13 h. ago The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox review – Unusually bubbly drama offers no closure

Eight-part series about one of the 21st century’s most overtold stories serves only to deepen the voyeuristic mythology around its subject

Events

49 h. ago Recommendations must be implemented after three Scots died in train derailment

"Rail crashes may be rare in 21st - century Scotland, but that is no excuse to allow vigilance to drop."

Events

5 d. ago The Guide #203: Has Hollywood rediscover ed the joy of the 90

In this week’s newsletter: Once notorious for testing audience endurance, modern blockbusters seem to be trimming the fat , from superhero sagas t o comedic classicsWalking out of a 6.30pm showing of The Naked Gun a couple of weeks ago I was greeted by an unfamiliar sight: daylight. Had I gone to see the film in the upper reaches of the northern hemisphere, where daylight is near-permanent in the summer months? No I was in Leicester Square – a different kind of barren wasteland than the Arctic tundra – and there was another reason for the brightness: The Naked Gun was only 1hr 25m long.Very few modern films – aside from those of the child-friendly variety – clock in at less than 90 minutes, but even so The Naked Gun doesn’t feel a total outlier. In fact, of the last three blockbusters I’ve seen at the cinema, only one – Superman – went beyond the two hour mark, and only by 10 minutes. The other, The Fantastic Four: First Steps, was 1hr 54m, relatively svelte for a 21st-century super...

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9 d. ago A refreshed West London house balances its history with a series of 21st

A refreshed West London house balances its history with a series of 21st-century interventions  wallpaper.com

Culture

1 week ago Love Island's Emma reveals plans for £50k prize money if ex Harry wins

The Casa Amor bombshell has shared her hopes for the shiny cash prize.

Economics

1 week ago Love Island winner reveals heartwarming way he 'splurged' £50,000 prize money

With the Love Island 2025 final set to air Monday, here's how a past winner spent his share of the prize.

Economics

3 w. ago Girlguides give Hostess badge gender neutral makeover with it now called Celebrations

The rollout of 72 new badges has been introduced amid a major modernisation drive that will represent 'modern life in the 21st century'.

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3 w. ago Drayton and Mackenzie: Men, love and money in the 21st century

Novels that dip into the lives of their characters every few years risk them seeming detached from the world or clumsily inserted into historical events. Drayton and Mackenzie, Alexander Starritt’s third novel about two mismatched friends, enters into their lives at intervals, and falls into neither of those traps.

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3 w. ago Usyk defeats Dubois to become undisputed heavyweight champion once more

Ukrainian adds IBF belt to WBA, WBC and WBO titlesDubois suffers second defeat to Usyk in two yearsThe mighty Oleksandr Usyk is, yet again, the undisputed heavyweight champion of the world as he decisively defeated Daniel Dubois in the fifth round after a display as clinical as it was brutal. At the age of 38, Usyk outclassed and outfought his British rival, who is 11 years his junior, to establish himself definitively as the best heavyweight, so far, of the 21st century.The end was as conclusive as it was crushing. A sharp combination set up an opening for Usyk’s crunching right hook. Dubois crumpled to the canvas then, bravely, he rose unsteadily to his feet. But the outcome had already been decided. Usyk moved in with shark-like speed and stealth. A shuddering overhead left detonated against the already listing head of Dubois who fell heavily to the canvas, his gumshield spitting helplessly from his mouth. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago The Guide #200: Get Out, Breaking Bad and the pop culture that defined the 21st century so far

In this week’s newsletter: To celebrate the Guide’s 200th edition, we look back at the films, shows, albums and more that mattered most over the last 25 yearsThe Guide is 200 issues old today – maybe not the biggest milestone, but one worth marking. So this week we’re doing just that, ending our recent miniseries on the culture of the past 25 years with a listicle spectacular.We’ve picked a piece of popular culture for each year of the 21st century so far. Which isn’t to say a definitive list of the best culture of the 21st century – the Guardian’s arts desk already did that far more conclusively than we ever could. Instead, we’ve selected 21st-century TV shows, films, plays, podcasts, artworks, albums and games that together hopefully help explain how culture has evolved in that time. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago ‘People lashed out because she wasn’t a guy’: Linkin Park on nu

After the death of lead vocalist Chester Bennington in 2017, the rap-rock icons have reformed, aiming to cultivate ‘good vibes’ for a new generation of fans. Mike Shinoda and Emily Armstrong discuss backlash and rebirthIt’s been almost 25 years since Linkin Park released their debut album, Hybrid Theory. An irresistible fusion of metal, hip-hop, electronica, industrial rock and infectious pop melody, it established the Californian sextet as instant nu-metal icons and laid the groundwork for the group to become, by many metrics, the biggest US rock band of this millennium: Hybrid Theory ended up the bestselling album of 2001; its follow-up, Meteora, would also go on to rank as one of the bestselling albums of the 21st century.It’s been just 36 hours, however, since the band played their biggest headline gig to date, at a steamy and rapturous Wembley stadium. Outside, it’s still scorching, but in an icily air-conditioned hotel overlooking the Thames, Linkin Park’s co-founder, co-vocal...

Politics

4 w. ago BRYONY GORDON: We must stop falling for Instagram and the influencers with their fake lives. It will make you feel nothing but despair

In hundreds of years time, when people gather to discuss the decline of early 21st century society and the various cultural moments that led to it, I really hope that they remember to include this.

Society

4 w. ago Girls gone bad: Lena Dunham’s Too Much is just not good enough

The creator of the seminal HBO hit has followed up with an underbaked Netflix background watch, a crushing disappointment for her ardent fanbaseThere is one TV show that has been enjoyed most often, and most reliably, among my cohort in New York: Girls, the seminal HBO dramedy about Brooklyn’s downwardly mobile and highly self-important creative class of the 2010s. Though a cultural lightning rod when it aired from 2012 until 2017 – its whiteness, convincing narcissism, frank sexuality and frequent nudity all catnip for the cresting blogosphere and cyclical moral panic – Girls has rightfully settled into its status as one of the best television series of the 21st century, a foundational text for millennials as well as a biting satire of solipsistic, Obama-era striving. (Although viewers too young to remember it as anything other than canon now see the girls’ flailing – their freedom to wear terrible prints, listen to Vampire Weekend and be earnest – as something to be envied rather ...

Politics

4 w. ago ITV Love Island fans beg producers for 'whole new cast' as more couples split

Love Island fans fume "give the money charity" as yet more couples go their separate ways

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