Should cockpits stay locked from the inside? Flydubai stabbing raises flight security questions
The Guardianby Gwyn Topham Transport correspondent·12d ago
Cockpit security on planes will come under renewed scrutiny after passengers and one wounded pilot joined forces to prevent flydubai flight FZ 1073 from crashing.
From Robert Kraft to Netanyahu, Israel’s supporters keep helping its critics | Peter Beinart
The Guardianby Peter Beinart·12d ago
Israel’s supporters keep proving its detractors right. Over the last couple of years, Americans from across the ideological spectrum – from Bernie Sanders to Tucker Carlson – have grown...
A perry respectable alternative to wine – in praise of pear cider
The Guardianby Mina Holland·12d ago
“They’re gorgeous little beasts,” Eddie Izzard said on the subject of pears in her mid-1990s show Definite Article, “but they’re ripe for half an hour and you’re never there!” Little did she know...
‘Water yes, mining no!’: the 87-year-old farmer who became a nature hero in Colombia
The Guardianby Luis Bernardo Cano in Bogotá·12d ago
In the rural hamlet of Palo Cabildo in Colombia’s western Andes, 87-year-old farmer Porfirio Garcés tends to his anthuriums in the garden of his small house.
What we’re reading: China Miéville, Sebastian Barry, Derek Owusu and Guardian readers on the books they enjoyed in September
The Guardianby China Miéville, Sebastian Barry, Derek Owusu, and Guardian readers·12d ago
China Miéville, author I was sideswiped by Giada Scodellaro’s Ruins, Child. A brilliant, strange book that challenged me in the most exhilarating way, with its fractured language and dream-cinema...
The best dishes to come out of a roasting tin
The Guardianby Rachel Roddy·12d ago
As I have mentioned before, we live directly above a takeaway pizzeria and tavola calda (a canteen-like spot that translates as “hot table”).
Extra Geography review – a wickedly funny lesson in sex, class and female friendship
The Guardianby Peter Bradshaw·12d ago
Rose Tremain’s autobiographical short story, inspired by an escapade from her own boarding school days, has been transformed into an extremely funny, charming and tremendously well-acted comedy...
Balraj Khanna: Lines of Flight review – plenty of dazzle, but where is the darkness?
The Guardianby Ben Eastham·12d ago
The work of Balraj Khanna will be familiar to many residents of Birmingham, whether they know it or not.
‘I will see you in the parking lot after this’: when book clubs get dramatic
The Guardianby Stephanie McNeal·12d ago
For four years, Laura has been in a book club with other young mothers from her church. You might be picturing a docile scene of women drinking sweet tea – they live in the US south – and...
Trump the environmentalist? How his Iran war exposed the fragility of dirty energy
The Guardianby Oliver Milman·12d ago
Of all the epithets hurled at Donald Trump since he became US president, perhaps the most unusual was delivered last week – that he is, in fact, some sort of environmentalist.
Esther Rantzen: one of the UK’s boldest, bravest ever campaigners – right to the very end
The Guardianby Stuart Heritage·12d ago
By no means should That’s Life! have ever worked as a television programme. For more than 20 years it functioned as an absurd grab bag of features that at times seemed specifically designed to...
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? review – Gillian Anderson fights tooth and nail in marital meltdown
The Guardianby Arifa Akbar·12d ago
Those who want to moan about the toxic reliance on celebrity casting and screen stars in the West End can stop right there: Billy Crudup and Gillian Anderson both began their careers on stage.
Meshell Ndegeocello: Synonym review – vivid all-star reinventions of everyone from Bob Dylan to J-Lo
The Guardianby Alexis Petridis·12d ago
It’s fair to say that Meshell Ndegeocello has made a career out of declining to stay in one place too long.
Americans are paying millions for a batch of pro-Trump ads | Margaret Sullivan
The Guardianby Margaret Sullivan·12d ago
The US government is spending millions of taxpayer dollars to get a blatantly partisan message in front of voters as the midterm elections loom.
I went to America’s largest gathering of astrologers. It was a battle over how to read the stars
The Guardianby Katherine Rowland·12d ago
“The dwarf planets change everything,” said the woman with the smart haircut as she made a mind blown gesture with her fingertips, temples to air.
Inside the undersea kingdom: the secret, sinister battle to control what lies beneath the waves
The Guardianby Aida Edemariam·12d ago
On Christmas Day 2024, six weeks before Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania were due to disconnect themselves from Russia’s power grid, a Finnish engineer was just about to sit down to lunch when his...
Break Clause review – you’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll never want to live with anyone again
The Guardianby Hannah J Davies·12d ago
At 22, you move from Leeds to London for your first proper job, and get the keys to a flat with your uni boyfriend.
Don’t hate the movie, hate the critic! Digger’s new PR push is a risky bet for film that was never meant to be divisive
The Guardianby Peter Bradshaw·12d ago
‘You know what? Fuck those people!” The speaker is Tom Cruise in his serious-fatsuit role of Digger, in the bold new online ad which gives the finger to his film’s bad reviews and the haters.
Moving the Goalposts | Women’s Ballon d’Or 2026 power rankings: will a new winner be crowned?
The Guardianby Suzanne Wrack·12d ago
1 Melchie Dumornay (OL Lyonnes/Haiti) Yes, Dumornay was part of a team that lost 4-0 to Barcelona in last season’s Champions League final, but her influence in the OL Lyonnes midfield as they...
Jürgen Klopp disgusted by claims his Germany team are ‘not white enough’
The Guardianby Kate Connolly in Berlin·12d ago
Jürgen Klopp has reacted with disgust to a social media debate questioning whether the Germany team he is in the process of forming are “white enough”.
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