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Developer seeks to cash out of investment in John Nash-designed mansion with views of Regent’s ParkDevelopers have stuck an asking price of £185m on a house overlooking Regent’s Park in central London in what would be the…

The old Tory exhortation won’t get manufacturing back on its feet if there’s no investment in jobs we need for the futureI recently spent a weekday afternoon in the centre of Bristol, chasing the small comforts of retail…

Demonstrators allied to Evo Morales say authorities are using Covid-19 to delay voteDemonstrators in Bolivia have dynamited Andean passes, scattered boulders across highways and dug trenches along rural roads to protest against repeated…

Lap-by-lap coverage of the fifth race of the seasonFrom Moss to Button: seven epic races over seven decadesGet in touch with John via email or @JohnBrewin_ 1.19pm BST Bit of pre-race controversy with the Racing Point team penalised 15…

UK’s B4 level not recognised by the Paralympic movementKarina Lang and Adam Knott call for more inclusive approachVisually impaired athletes say they are being left in limbo by a classification system that means many who are…

(Acony)Spare yet perfectly formed, these discarded demos from Welch and David Rawlings – with more to come – offer riches galoreFans of Gillian Welch and her longtime foil David Rawlings’s reimagining of early country and…

With ‘don’t kill granny’ warnings and talk of an over-50s lockdown, there are fears unity is fraying in the UKCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageOn a Saturday evening in mid-July, Michael…

Official measure to be declared this week as coronavirus lockdown shrinks GDP by 21% in second quarterBritain’s economy will be officially declared in recession this week for the first time since the 2008 financial crisis, as the…

Gomes will head on loan to Boavista for the 2020-21 seasonPhil Jones ruled out of Europa League squad with knee injuryFormer Manchester United youngster Angel Gomes has completed a move to Lille but will spend next season on loan with…

Designed for practicality, the Speedo has delighted and dismayed in equal measure. Now the swimwear classics are back in fashion – but would you dare?Back in the 1950s, the lifeguards of Bondi Beach, Sydney, were not only charged with…

Donmar Warehouse, LondonJosé Saramago’s timely, sinister story of a world in chaos reopens the theatre after lockdown and is narrated with savage rage by Juliet StevensonAfter four months in darkness, the Donmar Warehouse has…

Contact tracing must improve to prevent resurgence in England, say care chief and top scientistCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageOne of the government’s most influential scientific advisers is warning…

Shareholder payout to stay despite 73% fall in quarterly profits due to impact of Covid-19Saudi Arabia’s state-owned oil giant still plans to pay $75bn (£57bn) to its shareholders this year even as the impact of the coronavirus…

Li’s novel tracing the roots of a daughter’s tragic death has hard-nosed insights but sometimes lacks momentumSeven months after Yiyun Li published her 2017 memoir of suicidal depression, Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You…

There are shades of Lynne Ramsay in writer-director Eva Riley’s lyrical feature debut, about a teenage gymnast’s battle with griefFifteen-year-old Leigh (Frankie Box) has channelled her grief over her mother’s death into…

The king of New York’s downtown restaurant scene has survived a stroke and coronavirus but is not optimistic about the health of his industryKeith McNally, 69, has created more than a dozen magnetic restaurants. In New York, where he…

Contemporary meets historic in a towering design achievement on the Norfolk coastI remember the first time we saw this place, it looked terrible,” says Julian Vogel, owner of a restored 18th-century lighthouse in Winterton-on-Sea,…

Leading cartoonists share exclusive artwork to help us get through the pandemic – and other disasters – with humourStaff cartoonist with the Times Literary Supplement. Lives in London Continue reading... Leading cartoonists…

The coordinator of the White House coronavirus taskforce built her reputation fighting Aids but is she compromising it by indulging the president’s whims?Months of frustration with Donald Trump’s denial of the coronavirus crisis…

Music tycoon and entertainer having surgery but his spokeswoman says he is ‘doing fine’ Simon Cowell is having surgery after breaking his back while testing out an electric bike in California, it emerged on Sunday.The…

Serve the fruits of summer’s bounty with a bit of crunchI had come back from the shops with fruit: gooseberries for a crumble-topped cake, cherries to eat with a log of Scottish goat’s milk cheese and a paper bag of passionfruit…

Donations to support the president’s re-election have flooded in from a fossil fuel industry that has enjoyed three years of energy deregulation and tax cutsIn mid-June the oil pipeline billionaire Kelcy Warren hosted a fundraising…

Inspirational figures are hard to find, but perhaps the Daily Mail columnist Sarah Vine could be one of them...Two dozen young people, their hair unkempt, their face masks filthy, stood on the rolling route of the Ridgeway at Overton,…

Depicted as a warmonger, the future PM had a very modern dislike of media criticism, reveals new bookIt is one of the earliest examples of a politician accusing the media of fake news. And it illustrates that, despite having been a…

(Sub Pop) He’s a master of mood and melody, but a more pop-facing Ernest Greene needs to let rip a littleCraftsmanship can be underrated. We want musicians to be unfettered geniuses with lightning at their fingertips, not digital…

Suburbs are becoming more progressive, valuing diversity, and Trump is promoting a caricature of what they really are, strategists saySpeaking on a hot, windy afternoon during a visit to the fracking fields of west Texas last month, Donald…

A superbly stylish Anaïs Nin adaptation promises welcome escapism. Elsewhere, Cuba 60 years on and a sobering look at the realities of everyday British racismLittle Birds (Sky Atlantic) | sky.comCuba: Castro vs the World (BBC Two) |…

An unexpected journey from celebrity interviewer to single mother is never less than candid and funnyJournalist Sophie Heawood has written columns about life as a single mother and her memoir, The Hungover Games, provides the backstory.…

The explosion that devastated the city was no accident and anger is boiling overMy eyes fly open and the horror is already there. The full range of it: what happened, and how, and who is responsible. It’s 4am. My heart is pounding so fast I…

Inspired by the author’s unconventional love life, thousands of men and women wrote to ask for her advice on sex and sexuality, hidden correspondence revealsShe was the feminist icon made famous by her 1949 seminal treatise, The…

The failure to suspend the Tory MP accused of rape is a mark of dire Commons’ standardsWith Johnsonism no longer a matter for speculation but ever more clearly definable as an expression of the prime minister’s needs and…

There are three secrets, one of them is all about being lazy…We all have our gardening heroes, and for me it is without a doubt Dr DG Hessayon. He’s the author of the best-selling “Expert” series of gardening books…

The decision 75 years ago to use atomic bombs was fuelled not by strategy but by sheer inhumanity“If we’d lost the war, we’d all have been prosecuted as war criminals.” So said Curtis LeMay after America obliterated…

As Beirut mourns its dead after last week’s explosion, foreign meddling has plunged the entire region into chaosThe huge explosion that destroyed much of central Beirut is a daunting metaphor for the perils facing failing Middle East…

This is one fight we can all do without right nowSometimes your past leaves you poorly equipped for the present: mine has left me intensely conflict-averse. I grew up in frictionless harmony with my single mother, later joined by my…

Seth Rogen stars as both a modern Jewish New Yorker and his miraculously revived great-grandfather in this affable fish-out-of-water tale The British food writer and fermentation expert Thom Eagle writes that “crunch, heat – but…

A pitch-black outback noir; a missing teenager and her devious friends; the return of SJ Watson; and a tale of India’s first female detective The HuntedGabriel BergmoserFaber, £8.99, pp288Gabriel Bergmoser’s short,…

Two prominent ‘lukewarmers’ take climate science denial to another level, offering tepid manifestos at bestIt is no longer credible to deny that the average temperature around the world is rising and that other phenomena, such…

The president thinks that as long as they buoy the stock market, they’re helping the US economy – and that’s pure rubbishSince the start of the pandemic, American billionaires have been cleaning up. As more than 50 million…

In a dramatically unequal society, a one-off wealth tax provides a clear and decisive route to balancing the Treasury’s booksEven before the coronavirus pandemic struck, the divisions between the super-rich and the rest of society…

Rhythm, humour and politics of verse give young people a voice, says poet. Making it optional at GCSE is a mistakeI was a bit of a troublemaker in secondary school. I got sent to “time out” for busying myself with trying to make…

#IwanttoseeNyome outcry after social media platform repeatedly removes pictures of Nyome Nicholas-WilliamsFifteen minutes into her shoot with model Nyome Nicholas-Williams, photographer Alexandra Cameron knew she had captured the perfect…

One of the country’s leading publishers says his latest venture will give a voice to those hit hardest by the economic slumpCarlo De Benedetti, the former owner of La Repubblica, one of Italy’s biggest daily newspapers, is no…

Survey sparks concern over misconceptions about vaccines and scepticism about science Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageOnly half the population of Britain definitely would accept being vaccinated against…

As schools around the world prepare to reopen, new scientific evidence about children and coronavirus is coming to lightCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageBack in April, the French epidemiologist Arnaud…

Young people have been hugely affected by Covid-19. We must fight this rise in cases and make classrooms as safe as possible• Coronavirus latest updates• See all our coronavirus coverageRebound, resurgence, second wave –…

Alcohol and Drug Foundation says one in 10 people report consuming more than 10 standard drinks per weekDownload the free Guardian app to get the most important news notificationsCoronavirus Australia maps and cases: live numbers and…

US nears milestone as Trump extends jobless aid; NZ warns against complacency; Australia records deadliest day of pandemic to dateCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe US is nearing the grim milestone of 5…

Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, who is challenging incumbent Alexander Lukashenko in Sunday’s vote, fled her home after police detained staffers Belarus’s opposition candidate for president went into hiding the night before challenging…

As the black stuff burnt in the UK plummets to a level not seen since the early steam age, we trace its long, deep history and the problems left in its wakeBritain achieved an unlikely status as a power provider last year. Its annual…