Ask AlysGardening advice‘Every June when it rains, my honeysuckle gets covered in grey mould’ The Guardian’s product and service reviews are independent and are in no way influenced by any advertiser or commercial initiative. We will earn a commission from the retailer if you buy something through an affiliate link. Learn more. Every year since I planted my honeysuckle four years ago, it looks fantastic in May. Then June rains come just as it flowers and it gets covered in grey mould, and drops its leaves and flowers. Read More...
US newsObituaryChet HelmsPromoter of Janis JoplinIn 1966 Janis Joplin received a phone call in Port Arthur, Texas, summoning her to the audition in San Francisco that was to launch her brief but spectacular career as one of the most iconic rock singers of the 1960s. That call was from concert promoter and hippy activist Chet Helms, who has died aged 62, following a stroke.
He was born in Texas and as a teenager was inspired by the beat generation writers, Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg, to travel across America in search of freedom and inspiration. Read More...
Society booksReviewWe are either racist or antiracist, there is nothing in between, argues this powerful memoir and political guide
If Ibram X Kendi has been a lifelong racist – as he confesses in this book – then we all have. This is the unsettling idea at the heart of How to Be an Antiracist, in which one of the US’s most respected scholars of race and history steps away from documenting the racist sins of others, and turns the lens pointedly, uncomfortably, at himself. Read More...