The best recent poetry – review roundup
The Guardianby Jennifer Lee Tsai·7d ago
Have It by John Cooper Clarke (Picador, £16.99) The latest collection from the original “people’s poet” displays his characteristic swagger, delivered with a distinctively northern humour.
‘Starchitects go home’: what’s the truth behind Albania’s astonishing building boom?
The Guardianby Oliver Wainwright·7d ago
Last autumn, I was sitting with a prominent architect in New York, when their phone wouldn’t stop buzzing. They finally checked the messages and chuckled.
While I dream of garden greenhouses, a coldframe will do me just fine
The Guardianby Alice Vincent·7d ago
I thought I would have had a new coldframe by now, but the only new thing in the garden is a fox hole.
AI weapons systems are already here. Algorithms must not decide who lives and dies | Kenneth Roth
The Guardianby Kenneth Roth·7d ago
As tech leaders warn about the threats of artificial intelligence, most conjure up images of AI agents running amok, such as hacking systems used to run our critical infrastructure, banks or even...
‘It’s rational to fear the music industry’: Grouper’s Liz Harris on virality, streaming scammers and her ‘restorative’ dream-pop trio
The Guardianby Jenn Pelly·7d ago
In mid-September, I watched as Liz Harris soundchecked to 1,500 empty seats at midtown Manhattan’s historic Town Hall theatre.
It's true: this is my final column. You have exactly 24 hours to complain before my inbox self-destructs | Marina Hyde
The Guardianby Marina Hyde·7d ago
Journalism 101 – a course I have yet to complete – dictates that if you have something salient to say you should get there fast.
A new Skywalker trilogy for Star Wars? Going back to the same family-saga well is a waste of time
The Guardianby Ben Child·7d ago
The Skywalkers: who are they exactly? A family that has moulded the entire Star Wars galaxy in their image, to the extent that nobody can really imagine the long-running space opera without them.
Kinky dating app Feeld pays founders record £3.8m after sales jump
The Guardianby Rob Davies·7d ago
Feeld, a UK-based dating app aimed at non-monogamous, queer and kinky users, has reported strong sales growth and paid its founders their largest-ever dividend as it attracts users from more...
Horror films like Obsession are shut out of the Golden Globes – unless they pretend to be comedies
The Guardianby Tom Beasley·7d ago
What do this year’s wish-gone-wrong tale Obsession, gross-out transformation bloodbath The Substance, and Jordan Peele’s generational masterpiece Get Out have in common?
Manchester City verdict has significant implications for game’s integrity, warns FA
The Guardianby Matt Hughes·7d ago
The Football Association has confirmed it has powers to take disciplinary action against Manchester City and key individuals at the club in the governing body’s first comment since City were found...
UK is not facing diesel shortage despite fears of Trump export ban, minister says
The Guardianby Mark Sweney·7d ago
The government has moved to avert panic at the pumps, insisting that the UK is not facing a diesel shortage after Donald Trump threatened to cut off US supplies of the fuel.
The ICE documentary as chilling as a horror movie: ‘We’re trying to put the audience in a position of terror’
The Guardianby Andrew Lawrence·7d ago
Get Out. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. The Purge. All three films build on an august tradition of using horror as a Trojan horse to comment on the social, political and racial anxieties of their...
For too long, only the right has expanded the boundaries of what governments can do. Can Burnham change that? | Andy Beckett
The Guardianby Andy Beckett·7d ago
How much can a Labour government change the country? According to many voters, journalists and politicians, including plenty in the party itself, the answer to that stubbornly recurring question...
Christa Pike survived her execution attempt. Tennessee must not try again | Austin Sarat
The Guardianby Austin Sarat·7d ago
Botched executions are nothing new in US history. In the era when hangings were common, some condemned people were decapitated.
Calls grow for US death penalty halt after ‘torturous’ botched execution of Christa Pike
The Guardianby Ed Pilkington·7d ago
Top lawyers, doctors and members of the faith community are calling for a moratorium on the US death penalty after Tennessee’s failed attempt to execute Christa Pike left the prisoner alive but in...
Clay Travis: inside the Maga permadad’s world of sports betting, trans panic and more sports betting
The Guardianby Aaron Timms·7d ago
When Maga media blowhard Clay Travis offered $2m to Colin Kaepernick last week to appear on the daily talkshow he hosts with former CIA analyst Buck Sexton, it represented the culmination of a...
A century after the weekend was invented, it has disappeared. Let’s reclaim leisure | Richard Morgan
The Guardianby Richard Morgan·7d ago
It was a Saturday. In fact, the Saturday. Almost exactly a century ago, on 25 September 1926, Henry Ford instituted a policy of weekends for his workforce.
Row erupts over Cairo mural depicting Tutankhamun and Nefertiti with dark skin
The Guardianby Hanaa Hammad in Cairo·7d ago
On the eve of Chinese president Xi Jinping’s state visit to Cairo last month, the city authorities were busy removing a 66-metre-long mural from the esteemed guest’s line of sight.
Recent lobbyist for Palantir had key role in helping Andy Burnham become PM
The Guardianby Robert Booth and Henry Dyer·7d ago
A recent lobbyist for the controversial $450bn US tech company Palantir played a senior role in helping Andy Burnham become prime minister, it has emerged.
‘I was fighting for my life’: Indian pilot hailed as hero recalls flydubai cockpit attack
The Guardianby Associated Press·7d ago
The Indian pilot who helped thwart an apparent attempt to crash a flydubai flight has described how he fought for his life in the minutes after his co-pilot stabbed him and the plane began a steep...
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