Lettuce How to grow winter saladThe Guardian - Alys FowlerThe perfect winter salad has a little peppery heat, is robust enough to take strong-flavoured dressings, and has a sweetness that can only be brought on by cooler nights. I love a mixture of crisp lettuce,
Cara Delevingne ‘A steampunk fever dream’: why Carnival Row is not the new Game of ThronesThe Guardian - Joel GolbyWhat I think we can all agree we’re wanting in these barren post-Game of Thrones times is a shonky fantasy epic set in half-fantasy Victorian London with Cara Delevingne as the lead, who is inexplicably
Technology Got a grand for my cat's gap year? The unstoppable rise of 'I want' crowdfundingThe Guardian - Amelia TaitThe means by which we can solicit and donate cash or gifts have grown increasingly imaginative In the face of budget cuts, British schools are now using Amazon Wishlists to crowdfund their classroom needs
Lifestyle (UK) Bring the outside in: how to style your home to make the most of natureThe Guardian - Rachel LeedhamWith its seamless indoor and outdoor living spaces, and its Australian owner, this contemporary family home is more Brisbane than Britain. Tucked behind a suburban street, the plot, which formerly housed
Lifestyle (UK) Gardening tips: plant sneezewort for sprays of tiny white flowers all summer longThe Guardian - Jane PerronePlant this If you need a “good doer” for a white border, wildlife garden or cut-flower patch, take a look at easygoing perennial Achillea ptarmica ‘The Pearl’ – AKA sneezewort. It does well in sun or shade,
Novak Djokovic US Open form guide: Djokovic favourite but Daniil Medvedev could threatenThe Guardian - Jacob SteinbergThe defending champion has played only one tournament since winning Wimbledon last month and losing his Cincinnati semi-final to Daniil Medvedev will be a concern for the world No 1. Only a slight one,
News (Hong Kong) Hong Kong riot police beat protesters at anti-surveillance rallyThe Guardian - Verna Yu in Hong KongRiot police have thrown teargas at thousands of protesters and beat many of them after a tense stand-off in Hong Kong. Tens of thousands of demonstrators were holding an anti-government rally on Saturday,
Arun Jaitley India's former finance minister Arun Jaitley dies aged 66The Guardian - Sign inThe former Indian finance minister Arun Jaitley, a key member of Narendra Modi’s first-term cabinet, has died in a New Delhi hospital after a prolonged illness. He was 66. The All India Institute of Medical
Téa Obreht Téa Obreht: ‘In America, we make progress, then revert in horrific ways'The Guardian - Joanna ScuttsHow do you disrupt the mythology of the American west, with its campfires and cowboys, and its spirit of masculine self-reliance? If you’re Téa Obreht, you add creatures – and people – who belong to the
Books King of King Court by Travis Dandro review – childhood drawn from a boy’s perspectiveThe Guardian - James SmartTravis Dandro is six when his mother tells him that the man he plays with at weekends is not just Dave, but “Dad Dave”. Dad Dave has an infectious sense of fun, a cool car – and a heroin addiction. Dandro’s
travel news New life for Switzerland’s hippy valleyThe Guardian - Rachel GlassbergThe yellow postal bus lurches up the narrow, dead-end road that winds through Valle Onsernone, blasting its horn in warning as it rounds one cliff-hugging hairpin turn after another. Just a flimsy-looking
The Theatre James Acaster: ‘Adulthood is still a bit daunting’The Guardian - Hannah J DaviesJames Acaster strongly believes that 2016 was The Greatest Year for Music of All Time. If this sounds random, then know that there’s slightly more to the story. Best known for eccentric, meandering standup
Eniola Aluko 'A lot of the England team still haven't apologised': Eni Aluko on life after whistleblowingThe Guardian - Simon HattenstoneOne coach spoke to her in a fake Caribbean accent. 'I was tempted to speak to him in a Scottish accent' This summer I was doing media at the World Cup. But I’m only 32 and I could have played Eniola Aluko
Books Armistead Maupin: ‘How do I relax? Grass’The Guardian - Rosanna GreenstreetBorn in Washington, Armistead Maupin, 75, began a column called Tales Of The City in the San Francisco Chronicle in the 1970s; it went on to become a series of nine books that are currently being adapted
Recipes Yotam Ottolenghi’s late-summer sweetcorn recipesThe Guardian - Yotam OttolenghiThought corn on the cob was great just with butter? Try it grilled in its husk with a creamy pecorino dressing, in tamales, or with roast peppers and a soy-cured egg yolk Earlier sunsets and a shift in
Lifestyle (UK) How we live together: the long-term flatmatesThe Guardian - Alexandra JonesOther than a short stint when I was living in Madrid, Alex and I have shared since we met at Leeds University in 2006. I don’t think either of us expected to be living in a flatshare for this long. It’s
Poetry Sandettie Light Vessel Automatic by Simon Armitage review – collected poemsThe Guardian - David WheatleyIt was an unwritten law of postwar Britain that all large parks should contain a commissioned Henry Moore sculpture and, as chance would have it, Sandettie Light Vessel Automatic – a gathering of new laureate
Refereeing Inside the VAR bunker: a test for my irrational suspicion of refereesThe Guardian - Max Rushden“What we have to do is find a way to help referees out.” This is Tony Pulis – then manager of West Brom – speaking in 2015. “I would definitely call now for managers to have two calls each and every game,
Simon Cowell Is Simon Cowell's surprising new face a vision of our deepfake future?The Guardian - Grace DentThe human face, that subsection of appendages living just south of our eyebrows, has rarely been under such attack. Take the Bill Hader deepfake video that went viral this month, in which the comedian
Rafa Benítez Tottenham v Newcastle: match previewThe GuardianTwo games in and Steve Bruce feels backed into a corner. It was always going to be tough to take over from Rafael Benítez but the manner Newcastle’s defeat at Norwich appeared to crystalise the supporters’
Wolves Wolves v Burnley: match previewThe GuardianSo far Wolves have combined domestic and European duties very impressively. Their squad has shown enough depth – thanks partly to Adama Traoré’s terrific improvement – to suggest that Nuno Espírito Santo
Bournemouth Bournemouth v Manchester City: match previewThe GuardianCan Bournemouth stop Manchester City? Probably not. Eight defeats from eight meetings in the Premier League speaks for itself. How Pep Guardiola’s side respond to completely dominating Tottenham but failing
G7 Summit Biarritz in lockdown as G7 summit descends on French resortThe Guardian - Angelique Chrisafis in BiarritzThe French seaside resort of Biarritz is under lockdown by security forces ahead of the G7 summit, with more than 13,000 police as well as a special magistrates court set up to try anyone committing offences.
Charlotte Tilbury The new foundations by Pat McGrath and Charlotte Tilbury – reviewedThe Guardian - Sali HughesIt’s as close as beauty will ever get to a Blur versus Oasis moment – only with better hair and added air-kissing. This week, the world’s two leading makeup artists, Pat McGrath and Charlotte Tilbury,
Play buttonFilm (UK) Streaming: is the Brazilian film Araby the movie of the decade?The Guardian - Guy LodgeI was late getting to this week’s selected film – though not as late as film distributors in the UK: it has never been picked up for a cinema or even a DVD release. For more than two years, respected have
Books Is the political novel dead?The Guardian - Dorian LynskeyI think it’s a peculiarly English thing, this recoiling from a novel whose political message seems too overt Jonathan Coe Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Looking Backward, The Grapes of Wrath: all runaway bestsellers
Sarah Sanders Fox News is a dangerous state propaganda outlet. Sarah Sanders' job confirms thatThe Guardian - Nathan RobinsonThe only surprising thing about Sarah Sanders joining FOX News was that it took this long. The former Trump press secretary is a perfect fit for the network, a faithful and shameless propagandist for right.
Team USA Australia beats USA for the first time ever in basketballThe Guardian - Australian Associated PressBoomers fans can dare to dream about a basketball World Cup medal after Australia scored a massive upset win over the United States in Melbourne. Australia had never beaten Team USA in 55 years, but shocked
Books Becoming Beauvoir by Kate Kirkpatrick review – philosopher and pioneerThe Guardian - Lara FeigelDe Beauvoir and Lanzmann lived together for seven years, he was the only lover she ever addressed with the familiar 'tu' “Don’t be ‘Mlle Beauvoir’. Be me,” Simone de Beauvoir wrote in her diary in 1927.
UK News Driver arrested after two die in Essex car crashThe Guardian - Press AssociationTwo people have died and another two are in a life-threatening condition after a car crashed into a tree in Loughton, Essex. A 21-year-old man from Loughton was arrested at the scene on suspicion of causing
