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From Picasso to Andy Warhol, a surprising number of artists have portrayed the German breed. But the dachshund has also at times been co-opted as a political symbol.
From Picasso to Andy Warhol, a surprising number of artists have portrayed the German breed. But the dachshund has also at times been co-opted as a political symbol.
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<p>Sluggish growth of 0.5% in October comes as higher borrowing costs put break on market</p><p>UK house prices grew by an annual rate of just 0.5% in October, the slowest pace in more than two years, as higher mortgage rates put off potential buyers.</p><p>The average price for a property in the UK stood at £273,566 in October, flat on the previous month and down from 0.8% in the year to September, according to the lender Nationwide.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/oct/30/uk-house-prices-grow-at-slowest-pace-in-two-years-as-mortgage-rates-rise">Continue reading...</a>
<p>Prime minister in Glasgow to meet with Scottish and Welsh leaders to talk about ‘next stage of devolution’</p><p>Good morning. <strong>Andy Burnham</strong> is in Glasgow today for a meeting with the leaders from Scotland and Wales and he says he wants to use it to talk about “the next stage of devolution”. According to the<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/news/pms-message-to-devolved-governments-work-with-me-to-empower-every-single-part-of-the-uk"> overnight briefing from No 10</a>, he is less interested in giving more powers to the devolved parliaments and more interested in promoting “regional empowerment” in their countries.</p><p>In his pre-summit statement, Burnham says:</p><p>Through No 10 North, we are rewiring the state. I want to make sure every city and region in the United Kingdom is part of that.</p><p>Today I’ll be making an offer to the governments of each nation. Put politics aside and work in partnership with the UK government to develop models of regional empowerment that ensure communities can use their own strengths to unlock their potential.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2026/oct/30/andy-burnham-labour-conservatives-devolution-scotland-wales-latest-news-updates">Continue reading...</a>
<p>Oxygen, food and water supplies running low and massacres taking place, says Nabil Shamsan</p><p>The Houthis are trying to send the city of Taiz back to the stone age, the city’s governor said in a briefing designed to urge the international community to do more to lift the month-long siege.</p><p>Nabil Shamsan said massacres were taking place in Yemen’s third city, that oxygen and water supplies were running out and that rubbish was piling up in the streets due to landfill sites being either full or inaccessible.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/30/houthis-taiz-stone-age-yemen-city-siege">Continue reading...</a>
<p>Newspaper whose former editor won Nobel peace prize says pressure from Russian authorities has forced it to shut</p><p>The Russian independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta announced on Friday that it was closing, citing pressure from authorities who recently searched the home of its senior editor and earlier this year detained one of its journalists.</p><p>“Novaya Gazeta is ceasing to exist,” the editor-in-chief, Sergei Sokolov, said in a video statement published on YouTube. “The Russian authorities – the Russian special services – have forced the editorial team to end its work.”</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/30/novaya-gazeta-russia-independent-newspaper-to-close">Continue reading...</a>