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    Japan’s traditional night out fights tooth and ale for survival

    a view of Tokyo’s trendy Shimokitazawa district

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

    Gaby Hinsliff

  • Dementia
    The diagnosed rebels who want to change your minds

    Maxine in purple top and jeans sits in her house, by her patio doors, smiling at the camera

  • Soundgarden
    Kim Thayil on inventing grunge and losing Chris Cornell

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

  • Bayern’s best ever?
    Harry Kane goes to World Cup in Ballon d’Or conversation

    Harry Kane celebrates his goal against New Zealand – his 67th of the season

  • The long read
    Secrets of the deep sea and its wondrous lifeforms

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

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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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    Palestine
    Israel puts Palestinian doctor in solitary confinement after 17 months held without charge

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  • a view of Tokyo’s trendy Shimokitazawa district

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

    Hard times – and British-style pubs – are squeezing restaurant-bars that once thrived in cities everywhere. Can they innovate to keep pace with change?
  • Composite image of Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US president Donald Trump

    Analysis
    Complex relationship between Trump and Netanyahu continues to undermine Middle East ceasefire

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    Nigeria
    ‘We are familiar faces’: are local peacemakers the answer to Nigeria’s bandit crisis?

Features

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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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    Music
    The best albums of 2026 so far

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

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

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

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    How to start
    ‘Overconsumption isolates us’: how to start shopping less

  • Marilyn Monroe is seen in a ballerina satin dress sitting on a wicker chair

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

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

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

  • A red handfish among coral

    Science
    Blue mushrooms, shy trees and glowing seas: Beaker Street science photography prize – in pictures

    Gallery15
  • 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

Opinion

  • 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
  • Zoe Williams

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

    Zoe Williams
    Players and fans denied visas, the spectre of ICE raids on stadiums, Pete Hegseth’s latest speech ... By the end of this contest, the nature of this US government will be even clearer, says Guardian columnist Zoe Williams

More opinion

  • Joseph de Weck

    double quotation markIs Switzerland tired of prosperity? I can think of no other reason for our next foolish referendum

    Joseph de Weck
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    double quotation markThe hill I will die on: Marmite is an insipid English imitation. Vegemite is the true Aussie hero

    Kathy Lette
  • Polly Toynbee

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

    Polly Toynbee
  • Lea Ypi

    double quotation markLook at the protests Jared Kushner has caused in Albania. This could be a shining light for Europe

    Lea Ypi

Editorials

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    Climate equality: a richer life and real public abundance, not just more stuff

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    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

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

  • Lauren Hemp during training

    Football
    Hemp confident Lionesses will bounce back from Spain hammering

  • Lassana Diarra takes the ball away from Lionel Messi

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

  • Tatjana Maria plays a backhand against Kamilla Rakhimova during a qualifier at Queen’s

    Tennis
    Reigning champion Maria shocked by Queen’s wildcard snub

More top stories

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    US news
    Gordon S Wood, Pulitzer-prize winning historian, dies after being struck by a car in Rhode Island

    A renowned academic, Wood was hit by a car as he was crossing a supermarket’s parking lot and later died of the injuries
  • GSK offices in London

    Pharmaceuticals industry
    GSK to buy US cancer treatment firm Nuvalent for $10.6bn

  • Ulmer on stage in 2002.

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

  • A man kneels down among rows of rice crop in a paddy field.

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

  • Waves crashing over Tynemouth pier on the North East coast of England

    Environment
    ‘Severe’ stress on oceans as rate of sea level rise doubles in 10 years, UN warns

  • water and fish flowing out of pipe into lake

    Arizona
    Arizona lake closes indefinitely to visitors after all of its fish die

  • a gravel road and inside a data center

    US
    Majority of US’s new AI datacenters to be built on drought-hit land

UK news

  • Trade unions
    Unions rebuff Farage and say Reform ‘cosplaying’ as workers’ champions

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

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

  • Health
    Doctors and NHS could be sued for mistakes made by AI tools, report warns

World news

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    Kalshi and Polymarket prohibit affiliates from spreading election misinformation

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

  • Pope Leo XIV
    Pope uses Spain speech to warn of global ‘spiritual and cultural crisis’

  • Dominican Republic
    Two US pilots killed after plane bound to pick up former MLB star crashes

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Culture

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    Music
    ‘You escape the slaughter. But there’s a long tail of sadness’: musician Bedouine on the strangeness of Arab life outside the Middle East

  • 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

What to watch

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

  • Illustration features Rivals character Rupert, and Harper from Industry

    Television
    The best TV of 2026 so far

  • 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

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    Film
    A Murder Between Friends review – Joan Collins’s detective diva sparkles in trashy whodunnit

What to listen to

  • Composer and viola player Sally Beamish portrait, Brighton, 14 July 2025

    Music
    ‘My diagnosis was a blessing’: composer Sally Beamish on tackling the condition that ruined every joyful memory

  • 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

  • Taylor Swift with wavy hair lies on grass surrounded by yellow and pink tulips, looking up

    Pop
    Taylor Swift: I Knew It, I Knew You review – giddy up! Song for Toy Story cowgirl Jessie is Swift’s best in years

What to read

  • M John Harrison.

    Science fiction
    The End of Everything by M John Harrison review – near-future visions from an SF master

  • The Tuscan hills in Villa Coco.

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

  • Little Girl reading a BookLittle girl reading a simple picture book.

    Book of the day
    A British Childhood by Frank Cottrell-Boyce review – are we raising a bookless generation?

  • A woman in a New York City diner at night.

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

  • Idris Elba in a blue suit and dark scarf smiles softly at the camera at a red carpet event

    Film
    Idris Elba says audiences would never accept a black actor playing James Bond: ‘That’s not what they like in their culture’

  • Ibrahim Alfa Jr

    Dance music
    ‘In prison, I made a little studio in my head. It kept me sane’: Ibrahim Alfa Jr, British techno’s great survivor

  • A girl in a garden wears a brightly coloured cardboard dinosaur mask

    Art
    ‘Wear something that makes you feel silly!’ Can Austin Kleon’s tips put the spark back in my life?

Lifestyle

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

    The pet I'll never forget
    Chewy the dog, who loves gardening – and saving lives

  • 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?

Food

  • 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

  • The Barbary's courgette machluta.

    Food
    Fava, roast veg and grilled courgette: the Barbary’s recipes for simple summer dips

  • A golden plate of keema peas with red peppers and cilantro beside flatbread pieces

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

Fashion & beauty

  • Williams, Yamal, and Pedri in matching navy, red, and yellow jackets stand together in a crowded stadium

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

  • 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

  • A woman in a white skirt suit and wide-brimmed hat grins as she holds the hand of a man in a navy suit while exiting a town hall.

    Weddings
    The return of the bridal suit: will Dua Lipa’s look change the face of weddings?

  • A Barbie doll being filed with plastic surgery marks on its face

    Cosmetic surgery
    Hollywood’s obsession with cosmetic surgeries has led to stiffer looks – and performances

Relationships

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    This is how we do it
    double quotation markI joined a hook-up app for widowed people, and discovered the strongest chemistry I’ve ever felt

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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

  • A man, woman and young child in bathing suits on a jetty in front of a pine free-fringed lake

    Family holidays
    ‘I don’t think we’ve ever felt closer’: five writers on their most memorable family holidays

  • 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’

Health & fitness

  • 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’?

  • Bolts of orange lightning cover woman's face with black hand-held fan pointed at her

    Well actually
    double quotation markHow do I know when I’ve hit perimenopause?

  • 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

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    Fertility
    Men are worried about their fertility. Enter the regrettably named trend of spermmaxxing

More lifestyle

  • A woman holding a large plant in a pot, looking up at its leaves

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

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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

  • Aliens creature in the forest

    Notes and queries
    Readers reply: If an alien asked you: ‘What is music?’ what would you play for them?

Documentary

  • 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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