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Political tensions are redoubling Canada’s great hockey anxiety
As usual, Canadians approached the latest international hockey tournament, the 4 Nations Face-Off, with worry. Despite top-tier talent and historic winning pedigree, the feeling that Canada could be off its game is a perennial concern. But in 2025, it is particularly profound – mostly because of the Americans.
Since the …
‘There has been an awakening’: ancient sects on the rise in Modi’s India
They sat quietly together on the banks of the Ganges river, heads bowed in sombre meditation. Some men were naked, their bodies smeared grey with ash. Others had a simple saffron cloth tied around their waist. Nearby, barbers balanced on their haunches, shaving the head of each man clean with …
Most of UK’s big build-to-rent developers owned by foreign private equity firms
One of the UK’s fastest growing property markets is dominated by corporate landlords focused on providing homes for couples and singles, excluding many families with children, according to a thinktank report.
constructs one in five new homes – including almost 30% of new …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 …
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: …‘Winning, losing, I wasn’t fussed’ – Adrian Lewis on quitting darts and hopes for a comeback
“The thing with darts,” explains Adrian Lewis, “is you have to be in a happy place. It was for me, anyway. When you’re up, everything’s free, everything’s flowing. You don’t feel like you’ve got a burden on yourself.”
And when Lewis was free, when the darts flowed from his hand …
‘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 …Hoop dreams in peril as British basketball’s crisis reaches boiling point
From an outsider’s perspective, British basketball has never had it so good. It is firmly established as the second most popular participation team sport in the country with more than 1.5 million people playing at least twice a month. In December 2024 the sport received a combined £4,475,000 in two …
Rubio expected to push Trump plan to displace Palestinians from Gaza on trip to Israel
The US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, will discuss the Gaza ceasefire with Israel’s prime minister in Jerusalem, launching a Middle East tour a day after
the latest hostage-prisoner exchange
.On his first visit to the region as Washington’s top diplomat, Rubio is expected to push the …
Trump has left a void that the EU and Britain must fill together | William Keegan
In July 1817, Lord Amherst, the leader of a British delegation to China, stopped on his return journey at Saint Helena and met the exiled Napoleon Bonaparte.
Napoleon had seldom been out of the news, but Amherst himself was also in the news for having pointedly refused to kowtow when …