

Sorry, but I’m bringing my iced coffee to the job interview | Tayo Bero

What, exactly, about the drink is so distracting? The viral debate raises bigger questions about who defines ‘professionalism’ The great iced coffee debate of 2026 is the latest submission to the young-people-just-don’t-get-it discourse and, of course, it’s as polarizing as ever. Recruiters say you shouldn’t bring iced coffee to interviews, while young people are (rightly) asking: what’s the big deal? It’s one of those conversations that makes me cringe, given just how eagerly it springs up from the generational divide plaguing mainstream culture. And as usual, gen Z are cast as the entitled morons who want to live life with no rules or responsibilities, all to the detriment of the millennials and gen X-ers who have to deal with them. Tayo Bero is a Guardian US columnist

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