The best dishes to come out of a roasting tin
The Guardianby Rachel Roddy8d ago
As I have mentioned before, we live directly above a takeaway pizzeria and tavola calda (a canteen-like spot that translates as “hot table”).
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top 98%Extra Geography review – a wickedly funny lesson in sex, class and female friendship
The Guardianby Peter Bradshaw8d ago
Rose Tremain’s autobiographical short story, inspired by an escapade from her own boarding school days, has been transformed into an extremely funny, charming and tremendously well-acted comedy...
Balraj Khanna: Lines of Flight review – plenty of dazzle, but where is the darkness?
The Guardianby Ben Eastham8d ago
The work of Balraj Khanna will be familiar to many residents of Birmingham, whether they know it or not.
‘I will see you in the parking lot after this’: when book clubs get dramatic
The Guardianby Stephanie McNeal8d ago
For four years, Laura has been in a book club with other young mothers from her church. You might be picturing a docile scene of women drinking sweet tea – they live in the US south – and...
Trump the environmentalist? How his Iran war exposed the fragility of dirty energy
The Guardianby Oliver Milman8d ago
Of all the epithets hurled at Donald Trump since he became US president, perhaps the most unusual was delivered last week – that he is, in fact, some sort of environmentalist.
Esther Rantzen: one of the UK’s boldest, bravest ever campaigners – right to the very end
The Guardianby Stuart Heritage8d ago
By no means should That’s Life! have ever worked as a television programme. For more than 20 years it functioned as an absurd grab bag of features that at times seemed specifically designed to...
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? review – Gillian Anderson fights tooth and nail in marital meltdown
The Guardianby Arifa Akbar8d ago
Those who want to moan about the toxic reliance on celebrity casting and screen stars in the West End can stop right there: Billy Crudup and Gillian Anderson both began their careers on stage.
Meshell Ndegeocello: Synonym review – vivid all-star reinventions of everyone from Bob Dylan to J-Lo
The Guardianby Alexis Petridis8d ago
It’s fair to say that Meshell Ndegeocello has made a career out of declining to stay in one place too long.
Americans are paying millions for a batch of pro-Trump ads | Margaret Sullivan
The Guardianby Margaret Sullivan8d ago
The US government is spending millions of taxpayer dollars to get a blatantly partisan message in front of voters as the midterm elections loom.
I went to America’s largest gathering of astrologers. It was a battle over how to read the stars
The Guardianby Katherine Rowland8d ago
“The dwarf planets change everything,” said the woman with the smart haircut as she made a mind blown gesture with her fingertips, temples to air.
Inside the undersea kingdom: the secret, sinister battle to control what lies beneath the waves
The Guardianby Aida Edemariam8d ago
On Christmas Day 2024, six weeks before Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania were due to disconnect themselves from Russia’s power grid, a Finnish engineer was just about to sit down to lunch when his...
Break Clause review – you’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll never want to live with anyone again
The Guardianby Hannah J Davies8d ago
At 22, you move from Leeds to London for your first proper job, and get the keys to a flat with your uni boyfriend.
Don’t hate the movie, hate the critic! Digger’s new PR push is a risky bet for film that was never meant to be divisive
The Guardianby Peter Bradshaw8d ago
‘You know what? Fuck those people!” The speaker is Tom Cruise in his serious-fatsuit role of Digger, in the bold new online ad which gives the finger to his film’s bad reviews and the haters.
Moving the Goalposts | Women’s Ballon d’Or 2026 power rankings: will a new winner be crowned?
The Guardianby Suzanne Wrack8d ago
1 Melchie Dumornay (OL Lyonnes/Haiti) Yes, Dumornay was part of a team that lost 4-0 to Barcelona in last season’s Champions League final, but her influence in the OL Lyonnes midfield as they...
Jürgen Klopp disgusted by claims his Germany team are ‘not white enough’
The Guardianby Kate Connolly in Berlin8d ago
Jürgen Klopp has reacted with disgust to a social media debate questioning whether the Germany team he is in the process of forming are “white enough”.
The German town where the right has banned new ‘stumbling stones’ for Nazi victims
The Guardianby Deborah Cole in Heidenau, Germany8d ago
The town hall of Heidenau, Germany has a freshly restored cream-coloured facade, tidy flower boxes on the windowsills and a charming shingled clocktower.
AI chatbots remove hijabs from images of Muslim women when prompted
The Guardianby Johana Bhuiyan8d ago
When prompted, AI chat bots will edit images to remove the hijabs from Muslim women, a violation of one of the world’s most common and visible expressions of faith.
Would I want my child to study for a social media influencer degree? No, but it’s the way of the world
The Guardianby Emma Brockes8d ago
Sometimes you read a story in the news that seems designed to wind up as many people as possible. This week, that story involves a degree in content creation from Nottingham Trent University.
‘A saving gesture’: the art exhibition spotlighting US prisoners’ creations
The Guardianby Veronica Esposito8d ago
With nearly 2 million people behind bars, America is the global leader in incarceration. When you look at it per capita, we have the highest rate of incarceration of any independent democracy and...
20 fascinating facts about hair: why baldness is super-masculine – and a pubic bush could be a ‘cheating detector’
The Guardianby Elle Hunt8d ago
As a PhD student at Oxford studying mating behaviour, Judy Wearing was suddenly struck by a thought: what was the purpose of pubic hair? The point of armpit hair?