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Chris Johnston

Chris Johnston is a London-based freelance journalist for the Guardian. Follow him on Twitter at @cajuk

  • Wilfred Bramble and Harry H Corbett as Steptoe and Son.

    'You dirty old man!' Memorable lines from Steptoe and Hancock

    With the death of Ray Galton, we recall some of the best lines written by Galton and Simpson for Hancock’s Half Hour and Steptoe and Son
  • Grenfell Tower

    Grenfell: council seeks new powers to acquire unused properties

    Kensington and Chelsea has 621 properties that have been empty and unfurnished for more than two years
    • 1,600 scientists rebuke Cern physicist over gender bias

    • Spanish soprano Montserrat Caballé dies aged 85

    • Banksy auction stunt leaves art world in shreds

August 2018

  • Lana del Rey

    Lana Del Rey pulls out of Israeli festival after backlash

  • Kofi Annan addresses the UN general assembly in New York

    Kofi Annan, former UN secretary general, dies

  • Children cool off in a fountain in Madrid

    Heatwave temperatures may top 45C in southern Europe

  • The empty open-topped bus that will be on display at Brighton Pride this weekend

    Leave it out: Stonewall criticises Paddy Power's Pride bus stunt

July 2018

  • Tommy Robinson supporters

    Union leader attacked after counter-protest to Tommy Robinson rally

  • The Pride in London Parade gets under way in central London on Saturday.

    London Pride parade: 30,000 march as huge crowds line route

  • Smoke rises from a fire on Winter Hill

    Major incident declared as moor fires converge in Lancashire

    Blaze on Winter Hill, which has TV transmission mast, merges with fire around Scout Road
  • The four victims were aged between 18 and 21, police said.

    Four young men killed in Leeds car crash

    Three people taken to hospital, one with critical injuries, after Horsforth collision
  • People relax in deck chairs at Brighton.

    Lettuce crops flop as Britain wilts in hot weather

    Salad basics stop growing and hosepipe use is banned as 30C-plus temperatures continue
  • L to R: Ardal O’Hanlon as Fr Dougal Maguire, Dermot Morgan as Fr Ted Crilly, Pauline McLynn as Mrs Doyle and Frank Kelly as Fr Jack Hacket.

    Father Ted to become pope in stage musical

  • Theresa May

    Pressure grows on May to tackle Islamophobia in Conservative party

March 2018

  • Fiona Phillips, pictured with Emonn Holmes in 2001

    Fiona Phillips: I was paid far less on GMTV than Eamonn Holmes

  • Sergei Skripal's BMW

    Russian spy poisoning: police release picture of Skripal's BMW

January 2018

  • The bronze sculpture of Diana, Princess of Wales, and her partner Dodi Fayed

    'Tacky' statue of Diana and Dodi Fayed to be removed from Harrods

  • The White Pendragons group disrupting the speech voiced their support for Brexit.

    Sadiq Khan speech disrupted by Brexit and Trump supporters

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