Author: The Guardian

A friend recently asked: “Do you think the United States will survive the anger of white men?” As blunt as the question is, the core element is not so far-fetched. In fact, the majority of white men (and women) who voted in the presidential election in 2024 have rallied around a man who has called for the “termination of the constitution”, vowed to be a “dictator”, and threatened to deploy the US military against Americans. They support a man who is a convicted felon, an adjudicated rapist, a proven liar, who has been fined nearly half a billion dollars for…

Democratic Rep. Ruben Gallego won the Arizona Senate race, becoming the first Latino to represent the state in the Senate, defeating far-right firebrand Kari Lake.Gallego will replace Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, a Democratic-turned-independent who ran for office as a centrist and charted a path for Democrats to win statewide elections in the right-leaning state, but then failed. has consistently stymied Democratic priorities in the Senate. She did not seek re-election.While the presidential race was neck-and-neck in polls throughout the election, Gallego polled a few percentage points ahead of Lake throughout the campaign, an unlikely outcome for a progressive congressman trying to…

To anyone else, Caesar would have seemed an ordinary goldfish, swimming in his orange, bug-eyed way around his tank. To me, though, he was immortal, thanks to one of those family stories that mean so much when you’re a child.Dad, a Methodist minister in Bradford, was about to leave for a church meeting when he realised that Caesar had propelled himself out of his water and on to the carpet, his orange colouring fading into the 70s brown pattern. Assuming that Caesar had swum to the great aquarium in the sky, my reverend father conducted the traditional fish funeral by…

The question I grew up in a household that was supportive and well-meaning, but lacking in any affection or warmth. I know my parents love me in their own way and that they are funny and kind under the coldness.I can demonstrate love and affection towards my own daughter, but I know I have inherited their traits in other ways. I have only a handful of people who I’m close to. I know my sense of humour and outlook can seem cold and sarcastic. I find small talk hard.My inability to feel at ease with people is really affecting my…

timeThe trailer for Netflix’s latest multi-million dollar project opens with dramatic drum beats, the sound of gloves slapping pads and a familiar Brooklyn drawl. “He’s a manufactured killer,” Mike Tyson said, with almost cartoonish relish. “I’m a born killer.”The camera then cuts to the man he will face in the early hours of Saturday UK time, influencer Jake Paul. “We’re going to war,” predicts Paul, who made his fortune filming pranks such as “I Crashed My Friend’s Car and Surprised Him with a New Car” before turning to the more lucrative field of boxing. “And he’s being eliminated.”Don’t forget that…

It’s a unicorn of a summer’s day in 2020; the kind that demands factor 50 and flip-flops. I’m being driven around my neighbourhood by my husband, Arlo, my hair pulled up off my neck and a cool can of something fizzy in my hand. My daily medication has kicked in: a serotonin reuptake inhibitor that I’ve taken for 15 years to ease my low-level anxiety. Without it, I’m no longer sure I can stay with this man I have loved for 12 years. I am mute and smiling passively.“There’s another one!” he points to the right. “At least it’s not…

At first glance, you might think it was its good old-fashioned period charm that convinced Lee Thornley to splash his cash on this 1650s double-fronted cottage in Poppleton, a tranquil village on the outskirts of York. However, it was more than good looks that persuaded Thornley, founder of the tile company Bert & May, and his partner, Phil Brocklebank, to make this their forever family home with their two daughters, Lyla, 14, and Iris, 11, plus dogs Tilly and Molly.“It ticked boxes that most houses don’t,” says Thornley. “The River Ouse is literally at the bottom of the garden, so it had the potential to…

When Lyndsey joined a dating app in 2021, she didn’t have high hopes. “I was a bit useless at these things,” she says. “I’d moved to Nottingham to work as a sociology and geography research fellow at Nottingham Trent University. After the lockdowns, I was keen to meet new people.” She soon matched with CJ, a journalist with “bright green hair and tattoos”.The pair started chatting online that autumn. “We talked about pronouns very early on as we both identify as non-binary,” says CJ. “We went for a drink and she was really easy to talk to. It was nice…

Donald Trump elected president of the United StatesDonald Trump has won the US presidential election, the Associated Press reports, with voters overlooking his divisive speeches, felony conviction and three separate criminal indictments to send the Republican former president back to the White House.The AP says he has reached the 270-electoral college vote threshold to return to office by winning Wisconsin.The extraordinary victory will make the 78-year-old New York real estate magnate only the second former president in US history to win the White House after previously losing re-election.He also becomes the oldest person ever elected to the presidency.Trump was first…

It was her wedding photographs that did for Grace Stewart’s dermal fillers. By the time the 32-year-old married her long-term partner in 2022, she had been getting fillers for three years – first in her jaw, in pursuit of “that snatched look”, and latterly in her lips, cheeks, nose and chin. One image in particular made her do a double-take: a side-on candid shot in which she is being swept up in a hug by a cousin. “It was this really lovely moment, but all you can see is my chin curling up and this bulky jaw,” says the Nottingham-based…