The Guardianadded this to Politics Boris Johnson: the posh populist who’s tuning in to the ‘Brexit blues’The Guardian - Jane MartinsonBoris Johnson is used to the sort of media coverage in which he is given a platform to promote himself and paid £275,000 for the privilege – how else to explain his reaction to the first tough questioning
The Guardianadded this to World NewsBenjamin Netanyahu Israeli court convicts Sara Netanyahu for misusing state fundsThe GuardianSara Netanyahu, the wife of Israel’s prime minister, has been convicted of illegally misusing thousands of pounds of public funds on lavish meals. A Jerusalem court on Sunday accepted a plea bargain in
The Guardianadded this to Top StoriesMermaids Trans children's charity apologises after parents' emails published onlineThe Guardian - Nazia Parveen North of England correspondentA charity that supports transgender children has apologised and referred itself to the information commissioner’s office following a data breach that led to the publication of parents’ personal emails
The Guardianadded this to StageThe Theatre Jimmy Carr review – a relentless wallow in grubbinessThe Guardian - Brian Logan‘Welcome to 90 minutes of your life you’re never getting back,” runs the caption at the start of Jimmy Carr’s touring show, Terribly Funny. That’s what you sign up for when you go to see Carr: a grubby
The Guardianadded this to Comment is FreeRory Stewart If you think Rory Stewart is the grownup choice, think againThe GuardianThese politically correct times make it difficult to keep up with the right nouns for thin-skinned online activists. Terms that attempt to pithily describe identities and behaviours are now slurs. You
The Guardianadded this to BooksBooks This Storm by James Ellroy review – Nazis, orgies and Orson WellesThe Guardian - Anthony CumminsSet in Los Angeles in 1942, the latest instalment in James Ellroy’s occult saga of US history centres on Irish-born police sergeant Dudley Smith, a closet Nazi using his rank as a front for activities
The Guardianadded this to Horse RacingHorse Racing Eve Johnson Houghton convinced lightning can strike twice at AscotThe Guardian - Greg Wood‘Even now, if I watch it back, I get chills,” Eve Johnson Houghton says, 12 months after saddling both her first winner at Royal Ascot and her first in a Group One with Accidental Agent, a horse bred owned
The Guardianadded this to TravelSan Diego, CA Thirsty work in San Diego, the craft brewing capital of AmericaThe Guardian - Chris HallI could have drunk the smooth, chocolatey Cocomotive, a coconut porter, all day long It is early morning and I’m swimming in a coffin-shaped pool surrounded by gnarly ancient cacti, overlooked by a 12-storey
The Guardianadded this to Top StoriesNazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's husband: I will join hunger strike for as long as I canThe Guardian - Mattha BusbyStrike action must not go ‘to bitter end’ as they are parents to Gabriella, says Richard Ratcliffe Richard Ratcliffe will join his wife, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, in her hunger strike for as long as can,
The Guardianadded this to StageNick Cave Conversations With Nick Cave review – intimate audience with a rock'n'roll rebelThe Guardian - Jude RogersConversations With Nick Cave, a series of performances that the musician began in Australia last year, sits somewhere between intimate gig and group therapy session. The shows are a spin-off from The Hand
The Guardianadded this to BoxingDeontay Wilder Tyson Fury targets ‘biggest fight in world boxing’ with Deontay WilderThe Guardian - Press AssociationTyson Fury set his sights on a lucrative rematch with Deontay Wilder after excelling in his first fight in Las Vegas to stop Tom Schwarz in two rounds. Fury revealed that he is scheduled to fight again
The Guardianadded this to Art & DesignArt Rainbow wormhole in the Tar Pits: London's trippy pavilion moves to LAThe Guardian - Andrew Gumbel in Los AngelesWhen José Selgas and Lucía Cano unveiled their striking translucent wavy tunnel pavilion at London’s Serpentine Gallery in 2015, it was variously described as a psychedelic pupa, a trippy womb, a rainbow
The Guardianadded this to FilmFilm (UK) Frozen in Time: Sophia Loren, London, June 1960The Guardian - Eva WisemanThree sets of diamonds, emeralds and rubies were among the jewels stolen from Sophia Loren as she filmed The Millionairess in 1960; she played the richest woman in the world. The theft layered drama on
The Guardianadded this to BusinessNeil Woodford Council staff pensions at risk from Woodford investmentsThe Guardian - Kalyeena Makortoff Banking correspondentCouncil workers have been left exposed to the underperformance of Neil Woodford’s stock market-listed fund, with a £10m investment by council pensions schemes at risk from the fund’s declining share price.
The Guardianadded this to Sport Top StoriesKevin Anderson Kevin Anderson: ‘One tennis player coming out might open the gates for others’The Guardian - Jacob Steinberg‘I try not to get too political,” Kevin Anderson says as he winds down at the end of a rainy day at the National Tennis Centre. “But coming from South Africa, where apartheid was a huge problem and there
The Guardianadded this to CyclingChris Froome Dave Brailsford believes Chris Froome will fight to return to top-level cyclingThe Guardian - Press AssociationSir Dave Brailsford, the Team Ineos principal, is convinced Chris Froome will fight to return to top-level cycling after his life-threatening crash. Froome suffered extensive injuries when his bike hit
The Guardianadded this to US SportNick Nurse Nick Nurse: the NBA champion coach who learned his trade in ... Britain?The Guardian - Eoin O'Callaghan in TorontoAs Nick Nurse went through some final preparations on Thursday night, a message came through on his phone from an old friend. “I get in touch before every game, mostly,” says Nigel Lloyd, one of the standout
The Guardianadded this to Top StoriesDementia How dementia robbed me of my love of cookingThe Guardian - Wendy MitchellWendy Mitchell wrote a bestselling memoir about having Alzheimer’s. Here she describes how the disease has changed her relationship with food Some days there is not much that I remember. When the fog down,
The Guardianadded this to PoliticsPlay buttonBoris Johnson Boris Johnson plan means no-deal Brexit or election, says HuntThe Guardian - Heather Stewart Political editorJeremy Hunt has said the Brexit deadline of 31 October should not be a “hard stop” and that Boris Johnson is posing a “stark choice”, between leaving the EU without a deal and a general election. As the
The Guardianadded this to UK NewsWandsworth Two teenagers charged with murder of man in south-west LondonThe Guardian - Press AssociationTwo teenagers have been charged with the murder of an 18-year-old man who was stabbed to death in south-west London. The man was among three people killed in separate attacks in the capital within 24 on
The Guardianadded this to Top StoriesBangladesh Where do chefs eat when they’re on holiday?The Guardian - Interviews by Killian Fox and Holly O’NeillMy face was covered in soup, my lips and tongue were stinging, but my belly was full and my smile was wide Zoe Adjonyoh For the past eight years I’ve been going to Ko Pha Ngan, on the Gulf of Thailand.
The Guardianadded this to LifestyleLifestyle (UK) Beginning again with begoniasThe Guardian - James WongI am a reformed begoniaphobe. I grew up in the hot spot of begonia biodiversity that is southeast Asia – home to dazzling iridescent species that shimmer like butterfly wings and mottled beauties that
The Guardianadded this to BooksBooks Vivian by Christina Hesselholdt review – flash portraitThe Guardian - Rachel CookeWhen the American photographer Vivian Maier died at the age of 83 in 2009, impoverished and alone, no one knew who she was. The 150,000 pictures she had taken on her beloved Rolleiflex during her lifetime
The Guardianadded this to Top StoriesPlay buttonTbilisi Georgia prepares for first LGBT pride amid threats of violenceThe Guardian - Andrew Roth in TbilisiSix years on, the violent scene remains imprinted in the minds of Georgia’s LGBT community: dozens of gay rights demonstrators being beaten in the streets of Tbilisi by black-frocked priests and far-right
The Guardianadded this to FootballPlay buttonPaul Pogba Paul Pogba: ‘It could be a good time to have a new challenge’The Guardian - Reuters and Guardian sportPaul Pogba suggested on Sunday that he could be open to a move away from Manchester United, telling reporters in Tokyo that now “could be a good time to have a new challenge somewhere else”. The midfielder
The Guardianadded this to BusinessIran Is the global economy in for a new oil shock?The Guardian - Larry ElliottAn oil price surge prompted by trouble in the Middle East inevitably conjures up memories of late 1973, when a dramatic rise in the cost of crude ended the long postwar global economic boom. No question,
The Guardianadded this to LifestyleLifestyle (UK) A girl put my daughter through hell, but her mother won’t listenThe Guardian - Mariella FrostrupThe sooner you forgive this girl, the better you will start to feel The dilemma From very young, my daughter had a best friend whose mother encouraged the relationship, referring to them as sisters and
The Guardianadded this to Top StoriesTechnology The best gadgets under £30The Guardian - Ian TuckerGilobaby smart robot, £24 Feeling anxious about robots taking over the world? For 24 quid, allay your anxieties by barking simple commands at this gory plastic bot and experiencing triumph as it bends
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 & RadioPlay buttonLena Headey Lena Headey: ‘I wanted a better death for Cersei’The Guardian - Andrew AnthonyWhen I was much younger, I would weep every time I ended a job… it was such an intense experience Lena Headey has been an actor for the better part of three decades, but the experience has not eased the
