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    Too good to be true: on the road with Nigel Farage

    Nigel Farage among a crowd in the City Pavilion in Romford

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    Leicester’s Premier League win 10 years on

    Leicester players and their manager celebrate with the Premier League trophy on an open-top bus parade through the city

  • Kneecap: Fenian
    New album is triumphant yet tortured

    Kneecap: DJ Provai, Móglaí Bap and Mo Chara.

  • Tania Roettger
    Germany clinging to fossil fuels will only prolong pain

    Tania Roettger

  • 'I felt sick'
    The woman who exposed a polygamous paedophile

    Christine Marie

  • Media
    Paparazzi target women at St Andrews May Dip

    Students taking part in the traditional May Dip at St Andrews as the sun rises

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    UK
    Woman charged over death of two eight-year-old girls after Wimbledon car crash

  • Two dogs on lead standing next to their owner in Rome

    Italy
    Italian city orders dog owners to wash away urine or face €500 fine

  • Football
    Gianni Infantino’s attempt at Israel-Palestine handshake backfires

    Gianni Infantino made a failed attempt to orchestrate a handshake between Palestinian and Israeli delegates at Fifa’s congress in Vancouver

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    Analysis
    Charles tamed Trump while rebuking Trumpism in ego-flattering masterstroke

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  • Zhanna Kadyrova's "Origami Deer" sculpture arrives at the headquarters of UNESCO in Paris, on it's way to Venice as part of "Security Guarantees", the theme of the Ukrainian Pavilion at the 61st Venice Biennale (9 May–22 November 2026. The deer, made from aluminum, was originally installed in 2019 on the site of a dismantled Soviet nuclear-capable jet in Pokrovsk, Donetsk region, and evacuated from the front line in 2024. Paris, France. Photograph by David Levene 23/3/26

    Art
    ‘It has become a symbol of hope’: the epic journey of Ukraine’s origami deer to the Venice biennale

  • Kneecap: DJ Provai, Móglaí Bap and Mo Chara.

    Alexis Petridis's album of the week
    Kneecap: Fenian review – their new album is terrific, triumphant yet tortured

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    Petrochemicals
    I tried to live for 24 hours without using oil-based products. It was ridiculously impossible

  • Marc Girod sitting in a wheelchair on a sandy beach, wearing a rust-coloured zip-up top and hat, a khaki hoodie, black trousers and shades

    Experience
    I died on my 44th birthday

  • Rebel Wilson wears a cardigan in neutral tone with a collared white shirt as she walks past media

    Fashion
    Rebel Wilson’s courtroom makeover shows why style matters on the stand

  • Two smartly dressed women walk down a blue carpet past the paparazzi.

    Film
    The Woman Who Loves Luxury Goods 2: why the Devil Wears Prada title goes back to basics in Vietnam

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    Life
    You are what you keep: why we cling to clutter and how to free yourself of it

  • Leicester players and their manager celebrate with the Premier League trophy on an open-top bus parade through the city

    Football
    Leicester’s stunning Premier League win 10 years on, recalled by Ranieri and his fellow Foxes

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    The grid unlocked: how does a greener power network actually work?

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    From Amazon to Meta: how the world’s biggest companies are securing supplies of low-carbon energy

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    Germany’s climate U-turn is the worst possible response to the oil shock

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    Prices at the pump have leapt since the start of the conflict – but clinging to fossil fuels will only prolong the pain, says Berlin-based journalist Tania Roettger
  • Emma John

    Robo athletes miss the point of sport – there is no drama without emotion

    Emma John
    We are in a world where robots compete against humans and while perfect scores might be impressive, they are also dull

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  • We are preparing to transform the moon and Mars. The public must have a say in this future

    Ben Bramble
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    Digested week: King bites tongue as president indulges his own fantasies

    John Crace
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    The supreme court’s voting rights decision wasn’t about law – it was about politics

    David Daley and Eric J Segall

  • Working Americans are taking the streets for May Day. Will Democrats pay attention?

    Claire Valdez

  • The Guardian view
    The Golders Green attack: the public as well as the state must tackle antisemitism

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    Trump’s war on science: politicising a generation of researchers

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    What’s Donald Trump’s relationship with the truth?

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    Sports quiz of the week
    Featuring world records, heavyweight clashes and speedy shoes

    Have you been following the big stories in football, darts, rugby union, boxing, athletics, swimming and horse racing?

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  • Callum Wilson and Joao Palhinha celebrating goals for West Ham and Tottenham respectively.

    Football Daily
    Premier League drama-magnets ready to wrestle spotlight off Championship

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  • Nikola Jokić hugs Rudy Gobert after Thursday night's Game 6 between the Nuggets and Timberwolves.

    NBA
    ‘If we were in Serbia we would all be fired’: Jokić’s Nuggets crash out of playoffs

  • The humanoid robot Tiangong competes in the Beijing half-marathon

    Robo athletes miss the point of sport – there is no drama without emotion

    Emma John
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    Leonard Barden on chess
    England fail to win senior team world medals for first time in five years

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  • Philip Young mugshot

    UK
    Ex-Tory councillor who drugged and raped wife admits making child abuse images

  • Nigel Farage in a crowd

    Politics
    Watchdog weighs investigation into Farage’s undisclosed £5m gift

  • Aung San Suu Kyi talking with military official in undisclosed location

    Myanmar
    Former leader Aung San Suu Kyi to be moved to house arrest, state media says

  • An entrance to a detention center surrounded by high fences

    US immigration
    Cuban immigrant dies in Georgia detention center, ICE tells Congress

  • two sea otters eat in an aquarium

    Wildlife
    Mother knows best as sea otter adopts orphaned pup at California aquarium

  • Tugboats near a larger LNG vessel

    Shipping emissions
    How LNG interests are seeking to disrupt global talks on decarbonising shipping

  • An athlete jumping, with Alexander Stadium in the background at sunset

    Air pollution
    Large-scale sporting events cause unexpected air pollution, study shows

  • Colombia's environment minister, Irene Vélez Torres, (left) with her Netherlands counterpart, Stientje van Veldhoven, at the climate conference in Santa Marta.

    Climate crisis
    ‘Historic breakthrough’: Colombia climate talks end with hopes raised for fossil fuel phaseout

  • Media
    ‘It ruined my night’: photographers accused of targeting women at St Andrews May Dip

  • Steel industry
    Czech energy group hints at combined bid for British Steel and Speciality Steel UK

  • NHS
    Martha’s rule may have saved more than 500 lives in England since 2024

  • UK
    Superdry cofounder James Holder found guilty of raping woman after night out

  • Business
    ‘Temu Range Rover’: what the bestselling Jaecoo 7 says about China’s electric car ascendancy

  • Trump administration
    Pentagon inks deals with seven AI companies for classified military work

  • Law
    Uganda copying Russia and China with new bill designed to crush dissent, say critics

  • Business
    CEO pay soared in 2025, 20 times faster than workers’ pay

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    Film
    Out of tune: why does Hollywood struggle to capture pop stardom?

  • Standing against a pink wall, he holds his hand to chin and looks at the camera

    Music
    ‘Major labels are trying to scoop up everything’: the chaotic future for indie music companies – and why vinyl isn’t working

What to watch

  • Mandy Patinkin and Janet McTeer in The Artist.

    TV review
    The Artist review – this flamboyant period comedy is like nothing else on TV

  • Black and white image of tall man in glasses and woman in peasant shirt looking in the same direction.

    Film
    ‘I’m hoping people get inspired’: what can we learn from the godfather of community organizing?

  • The cast of Michael at the film’s Berlin premiere in April.

    Film
    ‘A profound depiction’: Michael Jackson fans support divisive biopic as film smashes records

  • SWAPPED - A buddy comedy about a small woodland creature (voiced by Michael B. Jordan) and a majestic bird (voiced by Juno Temple)—natural sworn enemies of The Valley—who suddenly swap bodies and must team up (while walking in each other’s feathers and fur) to survive the wildest adventure of their lives. Cr: Skydance Animation/Netflix © 2025

    Film
    Swapped review – animated Netflix adventure plays like off-brand Pixar

What to listen to

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    Music
    Add to playlist: the snarling Irish folk of Madra Salach and the week’s best new tracks

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    Global album of the month
    Serokolo 7: Maramfa Musick Pro review – South Africa’s latest club export is a relentless adrenaline shot

  • Kacey Musgraves Press publicity portrait

    Music
    Kacey Musgraves: Middle of Nowhere review – weary, rootsy and wry, it’s her richest album since Golden Hour

  • Cellist Paul Watkins

    Classical music
    Beethoven: The Sonatas for Piano and Cello album review – Watkins and Bax have a shared impulse to deliver eloquence

What to read

  • Portia Elan.

    Book of the day
    Homebound by Portia Elan review – a Cloud Atlas-like puzzle-box novel

  • Daljit Nagra.

    Books
    The best recent poetry – review roundup

  • Katie Kitamura.

    The books of my life
    Katie Kitamura: ‘Almost every writer changes my mind – that’s the point of reading’

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    What we're reading
    Writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in April

What to play

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    I touched a ZX Spectrum for the first time in decades – and I liked it

    Dominik Diamond
  • An orange sports car skids on a country road in the new James Bond game, 007 First Light.

    Games
    ‘You can be any Bond you want’: the inside story of 007 First Light

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    Games
    Forbidden Solitaire review – cards flip into delirious trip back to 90s horror

  • A man in a space suit with a child in the game Pragmata

    Pushing Buttons
    What makes good ‘game feel’? These three titles have pinned it down perfectly

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More culture

  • Melanie C wearing a grey and cream crop top and black trousers. She has long tousled hair

    Reader interview
    ‘I did receive bottles on stage. There might have been urine’: Melanie C on Spice Girls mania, impostor syndrome and her date with a Chili Pepper

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    Television
    Sexy vibes to vampire doctors! All the wildest fan theories about The Pitt

  • José Aparicio's painting depicting famine victims in Madrid during the year of hungerThe Year of Famine in Madrid José Aparicio Oil on canvas, 315 x 437 cm 1818 Madrid, Museo Nacional del Prado, on deposit in the Museo de Historia in Madrid

    Spain
    Return of Aparicio painting to Prado exemplifies trajectory of human taste

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    Art
    German artist Georg Baselitz dies aged 88

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    Film
    The devil wears Primark: is the romcom reporter about to get the sack?

  • Christine Marie

    How we survive
    ‘When I watched the girls loving this man, I felt sick’: the woman who exposed a polygamous paedophile

  • Felicity Cloake's chicken pie served with mashed potatoes and greens

    Feast
    Why we care so much about preserving family recipes

    Newsletter
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    The sweet spot
    Helen Goh’s springtime spinach sponge cake with cream cheese icing – recipe

  • Woman immersed in the vineyards of Franciacorta, Brescia province, Lombardy.

    Wine
    When it comes to wines, it pays to look beyond the fashionable

  • Minestrone from Lucy Tweed's new cookbook, Tender

    Food
    Lucy Tweed’s Mediterranean soup recipes: minestrone, avgolemono and Greek white bean soup

Fashion & beauty

  • Lady Gaga in a voluminous pink gown with elaborate drawn-on eyelashes and a platinum blonde wig

    Fashion Statement
    Omelette dresses and political statements: the most unforgettable Met Gala looks

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  • A composite image of a pale green linen blazer, brown and white-striped bow hairclips, gold chain necklace, brown silky slip dress with lace trim, trio of rings in silver, gold and rose gold, red pouch handbag, and heeled rust-orange velvet toe-post sandals, all on an orange and pale blue vertically striped background.

    Fashion
    Slip into summer: what to wear with a return-to-the-90s ‘It’ dress

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  • Pete Hegseth and Jennifer Rauchet walks the red carpet at the White House correspondent's dinner at the Washington Hilton in Washington, DC on April 25, 2026.

    Fashion
    Why the outrage over this dress worn to the White House correspondents’ dinner?

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    Fashion
    Jess Cartner-Morley on fashion: how to style leather trousers

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    You be the judge
    My partner likes open sandwiches. I prefer two slices of bread. Who is right?

  • Open book showing a split portrait of three women’s faces, framed by flowers and chains

    Sex
    ‘Making the scarlet letter into my career’: my life as a sex writer

  • Painting: Two Women Talking by Carl Bloch (1874).

    Leading questions
    A friend I’ve known for 50 years has become a self-absorbed, petulant know-all. Should I cut off contact?

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    Life
    This is how we do it: ‘Testosterone restored my orgasms – I’m climaxing six to 10 times a session’

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    Health
    Puffy legs, heavy aches, rippled skin: what is lipoedema?

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    Mobile phones
    I’m addicted to checking my phone. Could a blocking device stop me?

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    Well actually
    Wellness culture is trying to sell you products your vagina doesn’t need

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    The experts
    All the right moves! 17 personal trainers on the exercise they always recommend – from planks to face pulls

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  • People sitting at tables on the pavement outside a cafe in Maybachufer in Berlin's Neukôlln neighbourhood.

    Travel
    Cool bars and friendly vibes: readers’ favourite city neighbourhoods in Europe

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    Technology
    ‘Awkward and humiliating’: UK job hunters share frustration with AI interviews

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    Gardening advice
    Sweetcorn is a delicious summer crop – if you have space in your garden

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    10 of the best UK nature festivals for late spring and summer

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