US president’s friend Ronald Lauder – who first proposed Arctic expansion – is now making deals in the island One day during his first term, Donald Trump summoned a top aide to discuss a new idea. “Trump called me down to the Oval Office,” John Bolton, national security adviser in […]
Even Nigel Farage looked taken aback by the news Honest Bob was about to join his flock, but he quickly saw the upside UK politics live – latest updates One is too many and 1,000 never enough. Addiction is a tricky business. What starts as fun inevitably, insidiously, tears away […]
Peter Frampton’s Frampton Comes Alive!, one of the bestselling live albums of all time, is turning 50. You won’t find that on this list, however: instead there’s metal, soul, and an ‘indecently exciting’ No 1 … Already stars in Black America, Maze became the ultimate if-you-know-you-know band among British fans […]
The Lincoln in the Bardo author is back with another metaphysical tale. He discusses Buddhism, partisan politics and the terrifying flight that changed his life Like his first novel, Lincoln in the Bardo, which won the Booker prize in 2017, George Saunders’s new novel is a ghost story. In Vigil, […]
First-leg victory at Stamford Bridge displayed the hallmarks of another vintage Gunners team who refused to be bullied Nobody said it had to be pretty. And for large portions of Arsenal’s 3-2 win at Chelsea in the Carabao Cup semi-final first leg on Wednesday, it certainly was not. But for […]
Ahead of high-stakes talks, people tell of alarm, thoughts of fleeing and lack of information on what to do if US invades Europe live – latest updates When she was living in Denmark, the seemingly unshakeable safety of Greenland was a comforting source of reassurance for Najannguaq Hegelund. Whenever there […]
Having lost the faith of his party and the public, the prime minister turns to dad jokes – and he’s even worse at those than running the country Not another one. On Tuesday evening, the government announced that it wasn’t going to make digital ID cards mandatory after all. Just […]
St Michael’s Mount launches major operation to clear up devastation caused by 112mph winds The tidal island of St Michael’s Mount in the far south-west of Britain is usually a place of peace and quiet. But it has become a hive of noisy activity as gardeners equipped with chainsaws and […]
He has broken his ankles, endured 365 days in a cell and faced down the 20th century’s worst winter. Yet he says he is not a masochist. We meet the man Marina Abramovich calls ‘the master’ For one year, beginning on 30 September 1978, Tehching Hsieh lived in an 11ft […]
If you’ve ever refused to knock down a game’s difficulty level, or chased a purposefully pointless achievement, you might have this pernicious but pleasurable affliction • Don’t get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? Sign up here Studies on gaming’s effect on the brain usually focus on aggression or the […]