5 h. ago Inside Nostradamus' chilling 2025 end of year predictions as prophet hints at 'silent' fall of the West

The writings of famed French astrologer Nostradamus warned of global upheaval for the end of 2025, including what could be a devastating asteroid or atomic bomb falling from the sky.

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7 h. ago EFG London Jazz Festival 2025: an insider's guide to all the hottest shows

No need to improvise your plans when our jazz critic Jane Cornwell has hand picked the 12 hottest tickets to book

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16 h. ago The Uncool by Cameron Crowe review – inside rock’s wildest decade

From shadowing a cocaine-addled David Bowie to winning over Joni Mitchell, deliciously readable tales from the director of Almost FamousCameron Crowe spent his youth being in the right place at the right time. In 1964, aged seven, he was taken by his mother to see “a kid named Bob Dylan” play a local college gym. By the age of 14, living in San Diego, he was writing record reviews for a local underground magazine whose main aim was to bring down Richard Nixon. Shortly after that, he started interviewing the bands of the day as they came through California – first Humble Pie for Creem, and then the Eagles, the Allman Brothers Band and Led Zeppelin for Rolling Stone.Crowe previously fictionalised his story in the 2000 film Almost Famous, which he wrote and directed. His lyrical and compulsively readable memoir The Uncool is bookended by the opening of a musical version, which coincides with the death of Crowe’s mother Alice whose aphorisms, including “Put some goodness in the world be...

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35 h. ago Inside the Republican network behind big soda’s bid to pit Maga against Maha

A Guardian investigation finds the US soda and snack-food industries, threatened by RFK Jr’s movement to change Americans’ eating habits, have turned to a group of well-connected strategists, shadowy pollsters and ‘anti-woke’ influencersMajor US soft-drink and snack-food corporations are waging a coordinated campaign that aims to pit Donald Trump’s Maga faithful against Robert F Kennedy Jr’s Make America Healthy Again movement, a Guardian investigation in partnership with environmental watchdog Fieldnotes has found. Their goal is to stymie the Maha-led effort to curb Americans’ consumption of soda and ultra-processed foods.To carry out the plan, the companies have turned to a partially formalized network of for-hire pollsters, strategists and political financiers with deep ties to the national Republican party – several of whom have taken steps that obscure their connection to the effort and to one another. In the process, the industry has also been aided less directly by a loose co...

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5 d. ago Next’s beauty advent calendars look ‘better than ever’ for 2025, here’s what’s inside

There are nearly £600 worth of savings up for grabs

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5 d. ago ‘You are constantly told you are evil’: inside the lives of diagnosed narcissists

Few psychiatric conditions are as stigmatised or as misunderstood as narcissistic personality disorder. Here’s how it can damage careers and relationships – even before prejudice takes its tollThere are times when Jay Spring believes he is “the greatest person on planet Earth”. The 22-year-old from Los Angeles is a diagnosed narcissist, and in his most grandiose moments, “it can get really delusional”, he says. “You are on cloud nine and you’re like, ‘Everyone’s going to know that I’m better than them I’ll do great things for the world’.”For Spring, these periods of self-aggrandisement are generally followed by a “crash”, when he feels emotional and embarrassed by his behaviour, and is particularly vulnerable to criticism from others. He came to suspect that he may have narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) after researching his symptoms online – and was eventually diagnosed by a professional. But he doesn’t think he would have accepted the diagnosis had he not already come to the...

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7 d. ago Inside aviation's 'deadliest year': Experts reveal what has caused a succession of aircraft disasters in 2025

In December, 179 people were killed when a passenger plane landing in South Korea skidded off the runway at Muan International Airport. It began a succession of air disasters in 2025.

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8 d. ago The plastic inside us: how microplastics may be reshaping our bodies and minds

The particles are in our blood, brains and guts – and scientists are only beginning to learn what they doMicroplastics have been found almost everywhere: in blood, placentas, lungs – even the human brain. One study estimated our cerebral organs alone may contain 5g of the stuff, or roughly a teaspoon. If true, plastic isn’t just wrapped around our food or woven into our clothes: it is lodged deep inside us.Now, researchers suspect these particles may also be meddling with our gut microbes. When Dr Christian Pacher-Deutsch at the University of Graz in Austria exposed gut bacteria from five healthy volunteers to five common microplastics, the bacterial populations shifted – along with the chemicals they produced. Some of these changes mirrored patterns linked to depression and colorectal cancer. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Inside the multimillion pound Distillers One of One auction 2025

The 2025 Distillers One of One charity auction took place on 10 October and was a fun-filled day of big money bids, finds Rosalind Erskine.

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1 week ago Inside a parents’ group chat about raising kids in violent times

The Guardian’s parenting WhatsApp group discusses the recent spate of school shootings and political violence – and how they explain it to their kids“I have been emotionally at my wit’s end with the violence.”Gabriela Rangel is a glass dispatch coordinator in California City, California, and mother to a five-year-old. Like many parents across the nation, she was horrified to learn about the 27 August shooting at a Catholic school in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Two children were killed and 17 other people were injured. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Inside a US parents’ group chat about raising kids in violent times

The Guardian’s parenting WhatsApp group discusses the recent spate of school shootings and political violence – and how they explain it to their kids“I have been emotionally at my wit’s end with the violence.”Gabriela Rangel is a glass dispatch coordinator in California City, California, and mother to a five-year-old. Like many parents across the nation, she was horrified to learn about the 27 August shooting at a Catholic school in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Two children were killed and 17 other people were injured. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror review – insiders’ account of cult musical 50 years on

Stars including Richard O’Brien, Susan Sarandon and Tim Curry line up to recount the endearing origin story of the perennial crowdpleaserNot to be confused with the unauthorised, warts-and-all fan history Sane Inside Insanity: The Phenomenon of Rocky Horror, this is an insider’s account all the way, starring the stage-show-turned-cult-film’s writer and co-star Richard O’Brien. Heck, it’s even directed by O’Brien’s son, Linus O’Brien, a fact you couldn’t really miss given interviewees frequently allude cosily to Richard as “your dad”. Given its provenance, it’s no surprise that no one here says, as they do in the rival documentary, that the 1975 film adaptation is a “shitty fucking movie” – but nevertheless there’s honesty on display, mostly about the slapdash origins of the project and the later mistakes made, including the huge flop when the original stage production tried to transfer from Los Angeles to Broadway.But even the most diehard Rocky Horror sceptic would have to concede ...

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2 w. ago Popular Scottish jazz and blues music festival returns for 20th year this weekend

The Callander Jazz and Blues Festival will see music lovers flock to the Scottish town this weekend for four days of live music.

Culture

2 w. ago Coronation Street fans spot 'emotional' Lisa Swain 'full circle' moment as star given major boost

It comes after Vicky Myers was revealed to have picked up two gongs at the 2025 Inside Soap Awards

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2 w. ago Emmerdale's Lydia Dingle star wows with glamorous look at Inside Soap Awards 2025

A number of Emmerdale stars attended the Inside Soap Awards 2025 on Monday night

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2 w. ago Emmerdale's Lydia Dingle star looks worlds away from character at Inside Soap Awards 2025

Emmerdale picked up several awards at the Inside Soap Awards 2025 on Monday night

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2 w. ago Coronation Street issues 'chuffed' message as fans rush to respond to major update

Some of the stars of the ITV soap were out for a good time on Monday night at the 2025 Inside Soap Awards

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2 w. ago Coronation Street's Seb Franklin actor now as he reunites with co

Coronation Street star Harry Visinoni, who played Seb Franklin on the ITV soap, looked worlds away from his character at the Inside Soap Awards 2025 on Monday night

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2 w. ago Coronation Street's Seb Franklin star looks unrecognisable at Inside Soap Awards 2025

Coronation Street's Seb Franklin star Harry Visinoni reunited with his former co-stars at the Inside Soap Awards 2025

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3 w. ago Inside Soap Awards winners as Coronation Street wins major gong for second year in a row

Coronation Street won the top gong at the 2025 Inside Soap awards, claiming best soap for the second year in a row, as some of our favourite soap stars dazzled on the red carpet

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