This year features a football World Cup, a Winter Olympics, a Commonwealth Games and a historic Test match Jannik Sinner will be aiming to become only the second man in the Open era, after Novak Djokovic, to win three consecutive Australian Open singles titles, while in the women’s draw Madison […]
Month: January 2026
Next head of Cern backs massive replacement for world’s largest machine to investigate mysteries of the universe Mark Thomson, a professor of experimental particle physics at the University of Cambridge, has landed one of the most coveted jobs in global science. But it is hard not to wonder, when looked […]
It was New Year’s Eve and there had been fireworks, drinking and dancing. Amid it all, I felt ashen and cold. As I walked out, I felt my first surge of quiet liberation We drove out along the coast one afternoon, to a fireworks shop a couple of towns along. […]
For those not going out to celebrate, you can still party with Harry and Sally, play cards with Jack Lemmon and make merry hell at the Overlook Hotel At the end of any especially troublesome year it’s always good to revisit The Apartment, Billy Wilder’s brilliantly bleak comedy of office […]
The bioscience startup has attracted billions in investment – and a flurry of criticism, but founder tells the Guardian plans to bring back the woolly mammoth will not be derailed Death and taxes are supposed to be the things we can depend on in this life. But in 2025, the […]