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December 2024

  • Dining across the dividers Joshua (left) and John sitting at a restaurant table

    Dining across the divide
    Dining across the divide: ‘I tried to push him on reparations, but I didn’t get very far’

  • Dining Across the Divide<br>© Joel Goodman for the Guardian - 07973 332324 - all rights reserved . 23/11/2024 . Manchester, UK. GAVIN CRUMP-JONES (36 - right) and STEVE LOVELL (36 - left) share a meal at Cicchetti by San Carlo restaurant on King Street West for the Dining Across the Divide feature. Photo credit: Joel Goodman

    Dining across the divide
    Dining across the divide: ‘He is very anti-Trump. I think he’s a deal-maker with a business mindset’

  • Person holding a phone with her thumbs poised over the on-screen keyboard

    Losing our voice? Fears AI tone-shifting tech could flatten communication

  • An older woman with very short cropped grey hair and bright red lipstick, wearing a mustard sleeveless polo neck over a black long-sleeve top, and a younger woman with long blonde hair pulled back from her face, wearing a black polo neck with a single pearl necklace, sitting chatting at a restaurant table

    Dining across the divide
    Dining across the divide: ‘She’s a big fan of Jeremy Corbyn. I think Keir Starmer is the best thing to happen to the Labour party for a long time’

  • ‘Polarization’ is Merriam-Webster’s word of the year: ‘Something everyone agrees on’

  • Dining across the divide
    Dining across the divide: ‘I’m not anti cyclist. I’m anti cyclists who ignore red lights and drive three or four abreast in front of me’

  • UK towns that saw rioting last summer have ‘torn social fabric’, report claims

November 2024

  • Portrait of two men sat at a dining table with wine and beer

    Dining across the divide
    Dining across the divide: ‘He wants to ban all cars. I’m uncomfortable with that’

  • Union Jack and nautical-themed images by Alexander Colville Gordon, c.1914–18.

    ‘Gentlemen shared their tattoos over dinner’: how our taste for tattoos started with the rich

  • A woman with long red wavy hair, glasses and red lipstick, wearing a brown and black patterned dress, and a man with short grey hair, wearing a lilac shirt, a grey herringbone waistcoat and beige chinos, sitting at a restaurant table talking

    Dining across the divide
    Dining across the divide: ‘There wasn’t much substance to her argument for why she disliked Trump’

  • Dua Lipa said: ‘Manifesting is a big thing for me.’

    Celebrities make ‘manifest’ appear as 2024 word of the year

  • ‘Glad to be here’: whether for Le Creuset or Sephora, Britons seem to love a queue

  • Dining across the divide
    Dining across the divide: ‘I said, if the whole world were to turn vegan, half of us would starve to death’

  • Dining across the divide
    Dining across the divide: ‘The only thing we agreed on was our mutual dislike of Boris Johnson’

October 2024

  • Two men sitting talking at a restaurant table in a pannelled room

    Dining across the divide
    Dining across the divide: ‘I think his opposition to child benefit came partly from a place where he doesn’t have any kids’

    They differed on support for those with children – would they agree on experts, immigration or Brexit?
  • Two men sitting talking at a restaurant table

    Dining across the divide
    Dining across the divide: ‘He did give me pause for thought about whether my position might be too extreme’

    They are both gaming enthusiasts, but disagreed on the possible dangers. Would they be aligned on political donations or the Middle East?

    • Dining across the divide
      Dining across the divide: ‘We have our problems in Scotland, but there’s more belief that society still exists’

    • Dining across the divide
      Dining across the divide: ‘I’m not 100% sure I would be against corporal punishment in schools’

    • Dining across the divide
      Dining across the divide: ‘He said the left always identifies with the victim, and the right with people who are strong’

September 2024

  • Two men, both wearing blue shirts, sitting at a restaurant table talking

    Dining across the divide
    Dining across the divide: ‘You can’t impose your western outlook down the barrel of a gun’

    They disagreed about Britain’s involvement in Afghanistan, Brexit and asylum seekers. So did the meal end on a sour note?
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