Recent articles from publications based in United Kingdom.
USA v Uzbekistan match foreshadows chess battle for Olympiad top prize
Chess | The Guardianby Leonard Barden·17 Jul 2026
The USA and Uzbekistan are among the world’s current four best chess teams, along with India and China, so the announcement that the pair will meet at Miami on 27-28 July in an all-play-all rapid...
‘Adventures with a touch of magic’: readers’ favourite family days out in the UK
Travel | The Guardianby Guardian readers·17 Jul 2026
Winning tip: a boat tour in County Fermanagh The MV Kestrel has been taking boat tours out from Enniskillen on Lower Lough Erne for as long I can remember.
Jess Cartner-Morley on fashion: forget delicate chains – this summer, make your jewellery big and bold
Fashion | The Guardianby Jess Cartner-Morley·15 Jul 2026
This summer, I want jewellery that makes some noise. Real noise – earrings that swish, bangles that clatter – and visual noise as well. Stuff to wear when you want to be seen and heard.
After record heat, could the Atlantic make Britain's weather even more extreme?
BBC Newsby Justin Rowlatt·14 Jul 2026
Somewhere in the stormy waters off Greenland, a bright yellow robotic probe, known as an Argo float, is sinking silently beneath the waves.
Archie G. Norcross’ Maine Forest Fire Maps (1918–22)
Public Domain Reviewby Thea Applebaum Licht·14 Jul 2026
In the summer of 1956, the Beat writer Jack Kerouac ascended the North Cascade Mountains, climbing up through the glacial crests of Washington State to Desolation Peak, where he would assume a...
Wimbledon 2026: Drama, celebrations, outfits - Arthur Fery, Novak Djokovic and Naomi Osaka among our award winners
BBC Sport·13 Jul 2026
- Published Wimbledon is always a very special tournament and one of the crown jewels of the British summer of sport.
Wimbledon 2026: Jannik Sinner recovers from shock French Open loss to win second SW19 title
BBC Sportby Harry Poole·12 Jul 2026
- Published It was a point that encapsulated Jannik Sinner's journey to a second Wimbledon title. In a tight final, Sinner had a chance to break opponent Alexander Zverev's serve.
‘Huge wave’ of carbon storage projects causes alarm in small-town USA as oil firms eye billions in subsidies
Environment | The Guardianby Erin McCormick in Cass county, Indiana, with photographs by Kaiti Sullivan·12 Jul 2026
The plan to bury carbon under remote Indiana farmland is supposed to be a slam dunk for the climate, according to its supporters – all generously funded by US tax dollars.
Homecoming parade channels art and power of Rome for Fendi
Fashion | The Guardianby Jess Cartner-Morley in Rome·10 Jul 2026
“This is a cultural problem, and a political problem,” said Maria Grazia Chiuri before her first haute couture catwalk show for Fendi.
Chess: Firouzja wins in Zagreb as Carlsen passes 15-year milestone at the top
Chess | The Guardianby Leonard Barden·10 Jul 2026
Alireza Firouzja is shaping up to be one of the nearly men of grandmaster chess. The Iran-born Frenchman, 23, has just won the St Louis-organised Croatia Super Rapid and Blitz in Zagreb.
‘As if I was on a Greek island, but without the stifling heat’: readers’ favourite cooler European coasts
Travel | The Guardianby Guardian readers·10 Jul 2026
Pining for the Latvian coast Saulkrasti’s long beaches and scented pine forests are an hour from Riga on the frequent local train.
Pierpaolo Piccioli’s couture debut reimagines Balenciaga in his own colourful image
Fashion | The Guardianby Jess Cartner-Morley in Paris·8 Jul 2026
The house of Balenciaga takes haute couture very seriously indeed. Cristóbal Balenciaga was so horrified by the rise of mass-produced clothes that in 1968 he abruptly shuttered his brand and...
“Worthless Idiot, Donkey Head”: Parodies of Pedantry on the Renaissance Stage
Public Domain Reviewby Arnoud S Q Visser·8 Jul 2026
Pompous know-it-alls were once a mainstay of mockery on the Italian stage. Arnoud Visser investigates this stock character of the pedant and his association with individual superiority, social...
Peruvianizing Peru: Covers from *Amauta* Magazine (1926–30)
Public Domain Reviewby Erica X Eisen·8 Jul 2026
“This magazine . . . does not represent a group. It represents, rather, a movement, a spirit” — or perhaps a “specter”?
Wednesday Wonders 31
Pure Hokumby Julian Simpson·8 Jul 2026
1. Fiio M33 R2R I'm a sucker for a high-quality music player. This one is something of a brick, but Fiio have set it up to give the option of a warmer, more analogue sound alongside the standard...
Wimbledon 2026 winners: Who has the best record?
BBC Sportby Katharine Sharpe·8 Jul 2026
- Published As the Wimbledon finals draw closer, some players could be in line for their first-ever titles, while one player has the chance to enter the record books.
Wimbledon 2026 results: Novak Djokovic is 'not normal' - but victory over Felix Auger-Aliassime shows why he is so special
BBC Sportby Amy Lofthouse·7 Jul 2026
- Published It is worth remembering that what you are watching is not normal. It is not normal that a 39-year-old should beat an opponent 14 years his junior in five sets in the quarter-finals of a...
Wimbledon 2026: What is the Last 8 Club and how do you qualify?
BBC Sportby Jonty Colman·7 Jul 2026
- Published The Last 8 Club is an exclusive club for tennis players who have reached the quarter-finals or better in the men's and women's singles tournaments at Wimbledon.
Choice Notes on History from *Notes and Queries* (1858)
Public Domain Reviewby Ross MacFarlane·7 Jul 2026
George Eliot’s Middlemarch is famed for its well-rounded characters, yet the unfortunate Edward Casaubon, a pedantic clergyman more devoted to his research than his intelligent wife Dorothea...
Chanel brings beanstalk to catwalk in fairytale Paris couture show
Fashion | The Guardianby Jess Cartner-Morley in Paris·7 Jul 2026
The first model on the Chanel catwalk was wearing a sheer mousseline skirt suit and carrying a tiny century-old leatherbound book of fairytales that once belonged to Coco Chanel herself.
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