Azeem Rafiq on racism, cricket and why he had to leave Britain: ‘I never started this to be popular’
Azeem Rafiq has barely touched a cricket ball since he last played professionally five years ago. That’s why the recent picture of him leaving the field is so striking. Leaner and fitter than he’s ever been, the 33-year-old strides towards…
Confused Coalition stance on 2030 emissions target risks ‘chasing away’ investment, Albanese says
The prime minister, Anthony Albanese, has accused Peter Dutton of being “afraid of the future” and risking “chasing away” investment in clean energy in Australia, after the opposition leader confirmed the Coalition will not set a 2030 emissions reduction target…
Crime and thrillers of the month – review
A thriller plot line is barely needed in Will Dean’s The Chamber (Hodder & Stoughton); the real-life terrors of the world he describes are enough to have any even vaguely claustrophobic heart racing. Dean, the author of the excellent Tuva…
‘Worse than Scott Morrison’: Albanese on Dutton’s climate 2030 target renege – video
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World’s top banks ‘greenwashing their role in destruction of the Amazon’
Five of the world’s biggest banks are “greenwashing” their role in the destruction of the Amazon, according to a report that indicates that their environmental and social guidelines fail to cover more than 70% of the rainforest. The institutions are…
Scaffolding by Lauren Elkin review – an erudite first novel with horny energy
Set in pre-Covid Paris, Lauren Elkin’s first novel is a brainy sex comedy narrated by Anna, a Franco-American psychoanalyst on medical leave in the wake of a miscarriage. Her lawyer husband is away from home on a job in London,…
TV tonight: the woman who survived her husband’s parachute murder plot
The Fall: Skydive Murder Plot 9pm, Channel 4 A stranger-than-fiction true crime retold through dramatisations, recordings and the people who were there – including the victim. In 2015, Victoria Cilliers plummeted to the ground during a skydive after a parachute…
Protect Windermere from sewage, campaigners urge UK party leaders
The next government must give Windermere greater protection from sewage pollution, campaigners including the naturalist Chris Packham and the comedian Paul Whitehouse have urged in an open letter to all party leaders. The campaign group Save Windermere, which organised the…
The big British bamboo crisis: ‘It invaded my beautiful home’
Isobel Chetwood moved to her dream home on her birthday just over a decade ago. As she wound up a 40-year career in the NHS as a GP practice manager in Stockport, Greater Manchester, she was keen to return to…
Charlotte Higgins on The Archers: car-tastrophe in the Am!
Nothing happens in Ambridge for months, and then everything happens. Early in May, on a bridge just outside the village, two cars collided, exploding plotlines and almost drowning three characters. The erratically driven vehicle that caused the swerve that resulted…