Month: June 2024
A court in the Philippines has banned the commercial growth of golden rice, a genetically modified rice which was created to help tackle vitamin A deficiency in developing countries. It’s just the latest twist in a long and controversial journey for this rice. Ian Sample hears from the Observer science and environment editor, Robin McKie, and from Glenn Stone, a research professor of environmental science at Sweet Briar College in Virginia who is also an anthropologist who has studied golden rice, about why it has taken so long for this potentially life-saving technology to reach the fields, if it is the silver bullet so many had hoped for, and whether this ban is really the end of the story
The Guardian’s John Harris is on the road, visiting Jeremy Hunt’s seat in Godalming and Ash and Michael Gove’s Surrey Heath constituency to find out why lifelong Conservative voters are abandoning the party
Godalming and Ash constituency candidates:
Jeremy Hunt – Conservative and Unionist Party
Paul Follows – Liberal Democrats
James Walsh – Labour Party
Steve Williams – Green Party
Graham Drage – Reform UK
Surrey Heath constituency candidates:
Ed McGuinness – Conservative and Unionist Party
Alasdair Pinkerton – Liberal Democrats
Jess Hammersley-Rich – Labour Party
Jonathan Campbell – Green Party
Sam Goggin – Reform UK
As Swift’s economy-shifting Eras tour comes to the UK, Chanté speaks to journalist and fan (but not ‘Swiftie’) Elle Hunt about the singer’s journey from country star to billionaire and asks whether her world domination is good for the music industry
Archive: Vogue, Today, MTV, Firstpost, BBC, Billboard, Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour, ITV