An unmanageable club? Carrick the latest to suffer in Manchester United’s faded grandeur
Only Matt Busby and Alex Ferguson have truly succeeded in the Old Trafford hot seat with each casting uneasy shadows Should any football club fit the Great Man theory of…
Australia fight back in rollercoaster start to deciding Test against South Africa
Decision to bowl first looked like backfiring But hosts all out for 329 after being 140-0 at lunch For a time, it was heading up there with the worst. David…
David Squires on … Manchester United’s latest crisis and dirty laundry
Our cartoonist on the expected end for Michael Carrick at Old Trafford and what could come next Buy this cartoon | Some of David’s favourite works And his latest book,…
Want to know what you’re really like? Just ask the people who see you twice a year | Zoe Williams
Apparently, I’m the person who turns up soaking wet, sucking Haribos. Who needs lifelong friends who know you inside-out when acquaintances tell it like it is? The worst kind of…
The Guardian view on the far right’s plans for Brussels: doing the work of Xi, Putin and Trump | Editorial
If ever enacted, proposals by Marine Le Pen and the AfD leader, Alice Weidel, to hollow out EU institutions would be a continental act of self-harm Following the Brexit referendum…
Schrödinger’s racism, Nige’s latest wheeze to dodge his associates’ bigotry | John Crace
We are apparently to believe Raheem Kassam calling Kemi a ‘Nigerian scammer’ was racist and not racist at the same time Back to the future. Some of us can remember…
The Epstein files are a sledgehammer for the US midterms | Katie Phang
Voters have a chance to break America’s two-tiered system of justice and hold powerful people accountable Welcome back to How We Win, a Guardian opinion series with leading thinkers, offering…
Elon Musk says he has ‘cyber psychosis’. Do you too? | Arwa Mahdawi
Whether using chatbots for childcare or taking up smoking, a new affliction is sweeping through the tech world. Here are the signs In the least surprising news you’ll hear all…
If the Albanese government wants to cheat the populist death spiral, it needs to go to the barricades with the rest of us | Peter Lewis
This is a difficult time to govern. Chaos reigns. The government needs to recast itself as the champion of change rather than the defenders of a status quo so many…
The Twilight Zone: this Halloween, try the spooky supernatural series that changed pop culture forever
There are ghouls, gremlins and the grotesque but through its five seasons the anthology show really focuses on the human condition A man with a stern expression and a shock…