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​The Guide #225: Everyone loves an origin story: Guardian debuts, from the Beatles to Donkey Kong

9 janvier 2026 à 18:00

​In this week’s newsletter: In the first of a new series, we’re digging into the archives to find the first fleeting mentions of pop culture’s great and good. But who’s this little lady?

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From Radiohead playing in backroom pubs as On a Friday to Timothée Chalamet’s early days as an Xbox YouTuber, it’s always fascinating to see the faltering first steps of famous folk. So in this week’s newsletter we’re launching a new regular feature, Origin stories, where we’ll look at how the Guardian first covered some now very familiar pop culture figures or institutions. And you’ll find out who the tyke above is, from a 1973 photoshoot, at the end.

To the archives!

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© Photograph: Frank Martin/The Guardian

© Photograph: Frank Martin/The Guardian

© Photograph: Frank Martin/The Guardian

The Guide #224: Bondage Bronte, to more comeback tours – what will be 2026’s big cultural hitters ?

3 janvier 2026 à 08:00

This first newsletter of the new year looks at some of the big questions we hope will be answered in the next 12 months, across film, TV, music and games

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Welcome to 2026! I hope you are enjoying the final dribblings of the festive break, before reality bites on Monday. As is now tradition (well, we did it once before), this first newsletter of the new year looks at some of the big questions we hope will be answered in the next 12 months, across film, TV, music and games. Hopefully it will double up as a decent primer for the year ahead too, though for a more exhaustive rundown check the Guardian’s 2026 previews for film, music, TV, gaming, stage and art. Right, let’s get on with it:

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© Composite: BBC, HBO., Alamy and Getty

© Composite: BBC, HBO., Alamy and Getty

© Composite: BBC, HBO., Alamy and Getty

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