Experience: I smuggled myself out of the UK
‘I want to live a safe, legal life.’ The author in Italy. Photograph: Roberto Salomone/The GuardianView image in fullscreen‘I want…
If Labour didn’t exist, would you invent it? Streeting, Rayner, Burnham – you need to tell us why
Keir Starmer with Angela Rayner and Wes Streeting in 2024. Photograph: Leon Neal/Getty ImagesView image in fullscreenKeir Starmer with Angela…
Nymphomaniacs and sex droughts: what I learned while studying women’s pleasure
Mars and Venus, Allegory of Peace, by Louis Jean François Lagrenée, 1770. Photograph: Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty ImagesView image in…
‘Your honey pot? It’s bare!’ Farewell to Outlander, TV’s most delightfully ludicrous bonkbuster
‘Aye Sassenach, I am your master, and you are mine’ … Jamie and Claire in Outlander. Photograph: PRView image in…
Meet Peru’s potato guardians, fighting to protect the country’s beloved tubers against climate change
When Jhon Edison Ccoyo Ccana looks up into the overarching inky-dark Andean night sky above him, pierced only with distant…
Netflix’s The Crash: Inside Mackenzie Shirilla’s ‘posessive’ romance with boyfriend before murder
When detectives combed through the wreckage of a horrific car crash, what first appeared to be a tragic accident soon…
Trump says Xi is ‘very tall’ and out of ‘central casting’ because people in China ‘tend to be a little bit shorter’
Donald Trump has lavished praise on president Xi Jinping, saying that he is “straight out of central casting” for a…
Family of Footballer Tyler Fairman killed in ‘hit and run’ describe every parent’s worst nightmare
The devastated family of a man who tragically died after an alleged hit and run have shared a deeply moving…
Author Ann Patchett urges a ‘breath’ for books as PEN gala raises $2M amid ban surge
On a night otherwise dedicated to the endangered state of free expression, honoree Ann Patchett asked those gathered for PEN…