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‘Small changes can make a big difference’: how getting farmers, fishers and beavers together could save a Cornish river

By Karen McVeigh

A local initiative is testing simple ways to stop algal blooms in the River Fal threatening some of England’s most biodiverse marine habitats On a rocky beach in Cornwall, a group of wetsuit-clad freedivers and snorkellers are wading into the shallows. Below St Mawes Castle, built by Henry VIII to defend Falmouth harbour, they disappear in a swish of florescent pink and green fins. They are volunteers, trained by the

Seam me up, Scotty! After 60 years, Star Trek has had a muppet takeover. About time too

By Duncan Barrett

Star Wars has embraced the magic of puppetry since the 70s, but Trekkers have been starved of any muppet action … until now. The creators of Strange New Worlds talk about boldly sewing where no one has sewn before It’s life, Jim – but very much not as we know it. In fact, when it comes to the latest episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, the life forms in question are less flesh-and-blood and more fabric-and-felt

Soft Spot review – this wine-glass circus has a lot of bottle

By Chris Wiegand

Zoo Southside, Edinburgh A handstand artist and a juggler slide, toss, stack and stand on umpteen glasses without a drop of wine in sight This Swedish circus two-hander begins with the performers offstage, and what sounds like the high-pitched notes of a glass harp. But the wine glasses here – first six of them, then dozens – are used for acrobatic tricks rather than music. Stina Otterström is a handstand artist, Art

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Feminism for a World on Fire by Natasha Walter review – hope amid the hopelessness

By Samantha Ellis

A writer and activist links the climate crisis to battles for justice around the world in this vital book It has become increasingly difficult to change our minds, to question our own views or to find common ground with people we disagree with, all of which makes Natasha Walter’s new book both refreshing and exhilarating. In her ebullient 1998 debut The New Feminism, Walter hailed Margaret Thatcher as a trailblazer.

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Penny Lane Is Dead review – Aussie slasher comedy zips from Neighbours to nasty

By Leslie Felperin

Mia’Kate Russell’s 80s-set Ozsploitation horror is a tad slapdash, but the grungy gore and seething catfights save it from dud status Here is a muddled if energetic effort from Australian writer-director Mia’Kate Russell. There’s a little too much blurriness around the edges, making relationships and motivations slightly opaque, while the last-minute entrances and exits are a bit on the haphazard side. But as a study

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Triage by Claudia Rankine review – how should we respond to the world’s atrocities?

By Sarah Crown

The American poet and essayist weaves memoir, fiction, criticism and lyrical lament into a tale of friendship in an age of existential crisis “Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental,” writes the multi-award winning Jamaican-American poet, essayist and playwright Claudia Rankine in the disclaimer to her latest work. “Unless it isn’t.” The pretzel-logic of this statem

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Carse’s night out shows Fleming must get a grip on this England squad immediately | Mark Ramprakash

By Mark Ramprakash

Another ill-fated nocturnal excursion by a contracted player shows the new Test head coach should be on hand to set and enforce standards After a brief reprieve following the dominant Test victory last week against a timid Pakistan, once again talk of England and cricket is focused not on the game but on the behaviour of the people playing it. The England and Wales Cricket Board has reacted quickly to videos that eme

The war on ‘loudcasting’ phones can be won, but it will take some very British nudging | Dan Hancox

By Dan Hancox

Although mobiles blared in public are nothing new, this crop of headphone-dodging irritants are truly maddening. It’s time to take them on ‘Interesting cities can’t be quiet”, runs one of grime DJ and music industry thinker Elijah’s epigrams – and in its essential spirit, he is right. Silent, tidy, prim cities should be treated with suspicion. Any such atmosphere denotes that something has gone wrong at a macro level

‘There was a lot of doubt and pain’: Arthur Fery on his dream Wimbledon run and the next step

By Donald McRae

British No 2 looks back on ‘Fery-tale’ after dealing with injury and shares his ranking goals before US Open debut “I was around 300 in the world and still really struggling with my arm,” Arthur Fery says as he explains how life has changed from this time last year when, after his shock appearance in the Wimbledon semi-finals, he rose to No 36 in the rankings. His run of five victories, which produced a stunning turn

Speeding for online glory: the internet subculture where young men drive dangerously for likes

By Robert Booth UK technology editor

Social media trend feeds on footage shot from cars racing down busy roads, with potentially lethal consequences The hashtags tell the story of the potentially lethal social media subculture where young men film themselves hurtling at illegal speeds down busy roads: #speedhunters, #needforspeed, #racing. The fast-driving internet trend on TikTok, Instagram and YouTube is fed by footage shot from a driver’s perspective

Going with the grain: how restoring biodiversity led one farmer back to heritage wheat

By Tomé Morrissy-Swan

Henry Astor looked back to his grandfather’s time for the inspiration to find older varieties that could help nature on his Cotswold farm It is the earliest harvest Henry Astor can remember. But walking through the scorched wheatfields of his Cotswolds farm, signs of life are everywhere – swarms of insects, kaleidoscopic wildflower meadows, bushy hedgerows several metres wide. A yellowhammer perches on a nearby tree.

Tell us: do you think AI has made Google search better or worse?

By Guardian community team

As people grow used to AI chatbots, we’d like to hear your views about Google’s search engine Google has put artificial intelligence at the front and center of its search bar. The most-visited site on the internet still shows the same list of links to users, but they have to scroll past a summarized response from an AI chatbot, a feature Google calls AI Overviews. The change to what was once the gateway to the rest o

Zip Wire review – cancer-curing scientist is on the hook for cable-dangle thriller

By Cath Clarke

This nonsensical film sees an OCD-afflicted scientist fending off assassins while hanging from an aerial wire, and fails to get pulses racing for even a minute In this silly, low-adrenaline thriller, the title star is a rickety old zip wire bolted into the side of a mountain in the Italian Dolomites that was never intended for human use. It was constructed in the first world war to sling weapons and supplies hundreds

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Boat trips, swimming and seafood: 10 of the UK’s best harbour towns and villages

By Rachel Dixon

From smoked kippers in Northumberland to dolphin spotting in Dorset and a palm-fringed village on a sea loch in the Scottish Highlands The historic harbour is the hub of this working East Neuk fishing port, home to a fleet of about 30 small trawlers and creel boats. Their catches are sold at the covered market on the quay each weekday morning, and served at the harbourside Dory Bistro and Chip Ahoy at the Larachmhor

The Great Dictator by Matthew Sweet review – the fabulous life of Barbara Cartland

By Kathryn Hughes

A brilliant new biography that does its subject the favour of taking her seriously – even if few else did Barbara Cartland was famous for dictating her novels. With a pekingese clamped to her hot pink bosom she would lie back on a library couch and exhale a story about virginal girls taming wayward dukes, damaged airmen or misunderstood surgeons. Meanwhile Miss Savory, Mrs Smith or Mrs Morgan, picked for being unfidg

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Lloyds Bank is holding on to our urgently needed £5,500

By Anna Tims

We want our balance back, but we can’t access the money to pay for essential repairs and settle an electricity bill Last November, Lloyds Bank informed me, in my role as treasurer of my parish church, that the church account was to be closed and that I should open a new business account instead. This can only be done online, but a fault with their system prevented me – and local branch staff – from doing so. At the b

‘My way to escape reality’: LensCulture street photography awards 2026 winners – in pictures

By Guardian Staff

From pre-dawn Vietnam to cats scaling walls, the scenes in these prize-winning photographs show how the everyday can become mysterious, poetic and surreal Continue reading...

‘Why isn’t there hip-hop in 3/4 time?’: the groups reinventing a Polish folk dance for the modern age

By Jakub Knera

The oberek is a traditional dance beloved of state folk ensembles – but a new generation of musicians is reconfiguring its music into wild new forms, merging folk steps with electronics and the sound of Chicago footwork It’s 6pm on the first day of OFF festival in Katowice, and a crowd is gathering in front of one of the stages to watch newcomers Tercet Imperial. Sporting disco outfits of nylon jackets, tracksuits an

‘Petty grievances’ and an alleged troublemaker: unsealed Murdoch court documents give rare glimpse into bitter succession battle

By Luca Ittimani

Rupert Murdoch said in newly released correspondence that it would be a disaster if his media empire fell into the ‘wrong hands’ A year ago, Rupert Murdoch resolved the long-running fight over which of his children would control his sprawling media empire, ending a bitter legal battle and anointing his eldest son, Lachlan, as his successor. Now, court documents have offered a rare glimpse into the family’s clashes be

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TV tonight: this heartwrenching drama about Indigenous child welfare will make you seethe with anger

By Hollie Richardson, Priya Elan, Phil Harrison, Jack Seale, Ali Catterall and Simon Wardell

In this week’s double bill, a grown-up woman confronts her adoptive mother. Plus: the Spanish Armada tries to overthrow Elizabeth I. Here’s what to watch this evening 9pm, Sky Atlantic A drama with minimal dialogue that can still stir such deep outrage is proof of its power. But there is a guttural cry in this week’s double bill that, somehow, makes you even angrier about the Sixties Scoop – the period when Canada re

‘Never seen this level of objection’: Scotland pushes back against datacentre boom

By Aisha Down Global technology reporter

Holyrood ‘inching towards moratorium’ amid concerns over massive proposed developments in Auchtertool and beyond In a village 21 miles north of Edinburgh, a real estate consultancy plans to build a datacentre larger than the village itself – 35 metres high, with an area larger than 100 football pitches. Billed as the second-biggest datacentre in the world, the development in Auchertool, Fife, has attracted 1,600 obje

Canadians do not seek a trade war – but nor will we be bullied by Donald Trump | Jen Gerson

By Jen Gerson

A fundamental rupture in the values that have united North America is not a problem that can be wished away: this is a warning to the western alliance The Canadians are exceedingly angry. I realise this can sometimes be difficult for foreigners to deduce, given our national struggle to express the full range of human emotion outside ice hockey riots. However, let me assure you that the prime minister Canadians saw ta

Clowns, archangels and fake heads: Nairobi’s anime convention – in pictures

By Josy Forsdike

Organised by Movie Jabber, the annual Otamatsuri is Africa’s only comic-con festival. Over the two-day event, people dressed in costumes and accessories gather at Carnivore Grounds in Kenya’s capital to celebrate creative arts, gaming tournaments and comic book culture Continue reading...

Climate damage would obliterate any economic benefits of new North Sea fields, analysis shows

By Damian Carrington Environment editor

Exclusive: Economic harm of CO2 pollution from Rosebank and Jackdaw forecast to far outweigh any boost to UK The climate damage caused by developing the Rosebank and Jackdaw oil and gas fields under consideration by the UK government would destroy their economic benefits many times over, according to an analysis. It estimates the economic damage caused by the carbon pollution from the oil and gas produced would be be

‘Like smoking a cigarette’: Indonesia chokes on haze as blazes intensify amid super ‘El Niño’

By Natasha May

In Indonesia’s Kalimantan, fires have ravaged tens of thousands of acres, with suffocating smoke reaching Malaysia and putting Singapore on alert Suwadi can barely see five metres in front of him when he steps outside his home in Indonesian Borneo. Each breath, he says, feels “like smoking a cigarette”. Continue reading...