Humane slaughter requirements for farmed fish and end to puppy farming also in new package of animal welfare laws

The world must stop treating the word “ceasefire” as a guarantee of safety when Gaza’s residents remain under fire, under siege, and under conditions that guarantee more suffering and heartbreak.

Justice secretary urged to ‘show a bit of humanity’ with protesters severely ill after refusing food for weeks

Since 2008, struggling communities have been told they are in competition with migrants. Only a model that gives them hope will halt the populists, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

Because I read for the same reason I write — to fathom my life and deepen my living — looking back on a year of life has always been looking back on a year of reading. Here are the books I read this year that clarified and magnified my life, that will stay with me for the rest of it. THANKS Here we are, living these lives bright and perishable as a poppy, hard and shimmering as obsidian. We know that they are entirely improbable, that we bless that bright improbability with each flash of gratitude for it all, that… read article