Get all your news in one place.
100’s of premium titles.
One app.
Start reading
The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business

Weekend reading: Puppet boy, palms and fake nature

Jordan Wolfson’s Colored Sculpture is contorted into different positions as it is moved around with mechanised chains at the Tate Modern in London.
Jordan Wolfson’s Colored Sculpture is contorted into different positions as it is moved around with mechanised chains at the Tate Modern in London. Photograph: Hannah Mckay/Reuters

Rewriting history

After Windrush, how can black Tories stand by their party?

Many Britons from minority ethnic backgrounds are natural conservatives, but they will struggle to shake off the continued hypocrisy of this government

The ‘Empire Windrush’ arriving from Jamaica, 1948.

Updated

Unnatural nature

‘There’s a lot of fakery’: insiders on the dirty tricks behind wildlife photography

After a photographer lost an award for allegedly using a taxidermy anteater, colleagues describe cases of glued insects and trained tigers

Night Raider by Marcio Cabral.

Updated

Planking to pizzas

The new rules for a successful meeting

Amazon employees sit in silence – while Tesla boss Elon Musk advocates walking out if you aren’t adding value. But how can you stop wasting your life in pointless meetings? Here’s an expert guide

Pizza.

A question for sport

Caster Semenya and the IAAF: if the science is wrong, the ruling is wrong

The case isn’t just about sport, or sex, or gender, but ethics, politics, culture, race and science. Expert opinion is split. Which is why the arguments have been going back and forth for the best part of a decade

Caster Semenya

Pull the other one

Jordan Wolfson: ‘This is real abuse not a simulation’

Creepy and vengeful, Wolfson’s puppet boy is violently smashed to the floor at Tate Modern – then threatens to fight back. But is the controversial US artist just yanking our chain?

Jordan Wolfson’s “Colored Sculpture”

‘Breathtakingly beautiful’

Kew’s Temperate House reopens after revamp

Five-year project involved moving 10,000 plants and replacing 15,000 panes of glass

Kew Gardens glasshouse

A picture in Time

Art Shay: acclaimed photographer - in pictures

Shay, who has died aged 96, photographed celebrities, politicians and ordinary Americans during a career that spanned 70 years. His work for publications including Time, Life and Sports Illustrated made him one of the most respected photojournalists of his generation

Muhammad Ali

Updated

Shock tactics

The toxic legacy of Canada’s CIA brainwashing experiments: ‘They strip you of your soul’

In the 1950s and 60s, a Montreal hospital subjected psychiatric patients to electroshocks, drug-induced sleep and huge doses of LSD. Families are still grappling with the effects decades on

Ravenscrag

Updated

All together now

Six of the best one-pot meals

Cut down on the washing up with these all-in-one dishes, including pork ribs with dumplings, chard gratin and Korean beef stew

Korean spicy beef stew.

Updated

Sign up to read this article
Read news from 100’s of titles, curated specifically for you.
Already a member? Sign in here
Related Stories
Top stories on inkl right now
One subscription that gives you access to news from hundreds of sites
Already a member? Sign in here
Our Picks
Fourteen days free
Download the app
One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.