Skinny Guardian — UK edition
The latest 50 Guardian articles updated at 0700 and 1700 UK time.
- Did you solve it? Are you a match for the world’s smartest teen?
- Vincent Pastore obituary
- Marc Skinner may have been a Marmite manager but Manchester United’s budget was spread thin | Tom Garry
- Justin Hardy, director of Wicker Man sequel, dies three weeks before its premiere
- July was driest month in southern England since records began
- Science funding cuts will harm Britain’s global standing | Letters
- Radio presenters were 1966 World Cup heroes too | Letters
- A film odyssey with a built-in interval | Brief letters
- The best way to protect NHS patients’ data | Letter
- Yoga, kabaddi and the cut-price plan for Commonwealth Games survival | Sean Ingle
- Children using social media at younger age appear to do worse in school tests
- AstraZeneca shares plunge over talks with US cancer drug firm on $400bn merger
- Paris prosecutor investigates alleged bullying in government departments after suicide attempt
- Romania blasts rock to divert water from drought-hit Danube to nuclear reactor
- Spider-Man: Brand New Day: new characters, new flaws, new tech and brain-exploding future consequences – discuss with spoilers
- Football Daily | Scrapped proposals, statement wars and the ongoing Infantino furore
- Tell us about your favourite UK holiday
- Does Andy Burnham really hate London? He wouldn’t be the only one | Zoe Williams
- ‘The obsession with endless growth can only end in tears’: your questions on extreme weather this summer answered
- Ceuta leader accuses Morocco over ‘atrocity’ of mass border crossing
- ‘Clacton voters need a serious person’: the independent candidates taking on Nigel Farage – and Count Binface
- From wine coolers to the ultimate walking sandals: 11 things you loved most in July
- Jockey Club rocks British horse racing by quitting Racecourse Association
- The right’s exploitation of the Ceuta migrant ‘crisis’ almost guarantees that it will happen again | Ruben Andersson
- ‘I didn’t understand what Gaz was singing. It’s about needing a hug’: how Reef made Place Your Hands
- Ring Cycle review – AI staging dispenses with drama to create banal bric-a-brac
- Farage admits he discussed returning as Reform leader months earlier than previously stated
- ‘They are terrified’: Como spark row with fans over controversial new stadium policy
- Man jailed for keeping dead mother’s body in freezer and pocketing her benefits
- Radio presenter Tony Livesey leaves BBC after David Sullivan allegations
- Oil prices plunge and Europe’s markets rally after Trump calls off Iran strikes
- BBCSO/Järvi/Kavakos review – virtuosic violinist makes fiendishly light work of Tchaikovsky
- Rukmini Iyer’s quick and easy recipe for Thai-style cold lemongrass and coconut prawn noodles | Quick and easy
- This Tempting Madness review – watchable psychological suspense offers Mexican standoff of gaslighting
- Now You See Me Live review – magic so bombastic it may be visible from space
- Iran in talks with Oman over shipping but US negotiations on hold, says Tehran
- Barbie sequel at risk as salary talks with Robbie, Gosling and Gerwig hit impasse
- Trump promises new Iran talks as Tehran touts Hormuz shipping deal with Oman | First Thing
- How renewable is your electricity tariff? ‘Consumers believe they’re doing the right thing – often they’re not’
- Red Cross visits Aung San Suu Kyi after Myanmar military pushed to prove she is alive
- ‘They are such neat, busy little folk’: the unexpected superpowers of the common woodlouse
- ‘Danger no longer only comes from the hitmen, but from the state’: the Honduran farmers labelled terrorists for protecting their land
- Revealed: the top 10 invertebrates of the year
- UK manufacturing growth picks up as Trump tariff chaos eases
- Russia blames Ukraine for deadly restaurant bombing in Moscow
- Black Foils on crest of a wave in fight against destructive marine trawling
- Worn in the USA: Liverpool’s pre-season tour had highs but exposed glaring gaps in the squad | Andy Hunter
- The Ribbon Hero review – do-gooder princess battles giant flying earwigs in update of classic yarn
- My olive oil is uncool, apparently. Welcome to the world of microsnobbery | Emma Beddington
- The pet I’ll never forget: Karl, the tabby who went to college and learned to use a toilet