The Brutalist Report

The Guardian

• Amazon reveals plans to spend $200bn in one year day after Bezos guts Washington Post [18d]
• Most statin side-effects not caused by the drugs, study finds [18d]
• Bitcoin loses half its value in three months amid crypto crunch [18d]
• Arne Slot admits things will be ‘more difficult’ if Liverpool sustain any further injuries [18d]
• Bald eagles and Lynyrd Skynyrd: is Budweiser’s all-American Super Bowl ad serious? [18d]
• Bielle-Biarrey stars as France outplay Ireland to lay down a Six Nations marker [18d]
• Home Office says nearly 60,000 people deported from UK or left voluntarily since 2024 election [18d]
• Ex-priest indicted for allegedly raping disabled child while ministering in New Orleans [18d]
• Cristiano Ronaldo warned by Saudi Pro League amid transfer spending dispute [18d]
• Arizona officials confirm blood found at Nancy Guthrie’s home was hers [18d]
• JD Vance’s first Olympic appearance unfolds with more photo-ops than protests [18d]
• No 10 defies calls to sack Morgan McSweeney over Mandelson appointment [18d]
• Trump administration issues rule making it easier to fire federal workers – live [18d]
• How the Epstein scandal has shaken the British government to its core [18d]
• The way, the Trump and the lies: prayer breakfast displays US right’s devil’s pact [18d]
• Calls to halt UK Palantir contracts grow amid ‘lack of transparency’ over deals [18d]
• Iran is betting that Trump does not have a plan for regime change [18d]
• Bonobos can play make-believe much like children, study suggests [18d]
• ‘Stark warning’: pesticide harm to wildlife rising globally, study finds [18d]
• ‘Part of our biological toolkit’: newborn babies can anticipate rhythm in music, researchers find [18d]
• France v Ireland: Six Nations 2026 opener – live [18d]
• The Guardian view on Downing Street in crisis: Keir Starmer’s judgment looks fatally flawed | Editorial [18d]
• The Guardian view on Saudi Arabia and the UAE: as former allies clash, others are likely to pay | Editorial [18d]
• Trump offers revised account of Tulsi Gabbard presence at FBI raid in Georgia [18d]
• Ben Jennings on Keir Starmer, Peter Mandelson and Morgan McSweeney – cartoon [18d]
• Rape allegation against ex-Barclays CEO Jes Staley was raised in US Epstein investigation [18d]
• Cuba open to talks with US, but insists ‘without pressure’ following months of Trump threats [18d]
• Frank says Romero ‘dealt with internally’ for latest volley at Spurs owners [18d]
• Mamdani takes sardonic view of Polymarket’s ‘free grocery store’ stunt in New York [18d]
• Shin Bet chief’s brother charged with ‘assisting enemy’ over cigarette smuggling in Gaza [18d]
• Team GB chief predicts ‘most potent’ Winter Games ever with sights set on eight medals [18d]
• Feyi-Waboso hands England Six Nations injury scare 48 hours before Wales opener [18d]
• Israel accused of spraying cancer-linked herbicide on farms in southern Lebanon [18d]
• Restoring the Palace of Westminster could cost ‘eye-watering’ £40bn [18d]
• Florida euthanizes 5,000 iguanas after cold snap stuns the invasive reptiles [18d]
• Shell will consider fossil fuel investment in Venezuela, says chief executive [18d]
• Eight current and former Toronto police arrested in organized crime inquiry [18d]
• Revealed: private jet owned by Trump friend used by ICE to deport Palestinians to West Bank [18d]
• The Mandelson Scandal: has Starmer finally lost control? – Politics Weekly [18d]
• Pipe leaks and puck joy: Milan’s winter wasteland comes alive for ice hockey opener [18d]
• David Furnish calls alleged phone hacks of him and Elton John ‘an abomination’ [18d]
• Rio Tinto and Glencore abandon revived $260bn merger plan [18d]
• Volcanic vulvas and hermaphrodite marble: Ovid’s Metamorphoses reshaped at the Rijksmuseum [18d]
• Purr-fect casting: is Orangey the most important movie cat ever? [18d]
• Is Mandelson scandal the end for Starmer? - The Latest [18d]
• ‘People are turning themselves into lab rats’: the injectable peptides craze sweeping the US [18d]
• UK plans to cut climate finance to poor countries by a fifth despite promising more help [18d]
• Gwen John: Strange Beauties review – Wales’s great modern artist stuns us with the glory of solitude [18d]
• London man angry at ‘Orwellian’ incident in supermarket using facial recognition tech [18d]
• Leicester City in relegation danger after six-point deduction for financial rules breach [18d]
• Epstein files shed more light on Steve Bannon’s efforts to influence European politics [18d]
• We can reverse America’s decline | Bernie Sanders [18d]
• Italian investigated over claims he paid to shoot people during siege of Sarajevo [18d]
• ‘One of the most stunning sights in the country’: your picks for UK town of culture [18d]
• Mr Rules hits tipping point as Mandelson proves the one mistake that can’t be undone [18d]
• Why is monogamy in crisis? The animal kingdom could give us some clues | Elle Hunt [18d]
• Liam Rosenior accuses Arsenal of lack of respect after disruption to Chelsea warm-up [18d]
• Travel industry fears summer disruption amid new biometric checks at European borders [18d]
• Trump administration expresses interest in Cornish tin mine [18d]
• Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë audiobook review – Aimee Lou Wood reads the romance of the moment [18d]
• The Goldberg Variations album review – Yunchan Lim untangles Bach’s complex web of threads [18d]
• How cryptocurrency’s second largest coin missed out on the industry’s boom [18d]
• ‘You should see the cricket ball’ jokes Ben Stokes after being struck in the face [18d]
• Nigeria sends troops to villages attacked by jihadist fighters [18d]
• Second day of Ukraine-Russia peace talks in UAE end without breakthrough [18d]
• Amazon pulls Melania from cinema after owner’s criticism as rumours mount over ‘fake ticket sales’ [18d]
• ‘Dubai sells itself’: real-estate boom as entrepreneurs and fortune hunters arrive [18d]
• After high school, a friend I was very close to drifted away. Should I seek closure from her? | Leading questions [18d]
• Postcard-pretty … and filled with pollution: how Brazil’s fishers are reviving Rio de Janeiro’s famous bay [18d]
• ‘Penis injection’ doping claims in Winter Olympics ski jumping investigated by Wada [18d]
• ‘They were humans’: inquiry into mass Channel drowning hears from families [18d]
• Infantino and Coventry backing Russia’s return shows sport’s soft power is in rotten hands | Emma John [18d]
• More than 35m unexpected salmon deaths at Scottish farms sparks outcry [18d]
• Spain hits back at Pavel Durov over mass Telegram post on social media ban plan [18d]
• The Cardigans’ Nina Persson: ‘Ozzy said our Black Sabbath cover was the creepiest thing he’d ever heard’ [18d]
• England’s late 2026 World Cup start gives FA headache over warm-up matches [18d]
• ‘I’m so co-o-old’: ahead of Wuthering Heights, the 20 best films with dreadful weather – ranked! [18d]
• Russian container ship captain jailed for six years over fatal North Sea collision [18d]
• Theatre trigger warnings risk ‘mollycoddling’ audiences, says Tony-winning director [18d]
• Emerald Fennell hopes Wuthering Heights will ‘provoke a primal response’ [18d]
• Craft beer has gone stale: let’s hear it for age-old favourites | Richard Godwin [18d]
• Michigan accuses big oil of being ‘cartel’ that fuels climate crisis and high energy costs [18d]
• ‘We can learn from the old’: how architects are returning to the earth to build homes for the future [18d]
• How the failures that caused Grenfell still exist today [18d]
• A Winter Olympics training ski crash and a graduation ceremony: photos of the day – Thursday [18d]
• Hollywood money fuelled record £2.8bn spend on UK film production last year [18d]
• What a ​four-​year-​old ​taught ​us ​about the ​magic of ​baking​ a chocolate ​cake [18d]
• Trump’s border-czar takeover does little to calm Minneapolis tensions: ‘The agenda is still the same’ [18d]
• Mandy, Indiana: Urgh review | Laura Snapes' album of the week [18d]
• Donald Trump is making China great again | Steven Greenhouse [18d]
• All the world’s enraged: a new era of ‘resistance theater’ is rising as Trump attacks the arts [18d]
• Starmer apologises to Epstein victims as he seeks to weather Mandelson scandal [18d]
• Keir Starmer ‘sorry for having believed Mandelson’s lies’ about his relationship with Epstein – UK politics live [18d]
• Why Jérémy Jacquet may be the ‘heir to Virgil van Dijk’ for Liverpool [18d]
• Arctic Fever: new exhibit finds 19th-century parallels to Trump’s Greenland obsession [18d]
• From London to LX: the British mastermind behind the Seahawks’ standout Super Bowl defense [18d]
• Why haven’t business elites stood up for Minnesota? | Daniel Altschuler [18d]
• ‘Do you think you’re the devil himself?’: highlights from the bizarre, newly released Bannon-Epstein interview [18d]
• Ukraine, Russia agree to exchange prisoners after ‘productive’ talks with US - Europe Live [18d]
• Loss of life was avoidable in worst small boat disaster in Channel, inquiry finds [18d]