In Mark Blake’s excellent forthcoming book about the history of Fleetwood Mac, Dreams, there is a great quote from Mick Fleetwood. Their co-founder is looking back at the band’s history and bluntly summarising the almost perpetual state of turmoil in which it seems to have found itself. “This band,” he notes, “is a cauldron of … Read more
The IOC is facing calls for an investigation into how a convicted child rapist has been allowed to compete at Paris 2024, on the eve of the opening of the Games. Amid growing public outrage at the presence of the Netherlands beach volleyball player Steven van de Velde, who was convicted of raping a British … Read more
It’s hard to know where to start if you are a brand new government taking on a mega-survey of risk and potential emergencies in the UK. Beyond the Covid-19 pandemic, the challenges are many. I am an adviser in UK emergency planning and have worked on almost every disaster involving British citizens since 2001, including … Read more
Almost two-thirds of British jobs could be “enhanced” with AI, Google has claimed, with only a tiny proportion at risk of being “phased out” entirely. Instead of worrying about job losses caused by AI, the focus needed to be on making sure the millions of Britons who could work in smarter and faster ways with … Read more
Hot air wafted through the heavy, gold-lined doors of a Las Vegas casino as they opened, offering a reminder of a disaster quietly unfolding outside. Even though the sun had just set on an evening in mid-July, temperatures were yet to dip below 100F (37C). Spawned from a paved-over oasis in the Mojave, this desert … Read more
The Republican party of the United States remains the party of denying women fundamental human rights. The US press as a whole remains the instrument of softening up or ignoring this reality. “Trump has long been criticized for his public treatment of women,” ran a CNN headline. “The ones in his life argue he’s different … Read more
Jemia Keshwani, 40, in LaGrange, Georgia. Keshwani is recovering from gangrene in her foot due to living with untreated type 2 diabetes. Photograph: Dustin Chambers/The Guardian After her right foot became infected and riddled with gangrene last summer, Jemia Keshwani, 40, was terrified that it would need to be amputated. Keshwani is a former warehouse … Read more
Opening summary Hello and welcome to the Guardian’s live coverage of the Israel-Gaza war and the wider Middle East crisis. After delivering a fiery speech to the US Congress that was boycotted by dozens of Democratic lawmakers, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu is set to hold meetings with US president Joe Biden and his vice-president, … Read more
Passports recovered from battlefields in Sudan suggest the United Arab Emirates is covertly putting boots on the ground in the country’s devastating civil war, according to leaked documents. A 41-page document, sent to the UN security council and seen by the Guardian, contains images of Emirati passports allegedly found in Sudan and linked to soldiers … Read more
For Jessica Sierra, presidential elections this weekend will not only decide who will run Venezuela for the next six years. Like many of the almost 8 million Venezuelans scattered across the globe, they could also dictate whether she can finally return home and be reunited with her family. “My parents, my grandparents, uncles, aunties, my … Read more