The Guardianflipped into Comment is FreeEid Mubarak Eid should be a time of togetherness. How should we celebrate when we're apart? The Guardian - Nosheen IqbalIt’s been a weird and bleak final week of Ramadan and I wouldn’t wish this uneasy melancholy on anyone. How do you really celebrate a moment specially designed for togetherness during All This? Prepping
The Guardianflipped into World NewsNews Everyone wants to 'follow the science'. But we can't waste time on blame The Guardian - Venki RamakrishnanThe Royal Society president says scientists must not be made scapegoats for policy failures In 1981, a virus that had jumped the species barrier some decades earlier to infect humans began to wreak havoc
The Guardianflipped into UK NewsUK News Outrage at U-turn on promise to reunite child refugees with UK family | Immigration and asylum | The Guardian The Guardian - Sign inThe Home Office has drawn up plans to terminate the current system of allowing child refugees to be reunited with family in the UK, according to a draft text of the government’s Brexit negotiating document.
The Guardianflipped into UK NewsUK News Louise Smith search: body found is missing teenager, Hampshire police confirm The Guardian - Sign inDetectives searching for a teenager who has been missing since VE Day have confirmed that her body has been found. Hampshire police said that a body found in woodland in Havant, Hampshire, on Thursday
The Guardianflipped into Comment is FreeArtists David Hockney may be a great painter but don’t listen to him on matters of health The Guardian - Catherine BennettThe only time I had the flu was 1969, the year I didn’t smoke David Hockney “Pictorial warnings work,” says the World Health Organization, of the tumours, coffins and rotting teeth that decorate cigarette
The Guardianflipped into TravelTravel 'I wanted to be a part of Buenos Aires – and Borges was my guide' The Guardian - Chris MossLockdown has made me nostalgic – not about travelling so much as about places. It’s no surprise the focus of some of my fondest remembering has been the world capital of looking back: Buenos Aires. The
The Guardianflipped into Art & DesignArt The big picture: a day at Epsom racecourse The Guardian - Tim AdamsThere is a probably apocryphal story of an Observer news journalist who, when asked to write an impressionistic feature story, was told to “make sure it has plenty of colour”. When the story came in, was
The Guardianflipped into BooksHillary Clinton Rodham by Curtis Sittenfeld review – Hill minus Bill The Guardian - Emma BrockesThe charge sheet of slurs, many of them misogynist, is a shadow text to the novel: 'frigid', 'cold', 'mercenary', 'unlikable' Curtis Sittenfeld’s new novel, Rodham, is a reimagining of the life of Hillary
The Guardianflipped into BusinessAndrew Bailey The Bank of England needs to think the unthinkable to rescue the economy | Bank of England | The Guardian The Guardian - Sign inWhen the Bank of England governor says he is not ruling out a cut in the cost of borrowing to below zero, you know there is trouble ahead. Negative interest rates are the last resort of the central banker
The Guardianflipped into LifestyleLifestyle (UK) Ariel Dorfman: ‘Reading together is a way of enjoying new experiences’ The Guardian - Michael SegalovAre you an early riser? I only sleep six hours a night, but Angélica, my wife, needs almost double. During the week I’m up at 5am to write, but on weekends I no longer work, after years of overdoing it.
The Guardianflipped into Top StoriesPandemics Charities call for new youth corps to tackle UK virus jobs crisis The Guardian - Mark TownsendAlliance of 12 organisations says scheme will give young people opportunities and support recovery A coalition of British youth charities is urging the government to back a “national youth corps” to create
The Guardianflipped into World NewsDonald Trump Global report: Wuhan lab says its bat strains were not Covid-19 as US nears 100,00 deaths The Guardian - Guardian staffThe virology lab in Wuhan, the city at the heart of the outbreak, was working on three live strains of bat coronavirus, but none of them match the one that has caused the Covid-19 pandemic, its director
The Guardianflipped into Top StoriesNews Coronavirus latest: at a glance The Guardian - Helen SullivanThe Chinese virology institute in Wuhan, the city in China at the heart of the coronavirus pandemic, has three live strains of bat coronavirus on-site, but none match the Covid-19 strain, its director
The Guardianflipped into Top StoriesDomestic Violence In lockdown, violence soars behind closed doors The Guardian - Torsten BellWe are now a long two months into lockdown – a necessary step to help save lives but one that has brought with it huge costs. New data last week showed the number of employees falling by 450,000 in April
The Guardianflipped into Top StoriesDonald Trump Whatever Trump says, Americans are not dying to work – work may cause them to die The Guardian - Robert ReichAmericans whose jobs require them to leave home express trepidation: 60% fear exposing their families to Covid-19 Most of Europe and all 50 US states are in various stages of “reopening”. But why, exactly?
The Guardianflipped into LifestyleLifestyle (UK) Spuds you’ll like: the first earlies are nearly ready The Guardian - Allan JenkinsOur potatoes are growing, purple and metal-green leaf covered over in the trench where magic happens. It won’t be long now. A couple of weeks or so until our primal root crop is ready. Literal buried unearthing
The Guardianflipped into World NewsNews Netanyahu in the dock: Israeli PM finally faces corruption charges The Guardian - Oliver Holmes in JerusalemAn image of Netanyahu in the dock will be engraved in the consciousness of millions of people, if not more Ben Caspit, Maariv newspaper Accepting lavish gifts of pink champagne and boxes of Cuban cigars;
The Guardianflipped into TV & RadioSons of Anarchy TV tonight: on the road again with Mayans MC The Guardian - Ammar Kalia, Phil Harrison, Ellen E Jones, Jack Seale and Paul HowlettThe Harley Davidsons roar to life once more as the second season of this Sons of Anarchy spin-off begins. Ezekiel spent the first series proving his worth as a new prospect in the Mayans Motorcycle Club,
The Guardianflipped into US NewsDonald Trump Jr All in the Trump family: meet the president’s surrogates and strategists Guardian US - David Smith in WashingtonTwitter bio: EVP of Development & Acquisitions The @Trump Organization, Father, Outdoorsman, In a past life Boardroom Advisor on The Apprentice. Role: Lead attack dog for his father, firing up crowds,
The Guardianflipped into US NewsDonald Trump Trumpocalypse review: David Frum bushwhacks a new axis of evil Guardian US - Lloyd GreenFrum observes that in theology, the apocalypse was not 'the end' but the harbinger of a 'new and better order' Nearly 100,000 Americans lie dead, almost 40 million people are out of work, home mortgage
The Guardianflipped into LifestyleLifestyle (UK) From the archive: Elvis remembered, 1980 The Guardian - Chris HallHe had the puppy-dog face of sensual pubescence, his lips were pouting and sulky In 1980, the veteran journalist and screenwriter Ray Connolly examined the Elvis phenomenon in an insightful but melancholic
The Guardianflipped into LifestyleLifestyle (UK) Take a brow: strong eyes make all the difference The Guardian - Funmi FettoCan’t be bothered with makeup? I get that. Seems pointless when your audience is mainly colleagues on Zoom with a dodgy internet connection (no one notices immaculate contouring on frozen screens.) Still,
The Guardianflipped into LifestyleLifestyle (UK) I have a comfortable life, but worry I have done nothing with it The Guardian - Mariella FrostrupThe dilemma I’m 45, with a strong marriage, two kids and a good financial situation (thanks to my husband). I’ve had many different jobs over the years, but retrained in another profession last year and
The Guardianflipped into Donald TrumpDonald Trump The Observer view on the failure to secure a global ceasefire during the pandemic The Guardian - Observer editorialThis pathetic inability on the part of the world’s great powers to show leadership, compassion and common sense is dangerous and disheartening Two months have passed since António Guterres, the UN secretary-general,
The Guardianflipped into Donald TrumpDonald Trump Jr Family values: why Trump's children are key to his re-election campaign Guardian US - David Smith in WashingtonThe kids are completely aligned with this complete distortion and disregard for the truth Moe Vela I think we’re witnessing a family tragedy because the children are competing for who can be the most of
The Guardianflipped into Comment is FreePandemics Our blueprint for a post-coronavirus future The GuardianThe Greek word krisis originally denoted that critical moment when things could go either way for the patient. We believe that our society is at a similar turning point. As we recover from Covid-19, we
The Guardianflipped into Top StoriesHong Kong Hong Kong protests: police fire teargas as thousands hold unauthorised rally The Guardian - Verna Yu in Hong Kong and Helen DavidsonHong Kong police have fired teargas at crowds after thousands of people took to the streets in protest of Beijing’s extraordinary declaration it would impose national security laws on the semi-autonomous
The Guardianflipped into MediaMedia Industry AAP bid: consumer watchdog warns Nine and News Corp against any attempt to block sale The Guardian - Ben SmeeThe chair of the competition and consumer watchdog, Rod Sims, says any attempt by News Corp and Nine to block a potential sale of Australian Associated Press would “raise concerns” related to federal law.
The Guardianflipped into World NewsHong Kong 'I won’t allow this to be the end of Hong Kong': campaigner on his long fight for democracy The Guardian - Verna Yu in Hong KongWhen Martin Lee arrived in Hong Kong from China with his parents in 1949, he was just 11. Lee’s father, Li Yin-wo, was a general in the Nationalist party who fought against the Japanese during the second
The Guardianflipped into World NewsNews 'Incalculable loss': New York Times covers front page with 1,000 Covid-19 death notices The Guardian - Guardian staffAs the US approaches the grim milestone of 100,000 coronavirus deaths, the New York Times has filled the entire front page of Sunday’s paper with the death notices of victims from across the country. a
