Did the Green Party top up its deputy leader’s wages with public money? Leeds City Council will review the allocation of £5,800 to Mothin Ali By Megan Kenyon The Green Party has been accused of using ...

A young man has died. Where was the possibility of absolution? By Rowan Williams A young man who has lived with different kinds of disadvantage all his life is elevated to a position of influence and ...

Behind every headline was a human being: a son, a brother, a colleague and a teacher By Simon Woolley The millions of people around the world who encountered Professor Jason Arday through the deluge ...

Dogs were bred to hunt and protect. Now they are pampered outlets for our anxieties By Finn McRedmond There is a lot of suffering in the world, but not much of it goes on at the annual Belgravia Dog ...

Brazil is leading the resistance to Trump’s imperial “Donroe” doctrine By James Schneider “American dominance in the Western Hemisphere will never be questioned again,” the US State Department ...

Her new album Lost Weekend intertwines heartbreak and new love with grieving her father’s death By Hannah Ison Phoebe Bridgers is a motorbike-riding elf queen in the music video of “Lost Boys”, the ...

The Reform leader now looks like the one who can’t take a joke By Jonn Elledge The traditional choice after winning an overwhelming victory in a by-election you triggered yourself would be to do some ...

Simon Winder is an author and a publishing director of Penguin Press. His books include Germania, Danubia and Lotharingia (Picador). Also this week: rediscovering a lost diary, and trying to complete ...

The Reform leader didn’t turn up to his own by-election By Anoosh Chakelian Nigel Farage has won the Clacton by-election, in a contest boycotted by every other major party. But in the end, even he ...

Can Andy Burnham move fast enough for voters? New polling suggests the Prime Minister understands what the country wants – but has limited time to deliver it By Rachel Cunliffe It took barely a summer ...

The prominent Reform member paid investigators to look into Gabriel Pogrund after his reporting on Nigel Farage’s finances By Emily Lawford Prominent Reform member Arron Banks hired private ...

Who’s to blame for Jason Arday? Arday isn’t a victim or a crook, but the product of a broken system By Steve Hall The Jason Arday affair has turned into a global furore. Arday is a young black man who ...