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 […]
Doing full justice to the Homeric legend, Christopher Nolan amasses an epic cast to convey the true cost of war with film-making of thrilling ambition A classicist’s verdict: soulful hero flatters our times as women and nuance pushed overboard Christopher Nolan reinvents the Homeric legend as a colossal origin-myth story […]
It wasn’t his performances on Wednesday lunchtimes that did for the ultimate mid-table PM – it was all the other stuff Who would have thought it? Most of us would have put money on Kemi Badenoch failing to read the room for Keir Starmer’s last ever prime minister’s questions. Not […]
All the young people the Guardian spoke to disagreed with aspects of the government’s proposed block Sixteen- and 17-year-olds in Britain are to be encouraged to observe a midnight to 6am social media curfew but will be able to opt out by changing their account settings. From next spring, they […]
In my country, devolution has been the equivalent of giving someone a new electric car without the capacity to charge it. That can’t be the model for the whole UK As a journalist, I have specialised in Wales, Welsh politics and devolution for the past 10 years. Devolution, in particular, […]
We often call England v Argentina a grudge match – a simple story of mutual hatred. But the truth is far more complex, says the Guardian’s Jonathan Liew. It began with British influence, raising Argentina as a ‘faithful son’ in their own image through polo, tea, and football. But decades […]