Women’s Super League Q&A: football writer Suzanne Wrack answers your questions now
The WSL season kicks off tonight and the Guardian’s women’s football writer Suzanne Wrack is here now answering your questions –...
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When does rage help us, and when does it harm us? Ukraine has taught me the answers | Charlotte Higgins
Fury at Russia’s death and destruction has fuelled art, action and resistance. But eventually, rage’s fire is all-consuming...
‘Capitalism is dying’: in Luton, these former car workers have a moral tale for our times | Aditya Chakrabortty
After everything, why would anyone still back Nigel Farage? In some of the comments below my piece last week about Reform UK, I...
Experience: I didn’t know I was pregnant until I gave birth
When I was 19, I went to college in Texas, where I met my boyfriend Preston. It was 2023 and I had big plans. After finishing...
Kemi the Valkyrie spoils for a fight and has the Russians in her sights | John Crace
There’s something about Kemi Badenoch making a keynote speech – everything she does comes billed as keynote these days – about...
Fun, flirty and fried to perfection: farewell to Chicken Shop Date, the YouTube show that helped kill off TV
Amelia Dimoldenberg’s series helped turn YouTube into a world-beating phenomenon. As it bows out, we remember its best bits –...
Women are giving their partners the ‘Illiterate Boyfriend’ test: ‘Do your best to pronounce these words’
People online are distressed at men butchering words such as ‘hyperbole’ and ‘hors d’oeuvres’ – highlighting a gender reversal in ‘intelligence gaps’...
The wars in Ukraine and Iran are becoming dangerously enmeshed | Christopher S Chivvis
Russia hasn’t yet killed large numbers of Europeans outside Ukraine, but it’s getting closer. The night of 4-5 August, an airport bus driver...
You be the judge: should my girlfriend stop letting the recycling pile up?
The prosecution: Benny double quotation markWe’ve had little flies buzzing around – I know they’re coming from the recycling My girlfriend, Robin,...
From ‘psyops’ to ‘hysterical hysteria’: how GB News and Talk TV lost their cool in the heatwaves
As the first heatwave of the record-breaking summer arrived on 23 May, GB News host Cristo Foufas was not happy: “I am sick to death of the naysayers...
‘I don’t chase the dollar. I never did’: the astonishing hidden life of Mr T
Mr T explains why he’s late, but he wants to make one thing clear – this is not an apology. “You caught me in my devotion, and nothing comes before...
‘A crisis of authenticity’: the truth about food influencers
Instagrammers have upended the British restaurant scene, and amassed followings in the millions. But has their moment already passed? In 2017, two...
I inadvertently misled parliament over a British nuclear scandal. Now I’m calling for justice | Tobias Ellwood
Thousands of service personnel took part in dangerous cold war-era nuclear tests. The government owes them the truth – and compensation In December...
Premier League money has lost all meaning amid chaotic spectacle of excess | Barney Ronay
There was a research study a few years back into a key period in the life of the TV show Location, Location, Location. You know the one. Half an hour...
Burnham’s first PMQs showed a leader who wants to please – but knows how to push back
The coming months will show whether Andy Burnham fits Kemi Badenoch’s charge of a leader too obsessed with being liked to make hard choices. One...
Andy Burnham faces an impossible job. At least he’s got a secret weapon – Kemi Badenoch
Labour is up against a Tory party with a leader who can’t stop getting lost in her own sense of brilliance. And then there’s Andrew Griffith Call it...
Messy, clever and can barely conceal its rage: is Furious the most outstanding TV show of the year?
The story of a serial killer taking revenge on the rich predatory men who abused her just earned a fantastic finale. With career-defining acting,...
Farewell Keir Starmer, a terrible politician whom we desperately wanted to be something more | Zoe Williams
‘U-turn’ doesn’t do justice to the myriad ways he found to break a pledge. Now the former PM is resigning as an MP, why did I have such high hopes?...
Thames Water, I refuse to pay the sewage charge in my bill while you pollute Britain’s rivers and coastlines | Jenny Jones
I can’t even remember when I decided to stop paying the sewage element of my Thames Water bill. It might have been after reading this headline from...
‘If he can make money in a tyranny, that’s fine by him’: Francis Fukuyama on Trump, democracy - and changing his mind
The political thinker became famous for declaring the triumph of liberal democracy. Thirty-seven years on, he explains what he really meant and why...
Transfer window verdict: how every Premier League club fared
The British transfer record was equalled and one club signed no fewer than 18 players in another hectic summer Bringing in Christos Tzolis, Bruno...
‘I want to live’: the disabled people unable to go abroad because of care funding refusal
Disabled people are being blocked from travelling abroad by NHS care boards and local councils that refuse to let them use their care funding outside...
The year of Domhnall Gleeson: ‘No one talks about actors’ dedication. But I had a perm for five months!’
He started in the Harry Potter films and has since become ubiquitous, playing every type of character: romcom leads, evil villains, comical idiots....
Electra/Persona review – Blanchett and Hoss face off in lopsided Sophocles/Bergman double bill
The Electra bit of the title refers to the Sophoclean tragedy of a daughter trapped in a cycle of vengeance, the Persona part to Ingmar Bergman’s...
Football transfer deadline day: Man City agree £125m Fernández deal, Woltemade loaned to Juve, and more – live
- Men’s transfer interactive | Women’s transfer interactive - The Rumour Mill: check all of the deadline-day gossip - You can mail Daniel and follow...
Olivia Rodrigo is standing up for the vulnerable. I wish Taylor Swift would do the same | Arwa Mahdawi
This weekend, Rodrigo raised millions for charities that benefit women and girls, and she has previously been vocal about Gaza and Ice. With free...
The extraordinary untold story of Freddie Mercury: Mary Austin on her best friend – and love of her life
There were four silver trunks in Mary Austin’s attic that she packed in the mid-1980s and hadn’t opened since. It was too painful. Almost 40 years...
Reading and Leeds festival review – post-GCSE blowout shows how dominant dance music now is
Bramham Park, Leeds Charli xcx and Fontaines DC are spellbinding and there’s an awesome array of genres, but the biggest turnouts are for tech house...
Do you have a bespoke ‘dirty zone’? | Emma Beddington
I was excited to learn that the latest interiors essential, according to the Washington Post, is a “dirty zone”. I’m ahead of the curve – I’ve...
‘We want to find a better future’: teenage girls on why they risked their lives to reach Spain
For Fatin, one of the teenage girls now living in limbo in a makeshift camp in the Spanish city of Ceuta, the decision to leave her home in Morocco...
‘Everything’s smashed to bits’: Ukrainians turn anger on those storing weapons near their villages
It is a day and a half since a Russian jet-powered drone smashed into an ammunition dump in Myla, a village 15 miles outside central Kyiv. Volodymyr,...
Forbidden planet: was Pluto’s 2006 demotion a big mistake?
Twenty years ago, Pluto got demoted. After a vote by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) in August 2006, Pluto was relegated from major planet...
AI vaginas, customisable personalities and fake bruises: the sex doll market is booming. Does it matter how the dolls are treated?
Two weeks ago, two distressed citizens stumbled across what they assumed was the mangled corpse of a woman, stuffed into a suitcase in a small town...
‘I wanted to find the slowest fashion imaginable’: the woman growing her own dress
From crop tops to shorts and brightly patterned dresses, many of today’s clothes are the result of fast fashion. But one woman is taking a radical...
Hilarity, unease and relief: games show China is not over the finish line in humanoid robot race
With exploding pelvises, enough comic pratfalls for a Buster Keaton show reel and the odd moment of ruthless violence, the World Humanoid Robot Games...
The Guardian climate pledge 2026
Each year, the Guardian reaffirms its commitment to the environment – both in our reporting and how we operate as a business. From critical tipping...
An $18bn settlement – and Zuckerberg barely blinked. The tech titans must be stripped of their power, and soon | Jonathan Freedland
Those who said Meta harms children struck a blow, but the ability of big tech to gouge profits and cause harm is barely diminished. That’s the battle...
Bigmouth strums again: was Andy Burnham’s Smiths jam in Kyiv the perfect soundtrack to a Britain in freefall?
The UK prime minister clearly still adores the band. Perhaps he’s attracted to songs about sham justice and murderous meat factories, shot through...
‘I’m an ever-changing vessel’: Erykah Badu on defying definition, life as a birth and death doula and her first album in 11 years
Why do the Texan innovator’s records take so long to make? ‘It’s important to gather the data,’ she says: the death, dating and dopamine behind her...
Unlike needy Keir, trash-talking Andy speaks a language Trump understands | John Crace
Burnham has nothing to hide as he prepares to meet president he once called poisonous. It may actually win him more respect It makes a pleasant...
Does Nigel Farage know what people really think of him? I do – and he won’t like it | Aditya Chakrabortty
Who can stop Nigel Farage? Which voters would actually dig out their ID and schlep down to the polling booth to fight him? Over the past year, these...
How to spot a psychopath: ‘It’s like the difference between a domestic cat and a wild cat’
The classic checklist for psychopathy was developed in 1980 by Prof Robert Hare, who is still the recognised giant of the territory. The 20 traits,...
