Food delivery riders call on platforms to open up AI ‘black box’ they say has cut pay
The Guardianby Joanna Partridge·5 Sept 2026
Gig economy workers are urging delivery platforms to open up the “black box” of computer-driven algorithms that determine the jobs they are offered and how much they are paid, blaming increased use...
A city break in Łódź, Poland’s capital of cinema and factories
The Guardianby Kevin Rushby·5 Sept 2026
Sometimes travel delivers a real shock. I’m moving along the boulevards in the Polish city of Łódź, enjoying the excellent cafes and warm sunshine, when I spot the vans.
Colin from Accounts: a show so fearless and hilarious that I want to get a tattoo of it
The Guardianby Rhik Samadder·5 Sept 2026
Sometimes the best things in life have the worst names. The Beatles. Smeg fridges. Nintendo Wii. But top of the tree is Colin from Accounts (Monday 7 September, 10pm, BBC Two), a name so bland I...
Losing a parent is a bewildering, lonely experience. Here are the things I wish I had known before | Gaby Hinsliff
The Guardianby Gaby Hinsliff·5 Sept 2026
My mother’s house looks exactly as she left it. Two novels sit by the armchair, their pages neatly marked for book group.
‘The noise was unbelievable’: the referee’s view of Mexico v England at the World Cup
The Guardianby Exclusive by William Ralston·5 Sept 2026
It was 6pm on 5 July in Mexico City, and Alireza Faghani, a 48-year-old Australian-Iranian, was asleep in the locker room, snoring. His assistants had turned the music down.
How posh are you? Do you have a therapist? What would you say to Trump at a party? Marina Hyde answers readers’ questions
The Guardianby Marina Hyde·5 Sept 2026
What are your bunker plans? James, Portugal Masses of things to read, incredible food and an unethical doctor with an insane war chest of interesting pills.
Blind date: ‘Bizarrely, she suddenly realised she knew my daughter’
The Guardianby Guardian Staff·5 Sept 2026
Don on Claire What were you hoping for? To meet someone interesting. To be part of a cultural phenomenon called the Guardian Blind date. To have a pleasant lunch. First impressions?
Tim Dowling: my twice-daily baths are giving me a sinking feeling
The Guardianby Tim Dowling·5 Sept 2026
August is the traditional time for something major to go wrong with my house. So I’m not surprised, as I’m getting dressed one morning, to hear the middle one shouting something about it raining in...
‘There is light at the end of this tunnel. But the tunnel is filled with sewage’: Marina Hyde on finding hope in political chaos
The Guardianby Marina Hyde·5 Sept 2026
Let me kick off by letting a little daylight in on magic. If you’ve got a book out in September, you’re probably sending the publisher the final version of the introduction four months earlier.
Why the Bayeux tapestry and Franco-British relations are natural bedfellows
The Guardianby Esther Addley·5 Sept 2026
Five British prime ministers ago – and six French ones – when Emmanuel Macron first confirmed that France would return the Bayeux tapestry to Britain after 1,000 years, he told an audience at...
Meera Sodha’s vegetarian recipe for kacang pool, or Malaysian bean stew
The Guardianby Meera Sodha·5 Sept 2026
This is a dish with roots in ancient Egypt. There, it started life as ful medames, the famous fava bean dish lightly seasoned with cumin, garlic and lemon.
‘Then who or what did we cremate?’ Daughter’s horror at finding bones in British wildfire victims’ car
The Guardianby Helena Horton·5 Sept 2026
When Danielle Gillam-Kirton’s parents, Pete and Fran Gillam, were killed in July’s Spanish wildfires, she felt her nightmare could get no worse.
50? Moi? How The Muppets rocked the world with anarchy, nonsense and the inimitable Miss Piggy
The Guardianby Darren Richman·5 Sept 2026
Fifty years ago today, it was time to play the music and time to light the lights. On 5 September 1976, the British public first met the Muppets – an epochal moment in the history of light...
The unsettling rise of cat seducers: ‘My little companion was missing – and I was consumed with anger’
The Guardianby Elle Hunt·5 Sept 2026
When Amy’s cat, Sid*, first started spending more time away from home, Amy* put it down to wanderlust.
A Long Winter review – hope, desire and subversion in Andrew Haigh’s beautiful winter western
The Guardianby Peter Bradshaw·5 Sept 2026
Andrew Haigh’s mysterious and beautiful new film is adapted by him from the 2006 story by Colm Tóibín, transplanting the action from the 1930s Spanish Pyrenees to the wintry, vertiginous landscapes...
Ben Simmons handed NBA lifeline in one-year deal with Sacramento Kings
The Guardianby Australian Associated Press·5 Sept 2026
Australian former No 1 overall draft pick Ben Simmons has taken a significant step towards resurrecting his NBA career, agreeing a one-year deal with the Sacramento Kings.
Tender Loving Care review – Mike Leigh’s tender and elusive study of love and mortality
The Guardianby Peter Bradshaw·5 Sept 2026
Mike Leigh’s new film – perhaps his last – is a poignant, intergenerational drama of happy-sad acceptance that life goes on, until it doesn’t go on.
Rescue of Nepal hydropower workers ‘triumph for humans and humanity’, tunnelling expert says
The Guardianby Kat Wong·5 Sept 2026
There is renewed hope amid the devastation wreaked by the flash flooding disaster on the Nepal-Tibet border as the world witnesses “one of the great rescues of the 21st century”.
The rise of south-east Asia’s girl bands: ‘The talent and popularity were always here’
The Guardianby Natasha May in Bangkok·5 Sept 2026
“We all know that music is a universal language,” says Maloi Ricalde from Filipina girl band BINI, which mixes tropical pop with traditional songs, English with Tagalog, and silver knee highs with...
Death on the road to Rafah: the night the IDF targeted World Central Kitchen aid workers
The Guardianby Julian Borger and Matan Cohen in Jerusalem·5 Sept 2026
On the evening of 1 April 2024, a team of aid workers from World Central Kitchen (WCK) stood on Gaza’s Mediterranean shore overseeing the unloading of a barge full of desperately needed food on a...
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