Reform leader is trying to make it as a mainstream politician – which involves contradicting himself and gaslighting voters The scene: an old banking hall in the heart of the City. The music: first, Richard Clayderman plays Bach. Then Pachelbel’s Canon, followed by the Adagio from Mahler’s 5th. Death in […]
Month: November 2025
Guardian senior reporter Ben Quinn on the shocking knife attack on a train from Doncaster to London On Saturday night, a train from Doncaster to London was packed with people heading out for the night when a horrifying mass stabbing attacked unfolded. Witnesses described “pure panic” as people tried to […]
(Columbia)The Catalan star’s monumental fourth LP features lyrics in 13 languages, references to female saints, the London Symphony Orchestra – and Björk on ‘divine intervention’ Last week, Rosalía appeared on a US podcast to discuss her fourth album. At one juncture, the interviewer asked if she didn’t think that Lux […]
Adapting your fitness routine to your physical realities can help prevent injury from over-exercising Tell us: have you fallen in love this year? Last year, I had to give up running. It was, as my sports medicine doctor counseled, “time”. Since I was a teen, it had been my primary […]
Looking for eco-friendly toys, games and presents for little ones that won’t break the bank? We have kits, skittles, crayons, trucks and tractors to add to your list • The best toys and gifts for one-year-olds Father Christmas has a hard time of it. In a cost of living crisis, […]
Levels of fatigue among women in Britain are soaring, and this isn’t the kind that can be cured by a nap. What lies behind the exhaustion epidemic? Look around you and it isn’t hard to find an exhausted woman. There she is, standing behind you in the queue at the […]
The ex-diver is so fantastic that this needle-based Bake Off wannabe is 80% better every time he’s on screen. He absolutely makes this show ‘A new generation of knitters is taking the world by storm,” says Tom Daley, striding towards us in his ankle-length woollen poncho. “With just two needles, […]
In an exclusive extract from her forthcoming autobiography, the former England goalkeeper reveals how her life unravelled during the Covid lockdowns of 2020 In early 2020, on the eve of lockdown, Phil Neville, then head coach of England, dropped Mary Earps from the squad. For the first time ever, I […]
Masculinity is almost always presented as toxic on my feed – but we need constructive alternatives to give hope to those who feel lost If you judged modern boyhood from the headlines, you’d think we were broken – radicalised, misogynistic, angry. But as a teenage boy myself, I don’t see […]
Why did an obscure Dostoevsky novella sell 100,000 copies in the UK last year? And why are TikTokers raving about a 1943 Turkish novel? The way young people are discovering books is changing – and their literary tastes reflect our times The sales patterns for classic novels are normally a […]