Stand By Me at 40: Rob Reiner’s seminal coming-of-age saga remains a bittersweet triumph
The Guardianby Scott Tobias·2d ago
Coming-of-age metaphors don’t get any blunter than a group of preteen boys following a set of railroad tracks to a classmate’s dead body, a sobering testament to the fragility of life and a sign...
From Booker-listed Marlon James to a memoir by Michael Douglas – the biggest books this autumn
The Guardianby Guardian Staff·2d ago
Fiction The Disappearers by Marlon James Hamish Hamilton, 3 September After a detour into mythic fantasy, the author of the Booker-winning A Brief History of Seven Killings returns to Jamaica.
Hook, hold, harvest and hide: Meta’s alleged strategy laid out in first week of landmark trial
The Guardianby Dara Kerr·2d ago
Meta’s business can be boiled down to four words that begin with the letter H: hook, hold, harvest, hide, according to a lawyer who is prosecuting the world’s largest social media company.
Why am I called The Black Farmer? Because there are so few of us in Britain. I’d like that to change | Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones
The Guardianby Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones·2d ago
Who’d be a farmer? Clarkson’s Farm on Amazon is great entertainment but it also gives some indication of the stresses and challenges behind the farm gate.
‘The worst part is the guilt’: the owners who fear dog food caused pets’ eye problems
The Guardianby Rupert Jones·2d ago
“It’s been horrible – Chester developed sudden red and gunky eyes in May,” said Elizabeth, whose six-year-old cavachon “can’t open his eyes” on many days.
‘A brilliant initiative’: the Youth Sport Games goes from strength to strength
The Guardianby Paul MacInnes in Split·2d ago
On a dais overlooking the Adriatic, 20 children are playing chess. Arranged in a circle, they are competing not against each other but against the grandmaster Nigel Short, who passes awkwardly...
Alexander Isak braces himself for daunting reunion with Newcastle
The Guardianby Louise Taylor·2d ago
When Liverpool’s team bus turns a tight corner and inches down the narrow, covered, access road behind Newcastle’s Milburn Stand on Sunday, Alexander Isak will know there are no hiding places.
Fifa general secretary Mattias Grafström could stand against Infantino in election
The Guardianby Exclusive by Ed Aarons and Romain Molina·2d ago
Senior figures in African football have held talks with Fifa’s general secretary, Mattias Grafström, to sound out his interest in standing against Gianni Infantino, the Guardian can reveal.
Subterranean salad: underground farmers seek solution to food crisis in disused UK mines
The Guardianby Mark Brown. Photographs by Gary Calton·2d ago
It has the vibe of a Bond villain’s underground lair but the workers in hi-vis and helmets aren’t weighing and packing hard drugs or parts for a death laser. It’s pak choi and lettuce.
Australia v Bangladesh: second men’s Test, day one – live
The Guardianby Geoff Lemon (now) and Jonathan Howcroft (earlier)·2d ago
28th over: Australia 124-4 (Green 26, Carey 1) A thick inside edge from Carey, into his pads rather than stumps, and the one run gets him off the mark.
Canada vows to match Trump’s 50% tariffs after trade deal talks fail
The Guardianby Guardian staff and agencies·2d ago
Canadian prime minister Mark Carney has promised to match US tariffs “dollar for dollar”, after the two sides failed to agree a trade deal by the deadline of midnight on Friday.
Dog Park: a delightful sitcom that will fill the Colin from Accounts shaped hole in your life
The Guardianby Rhik Samadder·2d ago
Whenever I’m watching a programme that features an animal and I realise I’m expected to have a specific reaction to that animal, I run into a problem.
Island hopping through stone-age history in Ireland, Wales and the Isle of Man
The Guardianby Kevin Rushby·2d ago
The guide was adamant. “I’ve picked human teeth out of there and I’m not doing it again.” The small group of tourists looked suitably aghast, except the boy.
Battery fires at recycling centres are costing UK £1bn a year, figures show
The Guardianby Matthew Weaver·2d ago
Fires at recycling centres caused by wrongly discarded lithium batteries such as those found in vapes are occurring at the rate of more than 10 a week, according to new figures.
A bridge too far? Why link to Sicily is still a dream despite 2,000 years of plans
The Guardianby Lorenzo Tondo in Torre Faro, Messina·2d ago
For more than 2,000 years, it has been an obsessive dream: a plan to link the Mediterranean Sea’s largest island to mainland Italy.
‘Digging the grave of my profession’: the Hollywood creatives training AI to do their jobs
The Guardianby Robert Booth UK technology editor·2d ago
Hollywood creatives are taking gig work to train AI models to replicate their skills in a bid to offset tightening earnings in a trend one compared to being “handed a shovel and asked to dig the...
Wallaroos on wrong side of another Black Ferns drubbing in lopsided rivalry
The Guardianby Guardian Staff·2d ago
Maddison Levi has been unable to inspire the Wallaroos to a hoodoo-busting victory, the Australians falling flat in an ugly 66-19 defeat to New Zealand.
‘It exists only for pleasure’: does ice-cream have a future in the age of wellness fads and weight-loss drugs?
The Guardianby Words: Kitty Drake. Photographs: Christian Sinibaldi·2d ago
Last month I stood in the biggest ice-cream factory in Britain and watched a 5-metre Viennetta mint-flavoured ice-cream cake get made.
Meera Sodha’s recipe for blackberry and almond cake | Meera Sodha recipes
The Guardianby Meera Sodha·2d ago
Most cakes I can take or leave, but I never regret a slice of almond cake. The density! The chewy crumb! The way it romances butter and other flavours!
Tim Dowling: my working holiday just isn’t working
The Guardianby Tim Dowling·2d ago
In the summer of 1995, I went on a family holiday to Portugal. On the first day I got a call from a UK magazine, asking if I would be interested in interviewing Meg Ryan, in three days’ time.
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