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Robert Booth

@Robert_Booth

Guardian social affairs correspondent

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calendar_today02-02-2009 10:34:01

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I'm writing about digital exclusion - here's a chance to unburden yourselves of those stories of phone/app woe afflicting you and your families theguardian.com/technology/202…

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Stinking waste stored in a bath and fears people are being 'warehoused' in 'care hotels' as NHS struggles to discharge patients - a care worker blows the whistle
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“I beat the crap out of him” - a new theory of why top chefs are violent and abusive: isolated kitchens create a “geography of deviance”. theguardian.com/food/2022/jan/…

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Ballymore to rethink 'scary' application for apartment skyscraper with just one staircase after we exposed campaigners' concerns yesterday and the London Fire Brigade stepped in this morning
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Devastating letter sent today to Boris Johnson from HannahLBrady whose father's Covid death certificate was signed on 20 May 2020.

'My dad didn’t have much in his life, but he had his integrity and a sense of right and wrong...do the right thing and own up'.

theguardian.com/world/2022/jan…

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Today would normally be the Guardian charity telethon which is usually brilliant fun - and reveals our readers’ amazing generosity. It’s been cancelled this year sadly, but please do consider giving to the appeal which is still on here. Thanks theguardian.com/society/2021/d…

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'Collusion', 'cover-up' and 'concealment instead of candour' - the Grenfell inquiry searchlight finally turns to the government theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/d…

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“Staff were in tears, residents were being led to awaiting vehicles, confused and scared.”

How a care home shut with just a few hours notice - just one example of the crumbling of England's care system.

DMs open if you have stories to tell
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How political pressure is reshaping boards of museums and public bodies. If you have been affected my DMs are open theguardian.com/politics/2021/…

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New: Watchdog stopped ministers breaching neutrality code in top BBC and BFI hires theguardian.com/politics/2021/…

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EXC UK Coronavirus exercise in 2016 warned: stockpile PPE, build contact tracing software and prepare to control borders. This was not a plan for flu, but MERS, more deadly than COVID-19. So what happened? ask transparency campaigners now. theguardian.com/politics/2021/…

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