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    The diagnosed rebels who want to change your minds

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  • Gaby Hinsliff
    double quotation markEurope has even more reason to fear Vance than Trump

    Gaby Hinsliff

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    Kim Thayil on losing Chris Cornell and Kurt Cobain

    Kim Thayil plays a cream-colored electric guitar on a smoky stage wearing a beanie and t-shirt

  • The long read
    One of the last great wildernesses at risk

    Coral Jarvis Island, one of seven islands strung along the equator in the central Pacific.

  • Today in Focus
    The criminal cartels cashing in on the World Cup

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News

  • Police at the scene of the stabbing in north Belfast on Tuesday morning.

    Northern Ireland
    Man seriously injured in Belfast stabbing Starmer describes as ‘sickening’

    Prime minister says he has no tolerance for such attacks after man arrested on suspicion of attempted murder
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    Fossil fuels
    World’s largest banks pledged $906bn to fossil fuel companies in ‘unfathomable’ increase in 2025, report finds

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    Culture
    French star Patrick Bruel held by police investigating new sexual assault allegations

  • ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan in a dark suit and blue tie looks directly at the camera

    International law
    ICC chief prosecutor Karim Khan suspended amid sexual misconduct inquiry

  • Donald Trump salutes during the national anthem at the NBA finals

    NBA finals
    Trump given hostile reception as New York crowd boos and jeers president at NBA finals

In focus

  • A man in a black jacket gestures toward a painted map above a shelf of books and a World Cup 2026 scarf

    Netherlands
    ‘We are cheering on five teams’: how Rotterdam will turn more than orange for World Cup

    From Curaçao and Cape Verde to Morocco and Turkey, fans reflect Dutch city where loyalties are shared, not divided
  • A man kneels down among rows vegetables.

    Bangladesh
    ‘I fear people will go to war over water’: as wells run dry, farmers struggle to survive in Bangladesh

  • Keir Starmer in a dark suit and burgundy tie stands with hands clasped in front of Union Jack flags

    Politics
    Is Keir Starmer trying to build a legacy or just getting on with the job?

Features

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    Music
    The best albums of 2026 so far

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    Travel
    How Porto’s gritty, industrial neighbour became a cool coastal hotspot

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    Dementia
    ‘You’re treated like this is the end’: Meet the dementia rebels – diagnosed and determined to change people’s minds

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    World Cup 2026
    A (very) beginner’s guide to the World Cup: how does it work and the players to look out for

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    Restaurants
    The British food scene was booming. Why has it suddenly gone bust?

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    Photography
    ‘The people made me a star’: 100 years of Marilyn Monroe – in pictures

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    Houseplant hacks
    Houseplant hacks: does talking to your plants help them grow?

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    Documentary films
    ‘A man of great appetites’: what’s it like to be a dictator’s personal chef?

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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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    The net benefits of net zero: why there’s more to renewables than tackling the climate crisis

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    How AI is transforming the electricity grid – and why robot dogs could have a role to play

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  • Coral Jarvis Island, one of seven islands strung along the equator in the central Pacific.

    Oceans
    Ping-pong sponges, ‘black smokers’ and floating somethings: the secrets of the deep sea

    The bottom of the ocean has barely been explored, but every journey to the deep reveals wondrous new lifeforms. As underwater mining gains momentum, we risk destroying one of the Earth’s last great wildernesses
  • Joseph de Weck

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    Joseph de Weck
    Capping the population at 10 million is a far-right fantasy. It would dismantle the openness that has made the country rich, says Guardian Europe contributor Joseph de Weck
  • Gaby Hinsliff

    double quotation markLet this be a warning – if Europe worries about Trump, it has even more reason to fear JD Vance

    Gaby Hinsliff
    His toxic Henry Nowak intervention fits a pattern. Vance has hard-right views, a disdain for European society – and he may yet become president, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

More opinion

  • Zoe Williams

    double quotation markThe World Cup is shedding new light on the pathology of the Trump regime

    Zoe Williams

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    Normon Solomon
  • Polly Toynbee

    double quotation markYoung people need money because our system is rigged. Here’s a way to give it to them

    Polly Toynbee
  • Georgie Purcell

    double quotation markI face sexist abuse every day as a female MP – misogyny is unacceptable whatever side of the aisle we’re on

    Georgie Purcell

  • The Guardian view
    The French presidential election campaign: only the far right will profit from division

  • The Guardian view
    Cancer treatments: new hope for patients now and in the future

  • Ben Jennings on protecting children online – cartoon

    Ben Jennings
    Protecting children online

    Keir Starmer has given Apple and Google until September to install software that blocks explicit images on children’s mobile phones
  • Kimi Antonelli

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    Giles Richards
    Other drivers are trying to remain upbeat but the Italian is untouchable on present form, and his Mercedes team principal is in awe

More sport

  • Alexia Putellas poses for a selfie following Spain’s 4-0 victory against England in Mallorca on Friday

    Exclusive
    Huge boost for WSL as Putellas agrees personal terms with London City

  • Lassana Diarra takes the ball away from Lionel Messi

    Football
    Diarra settles with Fifa and Belgian FA after landmark transfer case

  • Elliot Anderson passes the ball while playing in midfield

    Football
    Manchester United think they can beat City to £100m-rated Anderson

  • Lauren Hemp during training

    Football
    Hemp confident Lionesses will bounce back from Spain hammering

More top stories

  • Two scale models of a fighter jet in front of the German, French and EU flags

    Europe
    France and Germany abandon joint project to build European fighter jet

    Paris and Berlin conclude firms involved unable to agree on way forward in blow to Europe’s common defence push
  • President Donald Trump in a dark suit and red tie gestures while speaking, photographed from below against dramatic clouds

    US
    Experts warn Trump ‘inventing fraud’ in California as president ramps up baseless claims

  • A row of terraced houses in different colours line a quiet Hartlepool street under an overcast sky

    UK
    Ministers could ban London councils ‘dumping’ homeless families miles away

  • A large four-engine aircraft flies across a blue sky, leaving four white contrails behind it

    Airline emissions
    Airline industry chiefs say 2050 net zero goal now unlikely

  • Gannets with pale yellow heads perch on dark, streaked rock ledges at Bass Rock colony in Scotland

    Scotland
    Call to phase out ‘inhumane’ guga hunt by working with Hebridean islanders

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    Birds
    Elusive gull drifts thousands of kilometres off course to Australia, turning birdwatching into ‘extreme sport’

  • A person in a red and yellow sari sits under an umbrella selling leafy greens at a street market

    Weather tracker
    Monsoon season brings vital rainfall to parts of Asia

  • UK
    Schoolgirl arrested after three stabbed at Manchester school

  • Social media ban
    White House urges UK not to ban social media for under-16s

  • AI
    Plan for AI legal assistants in England and Wales ‘cannot replace funding and staff’, lawyers say

  • London
    Scores of firefighters tackle major blaze at south London recycling centre

  • Japan
    Izakaya economics: Japan’s traditional night out fights tooth and ale for survival

  • Australia
    Revealed: the ‘less lethal’ weapons police don’t want Australians to know about

  • Australia
    Woman who gave lethal medication to terminally ill husband released on bail after murder charge

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    Pulitzer-prize winning historian dies after being struck by car

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    Soundgarden
    ‘We were going off the cliff’: Soundgarden’s Kim Thayil on inventing grunge – and losing Chris Cornell and Kurt Cobain

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    Book of the day
    The End of Everything by M John Harrison review – near-future visions from an SF master

What to watch

  • A person wearing a white headband device with sensors sits in a white cushioned chair

    Film
    Signal One review – Dennis Quaid and David Thewlis star in high-concept, low-risk first contact yarn

  • A grey-haired man in an electric blue jacket and blue and pink striped tie with his hands in the prayer position and his mouth open

    TV review
    Brexit: A Very British Civil War review – TV has no right to be this much of a hoot

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    Film
    Pink Narcissus review – garish colour and dreamlike images in a homoerotic vision of 60s New York

  • A couple in sparkly costumes embrace, looking at something off-camera, in what appears to be a ballroom setting. Paul Mercurio and Tara Morice in Strictly Ballroom.

    How we made
    ‘Screaming girls chased me down the street’: how we made Strictly Ballroom

What to listen to

  • Merritt Mathias looks at moments when football has become embroiled in politics.

    Best podcasts of the week
    A fascinating history of the World Cup: best podcasts of the week

  • David Gray

    Honest playlist
    ‘At my funeral I want people dancing in the aisles to Madness’: David Gray’s honest playlist

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    Punk
    ‘I knew it was over for us’: the bands who got left behind when punk exploded

  • Strei.

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    Add to playlist: the introspective ‘Afromood’ of Nigerian star Strei and the week’s best new tracks

What to read

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    Biography books
    Flamboyance by Jack Parlett review – a serious study of the spectacular

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    Fiction
    Villa Coco by Andrew Sean Greer review – fun in the Tuscan sun

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    The big idea
    Should we ditch the idea of three meals a day?

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    Books
    'Far right groups prey on it': Olivia Laing on the weaponisation of loneliness

What to play

  • Video game still of a character wearing glasses and a woollen hat looking at a screen in a dark and gloomy town street

    Games
    Summer Game Fest highlights: 34 new video games to look out for, from Alien Isolation to Crazy Taxi

  • A fun footie sim with some innovative ideas … Goals.

    Games
    Goals review – disruptor football game attempts to smash the competition

  • Spyro: Realms Beyond video game screenshot

    Games
    Spyro the Dragon returns with a new game after almost two decades

  • A cartoon mouse character in red and black robes holds a sword, framed by ornate gold decorations

    Adventure games
    Mina the Hollower review – squeaky fresh fun full of vintage magic

More culture

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    Music
    James Blood Ulmer, adventurous US guitarist and vocalist, dies aged 86

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    Exclusive
    Cello belonging to artist John Constable to be played for first time in 100 years

  • Roddy Doyle with glasses and a grey beard smiles in front of a building with arched windows

    Books
    Booker prize launches new Quick Read in effort to boost adult reading rates

  • Sean Penn, pictured at a Cannes film festival press conference in 2023

    Film
    How much does Sean Penn hate selfies? Enough to invoke the Holocaust

  • An illustration of a broken blue plate, and a pair of hands holding a knife and fork against a red backdrop.

    Restaurants
    The British food scene was booming. Why has it suddenly gone bust?

  • Two white plates with roasted duck legs, cherries and caramelised fennel, with bread and wine glasses alongside

    Food
    José Pizarro’s recipe for duck legs with cherries and amontillado

  • Rukmini Iyer's spaghetti with spring greens, butter beans and harissa.

    Quick and easy
    Rukmini Iyer’s quick and easy recipe for spaghetti with spring greens, butter beans and harissa

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    North African food and drink
    Fava, roast veg and grilled courgette: the Barbary’s recipes for simple summer dips

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    Felicity Cloake's masterclass
    How to make keema peas – recipe

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    Grace Dent on restaurants
    Bar Shrimp, Manchester M1: ‘This is meaningful, highly adept cooking’

Fashion & beauty

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    Men's fashion
    Fashion goals: World Cup’s style tournament has already kicked off

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    The price of everything
    How much should you pay for an ethically made T-shirt?

  • Model standing in front of wooden stool wearing sunglasses, in short yellow floral dress and black mid-length boots with white socks, with bare legs

    Jess Cartner-Morley on fashion
    Forget your go-to maxidress – less is more this summer

  • Tanned model with long wavy brown hair wearing spiky metal tiara and red and white striped sleeveless top, against a yellow background

    Skincare
    Sali Hughes on beauty: the best facial self-tans for summer

  • Catherine Cho on the sofa with her children, one of whom is opening birthday cards and presents

    Parenting
    The one change that worked: my husband and I created a simple and life-changing parenting rota

  • A blond woman smiles as she kneels down on the floor alongside a large brown and white dog.

    Life and style
    The pet I’ll never forget: Chewy the dog, who loves gardening – and saving lives

  • An illustration of a woman with her arms folded and two people standing in the background

    Ask Annalisa Barbieri
    ‘My partner’s mum is cruel towards him and I worry how she’ll be with our future kids’

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    Kindness of strangers
    double quotation markI was lost in the pouring rain – then a man came along with a big rainbow umbrella

  • An illustration of a packet of sugar whispering conspiratorially to a jar of brown sauce

    Life and style
    Is it true that … sugar is ‘toxic’?

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    Well actually
    How do I know when I’ve hit perimenopause?

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    Food & drink industry
    What would Jesus drink? Welcome to the age of Christian energy beverages

  • GLP-1 drugs such as Mounjaro are helping millions of people rapidly lose weight. But the changes happening inside the body go far beyond the number on the scale

    It's complicated
    'I've lost my butt': how rapid weight loss can leave you with less muscle and more fat

    Video8:01

More lifestyle

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    Country diary
    Ladybirds and wasps are the unsung heroes of the farm

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    Alex Bellos's Monday puzzle
    Did you solve it? Do you have a snout for numbers?

  • Killary Fjord winds between brown Connemara hills and green patches under a cloudy sky, a road visible along the bank

    Travel
    West Ireland’s magical landscape: where limestone rivers, Hollywood legend and Irish myth converge

  • An older woman in a patterned blouse leans her face on one hand.

    The big interview
    ‘My life is about beauty’: Julie Newmar at 92 on shocking the world as Catwoman – and caring for her son

  • Is Mum OK?
    How do you give Britain’s hidden army a break?

    In Walthamstow, east London, we meet a group of young carers as they are collected for a rare night off that brings a sense of community and a glimpse of fun for a few hours every few weeks. It’s hosted by Satvinder, a tenacious council worker who fights to improve the recognition of young carers in her borough and provides them crucial emotional support. There are more than one million young carers in the UK – with an average age of 12 – which is the equivalent of two kids in every school class.

    This film is released during Carers Week in the UK.

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