theguardian.comadded August 2026
The Guardianby Andrew Beasley27d ago
Tottenham have failed to score in their opening four league games for the first time. Two decades have passed since they last drew blanks in four consecutive Premier League matches.
The Guardianby Arwa Mahdawi27d ago
A few weeks ago, the worst thing you could say about Ed Sheeran was that his music was a bit bland. A Guardian music writer once compared it to “aural wallpaper”.
The Guardianby Redwan Ahmed in Dhaka and Kaamil Ahmed27d ago
At 1am, Halder’s alarm goes off and the 34-year-old Bangladeshi bank employee rises and heads to her kitchen. She is up at this time not for work but to cook for her family.
The Guardianby Briana Ellis-Gibbs27d ago
Gordon Parks was not only a renowned photographer but also a poet, composer, director and mentor to so many, past and present, a Renaissance man whose talent spanned disciplines.
The Guardianby Ammar Kalia27d ago
Over the past 30 years, British folk musicians Su Hart and Martin Cradick have been developing a distinct fusion of traditional Cameroonian vocal music with western instrumentation.
The Guardianby Laurence Phelan27d ago
In 1978, in the classroom of a comprehensive school in Sheffield, a skinny, shortsighted 15-year-old wrote a mission statement in the back of an exercise book – a masterplan for reaching the top...
The Guardianby Bibi van der Zee27d ago
The nicknames of the world’s biggest rivers give a sense of how we feel about them: “the great river”, “the river that swallows all rivers”, “Mother Ganga” and “Old father Thames”.
The Guardianby Houman Barekat27d ago
Mahmoud Khalil was completing a master’s degree at Columbia University when, in March 2025, plain-clothed officers from the Department of Homeland Security snatched him from his home in New York...
The Guardianby Bertrand Bouard27d ago
Relations between France and England have rarely looked brighter. The recent loan of the Bayeux tapestry has become a symbol of a renewed friendship between the two countries, evidenced further by...
The Guardianby Heather Stewart Economics editor27d ago
More than 1,500 academics and economists from 100-plus countries are urging global leaders to join an initiative against extreme inequality, calling current unfairness “a policy choice that can be...
The Guardianby Cath Clarke27d ago
There is absolutely nothing unexpected about this Netflix comedy set in the world of rival Bollywood dance groups on American campuses.
The Guardianby Andrew Gilchrist27d ago
‘I think my boots are falling apart!” shouts Nigel just as we hit the pinnacles, a whole range of them jutting up and out from the mountainside, all thrillingly tall, spiky and knobbled.
The Guardianby Helen Goh27d ago
Soft, feather-light and topped with a thick strip of icing: few things are as irresistible to me as an iced finger bun.
The Guardianby Oliver Holmes, Ana Lucía González Paz and Pablo Gutiérrez27d ago
Three cartographers have spoken of their astonishment at the UN’s near-universal adoption of a map they created to more accurately show the sizes of Africa and Europe, even though they have...
The Guardianby Gary Fuller27d ago
Improvements in air pollution are leading to brighter, smarter toddlers, according to a new study from Columbia University in New York.
The Guardianby Lorenzo Tondo in Jerusalem and Seham Tantesh in Gaza27d ago
Mohammad Abdul Zinati was walking home from school through the rubble of Salah Khalaf Street, in northern Gaza City, when he stopped at a supermarket where a group of classmates and friends had...
The Guardianby Gaby Hinsliff27d ago
When did you realise you had finally grown up? It’s a trick question, obviously: maturity is just realising that life is full of things you don’t feel old enough for but somehow manage anyway...
The Guardianby Sammy Gecsoyler27d ago
The House of Lords has long been derided as a stuffy relic of the past. But now its benches, usually filled with haughtily dressed men, could soon resemble something more akin to “dress-down...
The Guardianby Miha Mazzini27d ago
So much of your daily life – your job, your health, your home – hinges on the fact that your name is in a government database. Are you a legal citizen of your country, with everything that entails?
The Guardianby Jacob Wester27d ago
Growing up in Sweden, I was as comfortable on skis as I was walking on my feet. As a teenager, I became a professional free skier, a style that features jumps and tricks.
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