The Guardian Articles

The Guardian

Full Content
Back to Sites

At first, there seemed nothing to be afraid of. Joe Giardina, his wife, Evanna, and their 16-year-old son, Paul, were taking in the picture-perfect waters of Patong bay as they ate breakfast in their Phuket beachfront hotel on Boxing Day morning in 2004.

“We were admiring the view and all …

I missed the first one.

I only caught on after seeing posts about a mysterious golden toilet among the Northcote Plaza Appreciation Society Facebook page’s usual chat about the “good Coles”, the “shit Coles” and Frank the pigeon’s latest exploits.

Then a golden fan appeared and my fascination with Northcote’s …

This was the year that Gen Z had their ‘

Brat summer

’, or so we were led to believe.

Inspired by the hit album by pop sensation Charli xcx, the trend was seen to embody all the messiness of modern youth: trashy, chaotic and bright green.

But on …

As the clock runs out on 2024, news about the economy has not been so upbeat lately.

Should we brace for tougher times ahead, or perhaps the outlook is on the improve?

Jobs aplenty – for now

In the run-up to the election, the Albanese government will probably amp up …

Campaigners are urging Labour to lead the charge for global debt relief in 2025, as new analysis shows lower-income countries spent 15% of their revenue on repayments this year – the highest level for three decades.

Calculations by the charity Debt Justice, based on data from the World Bank, show …

The former head of

Nato

, Jens Stoltenberg, has been named the new co-chair of the influential

Bilderberg

Group, which convenes a yearly transatlantic policy conference and has long been the subject of conspiracy theories around the extent of its power to shape global events.

After a …

There have been many renewals of the King George VI Chase in recent years which revolved around a clear market leader but there is no obvious starting point for weighing up this year’s race at Kempton on Thursday, as nine of the 11 runners already have at least one Grade …

The time has come once more for me to present my “Braddies”, a strictly personal awards list for films getting a UK release in the calendar year just gone – quite distinct from the Guardian’s collegiate best-of-year critics’ poll.

It’s been 12 months in which the big-worry issue refuses …

Maye Musk is a busy woman. As well as being the mother of the world’s richest man, she has been jetting between various glamorous events – many of them in China. In December alone, she attended a gala dinner in Hangzhou, walked the red carpet for a cosmetics company in …

Lucy Powrie was 15 years old when she first read

Anne Brontë

’s 1847 novel Agnes Grey and instantly, intensely, fell in love. “There was just this moment of, I suppose, feeling like I’d come home. I’d found something that was just better than anything I had ever …

AI Model Selection

Avg. Response: 10.0s

Llama3.2:1b

Meta
Default
Size: 1B
Success Rate: 100.0%

Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct-GGUF

Meta
Size: 1B
Success Rate: 100.0%
All models run locally on our servers. Response times may vary based on server load.