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    The seaside town rightwingers say is being ‘invaded’

    Tom Armstrong stands outside with his arm resting on a wall. A building behind him has the union flag and St George's flag flying

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  • Politics
    The tangled financial web at the heart of Reform UK

    Nigel Farage under a spotlight when on stage at a political event

  • Neal Lawson
    What the Manchester result says about progressive politics

    A supporter wearing a red Labour rosette hugs Bev Craig

  • Drought
    What Europe’s dried-up rivers have yielded

    Stone cairns line the exposed Danube riverbed with the Hungarian Parliament Building across the water

  • ​What makes a good comic novel?
    Andrew Sean Greer on the joy of funny writing

    Javi Aznarez

News

  • Police and ambulance crews at the site where an improvised explosive device was detonated in central Moscow

    Russia
    Moscow restaurant bombing kills three people as device carried by woman explodes

  • Three children in front of a soft drinks vending machine in Matamoros, Mexico

    Health
    Ultra-processed food companies hindering health drives by suing countries, says WHO

  • Josh Kerr crosses the line in style on his way to Commonwealth Games gold in the mile in front of jubilant fans in Glasgow.

    Commonwealth Games
    Josh Kerr storms to Commonwealth Games mile title in golden Glasgow moment

  • Man in suit on red carpet

    US news
    Sopranos actor Vincent Pastore, known for playing mobsters and tough guys, dies aged 80

  • Jason Arday wearing a dark shirt stands in front of colorful stained glass windows

    Education
    Playbooks, plagiarism and a pig’s head: new claims surrounding a star Cambridge professor

    Jason Arday was regarded as an academic superstar, but then questions about his work prompted scrutiny of his backstory and counterclaims of racism

In focus

  • Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez holds a press conference

    Environment
    ‘Climate change kills’: Pedro Sánchez speaks plain truth to Spain’s deniers

    PM has long history of speaking out on realities of global heating but political opponents remain unnmoved
  • A woman uses a ladle to stir a large metal pan on an outdoor cooking station under a white canopy

    Russia-Ukraine war
    Strikes on three Russian oil refineries and sanctioned ship

  • Tom Armstrong stands outside with his arm resting on a wall. A building behind him has the union flag and St George's flag flying

    Dover
    On the ground in the English seaside town rightwing influencers say is being ‘invaded’

Features

  • Nigel Farage in Frinton-On-Sea.

    ‘The lead singer is unavailable’
    Is Nigel Farage spending his summer in hiding?

  • The couple

    The moment I knew
    After my mum lost everything in Japan’s tsunami, Trent showered her with tiny kindnesses

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  • Tim White with full beard wears a black blazer and black collared shirt sits in front of shelves of books

    AI
    ‘More than just objects’: Australian booksellers raise alarm over ‘horrific’ destruction of rare titles to feed AI

  • A shirtless muscular man in underwear and a bandana stands by a turquoise pool

    Film
    The brief life and sudden death of Zyzz: why did the bodybuilding influencer die at just 22?

  • Lavender in a field in Worcestershire.

    Gardens
    Purple reign: how shade became British gardeners’ favourite

  • People walking past an M&S store front

    Marks & Spencer
    Knickers in a twist: why M&S selling crotchless underwear isn’t as outrageous as it seems

  • Neil Hopper

    Crime
    ‘I felt sick that he was near my mum’: a top amputation surgeon had his own legs removed due to a fetish. Were his patients safe?

Weekend

  • A collage showing a portrait of Savinder, Avtar and Nicci's mother in a burgundy sari, alongside maps and photographs

    Six great reads
    The idealism of the Esperanto movement, a plague of flies and a clinic in a deep salt mine

  • 5 4 TRAIL - Going out, staying in - Spiderman

    Going out, staying in
    From Spider-Man: Brand New Day to Ariana Grande: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead

  • A floor mural created by artist Philippe Baro of "Graffeur.ch" to celebrate the passage of the Tour de France Femmes cycling race, is seen in Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland, Friday, July 31, 2026, as the 5th edition of the Women's Tour de France cycling race (Tour de France Femmes) will start in Switzerland on August 1. (Jean-Christophe Bott/Keystone via AP)

    Your Guardian sport weekend
    Commonwealth Games builds to finale and the Tour de France Femmes – follow with us

  • Ish.

    Culture
    From Ish to Jared Leto: Hollywood’s Dark Secret – the week in rave reviews

  • Polly Hudson

    Apparently, I’ve got ‘comfort creep’. I prefer to think of it as finally knowing what I like

    Polly Hudson
    Routine isn’t a failure of imagination – it’s the reward for having done enough experimenting. So, yes, I’m going to my favourite restaurant again – and ordering my favourite dish, writes Polly Hudson
  • A supporter wearing a red Labour rosette hugs Bev Craig

    The Manchester mayoral result holds the key to the future of progressive politics

    Neal Lawson
    Voters on the left may be fragmented – but they will pull together behind a convincing cross-party message, says Neal Lawson, director of cross-party campaign organisation Compass
  • Nick Ames

    There can be no letup. Humiliated Infantino must stand down at Fifa or be removed

    Nick Ames
  • Arwa Mahdawi

    Biohacker Bryan Johnson is keeping his girlfriend’s menstrual blood in his freezer

    Arwa Mahdawi

More opinion

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    The hill I will die on: Games are the opposite of fun, and I’d ban them for anyone over 12

    Emily Watkins
  • Jane Martinson

    In the battle of Elon Musk v the press, we can’t let truth be the loser

    Jane Martinson
  • Humanoid robot in a classroom as paper airplanes and crumpled notes fly toward her

    If you think kids will respect a robot teacher, you have never met a kid

    Dave Schilling

  • The US war on Iran is spinning out of control

    Mohamad Bazzi

  • The Guardian view
    Andy Burnham must unbundle England’s centralised state

  • The Guardian view
    The Lovell telescope: budget cuts to physics are bad science and worse politics

  • Social care
    Andy Burnham’s first step towards fairer social care for all

  • Law
    We are shocked that Palestine Action barrister faces contempt proceedings

  • Education
    Lessons learned on Tomlinson report

  • Science
    Don’t let Jodrell Bank Observatory become another industrial museum

Cartoon

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    Saturday Opinion cartoon
    Christopher Harry on buying an SUV

    The new Mega Behemoth XL car – available at 0% interest in the environment
  • Shanice Beckford celebrates Jamaica’s netball semi-final victory over Australia

    In pictures
    Our pick of the best images from day nine

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  • Tuvalu’s Tarona Taafaki (right)

    Boxing
    Boxer secures Tuvalu’s first Games medal without winning a bout

  • America’s Yealimi Noh plays from the 18th fairway during day three of the Women's Open.

    Golf
    Noh leads Women’s Open by three shots after Ryu stumbles

  • Lorena Wiebes celebrates winning the first stage of the Tour de France Femmes in Lausanne

    Cycling
    Wiebes outsprints Le Court and Vollering to win Tour de France Femmes opening stage

  • The British swimmer Adam Ramsay-Peaty, a white man with full sleeve tattoos on both arms and on his left hand, sits on the edge of a swimming pool with his knees up and arms crossed looking at the camera.

    Big interview
    ‘Pretty much the downfall of society’: Adam Ramsay-Peaty on press intrusion, forgiveness and going all in for LA 2028

    After a rollercoaster week at the Commonwealth Games, the double Olympic champion tells Donald McRae he will never stop believing what he can achieve

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  • A Nazca Lines geoglyph carved into desert ground is visible beside a highway with a truck

    Peru
    Tourist plane crashes during flight over Peru’s Nazca Lines, killing 13

  • Nirmal Purja in a cap and white scarf holds his hands together in a prayer gesture, smiling

    Mountaineering
    Top mountaineer Nirmal Purja confirmed dead after 11 hit by avalanche in Pakistan

  • Two police officers walk past earthquake-damaged buildings in Pozzuoli while a woman watches from behind

    Italy
    Dozens injured as earthquake hits near Naples in seismic swarm

  • A person with a gun outside an In-N-Out Burger restaurant

    Gun crime
    Shooting at In-N-Out Burger restaurant in Idaho leaves multiple people dead, police say

  • Carrot grower Rodger Hobson

    Business
    ‘Worst we’ve known’: UK turns to imports as drought and heat hit vegetable crops

  • A man wearing a mask inspects stands in a fire-damaged structure

    Exclusive
    Climate crisis poses growing threat to ‘core financial stability’, official at EU's bank warns

  • Limpets on East Cliff beach.

    Country diary
    Pity the poor limpets – must the summer holidays mean they get smashed by a child?

  • Tim Young stoops down amid his onion crops

    ‘It’s too fast, too big’
    Speed of climate crisis is devastating crops, say farmers

  • A wet Union Jack flag lies tangled in branches at the edge of murky green water

    Water industry
    Turn failing water firms into not-for-profit cooperatives, MPs and mayors tell PM

  • Andy Burnham with the mayor of South Yorkshire, Oliver Coppard.

    Devolution
    Local media needs support if devolution push is to succeed, publishers say

  • A mini fridge containing skincare products on a bathroom counter.

    Skincare
    From Ozempic to eye creams: demand for bathroom mini fridges is heating up

  • Ed Miliband on Downing Street

    Analysis
    EU relations, climate crisis and Gaza: why Ed Miliband is fired up by Foreign Office challenges

  • Russia-Ukraine war
    Kyiv missile attack kills at least 10 as Zelenskyy seeks attack role for Starlink

  • Los Angeles
    D4vd hearing details high hopes and brutal end of girl at heart of murder case

  • Germany
    ‘A symbol of resistance’: the fight to save treehouse built on no man’s land next to Berlin Wall

  • New York
    New York City’s Flatiron building enters new era with $58.5m apartments

  • Technology
    China’s tech advances are causing chaos from Silicon Valley to the White House

  • Nutrition
    ‘Proteinmaxxing’ could lead to higher prices for infant formula, say experts

  • US media
    Washington Post’s opinion editor resigns after just one year in role

  • Automotive industry
    Boss of £300m used-car firm was ousted after ‘orchestrated plan’ by investors, judge rules

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    Culture
    ​What makes a good comic novel? Andrew Sean Greer on the joy of funny writing

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    The Odyssey
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  • Portrait of Julia Richardson with collage of Stonehenge pictures

    ‘Stonehenge is a gateway into a lost world’: meet the people protecting the landmark’s legacy

  • Gallos sculptureSculpted by Rubin Eynon, Gallos is Cornish for "power"

    Which English Heritage site should you visit this summer? Take our quiz

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    ‘We’re connecting people with the past – and each other’: why we should visit English Heritage sites this summer

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  • Close-up portrait of Rebecca Lucy Taylor with blonde hair, blue eyes and dramatic makeup

    Stage
    The best theatre to stream this month: Self Esteem dazzles with Teeth ’n’ Smiles

  • Alley Cats.

    The watcher
    Alley Cats: Ricky Gervais is back with a boorish, sweary comedy – and I didn’t laugh once

  • Ryan Gosling in a red jacket points at the camera at a Comic-Con panel

    Week in geek
    Ryan Gosling is entering the Marvel Cinematic Universe – on a motorbike, in flames, wearing a leather jacket. What could go wrong?

  • Hugh Grant in Heretic.

    Film
    Heretic to Love Me: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

What to listen to

  • Ariana Grande holds her hands around her head, dressed in gothic black clothing

    Pop
    Ariana Grande: Petal review – calm, controlled anger at exes, fans and the media

  • The musician Luki wearing a sparkly blue top and standing against a white wall

    Add to playlist
    The art-pop showtunes of Luki and the week’s best new tracks

  • Shaboozey in white vest, blue jeans and cream cowboy hat, posing next to a horse

    Alexis Petridis's album of the week
    Shaboozey: The Outlaw Cherie Lee & Other Western Tales review – a striking addition to the rich canon of country concept albums

  • Arca portrait, with white light beaming out of her half-open mouth

    Music
    Arca: XXXXX review – a wild, brilliant album that taps into our bodies’ most feral frequencies

What to read

  • An illustration of Mrs Leicester’s Schoo

    My cultural awakening
    A forgotten Victorian children’s book helped me grieve my father

  • Gael Faye

    Fiction
    Jacaranda by Gaël Faye review – the limits of forgiveness after Rwanda

  • The Women's Prize For Fiction AwardsLONDON, ENGLAND - JUNE 14: Jacqueline Crooks, author of Fire Rush, attends The Women's Prize For Fiction Awards at Bedford Square Gardens on June 14, 2023 in London, England. (Photo by David Levenson/Getty Images)

    The books of my life
    Jacqueline Crooks: ‘Toni Morrison’s voice made me want to find my own’

  • Book covers

    Books
    What we’re reading: writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in July

What to play

  • A shelf of video games for various consoles in a charity shop, stacked vertically

    Secondhand joy
    SingStar Take That anyone? The strange joy of charity shop video games

  • An isometric 3D render of a cluttered bedroom with purple wallpaper, a brass bed, dresser, and various furniture

    Summer games previews
    ‘A universal human story’: Clean Start’s thought-provoking tidying sim tells immigrant’s tale

  • A small white figure stands atop a pale sculptural form, dwarfed by a massive dark mechanical vehicle

    Summer games previews
    A Line Held Tight – miners, mechs and mismanagement on a distant planet

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    Shooter games
    Halo: Campaign Evolved review – they don’t make ‘em like this any more

What to visit

  • Guerrilla Girls wearing gorilla masks and all black clothing sit on a graffiti-covered ledge in front of street art

    The Guide
    Artist anonymity ​i​s a radical act in ​our cultural obsess​ion with visibility

    Newsletter
  • A man stands on stage surrounded by oversized pieces of sheet music.

    Theatre
    Tao of Glass review – stage magic as McDermott meditates on the minimalist master

  • A portrait painting shows a young woman with dark hair wearing an off-the-shoulder white dress. Gwen John, Girl with Bare Shoulders, c.1910.

    Art Weekly
    Beguiling beauties, designs to be sat on and giant corn dollies – the week in art

  • Kerry Frampton as Sarah, Tanvi Virmani as Cobweb and Kyle Ndukuba as Cass in A World Elsewhere at Shakespeare's Globe, c. Manuel Harlan

    Stage
    A World Elsewhere review – chaotic thrills as kids sail, fight and fall through trap doors

More culture

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    10 Chaotic Questions
    Rhys Nicholson: ‘Get a hobby – don’t become a full-blown racist’

  • Hannah Einbinder in a black tank top leans on a reflective surface with her hand to her head

    Film
    ‘I was born without self-esteem’: Hannah Einbinder on Hacks, her buzzy queer horror – and being Hollywood’s most outspoken star

  • Closeup of smiling man in white top, with pink background behind him.

    Film
    Gregg Araki on sex, film and queer resistance: ‘All the terrible shit in the world is because of sexual repression’

  • B/w image of a Hi-Vis Viewing Machine on a pier overlooking sea and sand with a bird in the sky

    Smart shot
    ‘The machine turned into a lonely character gazing at an empty beach’: Alon Goldsmith’s best phone picture

  • Three shelves of books, with several orange and purple books highlighted in color among grayscale books

    Aged care
    Notes from a nursing home: ‘Our books told of who we were. The story of us. Then the movers came and asked what should go’

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    Consumer affairs
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  • Salted tinned anchovies scattered somewhat artfully across a pale green surface

    Larder
    ‘Intense, salty, foul’: the best (and worst) supermarket anchovies, tasted and rated

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    Kitchen
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    Your face lit up
    Skincare staple or expensive gimmick: do you really need an LED face mask?

  • Composite image showing four different cordless vacuum cleaner models

    Cleaning
    The best cordless vacuum cleaners in the UK for a spotless home – tested

  • a chef prepares a dish

    US
    Why generations swear by hot caldo – ‘a Mexican Gatorade’ – in summer

  • Two open burgers on gray plates with shredded cabbage on top, alongside drinks and more slaw

    Cookery
    Meera Sodha’s vegetarian recipe for oyster mushroom burgers with five-spice slaw

  • Culpepper's Papa doble.

    The good mixer
    Cocktail of the week: the Culpeper’s papa doble – recipe

  • A dutch baby, looking like a giant Yorkshire pudding, dusted with powdered sugar in a cast-iron pan, filled with berries and cream

    The sweet spot
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  • composite of Richard & Katrina

    Blind date
    I joked we should join the young people for a club night. We didn’t

  • A cartoon person reclines in a brown armchair with legs raised, watching television

    Life
    You be the judge: should my brother stop hogging the living room while staying in my flat?

  • Group photo of happy young friends with colourful clothing smiling at camera

    Pass notes
    Roster dating – is having five partners really the key to finding love?

  • Illustration of a small figure sitting on a large thumb, with the soles of two feet visible

    This is how we do it
    I could have sex every day, but he says no about 80% of the time

  • Pedestrians walk along the River Thames in view of City of London skyline

    Investments
    ‘Ask the right questions’: what you need to know before buying shares

  • An illuminated Travelodge sign with blue and red logo glows at night below lit building windows

    Consumer champions
    We booked a Travelodge but were forced to move hotel after 1am

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    Scam watch
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    Consumer champions
    I risk losing my livelihood because Nissan failed to repair my car

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    Extreme heat
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    Heart health
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    Fitness
    Is it true that … sit-ups are the best exercise for abs?

  • Francine Jones in her garden in the sun

    Health
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  • A necklace with a palm tree pendant, a navy jacket with red trim, and a woman in cream outfit on purple background.

    The Filter
    Jess Cartner-Morley’s August style essentials: lace trims, snazzy knits and one truly beautiful bag

  • Andy Burnham Visits Private White VC Store

    Men's fashion
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  • Charli xcx in a white off-shoulder draped minidress and sunglasses poses indoors beside a radiator

    Wedding dresses
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  • A healthcare worker in profile brushes her teeth in a bright room near a window

    Fashion Statement
    Luxury is coming for our teeth – but should we really be paying £20 for a tube of toothpaste?

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    Travel
    Exploring Rabat, Morocco – this year’s Unesco World Book Capital

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    Readers' travel tips
    Literary escapes: your favourite trips inspired by books

  • View of two houses and the sea from the island of Aspöja on Sweden's Östergötland archipelago, on a blue-sky day.

    Sweden
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    Normandy
    A family tour de France: cycling and camping in Normandy with two toddlers

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