A hasty handover from Starmer meant his successor has not had much time to prepare for office yet his team is quietly confident What Andy Burnham’s first speech as Labour leader tells us Just 20 minutes’ walk along the road to Wigan Pier, Andy Burnham’s own route back to Westminster […]
It’s silly, singular and occasionally tearjerking: this tale of a mechanical companion to an elderly widow is shot through with love and care The home, warns Jamaican nurse Brianna (Michelle Greenidge), can be a “lethal” environment for elderly people. “You lucky like plucky you never smash your head on the […]
Director Honey Trehan decries ‘dystopian’ opposition to his film depicting crackdown on Punjab’s separatist movement For as long as he has been a film-maker, there is one story Honey Trehan has wanted to tell above all. Growing up in the Indian state of Punjab, Trehan saw firsthand the devastation wrought […]
The incoming PM has made a strong start – but there are several traps he needs to avoid. Brown, Blair and even Thatcher can show the way The first piece of unsolicited advice I would offer to Britain’s incoming prime minister is: don’t take unsolicited advice. Don’t be one of […]
Guardian readers tackle a thorny topic and share their stories of dating a friend’s ex – or a friend dating their ex Life is full of big, messy questions. How should we spend our finite time on Earth? What is the nature of good and evil? And, thorniest of all: […]
Exclusive: Jane and Alan Kelvey reflect on close encounter with Russian warship a few hours into two-month sailing trip They found themselves at the centre of an international incident, the close encounter between their small sailing boat and a Russian warship making headlines around the world. A month later, Jane […]
Former 49-day PM helms a Conservative Political Action Conference that’s a far cry from the glitzy US version Liz Truss has given us all so much in recent years. A mini-budget. A laugh a minute 49 days in office. A new monarch, after the queen decided enough was enough and […]
Christopher Nolan’s film adaptation of the ancient Greek epic has sparked a new appetite for an old classic. Here are the translations, podcasts and audiobooks that make the Homeric world more approachable The Odyssey was once all Greek to me. I struggled to keep up with the characters, the mass […]
Heatwaves, high energy prices, calls for reindustrialisation and North Sea drilling are all high on the to-do list Wildfires cast a pall of smoke this week over Greater Manchester, whose former mayor Andy Burnham stands on the threshold of No 10. Amid three UK heatwaves so far this year, which […]
It was a statistically weird game for Argentina’s talisman against England, full of outliers. It didn’t matter Thomas Tuchel will have prepared for every eventuality before England’s match with Argentina. He will have considered how his team could prosper in attack while remaining solid in defence. What to change if […]