Updates from 5.30pm (BST) kickoff Email Barry and follow us on Bluesky Fun fact: Tottenham and Newcastle have met 61 times in the Premier League era without ever playing out a scoreless draw. Today could be the day for a dreary stalemate but it seems unlikely – fingers crossed for ...
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‘Inept, incompetent, craven’: Scott Bessent struggles to clean up the president’s mess‘Inept, incompetent, craven’: Scott Bessent struggles to clean up the president’s mess
There’s little optimism about treasury secretary’s ability to handle Trump’s tariffs, Iran sanctions and colossal US debt History remembers Gen Dwight Eisenhower, the supreme commander of the allied forces in Europe during the second world war, for his role in the D-day invasion of Normandy. Whether Scott Bessent will achieve ...
Sunsets, disasters, dinners: we now record them all with our phones. But what is that doing to our souls? | Phoebe GreenwoodSunsets, disasters, dinners: we now record them all with our phones. But what is that doing to our souls? | Phoebe Greenwood
As a war correspondent, I worked with photographers who said the camera was a buffer between them and reality. It is much the same now as we snap and scroll I was sitting on a rooftop in Athens at sunset looking up at Filopappou hill. Athens in August is burning ...
Charli xcx, Reading Festival review – Pretentious? Just a bit. But Nietzsche would have loved itCharli xcx, Reading Festival review – Pretentious? Just a bit. But Nietzsche would have loved it
Reading Festival There’s not much time to dig into her deep catalogue of future-facing pop, but she satisfies the hardcore “Time itself is a circle,” as the rock’n’roll philosopher Nietzsche once said, accurately foreshadowing Charli xcx’s only UK festival appearance this summer. Like her performance on Glastonbury’s Other Stage last ...
‘I don’t want to be a backseat driver’: Gordon Brown on Burnham, billionaires – and his vision for a better Britain‘I don’t want to be a backseat driver’: Gordon Brown on Burnham, billionaires – and his vision for a better Britain
The former UK prime minister is still shaping politics (even if he doesn’t want to interfere). He talks about keeping his temper, staying fit – and why he won’t pay £90 for a Scotland football shirt It’s a Monday in August and as England burns in dystopian heat, Gordon Brown ...
Hilarity, unease and relief: games show China is not over the finish line in humanoid robot raceHilarity, unease and relief: games show China is not over the finish line in humanoid robot race
World Humanoid Robot Games showcased leaps Beijing has made in the tech, but also highlighted limitations as US rivals prepare their own launches With exploding pelvises, enough comic pratfalls for a Buster Keaton show reel and the odd moment of ruthless violence, the World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing gripped ...
Blind date: ‘She’s one of the easiest people to talk to that I’ve ever met’Blind date: ‘She’s one of the easiest people to talk to that I’ve ever met’
Mike, 37, a scientific editor, meets Caterina, 35, a teacher What were you hoping for? Good company, nice food and an interesting evening with someone new. I got everything I hoped for. Continue reading… ...
This US city only has one supermarket for 45,000 people. New legislation seeks to fix thatThis US city only has one supermarket for 45,000 people. New legislation seeks to fix that
Big grocery can use anti-competitive clauses to block other stores from entering a market. Rhode Island is the second state to ban that practice Jeannine Johansen remembers the halcyon days of Woonsocket, Rhode Island, when so many of its steep streets were punctuated by grocery stores: Almacs, A&P, Piggly Wiggly ...
Dolly Parton was the polar opposite of our bullying president | Robert ReichDolly Parton was the polar opposite of our bullying president | Robert Reich
Terrified of being seen as a loser, Donald Trump is nonsensically lashing out – even against our old friend Canada I’m still grieving Dolly Parton. I never met her and always wanted to. She was almost exactly my age and my height and had values I deeply admired. Her death ...
Shaky Sabalenka and wide-open men’s draw set stage for US Open dramaShaky Sabalenka and wide-open men’s draw set stage for US Open drama
Defending champion arrives at Flushing Meadows in poor form and with a host of challengers looking to usurp her Under any normal circumstances Aryna Sabalenka would not have lost her third-round match at the Cincinnati Open last week. For all of her unforced errors, indecisiveness and the obvious tension surrounding ...