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A global selection of artists are all seeking inspiration in images related to their own pastsGabriel Moses regularly flicked through his family photo albums as he grew up in south London. Shot by a local photographer, the images are simple snapshots that capture his Nigerian family at home in Catford.“You could see that there’s a lot of personality in the images,” he says. “You...

The right fails to recognise that the Swedes’ real virtue in this pandemic is their social cohesionSweden is to the 21st-century right what the Soviet Union was to the 20th-century left. Conservatives have transformed it into a Tory Disneyland where every dream comes true. On the shores of the Baltic lies a country that has no need to curtail civil liberties and wreck the...

UK updates travel advice and US urges citizens to ‘reconsider travel’ to Hong KongThe US and the UK have warned of a risk of arbitrary arrest in China and Hong Kong in updates to their travel advice for citizens.The US advice urged citizens to “reconsider travel” to Hong Kong, citing an environment in which the central Chinese government “unilaterally and arbitrarily exercises police and...

Only 46% of voters in Britain think their country has done well, compared with 95% in DenmarkCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coveragePeople in Britain have given a worse assessment of their country’s handling of the coronavirus outbreak than the electorates of 13 other leading democracies, according to international research.Only 46% of the British population believe their country has done a good job...

Deutsche Bahn says activist’s tweet implied she had not been offered a seat on journey homeSwedish climate activist Greta Thunberg has been criticised by a German rail firm for what it said was her implication that she had spent a journey without a seat on an overcrowded train.The teenager tweeted a photograph of herself looking pensively out of the window of her German train...

Labour’s radical programme is what Britain needs, and is a reminder to my country and Europe of what social democracy looks likeThe UK election is probably none of my business. I don’t live here and I can’t vote. And yet I’m so invested in the outcome, I have decided to come over from Sweden to volunteer for the Labour party, handing out flyers and...