Anna Friel: ‘I go to every location with a bag full of lightbulbs. Lighting really affects how one thinks’
The British actor on no-nonsense women, learning her lines in the bath and encountering a ‘nation of beautiful people’ while filming a new medical drama in Australia You’re starring in…
Trump has declared war on elections in the name of protecting them | Austin Sarat
The president’s Orwellian speech on Thursday was just the latest instance of his denialism. It is up to us to resist On Thursday night, Donald Trump did it again, trashing…
‘Some fantastic mischief lurking just around the grin’: Sam Neill by Tara Fitzgerald – a poem
Neill’s co-star in the 1994 comedy-drama Sirens remembers a man of rare beauty, generosity and delight By the time I met Sam He had already assumed a kind of mythic…
‘I’m not into leather at all!’: John Wood on privately photographing Glasgow’s gay underground, and the comparisons with Robert Mapplethorpe
He was a telecoms engineer by day – and documented the Scottish city’s leather scene by night. Now the 79-year-old has opened his erotic archives and received his first ever…
The rising cost of Australian ski resorts: ‘It was like throwing $100 bills out the window as we drove up the mountain’
Australia experienced a boom in beginner-friendly skiing in the 1980s and 1990s. But have global heating and rising lift prices ended that run? Get our breaking news email, free app…
‘A revolutionary act to watch it’: the film India’s censors do not want you to see
Director Honey Trehan decries ‘dystopian’ opposition to his film depicting crackdown on Punjab’s separatist movement For as long as he has been a film-maker, there is one story Honey Trehan…
Twelve days nursing my father in the ‘dying room’ taught me the value of planning for death
Dying is difficult, a nurse told me. It might have been even more appalling had Dad not been clear about his wishes. Yet most of us remain deeply reluctant to…
‘We slept with three of the same women’: 12 people on what it’s really like dating a friend’s ex
Guardian readers tackle a thorny topic and share their stories of dating a friend’s ex – or a friend dating their ex Life is full of big, messy questions. How…
A friend, Facebook or … Ukraine? No easy surrogacy options for Australian families desperate for children
With huge amounts of money at stake and power imbalances in play, the Australian Law Reform Commission is looking at how to better regulate the industry Over eight years, Ethan…
Genuine hope may have been fleeting for England. But it was still life-affirming | Max Rushden
Two minutes and 55 seconds. That’s how long I really had hope of reaching the World Cup final. And it didn’t kill me In her book Hope in the Dark…