Guinness World Records is on a slippery slopeThe Guardian - David MitchellThe tallest bloke you’ve ever met is almost certainly not the tallest man on Earth. You really have to check The world has a new steepest street! But it’s more than 1,000 years old. So, did something to
If the economy is so good, why are some truckers doing so poorly?The Guardian - Gene MarksTimes are good right? Economic growth is strong. Unemployment is low. Business and consumer confidence remains high. It’s pretty easy to say that most small business owners are doing pretty well this Except
Maurizio Sarri Have Juventus assembled a squad good enough to win the Champions League?The Guardian - Fabrizio Romano and Marcus Christenson“Pressure is normal in football. For me it’s not a problem.” Those were the words of Matthijs de Ligt as he was unveiled as Juventus’ ninth – but most important – signing on Friday. Juventus had beaten
Gareth Bale Zinedine Zidane says Gareth Bale could leave Real Madrid in matter of daysThe GuardianGareth Bale appears to be edging closet to leaving Real Madrid after Zinedine Zidane revealed the Spanish club are in talks with an unnamed club about a transfer. Zidane confirmed the Wales international
Libraries Backlash grows against unstaffed librariesThe Guardian - Jessica MurrayHarriet Connides hasn’t been to her local library in north London’s East Finchley for months. She used to go every few days, often with her young daughter, but now it is staffed for only 16 hours a week
Republicans Think Republicans are disconnected from reality? It's even worse among liberalsThe Guardian - Arlie HochschildIn a surprising new national survey, members of each major American political party were asked what they imagined to be the beliefs held by members of the other. The survey asked Democrats: “How many believe
Books John Cooper Clarke: ‘I didn’t want to quit heroin’The Guardian - Tiernan PhippsJohn Cooper Clarke, the poet and performer who became famous during the punk rock era of the late 1970s, has said he didn’t want to quit taking heroin and weaned himself off the drug for the sake of society
Lifestyle (UK) After a century of inflight meals, our trays are yet to soarThe Guardian - Eva WisemanIn the 1940s, glassware was replaced by plastic, removing the need for cabin crew to do the dishes mid-air Last week I spent eight hours on a plane, and learned it is exactly 100 years since the first
Play buttonMusic (UK) Spell Songs: The Lost Words review – a literary landscape brought to lifeThe Guardian - Neil SpencerThe vivid, poetic nature writing of Robert Macfarlane has touched a sweet spot in the national psyche, making him a bestseller and provoking a groundswell of concern for language, landscape and history.
Books I Am Sovereign by Nicola Barker – in a class of her ownThe Guardian - Alex PrestonThere are few writers as resolutely committed to the avant garde novel as Nicola Barker. Her books are never only about their purported subject, but always ask the reader to consider the artificiality
Play buttonMusic (UK) Blood Orange: Angel’s Pulse review – immersive and delicate mixtapeThe Guardian - Tara JoshiAs Blood Orange, New York-based artist Dev Hynes has released four deeply impressive albums of glossy, genre-fluid sounds. Angel’s Pulse is something a little different – described by London-born Hynes
Opinion (UK) Why we should send the tabots back to EthiopiaThe Guardian - Richard BrooksHidden in a storeroom in the British Museum for the past 146 years and never displayed are 11 remarkable religious objects. They are called tabots – replica tablets on which the Ten Commandments are written,
Greta Thunberg Greta Thunberg: ‘They see us as a threat because we’re having an impact’The Guardian - Greta ThunbergGreta Thunberg. This time last year she was unimaginable. Then, pretty much from nowhere, there she was: small and slight, a girl just turned 16, the way-too-young odd person out on a panel of adults in
Novak Djokovic Novak Djokovic’s epic final reveals flaws in a two-set stroll meriting an equal purseThe Guardian - Andrew AnthonyIf you wanted to put the popularity of women’s football into figures then the most impressive one is 11.7 million. That’s the number of people in the UK who watched England’s World Cup semi-final against
El Chapo Now El Chapo’s back in jail, hunt is on for the Mexican drug baron’s moneyThe Guardian - Ed VulliamyIt’s a favourite current joke in Mexico: “No más túneles!” – no more tunnels. There’s little chance of drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán Loera repeating his famous escapes from Mexican prisons in the
Wolves ‘We all got a free electric shaver’: the story of Wolves’ last European campaignThe Guardian - Stuart JamesSJ You were all part of the last Wolves team to play in Europe, against PSV Eindhoven in 1980, on the back of finishing sixth and winning the League Cup. Nuno Espírito Santo’s Premier League side finished
Boris Johnson Boris Johnson’s braggadocio will soon come back to haunt him at Number 10The Guardian - Andrew RawnsleyThe case made for him by his cheerleaders is that he is a master of the theatre of politics For Theresa May, the worst has been saved for last. After taking her final prime minister’s questions, she will
Theresa May By any standards, Theresa May was a failureThe Guardian - Yvonne RobertsTheresa Mary May is the only woman in Britain to have held two great offices of state. For that she will go down in history. She will also be remembered for her stoicism, her sponge-like capacity to absorb
Summer Vacation Food banks scramble to stop a million children going hungry over holidaysThe Guardian - Harriet SherwoodMore families turn to food parcels to make up for loss of free school meals, extra childcare costs and benefit payment delays Church and community food banks are preparing for their busiest summer yet,
Tour de France Nothing stopping women becoming a tour de force in their own rightThe Guardian - William FotheringhamA potentially game-changing development for the whole of cycling was almost lost on Friday afternoon not long after Marianne Vos scored a crushing and spectacular victory in La Course, the one-day women’s
Jerusalem By the Jaffa Gate, final showdown looms in battle over Jerusalem’s historic hotelThe Guardian - Sarah HelmWhen I look at the walls opposite, I see them cry, asking: ‘Where are the people who love Jerusalem?' Walid Dajani, hotelier Standing on a balcony at the New Imperial Hotel, overlooking Jaffa Gate in Old
World News Buddhist, teacher, predator: dark secrets of the Triratna guruThe Guardian - Jamie DowardCoddington Court, near the Herefordshire market town of Ledbury, is a late-18th-century red brick mansion surrounded by farmland. These days it goes by the name of Adhisthana, reflecting its reincarnation
Lifestyle (UK) The boy has progressed from Baby Shark to Night GardenThe Guardian - Séamas O’ReillyUnlike other kids' TV shows, Night Garden isn't on drugs, it is a drug My son’s attention span has settled in a bit, and for the first time he’s showing an interest in regular television. His months-long
Film (UK) From Beyoncé to Bob Dylan, why music docs are all over our screensThe Guardian - Vanessa ThorpeWhen the rock star PJ Harvey let visitors to London’s Somerset House watch her recording her next album through the smoked panels of some one-way glass in 2015, it seemed a rare chance to spy on a major
David Gauke David Gauke to quit government if Boris Johnson becomes PMThe Guardian - Press AssociationThe justice secretary, David Gauke, will quit the government this week if Boris Johnson becomes prime minister. Gauke, who has served in Theresa May’s cabinet since she took office in June 2016, said would
World News Former MEP berates 'culture of sexism' in European parliamentThe Guardian - Jennifer Rankin in BrusselsWhen Marietje Schaake was elected to the European parliament for the Dutch liberal D66 party a decade ago, she knew what she wanted to do – protect people’s rights online and promote transatlantic relations.
Art How to spot an architectural carbuncleThe Guardian - Catherine SlessorSeared into architectural folk memory is the time in 1984 when Prince Charles went off piste at a dinner to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Royal Institute of British Architects and laid into what
Bacteria The five: new uses for bacteriaThe Guardian - Dani EllenbyScientists have discovered a way of using bacteria to produce graphene – a nanomaterial composed of a single layer of carbon atoms with extraordinary properties. Graphene is strong, flexible and conductive
Play buttonEd Sheeran Ed Sheeran: No 6: Collaborations Project review – a credibility-by-osmosis playlistThe Guardian - Michael CraggDespite notions of cool dying out in a blaze of post-irony, Ed Sheeran remains obsessed with his perceived status as an outsider. On his fourth album, a belated follow-up to his pre-fame EP featuring who’s
Play buttonAgnès Varda Varda by Agnès review – inspiring look at a life in cinemaThe Guardian - Simran HansThe pioneering Belgian film-maker and artist Agnès Varda presented this film at the Berlin international film festival in February this year; one month later she died. A documentary that takes the form
Guinness World Records is on a slippery slopeThe Guardian - David MitchellThe tallest bloke you’ve ever met is almost certainly not the tallest man on Earth. You really have to check The world has a new steepest street! But it’s more than 1,000 years old. So, did something to
If the economy is so good, why are some truckers doing so poorly?The Guardian - Gene MarksTimes are good right? Economic growth is strong. Unemployment is low. Business and consumer confidence remains high. It’s pretty easy to say that most small business owners are doing pretty well this Except
Maurizio Sarri Have Juventus assembled a squad good enough to win the Champions League?The Guardian - Fabrizio Romano and Marcus Christenson“Pressure is normal in football. For me it’s not a problem.” Those were the words of Matthijs de Ligt as he was unveiled as Juventus’ ninth – but most important – signing on Friday. Juventus had beaten
Gareth Bale Zinedine Zidane says Gareth Bale could leave Real Madrid in matter of daysThe GuardianGareth Bale appears to be edging closet to leaving Real Madrid after Zinedine Zidane revealed the Spanish club are in talks with an unnamed club about a transfer. Zidane confirmed the Wales international
Libraries Backlash grows against unstaffed librariesThe Guardian - Jessica MurrayHarriet Connides hasn’t been to her local library in north London’s East Finchley for months. She used to go every few days, often with her young daughter, but now it is staffed for only 16 hours a week
Republicans Think Republicans are disconnected from reality? It's even worse among liberalsThe Guardian - Arlie HochschildIn a surprising new national survey, members of each major American political party were asked what they imagined to be the beliefs held by members of the other. The survey asked Democrats: “How many believe
Books John Cooper Clarke: ‘I didn’t want to quit heroin’The Guardian - Tiernan PhippsJohn Cooper Clarke, the poet and performer who became famous during the punk rock era of the late 1970s, has said he didn’t want to quit taking heroin and weaned himself off the drug for the sake of society
Lifestyle (UK) After a century of inflight meals, our trays are yet to soarThe Guardian - Eva WisemanIn the 1940s, glassware was replaced by plastic, removing the need for cabin crew to do the dishes mid-air Last week I spent eight hours on a plane, and learned it is exactly 100 years since the first
Play buttonMusic (UK) Spell Songs: The Lost Words review – a literary landscape brought to lifeThe Guardian - Neil SpencerThe vivid, poetic nature writing of Robert Macfarlane has touched a sweet spot in the national psyche, making him a bestseller and provoking a groundswell of concern for language, landscape and history.
Books I Am Sovereign by Nicola Barker – in a class of her ownThe Guardian - Alex PrestonThere are few writers as resolutely committed to the avant garde novel as Nicola Barker. Her books are never only about their purported subject, but always ask the reader to consider the artificiality
Play buttonMusic (UK) Blood Orange: Angel’s Pulse review – immersive and delicate mixtapeThe Guardian - Tara JoshiAs Blood Orange, New York-based artist Dev Hynes has released four deeply impressive albums of glossy, genre-fluid sounds. Angel’s Pulse is something a little different – described by London-born Hynes
Opinion (UK) Why we should send the tabots back to EthiopiaThe Guardian - Richard BrooksHidden in a storeroom in the British Museum for the past 146 years and never displayed are 11 remarkable religious objects. They are called tabots – replica tablets on which the Ten Commandments are written,
Greta Thunberg Greta Thunberg: ‘They see us as a threat because we’re having an impact’The Guardian - Greta ThunbergGreta Thunberg. This time last year she was unimaginable. Then, pretty much from nowhere, there she was: small and slight, a girl just turned 16, the way-too-young odd person out on a panel of adults in
Novak Djokovic Novak Djokovic’s epic final reveals flaws in a two-set stroll meriting an equal purseThe Guardian - Andrew AnthonyIf you wanted to put the popularity of women’s football into figures then the most impressive one is 11.7 million. That’s the number of people in the UK who watched England’s World Cup semi-final against
El Chapo Now El Chapo’s back in jail, hunt is on for the Mexican drug baron’s moneyThe Guardian - Ed VulliamyIt’s a favourite current joke in Mexico: “No más túneles!” – no more tunnels. There’s little chance of drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán Loera repeating his famous escapes from Mexican prisons in the
Wolves ‘We all got a free electric shaver’: the story of Wolves’ last European campaignThe Guardian - Stuart JamesSJ You were all part of the last Wolves team to play in Europe, against PSV Eindhoven in 1980, on the back of finishing sixth and winning the League Cup. Nuno Espírito Santo’s Premier League side finished
Boris Johnson Boris Johnson’s braggadocio will soon come back to haunt him at Number 10The Guardian - Andrew RawnsleyThe case made for him by his cheerleaders is that he is a master of the theatre of politics For Theresa May, the worst has been saved for last. After taking her final prime minister’s questions, she will
Theresa May By any standards, Theresa May was a failureThe Guardian - Yvonne RobertsTheresa Mary May is the only woman in Britain to have held two great offices of state. For that she will go down in history. She will also be remembered for her stoicism, her sponge-like capacity to absorb
Summer Vacation Food banks scramble to stop a million children going hungry over holidaysThe Guardian - Harriet SherwoodMore families turn to food parcels to make up for loss of free school meals, extra childcare costs and benefit payment delays Church and community food banks are preparing for their busiest summer yet,
Tour de France Nothing stopping women becoming a tour de force in their own rightThe Guardian - William FotheringhamA potentially game-changing development for the whole of cycling was almost lost on Friday afternoon not long after Marianne Vos scored a crushing and spectacular victory in La Course, the one-day women’s
Jerusalem By the Jaffa Gate, final showdown looms in battle over Jerusalem’s historic hotelThe Guardian - Sarah HelmWhen I look at the walls opposite, I see them cry, asking: ‘Where are the people who love Jerusalem?' Walid Dajani, hotelier Standing on a balcony at the New Imperial Hotel, overlooking Jaffa Gate in Old
World News Buddhist, teacher, predator: dark secrets of the Triratna guruThe Guardian - Jamie DowardCoddington Court, near the Herefordshire market town of Ledbury, is a late-18th-century red brick mansion surrounded by farmland. These days it goes by the name of Adhisthana, reflecting its reincarnation
Lifestyle (UK) The boy has progressed from Baby Shark to Night GardenThe Guardian - Séamas O’ReillyUnlike other kids' TV shows, Night Garden isn't on drugs, it is a drug My son’s attention span has settled in a bit, and for the first time he’s showing an interest in regular television. His months-long
Film (UK) From Beyoncé to Bob Dylan, why music docs are all over our screensThe Guardian - Vanessa ThorpeWhen the rock star PJ Harvey let visitors to London’s Somerset House watch her recording her next album through the smoked panels of some one-way glass in 2015, it seemed a rare chance to spy on a major
David Gauke David Gauke to quit government if Boris Johnson becomes PMThe Guardian - Press AssociationThe justice secretary, David Gauke, will quit the government this week if Boris Johnson becomes prime minister. Gauke, who has served in Theresa May’s cabinet since she took office in June 2016, said would
World News Former MEP berates 'culture of sexism' in European parliamentThe Guardian - Jennifer Rankin in BrusselsWhen Marietje Schaake was elected to the European parliament for the Dutch liberal D66 party a decade ago, she knew what she wanted to do – protect people’s rights online and promote transatlantic relations.
Art How to spot an architectural carbuncleThe Guardian - Catherine SlessorSeared into architectural folk memory is the time in 1984 when Prince Charles went off piste at a dinner to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Royal Institute of British Architects and laid into what
Bacteria The five: new uses for bacteriaThe Guardian - Dani EllenbyScientists have discovered a way of using bacteria to produce graphene – a nanomaterial composed of a single layer of carbon atoms with extraordinary properties. Graphene is strong, flexible and conductive
Play buttonEd Sheeran Ed Sheeran: No 6: Collaborations Project review – a credibility-by-osmosis playlistThe Guardian - Michael CraggDespite notions of cool dying out in a blaze of post-irony, Ed Sheeran remains obsessed with his perceived status as an outsider. On his fourth album, a belated follow-up to his pre-fame EP featuring who’s
Play buttonAgnès Varda Varda by Agnès review – inspiring look at a life in cinemaThe Guardian - Simran HansThe pioneering Belgian film-maker and artist Agnès Varda presented this film at the Berlin international film festival in February this year; one month later she died. A documentary that takes the form
