Populist radicals are storming the Democratic Party. Is this the US left’s Maga moment? By Freddie Hayward A political revolution is happening on the left of American politics. This summer, a young, ...

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 response from Pyongyang to the US president’s overtures has been silence By Katie Stallard Donald Trump appears to be trying to get Kim Jong Un’s attention. On 16 August, as the US military was ...

The Labour Party’s annual conference in September 1952 was uniquely brutal. Delegates arrived in Morecambe to lashings of rain: the Cumbrian peaks across the bay were barely visible. After a sobering ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The university’s place in the public imagination is as illusory as Jason Arday’s academic credentials By David Runciman Oceans of virtual ink have been spilled about the case of Jason Arday because it ...

Whatever AOC now claims, the psychic distortions we call “woke” are the currency of American politics By Lee Siegel “Woke 1.0 was crazy.” So saideth Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and it’s a measure of the ...

I’m willing to ignore that Burnham was born in Liverpool No one could sing away the politics at the first Fleadh to be held in Belfast Politics has become showbusiness because showbusiness has gone ...

The author and Bloomberg columnist on the threat to global democracy By Oli Dugmore Oli Dugmore: There are two strands that I think are probably going to follow the course of our conversation over the ...

It will take more than a pact to win back the radical right By Ben Walker It is Friday 19 June and Nigel Farage is in Lancashire, standing in front of a camera, the rolling countryside behind him. He ...