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‘There is no secret agenda’: Nara Smith on home-making absolutely everything, raising four kids at 25 – and why she’s definitely not a tradwife
Nara Smith is not a tradwife, she wants you to know that. Nor is she an ex-tradwife – pace the New York Times who included her in a feature on how ex-tradwives are as popular a movement now as the tradwives were in the first place. Nor was she peddling a tradwife-adjacent lifestyle choice by marrying at 18, having four children by 24, and devoting hours to cooking and documenting it online. Nor is she Mormon, by the way.
Ireland will be united, says Gordon Brown
Now One person has been taken to hospital to be treated for smoke inhalation following an arson attack in Coalisland, in County Tyrone. Police said they received a report of a house fire in Ballynakilly Road at about 01:40 BST on Saturday. They added that officers attended the incident alongside …
Ireland will be united, says Gordon Brown
The former prime minister Gordon Brown has said it is inevitable that Ireland will become united at some point in the future, in a wide-ranging interview with the Guardian. While he added that any union would necessarily be “a long process” and based on mutual agreement, Brown's comments are notable both because of his vehement opposition to Scottish independence, but also because of his involvement in government in efforts to bring peace to Northern Ireland.
‘I don’t want to be a backseat driver’: Gordon Brown on Burnham, billionaires – and his vision for a better Britain
It’s a Monday in August and as England burns in dystopian heat, Gordon Brown and I are in his office at the top of his house in North Queensferry, overlooking the moody waters of the Firth of Forth. It’s hard to recall the top of my own sauna-like house in London as we stand here in the cool, wearing wool suits and necessary socks, my coat slung over the back of a chair. “I was watching Raith Rovers – the local football team – on Saturday,” Brown says, “and it was really cold.
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“Creía que iba a salvar el planeta”: la actriz de ‘Game of Thrones’ que se unió a una secta de bienestar y perdió la cabeza
Al menos una vez a la semana, Hannah Murray tiene un pensamiento abrumador: “¡Gracias a Dios que ya no actúo!”. Puede estar subiendo las escaleras con una taza en la mano, o sentada en su escritorio abriendo la notebook, sacando una cazuela del horno o paseando por la calle principal del pueblo del este de Inglaterra, donde vive ahora. El pensamiento llega acompañado de lo que ella describe como una especie de alivio físico total.
“Creía que iba a salvar el planeta”: cómo una actriz de ‘Juego de Tronos’ se unió a una secta de bienestar y perdió la cabeza
Al menos una vez a la semana, Hannah Murray tiene un pensamiento abrumador: “¡Gracias a Dios que ya no actúo!”. Puede estar subiendo las escaleras con una taza en la mano, o sentada en su escritorio abriendo el ordenador, sacando una cazuela del horno o paseando por la calle principal del pueblo del este de Inglaterra, donde vive ahora. El pensamiento llega acompañado de lo que ella describe como una especie de alivio físico total.
‘I thought I was the saviour of the planet’: how Game of Thrones’ Hannah Murray found a wellness cult – and lost her mind
Hannah Murray, photographed in London last month. Photograph: Chantel King/The Guardian At least once a week, Hannah Murray has this one overpowering thought: “Thank God I don’t act any more.” She might be climbing her stairs, mug in hand, or at her desk opening her computer, she might be taking a casserole from the oven, or browsing the high street in the East Anglian town where she now lives. The thought will arrive along with what she describes as a sort of total bodily relief.
Joseph Fiennes on parenting, politics and banning children from social media: ‘Stand up, Keir, this is your kids’ generation’
Photograph: Felicity McCabe/The Guardian. Top: Studio Nicholson. Jeans: John Lewis. Socks: Falke. Trainers: Onitsuka TigerPhotograph: Felicity McCabe/The Guardian (Photograph: Felicity McCabe/The Guardian) We are at a corner table in a breakfast place in Chelsea, Joseph Fiennes opposite me on the banquette with his jack russell, Noa. “Dog duty,” he says, apologetic. Noa looks at me, brown eyes also apologetic. They’ve been in Hyde Park, he says, he lost track, didn’t have time to take her home.
Foreign secretary Yvette Cooper: ‘Making decisions based on what the US do or say doesn't feel like sensible foreign policy'
Charlotte Edwardes Before Yvette Cooper joins me in a plush side room at the Foreign Office, an aide comes in and draws the heavy curtains. Outside is Horse Guards Parade. I can see a strip of Downing Street, a patch of the No 10 garden, daffodils in bloom. I say that it's a shame to block the light on such a beautiful spring afternoon. The aide coughs, embarrassed, and explains that it's actually for security. So that people can't see in? “Um, no.
‘Would you like me to cry now?’: Louis Theroux on the manosphere, marriage and misunderstandings
Charlotte Edwardes Sat, March 7, 2026 at 6:00 a.m. UTC 27 min read Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Theroux: ‘The truth comes out. I have to watch myself.’Photograph: Pip/Netflix (Photograph: Pip/Netflix) On the pavement outside the Netflix office, I stand in the rain, confused. Was that interview a little off?
‘True activism has to cost you something’: Bridgerton’s Nicola Coughlan on politics, paparazzi and parasocial fandom
Nicola Coughlan: ‘I can’t throw away my moral conscience.’ Photograph: Rosaline Shahnavaz/The Guardian. Dress and tie: The Frankie Shop. Tights: Heist. Shoes: GiaborghiniPhotograph: Rosaline Shahnavaz/The Guardian Back in 2008, when Nicola Coughlan was at drama school, a guy in her class swaggered over and, with all the brimming confidence of young men in the noughties, asked her, “Do the Irish think the English are really cool?” Coughlan, born in Galway, mimes processing the question.
‘America is British’. Heaven is ‘a socialist state’. David Attenborough is ‘anti-human’ - the startling theories of Reform MP Danny Kruger
What I struggle to understand, I say to Danny Kruger in his office at Reform UK HQ, is why a serious Conservative, with a glittering future like yours, would defect to a party led by Nigel Farage? Indeed, the defection of Kruger, a heavy-weight on the Conservative right who served on the front bench and been tipped as a possible future leader, was seen as a major coup for Reform, catching commentators off-guard.
five tumultuous weeks with David Lammy, foreign secretary at a time of crisis
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David Lammy and JD Vance bonded over ‘dysfunctional’ childhoods – and a Diet Coke
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‘The world is on edge’: five tumultuous weeks with David Lammy, foreign secretary at a time of crisis
“Remind me: why weren’t we able to meet in Washington DC?” David Lammy asks, spoon of Pret chicken laksa suspended in front of his mouth. It’s lunchtime in the foreign secretary’s office, a vast room of gilt edges, damask drapery and waxed oak. “Because Israel bombed Iran, and your trip was cancelled,” I say. “Oh, yes.” He scrapes the bottom of the pot, perhaps remembering the snap Cobra session on 13 June, the world holding its breath, the shared feeling we were on the brink of global war.
David Lammy and JD Vance bonded over ‘dysfunctional’ childhoods - and a Diet Coke
David Lammy has spoken of his friendship with the US vice-president, JD Vance, as the pair can relate over their “dysfunctional” working-class childhoods. In a series of interviews with the Guardian, conducted over several weeks, the foreign secretary opened up about a “wonderful hour and a half” spent with Vance over drinks at the US embassy in Italy in May alongside the deputy prime minister, Angela Rayner.
‘If men couldn’t have sex with me, they didn’t know what to do with me’: Alanis Morissette on addiction, midlife liberation and the predatory 90s
Photograph: Shelby Duncan Alanis Morissette asks which version of her I wish to hear from: “The hormonal bitch who has a lot to say? The people-pleasing, kind, amenable part? They’re all here.” It’s 9am in sunny Los Angeles and the Canadian-born singer-songwriter is wearing a slouchy top, her wavy hair loose. She’s long been aware of these different “parts”, that her life is full of contradiction.
‘Cancel culture? We should stop it. End of story’: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on backlash, writer’s block – and her new baby twins
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‘Sometimes it’s fabulous, sometimes it’s Lord of the Flies’: behind the scenes of The White Lotus season three
Imagine a hospital room: in the bed is a cheerful man, white hair in aTintin quiff. His eyes are Swedish blue, his lashes a fine blond fan. He has a nebuliser strapped to his face, he’s taking deep breaths so that the steroid can loosen the bronchitis that has seized his chest. Outside is the northern Thai city of Chiang Mai and beyond, hills of tropical rainforest. But our patient is focused inward, mind ablaze. He is watching scenes unfold – a hotel, flame-lit, characters in frenzied dialogue.
Rami Malek on rebellion, racism, and still feeling like an outsider: ‘I’m white passing, but growing up in LA, we definitely didn’t fit in’
Coat, suit, top and boots, all Gucci, gucci.com. Styling: Helen Seamons.Photograph: Hollie Fernando/The Guardian Rami Malek, in one graceful sweep, lifts the food delivery bags from an assistant and holds open the door of the photographic studio. He showers the room with greetings, asking names, responding to questions: he’s doing good, thanks; his Thanksgiving was good, thanks, his partner (actor Emma Corrin) threw a surprise dinner for him, trimmings and all, and he was blown away.
‘We can be violent to ourselves. Brutal’: Demi Moore on body image, reinvention and her most shocking role yet
I first catch sight of Demi Moore crouching on the floor in a hotel corridor, coal-black hair fanned across her back. She’s talking in a peeping high voice, which is confusing: Moore’s husky pitch is her trademark. What I can’t see until I’m close are the tiny dogs she’s playing with. When I say tiny, Moore’s chihuahua, Pilaf, is a thing unimaginable until you see her. Thimble small. How-is-that-even-a- dog small.
‘I’m starting to doubt everything’: Emma Corrin on Diana, being a Marvel villain, and an existential crisis
Dress, by Molly Goddard; earrings, by Cartier. Styling: Ali & Aniko. Hair: Daniel Martin. Makeup: Gina Kane at Caren using SkinCeuticals. Set design: George Lewin. Photograph: Christina Ebenezer/The Guardian Emma Corrin asks if I’m familiar with the concept of the Saturn return, the theory that in our late 20s we experience a period of transition, of personal growth, a shift that marks the giant step into adulthood. I’ve heard of it, I say.
‘You asked me questions I’ve never asked myself’: Keir Starmer’s most personal interview yet
Keir Starmer: ‘I’m not trying to be goody two-shoes.’ Photograph: Harry Borden/The Guardian What about a quick-fire round, I say to Keir Starmer , who is pushed for time on the campaign trail, a few snapshots to help glimpse the man likely to be PM? Starmer is nodding. He’s keen to be helpful, keen to be a sport, although a little unsure of this magazine profile business and the need to talk about feelings .
‘Dismissing global warming? That was a joke’: Jeremy Clarkson on fury, farming and why he’s a changed man
Jeremy Clarkson on his farm: ‘It’s difficult to know where contrary starts and ends, really.’ Photograph: Harry Borden/The Guardian “Are you happy?” I ask Jeremy Clarkson. A few times on Clarkson’s Farm, you said were happy. His thick eyebrows seem low, like storm clouds gathering. “I said that in season one, episode one,” he replies. “And I meant it then. Lockdown was a blessed relief. You thought: no one’s inviting me out, I don’t have to go anywhere.
Weekend podcast: the extraordinary story of the biggest art fraud in American history, plus Zoe Williams on Liz Truss
Hosted by Savannah Ayoade-Greaves; written by Zoe Williams and Charlotte Edwardes; narrated by Laura Shavin and Joe Layton; produced by Rachel Porter; executive shaper Ellie Bury Zoe Williams explores nan top enigma of modern politics: Liz Truss’ aforesaid belief (1m15s), and Charlotte Edwardes delves into nan bonzer wrong communicative of nan biggest creation fraud successful American history (5m53s) How to perceive to podcasts: everything you request to know The Guardian is editorially...
‘The money is not real - it’s a feckless level of wealth’: the inside story of the biggest art fraud in American history
Orlando Whitfield is a youngish man, shy, with a reddish beard. His hands are aggressively tattooed, as if they’d been laid, backs down, on wet newspaper. The ink is a form of armour, he says, like his pranking brand of humour (for a while his iCloud hotspot was “Lord Lucan’s iPhone”). But he’s earnest, too, quick to draw on a literary quotation. Today he has arrived at lunch apologetic and soaked through, having been caught on his bike in a downpour.
Sam Taylor-Johnson on art, age gaps and Amy Winehouse: ‘Filming sucked me to a place I didn’t know how to get out of’
Sam Taylor-Johnson, photographed in London in February this year. Photograph: Linda Brownlee/The Guardian Director Sam Taylor-Johnson’s most famous image back when she was Sam Taylor-Wood, the talented Young British Artist, was a self-portrait standing in a black suit holding a rigid upwards-pointing hare. Hares appeared in her work elsewhere and it is a cornered hare, ready to dart any second, that comes to mind as I sit opposite her now.
Angela Rayner on roots, rough edges and being ready for power: ‘You can’t go through the childhood I had and not have any fallout’
Angela Rayner’s office in Westminster is part walk-in wardrobe, part sixth form common room. An inflatable karaoke mic is attached to a bust of Keir Hardie by the fireplace; glitter shoes line the fleur de lis carpet. There are iced doughnuts, a crystal pint glass, a grinning photo of two freckled schoolboys. I’m reminded of that 2022 craze, “bring your whole self to work”. Labour’s deputy leader – Ange, as she refers to herself – is at the centre, arms raised in greeting like a cheer.
Gary Lineker says he received threats after Israeli sports ban retweet
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Gary Lineker says he received threats after Israeli sports ban retweet
Gary Lineker has said he received threats after he retweeted then deleted a post by the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel that called for Israel to be banned from international sporting events, including football. A source has said he misread the post as a statement saying that the ban had been enacted. Of the ensuing furore, the Match of the Day presenter said he had received threats. “But it’s not about me.
Gary Lineker says he received threats after Israeli sports ban retweet
Gary Lineker has said he received threats after he retweeted then deleted a post by the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel that called for Israel to be banned from international sporting events, including football. A source has said he misread the post as a statement saying that the ban had been enacted. Of the ensuing furore, the Match of the Day presenter said he had received threats. “But it’s not about me.
Gary Lineker says he received threats after Israeli sports ban retweet
Gary Lineker has said he received threats after he retweeted then deleted a post by the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel that called for Israel to be banned from international sporting events, including football. A source has said he misread the post as a statement saying that the ban had been enacted. Of the ensuing furore, the Match of the Day presenter said he had received threats. “But it’s not about me.
‘If you don’t want to have sex, it’s not like the relationship’s over’: Abbey Clancy and Peter Crouch get personal
Abbey Clancy likes to joke that she and her husband, ex-England striker Peter Crouch, have “the footballer’s four” when it comes to children, “like Beckham and Rooney”. They have two girls, Sophia, 12, and Liberty, nine, and two boys, Johnny, five, and Jack, four.
Richard Osman ‘tapped on the shoulder’ at Cambridge by M16 – but failed the test
Richard Osman received the “tap on the shoulder” from MI6 while he was a student at Cambridge University and interviewed for a role as a spy, he has revealed. In an interview with the Guardian, the television presenter and crime fiction author said he was not able to develop a career in the secret services, however, because he failed the “fun” tests he was set and – in any case – would have been an awful spy.
Trinny Woodall: ‘I didn’t stop caring when I turned 50 - I stopped worrying’
Trinny Woodall is wearing all white – white suit, white waistcoat, white mesh platforms – and not just any old white, but white-white, as she calls it in her Instagram chats, the brightest, bleachiest white on the spectrum. She is scoffing a flaky croissant, which arrived with a square of soft yellow butter and a huge dollop of red-red jam.
Cillian Murphy. Aktor, który zagrał Oppenheimera
Aktor metodyczny jako fizyk teoretyczny? Cillian Murphy o swojej tytułowej roli w „Oppenheimerze” Christophera Nolana. Cillian Murphy niewiele może powiedzieć o swojej tytułowej roli w ostatnim filmie Christophera Nolana „Oppenheimer”. Dostał jasną instrukcję, by nie zdradzać nikomu treści, dopóki obraz nie wejdzie do kin. Nienawidzi wywiadów, wyraźnie widać, że to dla niego prawdziwa tortura. Ale odpręża się, kiedy pytam, czy jest zadowolony z „Oppenheimera”. – Tak, jestem – odpowiada.
Cillian Murphy on Oppenheimer, sex scenes and self-doubt: ‘I’m stubborn and lacking in confidence - a terrible combination’
Cillian Murphy is struggling with what he can and can’t say about his title role in Oppenheimer, the latest Christopher Nolan epic, such is the secrecy surrounding this film. Murphy is under “strict instructions” not to talk about the content. Which is awkward when you’ve flown to his home in Ireland to interview him specifically about playing the physicist who oversaw the creation of the atomic bomb, later detonated over Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It’s not clear who issued these instructions. Nolan?
Alex Scott on love, Lineker and standing up for LGBTQ+ rights
As a child, Alex Scott gathered her Winnie-the-Pooh teddies on her bed. “Am I going to be all right?” she asked them. She loved her teddies, told them about her day, cuddled them for comfort. Eeyore had particular resonance. Something about the way the manufacturers had captured the character’s woe in his downcast expression allowed her to look at him and feel the true depth of his sadness. She imagined the story behind it.
‘I used to say awful things’: Alan Carr on divorce, dating and the skit that haunts him
Alan Carr, plate in left hand, cutlery in right, is perusing the lunch spread. He’s starving. Absolutely starving. We’re in a big echoing loft with wood floors and he’s talking to his team as if they are all on stage and I – sitting in the corner – am the audience. He wants to know why one of them is picking bits out of her salad. He doesn’t accept that she’s allergic to coriander. Whoever heard of being allergic to coriander? He lays off to discuss someone he met recently, a Love Island contestant.
‘So many people don’t believe anything - only what makes them money’: Ruth Wilson on being a Hollywood outsider
Ruth Wilson hitches the skin by her ears to demonstrate how she’d look if she had “those little wires” sewn into her face, by which she means a thread lift. “Just that would make the world of difference,” she says. She is 41 and “everyone” around her talks about Botox “and what to fill their face with”. This is not in response to any question of mine. This is Ruth Wilson freewheeling on how confusing she finds the notion of “female empowerment” in 2023. “As an actress, everyone does it.
‘Men my age aren’t good on their own. They’re needy’: Lesley Manville on being happily single and her big problem with Hollywood
Before meeting Lesley Manville, I watch a preview of Citadel, the new Amazon spy thriller in which she stars alongside Richard Madden , Priyanka Chopra and Stanley Tucci . It’s glossy, supercharged, high-body-count, fights-to-the-death-in-speeding-train-lavatories TV. Punches have squelch sound effects. Hitmen are covered in blood splatter. Chopra is tossed about like a rag doll. Manville’s scenes are sedate by comparison.
‘Men my age aren’t good on their own. They’re needy’: Lesley Manville on being happily single and her big problem with Hollywood
The song that Dave Grohl called “the most beautiful piece of music ever written” Dave Grohl is about as popular as chocolate; there are a measly few people out there that claim to loathe him, but much like the beloved …
‘If I’d had a therapist, do you think any of this would have happened?’: Pamela Anderson on being chewed up and spat out by fame
Right before Covid hit, Pamela Anderson was returning home to Canada from Marseille in the south of France. Not just any old place in Canada, but Ladysmith on Vancouver Island and the white clapboard house where she grew up. “Scene of the crime” she calls it. In France she’d been living with footballer Adil Rami for a year, but she’d had her heart broken. He wasn’t just explosively jealous, she learned, but still in a relationship with a woman with whom he had children.
Who Owns the Rosetta Stone?
Egypt is demanding that the Rosetta Stone, a 2,000-year-old relic and one of the British Museum's most important exhibits, should be returned to Cairo. The stone, which became the key to deciphering ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics, was found by Napoleon's army in 1799 in the Nile delta, but has been in Britain for the past 200 years. It forms the centrepiece of the British Museum's Egyptology collection and is seen by millions of visitors each year.
Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi: ‘Demand’s increased - we’re trying to meet it’
Driving it: Uber’s Dara Khosrowshahi in London this week (Daniel Hambury/Stella Pictures Ltd) Every few weeks, Dara Khosrowshahi, chief executive of Uber, a company valued at $85 billion (£63 billion), changes out of his office suit and into “a vest and sweats”, clips on a helmet, swings himself onto an e-bike and goes out delivering UberEats in San Francisco. I assume this is for a photo opp, or a chance to spy on staff, but no.
THE BIG READ | Game of Thrones’ Kit Harington on sobering up, settling down and becoming a dad
Having been sober for over two years, Kit Harington says marriage and fatherhood are now central to his life. (PHOTO: Gallo Images/Getty Images) Since laying down his sword in Game of Thrones, Kit Harington has continued to fight battles. The actor opens up about beating alcohol addiction and depression – and surviving the first fatiguing months of fatherhood. He had no idea how demanding it is being a parent – until he became one himself.
Kit Harington, "Tras Juego de Tronos llegué a sentirme una mala persona. Y pensé que no había salida"
Cada día, al despertar a su bebé de ocho meses, Kit Harington (Acton, 1986) llama a su madre para darle las gracias. «No puedo creer que diera por sentada todo lo que hicieron mis padres. Miro a nuestro hijo y pienso: «¡Nunca recibiré la gratitud que merezco por cambiarte los pañales y cuidarte!». El bebé (ni él ni su esposa, la actriz Rose Leslie, desean hacer público su nombre) nació en enero. La paternidad y el matrimonio son fundamentales en su nueva vida.
THE BIG READ | Comedian Billy Connolly on how Parkinson’s disease has forced him to come to terms with death
Billy Connolly announced his retirement last year. (Photo: Gallo Images/Getty Images) Billy Connolly doesn’t mince his words. “I’m having a bit of a sad time,” the comedian admits when I ask how he is. “Nothing’s working.” His shoulder twitches in a shrug. This is the effect of Parkinson’s disease and “happens every now and again”, he says. He’s tried a range of alternative treatments, including cannabis, “but I get bombed out of my head. And I don’t like it. My daughter bought me cigarettes with CBD.
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