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Cloudflare outage cause revealed as major websites disrupted

The outage affected X, Substack, Canva and many more websites

The Independent UK · Dec 5, 2025

‘Their pursuits are the cigar and the siesta’: how two centuries of British writers helped forge our view of Spain

Laurie Lee and Robert Graves among ‘English-speaking Quixotes’ in new book celebrating literary love for all things Spanish

The Guardian - UK · Apr 20, 2025

In brief: A Ride Across America; This Motherless Land; Be Mine – reviews

A bicycle-led musing on the state of the US; a page-turning, Nigerian-inflected reworking of Mansfield Park; and a wistful final chapter for Richard Ford’s sportswriter Frank Bascombe

The Guardian - UK · Jul 21, 2024

Fiction to look out for in 2023

With new work from Richard Ford, Lorrie Moore and Zadie Smith, plus second novels by Caleb Azumah Nelson and Guy Gunaratne, this is shaping up to be a memorable 12 months

The Guardian - UK · Jan 1, 2023

6 wounded in shooting outside funeral at church in Pittsburgh, police say

PITTSBURGH — Gunfire erupted outside a funeral Friday, leaving six people wounded and continuing a spate of gun violence across Pittsburgh’s North Side.

Tribune News Service · Oct 28, 2022

Sam Byers: ‘JM Coetzee made me vegetarian’

The novelist on being inspired by the Beats, discovering Chekhov, and taking notes from Pierre Boulez

The Guardian - UK · Sep 23, 2022

Rail route of the month: Barcelona to Cádiz, the slow train right across Spain

Our slow travel expert takes a 12-hour odyssey from Mediterranean Catalonia – via Cervantes, bandit and sherry country – to Atlantic Andalucía

The Guardian - UK · Apr 5, 2022

Where My Feet Fall: Going for a Walk in Twenty Stories review, edited by Duncan Minshull – the wander years

Richard Ford, Kamila Shamsie and Tim Parks, among others, shed light on the life-affirming joy of rambling, whether through familiar streets or uncharted territory

The Guardian - UK · Mar 13, 2022