We try to teach our children to follow the rules. Now an American president has chosen the opposite tack I’m rooting for the US as we take on Belgium today in Seattle for a place in the World Cup quarterfinals. But the game isn’t what it was – before Trump […]
After five goals, two penalties and a 4am finish, it was a bleary-eyed start to Monday for pupils and workers So we survived. We made it out the other side. After all the strategising about where, when, if and how we would watch England take their World Cup fight to […]
The Reform funding scandals could yet bring down its leader – and give Andy Burnham a head start. The biggest pitfall would be complacency No politician is greater than their party. However bright you shine, you’re never so indispensable that you couldn’t be replaced tomorrow – or so, at least, […]
Between enemies-to-lovers and ‘shadow daddies’, BookTok has fallen in love with the spicy stories combining romance and fantasy. But there is more to the subgenre than sex, say the fans who queued for hours outside the brick-and-mortar Oxford store ‘We left Warrington at 5.15am this morning to get here,” Emma […]
Britain’s religious right is fuming over a document suggesting the monarch wants to be defender of all faiths. I’m with Charles: what does that make me? We need to talk about King Charles and specifically this: is the British monarch basically a traitor? Dr Gavin Ashenden is a former chaplain […]
⚽️ Kick-off time: 9pm EDT/2am BST/11am AEST⚽️ Match gallery | Player guide | World Cup draw | Email Beau It has just been announced that the arrival of the teams at the stadium has been put on hold. So, maybe we won’t be fine …. And another! Norway are heading […]
‘Nothing to see here,’ says the man who once overruled council planners in favour of Richard ‘Dirty’ Desmond How unlucky can one man get? You have to feel for Nigel Farage. Why does it keep happening to him? There he is, just minding his own business, trying to make a […]
Karlovy Vary film festivalThe film-maker and critic traces a decade of documentaries, from the fall of the Berlin Wall to Michael Moore, via Klaus Barbie and The Wombles The unmistakable film-making voice of documentary-maker and critic Mark Cousins is raised again, to educate, to intrigue, to challenge. His histories of […]
This new panel show from Romesh Ranganathan’s production company features comics airing their worst opinions – and it feels completely unnecessary ‘You know who we don’t see enough of on British TV? Romesh Ranganathan,” said no one ever. That’s not meant as a slight to the man – who this […]
Jesús Piñero grew up with the sound of gunfire, but thought he would be safe on the bus taking him to his home in Caracas. Then a mugger came for his phone … As he rushed up the stairs from the Palo Verde metro station and jumped into the camioneta […]