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Number of young people in UK not in work or education falls below 1 million

By Phillip Inman

Figure is 30,000 higher than a year ago but latest data is a boost to efforts to reverse the rise in economic inactivity Business live – latest updates The number of young people not in education, employment or training (Neet) across the UK fell below 1 million in the latest three-month period. In a boost to the government’s efforts to reverse years of rising economic inactivity among people aged 16 to 24, the Office

Why we’re all hooked on tinned fish

By Rachel Roddy

Sardines, mackerel, herring, pilchards, sprats and anchovies... canning only makes the umami flavour better. They’re my top choice for pasta Sign up here for our weekly food newsletter, Feast I can’t find it, despite having spent the past 35 minutes looking, but somewhere in the house is The Crisis Cook Book. It’s a standard paperback, postbox-red with white writing on the cover, and full of recipes from chefs includ

A Britain of wildfires and flood risks: be sure, the climate crisis is real, and we will deal with it | Angela Eagle

By Angela Eagle

Reform and the Conservatives are willing to mislead the public, but as environment secretary, I believe we must be honest – and act boldly This long, hot summer has brought our third drought in five years and the driest July in almost two centuries. We’ve seen wildfires burn down homes and now face the risk of flash floods as we move into autumn. It should be a wake-up call for those saying that concerns about the cl

Honey, I shrunk the wine: why miniature bottles are big again

By Mina Holland

Whether they’re consumed as a considered glass for one or something to sip on a short trip, miniature wine bottles are back with a bang In the 1920s, the London wine merchant Berry Bros & Rudd was asked to create a wine cellar for a doll’s house, commissioned by Queen Mary, to showcase the best of British craftsmanship. Designed by Edwin Lutyens, it had running water, electricity, a library of tiny books and, natural

Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy review – picture-postcard retelling of haunting Minoan myth

By Lewis Gordon

PlayStation 5, Xbox Series S/X, PC; Asobo Studio The medieval franchise is transplanted to Crete, conjuring action-adventure magic from familiar ingredients The path in Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy is a familiar one. Amid ancient ruins and sun-dappled gorges, a young woman, Sophia, dutifully treads the same footsteps as a Minoan warrior from millennia ago, one with whom she seems to share a visionary connection. T

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RFK Jr lied in Senate confirmation hearings, newly revealed documents indicate

By Michelle R Smith

Letters obtained by Guardian and AP contradict testimony that 2019 visit to Samoa had ‘nothing to do with vaccines’ Newly obtained documents indicate that the US health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, lied during two congressional hearings last year, when he told lawmakers who held the key to his confirmation that a 2019 visit to Samoa had “nothing to do with vaccines”. Letters obtained by the Guardian and the Associ

Ain’t nobody better: Chaka Khan’s 20 best songs – ranked!

By Alexis Petridis

Ahead of the release of her 13th solo album, the fantastically titled Chakzilla, we rank the best of a sublime catalogue of funk, slow jams and tears-on-the-dancefloor disco Chaka Khan had harsh words for the “assholes” at her then record company, Warner Bros, who she felt under-promoted 1992’s The Woman I Am, her first album in four years. Listening to Love You All My Lifetime’s cocktail of funk and contemporary R&B

Birmingham seeks injunction to stop anti-migrant group erecting flags on infrastructure

By Neha Gohil Midlands correspondent

City residents had accused council of giving ‘free rein’ to campaign promoting England flags Birmingham city council is seeking an injunction to stop members of an anti-migrant group from erecting flags, including union jack and St George’s flags, on public infrastructure across the city. A nationwide campaign to give prominence to the England flag, which resulted in thousands of St George’s crosses being flown from

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‘He could arch both eyebrows and curl his lips in every direction all at once’: Tim Curry’s five best screen roles

By Laurence Phelan

The actor fully embraced his physical talents and outsized personality with a line in theatrical baddies teetering deliciously on the edge of serious and silly • Tim Curry, star of The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Stephen King’s It, dies aged 80 • Tim Curry on sexuality, surviving a stroke – and 50 years of stardom • Clowns, corsets and kings: Tim Curry – a life in pictures As Dr Frank-N-Furter, the gender-nonconfor

Dortmund best of the rest as Bundesliga clubs grasp at Bayern Munich’s coattails | Andy Brassell

By Andy Brassell

BVB are re-energised and Leverkusen have stabilised, but can anyone stop the champions? The Franz Beckenbauer Supercup has a modicum more intensity than most of its European equivalents. There are many reasons for this. The Bundesliga’s traditional season curtain-raiser pitting league champions against cup winners is not played on neutral territory, giving it the feeling of a domestic game with proper stakes. German

Yayoi Kusama’s psychedelic art was at its best when taken in high doses

By Jonathan Jones

With dots that dizzied the viewer, the giddy sensory overload of seeing the grandest installations of her octopuses and giant pumpkins was hard to resist • Yayoi Kusama, Japanese artist who became a global superstar, dies aged 97 • A life in pictures I once had an argument about Yayoi Kusama with Peter Gabriel. Not in person – I’ve never met the prog rock hero. But after I recorded some critical comments on her work

Woman killed with niece in Middlesbrough house fire was ‘a beautiful soul’, says mother

By Mark Brown North of England correspondent

Natalie McDonald, 34, and Valentina Foster, seven, died in fire less than mile from A66 crash, with police not ruling out links A woman who died in a house fire along with her seven-year-old niece has been described as “a beautiful soul”. Natalie McDonald, 34, died along with her niece Valentina Foster, seven, in the blaze in Grangetown, near Middlesbrough, in the early hours of Wednesday. Continue reading...

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High in cocoa, high on nostalgia: the chocolate I love most now

By Annalisa Barbieri

Including, to my surprise, a 100% cacao bar … Although I’m un peu fatiguée of chocolates in bonbon shape with coloured cocoa-butter splashes atop, I appreciate this is the way many chocolates truffles are made. Overcoming that prejudice, I tucked into a box of Scoff chocolates. They were beautifully fresh tasting – they are made in batches throughout the year and the latest batch has just been let loose. I liked ever

Idiots review – throwback bro comedy is an entertaining summer seat-filler

By Owen Myers

Dave Franco and O’Shea Jackson Jr lead a goofy roadtrip comedy that is just sharp enough to keep you strapped in Idiots is billed as a return to the raunchy bro comedies of the 2000s like Pineapple Express and The Hangover and about halfway through there is a visual gag involving bodily functions that is so revolting, so unexpected and so genius that it comes close to them. For a moment, I was transported back to the

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Billy Strings: So Much for Goodbyes review – staggering, stirring songs of grief draw the blues out of bluegrass

By Alexis Petridis

(Reprise) The crossover star’s introspective sixth album is full of memories of his mother, who died in 2025, bringing his dextrous guitar to songs rooted in tradition and yearning On the face of it, 2025 was a landmark year for Billy Strings. His fifth album, Highway Prayers, won him his third Grammy. The first bluegrass album in more than 22 years to debut at the top of the US album sales chart, it confirmed him as

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Met Orchestra/Nézet-Séguin review – messy bonbons and a hero’s triumph in a classy all-Strauss lineup

By Clive Paget

Royal Albert Hall, London Yannick Nézet-Séguin polished up the Rosenkavalier suite then gave an exceptional reading of the composer’s self-congratulatory tone poem, while Elza van den Heever delivered a visceral account of Salome’s final scene Artistically ambitious and with an ego the size of a small planet, Richard Strauss was rarely backwards in coming forwards. When quizzed about the wisdom of depicting his 34-ye

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UK expects Meta to match US child safety measures after $18bn settlement

By Robert Booth UK technology editor

Minister calls for Instagram owner to extend sweeping new safeguards for young users to Britain UK politics live – latest updates Business live – latest updates The UK government expects the Instagram owner Meta to roll out the same protections for children in Britain as those it agreed in the US on Wednesday, as part of a court settlement that could cost the company up to $18bn (£13bn). Pat McFadden, the work and pe

If MPs want to take on Nigel Farage over his dodgy finances, they need to clean up their own act | Frances Ryan

By Frances Ryan

It’s hard to beat back charges that MPs are ‘all the same’ when they have accepted £400k in freebies this year – £100k up on last year How has your summer been? Done anything nice? As MPs prepare to head back to parliament next week, you’ll be relieved to hear that some of the most prominent figures in British politics have been enjoying the season’s cultural highlights – and without paying a penny. MPs throughout th

AI slopper in chief: Trump turns to social media amid tough questions

By Adam Gabbatt

As the US president struggles to end his Iran war, and approval ratings hit new lows, he leans on a familiar gambit Donald Trump knows the power of an image – of himself, with everyone from Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-un to Kim Kardashian. How about George Washington? As the US president struggles to end his war with Iran, and with his approval ratings hitting the lowest levels of his second term, he has in recent we

Jon Ossoff went low on Natalie Harp. The plan worked | Moira Donegan

By Moira Donegan

The senator’s remarks reflect a turning point in Democrats’ attacks on the president. What should we make of them? Apparently, he likes to say her name with a French accent. “Na-tah-lee!” the president cries out, in that affected tone of faux-formality that one might use with a person they love but do not quite respect, and she comes running, her thin legs teetering on her heels. Natalie Harp, Trump’s 35-year-old “ex

Kim Kardashian's kid wants to work at Starbucks. What a breath of fresh air | Polly Hudson

By Polly Hudson

North West has revealed her sensible intention to get a ‘regular’ job. It could be character-building – unless the venti-sized privilege she was born with holds her back All these years after Ab Fab, we’re regularly reminded how well observed the characters of Edina (Jennifer Saunders) and her daughter, Saffron (Julia Sawalha), were. Kim Kardashian and Kanye West’s eldest child, North West, has given a new – as in, n

A Slow Fire review – hope flickers in Simon Stephens’ postapocalyptic bunker drama

By Arifa Akbar

Jermyn Street theatre, London Two men shelter from catastrophe in this Beckettian tale of memory, companionship and survival, which is intelligently performed but light on tension Jermyn Street’s basement theatre provides the perfect space for Simon Stephens’ postapocalyptic play about two men hiding in a bunker after an unnamed global catastrophe. Several of Beckett’s plays have been performed on this stage in recen

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Drugs in pastries, months on the run: the double-life of Lebanese influencer Dr Food

By William Christou in Beirut

Georges Dib, who had 8.7m TikTok followers, was arrested on Sunday after being sentenced in absentia to life in prison Known to his 8.7m TikTok followers as Dr Food, Georges Dib was a popular Lebanese food influencer who would hold giveaways, post behind-the-scenes tours of his food production facilities and wax philosophical about the ingredients of success. But Lebanese authorities allege that when the camera was o

Share your tributes and memories of Tim Curry

By Guardian community team

We would like to hear your tributes and memories of the performer - whether you met him or admired his work Tim Curry, performer of screen and stage, who made his name as the flamboyant Dr Frank-N-Furter in The Rocky Horror Show, has died aged 80. Curry got Tony nominations for his varied stage work on Broadway as Mozart in Amadeus, Alan Swann in My Favorite Year and as King Arthur in Monty Python’s Spamalot. He also

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Firm fined for hounding elderly people with nuisance calls claiming to stop … nuisance calls

By Alex Daniel

Elderly Aids Ltd, which sells call-blocking devices, made 758,053 cold calls between May 2024 and February 2025 A company that made its money promising to protect older people from nuisance calls has been fined £190,000 for “hounding” them with hundreds of thousands of nuisance calls of its own. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said Elderly Aids Ltd, a company selling call-blocking devices, made 758,053 co