Whenever major reform is proposed the media, big business and Westminster quickly conclude it’s too expensive and disruptive. This doesn’t bode well for Andy BurnhamIn an old, often anxious and conservative country, the perception of risk is a potent political weapon. If a policy or a project for reforming the UK…

Using a digital flat-bed scanner, our picture editor Jonny Weeks adapts some of his favourite images from the tournament and explores the trend of alternative photographyAlthough I’ve edited thousands of football photographs over the years, I’ve never attended a World Cup match. I envy those who get to be…

One of the Bayern and France playmaker’s early coaches tells the story of how a move to Reading kickstarted a careerIf Michael Olise wins the World Cup, there will be a corner of a Hayes housing estate that is for ever France. It is Olise’s corner, a scrap of parkland grass among the west London suburban homes…

Each of the eight teams has at least one key strength, from Swiss speed to Spanish defenceThe World Cup has reached the quarter-final stage and the favourites to reach the last four in descending order of likelihood, according to Opta, are France, Spain, Argentina and England. All eight remaining teams have positive…

⚽ All the latest as we look ahead to the quarter-finals⚽ Player guide | Bracketology| Golden Boot | Email usAs the Flight of the Conchords once said: “It’s business time.”The elongated tournament has needlessly been dragged out but it finally feels like the competition has begun in earnest. A few big boys…

Gary got a free festival ticket and agreed to go halves on a full-price one for Rita, but now he won’t stop going on about it. He says calling it a favour is simply a fact. You decide who the party pooper is• Find out how to get a disagreement settled or become a jurorThe way he presents it makes me feel as though…

Like tradwifery for children, this revamp of the 19th-century settlers show is a precision-tooled and well-oiled machine. It’s a cosy world full of faith, hope and the American wayI never actually watched an episode of Little House on the Prairie, though it bestrode my late 70s-early 80s’ childhood like a…

She was a member of the influential rap collective, then the alt-R&B hitmakers – but struggled to find her own voice. Now, after realising she ‘didn’t like anybody else’s beats’, she’s made a solo album that is truly hersThere was a time when Sydney Bennett really wanted “something to show for all of…

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