The Brutalist Report

The Guardian

• A friend I’ve known for 50 years has become a self-absorbed, petulant know-all. Should I cut off contact? | Leading questions [36d]
• Tony Blair’s thinktank urges Labour to scrap ‘unaffordable’ pension triple lock [36d]
• Gen Z leads birdwatching boom as more Britons reach for the binoculars [36d]
• Premier League: 10 things to look out for this weekend [36d]
• Emery demands ‘an explanation’ from VAR after Anderson tackle goes unpunished [36d]
• Former Spandau Ballet singer jailed for 14 years for multiple rapes and sexual assaults [36d]
• Myanmar’s former leader Aung San Suu Kyi to be moved to house arrest, state media says [36d]
• Gianni Infantino’s attempt at Israel-Palestine handshake backfires [36d]
• ‘Don’t fall!’: foil boarders describe hair-raising shark chase caught on video off California coast [36d]
• ‘Come and speak to us’: Hamilton calls for more driver involvement in F1 rules [36d]
• Solicitors report late flood of no-fault evictions before ban in England [36d]
• Unrest in Alice Springs after Jefferson Lewis arrested over death of Kumanjayi Little Baby [36d]
• Brazil’s congress approves bill reducing prison sentence of former president Jair Bolsonaro [36d]
• Strand Larsen punishes Shakhtar Donetsk to put Crystal Palace in driving seat [36d]
• Oscar belonging to co-director of Putin film missing after TSA makes him ship it [36d]
• Chris Wood gives Nottingham Forest narrow semi-final edge over Aston Villa [36d]
• Prisoner review – Kapow! Boom! Shooty-shooty! What stupid fun this is [36d]
• Britney Spears charged with driving under the influence of alcohol and drugs [36d]
• Trump to lift tariffs on scotch whisky after king’s US visit [36d]
• A Rising of the Lights by Steve Toltz review – a darkly funny take on the male loneliness epidemic [36d]
• Bari Weiss appoints editor viewed as pro-Israel in latest CBS News shakeup [36d]
• ‘A new chapter’: first commercial fight from US since 2019 lands in Venezuela [36d]
• Is this the end for LIV? Where does Saudi withdrawal leave golf and the players? [36d]
• USMNT’s Mauricio Pochettino says nation lacks ‘emotional relationship’ with soccer [36d]
• Camp Mystic halts summer reopening after Texas flood deaths [36d]
• Gianni Infantino tells Fifa congress that Iran will play at World Cup in US as planned [36d]
• Venice Biennale jury quits amid row over participation of Russia [36d]
• Samsung reports record quarterly profit as chip income jumps almost 50-fold [36d]
• US reinstates ‘gun show loophole’ amid rollback of firearms restrictions [36d]
• ‘An epidemic’: is antisemitism out of control in the UK? - The Latest [36d]
• ‘In every drop of paint he slurped, you see the Holocaust’: the genius and torments of Georg Baselitz [36d]
• AI outperforms doctors in Harvard trial of emergency triage diagnoses [36d]
• After Golders Green, this is what British Jews need from the government, the police – and the rest of society | Dave Rich [36d]
• The Guardian view on the Golders Green attack: the public as well as the state must tackle antisemitism | Editorial [36d]
• The Guardian view on Trump’s war on science: politicising a generation of researchers | Editorial [36d]
• Hegseth ‘dangerously exaggerated’ US military triumph in Iran, Senate hears [36d]
• Trump withdraws nomination of Casey Means for US surgeon general [36d]
• Nottingham Forest v Aston Villa: Europa League semi-final, first leg – live [36d]
• Shakhtar Donetsk v Crystal Palace: Europa Conference League semi-final, first leg – live [36d]
• Met police arrest two Green election candidates over alleged antisemitism [36d]
• Four rescued from Seine after bus plunges into river near Paris [36d]
• Man charged with attempting to assassinate Trump to remain in custody [36d]
• Original Blair Witch team added to reboot after voicing outrage [36d]
• Trump tells Merz to ‘fix his broken country’ in new attack on German chancellor [36d]
• Ben Jennings on the antisemitic terror attack in Golders Green – cartoon [36d]
• Press freedom at lowest level in 25 years amid growing authoritarian pressure [36d]
• Higgins hits back to level up tight world snooker semi-final clash with Murphy [36d]
• German artist Georg Baselitz dies aged 88 [36d]
• Starmer calls on public to ‘open their eyes to Jewish pain’ in wake of Golders Green attack [36d]
• Musk faces third day of questioning in contentious trial over OpenAI’s founding [36d]
• ‘Making the scarlet letter into my career’: my life as a sex writer [36d]
• Puffy legs, heavy aches, rippled skin: what is lipedema? [36d]
• Political donations are poison to our democracy – but there’s an easy antidote to that | George Monbiot [36d]
• Neo-Nazi who planned mass gun attack convicted after MI5 undercover sting [36d]
• Lindsey Vonn remains unsure of future after Olympic crash: ‘I’m still in survival mode’ [36d]
• Blockx rocking to beat champion Ruud and reach Madrid Open semi-finals [36d]
• New York officials return more than 650 antiquities valued at $14m to India [36d]
• ‘A profound depiction’: Michael Jackson fans support divisive biopic as film smashes records [36d]
• Golders Green attack suspect named as Essa Suleiman and was previously referred to Prevent – live updates [36d]
• Beethoven: The Sonatas for Piano and Cello album review – Watkins and Bax have a shared impulse to deliver eloquence [36d]
• ‘Do I put Sleeping Beauty on my CV?!’ Ballet dancers on their next steps, from midwifery to the House of Lords [36d]
• If you’re a fan of laughing, you should invest in Australian comedy – take my (and Nick Offerman’s) word for it | Rebecca Shaw [36d]
• Active-duty US soldiers to receive psychedelic drugs for PTSD next year [36d]
• ‘You can be any Bond you want’: the inside story of 007 First Light [36d]
• Manchester United target West Ham’s Diouf and confirm new Mainoo contract [36d]
• Germany was largest exporter of plastic waste in 2025, sending 810,000 tonnes overseas, analysis finds [36d]
• ‘I did receive bottles on stage. There might have been urine’: Melanie C on Spice Girls mania, impostor syndrome and her date with a Chili Pepper [36d]
• Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams audiobook review – the insider story that Meta tried to stifle [36d]
• Voting rights advocates vow to ‘relocate’ fight after supreme court gutting [36d]
• It’s time to tax AI slop | Mike Pepi [36d]
• ‘My own contribution’: the Ottawa immigrants learning to retrofit homes and fight the climate crisis [36d]
• Could the UAE’s shock exit from Opec cause an oil price war? [36d]
• ‘Every body is a rugby body’: US women players fight for inclusivity after trans ban [36d]
• Football Daily | Burnley moonwalk back down without Scott Parker [36d]
• What we’re reading: writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in April [36d]
• Curfews, conspiracy theories … and a cancelled concert: Mali’s capital tries to shrug off violence on its doorstep [36d]
• UK stole 25 million years of life and labour through slavery in Barbados, research finds [36d]
• Iran supreme leader issues defiant statement on strait of Hormuz [36d]
• David Allan Coe, outlaw country singer-songwriter, dies aged 86 [36d]
• Champions League review: a stone-cold classic, Díaz’s perfect timing and a defensive puritan [36d]
• The Purge but for sex? One Night Only might be the year’s strangest romcom [36d]
• French teenager charged in Singapore over vending machine straw-licking video [36d]
• Cuba is running out of time. We need fuel now to save lives | Francisco Pichón [36d]
• ‘I believe in independence’: Puerto Rico’s young people fighting for sovereignty from the US [36d]
• Spectator owner’s son calls for mine-laden ‘floating wall’ to stop Channel crossings [36d]
• US court refuses to hear Trump’s appeal of E Jean Carroll $83m defamation case [36d]
• Arteta will seek to use perceived injustices as Arsenal fuel after Atlético anger [36d]
• A river rescue and samurai celebrations: photos of the day – Thursday [36d]
• Raghu Rai’s masterful images of Indian life – in pictures [36d]
• Israel intercepts and detains crews of Gaza aid flotilla near Crete [36d]
• Why we care so much about preserving family recipes [36d]
• Say hello to my little compendium! Al Pacino films – ranked [36d]
• Canada to create powerful financial crimes agency as US weakens its approach [36d]
• Bomb meant for ‘Butcher of Bucha’ kills subordinate in remote Russian town, sources say [36d]
• Unnatural Harmony: Sounds of Lee Alexander McQueen review – MOR tribute to a fashion maverick [36d]
• Sexy vibes to vampire doctors! All the wildest fan theories about The Pitt [36d]
• ‘You are the machine that kills hate’: Woody Guthrie’s protest anthems strike a chord with a new generation [36d]
• Adam Coleman escapes from rugby purgatory to the peaks with Bordeaux [36d]
• A ballroom bunker is a perfect symbol for Trump 2.0 | Jan-Werner Müller [36d]
• When it comes to wines, it pays to look beyond the fashionable [36d]