The Brutalist Report

The Guardian

• Minister calls on Burnham to show path to 3.5% target on UK defence spending [17d]
• Making public transport fully accessible ‘could boost UK economy by £176bn’ [17d]
• ‘Nepotism and bias’ rife in England and Wales police leadership, report finds [17d]
• Ministers to crack down on political donations as Farage faces calls for second inquiry [17d]
• Mobile internet coverage in UK worse than any EU or G7 country, Which? says [17d]
• NHS to rate English trusts on tackling violence and racism towards staff [17d]
• Anthony Albanese apologises ‘unequivocally’ for podcast comment about Kylie Minogue [17d]
• Jannik Sinner swats aside Mochizuki to reach Wimbledon quarter-finals [17d]
• Haaland’s heroic double stuns Brazil and sends Norway into World Cup quarter-finals [17d]
• Astonished Belgium vow to ‘defend football’ after Fifa’s shock Balogun reversal [17d]
• Rodríguez defends Venezuela’s emergency earthquake response as number of bodies expected to soar [17d]
• Nat Sciver-Brunt hopes World Cup career is not over after England heartbreak [17d]
• Mexico v England: World Cup 2026 last 16 tie hit by thunderstorm in buildup – live [17d]
• ‘They’ve tried to kill me for 23 years’: Cristiano Ronaldo says this World Cup will be his last [17d]
• ‘Pretty bad from the get-go’: Lewis Hamilton rues Ferrari’s decision at British Grand Prix [17d]
• Mooney leads charge as Australia regain T20 World Cup and crush England’s dreams [17d]
• Osaka’s inspired win leaves Sabalenka wanting ‘to get drunk and forget’ Wimbledon [17d]
• At least 25 people die in US as record heatwave scorches swaths of country [17d]
• Djokovic breaks Wimbledon record with win over Safiullin to reach quarter-finals [17d]
• Brazil v Norway: World Cup 2026 last 16 – live [17d]
• Last Goal Wins review – challenging and funny debut asks important questions about the beautiful game [17d]
• Paraguay showed France can be stifled – Morocco will have taken note | Paul MacInnes [17d]
• The Atlantic republishes JD Vance’s anti-Trump essay from 10 years ago [17d]
• EasyJet agrees to £5bn takeover by US investment firm [17d]
• Folarin Balogun eligible to play for US v Belgium as Fifa rescinds red card suspension [17d]
• Springbok thrashing leaves England praying Fiji don’t topple Borthwick project | Robert Kitson [17d]
• Tour de France 2026: Mexican debutant Del Toro wins stage two with help of Pogacar [17d]
• The Guardian view on private equity in the public sector: children’s services must be freed from debt-fuelled takeovers | Editorial [17d]
• The Guardian view on gene-edited humans: darker uses must be acknowledged alongside medical ones | Editorial [17d]
• Freddy the German: psyop, mirror to US rapacity or Tocqueville in a CR7 shirt? [17d]
• Leclerc holds off Russell and Hamilton to win chaotic British F1 Grand Prix [17d]
• Is it unhealthy to suppress sweat? [17d]
• Nicola Jennings on Trump and the US’s 250th anniversary – cartoon [17d]
• Paul McCartney performs I Want to Hold Your Hand for first time in 60 years at Taylor Swift wedding [17d]
• It must be bad for Nige and his finances if it’s Honest Bob Jenrick to the rescue | John Crace [17d]
• France deliver knockout punch to Paraguay in the Battle of Philadelphia [17d]
• The kindness of strangers: My son was unconscious and I frantically called out for help – then five teenagers came running [17d]
• Gaza’s musicians reopen bomb-shattered conservatory – in tents [17d]
• Bomb the Arctic, dam the Mediterranean and build a second moon: five outlandish plans to remodel our climate [17d]
• Wild horses and a pirate takeover: photos of the weekend [17d]
• Trump’s $2bn bonanza heralds the rise of political grifters across the west [17d]
• Pioneer of ‘extreme male brain’ theory of autism now says phrase unhelpful [17d]
• ‘In stories like this, the data and the methodology are key’: when private equity meets public service journalism [17d]
• Canada co-hosted the World Cup – but whose party was it? [17d]
• England v Australia: Women’s T20 Cricket World Cup final – live [17d]
• British Grand Prix: Formula One – live updates [17d]
• Shot by a robber, I was bleeding out on the way to hospital – and terrified the doctors would leave me to die [17d]
• What’s Kylie’s favourite masking tape? How does Lena Dunham train pigs? It’s all out there – and I’m loving it | Emma Beddington [17d]
• Readers reply: Are there places on Earth where humans haven’t been? [17d]
• The Story of Documentary Film (The 1980s) review – Mark Cousins educates and intrigues once more [17d]
• ‘The risk is Russia becomes desperate’: the Swedish Baltic Sea island preparing for invasion [17d]
• On America’s 250th, Mamdani called for unity – while Trump rewrote the past [17d]
• How to make cobb salad – recipe | Felicity Cloake's Masterclass [17d]
• Majority of UK smokers wrongly believe vaping is as harmful as cigarettes, experts find [17d]
• Wimbledon 2026: Djokovic, Sabalenka, Sinner and Gauff in action on day seven – live [17d]
• Tour de France 2026: stage two in Catalonia – live updates [17d]
• Man claiming world’s smallest penis says he’s booked enhancement surgery after public’s help [17d]
• Feeling stuck? Try ‘productivity snacking’ [17d]
• Dining across the divide: ‘I had an idea he was a Tommy Robinson fan and was thinking, Oh my God’ [17d]
• Americans declared independence from a tyrant once. And we must do that again | Claire Finkelstein [17d]
• Is there a rat hiding in your toilet? Are you sure? Really sure? | Polly Hudson [17d]
• At least eight shot, including four children, in New York’s Coney Island [17d]
• Nigel Farage did not declare gifts from crypto entrepreneur convicted of fraud [17d]
• Manchester United target Andrey Santos but Chelsea value midfielder at £50m [17d]
• Sleuthing sheep, Young Sherlock and a new Poirot: how amateur detectives took over our screens [17d]
• England at the Azteca Stadium: a potted history – in pictures [17d]
• Iran’s supreme leader absent from funeral of father Ali Khamenei [17d]
• The strangest show on earth: lightning, imperial hubris and a boring tour of Trump’s rhetorical back alleys | David Smith [17d]
• ‘Attack on civil society’: why Viktor Orbán’s favourite thinktank is in crisis [17d]
• World Cup 2026: Mexico v England buildup, France battle past Paraguay, Morocco march on – live [17d]
• Luis de la Fuente: ‘I say this with the greatest respect: we have the best midfield in the world’ [17d]
• World Club T20 and shorter ODIs among ICC options in radical overhaul of calendar [17d]
• Lionel Messi and football’s ageless wonders can excel into their 40s | Emma Hayes [17d]
• Football is at the centre of the universe in Brazil in a way it is not in the US | Rodrygo [17d]
• A footballing deepfake: how Bruno Fernandes fell victim to an unlicensed betting operator [17d]
• Oche addicts: how Kenya fell back in love with darts [17d]
• Mysterious debris found on Queensland beaches could be ‘space balls’ – and may contain toxic rocket fuel [17d]
• How do I cope with my grief and guilt after losing my husband? | Ask Annalisa Barbieri [18d]
• Could Farage quit? Questions swirl over Reform UK leader’s future [18d]
• From ‘heat panic’ to ‘sacrificed at the altar’: Europe’s air conditioning culture wars heat up [18d]
• ‘He hadn’t been trying to scare us. He’d been trying to kill us’: how stalker neighbours turned our dream home into a nightmare [18d]
• The immorality of world leaders is contagious. Thank heavens for the pope | Simon Tisdall [18d]
• Roll up, roll up! Older generation find joy and fearlessness in circus [18d]
• Make Ed Miliband chancellor, ex-chief Treasury adviser tells Andy Burnham [18d]
• ‘A genuine wildlife emergency’: everything you need to know about the arrival of H5 bird flu in Australia [18d]
• Don’t tell me it’s wrong to hold a grudge. I’m making the world a better place, one petty boycott at a time | Polly Hudson [18d]
• ‘They ate the shrimp, they even ate the crab’: Thai fishers count the cost of a voracious invader [18d]
• Walk in the footsteps of gods, heroes and monsters: five trips to mythical Greece [18d]
• ‘Here to write our own chapters’: England not daunted by unique occasion of Mexico game, says Tuchel [18d]
• Ukraine war briefing: Trump repositions himself as peacemaker in long call with Putin [18d]
• Founder of prominent underground church released from prison in China [18d]
• Wallabies were brave and brilliant against Ireland but still miss some key ingredients | Daniel Gallan [18d]
• French football chief condemns Chilavert’s remarks that Les Bleus are ‘a squad from Africa’ [18d]
• England braced for a Mexican whirlwind as Tuchel strives for calm amid the chaos [18d]