Andrew Anthony

From Bath to Weybridge and Winchester to Lytham St Annes, padel’s ‘gunfire-like’ acoustics are making locals seethe

Waste Wars by Alexander Clapp review – the filthy truth about trash

Sanjeev Bhaskar’s DI Khan remains stoical in the face of perfunctory dialogue; existential struggles hold up a new BBC crime drama; and occasional sporting action accompanies Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl victory

A councillor’s alleged attempt to blow up a bird-prowling moggie reveals the pet-loving divide runs deep

In the 1970s a ‘nude biologist brandishing a cigar’ wrote a game-changing sex manual. Now, ‘Shazza’ is putting his story on the big screen

The former politics professor is right to defend free speech in our higher education system, but his argument is undermined by his hysterical tone and lack of nuance

As the National Gallery’s sell-out Poets and Lovers draws to a close, the Observer joins the crowd in the early hours of the morning

House of Guinness is the latest in a long line of TV sagas with a super-rich – albeit dysfunctional – family at its heart. Is it their relatability that keeps us hooked?

The Dutch policy director and former MEP on the unprecedented reach of big tech, the need for confident governments, and why the election of Trump changes everything

The Canadian psychologist’s zealous exegesis of the Bible as a moral rulebook for life is long-winded and out of touch