‘We’re at a crisis point’: Chappell Roan, Shirley Manson and Eli on playing Olivia Rodrigo’s female-only festival
The Guardianby Emma Madden·27 Aug 2026
When I first saw the poster for Olivia Rodrigo’s inaugural Daisy Chain Fields festival in June, I assumed it was AI.
Liverpool agree £120m fee for Bradley Barcola after breakthrough talks with PSG
The Guardianby Andy Hunter·27 Aug 2026
Liverpool are closing in on a £120m deal for Bradley Barcola following a breakthrough in talks with Paris Saint-Germain.
Ukraine’s drone attacks have left Russia desperately scrambling for oil imports
The Guardianby Peter Beaumont Senior international correspondent·27 Aug 2026
A sanctioned shadow fleet tanker carries oil from Nato member Turkey to a Russian Baltic port. A deal is signed for Russian oil to be processed in Kazakhstan.
You be the judge: should my partner stop eating off other people’s plates?
The Guardianby Interviews by Georgina Lawton·27 Aug 2026
The prosecution: Helen I know Bill hates waste, but pouncing on people’s leftovers is embarrassing, unhygienic and rude My partner, Bill, hates food waste and is passionate about sustainability and...
‘It’s sad to lose a really nice person’: mourners flock to Dollywood after death of Dolly Parton
The Guardianby Becca Andrews in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee·27 Aug 2026
Becky Bullard was en route home to Austin, Texas, when she heard the news. “As soon as I heard about Dolly, I thought of you,” read a text from a close friend while she waited for her flight home...
‘The technique was revolutionary’: Ha Chong-Hyun, the 91-year-old South Korean artist who turned painting inside out
The Guardianby Gabrielle Schwarz·27 Aug 2026
In the early 1970s, the Korean artist Ha Chong-Hyun had a simple but novel idea: why not apply oil paint to the back of a surface rather than the front?
Colony review – zombies return to the mall with a fresh and frenzied range of scares
The Guardianby Laurence Phelan·27 Aug 2026
Here is another frenzied K-zombie action-horror from Yeon Sang-ho, the director of Train to Busan and Peninsula.
Kolkhoz by Emmanuel Carrère review – intricate portrait of an elite French family
The Guardianby Blake Morrison·27 Aug 2026
When Emmanuel Carrère’s mother, Hélène, died in 2023, at the age of 94, President Macron spoke at her memorial.
Architourism in France: the retro futurist seaside town near Montpellier that’s out of this world
The Guardianby Mark C O’Flaherty·27 Aug 2026
My dream holiday is a trip back in time. Not to see the results of seismic Pompeii or 15th-century Machu Picchu – although I love both – but somewhere created specifically between the mid 1950s and...
A 16-year-old girl has died from suspected sexual choking. How do we come to terms with this? | Lucy Clark
The Guardianby Lucy Clark·27 Aug 2026
How can we possibly come to terms with reports a 16-year-old girl child may have died as a result of consensual sexual strangulation with her 16-year-old boyfriend?
How the deadly Nepal and Tibet flash flood unfolded – a visual guide
The Guardianby Mark Saunokonoko, Nick Evershed and Mike Hohnen·27 Aug 2026
The massive glacial collapse that caused catastrophic flash floods in the Himalayan border region of Nepal and Tibet has killed at least 165 people, though the number of dead is set to rise, with...
Penelope review – Odysseus’s other half sings of her own twists and turns
The Guardianby Mark Fisher·27 Aug 2026
She is the one played by Anne Hathaway in Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, the central figure in Margaret Atwood’s The Penelopiad and the inspiration behind a 2010 play by Enda Walsh.
Rachel Roddy’s recipe for saffron and tomato rice | A kitchen in Rome
The Guardianby Rachel Roddy·27 Aug 2026
The saffron crocus has six lilac-purple flowers, three yellow stamens and three orange-red stigmas that extend beyond the petals like the wiry antennae of an insect.
Does Nigel Farage know what people really think of him? I do – and he won’t like it | Aditya Chakrabortty
The Guardianby Aditya Chakrabortty·27 Aug 2026
Who can stop Nigel Farage? Which voters would actually dig out their ID and schlep down to the polling booth to fight him?
Country diary: A stonking great harmful hornet? Ah it’s only a fly | Paul Evans
The Guardianby Paul Evans·27 Aug 2026
Back in the analogue world – where “analogue” means signals transmitted by continuous waves of sound or light, but also means something that looks like something else – intelligence is more poetic...
Jeers, walkouts, stage invasions: will Catarina and the Beauty of Killing Fascists trigger British audiences too?
The Guardianby Philip Oltermann·27 Aug 2026
In February, turbulent scenes inside a German theatre made headlines around the globe. During the final act of a play at Schauspielhaus theatre in Bochum, the audience first jeered and whistled at...
The Nazis drove Bauhaus out of town. Now the far right is waging another war against the movement
The Guardianby Deborah Cole in Dessau-Roßlau·27 Aug 2026
The city of Dessau, where the Bauhaus design school flourished a century ago, catapulted Germany into the modern era and revolutionised global design.
The flat-pack skyscraper: how wood can shape the cities of the future
The Guardianby James Crawford·27 Aug 2026
I travelled to Oslo in the early autumn. It felt like arriving into the future. Or, at least, a fragment of a possible future. I drove north in the quiet digital bubble of my electric rental car.
How to spot a psychopath: ‘It’s like the difference between a domestic cat and a wild cat’
The Guardianby Zoe Williams·27 Aug 2026
The classic checklist for psychopathy was developed in 1980 by Prof Robert Hare, who is still the recognised giant of the territory.
My home state is set to hand a breakthrough to the German far right. It’s a disaster decades in the making | Marcus Böick
The Guardianby Marcus Böick·27 Aug 2026
It was in the summer of 2004 that I stopped understanding my own people. I was standing on a sweltering market square in Aschersleben, the town where I was born, picturesquely situated on the...
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