24 h. ago Paedo scoutmaster who spent 27 years on the run found 'living in Thailand paradise' by AI

Justice has finally caught up with a predator, Richard Burrows after a computer software programme searched billions of photos to track the sicko pensioner down in Thailand

Politics

6 d. ago I sold my house in the UK to travel around Europe with my children after years spent juggling two jobs, I now live in paradise for a fraction of the price

Josh and Steph, and their two children Isaac and Amaia, sold their house in Lancashire in November 2024 - and packed up their entire lives into two suitcases.

Society

1 week ago Former Real Madrid and Liverpool star reveals health scare and thanks doctors for 'saving his life'

A former Liverpool and Real Madrid star has opened up on a health battle that left him 'scared to death'. The former player suffered a pulmonary embolism.

Society

2 w. ago Insanely beautiful island is sizzling 29C in April with cheap £2 beers

With golden beaches, £2 beers and dreamy 29C heat, Thailand’s Koh Phi Phi Don is a paradise escape where natural beauty, culture and nightlife collide

Economics

2 w. ago ‘Charisma in abundance’: why Just Act Normal is the best showcase for new talent since Adolescence

Incredible newcomers! Chickens! Jamelia! The casting director of Stephen Graham’s Netflix smash hit has done it again with this hilariously bleak, utterly unique series. The cast open upOver the last few years, we have found ourselves inundated with sadcoms. Again and again, we’ve been deluged by ostensible comedies that are so concerned with grief and trauma that the laughs end up feeling like a distant afterthought. Striking the right balance between comedy and drama takes absurd levels of effort and craft at the best of times. Doing it with a premise as bleak as BBC Three’s new series Just Act Normal is almost impossible.My hands are tied with embargos, so I have to be vague about certain plot details, but Just Act Normal is a show about three young siblings who decide to struggle on as normal after their mother – a perennially unreliable woman with substance abuse issues – disappears. Their lives are suddenly spent trying to navigate the complex systems of the adult world while ...

Culture

3 w. ago Virgil van Dijk drops huge Liverpool contract hint with 'progress' message

Despite heading to a record-equalling 20th league title, Liverpool fans have spent much of the season fearing the Reds could lose one of the best defenders in Premier League history for free

Politics

4 w. ago My life in class limbo: am I working class or insufferably bourgeois?

I have two degrees, two books to my name and I write for the Guardian. Yet I spent time in care, live at home and struggle for money. Can Karl Marx help me make sense of myself?I have been obsessed with and confused by social class all my life. Both of my grandparents grew up in Liverpool in the 1930s in traditionally working-class households. They were clever and conscientious and managed to earn scholarships to university, eventually becoming teachers. My parents have university degrees and own property; one of them is now a judge. To most people, all these things place me squarely and categorically in the middle class. But I was in special educational schools from the age of nine, spent part of my childhood in care, left education altogether at 14 and collected the dole until getting my first job in a cotton mill. All these things make me a dyed-in-the-wool prole.And yet I have two degrees, I have written two books and I freelance for the Guardian – you can’t get m...

Politics