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TV tonight: another classic romp with The Count of Monte Cristo

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 2 May 2026

The enjoyable 2024 movie adaptation is sliced into a four-part series. Plus, White Lotus star Aimee Lou Wood hosts SNL UK! Here’s what to watch this evening

9pm, BBC Four

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The king went to Washington to save Britain’s bacon. He may also have shown the US how to save itself | Simon Tisdall

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 2 May 2026

Charles III’s subtle, much needed history lesson delivered the US some tough love. But will Trump get the message?

Of the many jokes cracked by King Charles during his visit to Washington, the one recalling the definitive 18th-century Anglo-French contest for dominion over the New World was the most pointed. Speaking at a state banquet in the White House, Charles turned to Donald Trump and said: “You recently commented, Mr President, that if it were not for the United States, European countries would be speaking German. Dare I say that, if it wasn’t for us, you’d be speaking French !”

Did Trump get it? Who knows? Broadly speaking, history, even their own, is not most Americans’ favourite subject. A forward-looking people, they do not dwell on the past, nor hanker after the illusory felicities of former glories. While generations of Britons still wallow in nostalgia for Spitfires, Churchill and Vera Lynn (and beating the French), Americans typically seek new metaphorical mountains to climb. Theirs is a positive outlook, on the whole. Except, under Trump, it has twisted into a revived, ugly version of US “ manifest destiny ” imperialism.

Simon Tisdall is a Guardian foreign affairs commentator

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The Devil Wears Prada 2 to Lenny Henry: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 2 May 2026

Meryl Streep stars in the long-awaited sequel to the fashion-industry hit, and the comic, actor and bona fide national treasure returns to the stage

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Beware the lunatic fringe: the Becky Barnicoat cartoon

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 2 May 2026

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Meera Sodha’s recipe for spring rice with feta, harissa and pine nut sauce | Meera Sodha recipes

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 2 May 2026

Basmati rice tossed with sweet onions and chickpeas, then mixed with green herbs and salty feta, and dotted with a spicy, lemony, pine nut sauce

Spring has a split personality. The idea of it is nice: frolicking through carpets of bluebells while wearing pastel-coloured trousers, etcetera. But the reality is that it’s often dicey and unreliable: hot one minute, cold and/or tipping down with rain the next. This is a recipe that has a foot in both sides of spring. There’s the warm comfort of basmati rice woven through with sweet onions, harissa and chickpeas, as well as the light frivolity of green herbs and the salty freshness of feta. All the flavour and freshness of spring with none of the unpredictability.

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‘We feel angry – and we have reason to be’: Brazil’s resurgent punk scene is a howl of outrage at injustice

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 2 May 2026

Thriving punk culture seen as response to frustrations at unemployment, urban violence, police brutality and deprivation

As black-clad police combatants charged into the hillside favela and opened fire, a black-clad punk scurried out of the community in the opposite direction, his hands trembling from fright.

“Holy shit! All those guns! Things are getting ugly!” spluttered Rodrigo Cilirio, the founder and bassist of one of Rio’s most enduring punk bands, as he took cover behind a tree.

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Tension and dissent: inside the Green party’s antisemitism struggle

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 2 May 2026

With a fast-expanding membership and electoral gains in sight, the Israel–Palestine debate is testing party unity

A Green party member for more than 30 years, Elise Benjamin admits to bittersweet feelings even as fellow activists anticipate a historic breakthrough in next week’s elections.

Benjamin was involved in drawing up the party’s guidance on antisemitism, which she describes as comprehensive. But the former Green councillor in Oxford now wonders whether further guidance is needed: “Now that we have such a large membership, I think there needs to be an urgent review of how to make our complaints process fit for purpose.”

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‘It’s super weird, super odd, super rare’: meet the twins who have different dads

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 2 May 2026

When DNA test results shattered everything Lavinia and Michelle thought they knew about their family history, they also revealed something never before documented in the UK

I like being a twin. It defines who I am,” Lavinia Osbourne tells me on the 49th birthday she shares with her sister, Michelle. “It’s amazing to have a twin and have a built-in friend for ever,” Michelle says. “I’ve been really blessed to go through this journey with someone else.”

Lavinia and Michelle know that those of us who haven’t shared a womb with a sibling can be fascinated by twins: their similarities, how they differ, whether there’s any kind of mysterious synergy between them.

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Maternal stereotypes, ‘emotional’ AI jailbreaks and a perfect UFO sighting

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 2 May 2026

Need something brilliant to read this weekend? Here are six of our favourite pieces from the last seven days