Katherine Butler

Part 3 of our series on how the EU's rich half exploits low-paid workers from the other half. Saša Uhlova goes undercover as an agency care worker in France. Sent into dementia patients homes with no training theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

@DenisMacShane No doubt! And Barbara Ehrenreich and Polly Toynbee

Any relation to Gunter Wallraff?

Next time you stay in an Irish hotel, think of this as you walk past the women with the cleaning carts. Thanks @A_Rychlikova who kindly let us use a clip from her film Limits of Europe to illustrate the series theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Part 2 of our series in which Czech journalist Saša Uhlová goes undercover in low paid jobs in the rich side of the EU. ‘As a hotel cleaner in Ireland: Lifting the heavy mattress, I cry tears of rage and exhaustion’ theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Big thanks also to Apolena Rychlíková who made the accompanying and very powerful documentary Limits of Europe with Saša. Apolena kindly let us use a clip in the piece

Thanks to Saša Uhlova for going undercover as a farm worker in Germany to give us the raw reality of migrant labour in the EU economy. Tomorrow: a hotel in Ireland theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

@AngusM1966 So good on his feet. Pass on congrats!

Youngest son is the only boy dancing at the Bridge of Allan Highland Games (The Sword Dance). #proudDad

Direct link between NHS/local GP closures and support for Reform UK: similar pattern in Italy, France and NL, Catherine de Vries on new research @Keir_Starmer @wesstreeting theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

This by Patrick Cockburn is so accurate: Kim Sengupta was took brave risks but calculated ones: he 'made his own luck' independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n…

Thank you to all who joined the insightful discussion on the rise of the far-right in Europe, hosted by @frontline @ninakwatson It was an honour to speak alongside brilliant @ButlerKatherine @BarbaraGSerra, with strong moderation by @PaulMossJourno Special🙏🏻🌟@KasiaMadera 📸💙

@James_Macintyre @BloomsburyBooks Congratulations James. Sounds great

I’m writing this new biography of Gordon Brown, to be published by @BloomsburyBooks. It will have many fresh revelations on the battles fought by a conviction politician whose life and times in office hold numerous lessons for the new PM. Some more below: thebookseller.com/news/bloomsbur…

Thanks to our French and Euro panellists for decoding the second round of the French elections @Mij_Europe @NathalieTocci @RymMomtaz @Shahinvallee @MarionVanR and Dr Françoise Boucek theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

«France can argue later– now everyone who cares about our democracy must unite to keep the far right out. (…) Time is running out, and only putting aside petty party squabbles will stop the disaster of the National Rally taking power» my @guardian pièce theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

@queenchristina_ @Arifa_Akbar We need a post-Tory reunion xx

@Arifa_Akbar @ButlerKatherine I wish I was with you! Hope to see you both soon. xx

'Macron called for on voters to back 'republican and democratic candidates' against the extreme right. But few people are listening. The Macron era is over' theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Powerful piece of writing by Justine McCarthy on Natasha O'Brien who was punched unconscious by a serving soldier who walked free from court: 'Ireland loves its strong women, as long as they’re dead or they never lived at all.' theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Tommie Gorman found humanity in everyone and once told Martin McGuinness ‘that generosity was the greatest weapon’. A beautiful tribute from his son Joe lifted the sadness as we said farewell to Tommie today in the stunning Sligo countryside he loved rte.ie/news/2024/0629…

Big thanks to @annettedittert @mariaramirezNY @antoguerrera @JakubKrupa @tessaszy our Euro panellists on the UK election. Brexit amnesia, surreal Farage revival and overwhelming fatalism. No wonder they feel pity for British voters theguardian.com/commentisfree/…