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  • A new variant identified in southern Africa is causing global panic – but its real impact will be shown by the data scientists are racing to establish

  • While Boris Johnson talks of 'building back better', the reality is growing poverty and hunger – and a government that is fuelling them

  • The government has to give up on playing games and start to make deals with the EU

  • The revered lyricist and composer has died at 91, but his search for new ways to express ideas still influences wider culture today

  • Brexit sold with a slogan 'take back control' has left the UK with a border that is now harder to control

  • Putting many low-quality studies together cannot provide reliable answers about masks and ivermectin

Spotlight

  • The discovery of a mosaic in a villa buried under farmland sets the imagination racing

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  • Beneath the public discord about BLM, the climate and feminism, there is surprising consensus about how the world should be, say YouGov's Stephan Shakespeare and Joel Rogers de Waal

  • This is not about me. It's about the rights of all women and the obstacles that stop us playing a full role in our politics, says Walthamstow MP Stella Creasy

  • From 'pawternity leave' to Dog TV, and a now a DogPhone that allows your pet to call you, it's all completely barking, says Guardian columnist Tim Dowling

  • For MPs from a certain background, the perks and privileges of office are factored in

  • The great photographer, who has just died, collaborated with a golden age of musicians

  • A new study of western nations paints Britons as unusually interested in escaping from everyday life

Coronavirus

  • The NHS has much to be proud of, but it was stymied by lack of funding and a staffing crisis that other health systems avoided

  • I'm doing my best to act normal, but I've become incredibly aware of other people's snuffling, coughing and wheezing. Am I vigilant – or paranoid?

  • I have given up on the idea that facts alone will change a zealot's mind, but a conversation shouldn't be a battle for status or points

  • The health secretary promised pressures would not become 'unsustainable'. But we can no longer provide a safe service, says an anonymous paramedic

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  • It is not enough to give employees the 'right to disconnect', says Ana Catarina Mendes of the Portuguese Socialist party

  • A renters' movement in Catalonia saving families from eviction and trying to fill a gap left by the state, says documentary film director Irene Baqué

  • A fiscal conservative in the job and a new era of debt limitation could spell disaster for EU countries, says professor of history Adam Tooze

  • The pragmatic chancellor's departure will be a turning point not only for Germany but also the EU, says the author and director Marion Van Renterghem

Columnists

  • In a postwar Britain divided by class identity and economic decline, they were complex, emotional men whose music still thrills, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

  • Among a packed field this week are Nick 'Doctor Who' Fletcher and Jon 'dead cat' Trickett, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

  • The keys to No 10 may be the reward if the 'levelling up' secretary can give new hope to the north, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

  • With staff quitting over conditions and a recruitment black hole, a pay rise for nurses is the least Sajid Javid should do, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee