Chat to strangers and let your kids be bored: how to embrace a ‘slow September’ – and enjoy life more
The Guardianby Rebecca Cope4 Sept 2026
It is a hangover from our school days that September can feel like a time for getting back to the grind.
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top 99%Wide-legged trousers for men are having a moment. Just ask Gary Neville
The Guardianby Priya Elan4 Sept 2026
From Kylian Mbappé’s World Cup style to Erling Haaland’s hair tie, football has had many viral fashion moments in 2026.
Nigel Farage meeting a 'shadowy foreign donor'? It can only be another establishment stitch-up | Marina Hyde
The Guardianby Marina Hyde4 Sept 2026
How many sarcastic air quotes is too many for quoting Nigel Farage’s suggestion that Reform have been ““““““““hoaxed”””””””” by some undercover investigators into appearing to seek to get round...
For Gloria Steinem, fashion was about much more than aesthetics
The Guardianby Morwenna Ferrier4 Sept 2026
When people wanted to dismiss Gloria Steinem, they spoke about how she looked. Talking about the pioneering activist and journalist who turned feminism into a major civil rights movement, it might...
‘I’m used to doing the impossible’: George Lucas unveils new LA museum – what’s its story?
The Guardianby Matthew Cantor in Los Angeles4 Sept 2026
“I’m used to doing the impossible,” George Lucas said on Wednesday. But “this one almost broke my will”.
Queer Edward II review – funny, touching time capsule of Derek Jarman at work
The Guardianby Peter Bradshaw in Venice4 Sept 2026
There could hardly be a more vivid time-capsule film about the publicly funded British arts scene in the early 1990s than this engrossing fly-on-the-wall documentary about Derek Jarman and his...
‘I didn’t know if I’d ever have sex again’: inside Sharon Horgan’s excruciating post-divorce comedy
The Guardianby Zoe Williams4 Sept 2026
When Sharon Horgan walked into HBO to pitch her new series, Youth, she basically just said “sandwich generation” to them.
Tennessee is about to execute its first woman since 1819. Her case raises troubling questions | Austin Sarat
The Guardianby Austin Sarat4 Sept 2026
On 30 September, the state of Tennessee plans to put Christa Pike to death. She would be the third person brought to the death chamber in the Volunteer state this year, one of which was stopped...
‘Men calling us woke need our show more than most’: punks Piss on finding strength in visceral confrontations of sexual violence
The Guardianby Emma Garland4 Sept 2026
You’d be hard pressed to find a band with fewer airs and graces than Piss. First, there’s the unavoidable matter of their name, which they style in all caps, no nonsense; a word that scans as...
A storm destroyed her tea factory. One Canadian friend kept the business alive 2,300 miles away
The Guardianby Aimee Rawlins4 Sept 2026
When Jessie Dean and Alexandra Sangster met in the summer of 2024, they made a pact. The two women both ran tea companies – Dean’s Asheville Tea Company in North Carolina and Sangster’s Sarjesa...
‘Many of us in Israel live in a state of shock at the savagery’: veteran director Amos Gitai returns to Gaza
The Guardianby Xan Brooks at the Venice film festival4 Sept 2026
The Palestinian village of Khan al-Ahmar sits off dust-blown Highway-1, between Jerusalem and Jericho in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
Weather tracker: Hurricanes in the Pacific, but none yet this season in the Atlantic
The Guardianby Joe Williams and Alice Nightingale-Smith4 Sept 2026
There are currently two category 4 hurricanes and one category 1 hurricane in the Pacific at the same time.
Katseye review – petulant hyperpop bops from a girl group in crisis
The Guardianby Michael Cragg4 Sept 2026
It takes a certain amount of resilience to be a Katseye fan. Since debuting three years ago via the boot camp meets reality TV show The Debut: Dream Academy, the multinational K-pop hybrid girl...
Wallace’s dog Gromit was nearly a cat, reveals creator as Aardman turns 50
The Guardianby Jamie Grierson and Steven Morris4 Sept 2026
The creator of Wallace and Gromit has revealed that the world’s most famous stop-motion animated dog was nearly a cat.
The best recent poetry – review roundup
The Guardianby Oluwaseun Olayiwola4 Sept 2026
Fetch by Colin Bramwell (And Other Stories, £14.99) Bramwell’s translation of Fernando Pessoa’s work into Scots won him considerable recognition: it took the Oxford Weidenfeld Translation prize and...
Drones, teargas, riot squads: why has the UK gone to war against asylum seekers already fleeing conflict? | Diane Taylor
The Guardianby Diane Taylor4 Sept 2026
Garang*, 18, is one of thousands of refugees recently caught in the crossfire of French riot police, who threw teargas and beat them with batons when they boarded dinghies to travel to the UK.
Gal Gadot’s Wonder Woman was one of DC’s few successes. It’s a mystery why she got the chop
The Guardianby Ben Child4 Sept 2026
There was never going to be a completely painless way to break up the old DC gang. Warner Bros’ DC Extended Universe probably needed to be ruthlessly ripped apart in order to create space for James...
It’s time for Mark Zuckerberg to resign from Meta | Joan Donovan
The Guardianby Joan Donovan4 Sept 2026
Last week, Meta, the parent company of Instagram and Facebook, agreed to a settlement of up to $18bn after dozens of US states accused it of harming children with addictive products.
Unprecedented: the US deportees forcibly flown to a fourth country
The Guardianby Tiago Rogero South America correspondent4 Sept 2026
In late August, around 20 people were put on a flight in the US, shackled at the wrists, waist and ankles, and sent to Liberia as part of one of the largest third-country deportation arrangements...
Private equity faces existential crisis in US as unsold companies pile up
The Guardianby Heather Timmons4 Sept 2026
Retail stalwarts Saks and Eddie Bauer filed for bankruptcy. Kmart and JoAnn Fabrics are gone for good, a trail of layoffs and disappointed customers in their wake.