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Patrick Barclay, who has died aged 77, was among the very best football writers of the last half-century. And as an all-round communicator on the game he was even nearer the pinnacle.
He spent 20 years on the Guardian and was shaped by this newspaper, and another six close to …
Loving the British Museum, pots and all | Letters
I would guess that Adrian Chiles is no fan of The Great Pottery Throw Down, currently on Channel 4 (
At 57, I went to the British Museum for the first time – and it left me rather cold, 12 February
). Not only is he missing out on …‘You don’t see the trauma until suddenly you do’: Lockerbie bombing’s lasting impact on a ‘normal little town’
At the end of a row of tidy red brick bungalows in the Scottish town of Lockerbie is an empty plot, carefully landscaped now as a memorial garden. Two red tartan ribbons, tied on a leafless branch perhaps in private remembrance, flutter in a wintry gust.
Eleven of the street’s …
‘The snake fell out of my wig’: why Judi Dench lost her voice when playing Cleopatra
Wriggly creatures have always scared Judi Dench. “I’m a person who is frightened of a worm because one jumped inside my sandal when I was a little girl, and we couldn’t get it out,” she said.
of …How Kieran Culkin came out of his brother’s shadow to become a mercurial, Bafta-nominated king of sarcasm
‘I’m an actor, not a mouthpiece’: Jonathan Bailey
The actor Jonathan Bailey sits at a large table in an otherwise empty room: charcoal cable knit sweater, loose pinstripe trousers, hair neatly coiffed. He is chewing gum, sipping coffee, talking through his recent career, and a certain serendipity that has rendered him reflective. At 36, he’s fresh from his …
Unrivaled’s 1-on-1 tournament was everything the NBA All-Star Game wants to be
To paraphrase a Nobel laureate on the perennial crises
facing another form of live entertainment
, the NBA All-Star Game is an institution that has been dying for 70 years but has yet to succumb. The complaints are persistent,well-documented
, and mainly attributed to a single factor: …Last chance to enter! The 2025 Observer/ Anthony Burgess prize for arts journalism closes soon
Are you a budding culture reviewer? Do you come out of a new show or finish the last page of a book and itch to open your laptop and set down your thoughts about why you so enjoyed – or detested – it?
The deadline – 28 February – is …
‘They may be Russian some day’: was this the week that changed the war in Ukraine?
Volodymyr Zelenskyy has had some tough weeks in the past three years, but this past one may be up there with the worst of them.
an hour-long interview with the
Guardian
at his Kyiv offices
, the Ukrainian president was in a …Keely Hodgkinson shows her Klassic formula can inspire new generation
After winning an Olympic 800m gold medal and the BBC’s Sports Personality of the Year award, Keely Hodgkinson set herself a bold new challenge: getting a whole new generation of fans into track and field.
Foolish? Brave? Or visionary? The sceptics and gatekeepers certainly had their doubts. But the sight …