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‘The weirdos were taking over!’ Tate Britain relives the 1990s

A new exhibition curated by Edward Enniful looks back on the thrilling decade before smartphones, when art, music and fashion came together with a bang

UK's military needs to focus spending on domestic defense, not overseas missions

Exclusive: Thinktank says Britain’s drive towards global commitments is symptom of ‘outdated foreign policy’

Agate Head / Stone Soup by Patricia Lockwood review

Inspired by stones and metals, the memoirist and novelist’s first poetry collection for more than a decade is charming, whimsical and intimate

'I feel perfectly safe': white Lutonians on the town’s supposed no-go zones

Little if any sign Bury Park is a place where any group might fear to tread, despite Tory MP’s comments to the contrary

Rachel Roddy’s recipe for cheese and bread balls

These highly crunchable cheesy bread balls are a great way to use up odds and ends

Stockpile food – and wash your hands: is that really how to prepare for environmental catastrophe?

The UK state is dumping its responsibilities on our doorsteps, while green-lighting policies that lead us closer to crisis

South Korea threatens legal action if fuel shipments to Russia found to have broken law

Responding to a Guardian report that revealed thousands of tonnes of fuel was transported to Russia, Seoul said it was investigating the cases

The dreadful decline of hosting at home: ‘I feel shame any time a friend comes over’

It used to be quite normal to pop next door for a coffee or invite friends over for dinner. But not any more. What’s behind this change – and just how damaging is it?

Germany is right to rearm. But Europe has well-founded fears about that

Berlin’s allies are right to be wary of a sudden surge in German military spending that shuns cooperation with them

‘He punched a polar bear on the nose!’ Ninety glorious years of Brian Blessed

Peeing in the sink he shared with Derek Jacobi, making a badger video with Brian May, climbing Everest with Alan Hinkes … as the great actor blasts into his 90s, stars celebrate his ‘loudness and madness’

Sardinian village where more women reach 100 may be new centenarian ‘blue zone’

In Bolotana, 70 miles from island’s original blue zone, 13% of women who reach 70 will live on to a century

A death, a plagiarism scandal and a quest for revenge: the bizarre tale of Otto Z

After his mother died, Otto became convinced he’d been wronged by the forensic investigators – and that one of them was a fraud. The truth was even stranger