Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #the-guardian, aggregated by home.social.
‘Under tremendous strain’: CIA analyst turned spy novelist on a fraying US-UK alliance
By Robert Tait in Washington
David McCloskey’s new book depicts a calamitous collapse of the ‘special relationship’ – could things get darker still?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/11/us-uk-special-relationship-david-mccloskey-writer
#USforeignpolicy #USnews #CIA #DonaldTrump #Worldnews #UKnews #TheGuardian #RobertTaitinWashington
‘I’d wander through the park all angsty listening to Arctic Monkeys’: Arlo Parks’ honest playlist
By As told to Hannah Newton
The singer shamelessly blasts Lady Gaga in the car and is brought to tears by Portishead – but which song does she have to be careful listening to?
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/oct/11/arlo-parks-honest-playlist-prince-janet-jackson
#Music #Culture #ArloParks #Popandrock #RB #Prince #JanetJackson #TheGuardian #AstoldtoHannahNewton
‘Under tremendous strain’: CIA analyst turned spy novelist on a fraying US-UK alliance #TheGuardian https://twp.ai/E5HSmr
https://www.europesays.com/africa/467749/ Shemdoe forms team to monitor stalled TACTIC projects #IPP #IppMedia #IPPMedia #Nipashe #NipasheJumapili #Tanzania #TheGuardian
Missing Australian hiker Jordan Yap last seen on remote trail found dead in Peru
By Guardian staff
Family and friends say Melbourne man should be remembered for ‘immense joy he brought to so many people’s lives’
#Melbourne #Australianews #Peru #Americas #TheGuardian #Guardianstaff
A Trump impersonator and opera singers: CPAC was a spectacle, but the right still can’t agree how to take down Labor
By Josh Butler
Preferences proved the sticking point at the conference as conservatives face the prospect of a third successive election defeat
#OneNation #Australianpolitics #Australianews #Coalition #AngusTaylor #PaulineHanson #MatthewCanavan #BarnabyJoyce #TheGuardian #JoshButler
‘It was a terrible thing’: Panama declares state of emergency as quake aftershocks rattle communities
By Associated Press
More than 100 aftershocks as high as magnitude-5.8 recorded after two quakes toppled buildings and prompted evacuations
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/11/panama-eathquake-state-of-emergency
#Panama #Americas #Earthquakes #TheGuardian #AssociatedPress
The hill I will die on: Pumpkin-spiced latte is a con. It’s time to put an end to Big Autumn | Chloë Hamilton
By Chloë Hamilton
The aesthetic of crisp mornings and roaring fireplaces has created a personality driven by social media. Let’s just admit the reality: mud, drizzle and shorter days
Robbie Savage the panto villain puts scepticism aside to leave Leicester reeling
By Sam Cunningham at the King Power Stadium
Peterborough’s new boss has long been a divisive figure but a stunning win at struggling former club offered a glimpse of his fearless philosophy
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/oct/11/robbie-savage-peterborough-manager-leicester
#Peterborough #LeagueOne #Football #Sport #LeicesterCity #TheGuardian #SamCunninghamattheKingPowerStadium
South Africa v Australia: first men’s cricket Test, day three – live
By Rob Smyth (now) and James Wallace (later)
Follow updates from Kingsmead Cricket Ground
#Cricket #Australiacricketteam #SouthAfricacricketteam #Australiasport #Sport #Overbyoverreports #TheGuardian #RobSmyth #JamesWallacelater
Manchester City face hostile Liverpool reception after guilty verdict – matchday live
By Tom Bassam
News, discussion and buildup before today’s action
‘Halloweenmas’: how the spooky one-nighter turned into a month-long spectacular
By Zoe Wood
Welcome to Halloweenmas, weeks of themed fun and gifts – from costume parties to decorating trees – without the stress, rules or cost of Christmas
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/oct/11/halloween-from-one-night-to-month-long-celebration
#Retailindustry #Halloween #Shopsandshopping #Lifeandstyle #Business #UKnews #TheGuardian #ZoeWood
Manchester United and Spurs come back to reality as City saga offers brief distraction | John Brewin
By John Brewin at Old Trafford
Manchester City’s rule breaches have dominated headlines and shifted focus from both clubs’ self-inflicted wounds
#ManchesterUnited #TottenhamHotspur #Football #Sport #ManchesterCity #TheGuardian #JohnBrewinatOldTrafford
Animals and their people: country shows across the UK – in pictures
By Photographs by Irina Werning
Photographer Irina Werning, who grew up in rural Argentina surrounded by animals, has spent the summer photographing animals and their people at county and agricultural shows across the UK, from Essex and Kent to Surrey, Gloucestershire and Buckinghamshire, a project she began in Argentina.
#Photography #Animals #Horses #Farmanimals #Farming #Essex #Kent #Surrey #Gloucestershire #Buckinghamshire #England #UKnews #TheGuardian #PhotographsbyIrinaWerning
Healing waters: 10 of the best spa towns in Europe for a restorative autumn break
By Fiona Kerr
From Alpine valleys to belle époque towns, dip your toes in the therapeutic waters and steaming mineral pools at spa hotels offering centuries-old healing treatments
https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2026/oct/11/best-spa-towns-europe-autumn-wellbeing-holiday
#Spabreaks #Europeholidays #Travel #Citybreaks #Shortbreaks #TheGuardian #FionaKerr
Manchester-based composer creates requiem to honour enslaved Africans
By Aamna Mohdin Communty affairs correspondent
David Önaç uses insurance documents for work funded by Lloyd’s of London after research uncovered its slavery links
#Slavery #Culture #Heritage #Classicalmusic #Music #UKnews #TheGuardian #AamnaMohdinCommuntyaffairscorrespondent
‘You have a meeting’: the calendar phishing scam growing exponentially
By Hilary Osborne
Appointment or renewal reminder appears in victims’ calendar to lure them into logging in to fake Google, Microsoft or PayPal page
#Scams #Consumeraffairs #Money #Cybercrime #Dataandcomputersecurity #Internetsafety #Google #Technology #UKnews #USnews #TheGuardian #HilaryOsborne
‘We need less point scoring’: What party conference season taught us about UK climate action
By Fiona Harvey Environment editor
Tories plan to scrap low-carbon housebuilding, Greens back new nuclear reactors, and Labour put oil-drilling decisions on hold
#Politics #Conservatives #Greenparty #Labour #KemiBadenoch #ZackPolanski #AndyBurnham #Heatpumps #Constructionindustry #Housing #Solarpower #Householdbills #Society #Renewableenergy #UKnews #Environment #Consumeraffairs #Business #Energy #Money #Environmentpolicy #Conservativeconference2026 #Labourconference2026 #Climatecrisis #Greenbuilding #Energybills #TheGuardian #FionaHarveyEnvironmenteditor
‘Cockroach’ party leader released as Delhi braces for second day of protests
By Reuters
More than 2,000 people were reportedly detained on Saturday, prompting criticism of Modi’s ruling government
Ben Roberts-Smith attends Canberra event honouring Australian troops who served in Afghanistan
By Australian Associated Press
Anthony Albanese speaks at Australian War Memorial event commemorating 25th anniversary of country’s involvement in the conflict
#BenRobertsSmith #Canberra #Australianews #TheGuardian #AustralianAssociatedPress
TV tonight: David Tennant stars in a brutally brilliant prison drama
By Hollie Richardson, Phil Harrison, Priya Elan and Alexi Duggins
Jimmy McGovern’s incredible series Time returns. Plus: The Party is a moreish new thriller based on Elizabeth Day’s hit novel. Here’s what to watch this evening
#Televisionradio #Culture #TheGuardian #HollieRichardson #PhilHarrison #PriyaElan #AlexiDuggins
Two Carlton players treated in hospital after needing care for ‘separate circumstances’
By Ben Smee
Club issues brief statement about Lachie Cowan and Will Hayward, saying latter suffered minor cut to head after a fall
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/oct/11/two-carlton-players-treated-in-hospital-ntwnfb
#Carlton #Melbourne #Australianews #Victoria #Australiasport #AFL #TheGuardian #BenSmee
‘Stab to the heart’: arrest of German ex-spymaster sparks calls for reform
By Deborah Cole in Berlin
Claims that August Hanning exploited intelligence for private clients comes after other troubling espionage scandals
#Espionage #Germany #Worldnews #Europe #TheGuardian #DeborahColeinBerlin
Retrofit schools and consider moving exams to beat extreme heat, says teaching union leader
By Matthew Taylor
NEU’s Daniel Kebede says earlier start times and longer summer breaks may be needed to help pupils and teachers
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2026/oct/11/schools-exams-extreme-heat-neu-daniel-kebede
#Schools #Teaching #Tradeunions #Educationpolicy #Extremeheat #Education #UKnews #TheGuardian #MatthewTaylor
‘Restore the authority’: the challenge for the BBC’s new director of news
By Michael Savage Media editor
Rachel Jupp takes role as corporation grapples with digital transformation, a cash crisis and its public service role
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/oct/11/challenge-bbc-director-of-news-rachel-jupp
#BBC #Televisionindustry #Radioindustry #Media #UKnews #TheGuardian #MichaelSavageMediaeditor
Christian nationalism in Britain driven by people who seldom go to church, says report
By Aamna Mohdin Community affairs correspondent
Research challenges the notion that the growing visibility of crosses and other symbols reflects a revival of Christianity
#Christianity #Religion #Britishidentityandsociety #Racereligion #Farright #Islamophobia #Immigrationandasylum #Islam #UKnews #TheGuardian #AamnaMohdinCommunityaffairscorrespondent
My partner’s obnoxious conduct at our sons’ football matches is putting me off him | Annalisa Barbieri
By Annalisa Barbieri
His behaviour is certainly inappropriate, but take a quiet moment to try to find out where the anger is coming from
France’s other schools problem – the teens violently smashing up their old primaries: ‘They think it’s not worthy of respect – so they trash it’
By Phil Hoad
The phenomenon of pupils wrecking equipment and setting fire to classrooms predates the current crisis. Is it rooted in poverty, social media peer pressure – or just plain boredom?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/11/france-violent-attacks-trashings-schools-teenagers
#France #Schools #Education #Europe #Worldnews #Youngpeople #Children #Socialexclusion #Society #TheGuardian #PhilHoad
Indian Cafe Racer, Birmingham B5: ‘A good news tale for the local food scene’ – restaurant review
By Grace Dent
The cooking is sometimes bang on, sometimes a little slapdash, but then piques your interest all over again
Capital punishment is surging in the US – but after Christa Pike’s botched execution, what is its future?
By Ed Pilkington
Trump has used the full might of the presidency to supercharge executions, but an avalanche of mishaps has put the system’s flaws in the spotlight
https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2026/oct/11/executions-us-christa-pike
#ChristaPike #Capitalpunishment #USnews #TheGuardian #EdPilkington
Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor | Radical Thinking with Aditya Chakrabortty – podcast
By Presented by Aditya Chakrabortty with Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor, produced by Frankie Tobi and Luke Smith; the executive producers were Maz Ebtehaj, Kirsty Major and James Tindale
Are we really living through ‘end times fascism’? Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor think so.
#TheGuardian #PresentedbyAdityaChakraborttywithNaomiKlein #AstraTaylor #producedbyFrankieTobi #LukeSmith #theexecutiveproducerswereMazEbtehaj #KirstyMajor #JamesTindale
US justice department investigating TV networks over Trump pool coverage
By The Associated Press
Investigation launched after five broadcasters last month ceased presidential coverage after CNN, MS Now and Politico were barred from White House
#DonaldTrump #Trumpadministration #Media #ABC #CNN #MSNow #Fox #TheGuardian #TheAssociatedPress
Man narrowly escapes drone strike on playground in Kyiv – video
Video from the village of Sviatopetrivske in the Kyiv region captured a man walking along a street near a kindergarten moments before an apparent drone struck nearby, triggering a large explosion and sending debris and smoke into the air
Five people shot and killed in apparent murder-suicide, Georgia police say #TheGuardian https://twp.ai/E5HTSX
Nuclear war and malicious use of AI threaten end of humanity by 2100, says Lancet assessment
By Kat Lay
Newly established commission identifies 17 catastrophic threats to human health but says ‘realistic route to act’ on each exists
#Globalhealth #Globaldevelopment #AIartificialintelligence #Nuclearweapons #Climatecrisis #Worldnews #TheGuardian #KatLay
Despair after 200-year-old ‘grandmother’ tree toppled for Trump’s border wall: ‘It crushes your heart’ #TheGuardian https://twp.ai/E5HTGb
Man with gun kills one Philadelphia police officer and injures another #TheGuardian https://twp.ai/E5HTBP
US man shoots off-duty ICE agent who allegedly attacked him and daughter #TheGuardian https://twp.ai/E5HT7h
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See how The Guardian is gunning for Zack Polanski and the Greens?
Christa Pike out of hospital and back in prison after botched execution attempt #TheGuardian https://twp.ai/E5HSxJ
FDA may allow some toxic chemicals to be added to food without safety review
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/10/fda-toxic-chemicals-food-analysis
Nine people, including children, dead after mass shooting in Pennsylvania #TheGuardian https://twp.ai/E5HTtB
A replica of Donald Trump’s Oval Office goes for the gold in Washington DC #TheGuardian https://twp.ai/E5HTot
Ukraine hit by deadly Russian strikes as ‘thanks’ for Trump diesel deal, Zelenskyy says
By Oliver Holmes
Ukrainian president says money from fuel sales will intensify war as European leaders reiterate support for Kyiv
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/10/ukraine-russia-strikes-war-trump-diesel-deal-zelenskyy
#VolodymyrZelenskyy #Ukraine #Russia #Trumpadministration #DonaldTrump #VladimirPutin #USforeignpolicy #Europe #USnews #Worldnews #USpolitics #TheGuardian #OliverHolmes
‘People are leaving’: New York City’s EMS workers are struggling to make ends meet #TheGuardian https://twp.ai/E5HTiJ
United Auto Workers president Shawn Fain easily wins re-election #TheGuardian https://twp.ai/E5HTgI
LeBron James is everything Philadelphia wants. And everything it can’t stand | Bryan Armen Graham
By Bryan Armen Graham
The sports-mad city has embraced its new superstar, even as he choppers in from Manhattan and makes no secret of the fact that Philly was never his first choice
#LeBronJames #Philadelphia #Philadelphia76ers #PhiladelphiaEagles #Sport #USsports #NBA #Basketball #TheGuardian #BryanArmenGraham
Edge Control: the art exhibition using hidden camera images to explore race and beauty
By Morgan Jerkins
Artist Deana Lawson uses beauty supply store surveillance images to analyze power and personhood in her exhibition at the Gagosian in New York City
#Art #BlackUSculture #Race #Beauty #Surveillance #NewYork #USnews #Photography #Artanddesign #TheGuardian #MorganJerkins
Six men on how they plan to stand up against rape culture: ‘Boys need to be taught what is appropriate’ #TheGuardian https://twp.ai/E5HTa0
FDA may allow some toxic chemicals to be added to food without safety review. Experts are alarmed #TheGuardian https://twp.ai/E5HTa1
Riders stage safety protest before Giro di Lombardia: ‘We will not stand for this’
By AFP
Peloton’s Evenepoel highlights death of Finlay Tarling
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/oct/10/giro-di-lombardia-cycling-safety-protest-evenepoel
‘People are pissed’: union decries TSA’s removal of chairs for checkpoint staff #TheGuardian https://twp.ai/E5HTZ3
Marcy Kaptur: longest-serving congresswoman’s bid for another House term roiled by anti-trans ad #TheGuardian https://twp.ai/E5HTZ4
The more Putin escalates his attacks on Europe, the more Europe should support Ukraine | Timothy Garton Ash
By Timothy Garton Ash
Moscow’s imperialist strongman believes decadent European democracies can be cowed. Our job is to prove him wrong
#VladimirPutin #Ukraine #Russia #Germany #FriedrichMerz #Europe #Worldnews #TheGuardian #TimothyGartonAsh
Suicide memorial in Chicago signals compassionate shift by Catholic church #TheGuardian https://twp.ai/E5HTUw
Don’t rebuild the dam: Ukrainian experts urge Unesco to protect site uncovered by Russian sabotage
By Charlotte Higgins and Mariana Matveichuk in Khortytsia
As archaeologists find treasure trove along new floodplain, conservationists say another Nova Kakhovka would be ecocide
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/10/ukraine-unesco-great-meadow-dnipro-dont-rebuild-dam
#Ukraine #Europe #Conservation #Archaeology #Environment #Wetlands #Rivers #Heritage #Unesco #Culture #Russia #Worldnews #TheGuardian #CharlotteHiggins #MarianaMatveichukinKhortytsia
‘People forgot I existed’: Audrey Niffenegger on taking 14 years to write a sequel to The Time Traveler’s Wife
By Sophie McBain
Her debut made her a global star. Now she has finally written a follow-up – and this time, it’s political. She talks about impostor syndrome, screen adaptations and becoming radicalised
#AudreyNiffenegger #Fiction #Books #Culture #TheTimeTravelersWife #TheTimeTravelersWife #TheGuardian #SophieMcBain
"Zelenskyy furious as Trump announces deal to buy Russian diesel" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/09/trump-putin-russian-diesel-ukraine
If it wasn't clear before, now we know: #Trump is a pro-russia traitor. What are we going to do about it?!
‘Like a drill going into my eye’: why the mystery over Havana syndrome refuses to die #TheGuardian https://twp.ai/E5HUpw
France’s dilemma: protesters demand spending as markets require fiscal restraint
By Phillip Inman
Waves of protests expose debt crisis faced by French government, but political wrangling is stalling an escape plan. Is there a way out?
#France #Economics #Protest #Investing #Bonds #Business #Europe #Worldnews #EmmanuelMacron #Economicpolicy #EuropeanCentralBank #Financialcrisis #Governmentborrowing #Budgetdeficit #Marketturmoil #Euro #Eurozone #Globaleconomy #Banking #EuropeanUnion #Europeanbanks #Currencies #Stockmarkets #Euro #TheGuardian #PhillipInman