Australia Ashes series ends in draw after England beat Australia by 135 runs in fifth TestThe Guardian - Guardian sportEngland have beaten Australia by 135 runs in the fifth and final Test of this year’s Ashes, ensuring the first drawn series since 1972. Australia were already guaranteed to retain the urn after victory
Dominic Cummings Why do we cling to the myth of the evil genius? Because the alternative is worseThe Guardian - Nesrine MalikThese stereotypes stick because they deflect from the deepest fear of all: that there was no plot to be lost in the first place At the peak of the media’s fascination with Steve Bannon, and before it clear
Opinion There’s nothing normal about this beast of a governmentThe Guardian - Matthew d’AnconaHow grimly symbolic of the times in which we live that it is necessary to correct the prime minister on his reference to comic book characters. Only a couple of years ago, Boris Johnson was urging the
Peaky Blinders Peaky Blinders fans fill Birmingham festival with flat capsThe Guardian - Andy WelchPeaky Blinders is among the most watched dramas on television and has grown into a cultural phenomenon around the world thanks to Netflix viewers. Now the Birmingham-based gangsters are going about conquering
Play buttonSaudi Aramco Saudi attack dampens faint chance of a Trump-Iran meetingThe Guardian - Patrick Wintour Diplomatic editorThe US secretary of state Mike Pompeo’s bald claim this weekend that Iran was responsible for the attack on the Saudi oilfields came with no marshalled public evidence, but dampens any likelihood that
Horse Racing Frankie Dettori at his best as he guides Star Catcher to Prix Vermeille winThe Guardian - Greg Wood at LongchampFrankie Dettori equalled his best ever season at the highest level and did so with a flawless front-running ride as Star Catcher added the Prix Vermeille to her win in the Irish Oaks in July. It was the
Rugby Union Gareth Thomas revealing HIV status will 'tackle stigma'The Guardian - Mark BrownGareth Thomas’s decision to reveal he is living with HIV will have a “massive impact” in helping to dispel myths and stigma around the condition, the head of the Terrence Higgins Trust has said. The former
Unions Auto workers to strike over GM contract talks impasse, union saysThe Guardian - Sign inThe United Auto Workers union has said its 49,000 members at General Motors plants in the US will go on strike on Sunday night, because contract negotiations with the automaker had broken down. The decision
Victoria Beckham Victoria Beckham launches makeup range and targets wellness marketThe Guardian - Jess Cartner-MorleyVictoria Beckham’s pivot from Spice Girl to fashion designer was, it turns out, just the beginning. Her next ambition sees her poised to reinvent herself a second time as Britain’s answer to Gwyneth Paltrow.
World News Adelaine Hain obituaryThe Guardian - Denis HerbsteinNearly 50 years ago, in 1972, a phone call alerted me to a demonstration at the Covent Garden opera house in London. Would I write it up in the paper? It was a matinee and a throng of starry-eyed teenagers
Benjamin Netanyahu Netanyahu holds cabinet meeting in occupied West Bank ahead of electionThe Guardian - Oliver Holmes in JerusalemBenjamin Netanyahu has held his final pre-election cabinet meeting in the Palestinian territories, in a clear appeal to hardline nationalists two days before a vote in which he is fighting for his political
Environment To save the planet, fossil fuels need to stay undergroundThe Guardian - LettersFiona Harvey is surely right when she says “adaptation alone won’t save us from climate disaster” (Journal, 12 September). She gives an apt metaphor that adaptation “while continuing to burn fossil fuels
The Theatre Letter: Peter Nichols obituaryThe Guardian - Quentin FalkWhen, back in the early 1990s, I was writing an unauthorised biography of Albert Finney, Peter Nichols, proved, unsurprisingly, a colourful contributor, having collaborated so successfully with the actor
Celebrity (UK) Let’s help Paxman tackle the litter loutsThe Guardian - LettersI wish Jeremy Paxman’s campaign to make littering unacceptable every success (Paxman lays out proposals to stop Britain being ‘nation of litter louts’, 12 September). But there is a simpler way of solving
Climate Climate cartoons: an illustrated guide to a major new climate crisis pollThe Guardian - Susie Cagle CBS News surveyed a representative sample of more than 2,000 Americans earlier this month and found that …
Liberal Democrats (UK) Today at the Liberal Democrat conferenceThe Guardian - Peter WalkerNo, I don’t forgive David Cameron for calling the referendum. I think so much of the problems we are facing right now stem from David Cameron’s shocking misjudgment in putting the interests of the Conservative
Callum Wilson Bournemouth’s Callum Wilson fires double to sink lacklustre EvertonThe Guardian - Ben Fisher at the Vitality StadiumIt is these kinds of off-colour and lukewarm performances that make it nigh on impossible to regard Everton as genuine top-six contenders. Marco Silva overhauled his squad to the tune of more than £115m
Art Artist pans claims he orchestrated theft of solid gold toiletThe Guardian - PA MediaThe artist who made a solid gold toilet reportedly worth £4.8m has denied orchestrating its theft in a Banksy-style prank. The 18-carat working loo was ripped from a wood-panelled room at Blenheim Palace,
David Cameron Five things we learned from David Cameron's memoirThe Guardian - Caroline DaviesExtracts from the former prime minister David Cameron’s memoir For the Record have been published in the Times and Sunday Times. Here are five things we learned from the book. Boris Johnson “didn’t believe”
FIBA World Cup Marc Gasol adds World Cup to NBA title as Spain beat Argentina in finalThe Guardian - Associated PressSpain have captured their second Basketball World Cup, defeating Argentina 95-75 on Sunday to give Marc Gasol a rare double-title year. Ricky Rubio scored 20 points and Sergio Llull added 15 for Spain,
Technology Ex-Google worker fears 'killer robots' could cause mass atrocitiesThe Guardian - Henry McDonaldA new generation of autonomous weapons or “killer robots” could accidentally start a war or cause mass atrocities, a former top Google software engineer has warned. Laura Nolan, who resigned from Google
UK News Revealed: surge in vulnerable children linked to UK drug gangsThe Guardian - Sarah MarshThe scale of the “county lines” national drugs network crisis is laid bare as figures analysed by the Guardian reveal the soaring number of cases in which vulnerable children are linked to gangs. In 2017-18,
UK News Airbnb and a free lunch: how county lines drug gangs lure teenagersThe Guardian - Aamna MohdinWe’re seeing young people who are not known to services at all being drawn in Anonymous When Carlie Thomas arrived in a seaside town in the south of England, she wondered if she was in the wrong place.
Environment Antibiotic resistance rising among dolphins, study revealsThe Guardian - Gregory RobinsonAntibiotic resistance is rising in dolphins, researchers have said, mirroring the trend seen in humans. Scientists examined disease-causing organisms, or pathogens, found in samples from the blowholes,
Lifestyle (UK) Fragrance sensitivity: why perfumed products can cause profound health problemsThe Guardian - Sirin KaleIf you flew abroad this summer, you probably passed through an airport’s duty-free perfume section. Perhaps you paused to spritz yourself with an expensive scent you had no intention of buying, before
Banksy Auction for Banksy artwork depicting MPs as chimpanzeesThe Guardian - Mark Brown Arts correspondentBanksy’s withering view of the UK parliament, showing a Commons chamber packed full of chimpanzees, is to appear at auction for what could be a record amount of money. The artist painted Devolved Parliament
Bridges Johnson's 'bonkers' plan for £15bn bridge derided by engineersThe Guardian - Simon MurphyEngineering experts have poured cold water over Boris Johnson’s “bonkers” plan to build a bridge between Scotland and Northern Ireland for £15bn. The prime minister – who first touted the idea of the bridge
Thomas Cook Thomas Cook in race to secure £1.1bn rescue dealThe Guardian - Rebecca SmithersThe beleaguered travel firm Thomas Cook will on Monday request a delay to a key bondholders’ meeting on Wednesday to try to maximise the chances of securing a £1.1bn emergency rescue package to help stave
Play buttonMusic (UK) 'I thought I'd hate it': Bridget Christie on loving the Last Night of the PromsThe Guardian - Bridget ChristieIn Jamie Barton, I have never seen a performer unite a crowd so immediately and powerfully ‘That old lady with the white hair just said ‘Oh fuck off’ to that man playing the guitar” my seven-year-old to
Play buttonSaudi Aramco Iran denies launching drone attacks on Saudi oil facilityThe Guardian - Michael SafiIran has dismissed US accusations that it was responsible for a series of explosive drone attacks on the world’s largest petroleum processing facility in Saudi Arabia that disrupted more than half of kingdom’s
