Those who attack Neil Ferguson and Sage’s pandemic predictions only expose their ignorance about science• Coronavirus – latest updates• See all our coronavirus coverageIt feels like open season on Professor Neil Ferguson right now. Sections of the medi…
What is it about Viktor Orbán that attracts so many rightwing sycophants? | Nick Cohen
Hungary’s leader and Fox News are natural bedfellows in peddling paranoia politicsTucker Carlson is not much to look at. A little man with a face screwed into the scowl of a junior manager passed over for promotion, you might walk by him in the street …
We put our shirt on French holiday roulette and the wheel stopped on… amber | Rachel Cooke
It’s been a white-knuckle ride, but we’re finally off to France subject to our Covid ‘declaration of honour’Like many people, I’ve spent a lot of this year playing the great new game of holiday roulette, a wild ride that began for me in January, when a…
The Guardian view on the Taliban’s advance: we still have a responsibility to Afghans | Editorial
The human cost is accumulating with the withdrawal of US and British troops The fears held by many Afghans since Joe Biden announced the withdrawal of all US troops by September have been not only realised but surpassed. Many anticipated steady gains b…
Snickers Spain pulls advert after accusations of homophobia
Controversial commercial comes as series of homophobic attacks are reported across SpainSnickers in Spain has pulled a controversial advertisement and apologised for any “misunderstanding that may have been caused” after the 20-second film was widely c…
UK agrees to consider providing safe haven for Afghan journalists
U-turn over those who worked for British media follows outcry from newspapers and broadcastersThe foreign secretary has agreed to consider allowing Afghan journalists who worked for the British to flee to the UK if their lives are endangered by the res…
Britons spent third of time watching TV and online videos in 2020
Ofcom finds average UK resident spent five hours and 40 minutes a day watching video content Britons spent a third of their waking hours watching TV or online videos in 2020, according to research from the media regulator Ofcom that shows how we were d…
UK media unite to urge visas for Afghan reporters at risk from Taliban
Newspapers and broadcasters send open letter to Boris Johnson raising safety fears about locals who did vital work for the westOpen letter warns of brutal Taliban reprisals against Afghan reportersA coalition of British newspapers and broadcasters has …
Zola review – pulp-factual viral tweet becomes an icily slick urban thriller
Aziah ‘Zola’ Wells’s viral story of her crazily dangerous 2015 trip to Florida in search of pole-dancing money is brought to the screen with seductive comedyIn 2015, a part-time dancer from Detroit called Aziah “Zola” Wells went viral with a cheeky Tw…
Rupert bare: how the Oz obscenity trial inspired a generation of protest art
When a lewd cartoon of Rupert Bear landed the editors of the 60s counterculture paper in court, David Hockney, John Lennon, Robert Crumb and more made some of their most urgent art in response“What do you suppose is the effect intended to be of equippi…