Councils pay more than £125m a year placing vulnerable children in illegal care homes in England
The Guardianby Tom Wall·8 Sept 2026
Councils are paying more than £125m a year of taxpayers’ money to place vulnerable children in illegal care homes across England, an investigation has found.
Caitlin Clark and Sophie Cunningham have been stalked. They’re far from alone in the WNBA
The Guardianby Stephanie Kaloi·8 Sept 2026
Caitlin Clark spent most of the 2025 WNBA season sidelined with a series of injuries that forced her to miss more than 30 games.
Low turnout threatens Commons vote on assisted dying, say MPs
The Guardianby Jessica Elgot Deputy political editor·8 Sept 2026
MPs on both sides of the assisted dying debate have voiced fears about turnout affecting the vote on Friday, when the bill returns to the Commons for its second attempt to become law.
The Castle by Jon Ronson review – bizarre tales of modern masculinity
The Guardianby Anthony Cummins·8 Sept 2026
Recovering from surgery at home in upstate New York in 2023, Jon Ronson awoke to a string of texts from his adult son about a weird evening he just had at a stranger’s castle in Connecticut.
Fake wide receivers to undercover stings: did the 49ers have the wildest NFL preseason of all time?
The Guardianby Melissa Jacobs·8 Sept 2026
The Los Angeles Rams and San Francisco 49ers have trekked to Australia for this week’s NFL season opener in Melbourne.
Knightfall review – low-rent gender-flipped Bond knock-off swaps Aston Martins for Minis
The Guardianby Mike McCahill·8 Sept 2026
Proceeding from an old-school title pun – yes, the heroine goes by the name Ros Knight – the latest from resourceful microbudget producer Jonathan Sothcott surely has one optimistic eye on filling...
UK commits £100m to bolster Ukraine’s air defences over winter
The Guardianby Jamie Grierson·8 Sept 2026
The UK has committed £100m to boost Ukraine’s air defences over winter with a package of military equipment including Patriot missiles.
Champions League is fertile ground for new managers – but knowhow could be key later on
The Guardianby Andrew Beasley·8 Sept 2026
A delve into the history of the Champions League shows that managers can and do win in their first season at a club, but also that experience matters.
Youth clubs, trade unions, pubs: here's how Burnham can fix Britain's social recession | Gordon Brown
The Guardianby Gordon Brown·8 Sept 2026
Prime minister Andy Burnham has hit the ground running, tackling head-on three of the public’s burning concerns: falling standards of living, failing public services and a remote, out-of-touch...
‘It was very hurtful’: darts cult hero Stephen Bunting on death threats, social media – and the new Luke Littlers
The Guardianby Donald McRae·8 Sept 2026
“Definitely,” Stephen Bunting says as he considers whether working so hard as a darts player on social media is like making a deal with the devil.
Newcastle admit they started planning for Eddie Howe’s exit at start of year
The Guardianby Louise Taylor·8 Sept 2026
Newcastle’s sporting director, Ross Wilson, has revealed he began planning at the start of this year for Eddie Howe’s departure.
The Newer World by Sebastian Barry review – a near-miracle of storytelling
The Guardianby Sara Collins·8 Sept 2026
But is not the story as good as the truth?” asks Tennyson Bouguereau, the narrator of Sebastian Barry’s The Newer World.
Better Go Mad in the Wild review – boozing, bantering hermits impart their spiritual wisdom
The Guardianby Phil Hoad·8 Sept 2026
Narrated by a slaughtered bull, this extraordinary film takes the less-travelled path in charting the daily life of a pair of Czech twins a long way off conventional routes themselves.
‘So big and so close’: going on a bear hunt in northern Spain
The Guardianby Stephen Phelan·8 Sept 2026
Once upon a time, in the woods outside Pola de Somiedo, lived a family of Cantabrian brown bears.
The byelection here in Holborn and St Pancras is Labour’s to lose. But lose it might | Polly Toynbee
The Guardianby Polly Toynbee·8 Sept 2026
You might think a byelection showdown between two progressive parties is unimportant when the deep struggle for the national heart is between the right bloc and the left – but the result in Holborn...
José Pizarro’s recipe for grilled sardines with blackberry escabeche
The Guardianby José Pizarro·8 Sept 2026
One of my favourite summer memories is making collares de moras as a child in Extremadura, which involved threading wild blackberries on to a piece of straw to make little necklaces.
The pest I’ll never forget: the cockroaches were everywhere – even on our wine glasses
The Guardianby Tim Jonze·8 Sept 2026
I don’t know if cockroaches really could, as we’re often told, survive a nuclear apocalypse, but I can tell you this with certainty: they can definitely survive pest control.
‘It’s not good to walk through the world feeling like prey’: Thelma & Louise’s writer on turning a movie classic into a musical
The Guardianby Lyndsey Winship·8 Sept 2026
‘I have a world-class case of beginner’s luck,” says Callie Khouri, who won an Oscar for her very first screenplay, Thelma & Louise.
‘Why was mum in clothes you could wear in the winter?’: family seeks answers after care home heatstroke death
The Guardianby Jessica Murray Social affairs correspondent·8 Sept 2026
Anita Bazell had never coped with the heat very well, her family said. So they were worried about her when temperatures across the UK soared to record highs of 35C (95F) in May, and then again in...
‘We have really cool sharks’: three-year project to lift lid on Britain’s little-understood species
The Guardianby Anna Turns·8 Sept 2026
‘We have really cool sharks,” says Dr Lucy Hawkes. She is not referring to animals in the rich coastal waters of South Africa or Mexico, but instead talking about the species that live around...
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