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  • 'The slowest fashion’
    The woman growing her own dress

    Eve Ogden Schaub smiles, holding a pitchfork beside a basket of flax fiber she grew

  • Flipping marvellous
    Yotam Ottolenghi on the joy of simple breakfasts

    Yotam Ottolenghi smiles while tossing a pancake

  • The Saturday read
    Faster, higher, funnier: what we learned from China’s robot games

    A photo composite of a retro robot running on an athletics track whilst sparks fly from it.

  • Gordon Brown
    ‘I don’t want to be a backseat driver’

    Headshot of British politician Gordon Brown in pale shirt against burgundy background

  • Battle over RAF Barnham
    How anti-asylum protests engulfed small UK town

    A protester, standing in front of two police officers, holds two lit flares

  • Charli xcx, Reading Festival review
    Nietzsche would have loved it

    Charli XCX stands centre stage above seated performers during a dramatic black and white festival performanceHandout photo issued by Charli XCX management of Charli XCX performing on the the Grid stage during the Reading Festival, at Little John's Farm, Reading, Berkshire. Picture date: Friday August 28, 2026. PA Photo. Photo credit should read: Henry Redcliffe/PA Wire NOTE TO EDITORS: This handout photo may only be used for editorial reporting purposes for the contemporaneous illustration of events, things or the people in the image or facts mentioned in the caption. Reuse of the picture may require further permission from the copyright holder.

News

  • Emergency service workers respond to a Russian strike on a warehouse where black smoke billows

    Ukraine
    Russian drone strike on Kyiv warehouse storing weapons kills at least 37

  • HMS Duncan, a naval destroyer, sails past a pier as onlookers watch from Portsmouth

    UK
    Royal Navy spent three days tracking Russian vessels in UK waters

  • Technicians observe the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope's solar panels in a cleanroom

    Nasa
    Nasa space telescope set to launch after surviving Trump budget cuts

    Searching for exoplanets and clues on planet formation, the Roman telescope will lift off Sunday morning in Florida

The Saturday read

  • A photo composite of a retro robot running on an athletics track whilst sparks fly from it.

    Faster, higher, funnier: what we learned from China’s robot games

    Five-day showcase reveals leaps Beijing has made in humanoid tech, but also its limitations as US rivals come up from the rear

In focus

  • President Trump dances with raised fists before a cheering crowd holding MAGA signs and flags

    US midterm elections
    Is Donald Trump’s bid to brand Democrats as ‘radical’ communists working?

    In deep red South Carolina, the president helped stoke apprehension of a deeper red surge ahead of November’s US midterm elections
  • Tattoo of a former combatant in the ZUT

    Colombia
    Was it a mistake for 99 Colombian guerrillas to lay down their arms?

  • Newlyweds Oleksandr carries Tetiana, laughing, in a plaza with a colonnaded building

    Ukraine
    Love under anti-drone nets: Ukrainian couple wed in Kramatorsk combat zone

Features

  • Eve Ogden Schaub smiles, holding a pitchfork beside a basket of flax fiber she grew

    Fashion
    ‘I wanted to find the slowest fashion imaginable’: the woman growing her own dress

  • Yotam Ottolenghi smiles while tossing a pancake

    Food
    Flipping marvellous: Yotam Ottolenghi on the joy of simple breakfasts – plus six exclusive recipes

More features

  • A big pile of clothes and accessories thrown on the floor

    Fashion
    ‘It gives Shein’: how did polyester become the world’s most-hated material?

  • The BEAR HR 1

    My cultural awakening
    I avoided restaurants after a disastrous job as a waitress. Then I watched The Bear …

  • Illustration of a person walking past a bookshop while tiny people try to promote the books

    Books
    How to make a bestseller: insiders reveal the tricks of the book trade

  • Headshot of British politician Gordon Brown in pale shirt against burgundy background

    UK politics
    ‘I don’t want to be a backseat driver’: former UK PM Gordon Brown on Burnham, billionaires – and a better Britain

  • Dolly Parton holds newborn Emma wrapped in pink, beside her seated parents

    Music
    ‘In walked this big bundle of energy’: the day Dolly Parton came to Yorkshire

  • Composite of Mike and Caterina, both smiling, him on left with hand on chin wearing a pale shirt, her with hands in pockets wearing a cream waistcoat

    Blind date
    ‘She’s one of the easiest people to talk to that I’ve ever met’

More sport

  • Lucy Bronze holds a football

    Big interview
    ‘Now is a good time for players to speak up’: Lucy Bronze on Fifa and helping refugees

  • Emiliano Martínez

    Football
    Alonso gets Chelsea’s priorities right by ditching Sánchez for winner Martínez

  • Lando Norris celebrating

    Formula One
    Norris agrees new deal until at least 2030 with ‘second family’ McLaren

  • Lou Gehrig and Babe Ruth look on as Jackie Mitchell, one of the first women to play professional baseball, practices her form.

    Baseball
    Jackie Mitchell, the 17-year-old girl who struck out Ruth and Gehrig

Opinion

  • Arwa Mahdawi

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    Arwa Mahdawi
    Ignore Iran, the Epstein files, and your wallet – not to mention Trump’s plummeting approval ratings
  • Phoebe Greenwood

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    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

More opinion

  • Stephen Bates

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    Stephen Bates
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    The hill I will die on
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    Max Liu
  • A cartoon image of a woman sitting at an office desk with plants around her.

    With the kids back at school, I finally get a break – back at my desk: the Becky Barnicoat cartoon

    Becky Barnicoat
  • Jonathan Freedland

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    Jonathan Freedland

Editorials

  • The Guardian view
    The loan of the Bayeux tapestry: a manifestation of soft power

Cartoon

  • Christopher Harry on vaping – cartoon

    Saturday Opinion cartoon
    Christopher Harry on vaping

    The sudden realisation that you’re addicted to the adult version of a dummy

More top stories

  • Newlyweds Oleksandr carries Tetiana, laughing, in a plaza with a colonnaded building

    Ukraine
    Love under anti-drone nets: Ukrainian couple wed in Kramatorsk combat zone

    ‘At a time when Russia is trying to spread gloom and darkness … it is important to create something beautiful,’ says combat medic Tetiana as she weds army captain Oleksandr
  • Reykjavík, Iceland, late-summer light across Tjörnin and Esja, 19 August 2026.

    Iceland
    Sovereignty, farming and fishing: Iceland votes on its future with the EU

  • Laurie Anderson leans against a wall.

    Books
    Laurie Anderson’s next manuscript to be locked away for 88 years in Future Library

  • Illustration of a person holding on to a giant balloon that looks like the Earth

    Inside the Guardian
    The Guardian climate pledge 2026

  • A satellite image of a tropical storm

    Caribbean
    Tropical Storm Dolly downgraded to ‘open tropical wave’ as it heads to Caribbean

  • Aerial view of the Meta El Paso Data Center under construction at sunrise in the desert

    Down to Earth
    Is the environmental impact of datacentres finally cutting through?

    Newsletter
  • Bright forked lightning strikes toward dark treetops during a nighttime thunderstorm in Japan

    Weather tracker
    More extreme rain in Japan and a tornado in France

UK news

  • Immigration and asylum
    The battle over RAF Barnham: how ominous anti-asylum protests engulfed a small English town

  • Budget
    Tax promises, defence targets and Iran: Andy Burnham’s budget headaches

  • UK
    Man, 41, dies after large sign falls at Christian festival in West Sussex

  • AI
    UK risks falling behind in AI race without faster telecoms upgrades, say executives

World news

  • US
    FBI no longer treating applicants’ experience with sex workers as automatic bar against hiring

  • Iceland
    Sovereignty, farming and fishing: Iceland votes on its future with the EU

  • Ratko Mladić
    ‘The butcher may be gone, but to many he is a hero’: victims condemn glorification of Mladić

  • ICE
    Milo Yiannopoulos, a far-right political commentator, detained by ICE

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Culture

  • Culture Preview Autum 2026 - Music - Kehlani, Noah Kahan

    Autumn arts preview 2026
    The best music of autumn 2026: Johnny Marr, Phoebe Bridgers, Rachel Chinouriri and more

  • Victoria Rose and Stone Rosenberg

    Autumn arts preview 2026
    ‘It’s easier when nobody’s watching’: inside the secretive and sublime freak-folk of @

What to watch

  • A woman and a man in suits on the front desk in a courtroom, looking very very serious, the young man stroking his chin thoughtfully

    TV review
    The Rainmaker review – please don’t hurt your eyes trying to find anything good in this legal drama

  • Michael Fassbender, lit in teal, examines a small robotic device in a scene from Alien: Covenant

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    Ben Child
  • Louis Garrel

    Film
    ‘I don’t care if I look good’: French heartthrob Louis Garrel on fashion, fatherhood and his radically dorky new role

  • Chris Cantrill grimaces while standing at a microphone on stage

    Review
    Chris Cantrill: Rewilding review – a rural whodunnit told with midlife mirth

What to listen to

  • KATSEYE Performs At The Today Show Citi Concert Series In New York, USA - 14 Aug 2026KATSEYE members, DANIELA AVANZINI, MEGAN SKIENDIEL, LARA RAJ and YOONCHAE JEUNG perform at the Today Show Citi Concert Series on NBC at Rockefeller Plaza in New York. 14 August 2026 KATSEYE Performs At The Today Show Citi Concert Series In New York, USA - 14 Aug 2026

    Music
    How Katseye became the world’s biggest girl group – while falling apart

  • A black and white photograph of the musician Dahi sitting at the piano and looking at the camera

    Music
    Dahi: Black Boy (Alternative) review – Kendrick producer takes the spotlight for all-star guitar celebration

  • June McDoom.

    Add to playlist
    Add to playlist: the spectral, fathoms-deep folksong of June McDoom and the week’s best new tracks

  • Composer Donnacha Dennehy stands in a street with his arms folded

    Classical music
    Donnacha Dennehy: Limina album review – joyously unfettered music is a thrill in motion

What to read

  • Small Monster, Big Monster by Allan Sanders.

    Children's book roundup
    Children’s books roundup – the best new picture books and novels

  • Meg Mason.

    Book of the day
    Sophie, Standing There by Meg Mason review – a tale of literary obsession, with cameos from real-life authors

  • Hélène Carrère d’Encausse in 1983.

    Book of the day
    Kolkhoz by Emmanuel Carrère review – intricate portrait of an elite French family

  • Karnak temple, Egypt

    Fiction
    Passage by Colin Thubron review – mortality and memory in a gem of a novel

What to play

  • A screenshot showing a huge bird-like creature looming over a man in a corn field.

    Summer games previews
    The Witcher 3: Songs of the Past – Geralt of Rivia returns after a decade in the sun

  • A fierce woman warrior holds two curved knives, surrounded by ancient ruins and soldiers

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

  • Trainwatch game

    Summer games previews
    Trainwatch – alone with your thoughts on a railway line to nowhere

  • The interior of a train, with a few passengers. An absurdly extended light-skinned arm wraps several times around the handrails.

    Summer games previews
    My Arms Are Longer Now – comedy stealth game sends lawlessness into new territory

More culture

  • Charli XCX stands centre stage above seated performers during a dramatic black and white festival performanceHandout photo issued by Charli XCX management of Charli XCX performing on the the Grid stage during the Reading Festival, at Little John's Farm, Reading, Berkshire. Picture date: Friday August 28, 2026. PA Photo. Photo credit should read: Henry Redcliffe/PA Wire NOTE TO EDITORS: This handout photo may only be used for editorial reporting purposes for the contemporaneous illustration of events, things or the people in the image or facts mentioned in the caption. Reuse of the picture may require further permission from the copyright holder.

    Charli xcx
    Charli xcx, Reading Festival review – Pretentious? Just a bit. But Nietzsche would have loved it

  • Jim Flanagan, owner of Sydney music venue Lazy Thinking, stands with arms crossed in the doorway, looking aside

    Australian music
    Another beloved live music venue is closing. Is Australia’s precarious rental market killing the vibe?

  • Rick And Morty S5 Ep1Ep1.

    The Guide
    25 years of the perennially puerile, eternally eccentric Adult Swim

    Newsletter
  • Teen Vogue's Back-to-School Saturday Kick-off Event At The GroveLOS ANGELES, CA - AUGUST 09: Actor/Producer/Director Rob Reiner (center) and wife Michele Singer (L) and son Jake Reiner (R) attend Teen Vogue's Back-to-School Saturday kick-off event at The Grove on August 9, 2013 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Michael Buckner/Getty Images for Teen Vogue)

    Rob Reiner
    Rob Reiner’s son Jake gives first interview after parents’ deaths: ‘I will never understand why this happened’

Lifestyle

  • An illustration with three children around a cutout photograph of Tim Dowling kids, with a background of different coloured circles and pen strokes

    The Tim Dowling column
    Tim Dowling: my TV contract has run out – and so has my patience

  • Plates laid out on a table with a blue tablecloth, with the mozzarella and green bean salad on top

    Meera Sodha recipes
    Meera Sodha’s recipe for spicy mozzarella, green bean and edamame salad

Food

  • Legare’s bay leaf martini with olives in a glass.

    The good mixer
    Cocktail of the week: Legare’s mini bay leaf martini – recipe

  • Six orange ice lollies on a marble surface.

    The sweet spot
    Benjamina Ebuehi’s recipe for rum punch ice lollies

  • A table with plates of pasta, a pepper grinder, and a tea towel visible

    Feast
    Why we’re all hooked on tinned fish

    Newsletter
  • M&S retro chocolate bars from the 1980s: called Now!, Jet, Sparks and Coconut Grove.

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

Fashion & beauty

  • Dolly Parton smiles broadly, wearing an ornate beaded jacket and statement earrings

    Fashion
    Like a rhinestone cowgirl – Dolly Parton’s most glorious, joyful and meta looks

    Newsletter
  • Young girl with red hair cut in a page boy style

    Hairstyles
    ‘It looked stunning on Joanna Lumley!’ 10 writers on their biggest hair disaster

  • Andie MacDowell, Pharrell Williams, Brad Pitt, and Jennifer Lopez pose in contrasting colorful outfits

    Ageing
    Ditch the giant handbag, don’t overdo the botox and 16 other ways to extend your ‘hotspan’

  • By Kai

    Fashion weeks
    Icons, new stars and First Nations excellence: 10 key shows from NZ fashion week

Relationships

  • An illustration of a man pulls a tablecloth so all the food slides off table into his mouth, while a dark shadow figure is under the table

    You be the judge
    Should my partner stop eating off other people’s plates?

  • A blond woman in a white t-shirt smiles while using an espresso machine to make coffee

    A moment that changed me
    I sought out rejection. Instead, strangers met me with profound generosity

  • Illustration of two tiny people sliding joyfully between giant legs

    This is how we do it
    ‘Since having cancer, I’m more open – before I was straight, now I’m queer’

  • An illustration of a woman speaking with her arms crossed, while a person in the background sits on a bench crying

    Ask Annalisa Barbieri
    A childhood sexual abuse allegation has rocked our family – what should we do?

Health & fitness

  • Woman with long brown hair and red top sits expressionless in profile in a courtroom.

    Well actually
    What is the treatment for postpartum psychosis, the condition central to the Lindsay Clancy trial?

  • An ear suffering tinnitus

    Health
    I’d heard ringing in my ears before. This time, it didn’t stop

  • A beagle holding hands with someone while sat at a table with a plate of spaghetti in front of her

    Fashion
    ‘Such adept cover stars’: why dogs are taking over fashion in the ‘AI face’ era

  • Angry face on a yellow kettlebell against an orange background

    Gyms
    Hogging weights, loud grunting and sweaty benches: 11 gym dos and don’ts from fitness experts

More lifestyle

  • A woman and a dog sitting on a blow-up ring in a swimming pool

    Smart shot
    ‘The angle of the dog, the hat and the tattoo on her foot all come together’: Trace Meek’s best phone picture

  • A cardboard box labelled "KEEP" sits beside folded clothes and shoes, with a blurred woman walking past

    Change by degrees
    Death cleaning, downsizing and decluttering. How do we learn to live with less stuff?

  • Author Adele Parks in red waistcoat and trousers against blue background

    The Q&A
    Adele Parks: ‘If I could ​edit my pas​t, I’d be fitter younger – I​ would have been hotter’

  • Corinne Bailey Rae performing at the Southbank Centre in London in January 2025, wearing a sparkly silver and gold dress, and with the mic in her left hand and right arm outstretched, resting on the mic stand

    The quiz
    What links Corinne Bailey Rae and Keir Starmer? The Saturday quiz

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  • Iranian foreign minister Abbas Araghchi, US President Donald Trump, Iranian Ayatollah Ali Khamenei with Iranian flag and Iranian-made Zolfaghar missiles.

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