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January 2025

  • Anywhere but Westminster
    Do Trump's politics connect in these English towns? - video

    As the second Trump presidency begins, John Harris and John Domokos go to a Staffordshire town whose economy went from coal to Amazon warehousing to find out if 21st century populism is cutting through

June 2024

  • Anywhere but Westminster
    Here's what you find under Labour's 'landslide': doubters, abstainers and independents - video

  • Anywhere but Westminster
    Why are the Tories collapsing? These true-blue towns know the answers - video

May 2021

  • Anywhere but Westminster
    Hands, face and empty space: where Covid has left politics - video

    Among vacant shops and 15% unemployment, John Harris and John Domokos get immersed in Birmingham as it emerges from the pandemic. Amid despair, they discover hope - focused not on a Tory/Labour race for mayor, but communities brilliantly helping themselves 

September 2020

  • Owen Jones meets...
    From Mary Whitehouse to the proms: Owen Jones on how ‘woke’ became a dirty word - video

    By 2020 everything from the proms to sausage rolls were said to be at risk from 'woke' online warriors. But what does it even mean to be woke? Who were the original anti-woke campaigners? And who benefits and suffers when these manufactured culture wars divide us? Owen Jones – often described as 'too woke' himself – tries to find out

June 2020

  • Anywhere but Westminster
    Life in lockdown: Covid-19, BLM and inequality in east London – video

    As people emerge into a changed reality, the Anywhere But Westminster team focus on East London, where Covid-19 has fused with the Black Lives Matter movement and huge injustices are impossible to ignore

May 2020

  • A new normal
    Who do you trust on coronavirus? From Trudeau to Piers Morgan | A new normal

  • Anywhere but Westminster
    Life in lockdown: how to keep a city alive – video

April 2020

  • We want to hear what you are concerned about, hopeful for, or even looking forward to in a changed future, for a Guardian video series in which we will discuss how life may be different. What are the best things about our society that should be protected for future generations, and where can we see a need for change?

    A new normal
    What do you want the post-coronavirus future to look like? – video

  • As the crisis continues, confinement and worry are taking a huge toll on children, young people and their parents. From across the country, families reveal the experience of everyday life in confinement, and the issues it highlights – from autism to bad housing
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    Anywhere but Westminster
    Life in lockdown: families on the brink – video

  • All over the country, people turn the camera on their lives and show how Covid-19 has changed their experience of work. A medical courier at the heart of the crisis demands basic rights, a worker at an empty airport pulls together a union hardship fund - and people in a range of jobs try to navigate the buckling benefits system and the government's scheme to help people who are no longer working. What burns through is the sudden urgency of people joining together to avoid the worst
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    Anywhere but Westminster
    Life in lockdown: how our jobs turned upside down – video

  • In the latest episode of The Frant for Guardian Australia, Jan Fran explains the one message medical experts overwhelmingly  agree on in these coronavirus times: stay home.
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    Jan Fran's the frant
    The Frant: You need to stay home, and not just because it's the law now – video

March 2020

  • ‘How do we survive coronavirus?’ Owen Jones meets low-paid workers – video

    Owen Jones spoke to some of the low-paid and precarious workers expected to be hit hardest by the Covid-19 crisis in the weeks ahead

December 2019

  • Anywhere but Westminster
    Anywhere but Westminster: how Labour lost, and the hope that endures – video

    John Harris and John Domokos finish their road trip and among the electoral rubble, they find overlooked signs of a better future

  • Anywhere but Westminster
    Anywhere but Westminster | Scotland: fear and Lothian on the campaign trail – video

    As election day nears, John Harris and John Domokos head for a SNP/Labour marginal

  • Anywhere but Westminster
    Anywhere but Westminster: will Labour's 'red wall' hold in this election? – video

    John Harris and John Domokos continue their election road trip, travelling through crucial seats that have traditionally been loyal to Labour but where a majority voted leave and the Tories are now encroaching. What they find defies the usual political cliches

November 2019

  • In the third part of their election series, John Harris and John Domokos explore Southend's homelessness crisis
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    Anywhere but Westminster
    Anywhere but Westminster: homeless people, the voters without a voice – video

  • ‘You have the power to change it all, but you have to vote’. Owen Jones makes an impassioned plea for people to make their voices heard by registering to vote by 26 November 
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    Owen Jones: ‘They don’t want you to vote. Defy them’

  • As their national election trek goes on, John Harris and John Domokos hit the Surrey town of Guildford. The former Conservative MP is running as an independent; the Lib Dems think they're on the march. Only one thing is certain: all the old political categories and cliches are useless 
    14:55

    Anywhere but Westminster
    Anywhere But Westminster: are the Tories losing their suburban heartlands? – video

  • Away from the election's noise and the political polarisation, which has made one local MP's life difficult, there are trailblazing efforts to turn the city around 
    13:41

    Anywhere but Westminster
    Beyond Brexit, Corbyn and Johnson: Stoke's politics of hope – video

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