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 ...

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 ...

Can a large language model learn literary judgement? By Phoebe Pascoe When Erin Hoover, the poet laureate of Cookeville, Tennessee, was getting her PhD in creative writing, her professor used to ask ...

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 ...

He couldn’t stop Brexit and Brexit couldn’t stop him. Now he’s getting his life back By Ethan Croft One man, two houses. The first, a Victorian terrace made of kidney-bean bricks, with a white PVC ...

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 ...

Nigel Farage is a canny political operator. There was a strategy behind his decision to resign the Clacton constituency and force a by-election. Reform’s vote share is on a downward trend in the ...

Since her fiery response to Rachel Reeves’s 2025 Budget, the Tory leader’s popularity has soared By Ben Walker Kemi Badenoch’s brand has never been better. Until Rachel Reeves’s 2025 Budget, few polls ...

But did they ever go away? By Malachi O'Doherty On 24 July a car containing what police described as an “extremely significant” bomb was stopped by Irish police in County Monaghan. It was en route to ...

Our Cold War nightmares have returned as a global arms race By Katie Stallard In the autumn of 2022, the United States picked up intelligence that Vladimir Putin was considering a nuclear strike in ...

All the locals we met were frustrated with politics and years of neglect By Anoosh Chakelian Clacton is a conundrum. A day out there can lead you from day-trippers enjoying the beautiful sandy ...