The Guardian Articles

Nathan Aspinall probably thinks he just took part in a game of darts. And look, his name was definitely on the scoreboard, and you may have glimpsed him on your television grinning away in the background, and in a few days’ time there will be a hefty bank transfer from …

The Swiss socialite and cosmetic surgery aficionado Jocelyne Wildenstein, sometimes known as “Catwoman” due to her extensive plastic surgery, has died, her partner said on Wednesday.

“It is with heavy heart and with great sadness that Mr Lloyd Klein announces the unexpected death of his beloved fiancée and longtime companion, …

A woman who went missing 52 years ago has been found alive and well after police released a grainy photograph as part of an appeal, solving one of Britain’s longest-running missing person cases.

Sheila Fox, now 68, disappeared from

Coventry

Twenty people are missing after falling into the sea from a tilting boat after it started to take in water in rough seas about 20 miles off the coast of Libya, according to survivors.

Carrying 27 passengers, the six-metre boat had left Zuwara in Libya, about 571 nautical miles from …

They call 1 January the greatest day in the darting calendar. Come back in another 364 days to see if there’s been a better match than this. Michael van Gerwen is a world championship semi-finalist again, beating Callan Rydz 5-3, and even if the bare facts of the transaction feel …

Sean Ingle’s suggestion of holding the Olympics every two years is an interesting one (

Paris Olympics were great, so why not hold summer Games every two years?, 30 December

Tracy-Ann Oberman is right to highlight the importance of the battle of Cable Street in the history of the working-class movement (

The battle of Cable Street is entwined in my family’s history – and its message of hope still resonates, 28 December

Prof Geoffrey Hinton claims “we’re going to develop AIs that are smarter than people. And that’s a very scary thought” (

‘Godfather of AI’ shortens odds of the technology wiping out humanity over next 30 years, 27 December

A healthy democracy depends on people participating in it. In the UK, the proportion of people doing so is falling. Voter turnout in general elections stayed above 70% from 1945 through to 1997, hitting more than 80% in 1950 and 1951. But it collapsed to 59.4% when Tony Blair won …

UK elections are “close to a tipping point” where they lose legitimacy because of plummeting voter turnout among renters and non-graduates, an influential thinktank has said.

Analysis by the Institute for Public Policy Studies (IPPR) found that the gap in turnout between those with and without university degrees grew …