Carl Benjamin Exeter Cathedral bans Ukip's Carl Benjamin from hustingsThe GuardianExeter Cathedral has banned a Ukip candidate from taking part in hustings for Thursday’s European elections, saying he may be a risk to public order. Carl Benjamin, who is under police investigation for
Vincent Kompany Vincent Kompany to leave Manchester City this summer after 11 years at clubThe Guardian - Nick AmesManchester City captain Vincent Kompany will leave the club this summer, after signing off with victory in the FA Cup final on Saturday, where City thrashed Watford 6-0 to complete a domestic treble. 33-year-old
Nigel Farage What is Nigel Farage’s secret? That would be tellingThe Guardian“It was one of those things they keep in a jar in the tent of a sideshow on the outskirts of a little, drowsy town. One of those pale things, drifting in alcohol plasma, forever dreaming and circling,
The Theatre Roger Allam: ‘I like that in the theatre nothing is ever finished’The Guardian - Lisa O'KellyI began getting these terrible headaches and I thought ‘Oh great, death’ Roger Allam is a distinguished English actor whose stage work has ranged from Inspector Javert in the original London production
Chelsea Flower Show Hi-tech gardens bloom at London’s Chelsea Flower ShowThe Guardian - James TapperIf you only eat one or two meals a year that you’ve grown yourself then that has an impact Jody Lidgard, garden designer Weed is not a word often associated with the immaculate gardens of the Chelsea show.
Minimum Wage Home care firm accused of failing to pay minimum wageThe GuardianA firm supplying hundreds of home carers has been accused of failing to pay workers for travel time between appointments, meaning they earn less than the minimum wage, a Guardian investigation can reveal.
Women's FA Cup Women’s football: how girls are moving the goalpostsThe Guardian - Lisa Bachelor‘Izzy, to me, to me,” the cry comes from many voices. Izzy, two brown pigtails flying out behind her, passes the ball to her friend, who turns with it, neatly avoiding the opposition player on her heels.
Politics EU elections: Labour voters in Cambridge ponder their loyaltiesThe Guardian - Harriet SherwoodIn Cambridge’s Market Square, where vendors of bargain clothing vie with stalls selling crystal healing stones and artisan cheeses, few people had doubts about which side they were on when it came to stark
Lifestyle (UK) The baby boy’s speech has suddenly exploded. But what is he saying?The Guardian - Séamas O’ReillyIt’s a marvel that, the better he gets at speaking, the better my wife and I become at understanding his every word After 10 months of patient silence, this week saw an explosion in my son’s vocabulary,
Guy Verhofstadt Guy Verhofstadt: ‘If you want to see what nationalists have done, come to Britain'The Guardian - Tim AdamsThe documentary chose some of the more dramatic moments over two years. How you see it depends on your point of view Guy Verhofstadt Rwanda transcended everything. When I looked back, in my previous period,
Lifestyle (UK) 'One of us knew roughly what to do' – six celebrities on losing their virginityThe Guardian - Joe Stone, Matthew Todd, and Alix FoxI lost my virginity late, in my early 20s. I was born and raised in India, which was very conservative, and I wasn’t going to do anything that my mother would kill me for. But maybe the bigger reason that
Opinion (UK) Guess who doesn't want war with Iran? Trump supportersThe Guardian - Ted Galen CarpenterSupporters of Donald Trump who hoped that he would adopt a new, less interventionist foreign policy for the United States have ample reasons to feel disappointed. The administration’s increasingly belligerent
TV Series All shows must die: can Game of Thrones avoid curse of the TV finale?The Guardian - Sarah HughesAt 2am on Monday morning thousands of people across the country will stumble out of bed to watch the final episode of TV’s biggest show, Game of Thrones. Among the questions they hope will be answered:
George R.R. Martin In the end, Game of Thrones needed better writersThe Guardian - Nick CohenThe failure of the final season of Game of Thrones has its cheerful side. Despite the assumptions of “creative industry” executives, the collapse in advances to novelists, the downsizing of serious journalism,
ITV ‘Tired and dated’ reality TV shows losing favour with publicThe Guardian - Jamie DowardSpeak to anyone in the television industry and, while they will disagree about The Jeremy Kyle Show, all are united in one belief: that ITV’s decision to cancel it represents a watershed moment. An inquest
Media Industry Top lawyer ready to take on Jeremy Kyle show over guest’s deathThe Guardian - Jamie DowardFamilies often do not get the answers or accountability they deserve Merry Varney, solicitor The Jeremy Kyle Show could be subjected to detailed scrutiny at the inquest into a participant’s apparent suicide.
Lloyds Banking Group Labour’s plans for cheap green energy are no more than electric dreamsThe GuardianNot paying the going rate is a recipe for years of legal wrangling and further delays to vital investment Labour’s plans to renationalise water, energy and rail companies have widespread support and with
Books The Professor & the Parson by Adam Sisman review – a conman’s compelling careerThe Guardian - Alex PrestonI'm not sure one can describe someone as 'inscrutable, like an Oriental despot' in 2019 “Forgery is particularly problematic for historians,” Adam Sisman says early on in The Professor & the Parson, an
Opinion (UK) It's shameful that Ken Loach is the only Brit in the Cannes competitionsThe Guardian - Richard BrooksIt has been left to an 82-year-old director alone to fly the British flag at Cannes with Sorry We Missed You, Ken Loach’s 16th movie, at the world’s premier film festival. Suffering is a regular Loach
Opinion (UK) When working-class lives can be so rich, why does reality TV choose to belittle them?The Guardian - Jack MonroeBeing on television is sold to us as some kind of ideal, a lie that impresses from a young age I truly hope that this is the moment that working-class representation on television shifts The trouble with
Menopause It’s time to talk about the menopause… and freedom at lastThe Guardian - Eva WisemanI get the aspirational image of a woman interested in walking in valleys, slow-cooking, and good conversation only The menopause comes,” says Kristin Scott Thomas’s character in Fleabag, “and it is the
Jarvis Cocker Jarvis Cocker: ‘I’ve lived in my head for most of my life’The Guardian - Sophie HeawoodArt is about teaching you how to think in a creative way, how to look at the world and use it as raw material When I walk into the private room in a members’ club in Soho where I’m supposed to interview
Dalai Lama Dalai Lama lets slip how India vetoed his meeting with China’s leader in 2014The Guardian - Michael Safi and Lily KuoChina’s President Xi Jinping agreed to meet the Dalai Lama during a state visit to India in 2014, but the plan was quashed by Delhi, the Buddhist spiritual leader has said. The bombshell claim, which signal
Jacob Rees-Mogg Rees-Mogg’s book is ‘sentimental jingoism and empire nostalgia’The Guardian - Kim A WagnerAt some point during his busy political schedule, Jacob Rees-Mogg managed to convince an editor that what the world really needs in 2019 is an updated version of Mrs Ernest Ames’s An ABC for Baby Patriots.
Saracens Saracens set the template for what a top-notch rugby club should beThe Guardian - Paul ReesWhen Saracens played their first European Cup final, against Toulon in 2014, it was a meeting of two clubs who had approached the venue in Cardiff from opposite directions. The French club, owned by the
English Premier League Pleasure of promotion is potent despite likelihood of pain to followThe Guardian - Paul WilsonIt was a privilege to be at Elland Road for the play-off second leg between Leeds and Derby, not only because it was one of the most grippingly exciting Championship games of the season but because it
Charles Leclerc Charles Leclerc: I lost my father quite early. It changes you forever’The Guardian - Giles RichardsCharles Leclerc’s tousled hair and boyish looks are disarming, his youth and softly spoken manner belying a motivated and talented driver who is surely a future Formula One world champion in waiting. 21
John McEnroe John McEnroe in his prime and at his most irascible makes fascinating viewingThe Guardian - Tim LewisA new documentary, John McEnroe: In the Realm of Perfection, has been called, in US Vogue, “the best tennis film ever made”. This in itself is not necessarily the greatest praise you could heap on a work
Netball Sara Bayman: ‘England’s gold will be seen as the pivotal moment for netball’The Guardian - Suzanne WrackWhen Sara Bayman sat down in the studio with Caroline Barker to commentate on the Commonwealth Games netball final for the BBC in April last year, they relaxed and joked that they could do what they liked
Bill Shorten Labor begins election defeat postmortem with internal blame game Australia News - Katharine Murphy and Sarah MartinThe knives are out internally after Labor’s weekend election defeat, with widespread criticism of the performance of the party’s national secretary, Noah Carroll, including allegations he ignored negative
