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Chas Newkey-BurdenThe Guardian |
It was a few moments before the whistle blew on the opening match of the 2006 World Cup when a text message arrived from a colleague. ‘Well, here...
Sometime around the pandemic years, I began to notice that when friends called to catch up, alongside the customary news about careers, marriages,...
We saw rather more of Andy Burnham’s legs than most of us might have wished when he was photographed out jogging in Warrington last week. Clad in...
We saw rather more of Andy Burnham’s legs than most of us might have wished when he was photographed out jogging in Warrington last week. Clad in...
When I was in my teens and twenties, older people told me that they were exhausted just watching how I lived my life. I careered through my youth in...
There were howls of disbelief when the former captain of Chelsea FC, John Terry, replied “100% yes” to a social media post by Rupert Lowe calling...
I’m one of those gobby vegans who will happily tell anyone why they should stop consuming animal products. But I can still admit what’s obviously...
A farmer in Derbyshire is going to make his cows uglier to try and deter modern agricultural impostors. These impostors are...
When I was a child, I always wanted to watch television during supper, but my dad wasn’t keen. He preferred family conversation and as...
Over the past few months, I’ve been training for the London Marathon, so most weekends I’ve been out running more than 20 miles at a...
Like many good ideas, the London marathon was conceived over a drink in a pub. Inspired by their experience running the New York marathon in 1979, two...
Nigel Farage’s social media posts from his visit to Ipswich Town’s football ground have caused exactly the sort of meltdown you’d expect. The...
Life is riddled with things that impersonate something in a hideously disappointing way: the regret of Pepsi, the affront of the rail replacement bus,...
France is holding local elections and the candidates are falling over themselves to appeal to a peculiar demographic: dog lovers. A candidate in the...
A broken-down washing machine is generally regarded as definitely a Bad Thing. There is the expense and hassle of repairing or replacing the...
Norwich has known some beef in its time: from the Kett’s Rebellion against land enclosures in 1549, to the Great Blow during the English Civil War....