It's festival season and everyone has their own special memories of life-changing events in muddy fields. David Bowie, Howard Marks, Jade Jagger and a full supporting cast of stars recall the high and lows of lost weekends in the countryside. But who had to rescue their jacket from underneath the…

Since May 1, the phrase "lame duck" has been used in British newspapers on the Guardian's cuttings database (including all the main nationals apart from the FT) in 124 stories. This does not seem too great when you compare it to "Brussels" (1,156) "Celebrity Love Island" (713) or "political correctness"…

Oscar-winning actor and one of Hollywood's most prominent liberals, Jane Fonda, spoke to Lord Puttnam about four decades in the movies, improvisation and working with Katharine Hepburn. Here's a full transcript

Flanked by George Bush, Jacques Chirac and Junichiro Koizumi, Tony Blair announces the G8 agreements on Africa and climate change. Photograph: AP/Susan WalshThe final communique was supposed to come at 2.15pm. In the event it was delayed by more than half an hour. The expectations of the previous week and…

Last year, Caryl Phillips found himself bragging to a bar full of students about how he had climbed Kilimanjaro. By the end of the evening, he had agreed to do it again, with novelist Russell Banks - but this time by a more difficult route. Here is the story of…

March 9, 2015: Adelaide: local time 10.11 pm. A searing yorker from Rubel Hossain castles England's No.11 James Anderson for a second-ball duck. England chasing 276 for a place in the World Cup quarters are bowled out for 260 and the Lions get devoured by the Tigers. Bangladesh are through…