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Sirin Kale

Sirin Kale is a feature writer for the Guardian. Twitter @sirin_kale

July 2024

  • Zosia Mamet.

    Zosia Mamet on Girls, acclaim and nepo babies: ‘It’s not like you’re born to a famous family and the red carpet rolls out for you’

    She got her big break on Lena Dunham’s hit show – and has since established a great and growing career. The actor and writer discusses Madame Web, introversion and her surprisingly personal essays
  • Driving instructor Rachel Newland

    ‘They have you over a barrel’: how scammers, touts and bots took over driving tests

    It can take you six months to get a driving test in England – unless you’re willing to pay a middleman up to £350. What’s behind this black market? And is there any way to avoid it?
  • No game left behind … Joel Snape preps for the day.

    ‘I must have saved at least £100!’ Three writers try the no-spend challenge

    It’s the viral trend that involves cutting out unnecessary costs. So how difficult is it to buy absolutely nothing for a day each week – and will it change your life and bank balance?

June 2024

  • Glastonbury Festival, Day 2, UK - 27 Jun 2024<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Richard Isaac/REX/Shutterstock (14558110bd) Atmosphere. Female festival goers wearing colourful and sparkly hats and dresses on day 2 of the festival Glastonbury Festival, Day 2, UK - 27 Jun 2024

    Furry bucket hats for ever! The seven biggest fashion trends of Glastonbury 2024

  • ‘We live across the road from a Lidl and got these in the middle aisle!’ John Lee and Steph Leung.

    ‘Our shirts are from Lidl!’ 32 of Glastonbury’s greatest looks for 2024 – in pictures

May 2024

  • A worker is seen during clearing work in front of the destroyed building of the country guest house 'Jaegerstuebchen' in Laach, part of the municipality of Mayschoss, district of Ahrweiler, western Germany, on July 23, 2021.

    Down to Earth newsletter
    I’ve seen how deadly floods are devastating Europe – we are not prepared for what’s next

    In this week’s Down to Earth newsletter: what the Guardian’s Sirin Kale saw when reporting on environmental disasters in Germany, Belgium and the UK
  • Sofie Hagen portrait

    Weekend
    Comedian Sofie Hagen on eight years of celibacy, the £5 coffee is coming, and Philippa Perry offers advice on reconnecting with a sibling – podcast

    A flat white can set you back £5.19 in London – but should we swallow it?; Sofie Hagen loves sex – so why has it been 3,089 days since she’s had any?; and psychotherapist and Observer columnist Philippa Perry addresses a reader’s personal problem

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  • Illustration by Nathalie Lees

    The Audio Long Read
    From the archive: The battle over dyslexia – podcast

    This week, from 2020: It was once a widely accepted way of explaining why some children struggled to read and write. But in recent years, some experts have begun to question the existence of dyslexia itself. By Sirin Kale

April 2024

  • Composite image: Takeaway coffee cup with a fiver wrapped around it

    The £5 coffee is coming – but should we swallow it?

  • Maureen Gilbert with her parents

    The floods
    The tragic death of Maureen Gilbert: why did a much-loved mother die in her flooded home?

  • A worker clears debris outside a guesthouse near Altenahr in July 2021.

    The floods
    The German valley that was swept away: ‘The cemeteries gave up their dead’

  • Rosa Reichel

    The floods
    The life and death of Rosa Reichel: the brilliant girl who was swept away

  • The Audio Long Read
    From the archive – Out of thin air: the mystery of the man who fell from the sky – podcast

  • Full Story
    The rise and fall of Vice Media – Full Story podcast

March 2024

  • James Bassett standing behind Charlotte with his arms around her shoulders

    ‘My child was drowning’: life and death on an English maternity ward

  • Shane Smith

    Today in Focus
    The rise and fall of Vice Media

February 2024

  • Shane Smith

    Vice’s cunning, irreverent journalism is dead – and executives with bloated pay cheques helped kill it

    Sirin Kale
  • A young woman sitting in front of some lockers.

    My reporting showed the sheer horror of stalking. The police are failing victims – why won’t they take this crime seriously?

    Sirin Kale

January 2024

  • Sirin Kale with her son Cyrus.

    ‘I felt rage. I had traded my sanity for milk’: what happened when I breastfed despite the pain

  • Milda Mitkute sits on a wooden platform with her knees to her chest, smiling.

    The Vinted phenomenon: how one woman sold her clothes – and created a billion-dollar company

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