The Guardianadded this to MoneyPersonal Finance (UK) Travel insurance: why cheap policies can count you dearlyThe GuardianRachel 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 StageThe Theatre The Pope review – crisis at the heart of CatholicismThe GuardianAnthony 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 GuardianShortly 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 MusicMusic (UK) Home listening: a Thomas Arne world premiere and moreThe Guardian• 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 GuardianKeith Haring, at Tate Liverpool, is a true surprise: a show of unexpected jubilance and beauty. The American artist was only 31 when he died in 1990, and it is almost beyond belief that some of the most
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 GuardianA 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 MusicMusic (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“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 FilmDiego Maradona Diego Maradona review – a gripping game of two halvesThe GuardianIn his acclaimed Formula One documentary Senna, film-maker Asif Kapadia found a way into the soul of racing driver Ayrton Senna through his longstanding rivalry with his antithetical nemesis Alain Prost.
The Guardianadded this to MusicBruce 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 MusicMusic (UK) Fred Hersch & the WDR Big Band: Begin Again review – lyrical and terrifyingThe GuardianWhen 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
The Guardianadded this to World NewsColombia 'Colombia's sliding backwards': journalists face hundreds of attacksThe GuardianNearly two decades after her ordeal, Jineth Bedoya’s voice still cracks when she describes the day she was brutally attacked while carrying out her job as a reporter in Colombia. “It’s difficult to understand
The Guardianadded this to UK NewsSalford Will film propel Lowry and Salford into art world’s top rank?The Guardian - Vanessa Thorpe, arts and media correspondentActor Timothy Spall won plaudits and awards for playing the great British painter JMW Turner on the big screen. The 2014 film, Mr Turner, was partly set in Margate, and it brought the artist’s vision the
The Guardianadded this to US NewsPolitics Trump accuses New York Times of 'virtual treason' over Russia cyber warfare reportGuardian US - The GuardianUS President Donald Trump on Saturday accused the New York Times of “a virtual act of treason” after it reported the US is stepping up digital incursions into Russia’s electric power grid. Current and
The Guardianadded this to BusinessAT&T Workers see job promises vanish as bosses pocket Trump tax windfallThe Guardian - Michael SainatoStephen Smith worked at an AT&T call center in Meriden, Connecticut, for over 20 years before the giant telecoms company announced it was closing the city’s three call centers in February 2019. “At 46
The Guardianadded this to Comment is FreeSarah Sanders Don't bother replacing Sarah Sanders – there's no pointThe Guardian - Ross BarkanThe imminent resignation of Sarah Sanders as Donald Trump’s press secretary marks yet another departure from a White House that treats chaos as its modus operandi. On the left, there is understandable
The Guardianadded this to ScienceScience The five: unsung female scientistsThe Guardian - Ian TuckerContemporary letters revealed this week that a key figure in the birth of the first IVF baby in 1978, embryologist and nurse Jean Purdy, was excluded from a plaque at the Oldham hospitals involved. Attempts
The Guardianadded this to TravelIceland Ice, fire and feuds: on the trail of Iceland's sagasThe Guardian - Nicholas JubberThe sagas are “our national identity”, says Icelandic actor Oddur Júlíusson. Based on historical events that mostly took place between the ninth and early 11th centuries, they have been narrated in the
The Guardianadded this to TV & RadioThe Handmaid's Tale The week in TV: The Handmaid’s Tale, Big Little Lies and more – reviewThe Guardian - Euan FergusonThe Handmaid’s Tale (Channel 4) | All4 Big Little Lies (Sky Atlantic) | sky.com Wild Bill (ITV) | ITVHub Year of the Rabbit (Channel 4) | All4 Women’s World Cup (Various BBC channels) | iPlayer That irksomely
The Guardianadded this to TV & RadioCapitalism The week in radio and podcasts: Gangster Capitalism: C13 Originals; Living MemoryThe Guardian - Miranda SawyerGangster Capitalism: C13 Originals (podcast) Living Memory (Radio 4) | iPlayer Gangster Capitalism is an interesting name for a show that is, essentially, about the recent US college admissions scandal.
The Guardianadded this to BusinessBoris Johnson Adding Boris Johnson to Brexit is pouring fuel on to the fireThe Guardian - William KeeganWhat comparisons with the past bring to the surface is the sheer mediocrity of most of the present contenders I have been critical, I hope with good reason, of Jeremy Corbyn’s equivocation over what is
The Guardianadded this to Comment is FreeJared Kushner Jared Kushner may have an ethics problem - to the tune of $90mThe Guardian - Vicky WardHistory will judge corruption to be the most destructive and defining characteristic of the mob-like family The stench surrounding Jared Kushner has grown more pungent with every passing day. On Monday,
The Guardianadded this to TechnologyFacebook Crypto is coming: get ready to spend Facebook’s moneyThe Guardian - Shane HickeyFirst it had your friends, then it had your pictures, then it had your diary. Now, in the latest effort to entwine its systems still further into the everyday lives of its users, Facebook wants to get
