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Hands, face and empty space: where Covid has left politics - video
Among vacant shops and 15% unemployment, John Harris and John Domokos get immersed in Birmingham as it emerges from the pandemic. Amid despair, they discover hope - focused not on a Tory/Labour race for mayor, but communities brilliantly helping themselves
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From Mary Whitehouse to the proms: Owen Jones on how ‘woke’ became a dirty word - video
By 2020 everything from the proms to sausage rolls were said to be at risk from 'woke' online warriors. But what does it even mean to be woke? Who were the original anti-woke campaigners? And who benefits and suffers when these manufactured culture wars divide us? Owen Jones – often described as 'too woke' himself – tries to find out
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Life in lockdown: Covid-19, BLM and inequality in east London – video
As people emerge into a changed reality, the Anywhere But Westminster team focus on East London, where Covid-19 has fused with the Black Lives Matter movement and huge injustices are impossible to ignore
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Who do you trust on coronavirus? From Trudeau to Piers Morgan | A new normal
In this first episode, Iman asks who the most reassuring voices have been during this time, from Jacinda Ardern and the Queen to Piers Morgan, and what this might mean, looking ahead
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Life in lockdown: how to keep a city alive – video
Six weeks into Britain's Covid-19 crisis, Anywhere but Westminster asks how a city keeps going when everything has ground to a halt. The team virtually visits Plymouth, population 250,000, to see how the services that are vital to a place and its citizens are scrabbling to stay afloat
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What do you want the post-coronavirus future to look like? – videoWe want to hear what you are concerned about, hopeful for, or even looking forward to in a changed future, for a Guardian video series in which we will discuss how life may be different. What are the best things about our society that should be protected for future generations, and where can we see a need for change?
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Life in lockdown: families on the brink – video
As the crisis continues, confinement and worry are taking a huge toll on children, young people and their parents. From across the country, families reveal the experience of everyday life in confinement, and the issues it highlights – from autism to bad housing
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Life in lockdown: how our jobs turned upside down – video
All over the country, people turn the camera on their lives and show how Covid-19 has changed their experience of work. A medical courier at the heart of the crisis demands basic rights, a worker at an empty airport pulls together a union hardship fund - and people in a range of jobs try to navigate the buckling benefits system and the government's scheme to help people who are no longer working. What burns through is the sudden urgency of people joining together to avoid the worst
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The Frant: You need to stay home, and not just because it's the law now – videoJan Fran's the frantThe Frant: You need to stay home, and not just because it's the law now – video
In the latest episode of The Frant for Guardian Australia, Jan Fran explains the one message medical experts overwhelmingly agree on in these coronavirus times: stay home.
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‘How do we survive coronavirus?’ Owen Jones meets low-paid workers – video
Owen Jones spoke to some of the low-paid and precarious workers expected to be hit hardest by the Covid-19 crisis in the weeks ahead
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Anywhere but Westminster: how Labour lost, and the hope that endures – video
John Harris and John Domokos finish their road trip and among the electoral rubble, they find overlooked signs of a better future
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Anywhere but Westminster: homeless people, the voters without a voice – video
In the third part of their election series, John Harris and John Domokos explore Southend's homelessness crisis
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Owen Jones: ‘They don’t want you to vote. Defy them’
‘You have the power to change it all, but you have to vote’. Owen Jones makes an impassioned plea for people to make their voices heard by registering to vote by 26 November
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Anywhere But Westminster: are the Tories losing their suburban heartlands? – video
As their national election trek goes on, John Harris and John Domokos hit the Surrey town of Guildford. The former Conservative MP is running as an independent; the Lib Dems think they're on the march. Only one thing is certain: all the old political categories and cliches are useless
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Beyond Brexit, Corbyn and Johnson: Stoke's politics of hope – video
Away from the election's noise and the political polarisation, which has made one local MP's life difficult, there are trailblazing efforts to turn the city around
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Anywhere but Westminster | We must deliver: Brexit, Johnson and the robots of Milton Keynes – video
As Tory conference cheers Boris Johnson’s do-or-die vision of leaving the EU, Anywhere but Westminster moves to Milton Keynes, a town evenly split between leave and remain, and hurtling into the future
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