100% pure nuance. https://www.theguardian.com/profile/jonathan-liew
column on ceuta and the new phenomenon of "border porn": migration as livestream spectacle, the frontier as computer game www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Ceuta was a carnival of anti-migrant content for hateful opportunists on the right – and a lesson for the left | Jonathan LiewIt was framed as a perfect storm because nativists dearly wanted it to be. Looking on, progressives failed to meet the moment too, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Liewwww.theguardian.comcolumn on pogacar and littler, and the deceptive fragility of dominance www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/j...
Double tops: Littler and Pogacar in a class of their own, but nothing lasts for ever | Jonathan LiewThe champions are capable of shattering every record in a temporary aligning of the planets, the elusiveness of pure perfectionwww.theguardian.comthe result is no longer the result www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/j...
Don’t like the result? Don’t worry, sport no longer ends on the field of play | Jonathan LiewFrom the wrong headset in an F2 garage to Fifa overturning a red card, we are in a landscape where fairness is the enemywww.theguardian.com(on at least two levels): cannot believe people are falling for this
UK Prime Minister UpdatesA very warm welcome to Downing Street, Prime Minister Andy Burnham.
column on the world cup and the fragility of nationalism www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
What’s left after this World Cup? A kind of messy hope | Jonathan LiewKazakhs cheering Uzbeks, Bengalis wild for Argentina … This tournament was once a playground for nationalism. Now it shows how flimsy that allegiance is, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Liewwww.theguardian.comI wrote about England and Argentina, a rivalry that you often see described as “asymmetric” or “a grudge match”, but is really a kind of fascinating dialogic relationship, based largely in shared values and - in the Age of Saturation - nourished by scarcity www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Love and hate collide: England v Argentina is not simply a grudge match | Jonathan LiewLook beyond the flashpoints and flare-ups and perhaps this is the greatest and most romantic of footballing rivalrieswww.theguardian.com“what was everyone cheering, really? three little letters on a television graphic. a flag. the idea that this guy, the son of a French multimillionaire and a member of the All England Club, is somehow doing it for all of us.” www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/j...
No more Fery-tales: fantastical fever dream is over and now the hard work startsThe last person in the stadium who truly believed was Arthur Fery himself, outclassed but never outfought, a 5ft 9in battery pack in a world of power plantswww.theguardian.comone of the greatest games I’ve ever seen at Wimbledon. www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/j...
Muchova into Wimbledon final after nailbiting tie-break defeat of Coco GauffKarolina Muchova edged out Coco Gauff in a deciding-set tie-break, saving a match point in a dramatic last-four clash to reach her first Wimbledon finalwww.theguardian.comone of the best things written about this World Cup and it’s not even really about the World Cup
Nick AmesSpecial report from Port Arthur, Texas. It is one of the saddest, most desolate places I have ever visited. It is also where Aramco, FIFA's major worldwide partner and an inescapable presence at the World Cup, owns the largest oil refinery in the US. www.theguardian.com/football/202...
stood for nothing. meant nothing. a sales gimmick wrapped in the clothes of revolution, a shrine to self-interest, disruption for disruption's sake. on the end of the stokes/mccullum era. www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/j...
Bazball ends with a whimper to expose emptiness of English men’s cricket | Jonathan LiewTrent Bridge was not just the end of Ben Stokes’ career, it was further confirmation that Bazball stood for nothingwww.theguardian.comday one at wimbledon, where I try not to get too excited about mirra andreeva, and mostly fail www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/j...
Mirra Andreeva clears first hurdle at Wimbledon in bid to join greatsThe new French Open champion is trying to follow it up with SW19 glory, something only the very best have achievedwww.theguardian.comon germany, klopp, neuer, and the dangers of institutional nostalgia www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Germany trapped between past and future with team lost in identity malaise | Jonathan LiewThe ghosts of 2014 and Jürgen Klopp dominate the debate, leaving Julian Nagelsmann’s side caught between two eraswww.theguardian.com