Recent articles from publications based in United Kingdom.
Travel | The Guardianby Caroline Eden2 Jun 2026
Trainspotters jostled on platform 2 as sunshine lit up the polished olive-green carriages of the 11:07 from Warszawa Główna (Warsaw main station) to Poznań.
Chess | The Guardianby Leonard Barden29 May 2026
Magnus Carlsen has won the annual Norway Chess elite tournament for six of the past seven years. However, the 35-year-old world No 1 was shocked in Monday’s opening round by Alireza Firouzja, who...
Public Domain Reviewby Thom Sliwowski28 May 2026
In the Middle Ages, rumours spread across Europe of a strange hybrid creature, half-animal, half-plant, known as the Vegetable Lamb of Tartary. A hoax based on fern rhizomes?
Public Domain Reviewby Thea Applebaum Licht26 May 2026
Today, the Coronado Flower Show, hosted each spring in the small San Diego Bay resort town for which it is named, is the largest tented flower show in the United States.
Chess | The Guardianby Alex Bellos25 May 2026
Earlier today I set these four chess puzzles. Here they are again with solutions. 1. Oddities 1. A chess tournament is taking place with several participants.
Chess | The Guardianby Alex Bellos25 May 2026
Today’s four puzzles are inspired by chess. (If you haven’t yet watched the recent documentaries on Judit Polgár and Hans Niemann, I recommend them.) 1. Oddities 1.
Travel | The Guardianby Annabelle Thorpe24 May 2026
Nine-thirty on a sunny Tuesday morning, and the platforms at Nice-Ville station are buzzing. Office workers nudge their way past backpackers, passengers clamber on to trains heading east to Monaco...
Travel | The Guardianby Sophia Seymour23 May 2026
One by one, the visitors descend through a tight tunnel cut through volcanic rock into the damp foundations of the Teatro Romano buried beneath Herculaneum, with the weight of 2,000 years of city...
Chess | The Guardianby Leonard Barden22 May 2026
This week’s puzzle is a chance to enter an annual national competition in which Guardian readers traditionally perform well and in considerable numbers.
Public Domain Reviewby Urte Laukaityte21 May 2026
In the parish of Uig on the Scottish island of Lewis, a woman is caring for her cattle not far from a cemetery.
Travel | The Guardianby Chris Moss20 May 2026
Limestone stretches on all sides like an inland ocean – appropriately enough, since the shimmering white rock has its ancient origins in coral, shells and the skeletons of sea creatures.
Public Domain Reviewby Mathilde Montpetit19 May 2026
The scene is almost surreal: boys in collared shirts chasing a giant ball across a field. In one picture, the ball fills a horse-drawn cart; in another, it blots out an entire human being, save...
Fashion | The Guardianby Jess Cartner-Morley in Los Angeles14 May 2026
Like Christian Dior, the founder of the house he now leads, fashion designer Jonathan Anderson’s ambition is to be not just a Parisian couturier but a Hollywood power player.
Public Domain Reviewby Alex Wright13 May 2026
Before Linotype revolutionised typesetting in the 1880s, compositors set texts by hand — and they set them fast.
Public Domain Reviewby Mathilde Montpetit13 May 2026
Toward the end of Willem ten Rhijne’s (1647–1700) De Acupunctura, the Dutch physician narrates what appears to be the first time he saw the acupuncture procedure performed.
Public Domain Reviewby Hunter Dukes13 May 2026
Longitude by Way of Wounded Hounds: Kenelm Digby’s Sympathetick Powder (1669 edition) One afternoon in 1624, the writer James Howell stumbled upon his colleagues engaged in a duel.
Pure Hokumby Julian Simpson7 May 2026
Apparently, adding an ellipsis on the end of an e-mail subject header triggers a lot of spam filters, especially Gmail.
Pure Hokumby Julian Simpson5 May 2026
...Or they may be. I'm thinking about how I want to organise my online output. I know, calm yourselves Ladies.
Public Domain Reviewby Hunter Dukes30 Apr 2026
Even the greatest monuments from the ancient world are no match for the accomplishments of capitalism, when the bourgeoisie became “the first to show what man’s activity can bring about”, as Marx...
Pure Hokumby Julian Simpson26 Apr 2026
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. Ralph Waldo Emerson I came across that quote for the first time earlier this year.
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