UNBELIEVABLE: Jill mead | History Defined

Dining across the divide: ‘Parents giving their kids smartphones, then asking for bans are outsourcing their responsibilities’

An Arsenal fan and a Manchester United fan might not agree on football teams, but could they find common ground on mobile phones and AI?

The Guardian - UK · Feb 15

Dining across the divide: ‘I felt like the atmosphere was quite hostile’

They clashed on net zero, diversity and fashion. Was the chocolate-chip ice-cream the only thing they did agree on?

The Guardian - UK · May 4, 2025

‘I think we inspired the knickerless couple’: the story of the Guardian Blind date duo who tied the knot, six years after that first kiss

Emily and Sophie were sent out to dinner in the grip of a heatwave. But 34C temperatures and even a scoring blunder couldn’t stop the romance …

The Guardian - UK · Sep 21, 2024

England brings in biodiversity rules to force builders to compensate for loss of nature

From this week, development must result in more or better natural habitat than before, in a move hailed as one of the world’s most ambitious

The Guardian - UK · Feb 12, 2024

London council rips out playgrounds to build houses – then runs out of cash

Experts say boarded-up communal space illustrates crisis in social housing funding and need to protect play areas

The Guardian - UK · Feb 9, 2024

‘We just held hands and jumped!’ How one of Britain’s happiest, healthiest communes was built

It took 13 years of dreaming, peril and hard graft before the first residents moved into Cannock Mill – an eco-village that tackles both the climate crisis and loneliness

The Guardian - UK · Jan 30, 2024

Flowers everywhere? England’s ambitious scheme to restore wildlife hangs in the balance

Government scheme, due to launch this month, promises to protect and enhance biodiversity, but remains dogged by delays and uncertainty

The Guardian - UK · Jan 8, 2024

‘This is a lifeline’: the pub serving free Christmas lunches every year

Sarah and Mick Dore, at the Alexandra in Wimbledon, maintain a tradition of welcoming those who find themselves alone

The Guardian - UK · Dec 22, 2023

My week of Christmas jobs: ‘There is bad news. Dancer has diarrhoea’

Are festive jobs a cut above the rest? And which is best: Santa, reindeer wrangler, elf, sprout farmer, snowman’s helper or rollercoaster tester?

The Guardian - UK · Dec 19, 2023

A year on the River Thames, part four – in pictures

The fourth instalment in a series of photo essays looking at the life on the Thames. From dawn sculls to a duck derby and container barges, Jill Mead, a longtime London resident and urban photographer, shares the stories of the many characters working on and enjoying the river

The Guardian - UK · Nov 13, 2023