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‘Environmental violence’: inside the fight to save indigenous land from becoming a nuclear dumping ground
A new avant-garde documentary, To Use a Mountain, examines America’s decades-long failure to find a permanent home for its nuclear waste, focusing on rural and indigenous communities who fought government plans to turn their land into disposal sites. Director Casey Carter builds the film around the 1982 Nuclear Waste Policy Act, which pitted six rural…
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Year of after-school care now costs £2,800 a child in parts of UK
Parents of primary school children in England are paying 42% more for after-school childcare than a decade ago, with annual bills now topping £2,800 in some parts of the UK, according to Guardian analysis of data from the children’s charity Coram. The rising costs, which come on top of holiday childcare, breakfast clubs and extracurricular…
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From ‘old people music’ to owning the streets: 60 years of Notting Hill carnival and me
In this personal essay, a writer reflects on 60 years of the Notting Hill carnival, tracing how their relationship with the event changed from childhood boredom to lifelong devotion. As a reluctant child in the carnival’s 1960s infancy, they saw it as a strictly Caribbean affair organised by their parents’ generation, offering little appeal to…
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Poll finds 71% oppose public funding for Sussexes’ security
A poll has found that a large majority of Britons oppose using taxpayer money to fund security for Prince Harry and Meghan as they prepare to return to live in the UK after six years in the United States. The couple’s homecoming, driven by their children Archie and Lilibet starting at new British schools in…
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Chelsea’s chaos, Burnham’s caution and Newsnight’s axe threat
Labour’s Andy Burnham has ruled out a snap election but not tax rises, while the BBC weighs axing Newsnight; in the US, Trump faces a fresh impeachment bid; a Stanford study warns AI is squeezing young workers hardest; and Chelsea won a wild Fulham derby.
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From a ‘rural Harrods Food Hall’ to Jeremy Clarkson’s Diddly Squat: England’s best farm shops revealed
This travel piece rounds up some of England’s most celebrated farm shops, from grand countryside emporiums to smaller family-run operations, highlighting spots that offer far more than the average weekly grocery run. It matters to shoppers seeking locally sourced food, homemade treats and destinations worth a special trip, particularly as farm shops have grown in…
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ARIA excludes unauthorised AI music from Australian charts
The Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) has become the first chart body in the world to bar unauthorised AI-generated music from its official sales and streaming charts, adopting eligibility principles set out by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI). The change follows an AI-assisted cover of Madonna’s “Like a Prayer” reaching Australia’s top…
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Lockerbie bombing trial postponed days before it was due to start
The trial of Libyan national Abu Agila Mohammad Kheir Al-Marimi over the 1988 Lockerbie bombing was postponed for a third time, just days before it was due to begin in Washington DC, after new evidence emerged in the case on 21 August. His defence lawyers said the material was previously unknown to both them and…
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Kit Harington replaces Nicholas Hoult as Gilderoy Lockhart
Nicholas Hoult withdrew from HBO’s Harry Potter reboot barely a fortnight after his casting as Gilderoy Lockhart was announced, following a backlash from campaigners critical of author JK Rowling. Hoult cited “scheduling issues” for his exit, and Game of Thrones actor Kit Harington has since taken on the role instead. The episode highlights the pressure…