A record of what was published, when, and how it changed.

Yorkshireman believed to be first Briton to die fighting for Russia against Ukraine

By Raphael Boyd

Bradley Townsend reportedly killed by a drone on 10 June in Donetsk region after joining up with separatists A man from South Yorkshire is believed to be the first British citizen to die fighting for Russia in its war against Ukraine. Bradley Townsend, a 33-year-old fisher from Barnsley, left Britain in April to join up with Russian separatists in eastern Donbas to aid in their invasion of Ukraine, despite having no

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Savinho seals £75m Spurs move from Manchester City – and changes name to Sávio

By David Hytner

Spurs could pay £85m including add-ons for winger De Zerbi says Sávio will bring ‘imagination and quality’ Savinho has completed his £75m move to Tottenham from Manchester City and marked the beginning of a new chapter in his career by indicating that he wants to be known as Sávio from now on. The Brazil winger, who will cost up to an additional £10m in add-ons, will have Sávio on the back of his shirt. The fee repre

The whitewashing of the Green India Mission forest expansion project

By Niha Masih

The flagship environmental initiative has achieved ‘negligible’ results. Why so little progress, and what are the risks as the planet gets hotter? Plus, fusion dance pioneer Usha Jey • Don’t get This is India delivered to your inbox? Sign up here India set out to expand its forested areas a decade ago. Last week, however, we learned that the forest cover programme had barely taken root when the government’s auditors

A Pocket Full of Slagford – a retro-futurist take on Thatcher-era northern England

By Elliot Gardner

Developer Patrick Grant was born in Australia and lives in New Zealand, but a childhood of British TV inspired him to set a comedy game in a bleak vision of the north Something is amiss in the dingy town of Slagford, and curious scamp Pip Bunting is the only one who can find out what. So quit your mithering, it’s time to discover just how grim it truly is up north. A Pocket Full of Slagford is an upcoming retro-style

I once saw Enes Kanter speak truth to power. Now he only punches down | Bryan Armen Graham

By Bryan Armen Graham

Nearly a decade after I watched him defy Erdoğan at great personal cost, the ex-NBA player is using his hard-won freedom to turn transgender people into a punchline Nine years ago, I watched Enes Kanter ask America to take him in. It was May 2017, inside the National Basketball Players Association’s offices in midtown Manhattan. Kanter had just returned from a frightening detention at Bucharest airport, where Romania

Luka Dončić looks like a superstar adrift at the Lakers

By Owen Lewis

The Slovenian is one of the best players on the planet. But factors largely beyond his control have started to turn his career into a slog Luka Dončić must feel as though, these past few months, he’s been twirling in a washing machine. He announced a separation from his fiancee in March; reports followed of a prolonged custody battle over their two daughters. As Dončić plays in the NBA and his children live in Sloven

From Scotland, I look at England’s water privatisation disaster. I wish you had done what we did | Devi Sridhar

By Devi Sridhar

Listening to debate, you’d think bringing English water companies into public ownership was a radical socialist idea. Here, we call it common sense Prof Devi Sridhar is chair of global public health at the University of Edinburgh Every few months, there are more shocking headlines about the behaviour of England’s water companies. The latest are about the ever-increasing pay of the chief executives and chief financial

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Year of after-school care now costs £2,800 a child in parts of UK

By Donna Ferguson

Bills have jumped 42% in England over the past 10 years – and that excludes the cost of breakfast clubs and extracurricular activities Parents of primary schoolchildren in England will pay 42% more for after-school childcare this year than they did 10 years ago, with annual bills now exceeding more than £2,800 a child in some parts of the UK. A Guardian analysis of data collected by the children’s charity Coram has r

Heatwave health risks threaten insurer earnings, rating agency S&P warns

By Kalyeena Makortoff Banking correspondent

Rise in claims linked to heat-related deaths and illness, especially among older people, could drive up premiums Europe’s intense heatwaves could hit insurers’ earnings as companies face a rise in claims linked to heat-related deaths and worsening health conditions, the rating agency S&P has said. While a long summer of extreme heat will have increased drought and wildfire-related claims, the rating agency said there

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From ‘old people music’ to owning the streets: 60 years of Notting Hill carnival and me

By Lloyd Bradley

As a child, being taken to the Caribbean celebration was a drag. But once sound systems arrived in the 1970s, it became an unmissable yearly pilgrimage offering a sense of freedom My earliest memories of the Notting Hill carnival are of being mildly irritated. In its 1960s infancy, the event was strictly a Caribbean affair, transplanted to Ladbroke Grove as authentically as was practical. Its purpose was as obvious a

Football transfer rumours: Manchester City and Spurs chase Cody Gakpo?

By Dominic Booth

Today’s rumours are so severely underwhelmed After Aston Villa endured a day to forget on the Premier League’s opening weekend, it only stands to reason that they must sign players, and ideally good ones. Milan wide man Rafael Leão has flirted with a move to England in the past and he could be the answer to Unai Emery’s attacking troubles, if that answer is not named Nicolas Jackson or Jean-Philippe Mateta. And Villa

Gold price hits three-month high amid fears over Iran war and Trump economy

By Joanna Partridge

Bitcoin rises above $80,000 for the first time since May amid uncertainty over US fiscal plans Gold prices hit their highest level in more than three months on Tuesday as continued conflict in the Middle East and ongoing political uncertainty fuelled the latest rally in the precious metal. Gold is viewed as a safe haven by investors and its price tends to rise at times of uncertainty. Continue reading...

‘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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