From petrol pump attendant to Dylan-feted rocker and Judd Apatow muse: the delightfully unlikely life of Graham Parker
The Guardianby Alexis Petridis·2 Sept 2026
To say Graham Parker enjoyed a swift rise to fame is an understatement. He played his first live show with his most famous backing band, the Rumour, in October 1975, at the Newlands Tavern, a pub...
Joey Ramone smiling! And having fun! At the beach! Roberta Bayley’s best photograph
The Guardianby Interview by Dave Simpson·2 Sept 2026
The first band I ever saw were the Beatles, on 19 August 1964 at the Cow Palace Arena near San Francisco. I was 13.
Simply the best? Is the Berlin Philharmonic really better than all the rest?
The Guardianby Tom Service·2 Sept 2026
The Berlin Philharmonic are in London tonight and tomorrow at the Proms, days after closing the Edinburgh international festival in thrilling style.
Jess Cartner-Morley on fashion: swot up with these lessons in back-to-school dressing
The Guardianby Jess Cartner-Morley·2 Sept 2026
I used to love back-to-school shopping when my children were little. The miniature highlighter pens, the name labels, those pop-out pencil cases from Smiggle, even the intergenerational wrangling...
‘An intoxicating mix of humour, high camp and danger’: remembering Tim Curry
The Guardianby Guardian readers and Alfie Packham·2 Sept 2026
‘Always had a glorious glint in his eye’ I first saw him in the 1978 series Will Shakespeare, where he played Shakespeare alongside Nicholas Clay.
‘Everything countercultural is doomed, isn’t it?’ Sofie Royer, the bracingly brilliant pop star pondering life’s big questions
The Guardianby Ben Beaumont-Thomas·2 Sept 2026
You wait ages for a brilliant pop song about film-making and then two come along at once. Following on from Charli xcx’s Camera comes Actress by Sofie Royer, with lyrics referencing rotoscoping...
How to turn past-their-best bananas into a glorious ice-cream – recipe | Waste not
The Guardianby Tom Hunt·2 Sept 2026
With two young kids, we get through a lot of bananas in our household. Perhaps surprisingly, though, most of them are frozen: our daughters eat them straight from the freezer most evenings, with...
Trump’s ridiculous bullying of Canada is backfiring | Robert Reich
The Guardianby Robert Reich·2 Sept 2026
What do bullies do when someone stands up to their bullying and punches them in the face? They look for someone weaker to bully who won’t punch back.
Freelancers are getting buried with ‘soulless’ AI slop cleanup: ‘It’s a shame we need to do it’
The Guardianby Aaron Mok·2 Sept 2026
Lisa, a freelance graphic designer based in Spain, noticed a shift in her work after the release of ChatGPT in 2022.
‘It’s a fever dream’: USS Abraham Lincoln’s crew arrive in Thailand after record stint at sea
The Guardianby Natasha May in Pattaya·2 Sept 2026
At Pattaya’s Hard Rock Cafe and hotel, the city’s mayor and police officials, along with women in traditional Thai dress, wait to greet the sailors who are arriving in civilian clothes, bags slung...
Trump’s threat against an NBC journalist is an attack on reality | Margaret Sullivan
The Guardianby Margaret Sullivan·2 Sept 2026
With his approval ratings tanking, the crucial midterm elections looming, and his war with Iran turning into a quagmire, Donald Trump has entered full freak-out mode. It’s not hard to tell.
‘He was always a bit of a groundbreaker’: David Bowie enters a new dimension in ‘extended reality’ documentary
The Guardianby Xan Brooks·2 Sept 2026
David Bowie shares the bill with starmen, firefighters and Walt Disney wolves at the 10th anniversary edition of Venice Immersive, the film festival’s pioneering showcase for new forms of...
Russian airspace becoming unsafe for commercial airlines, Zelenskyy says
The Guardianby Dan Sabbagh in Kyiv and Pjotr Sauer·2 Sept 2026
Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said Russia’s airspace is becoming unsafe for commercial airlines, as Vladimir Putin promised to step up strikes against Ukraine’s energy facilities in the run-up to winter.
This data has helped fight workplace discrimination for 60 years. The Trump administration plans to delete it
The Guardianby Amy Qin·2 Sept 2026
The US civil rights agency mandated to protect equal rights for workers is set to stop collecting data on the demographic makeup of companies – which for the past six decades has been used to...
The deportation of Milo Yiannopoulos signals a rupture within Maga | Moira Donegan
The Guardianby Moira Donegan·2 Sept 2026
It’s been a long, slow decline for Milo Yiannopoulos. From the vantage point of 2026, it’s easy to forget that he was once a big deal.
Barclays faces complaint over backing for power plant near world’s largest mangrove forest
The Guardianby Matthew Pearce·2 Sept 2026
Barclays Bank is facing a formal complaint over its financial links to a coal-fired power station near the Sundarbans, the world’s largest mangrove forest and home to millions of people in...
Guinea-Bissau voters approve new constitution expanding presidential powers
The Guardianby Eromo Egbejule·2 Sept 2026
Guinea-Bissau voters have approved a new constitution significantly expanding presidential powers ahead of elections due in December.
Nate Boyer, the Green Beret who stood beside Kaepernick: ‘The vitriol was more disrespectful than the protest’
The Guardianby Melissa Jacobs·2 Sept 2026
Nate Boyer was stunned. The former NFL long snapper and United States Army Green Beret had big plans for his MVP (Merging Vets and Players) foundation, an organization that helps veterans and NFL...
The opposite of ‘damsels in distress’: how TV fell in love with female gangsters
The Guardianby Louis Staples·2 Sept 2026
Television loves a gangster story – and apparently so does the Duchess of Sussex. This week, Netflix’s The Gentlemen – Guy Ritchie’s latest addition to the gangster canon, which stars Theo James as...
Star Wars Zero Company review – joyfully absurd heroics with a tight-knit team of misfits
The Guardianby Nic Reuben·2 Sept 2026
Even if you’re unfamiliar with the term “emergent storytelling”, you’ve likely experienced some of the unscripted tales that can bubble up out of a game’s systems.
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