Terence Crawford Terence Crawford retains title when Amir Khan can't continue after low blowThe Guardian - Bryan Armen Graham at Madison Square GardenAmir Khan may have been looking for a way out during Saturday night’s frightful beating at the hands of Terence Crawford. With one wayward left hand, Crawford gave it to him. Khan, who was floored in opening
Film (UK) On my radar: Neil Jordan’s cultural highlightsThe GuardianBorn in County Sligo in 1950, director and writer Neil Jordan studied Irish History and English at University College Dublin. His first book, Night in Tunisia, won a Somerset Maugham award and the Guardian
Mountain Biking First family of mountain biking prepare to open a new front at the World CupThe Guardian - Simon BurntonThe Athertons’ ride started when Dan, then 15 and the eldest of three siblings, first took to the BMX tracks around their home near Exeter and encouraged his brother, Gee, and sister, Rachel, to join A
Opinion (UK) Carlsberg’s honest new ad campaign leaves a funny aftertasteThe Guardian - David MitchellWhat went through Orson Welles’s mind, I wonder, when he first growled the line “Probably the best lager in the world” into a microphone? He may have been pondering his fee. He may have reflected on how
Tripoli Airstrikes hit Tripoli as Haftar steps up assault on Libyan capitalThe Guardian - Reuters in TripoliSeveral airstrikes and explosions shook Tripoli overnight in an escalation of an assault on the Libyan capital by the warlord Khalifa Haftar. A Reuters reporter and several residents said they saw an circling
West Yorkshire Firefighters battle blaze on Ilkley Moor in YorkshireThe Guardian - Press AssociationA helicopter is being brought in to help fight a large fire burning on the famous Ilkley Moor in West Yorkshire. More than 70 firefighters were at the scene, south of the town of Ilkley, and police have
Books Srećko Horvat: ‘The current system is more violent than any revolution’The Guardian - Andrew AnthonyWe have to transform society so that it would be impossible that Buffett or Bezos can be the richest person in the world Up until the collapse of Yugoslavia in 1991, foreigners were not allowed to visit
Books The Brink of Being by Julia Bueno review – we need to talk about miscarriageThe Guardian - Katy LindemannLosing a baby is such a big part of so many lives yet we’re mainly living it in the shadows, weighed down by feelings It is estimated that one in four pregnancies ends in miscarriage, and yet it is an
IVF Maxine Peake: ‘I’m sure people say: don’t hire that big red raving loony’The Guardian - Kate KellawayMaxine Peake’s roles range from a transgender Hamlet to a sharp lawyer in the BBC series Silk to, most recently, an early 19th-century matriarch from Manchester in Mike Leigh’s film Peterloo. Now she about
Drawing Make your mark: the enduring joy of drawingThe Guardian - Laura CummingPicasso famously remarked that it took him only four years to draw like Raphael, but a lifetime to draw like a child Children used to ask my painter father to draw circles, which he'd turn into planets,
The Theatre Nyla Levy: ‘I pieced together what I knew of girls who have gone to Syria’The Guardian - Holly WilliamsNyla Levy was born in Tooting, south London. As an actor, she has appeared in ITV’s Next of Kin and the film Finding Fatima, as well as the one-woman show The Diary of a Hounslow Girl. Her first play,
Messaging Apps Messaging apps ‘expose teachers to aggression from parents’The Guardian - Richard AdamsUnion says members are receiving angry late-night messages The rapid spread of email and messaging apps has triggered a surge in parents sending aggressive queries to their children’s teachers and demanding
Opinion (UK) Mueller’s account of Trump’s world acts as a cautionary tale for UK politicsThe Guardian - Will HuttonDemocrat leaders have a constitutional and moral obligation to act against such a president with such a record The poison that has infected both our countries must be drained Trump was right. His presidency
Books Jared Diamond: So how do states recover from crises? Same way as people doThe Guardian - Andrew AnthonyI don’t view myself as a political animal but as someone who’s interested in a lot of things Jared Diamond It is hard to imagine that the renowned environmental historian Jared Diamond’s new book Upheaval
Divorce Breaking up is hard to do – divorce reforms would make it easierThe Guardian - Eva WisemanThe current iteration of divorce requires formally trash-talking the person you once loved I would like to be taught how to fight. Not boxing or karate or anything you need a costume for, just lessons
Lifestyle (UK) On Irish identity, baby passports – and being a Celtic super-citizenThe Guardian - Séamas O’ReillySince we’ve waited on his passport to arrive, my son has been travelling on his birth certificate. It’s exciting in one sense, harking back to those days when travel documents were massive, unwieldy things,
‘It’s ruined my life,’ says man who exposed plot to kill MP Rosie CooperThe Guardian - Mark TownsendI didn’t want to move or leave my job but had to drop everything and everyone I knew. It has totally ruined my life Robbie Mullen The whistleblower who exposed a neo-Nazi plot to kill an MP has been warned
Forty years on, Southall demands justice for killing of Blair PeachThe Guardian - Vivek ChaudharyCampaigners are demanding a fresh inquiry into the death of protester Blair Peach during a demonstration held to prevent the National Front holding a meeting in Southall, west London, 40 years ago this
Technology Cybercrime for dummies: cracking internet passwords is as easy as 123456The Guardian - Michael SavageCybercriminals are using increasingly devious scams to con internet users into revealing precious online information. Yet millions of people have saved fraudsters the bother of deploying trickery and by
Lifestyle (UK) My oldest friend is invading my space – now even at workThe Guardian - Mariella FrostrupYour friend may simply be oblivious to her impact on you The dilemma I have a good friend I have known since before I could walk. We were at school and college together and share many friends. Our parents
Books Robert Caro: ‘The more facts you collect, the closer you come to the truth’The Guardian - Rachel CookeWhen people say that power corrupts… I don’t happen to believe that. Power reveals Almost all the people involved are dead now. They’re leaving you to tell the story, so you’d better get it right In his
Play buttonFilm (UK) Steel Country review – Andrew Scott shines in clueless murder mysteryThe Guardian - Wendy IdeThe always excellent Andrew Scott, most recently seen as the “sexy priest” in Fleabag, brings an angular authenticity to the central performance in this drama set in small-town Ohio. He plays Donny, a
Muscle The secrets of sports recoveryThe Guardian - Nic FlemingRelaxation is a vital part of the recovery process, and one that is too often ignored For most of the 20th century, getting fitter just involved training harder. However, today’s elite athletes, weekend
Play buttonJudi Dench Red Joan review – soporific spy storyThe Guardian - Wendy IdeWhat if the old lady next door was in fact a former Soviet spy, whose stolen secrets added fuel to the nuclear arms race? This rather too mild-mannered drama, directed by Trevor Nunn, combines the red
Optimism Herlin Riley: Perpetual Optimism review – good-natured ease, brilliantly doneThe Guardian - Dave Gelly(Mack Avenue) When Herlin Riley came to Britain with Wynton Marsalis’s band some years ago, his serene smile behind the drums radiated what Ira Gershwin might have called his sunny disposish. This album
Play buttonThe Theatre Amélie the Musical review – a rocking realisation of the filmThe Guardian - Clare BrennanLast week’s fire at Notre Dame prompted various reflections on French identity. Although a more ephemeral entity, the 2001 film Amélie raised questions about the same theme: was its faux-nostalgic, CGI-ed
Play buttonMusic (UK) Kelsey Lu: Blood review – absorbing, astonishing debut albumThe Guardian - Tara JoshiIntricate and sculptural, North Carolina singer-songwriter-producer Kelsey Lu deals in music where the unifying genre is, essentially, beauty. Having previously collaborated with the likes of Sampha, and
Play buttonMusic (UK) Fat White Family: Serfs up! review – a giant leap forwardThe Guardian - Phil MongredienA band always seemingly more interested in notoriety than grand musical statements, Fat White Family’s creative core appeared to have split in two after 2016’s controversy-craving (Goebbels! Shipman! but
Music (UK) Loyle Carner: ‘I was raised by women – they talked about feelings every day’The Guardian - Tim LewisInstagram lets people show everything, but nothing that’s real Don’t go out with a pop star. We’re weirdos, not heroes Hello, I’m Ben,” says Ben Coyle-Larner, a 24-year-old British rapper better known
Play buttonFilm (UK) Greta review – effective B-movie madnessThe Guardian - Simran HansThe catalyst in Neil Jordan’s thriller is a green handbag. An expensive-looking leather satchel, square with a gold clasp. Left unattended on a subway seat, it’s either an invitation or a ticking bomb
