The Guardianadded this to Comment is FreeGordon Brown Portrait of a premier – will May join Cameron and Brown in sitting it out?The Guardian - Richard BrooksWill Theresa May agree to being painted for the National Portrait Gallery? For many decades the gallery, which last Monday had its BP Portrait award interrupted by protesters fuming at the oil firm’s would
The Guardianadded this to TV & RadioLena Headey Lena Headey: ‘I wanted a better death for Cersei’The GuardianLena Headey has been an actor for the better part of three decades, but the experience has not eased the doubt she has in her abilities. And even near-universal praise of the kind she received for her
The Guardianadded this to EnvironmentChernobyl The truth about Chernobyl? I saw it with my own eyes…The Guardian - Kim WillsherThere is a line in the television series Chernobyl that comes as no surprise to those of us who reported on the 1986 nuclear disaster in what was the Soviet Union – but that still has the power to shock:
The Guardianadded this to LifestyleLifestyle (UK) Being a new father is all-consuming – but does that make me a real dad?The Guardian - Séamas O’ReillyBy the time you’re reading this I will be enjoying my first ever Father’s Day from the other side of the bench. Already I know my son’s looking forward to it, the way he watches the calendar, or perks
The Guardianadded this to Comment is FreeRobotics How to follow the Maybot? A droid PMThe Guardian - David MitchellIn Sweden, a robot called Tengai can apparently nod, smile, wink and say sorry. Theresa May can barely do half that Perhaps we should have a robot prime minister. What do you think? It might be worth go.
The Guardianadded this to BooksIstanbul 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World by Elif Shafak review – powerful but preachyThe Guardian - Johanna Thomas-CorrIt’s hard to get a sense of Leila’s adult self beyond those intimate moments in the bin at the beginning of the novel Elif Shafak’s ninth novel in English tells the story of a Turkish woman reflecting
The Guardianadded this to Top StoriesJeremy Corbyn Grassroots and shadow cabinet add to pressure on Corbyn over BrexitThe Guardian - Toby Helm, Observer political editorJeremy Corbyn faces a showdown with his shadow cabinet over Brexit on Monday amid growing signs of a grassroots revolt if he fails to give full backing to a second referendum in which Labour would campaign
The Guardianadded this to Comment is FreeOpinion (UK) Hong Kong is not China yet, but that feared day is coming ever nearerThe Guardian - Louisa LimWe don't have a grand strategy. In every situation, you just defend what you can Ray Yep, political scientist Hong Kong has become a place whose present is unresolved and whose future is unimaginable.
The Guardianadded this to BoxingBoxing The Belfast boxing coach who brought a broken city together with a gymThe Guardian - Donald McRae“If anybody offends you, they will be dealt with severely,” another man said, that last word laced with menace When I walked past the mural honouring Lyra McKee in Belfast, having just left the Holy Family
The Guardianadded this to FootballReal Madrid How Real Madrid snatched Takefusa Kubo from under the noses of BarcelonaThe Guardian - Sid LoweTakefusa Kubo joined Barcelona when he was 10, spent four years at the club and was singled out as a future star but that future now belongs to their greatest rivals after Real Madrid announced the signing
The Guardianadded this to LifestyleLifestyle (UK) People often sneer at it, but small talk is hugely significantThe Guardian - Eva WisemanAsking a stranger whether their mother really loved them is rude. Complimenting their shoes first is essential Every week my dad’s family would gather at an auntie’s house and argue about the best route
The Guardianadded this to BooksBooks How indie bookshops are fighting backThe Guardian - Damian BarrAs global temperatures rise at the rate political standards fall, the news that independent bookshops are reviving gives rare cause for celebration. Last year the number of indies on UK high streets grew
The Guardianadded this to MoneyPersonal Finance (UK) Travel insurance: why cheap policies can cost you dearlyThe Guardian - Anna TimsRachel Taylor had booked a holiday cottage in the Lake District as a treat for her mother. Two weeks before their holiday her father became seriously ill and she had to cancel. He died soon afterwards.
The Guardianadded this to StagePlay buttonThe Theatre The Pope review – crisis at the heart of CatholicismThe Guardian - Clare BrennanAnthony McCarten, the Oscar-nominated writer of the Freddie Mercury biopic, Bohemian Rhapsody, clearly has a feeling for complex personalities. His new play (also to be released as a book and a “major
The Guardianadded this to Art & DesignSamuel Beckett Sala Beckett: Barcelona’s inspired homage to the playwrightThe Guardian - Catherine SlessorShortly before Samuel Beckett died in 1989, he received a request to name a new drama company and its theatre after him. Playwrights and thespians are habitually immortalised in this way – London can count
The Guardianadded this to MusicPlay buttonMusic (UK) Home listening: a Thomas Arne world premiere and moreThe Guardian - Stephen Pritchard• The fire that ravaged the first Covent Garden theatre in 1808 destroyed more than an auditorium; it claimed much of Britain’s 18th-century musical heritage, including a pipe organ Handel had played,
The Guardianadded this to Art & DesignKeith Haring Keith Haring review – jubilance and beauty from the message manThe Guardian - Laura CummingFor all the violence he warned against, and drew, there is an equal message of love Keith Haring, at Tate Liverpool, is a true surprise: a show of unexpected jubilance and beauty. The American artist only
The Guardianadded this to StageThe Theatre The week in theatre: A Midsummer Night’s Dream; While the Sun Shines; Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike – reviewThe Guardian - Kate KellawayA Midsummer Night’s Dream is often staged as a daydream – wild eglantine, gossamer wings, summer light. But Nicholas Hytner’s wild, immersive and original production, without sacrificing comedy, reintroduces
The Guardianadded this to StagePlay buttonThe Theatre Birmingham Royal Ballet: Unleashed review – ravishing risk-takingThe Guardian - Laura JoffreWe are used to seeing Birmingham Royal Ballet in traditional classical productions, in which they always excel. But this mixed bill sees the company in a more contemporary mode, experimenting with distinctive
The Guardianadded this to MusicPlay buttonMusic (UK) Kate Tempest: The Book of Traps and Lessons review – personal and optimisticThe Guardian - Phil MongredienWhile Kate Tempest’s first two albums– 2014’s Everybody Down and 2016’s Let Them Eat Chaos - were each absorbing and impressive enough to be Mercury-nominated, there was a sense that at times their discordant
The Guardianadded this to MusicMusic (UK) Bill Callahan: Shepherd in a Sheepskin Vest review – a sweet and sly returnThe Guardian - Kitty Empire“The panic room is now a nursery,” sings veteran leftfield tunesmith Bill Callahan on Son of the Sea. It’s just one instance of pregnant understatement on a 20-track album that ends this extraordinary
The Guardianadded this to FilmPlay buttonDiego Maradona Diego Maradona review – a gripping game of two halvesThe Guardian - Mark Kermode, Observer film criticWe are shown the thin line between adoration and abjection that anyone who lives their life in public must walk In his acclaimed Formula One documentary Senna, film-maker Asif Kapadia found a way into
The Guardianadded this to MusicPlay buttonBruce Springsteen Bruce Springsteen: Western Stars review – quintessentially BossThe Guardian - Neil SpencerCouched in the orchestral “countrypolitan” style of George Jones and Glen Campbell at the tail-end of the 1960s, Springsteen’s first album in five years delivers a sound like little else in his extensive
The Guardianadded this to MusicPlay buttonMusic (UK) Fred Hersch & the WDR Big Band: Begin Again review – lyrical and terrifyingThe Guardian - Dave GellyWhen the conversation turns to contemporary jazz pianists, the name of Fred Hersch is apt to be left out. Not because he’s unknown – far from it – but because his constant, undemonstrative presence is
The Guardianadded this to FilmPlay buttonFilm (UK) The Hummingbird Project review – software, stocks, and surprising thrillsThe Guardian - Wendy IdePart thriller, part family drama, part satirical commentary on the way that the pursuit of wealth is a cultural cancer that taints everything it touches, The Hummingbird Project is no less compelling its
The Guardianadded this to FilmPlay buttonMen in Black: International Men in Black: International review – a sorry sequelThe Guardian - Wendy IdeIt’s not that it’s terrible exactly, but this latest instalment of the long-dormant intergalactic-secret service movie series is cripplingly timid in its approach. The closest we get to a new idea is casting
The Guardianadded this to FilmPlay buttonFilm (UK) Sometime Always Never review – a triple-word score of a movieThe Guardian - Wendy IdeThe presence of Bill Nighy, funeral-faced national treasure, will no doubt be a key selling point for this tragicomic drama. But the real star is behind the scenes. Screenwriter Frank Cottrell Boyce, adapted
The Guardianadded this to PoliticsKen Livingstone Ken Livingstone: ‘Labour have got to campaign to remain’The Guardian - Rachel CookePoliticians don’t answer questions any more. That’s one of the reasons why Farage has done so well I’m going to get into environmental campaigning: there’s a real possibility of extinction by the end the
The Guardianadded this to Comment is FreeBoris Johnson The dirty secrets of Boris Johnson’s seduction of Conservative MPsThe Guardian - Andrew RawnsleyFarage is a giant magnet attracting clouds of iron filings in the direction of the former foreign secretary Say what you like about Boris Johnson, he can always be relied on to let you down. He is a serial
The Guardianadded this to Top StoriesWindrush Windrush: archived documents show the long betrayalThe Guardian - David OlusogaThe deeper roots of the scandal lie not in laws but in beliefs. The belief that Britishness is the same as whiteness David Olusoga Late one afternoon last month, in a meeting room in the offices where
