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As the satirical online news outlet the Onion waits for court approval to take over the conspiracy website Infowars, Helen Pidd speaks to a former staff member about its sinister rise and dramatic fall.

Alex Jones is known as the US far-right conspiracist who has been peddling misinformation and dangerous lies on his site, Infowars. For years in his early 20s, Josh Owens worked for him, accepting his point of view. “Jones made the world seem exciting,” Owens tells Helen Pidd.

In 2012, a gunman walked into Sandy Hook elementary school in Connecticut and killed 20 children and six adults. It prompted probably the most serious conversation the US had ever had about gun control. But Jones used it as fodder on his site. The children were alive, he said. The grieving parents were actors; the whole thing was a government plot to take away people’s guns.

Owens tells Pidd what it was like to work on the website, and how he came to realise how wrong he had been. In 2018, Jones was sued for defamation by the families. He was eventually ordered to pay a record $1.4bn in damages and filed for bankruptcy. Last Friday, after nearly 30 years of spreading lies, Infowars recorded its final broadcast. Now the site is on the verge of being taken over by the Onion. But is this really the end of Alex Jones?

#theonion #infowars #timheidecker #alexjones

In The Devil Wears Prada 2, we’re introduced to a very different Miranda Priestly. The all-powerful queen of fashion – who is played by Meryl Streep and based on Vogue’s longest-serving editor, Anna Wintour – isn’t the powerful figure we knew before.

First, we see her at the behest of advertisers, then publishing magnate Irv Ravitz and his irritating nepo baby son. And it isn’t long before Benji Barnes, an eccentric billionaire, shows up and threatens to dismantle the excellence she has spent her entire career championing. It doesn’t take a genius to see the similarities with Jeff Bezos, Amazon’s founder, writes columnist @louisstaples

Swipe to read more - and for the full op-ed tap the link in bio.

Cover photo: SGP/Shutterstock

In The Devil Wears Prada 2, we’re introduced to a very different Miranda Priestly. The all-powerful queen of fashion – who is played by Meryl Streep and based on Vogue’s longest-serving editor, Anna Wintour – isn’t the powerful figure we knew before.

First, we see her at the behest of advertisers, then publishing magnate Irv Ravitz and his irritating nepo baby son. And it isn’t long before Benji Barnes, an eccentric billionaire, shows up and threatens to dismantle the excellence she has spent her entire career championing. It doesn’t take a genius to see the similarities with Jeff Bezos, Amazon’s founder, writes columnist @louisstaples

Swipe to read more - and for the full op-ed tap the link in bio.

Cover photo: SGP/Shutterstock

In The Devil Wears Prada 2, we’re introduced to a very different Miranda Priestly. The all-powerful queen of fashion – who is played by Meryl Streep and based on Vogue’s longest-serving editor, Anna Wintour – isn’t the powerful figure we knew before.

First, we see her at the behest of advertisers, then publishing magnate Irv Ravitz and his irritating nepo baby son. And it isn’t long before Benji Barnes, an eccentric billionaire, shows up and threatens to dismantle the excellence she has spent her entire career championing. It doesn’t take a genius to see the similarities with Jeff Bezos, Amazon’s founder, writes columnist @louisstaples

Swipe to read more - and for the full op-ed tap the link in bio.

Cover photo: SGP/Shutterstock

In The Devil Wears Prada 2, we’re introduced to a very different Miranda Priestly. The all-powerful queen of fashion – who is played by Meryl Streep and based on Vogue’s longest-serving editor, Anna Wintour – isn’t the powerful figure we knew before.

First, we see her at the behest of advertisers, then publishing magnate Irv Ravitz and his irritating nepo baby son. And it isn’t long before Benji Barnes, an eccentric billionaire, shows up and threatens to dismantle the excellence she has spent her entire career championing. It doesn’t take a genius to see the similarities with Jeff Bezos, Amazon’s founder, writes columnist @louisstaples

Swipe to read more - and for the full op-ed tap the link in bio.

Cover photo: SGP/Shutterstock

In The Devil Wears Prada 2, we’re introduced to a very different Miranda Priestly. The all-powerful queen of fashion – who is played by Meryl Streep and based on Vogue’s longest-serving editor, Anna Wintour – isn’t the powerful figure we knew before.

First, we see her at the behest of advertisers, then publishing magnate Irv Ravitz and his irritating nepo baby son. And it isn’t long before Benji Barnes, an eccentric billionaire, shows up and threatens to dismantle the excellence she has spent her entire career championing. It doesn’t take a genius to see the similarities with Jeff Bezos, Amazon’s founder, writes columnist @louisstaples

Swipe to read more - and for the full op-ed tap the link in bio.

Cover photo: SGP/Shutterstock

In The Devil Wears Prada 2, we’re introduced to a very different Miranda Priestly. The all-powerful queen of fashion – who is played by Meryl Streep and based on Vogue’s longest-serving editor, Anna Wintour – isn’t the powerful figure we knew before.

First, we see her at the behest of advertisers, then publishing magnate Irv Ravitz and his irritating nepo baby son. And it isn’t long before Benji Barnes, an eccentric billionaire, shows up and threatens to dismantle the excellence she has spent her entire career championing. It doesn’t take a genius to see the similarities with Jeff Bezos, Amazon’s founder, writes columnist @louisstaples

Swipe to read more - and for the full op-ed tap the link in bio.

Cover photo: SGP/Shutterstock

In The Devil Wears Prada 2, we’re introduced to a very different Miranda Priestly. The all-powerful queen of fashion – who is played by Meryl Streep and based on Vogue’s longest-serving editor, Anna Wintour – isn’t the powerful figure we knew before.

First, we see her at the behest of advertisers, then publishing magnate Irv Ravitz and his irritating nepo baby son. And it isn’t long before Benji Barnes, an eccentric billionaire, shows up and threatens to dismantle the excellence she has spent her entire career championing. It doesn’t take a genius to see the similarities with Jeff Bezos, Amazon’s founder, writes columnist @louisstaples

Swipe to read more - and for the full op-ed tap the link in bio.

Cover photo: SGP/Shutterstock

In The Devil Wears Prada 2, we’re introduced to a very different Miranda Priestly. The all-powerful queen of fashion – who is played by Meryl Streep and based on Vogue’s longest-serving editor, Anna Wintour – isn’t the powerful figure we knew before.

First, we see her at the behest of advertisers, then publishing magnate Irv Ravitz and his irritating nepo baby son. And it isn’t long before Benji Barnes, an eccentric billionaire, shows up and threatens to dismantle the excellence she has spent her entire career championing. It doesn’t take a genius to see the similarities with Jeff Bezos, Amazon’s founder, writes columnist @louisstaples

Swipe to read more - and for the full op-ed tap the link in bio.

Cover photo: SGP/Shutterstock

David Attenborough has spent more than seven decades bringing the natural world into our living rooms, becoming one of the first truly recognisable faces on television. Today, the veteran presenter turns 100.

One of Britain’s greatest national treasures, Attenborough has devoted his career to helping the public engage with nature. From his seminal 1950s series Zoo Quest to the groundbreaking Life on Earth documentaries of the 80s and 90s, and more recently his hard-hitting explorations of the climate crisis, including Ocean, Attenborough has left an indelible mark on film and TV.

In this video, the Guardian’s Patrick Barkham explains how Attenborough transformed film and TV for ever.

And for a more in-depth look at #DavidAttenborough’s 100 most spectacular TV moments, tap the link in bio.
Archive footage courtesy of @bbc + @bbc_archive

“The two-party duopoly in British politics might be dead,” says Kiran Stacey, policy editor at the Guardian, in our analysis of Thursday’s elections.

In England it has been one of the most closely watched local elections in recent history. The early hours of Friday brought big wins for Reform UK, with its leader, Nigel Farage, saying: “There is no more left-right. It is gone, it is out of the window, it’s finished.”

Meanwhile, as the Green party won its first directly elected mayoral seat in Hackney, the party leader, Zack Polanski, said: “Two-party politics is no longer dying; it is dead and buried.”

The results prompted another round of criticism for the embattled prime minister, Keir Starmer, whose approval ratings are some of the worst in history. However, they are not as disastrous as might have been expected.

While many votes are still to be counted through the weekend in England, Scotland and Wales, it appears that Britain is entering an era of five-party politics. The polling expert John Curtice underscored this, saying in the early hours: “The fracturing of British politics is underlined by these results.”

Watch as @kiranstacey84 breaks down what we know so far about the results, and head to the link in bio for our interactive results tracker and more coverage.

A new report has found that the number of banned non-fiction books doubled during the 2024-2025 school year in the US.⁠
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PEN America analyzed the 3,743 unique titles removed from school libraries and classrooms in the July to June period and found that over 1,100 or 29% were non-fiction, more than double the year prior.⁠
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The most common theme in the banned non-fiction books was activism and social movements.⁠
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“These titles help students learn about their rights and the stories of those who confronted injustice and participated in social movements to change the world around them,” said McKenna Samson, a co-author of the report.⁠
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Kasey Meehan, director of PEN America’s freedom to read program, said, "It is another example of how censorship sweeps broadly, leading to removals of all kinds of books, in its efforts to sow fear and distrust in our public education system."⁠
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Follow the link in bio to read more.

“The two-party politics is no longer dying. It is dead and buried … People are sick and tired of Labour, but also really excit[ed] about a Green alternative, which is about protecting people and our planet,” said Zack Polanski, leader of the Green party, as results came in after local elections in England.

Polanski’s party is expected to make headway with votes still being counted, but has already won its first mayoral victory with Zoë Garbett elected in the east London borough of Hackney. She secured 35,720 votes, beating the incumbent mayor, Labour’s Caroline Woodley, by almost 10,000 votes.

It is the first time the Greens have won a mayoral election since directly elected mayors were introduced. In her victory speech, Garbett said she won because people were desperate for an alternative to the “failing Labour government”.

“In this election, over and over, people kept telling me they felt let down,” she said. “People kept saying, ‘it’s hard for me and it’s hard for us’. People are struggling to make ends meet.”

Counting will continue across England, as well as in the national elections in Scotland and Wales today. The main beneficiary so far has been Reform UK, which now has almost 400 councillors, with many more expected to come.

However, what is striking about these results is not just the poor performance of the government, or the sustained success of Reform UK, but the shift from a creaking two-party system to a fully fledged five-party system in England.

Head to the link in bio to read analysis from Paula Surridge, professor of political sociology at the University of Bristol: “Early England election results make it clear: we are in an era of five-party politics.”

There are tense matches – and then there’s the possibility of the US and Iran facing each other in this summer’s World Cup. The two sides could potentially meet in the round of 32 in Dallas, the day before July 4th.

With a month to go before the tournament even starts, there’s already been plenty of political maneuvering, requests to move stadiums, and barely veiled threats.

Just recently, US secretary of state Marco Rubio indicated that, while Iran’s players will be welcome, anyone accompanying them with links to Iran’s military will be denied entry.

Here’s @markmcposts with what you need to know as both teams, as it stands, head to the World Cup.

Follow the link in our bio to learn more.

If the world runs out of oil, are cheap flights the first thing we’ll lose?

It’s not a question anyone has had to ask before – since air travel began, it has never been globally impeded by a fuel shortage.

But since the start of the war on Iran, jet fuel has doubled in price and is already having a knock-on effect on airlines.

Lufthansa has cut 20,000 flights, Spirit Airlines has gone bust and Virgin has said that it cannot absorb higher fuel costs and may have to increase fares.

But there is some good news: easyJet has launched a “book with confidence” policy, guaranteeing no price increases after the fact.

It has been able to offer its guarantee because it’s 70% hedged, though only until September.

As the Guardian columnist Zoe Williams writes, “literally running out [of fuel] is not a thing”. She says the crisis could accelerate what is known as “jet zero”.

Watch @zoewilliams5250 break down why this could be a pivotal moment for the aviation industry’s innovation. To read her in-depth report, follow the link in bio.

Video by @windel.er

Today, David Attenborough turns 100.   

The British broadcaster, whose sonorous voice has described the wonders of life on Earth to billions of people, has inspired global efforts to treasure and protect wildlife over a lifetime that has coincided with mass extinction and the breakdown of a stable climate.  

Recognised as a consummate storyteller, his sparse narrative, dramatic timing and sense of humour connects viewers to ecosystems from the Amazon to the Arctic and the African savannah. Attenborough has become arguably humanity’s most trusted interpreter of other species, thanks to the ubiquity of television.   

In recent years, he has drawn even more attention to the damage being done to the natural world. He told the Guardian in 2018 that his goal was to make people care enough to do something; to draw people in and then, at the end of a programme or series, to hit them with an environmental message.    

At UN climate talks in Poland in December 2018, Attenborough took to the stage to warn of an existential crisis. “Right now we are facing a man-made disaster of global scale, our greatest threat in thousands of years: climate change,” he said. “If we don’t take action, the collapse of our civilisations and the extinction of much of the natural world is on the horizon.”  

Swipe through to see just a handful of the many highlights from Attenborough’s career - and tap the link in bio for more on his centenary.  

Cover photo: Sir David Attenborough photographed in London in 2015. David Levene/The Guardian.

Today, David Attenborough turns 100.   

The British broadcaster, whose sonorous voice has described the wonders of life on Earth to billions of people, has inspired global efforts to treasure and protect wildlife over a lifetime that has coincided with mass extinction and the breakdown of a stable climate.  

Recognised as a consummate storyteller, his sparse narrative, dramatic timing and sense of humour connects viewers to ecosystems from the Amazon to the Arctic and the African savannah. Attenborough has become arguably humanity’s most trusted interpreter of other species, thanks to the ubiquity of television.   

In recent years, he has drawn even more attention to the damage being done to the natural world. He told the Guardian in 2018 that his goal was to make people care enough to do something; to draw people in and then, at the end of a programme or series, to hit them with an environmental message.    

At UN climate talks in Poland in December 2018, Attenborough took to the stage to warn of an existential crisis. “Right now we are facing a man-made disaster of global scale, our greatest threat in thousands of years: climate change,” he said. “If we don’t take action, the collapse of our civilisations and the extinction of much of the natural world is on the horizon.”  

Swipe through to see just a handful of the many highlights from Attenborough’s career - and tap the link in bio for more on his centenary.  

Cover photo: Sir David Attenborough photographed in London in 2015. David Levene/The Guardian.

Today, David Attenborough turns 100.   

The British broadcaster, whose sonorous voice has described the wonders of life on Earth to billions of people, has inspired global efforts to treasure and protect wildlife over a lifetime that has coincided with mass extinction and the breakdown of a stable climate.  

Recognised as a consummate storyteller, his sparse narrative, dramatic timing and sense of humour connects viewers to ecosystems from the Amazon to the Arctic and the African savannah. Attenborough has become arguably humanity’s most trusted interpreter of other species, thanks to the ubiquity of television.   

In recent years, he has drawn even more attention to the damage being done to the natural world. He told the Guardian in 2018 that his goal was to make people care enough to do something; to draw people in and then, at the end of a programme or series, to hit them with an environmental message.    

At UN climate talks in Poland in December 2018, Attenborough took to the stage to warn of an existential crisis. “Right now we are facing a man-made disaster of global scale, our greatest threat in thousands of years: climate change,” he said. “If we don’t take action, the collapse of our civilisations and the extinction of much of the natural world is on the horizon.”  

Swipe through to see just a handful of the many highlights from Attenborough’s career - and tap the link in bio for more on his centenary.  

Cover photo: Sir David Attenborough photographed in London in 2015. David Levene/The Guardian.

Today, David Attenborough turns 100.   

The British broadcaster, whose sonorous voice has described the wonders of life on Earth to billions of people, has inspired global efforts to treasure and protect wildlife over a lifetime that has coincided with mass extinction and the breakdown of a stable climate.  

Recognised as a consummate storyteller, his sparse narrative, dramatic timing and sense of humour connects viewers to ecosystems from the Amazon to the Arctic and the African savannah. Attenborough has become arguably humanity’s most trusted interpreter of other species, thanks to the ubiquity of television.   

In recent years, he has drawn even more attention to the damage being done to the natural world. He told the Guardian in 2018 that his goal was to make people care enough to do something; to draw people in and then, at the end of a programme or series, to hit them with an environmental message.    

At UN climate talks in Poland in December 2018, Attenborough took to the stage to warn of an existential crisis. “Right now we are facing a man-made disaster of global scale, our greatest threat in thousands of years: climate change,” he said. “If we don’t take action, the collapse of our civilisations and the extinction of much of the natural world is on the horizon.”  

Swipe through to see just a handful of the many highlights from Attenborough’s career - and tap the link in bio for more on his centenary.  

Cover photo: Sir David Attenborough photographed in London in 2015. David Levene/The Guardian.

Today, David Attenborough turns 100.   

The British broadcaster, whose sonorous voice has described the wonders of life on Earth to billions of people, has inspired global efforts to treasure and protect wildlife over a lifetime that has coincided with mass extinction and the breakdown of a stable climate.  

Recognised as a consummate storyteller, his sparse narrative, dramatic timing and sense of humour connects viewers to ecosystems from the Amazon to the Arctic and the African savannah. Attenborough has become arguably humanity’s most trusted interpreter of other species, thanks to the ubiquity of television.   

In recent years, he has drawn even more attention to the damage being done to the natural world. He told the Guardian in 2018 that his goal was to make people care enough to do something; to draw people in and then, at the end of a programme or series, to hit them with an environmental message.    

At UN climate talks in Poland in December 2018, Attenborough took to the stage to warn of an existential crisis. “Right now we are facing a man-made disaster of global scale, our greatest threat in thousands of years: climate change,” he said. “If we don’t take action, the collapse of our civilisations and the extinction of much of the natural world is on the horizon.”  

Swipe through to see just a handful of the many highlights from Attenborough’s career - and tap the link in bio for more on his centenary.  

Cover photo: Sir David Attenborough photographed in London in 2015. David Levene/The Guardian.

Today, David Attenborough turns 100.   

The British broadcaster, whose sonorous voice has described the wonders of life on Earth to billions of people, has inspired global efforts to treasure and protect wildlife over a lifetime that has coincided with mass extinction and the breakdown of a stable climate.  

Recognised as a consummate storyteller, his sparse narrative, dramatic timing and sense of humour connects viewers to ecosystems from the Amazon to the Arctic and the African savannah. Attenborough has become arguably humanity’s most trusted interpreter of other species, thanks to the ubiquity of television.   

In recent years, he has drawn even more attention to the damage being done to the natural world. He told the Guardian in 2018 that his goal was to make people care enough to do something; to draw people in and then, at the end of a programme or series, to hit them with an environmental message.    

At UN climate talks in Poland in December 2018, Attenborough took to the stage to warn of an existential crisis. “Right now we are facing a man-made disaster of global scale, our greatest threat in thousands of years: climate change,” he said. “If we don’t take action, the collapse of our civilisations and the extinction of much of the natural world is on the horizon.”  

Swipe through to see just a handful of the many highlights from Attenborough’s career - and tap the link in bio for more on his centenary.  

Cover photo: Sir David Attenborough photographed in London in 2015. David Levene/The Guardian.

Today, David Attenborough turns 100.   

The British broadcaster, whose sonorous voice has described the wonders of life on Earth to billions of people, has inspired global efforts to treasure and protect wildlife over a lifetime that has coincided with mass extinction and the breakdown of a stable climate.  

Recognised as a consummate storyteller, his sparse narrative, dramatic timing and sense of humour connects viewers to ecosystems from the Amazon to the Arctic and the African savannah. Attenborough has become arguably humanity’s most trusted interpreter of other species, thanks to the ubiquity of television.   

In recent years, he has drawn even more attention to the damage being done to the natural world. He told the Guardian in 2018 that his goal was to make people care enough to do something; to draw people in and then, at the end of a programme or series, to hit them with an environmental message.    

At UN climate talks in Poland in December 2018, Attenborough took to the stage to warn of an existential crisis. “Right now we are facing a man-made disaster of global scale, our greatest threat in thousands of years: climate change,” he said. “If we don’t take action, the collapse of our civilisations and the extinction of much of the natural world is on the horizon.”  

Swipe through to see just a handful of the many highlights from Attenborough’s career - and tap the link in bio for more on his centenary.  

Cover photo: Sir David Attenborough photographed in London in 2015. David Levene/The Guardian.

Today, David Attenborough turns 100.   

The British broadcaster, whose sonorous voice has described the wonders of life on Earth to billions of people, has inspired global efforts to treasure and protect wildlife over a lifetime that has coincided with mass extinction and the breakdown of a stable climate.  

Recognised as a consummate storyteller, his sparse narrative, dramatic timing and sense of humour connects viewers to ecosystems from the Amazon to the Arctic and the African savannah. Attenborough has become arguably humanity’s most trusted interpreter of other species, thanks to the ubiquity of television.   

In recent years, he has drawn even more attention to the damage being done to the natural world. He told the Guardian in 2018 that his goal was to make people care enough to do something; to draw people in and then, at the end of a programme or series, to hit them with an environmental message.    

At UN climate talks in Poland in December 2018, Attenborough took to the stage to warn of an existential crisis. “Right now we are facing a man-made disaster of global scale, our greatest threat in thousands of years: climate change,” he said. “If we don’t take action, the collapse of our civilisations and the extinction of much of the natural world is on the horizon.”  

Swipe through to see just a handful of the many highlights from Attenborough’s career - and tap the link in bio for more on his centenary.  

Cover photo: Sir David Attenborough photographed in London in 2015. David Levene/The Guardian.

Today, David Attenborough turns 100.   

The British broadcaster, whose sonorous voice has described the wonders of life on Earth to billions of people, has inspired global efforts to treasure and protect wildlife over a lifetime that has coincided with mass extinction and the breakdown of a stable climate.  

Recognised as a consummate storyteller, his sparse narrative, dramatic timing and sense of humour connects viewers to ecosystems from the Amazon to the Arctic and the African savannah. Attenborough has become arguably humanity’s most trusted interpreter of other species, thanks to the ubiquity of television.   

In recent years, he has drawn even more attention to the damage being done to the natural world. He told the Guardian in 2018 that his goal was to make people care enough to do something; to draw people in and then, at the end of a programme or series, to hit them with an environmental message.    

At UN climate talks in Poland in December 2018, Attenborough took to the stage to warn of an existential crisis. “Right now we are facing a man-made disaster of global scale, our greatest threat in thousands of years: climate change,” he said. “If we don’t take action, the collapse of our civilisations and the extinction of much of the natural world is on the horizon.”  

Swipe through to see just a handful of the many highlights from Attenborough’s career - and tap the link in bio for more on his centenary.  

Cover photo: Sir David Attenborough photographed in London in 2015. David Levene/The Guardian.

Today, David Attenborough turns 100.   

The British broadcaster, whose sonorous voice has described the wonders of life on Earth to billions of people, has inspired global efforts to treasure and protect wildlife over a lifetime that has coincided with mass extinction and the breakdown of a stable climate.  

Recognised as a consummate storyteller, his sparse narrative, dramatic timing and sense of humour connects viewers to ecosystems from the Amazon to the Arctic and the African savannah. Attenborough has become arguably humanity’s most trusted interpreter of other species, thanks to the ubiquity of television.   

In recent years, he has drawn even more attention to the damage being done to the natural world. He told the Guardian in 2018 that his goal was to make people care enough to do something; to draw people in and then, at the end of a programme or series, to hit them with an environmental message.    

At UN climate talks in Poland in December 2018, Attenborough took to the stage to warn of an existential crisis. “Right now we are facing a man-made disaster of global scale, our greatest threat in thousands of years: climate change,” he said. “If we don’t take action, the collapse of our civilisations and the extinction of much of the natural world is on the horizon.”  

Swipe through to see just a handful of the many highlights from Attenborough’s career - and tap the link in bio for more on his centenary.  

Cover photo: Sir David Attenborough photographed in London in 2015. David Levene/The Guardian.

Today, David Attenborough turns 100.   

The British broadcaster, whose sonorous voice has described the wonders of life on Earth to billions of people, has inspired global efforts to treasure and protect wildlife over a lifetime that has coincided with mass extinction and the breakdown of a stable climate.  

Recognised as a consummate storyteller, his sparse narrative, dramatic timing and sense of humour connects viewers to ecosystems from the Amazon to the Arctic and the African savannah. Attenborough has become arguably humanity’s most trusted interpreter of other species, thanks to the ubiquity of television.   

In recent years, he has drawn even more attention to the damage being done to the natural world. He told the Guardian in 2018 that his goal was to make people care enough to do something; to draw people in and then, at the end of a programme or series, to hit them with an environmental message.    

At UN climate talks in Poland in December 2018, Attenborough took to the stage to warn of an existential crisis. “Right now we are facing a man-made disaster of global scale, our greatest threat in thousands of years: climate change,” he said. “If we don’t take action, the collapse of our civilisations and the extinction of much of the natural world is on the horizon.”  

Swipe through to see just a handful of the many highlights from Attenborough’s career - and tap the link in bio for more on his centenary.  

Cover photo: Sir David Attenborough photographed in London in 2015. David Levene/The Guardian.

Today, David Attenborough turns 100.   

The British broadcaster, whose sonorous voice has described the wonders of life on Earth to billions of people, has inspired global efforts to treasure and protect wildlife over a lifetime that has coincided with mass extinction and the breakdown of a stable climate.  

Recognised as a consummate storyteller, his sparse narrative, dramatic timing and sense of humour connects viewers to ecosystems from the Amazon to the Arctic and the African savannah. Attenborough has become arguably humanity’s most trusted interpreter of other species, thanks to the ubiquity of television.   

In recent years, he has drawn even more attention to the damage being done to the natural world. He told the Guardian in 2018 that his goal was to make people care enough to do something; to draw people in and then, at the end of a programme or series, to hit them with an environmental message.    

At UN climate talks in Poland in December 2018, Attenborough took to the stage to warn of an existential crisis. “Right now we are facing a man-made disaster of global scale, our greatest threat in thousands of years: climate change,” he said. “If we don’t take action, the collapse of our civilisations and the extinction of much of the natural world is on the horizon.”  

Swipe through to see just a handful of the many highlights from Attenborough’s career - and tap the link in bio for more on his centenary.  

Cover photo: Sir David Attenborough photographed in London in 2015. David Levene/The Guardian.

This has been a bruising night for Keir Starmer – and one Reform UK will relish.

As early local election results emerge, the scale of Labour’s electoral challenge has been laid bare, with the party haemorrhaging councillors while Reform makes significant gains.

Yet the prime minister struck a defiant note on Friday morning amid calls from some Labour MPs to quit, insisting he remained determined to deliver the promises that brought him to power less than two years ago.

According to overnight counts, Labour has lost control of councils across its northern England and Midlands heartlands. Meanwhile, Reform’s success looks set to cement its position as England’s most popular party, underscoring the erosion of Britain’s traditional two-party dominance.

It also appears to be a historically high turnout for local elections held outside a general election year. According to the BBC, turnout in the English local elections was 43% – up 8 percentage points compared with 2025.

Counting will continue in most places today. You can follow results in your area through our interactive guide via the link in bio.

Donald Trump has questioned the value of four-figure World Cup tickets for matches involving the United States, telling the New York Post that “I wouldn’t pay it either, to be honest.”⁠
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The remark came in a phone interview with the Post, with Trump claiming he “did not know that number” for the USMNT’s opening match against Paraguay. ⁠
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In December, Fifa established a base price for Category 3 tickets – the cheapest available to most fans, given the small swathe of Category 4 seats at the tournament – of $1,120, according to the Guardian’s reporting at the time.⁠
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Trump’s remarks come a day after Fifa president Gianni Infantino defended ticket pricing for the 2026 World Cup, the first time the nearly century-old tournament has used dynamic pricing.⁠
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“If people from Queens and Brooklyn and all of the people that love Donald Trump can’t go, I would be disappointed, but, you know, at the same time, it’s an amazing success,” Trump said. “I would like to be able to have the people that voted for me to be able to go.”⁠
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Follow the link in our bio to learn more.

Donald Trump has questioned the value of four-figure World Cup tickets for matches involving the United States, telling the New York Post that “I wouldn’t pay it either, to be honest.”⁠
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The remark came in a phone interview with the Post, with Trump claiming he “did not know that number” for the USMNT’s opening match against Paraguay. ⁠
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In December, Fifa established a base price for Category 3 tickets – the cheapest available to most fans, given the small swathe of Category 4 seats at the tournament – of $1,120, according to the Guardian’s reporting at the time.⁠
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Trump’s remarks come a day after Fifa president Gianni Infantino defended ticket pricing for the 2026 World Cup, the first time the nearly century-old tournament has used dynamic pricing.⁠
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“Curated by Putin, dead bodies included”, “Russia kills, biennale exhibits” and “Russian art, Ukrainian blood”. These words were written across the bodies of protesters gathered outside the Russian pavilion at the Venice Biennale.

Lanre Bakare, the Guardian’s arts and culture correspondent, sent this report from the pavilion, where the Russian activist group Pussy Riot held a chaotic demonstration, outraged at Russia’s inclusion in the art festival. It was the first year Russia was allowed to participate since its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

The previous day, crates of prosecco were loaded into the space, where loud techno music was playing – which Nadya Tolokonnikova, a founding member of Pussy Riot, said she was horrified by. In a press statement, Pussy Riot offered to curate the 2028 Russian pavilion, pledging to use work by artists who are or have been imprisoned in Russia.

An hour after the Pussy Riot protest on Wednesday, the Art Not Genocide Alliance (Anga) staged a demonstration outside the Israeli pavilion in the Arsenale. The pavilion was locked from the inside while the group gathered in front to protest against Israel’s inclusion despiteits war in Gaza.

Protest and politics are not new at the biennale. In 1968, protests spilled over from the wider student movement that summer, primarily aimed at the US over the Vietnam war. Six years later, the entire event was dedicated to the people of Chile, who were then under the rule of the military dictator Augusto Pinochet.