News Theresa May to hold talks with ministers in bid to stave off exitThe GuardianTheresa May is trying to slow her departure from No 10 by meeting cabinet ministers to discuss rewriting her withdrawal bill, despite extreme pressure from her party to quit as soon as the European elections
Paris Paris Saint-Germain football boss faces corruption inquiryThe GuardianThe president of Paris Saint-Germain football club, Nasser al-Khelaifi, has been placed under investigation for suspected corruption, a French judicial official said. The preliminary charge of “active
Rugby League 'I'm so obsessed': Adam Hills on fitting his TV career around rugby leagueThe Guardian - Gavin WillacyThe Last Leg presenter talks about physical disability rugby league, playing at Anfield and his 400-mile trips to training If you happen to see a bearded bloke wearing South Sydney Rabbitohs gear in the
Miuccia Prada Prada announces it is to go fur-freeThe Guardian - Ellie Violet BramleyThe Italian fashion house Prada has announced it will stop using fur in its collections. The ban will come into effect this September for its spring/summer 2020 women’s collections, although items that
The Theatre Does My Bomb Look Big in This? review – fierce, witty study of radicalisationThe Guardian - Arifa AkbarWhat makes a 15-year-old from Mitcham, south London, leave her ordinary schoolgirl existence to travel to Syria and become a “jihadi bride”? This is the central question posed in Nyla Levy’s drama, which
Philip Green I was told of hundreds of grievance cases against Philip Green, says peerThe GuardianA Labour peer who used parliamentary privilege to accuse Sir Philip Green of being an abusive bully has said he did so after hearing “horrible” claims of repeated sexual assaults resulting in hundreds
Artists Hogarth and The Art of Noise review – London's whistles and wails, drums and dogsThe Guardian - Jonathan JonesWhen was the last time Britain was as broken in two as it is by now? William Hogarth has the answer. His masterpiece The March of the Guards to Finchley depicts the last war fought on mainland British
Books Judith Kerr was both sweetness and steel – and I'll miss herThe Guardian - Nancy Banks-SmithWhen I went to interview Nigel Kneale about Quatermass he would keep talking about his wife. Apparently she was a writer herself. The more I hauled the steering wheel over to malevolent Martians and aliens
Cricket India Cricket World Cup guide: gameplan, key player and predictionThe Guardian - Anjali DoshiThirty-six years after Kapil Dev’s India – 66-1 outsiders – lifted their first World Cup, at Lord’s, they enter the 2019 tournament as joint favourites with England. Leading them this time is a man who
Philip Green Philip Green's retail rescue plan at risk over pension schemeThe Guardian - Sarah ButlerSir Philip Green’s rescue of his Topshop-to-Burton retail empire has been thrown into doubt after the Pension Regulator said the former billionaire’s restructuring plan did not adequately protect the 9,500
Play buttonMusic (UK) Cate Le Bon: Reward reviewThe Guardian - Alexis PetridisThere are several time-honoured options available to the artist who is a decade or so into their career and keen to reset their creativity. You can surround yourself with a fresh set of musicians, or a
Film (UK) The Phantom Menace at 20: was the infamous prequel actually that bad?The Guardian - Ben ChildIt is hard to believe that The Phantom Menace is 20 years old this year. In the decades since we first met Jar Jar Binks, Anakin Skywalker and those weird cod-Japanese blokes from the Trade Federation,
The Theatre Our Town review – Ellen McDougall's Wilder revival hits home with forceThe Guardian - Michael BillingtonThornton Wilder’s 1938 hymn to small-town American life is endlessly adaptable. Its last London revival saw the Almeida transformed into a village hall. Ellen McDougall’s production is necessarily on different
Opinion (UK) It’s hard to imagine. But could this really be the end for the Tories?The Guardian - Polly ToynbeeWelcome to an extraordinarily bizarre election day. Pause on the way to the polling station to wonder at the astounding mayhem within our “ruling” party, soliciting votes even while wrenching its leader
Travel Great places to see wildlife in the UK: readers’ travel tipsThe Guardian - Guardian readersCuckoos, kingfishers, water voles, marsh harriers, seals and fantastic views from the coffee shop: inside the M25! Take a bow, Rainham RSPB reserve. A two-mile walk around the reserve (which is only a
Politics Trump's trade policy is a hot mess of conflicting goals – with few winnersThe Guardian - Jeffrey FrankelTo say that both countries gain overall from trade is not to claim that every citizen of each country benefits Earlier this month, the US President, Donald Trump, suddenly revealed that a trade agreement
Tennis Michael Chang: ‘I chat with Ivan when I see him. But never about the French Open’The Guardian - Simon CambersIt is one of the most iconic moments in tennis history. Michael Chang, a young American playing only his fifth grand slam event, was cramping in the final set of his fourth-round battle in the 1989 French
Brexit The suffering caused by austerity helped fuel Brexit – and will only get worseThe Guardian - Frances RyanUnless austerity ends, the UK’s poorest people face lives that are “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short”. That was the finding on Wednesday from Philip Alston, the UN rapporteur on extreme poverty,
John Worboys appears in court charged with four sexual offencesThe GuardianJohn Worboys has appeared in court accused of drugging four women in an attempt to carry out sexual attacks. The former black-cab driver is said to have told the alleged victims, whom he picked up in taxi
Travel Send us a tip on a theme park in Europe for the chance to win a £200 hotel voucherThe GuardianGreat rides, a lovely setting, imaginative play areas, friendly staff … there are lots of ingredients that go into making a really good theme park. Whether it was high-tech or homespun, educational or
Play button US briefing: India election, Trump's bank records and an extinction crisisGuardian US - Tim WalkerThe Indian prime minister, the Hindu nationalist Narendra Modi, has defied the dour economic climate and retained power with what looks set to be a landslide election victory in the world’s biggest democracy.
Boris Johnson Boris Johnson lied during EU referendum campaign, court toldThe GuardianBoris Johnson lied when he repeatedly claimed during the 2016 referendum on EU membership that the UK sent £350m a week to Brussels, lawyers attempting to launch a private prosecution of the MP have told
Books Oxford poetry professor contest kicks off amid growing controversyThe Guardian - Alison FloodJust weeks after Simon Armitage was named the UK’s next poet laureate, the contest for the country’s second most important role in poetry has begun. Voting has opened for Oxford University’s next professor
Andy Samberg The Lonely Island's Unauthorised Bash Brothers Experience: dizzyingly genius TVThe Guardian - Stuart HeritageEven by their own standards, The Lonely Island’s new Netflix ‘visual poem’ is a very, very specific piece of work. The Lonely Island Presents: The Unauthorised Bash Brothers Experience is a Beyoncé Lemonade-style
Opinion (UK) An ambassador for human rights won’t convince the world that Britain caresThe Guardian - David WearingThe foreign secretary Jeremy Hunt has created a new role of ambassador for human rights, which, according to a Foreign Office statement, “demonstrates the UK’s commitment to defending human rights globally”.
East China Sea 'We'll fight to the end': China's media ramps up rhetoric in US trade warThe Guardian - Lily Kuo in BeijingOver the last week, China’s state media outlets have called the US government delusional, compared it to apes shouting on a river bank, and offered to teach the Americans a Chinese idiom: diandao heibai,
Film (UK) Matthias & Maxime review – Xavier Dolan's heartfelt tale of male longingThe Guardian - Peter BradshawXavier Dolan’s unstoppably garrulous, sweet-natured new movie is a coming-of-age film, or possibly an approaching-thirtysomethinghood film. Or perhaps it’s a portrait of a bunch of friends for whom things
Dominic Raab Brussels rejects 'fraudulent' Raab claim used in election videoThe Guardian - Daniel Boffey in BrusselsThe European commission has described a claim made by the Conservative leadership hopeful Dominic Raab about a key EU official’s views on Brexit as “fake, fraudulent and pure disinformation” after it spread
California California agencies fought fires on federal land. Now Trump won’t pay in fullGuardian US - Vivian Ho in San FranciscoAs California prepares to enter wildfire season, the Trump administration is holding back millions of dollars in requested reimbursement to local fire agencies for battling wildfires on federal lands year.
Opinion (UK) Republicans aren’t just climate deniers. They deny the extinction crisis, tooThe Guardian - Jimmy TobiasMaybe you’ve read King Lear and remember this famous line: “‘Tis the time’s plague when madmen lead the blind.” The words were written more than 400 years ago as a comment on the deadly consequences of
