Neither of us can remember exactly how it happened, but we both agree we were probably a little drunk. It was December 2016. We had been dating for eight months. Even with the booze we were, by many measures, still shy around each other, fearful of spoiling the magic. Which is why neither I nor […]
Read MoreTrack Record by George the Poet review – Black artistry and home truths
George Mpanga, better known as George the Poet, is a British-Ugandan spoken word artist, poet and rapper. In 2019 he was offered, and turned down, an MBE, a gesture indicative of his progressive politics. He is best known for his award-winning podcast, Have You Heard George’s Podcast?, which has won him legions of fans. Wittily […]
Read MoreWhy sportspeople should stick to the pitch and stay out of politics | Andrew Anthony
There’s an old adage that says sport and politics don’t mix. It’s a moot point with persuasive arguments on both sides. But in light of former England spin bowler Monty Panesar’s jaw-dropping radio interview last week as George Galloway’s Workers Party of Britain’s prospective candidate for Ealing Southall, west London, in the next election, perhaps a […]
Read MoreEurope’s best beach holidays: Arcachon, France
The Bay of Arcachon, on the south-west coast of France, is a happy place. It must be, because I’ve been visiting it with my family nearly every year for the past 15 years. We usually rent a small apartment in Arcachon town for four or five days, but such is the draw that we have […]
Read MoreX-ray spacecraft reveals odd ‘Cloverleaf’ radio circle in new light (image)
XMM-Newton, a European Space Agency and NASA-operated space telescope, has imaged a vast cosmic “Cloverleaf” to uncover its mysterious origins. The Cloverleaf is an example of an “odd radio circle,” or ORC. These objects are strange bubbles of radio light that are so huge they can be thousands of times the width of the Milky […]
Read MoreSteve Erceg reacts to Alexandre Pantoja loss at UFC 301: ‘I just blew it’
Steve Erceg came close to becoming flyweight champion in just his fourth UFC fight, but instead he’ll have to linger on a few regrettable decisions that likely cost him the title. The Australian took Alexandre Pantoja to the limit in the UFC 301 main event, but a couple of late takedowns in the fifth round […]
Read More‘There are people in tents writing dissertations’: UK reaches for scale of US campus protests
Students across Britain have said they hope pro-Palestine protests will reach the same scale as those seen on US campuses as they call for universities to divest from companies supplying arms to Israel. Protests have spread across university campuses in Sheffield, Bristol and Leeds, after a crackdown in the US on protests, which led to […]
Read MoreHow Humans Failed Racehorses
By Joe Drape He has covered the Kentucky Derby for 25 years. It was a thrilling finish: A long-shot named Mystik Dan held off a late charge by Sierra Leone and a colt from Japan named Forever Young on Saturday to win the 150th running of the Kentucky Derby, America’s oldest major continuing sporting event, […]
Read MoreFishmongers’ Hall heroes in housing project for ex-inmates
Darryn Frost and Steve Gallant are still dealing with the trauma of tackling a terrorist at Fishmongers’ Hall, London Bridge, in 2019. Gallant, 47, who was on day release from prison where he was serving a life sentence for murder, helped fend off the attacker alongside Frost, 43, a probation worker who had grabbed a […]
Read MorePatriots see Caedan Wallace moving from Penn State right tackle to NFL left tackle
Rookie offensive tackle Caedan Wallace has a tough job ahead of him in New England: The Patriots want him to earn the starting left tackle job, having been almost exclusively a right tackle at Penn State. Incumbent right tackle Mike Onwenwu will stay on that side, while Wallace — who played all but six of […]
Read MoreTranscript: Queen Rania al Abdullah of Jordan on “Face the Nation,” May 5, 2024
The following is a transcript of an interview with Queen Rania al Abdullah of Jordan that aired on May 5, 2024. MARGARET BRENNAN: Your Majesty, thank you for making time for us. QUEEN RANIA AL ABDULLAH: Thank you. It’s a pleasure to be here. MARGARET BRENNAN: Jordan has two field hospitals inside of Gaza, Jordan […]
Read MoreStinging Lewis Hamilton criticism overshadows Max Verstappen dominance in Miami
It is fast turning into a season to forget for Lewis Hamilton – Getty Images/Clive Rose Max Verstappen dominated proceedings at the Miami Grand Prix on Saturday, as expected, taking victory in the sprint race before qualifying on pole for Sunday’s main feature race. But the day was overshadowed by some stinging criticism of Lewis […]
Read MoreA Terse and Gripping Weekend Read
This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here. Welcome back to The Daily’s Sunday culture edition, in which one Atlantic writer or editor reveals what’s keeping them […]
Read MoreChina’s Plan to Turn Buddhism Into Communist Propaganda
Shangri-la is best-known as a fictional place—an idyllic valley first imagined by a British novelist in the 1930s—but look at a map and you’ll find it. Sitting at the foot of the Himalayas in southwestern China, Shangri-la went by a more prosaic name until 2001, when the city was rebranded by Chinese officials eager to […]
Read More‘By Any Means Necessary’ at Columbia
Last month, a pro-Palestinian activist stood in front of me on Columbia University’s campus with a sign that read By Any Means Necessary. She smiled. She seemed like a nice person. I am an Israeli graduate student at the university, and I know holding that sign is within her rights. And yet, its message was […]
Read More‘Like family’: three women – two Palestinian, one Jewish – find peace amid campus chaos
Three students united at the University of California, San Diego. Photograph: Alan Nakkash/The Guardian Seven months ago, before Hamas stormed into Israel, killing roughly 1,200 people and taking more than 200 hostage, Eleanora Ginsborg and Samar Omer had never met. But in the attack’s violent aftermath, Ginsborg and Omer, students at the University of California, […]
Read MoreIt’s six months until the US election. Do pollsters know where their candidates are?
“You know what I hate?” Donald Trump asked in Freeland, Michigan, on Wednesday night. “When these guys get on television, they say – pundits, you know, the great pundits that never did a thing in their whole lives – ‘You know, we have two very unpopular candidates. We have Biden or we have Trump. These […]
Read More‘My role was to be a truthful witness’: photographer Jack Lueders-Booth’s Polaroids of American female prisoners
In 1970, aged 35, Jack Lueders-Booth left a well-paid management job at an insurance company in his native Boston, Massachusetts, to pursue his interest in photography. “Until then, I was a serious hobbyist,” he tells me over the phone from the city where he still lives, “but my interest had deepened to the point where […]
Read MoreNezouh review – magic realism amid the ruins of Damascus under siege
There’s an unexpected flourish of magical realism in this story of life under siege in Syria. Fourteen-year-old Zeina (Hala Zein) lives with her mother and father in Damascus; at the dogged insistence of her father, Mutaz (Samer Al Masri), who refuses to flee his home, they are one of the few remaining families in a […]
Read MoreDoing the Baghdad walk: art tour highlights creativity in the heart of Iraq
A buzz is building in the Bab al-Sharji neighbourhood in central Baghdad where preparations for an annual contemporary arts festival are underway. The city has long been considered one of the most dangerous in the world but artists in the Tarkib collective want to send a different message – that the capital is alive with […]
Read MoreWhy Labour leapt on board with private open access train providers
A direct train from London to Wrexham? The chance to whiz to Scotland for less than £50? Trains run by a firm specialising in a single route, competing to lure customers away from the expensive big operators? What’s not to like? Given the promise of cheaper fares to under-served UK destinations, it is perhaps little […]
Read MoreCooper DeJean reacts to video of Eagles’ move to get him
Cooper DeJean reacts to video of Eagles’ move to get him originally appeared on NBC Sports Philadelphia The Eagles really wanted Cooper DeJean and they provided evidence of that last week when they dropped the draft room video from Friday night when they traded up to get him. It was clear how much the Eagles […]
Read MoreKeane review – note perfect return with added emotional wallop
After the chart-steamrollering success of their 2004 debut album Hopes and Fears, singer Tom Chaplin’s marital breakdown and drug and alcohol addiction meant things had gone badly awry by the time Keane took an “indefinite hiatus” 10 years ago. However, here they are, packing out arenas at least partly due to the startling second life […]
Read MoreShadow of war hangs over Orthodox Easter as Zelenskiy and Putin mark holiday
Orthodox Easter services in Ukraine and Russia have taken on a political tone, as Volodymyr Zelenskiy asserted that God had a “Ukrainian flag on his shoulder” and Vladimir Putin attended a church service led by a staunch supporter of Moscow’s invasion. Noting that Ukraine had now been fighting Russia for 802 days, Zelenskiy called on […]
Read MoreYork International Shakespeare festival review – the bard without borders
Debra Ann Byrd, founder of the Harlem Shakespeare festival, is speaking at an in-conversation event titled My Black Girl’s Journey, companion piece to Becoming Othello, her “living memoir” solo show: “A black friend asked me: ‘Why are you only doing Shakespeare?’” Byrd’s path to the playwright was set after a theatrical agent told her that […]
Read MoreLassie: A New Adventure review – like Crufts with a bit of plot tacked on
Normally, the rudimentary dubbing of this German production into English would be a major stumbling block. However the performances are already so abysmal that the fact that no effort has been made to match voices to lip movements has little overall impact on the lamentable quality of the movie. In this latest outing for the […]
Read More‘I was happy they still stand beside us’: Palestinians in Rafah on US campus protests
In the tented camps and crowded streets of Rafah, the pro-Palestine campus protests in the US have been followed closely. “We hear a lot of news about students’ demonstrations in American universities … When I saw that, I was very happy that there are still those who stand beside us and in support of us,” […]
Read MoreNo Subject
Andrew Motion was the UK Poet Laureate from 1999 to 2009. His poetry collections and celebrated biographies of John Keats and Philip Larkin have received a number of prizes, including the Dylan Thomas Prize, the Whitbread Prize, and most recently the Ted Hughes Award. He was knighted for his services to poetry in 2009. His […]
Read More‘I was trying to just go for it,’ Iga Swiatek reveals what clicked for her during the final moments of her epic match against Aryna Sabalenka in the Madrid Open Final
In one of the most thrilling matches of the year, Iga Swiatek and Aryna Sabalenka went toe to toe until the Pole ace managed to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat. In the third and final set, Sabalenka seemed to be on top, having given herself three championship points on different occasions. In all […]
Read MoreWhere will the annular solar eclipse on Oct. 2, 2024 be visible?
An annular solar eclipse will occur on Oct. 2, 2024, when the moon’s central shadow will not quite reach Earth. The result will be a ‘ring of fire’ visible to those within a broad path across the Pacific Ocean and southern South America. At the point of greatest eclipse in the Pacific, the moon will […]
Read MoreMarjorie Taylor Greene Is Not as Powerful as She Thinks She Is
In an interview last week, NewsNation’s Blake Burman asked Speaker Mike Johnson about Marjorie Taylor Greene, and before Burman could finish his question, Johnson responded with classic Southern scorn. “Bless her heart,” he said, and then he told Burman that Greene wasn’t proving to be a serious lawmaker and that he didn’t spend a lot […]
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