14 h. ago Green Man 2025 review: all the good bits of Glastonbury in one perfect space

An intimate festival with a stellar lineup, you’ll struggle to find a better festival than Green Man tucked away in the scenic Bannau Brycheiniog

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18 h. ago Royal secrets behind the State Opening of Parliament, from the late Queen's trick for wearing the heavy crown jewels to the poignant moment Charles filled in for his mother

During her 70-year reign, Queen Elizabeth II presided over every State Opening of Parliament, bar three. She faced the task of reading out planned government business while wearing her crown.

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36 h. ago Green Man 2025 review – CMAT has her crowning moment in a weekend full of highlights

Festival set in the Brecon Beacons achieves that nebulous, indefinable intersection where people, music and nature coalesce

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44 h. ago Photo highlights as Players' Weekend returns with custom bats and cleats supporting charities

Players’ Weekend returns this season, with hitters showcasing individuality through custom bat designs, while also supporting charities. Along with the bats, players can use personalized cleats and other creative flourishes.

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4 d. ago In the Green Heart by Richard Lloyd Parry review – neocolonial jungle fever

An intensely political story of a new father’s escape with his baby through a rainforest during wartimeRichard Lloyd Parry, a longtime foreign correspondent whose experiences of war and regime change are recorded in his remarkable 2005 memoir In the Time of Madness, can be said to know whereof he speaks. Many of that book’s issues, including the psychic damage he incurred from events he witnessed in Indonesia, East Timor and Afghanistan in the 1990s and early 2000s, are reinflected in this, his first novel.Kit and Lara live in a remote village in the deep rainforest. She works for a small, undependably financed NGO. He’s a stay-at-home husband, living for their baby daughter Helen. While Lara presents as impulsive yet practical and barely able to contain her own energy, Kit is dreamy, internalised, exhibiting a calmness that falls easily into dissociation. “This is your life,” she shouts at him shortly before they leave the UK, “a day of your life, and it requires your presence.” He...

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7 d. ago Green Man Festival: Resale ticket window extended for the sold

Now you can leave it to almost the last moment to get a ticket to Green Man Festival 2025.

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1 week ago If the Greens in Germany move towards the centre, they can become a real force again | Katja Hoyer

Four years ago, the party was the most popular in the country – but old rifts have fractured it. Now the time is ripe for a resetThe German Green party, Die Grünen, was once the envy of its sister movements across Europe. In the spring of 2021 it was the most popular party in the country, with a predicted vote share of close to 30%. The world’s press even began to ask whether the next chancellor would be Green. Fast-forward four years and you find a party in crisis: divided, out of power and stagnating at just above 10% in the polls after losing 33 seats in February’s federal election. The party is now searching for a path back to the mainstream – not a moment too soon given the rapid erosion of Germany’s political centre.One of the Greens’ key problems is personnel. At their peak in 2021 they had two lead figures in Annalena Baerbock and Robert Habeck, who were widely regarded as pragmatists – a prerequisite for effective government in Germany’s compromise-oriented system. After th...

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1 week ago As temperatures soar, it’s time to close the green space gap

While urban greening can help mitigate extreme heat, such spaces are not distributed equitablyIt has been a summer of heatwaves in western Europe, with record highs of 46C (115F) in Spain and Portugal.An estimated 2,300 people died of heat-related causes across 12 European cities in June, according to a rapid scientific analysis, with two-thirds of those deaths linked to climate breakdown, which has made heatwaves more severe. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Moment Love Island 2025 winners crowned after eight weeks of drama

Watch the moment Love Island's 2025 winners were crowned in a live ceremony on Monday, 4 August.

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2 w. ago The Guardian view on the green transition: renewables are the future – but countries’ actions must catch up with their promises | Editorial

To counter attacks on net zero, challenges including the need for grid upgrades will have to be graspedWith net zero policies under attack from elected far-right populists as well as autocratic petrostates, and another summer of record-breaking temperatures in Europe, the failure to decarbonise the world’s power supply is as gravely concerning as ever. But the UN secretary general, António Guterres, struck an optimistic note in a recent speech in New York. The world, he said, “is on the cusp of a new era The sun is rising on a clean energy age.” Pointing to falls in the cost of onshore wind and solar, and the risk of further gas-price shocks in future, he called on big technology companies – whose datacentres are one reason for soaring energy use – to adopt a target of 100% low-carbon electricity by 2030.Given US president Donald Trump’s personal hostility to renewable energy, Mr Guterres may be right that it makes more sense to demand action from US businesses at this point. In Sco...

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