BTS This article is more than 5 years oldBTS: Korean band's managers apologise over Nazi photosThis article is more than 5 years oldBig Hit Entertainment said it ‘had no intention of causing distress or pain’ when member posed in offensive outfit
The agency representing the K-pop band BTS has offered its “sincere apologies” following a row over photographs showing one member of the group wearing a Nazi-inspired hat and another a T-shirt that appeared to celebrate the atomic bombings of Japan.
LGBTQ+ rights This article is more than 11 years oldChuck Norris attacked over anti-gay scouts articleThis article is more than 11 years oldLesbian ex-scout leader slaps down 1980s action star after he claimed gay people have no place in the scouting movementA lesbian mother who was ousted as a American boy scout leader because of her sexual orientation has slapped down 1980s action star Chuck Norris after he claimed gay people have no place in the scouting movement.
Doris LessingDoris Lessing: key quotesThe author on family, writing, the Nobel prize, ageing and attitudes to men"What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better."
The Golden Notebook
"We should never underestimate the conservatism of the literati ... When The Golden Notebook came out nobody noticed that it was quite an interesting form I was using, they were much too obsessed by the fact that I was meant to be anti-male, this ball-breaker.
How to cook the perfect ...PorkThe Italian version of hog roast, stuffed with garlic and herbs and generously salted, is utterly sublime. But lacking consensus on how to prepare it, I’ve had to spend a month testing slow-cooked pork and salty cracklingLike most right-thinking omnivores, I love a hog roast – insincere apologies to any vegetarians still reading, but I’m rarely happier than when clutching a white roll overflowing with tender meat and crispy fat in my greedy paw.
FilmAs the astonishing story of the king’s bones being discovered in Leicester hits the screen, we meet the sleuth whose extraordinary tenacity – despite chronic illness – located the monarch
I can actually remember where I was when it was announced that Richard III’s remains had been found under a car park in Leicester, 10 years ago. It made headlines globally, most likely because of the juxtaposition: “It’s a car park and it’s that king,” says Philippa Langley.
Electronic musicInterviewObay Alsharani: the Syrian refugee keeping his mind free with ambient musicJoe MuggsThe music producer escaped Assad’s Syria and ended up in a Swedish refugee centre, where the space and minimalism of ambient allowed him to express his alienation
The 30-year-old Syrian producer Obay Alsharani’s debut album, Sandbox, is stunning. Its textural layers and floating fragments of melody easily match Burial or Boards of Canada’s abilities to deliver devastating emotion with a dreamy lightness of touch.
Samia Yusuf Omar competes in the women’s 200m heats in Beijing, 2008. Photograph: Stu Forster/Getty ImagesView image in fullscreenSamia Yusuf Omar competes in the women’s 200m heats in Beijing, 2008. Photograph: Stu Forster/Getty ImagesGuardian Africa networkSomaliaAs the Somali team prepares for Rio, the memory of this 21-year-old – who died trying to find safety and coaching in Europe – looms large
In 2008, a thin 17-year-old Somali athlete settled in to her starting block in lane two to prepare for the Olympic 200m dash.
DesignIkea’s solar-powered Better Shelter lasts six times longer than a typical emergency tent and has already changed the lives of thousands of refugees around the world
When Hind and Saffa Hameed arrived at the Al Jamea’a refugee camp in Baghdad in 2015, having been hounded from their home in Ramadi by Islamic State militants, they had never been so glad to see an Ikea product. It wasn’t a Billy bookcase or Malm bed – but an entire flat-pack refugee shelter.
The Guardian picture essayColdplayAdventure of a Lifetime – behind the scenes on the set of Coldplay's new videoGuardian photojournalist Sarah Lee was granted exclusive access to the set of Coldplay’s groundbreaking, Mat Whitecross-directed music video at the Imaginarium, a digital motion capture studio set up by Andy Serkis and Jonathan Cavendish in London
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Michael Tomasky's blogUS domestic policyAyn Rand, socialistNow this one is fascinating. From Joshua Holland at Alternet:
[Ayn Rand's] books provided wide-ranging parables of "parasites," "looters" and "moochers" using the levers of government to steal the fruits of her heroes' labor. In the real world, however, Rand herself received Social Security payments and Medicare benefits under the name of Ann O'Connor (her husband was Frank O'Connor).
As Michael Ford of Xavier University's Center for the Study of the American Dream wrote, "