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HEROIC CONCLUSION: The riders by the sculpture of Mary Barbour - sculpted by Andrew Brown - commemorating the 1915 Glasgow Rent Strike
Aw That / 2 August 2025
2 August 2025

MATT KERR charts his bike-riding odyssey in aid of the Royal Marsden charity and CWU Humanitarian Aid

Scotland / 1 August 2025
1 August 2025
People listening to speakers in Whitehall after a march organised by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, from Russell Square to Whitehall in central London, June 21, 2025
Gaza / 1 August 2025
1 August 2025
KNOCKABOUT SONGS: Tom Lehrer performing in Copenhagen, 1967. Pic: Public domain
Features / 1 August 2025
1 August 2025

April 9 1928 – July 26 2025

Oliver Snelling, The Floating One, 2023, Carved Purbeck Grub Bed (limestone)
Features / 2 August 2025
2 August 2025

OLIVER SNELLING, a south London stonecarver and yeoman stonemason, relates how he is helping bring about a new festival next month

Cargo containers line a shipping terminal at the Port of Oakland on July 31, 2025, in Oakland, Calif.
Features / 2 August 2025
2 August 2025

It’s the dramatic rise of China with its burgeoning economy that has put the Trump administration into a frenzy – with major implications both at home and abroad, argues MICHAEL BURKE

Wales' Louis Rees-Zammit pushes away Argentina's Guido Petti Pagadizabal, right, during the Rugby World Cup quarterfinal match between Wales and Argentina at the Stade de Marseille in Marseille, October 14, 2023
Men’s rugby union / 1 August 2025
1 August 2025
Connor Beasley riding Commanche Falls on Betfred John O'Gaunt Stakes Day at Haydock Park Racecourse, Newton-le-Willows, June 8, 2024
Horse racing / 2 August 2025
2 August 2025

Including races at Goodwood, Newmarket and Thirsk

latitude
Festival review / 1 August 2025
1 August 2025

TOM STONE checks the political coordinates of a festival where the pleasures of nostalgia were (sometimes) harnessed to a new message 

21st Century Poetry / 1 August 2025
1 August 2025

by Josie Giles

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Theatre review / 1 August 2025
1 August 2025

SIMON PARSONS is beguiled by a dream-like exploration of the memories of a childhood in Hong Kong

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Books / 31 July 2025
31 July 2025

ANDY HEDGECOCK recommends that these beautifully written diaries from Gaza be essential reading for thick-skinned MPs

West Ham United's Lucas Paqueta during the Premier League match at London Stadium, London, May 18, 2025
Men’s football / 31 July 2025
31 July 2025

Regulatory commission found four charges ‘not proven’ following hearing

Red Bull driver Max Verstappen of the Netherlands steers his car during the sprint qualification ahead of the Formula One Grand Prix at the Spa-Francorchamps racetrack in Spa, Belgium, July 25, 2025
Formula One / 31 July 2025
31 July 2025
Cartoon: Malc McGookin
Features / 1 August 2025
1 August 2025

Starmer’s decision to recognise Palestine only as long as Israel continues to massacre its inhabitants has been met with outrage, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER

STRUGGLE FOR LIBERTY: Enslaved black people cut the sugar cane and load the bundles or junks into a horse-drawn cart in Antigua, a former British colony
Features / 1 August 2025
1 August 2025

On the anniversary of the implementation of the 1833 Slavery Abolition Act, ROGER McKENZIE warns that the legacy of black enslavement still looms in the Caribbean and beyond

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Film of the week / 31 July 2025
31 July 2025

ANGUS REID is bowled over by a cinematic masterpiece that examines the labour of nursing in forensic, dramatic detail

JUSTICE AT LAST: Senator Ivan Cepeda speaks to journalists outside court in Bogota, Colombia on Monday, July 28 2025, after former president Alvaro Uribe was found guilty of witness tampering and bribery in a case Cepeda brought against him
Features / 1 August 2025
1 August 2025

Alvaro Uribe is found guilty of witness tampering and procedural fraud, reports NICK MACWILLIAM

Glasgow Trades Union Council
Scotland / 31 July 2025
31 July 2025
Cameron Norrie during a practice session on day nine of the 2025 Wimbledon Championships at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, London, July 8, 2025
Men’s tennis / 31 July 2025
31 July 2025