Premier League: 10 things to look out for this weekend
Nico O’Reilly gives Manchester City options, Sunderland miss Granit Xhaka’s grit and West Ham find a way Just when Brighton supporters were hoping their side was building some momentum after…
‘We didn’t make it for a white audience’: how black theatre took centre stage in Australia
In the last five years, African diaspora theatre has swept from the fringes on to the country’s main stages – fuelled by artists like Zindzi Okenyo Get our weekend culture…
I don’t like organised fun, but Dungeons and Dragons is my shining nerdy light amid the darkness | Patrick Lenton
I travel to my friend’s house with a bag of dice and other strange accoutrements that, in an 80s teen film, would lead to me being thrown into a dumpster.…
From worst of times to even worse: the Trump administration continues to spiral | Sidney Blumenthal
In the winter of despair, it was a day of the vile and a night of the obscene NIt was the worst of times and then even worse; it was…
The Guardian view on Trump’s Iran threats: military strikes won’t help civilians facing state brutality | Editorial
Protesters need support following the bloody crackdown by a ‘zombie’ regime – not wild threats or worse from the US president The brutality of Iran’s crackdown on protesters is almost…
Xi didn’t really see a point to Kier’s visit – but hey, let a hundred flowers bloom | John Crace
Chinese leader bestows a little largesse on the British PM while getting the green light for London ‘mega embassy’ Let’s face it, this was never going to be a meeting…
As the Taliban continue their war on women and girls, it is clear that appeasement has failed | Gordon Brown
Major powers have renewed diplomatic links while others seek deals to deport migrants. And all the while gender repression is getting worse Last weekend, on the international day of education,…
The post-US world is already taking shape – look at the massive EU-India trade deal | Ravinder Kaur
The ‘mother of all deals’ is as much about the tariff-heavy geopolitics of the Trump era as it is about bilateral trade The year was 2007. Steve Jobs had announced…
No increase in Women’s Asian Cup prize money despite player pleas for ‘respect’
AFC prize pot stagnates amid global women’s football boom Tournament is now world’s lowest-paying continental competition It has been billed as the most successful Women’s Asian Cup to date, yet…