Andrew Anthony
Andrew Anthony has been writing for the Observer since 1993 and for the Guardian since 1990. He is the author of On Penalties, published by Yellow Jersey Press and The Fallout, published by Jonathan Cape
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Tom Hiddleston and Taylor Swift: match made in heaven or a PR stunt?Ever since that photo appeared of the actor and the singer canoodling on a beach, cynics have suggested it was a set-up. Or could it be that two of the most glamorous showbiz stars are for real?
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Arianna Huffington: from bedroom to boardroom with the Uber womanLast week, the media operator and Huffington Post co-founder joined the board of the taxi giant. So how will the huge online news site reconcile this apparent conflict of interests?
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Muhammad Ali: rebel, showman and the lord of the ringThis week, an exhibition opens in London that honours the man whose charm, wit and courage, not to mention astonishing boxing skills, made him the greatest sportsman of the 20th century
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Gillian Slovo: ‘I think the 2011 riots sparked something in me’The author and playwright on the 2011 riots, the lure of Isis and finally adjusting to her home in England
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Jihadi John: The Making of a Terrorist by Robert Verkaik – reviewThis involving study attempts to explain what turned a seemingly ordinary London teenager into an Isis psychopath
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The week in radio: Sunday Feature: Keeping in Steppe; Private Passions; The Life ScientificMelancholy pervaded the air in Mongolia, and Robert Harris revealed a soft spot for Amy Winehouse and Michael Foot
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Sally Wainwright: the titan of genuine reality televisionNo one fashions drama out of the everyday quite like the writer of Happy Valley, which returns to BBC1 this week. But don’t expect the Bafta winner to shy away from showing people at their worst
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Jumpin’ Jack Flash: David Litvinoff and the Rock’n’Roll Underworld review – mover, shaker, myth-maker…Keiron Pim’s account of swinging London’s notorious fabulist, a man who befriended rock stars and gangsters, is absorbing and revealing
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Is free speech in British universities under threat?Universities are meant to be guardians of robust debate. Yet as campuses become ‘safe spaces’, the right of students not to be offended is taking priority
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Michael Caine: the class act who enjoys the political frayEurosceptics will have cheered at his disdain for the EU last week. Others will be pleased that the master craftsman who ‘retired’ a couple of decades ago excels in a new film and has more in train
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Rupert Murdoch and Jerry Hall? They’re not such an odd coupleThirty years after he smashed the Fleet Street print unions, the media tycoon can still surprise us all. And yet, according to his biographer, Murdoch has always craved beautiful, strong women
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Civilisations: Three presenters, 10 parts, one epic history of the world’s cultureIn revisiting the landmark series Civilisation, presenters Mary Beard, David Olusoga and Simon Schama must face the challenge of following some of the most celebrated television of all time
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2015 goes down as a stunning sporting year full of surprises and superlativesTyson Fury, Leicester City and Japan’s rugby union side all produced astonishing successes while even England’s cricket team discovered how to entertain
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Richard III, and now top of the league: a Midlands city finds its place in historyAfter another thrilling victory Leicester lead the Premier League. And this multicultural city is revelling in the moment
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UberPool: ‘Why at peak time in London does no one want to share a cab – or at least with me?’Taxi app Uber is allowing customers to save cash and cut traffic by sharing rides with strangers – a system already working in New York and Paris. We sent our writer on a test
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Should authority figures hide their emotions?Is it acceptable for a BBC news reporter or a judge to cry while doing their job?
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Black power’s coolest radicals (but also a gang of ruthless killers)With the US convulsed by contemporary incidents of racist police brutality, a new documentary charts the rise of the Black Panthers.
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Katherine Parkinson: ‘Comedy is instinctive – you don’t have to do any homework’
The New Review Q&A; Katherine Parkinson: ‘Comedy is instinctive – you don’t have to do any homework’
The actor talks sitcoms, clay modelling – and her knack of making a mess in the kitchen
Matt Damon and Paul Greengrass: ‘You said we’d never make another Bourne’