Opinion (UK) The Philadelphia story couldn’t be told today…The Guardian - Alex ClarkMany years ago, a friend’s mother asked her if her husband was going to accompany them to the playground. “No, Mum,” my pal replied, with what the cynical might assume was false brightness. “He’s seen
Opinion (UK) Last week, I gazed on a truly wild land... and saw art reflected backThe Guardian - Kenan MalikAchmore is a nondescript hamlet on the A858 that cuts across the isle of Lewis and Harris in the Outer Hebrides. This is a gnarled, fractured landscape, swaddled in wind and rain, and built out of some
Greenland 'Friends, you're going to love Greenland. I was there on 9/11'The Guardian - Lawrence Douglas and Nancy PickDonald Trump tweeted today he had purchased Greenland from the Kingdom of Denmark for $15bn plus Kanye West and the state of Massachusetts. Still, the announcement has been questioned abroad. Prime minister
Opinion (UK) Oh I do like to be beside the seaside, but many of our coastal towns need more loveThe Guardian - Sarah DitumMy summer holiday of choice involves no passport, minimal cultural outings and as much time as possible spent immersed in 15C water. When I tell people that I am spending my break swimming in the North
Greta Gerwig Greta Gerwig: why Little Women still generates a big buzzThe Guardian - Lucy SiegleYou have to be super-confident to release a film without Will Ferrell at Christmas. But then “eagerly anticipated” doesn’t quite cover the release of Greta Gerwig’s Little Women. In case you haven’t been
AIPAC Trump and Netanyahu are playing a bigoted game of chickenThe Guardian - Emma GoldbergTrump and Netanyahu use the Jewish community to justify his bigotry Why would a president who has elevated white nationalism, who said there were “very fine people on both sides” in the white supremacist
Opinion (UK) ‘Do black people read?’ What my years in publishing have taught me about diversity in booksThe Guardian - Natalie JeromeIf we feel disconnected from each other, perhaps it starts in this skewed, unrepresentative vision of the world that begins in our books when we are at knee height My daughter, like me, is of mixed heritage.
Ralph Waldo Emerson Are we approaching a turning point in US’s immigration crisis?The Guardian - Jackie Stevens and James MarcusThis filthy enactment was made in the 19th century, by people who could read & write. I will not obey it, by God Ralph Waldo Emerson “I have lived all my life without suffering any known inconvenience
Opinion (UK) Switch off the phone, turn on the radio and tune into ProustThe Guardian - Alex ClarkMight Marcel Proust, on finding that BBC Radio 4 is to broadcast a 10-hour adaptation of In Search of Lost Time across the August bank holiday weekend, stretch his dictum that “the real voyage of discovery
Play buttonGreta Thunberg How Greta Thunberg became the new front in the Brexit culture warThe Guardian - Gaby HinsliffShe looks both younger than her age and old enough to have the cares of the world on her shoulders. Face scrubbed clean, dressed in a severe black jacket, Greta Thunberg stares unsmiling from the cover
Hate Crimes It's easy to argue for free speech when it's not you or your children in the firing lineThe Guardian - Nyadol NyuonWhat did you hear when Adam Goodes was booed? Did you hear racism? Many Australians didn’t, but, to many Indigenous people, the boos were “a howl of humiliation. A howl that echoes across two centuries
Opinion (UK) The Guardian view on A-levels: end the guesswork in university admissionsThe Guardian - EditorialThis week’s A-level results will have disappointed some students, but despite that there may in one sense never be a better time to be a UK teenager who wants to go on to higher education. It is true unlike
AIPAC The Guardian view on entry to Israel: a bar for Trump’s sake, not the country’sThe Guardian - EditorialBenjamin Netanyahu does not care for criticism, and his increasingly rightwing governments have sought to stifle it. But the decision to refuse entry to Ilhan Omar, and to offer Rashida Tlaib, who is Palestinian
Opinion (UK) There’s an idea that could transform Britain – but Brexit won’t let it be heardThe Guardian - Jonathan FreedlandAgainst some stiff competition, one of the worst things about Brexit is the way it sucks up all the oxygen, consuming whatever political energy is available, until there’s none left for anything else.
Jo Swinson ‘National Unity’: the fantasy flick that will never make it out of developmentThe Guardian - Marina HydeThe unfortunately obvious point is that, like most conversations in Hollywood, all of this week’s posturing is hot air Three years on from the Brexit vote, what best crystallises where we are? Perhaps
Opinion (UK) Of course millennials are saying ‘I don’t’ to wedding invites. We’re completely brokeThe Guardian - Daisy BuchananI adore being a wedding guest. In fairness, I realise we’re not allowed to admit otherwise. If you don’t toe the party line, you don’t get to go to the buffet. Claiming that you don’t like attending weddings
AIPAC Shocked Israel would ban Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar? Don't beThe Guardian - Joshua LeiferAnyone paying attention to the politics of Israel-Palestine could sense this was coming. It was was only a matter of time before a prominent American politician was blocked from entering Israel on political
Opinion (UK) By dismissing Corbyn’s overtures, the Lib Dems are showing their true coloursThe Guardian - Owen JonesIf your signature policy – indeed, only visible political position – is to stop Brexit, and you claim that you will do absolutely everything within your power to prevent no deal, then it’s something of
Forget a 2008 Lehman Bros-style crash – this is how a ‘normal’ recession could startThe Guardian - Dan DaviesIn order to have felt the fear in the 80s, you’d need to be quite a bit older than most of today’s key policy advisors There’s a hoary old proverb in the financial markets that a crisis happens precisely
Opinion (UK) Social media must not rob us of the right to change our mindsThe Guardian - Peter OrmerodWe need more public figures to take risks, eschew cheap popularity and brave the inevitable charges of inconsistency It could all have been so different. In some parallel dimension, social media is being
Opinion (UK) Packing Christmas cards knocked the pseudo-intellectual snob out of meThe Guardian - Marc BurrowsGlitter and dirt under my fingernails, I was determined to never be like the efficient 40-somethings in their tabards I finished my A-levels in July of 1999, the summer of the eclipse, the Matrix and,
Latinx The idea that Latinx people constitute an 'invasion' in the US is nothing newThe Guardian - Iván Chaar LópezSince the beginning of 2019, Donald Trump’s presidential campaign launched more than 2,000 ads on social media that warn people of the supposed threat of Latinx people. The aim of the ads was to mobilize
Countryside Enjoy your walk in the country, but please don’t abuse farmers’ hospitalityThe Guardian - Ben EagleDuring the summer holidays, you may be heading into the British countryside for a leisurely walk. However, the idea of the rural idyll is not what you may think. Country paths are often strewn with dog
Opinion (UK) The chicken shop knife-crime campaign would be funny if it wasn’t so tragicThe Guardian - Coco KhanAfter their 2013 “Go Home” vans, a campaign so ill-conceived and prejudicial it had to be withdrawn after public outcry, you’d think the Home Office would have learned its lesson. But alas! This is a back,
Play buttonOpinion (UK) Peterloo was the massacre that led to a new democratic eraThe Guardian - Richard J EvansTwo hundred years ago, on 16 August 1819, the event we’ve come to know as the Peterloo massacre took place, as a public meeting on St Peter’s Fields in Manchester was violently broken up by troops acting
Play buttonOpinion (UK) The Guardian view on Peterloo, 200 years on: a defining momentThe Guardian - EditorialWe are what we remember. The massacre of men, women and a child at St Peter’s Field in Manchester, 200 years ago on Friday, had a seismic impact and has reverberated ever since. Around 60,000 people –
Opinion (UK) Is your takeout lunch bowl covered in toxic 'forever chemicals'?The Guardian - Joe FasslerFor years, disposable bowls have been a stalwart ally of the fast-casual restaurant. Beige, earthy-looking and made from molded plant fibers, these receptacles appear less wasteful than single-use plastic,
Pacific Islands Forum Scott Morrison's betrayal of the Pacific was immoral – and completely unnecessaryThe Guardian - Nicky IsonAs the Pacific Islands Forum comes to an end, Australia has yet again been shamed on a global stage for our inaction on climate change. The forum was held in Tuvalu, one of the lowest lying islands on
Transgender I have some important things to tell transgender kids – today, right now, you’re perfectThe Guardian - First Dog on the Moon
