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Cocktail of the week: Cafe Cùil’s Buckfast bloody Maìri – recipe | The good mixer

By Clare Coghill

The favourite spicy brunch cocktail gets a Scottish twist, complete with Buckfast and a slice of pickle for punch This is our take on the ultimate brunch cocktail, though of course we had to give it a Gaelic stamp of some kind, so have added a shot of Buckfast and renamed it Maìri. If you’re not familiar, Buckfast is a sweet tonic wine, apparently known for its “healing” properties, made in Devon by Benedictine monks

When TV turns sour: the shows we simply can’t stomach any more

By Sirin Kale, Stuart Heritage, Alexi Duggins, Rachel Aroesti, Isabelle Aron, Chitra Ramaswamy, Phil Harrison, George Francis Lee, Michael Hogan, Leah Harper, Ann Lee and Jack Seale

They were once the hottest shows on television – gripping, sexy, hilarious, zeitgeisty. But for our writers, the likes of America’s Next Top Model, House of Cards and The Office are now part of their viewing history they feel tainted by When I think of the summer holidays when I was a teenager, I think of watching America’s Next Top Model for hours on end, critiquing each contestant with my sister. The makeover episo

Mike D: ‘After Yauch died I couldn’t make music. I’d open a computer file and just feel sadness’

By Alastair Shuttleworth

As part of the Beastie Boys, the rapper shot to fame and notoriety in the 80s, before bandmate Adam Yauch’s death saw him withdraw from the spotlight. He returns with a solo album that sees him reckon with greed, mortality – and his past ‘It’s funny how far a joke will get you,” Michael Diamond grins. This time 40 years ago, the New York rapper known as Mike D was working with childhood friends Adam “MCA” Yauch and A

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‘It could only have been one person’: top former detective says system failed the murdered journalist Lyra McKee

By Michael Segalov

Jason Murphy believes he knows who killed McKee in Derry, but culture of silence and mistrust of police is denying her family justice When Lyra McKee was shot and killed on the night of 18 April 2019, approximately 150 people were in her vicinity. The 29-year-old journalist had watched in a crowd as rioting broke out in Derry, Northern Ireland. Police footage captured the grainy outline of a man firing a handgun. “So

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Are baby products the secret to better skin? 15 toiletries worth trying

By Lisa Niven-Phillips

With gentler formulas and lower prices, children’s toiletries can work just as well for adults. From nappy rash cream to nourishing bath milk, these are the products that have earned a place in my routine There may be plenty of worrying headlines about children using adult beauty products from younger and younger ages, but what about the reverse? I’ve been a beauty editor for more than a decade, but when I had my fir

It’s Harry and Meghan in Finding Freedom 2: Back in Blighty | Marina Hyde

By Marina Hyde

Hard to fathom exactly why Megxit is over and the self-exiled wonder generators are leaving California. Luckily, the internet sleuths are on the case Wednesday night brought an absolute cloudburst of psychic rain for our parched land, as it emerged that Prince Harry and Meghan were reversing their self-styled “freedom flight” to California and returning to live in the UK. Nature is healing! Is that … is that how the

Manchester United’s midfield rebuild leaves Carrick with no excuses

By Jamie Jackson

Signings of Tielemans and Santos have addressed an area that has been problematic since the manager himself stopped playing Ed Woodward to MUTV in July 2015: “When people see Bastian Schweinsteiger on the team sheet, that’s going to send some shivers down the spine.” This prediction by Manchester United’s then executive vice-president, about Louis van Gaal’s new midfield signing, proved to be badly off‑target as the

Kapoor’s blockbusting blobs, terrible Tudors and Emin’s proteges – the week in art

By Jonathan Jones

Lose yourself in Anish Kapoor’s black holes while Horrible Histories’ illustrator visits Preston and Margate hosts Tracey Emin’s students’ graduation show – all in your weekly dispatch Anish Kapoor If you are looking for a summer blockbuster, here’s your show – Kapoor’s exhilarating spectacular boasts black holes and a mountain over your head. • Hayward Gallery, London, until 18 October Continue reading...

Digested week: So Harry and Meghan are moving back to the UK. Who cares?

By John Crace

And as Diana’s brother announces a new book, what can possibly be left to say about the princess? Plus, the joys of car rental and Reform’s Whitehall farce There are some days you never forget. It was about 6.30 in the morning the day after we had done a long drive back from hospital. Anna was five years old, Robbie just two and both were wide awake and had got me out of bed. I took them downstairs to plonk them in f

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Are you a Gen Z entrepreneur in the UK who has started your own business? We’d like to hear from you

By Guardian community team

We want to hear from young people who have chosen to start their own businesses rather than follow a traditional career path A growing number of Gen Z are starting their own businesses, with the number of Start Up Loans taken out by young founders rising by 132% over the past five years, according to analysis by the British Business Bank. Meanwhile, Hiscox analysis of Companies House data found nearly 400,000 Gen Z d

Tell us: are you a UK frontline or key worker affected by the hot weather in your workplace?

By Guardian community team

We would like to hear from frontline or key workers about how the heat has affected them in the workplace this year With record high temperatures across the UK this summer we want to hear from those whose work meant they couldn’t escape the extreme heat. August 13 marked the hottest day of the year so far with temperatures reaching 38C in London and 37C recorded in other parts of the country; this marks the first yea

Our writers' predictions for the 2026-27 Premier League season – video

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The best recent translated fiction – review roundup

By John Self

The Red Book of Farewells by Pirkko Saisio; Short Circuit by Wolf Haas; Cosmos by Lucia Odoom; The Fallen Trees Are Also the Forest by Alejandra Kamiya The Red Book of Farewells by Pirkko Saisio, translated by Mia Spangenberg, Penguin Classics (£14.99) Following Lowest Common Denominator and Backlight, this book completes Finnish author Saisio’s autofictional trilogy. It covers her young adulthood in the 1970s, where

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Add to playlist: the righteous jangle and snaking melodies of Jawdropped and the week’s best new tracks

By Huw Baines and Laura Snapes

The LA-based powerpop project’s triumphant debut is a celebration of low-stakes creativity in the slacker-skater tradition From Los Angeles Recommended if you like the Lemonheads, Sugar, the Muffs Up next Secret to Spare released 18 September Maybe it’s to do with getting older, maybe it’s to do with the broad-spectrum grimness of it all, but the thrill of low-stakes creativity, of making something for the joy of mak

Premier League 2026-27 preview No 20: Tottenham

By John Brewin

Optimism abounds that De Zerbi and new signings can lead to a big improvement after two 17th-place finishes Guardian writers’ predicted position: 6th (NB: this is not necessarily John Brewin’s prediction but the average of our writers’ tips) Last season’s position: 17th Continue reading...

Daily Mail accused of stalking woman mistaken as White Stripes drummer Meg White

By Sean Craig

The tabloid boasted in a now-deleted article that they found White and promised to reveal her ‘secret new life’ The Daily Mail newspaper secretly tailed and photographed a woman in Detroit and then published an article and photographs falsely accusing her of being former The White Stripes drummer Meg White, even after she told the newspaper it had mistaken her identity, multiple sources have told the Guardian. The ri

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Jovial Jakirovic determined to haul Hull over and beyond Coles’ relegation jibes

By Ross Heppenstall

Club ‘not here by accident’ and revamped squad return to Premier League against Manchester United on Saturday On a baking spring bank holiday, Sergej Jakirovic basked in the glory of Hull’s fairytale promotion to the Premier League in an address to 40,000 ecstatic supporters from the balcony of Hull City Hall. “I only had one task before the season – to stay in the Championship … I failed. We’re going to the Premier

The Odyssey becomes highest grossing R-rated film of all time

By Andrew Pulver

Christopher Nolan’s epic has achieved $1.35bn at the global box office, overtaking 2024’s Deadpool & Wolverine The Odyssey has overtaken Deadpool & Wolverine to become the highest grossing R-rated film of all time. According to figures compiled by the Numbers, Christopher Nolan’s adaptation of Homer’s epic poem has achieved $1.35bn (£990m) at the worldwide box office, compared with the Ryan Reynolds/Hugh Jackman supe

Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection Vol 2 review – once more unto the mercenary breach

By Diego Nicolás Argüello

PC, Nintendo Switch/Switch 2, PS5, Xbox Series X/S; Konami This second collection remasters another three titles from the illustrious stealth espionage series, but their world has changed little since the original releases ‘War has changed,” claims Old Snake in Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots. Back in 2008, the team at Kojima Productions waxed poetic about people recruited to fight in proxy wars they have no

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Tiananmen Square vigil organisers in Hong Kong found guilty of ‘inciting subversion’

By Danny Vincent in Hong Kong

UK Foreign Office condemns use of national security law to convict activists Lee Cheuk-yan and Chow Hang-tung Two Hong Kong activists who organised annual vigils marking China’s deadly Tiananmen crackdown in 1989 have been found guilty of “incitement to subversion” in one of the most high-profile cases in Hong Kong since Beijing imposed its national security law in 2020. Lee Cheuk-yan, 69, and Chow Hang-tung, 41, “in

‘If you’re just interested in answers, you are missing out’: philosopher Lani Watson on the power of asking questions

By Zoe Williams

The author and academic explains how an open, questioning mindset can bring people with opposing views closer together – and even change history Asking a question can change your mood, and having a questioning mindset can change your life – or, as the philosopher Lani Watson, an honorary fellow at the University of Edinburgh, is more likely to put it, “create change in your life”. When you live in an answer-oriented

I worked at OpenAI. Here’s how tech companies can prepare for a slowdown | Miles Brundage

By Miles Brundage

I understand the pressure on AI companies to rush forward. But employees are right to be concerned Last month, more than a thousand employees at frontier AI companies signed a letter asking the US government to find a way to “pace” AI development, citing the risk of the technology spiraling out of human control as it begins to build itself. They were right to be concerned: just days earlier, two AI models that OpenAI

Can’t beat them? Eat them! Ten of the tastiest garden weeds

By Jack Wallington

Edible weeds grow in abundance in our gardens, streets and parks. With a little know-how, you can harvest delicious, nutritious, free greens Did you know that free food grows in our gardens, streets and parks without being planted by us? Not only does this food hide in plain sight, we’re encouraged to remove it from our gardens and throw it away. I’m talking about edible weeds, otherwise known as wildflowers. You may

Strangers in their own land: Mexicans deported from Trump’s America find refuge in ‘Little LA’

By Oscar Lopez in Mexico City

With plentiful jobs and community support, one Mexico City neighbourhood has become a haven for those who have lived much of their lives in the US With its wide avenues lined with tall palm trees, its quaint cafes and old-school cantinas, as well as the mix of English and Spanish spoken on the street, the Tabacalera neighborhood in downtown Mexico City has a certain US feel – so much so that it is has become known as

Proposed London datacentre will have annual carbon footprint of 27,000 flights to New York

By Matthew Pearce

Exclusive: Planning documents show datacentre in North Ockendon would be incompatible with UK net zero targets A “hyperscale” datacentre in outer London would generate more than 1m tonnes of carbon dioxide a year, equivalent to the carbon footprint of 27,000 flights from London to New York, planning documents show. The East Havering Data Centre Campus (EHDCC) in North Ockendon would be one of the largest datacentres