The translator of Homer’s classic poem, now adapted for the big screen, explains the text’s enduring power By Tanjil Rashid Daniel Mendelsohn is a literary polymath; he writes memoirs, monographs, ...

Andy Burnham is the new leader of the Labour party after the results of the party’s uncontested leadership election were announced on Friday (17 July) afternoon. In a speech to the party faithful at ...

With Marine Le Pen now free to run in next year’s election, France is entering uncharted political territory By Julian ...

The murder of Ann Widdecombe has one lesson: both left and right need to detoxify our public discourse ...

Can we move past our decade of failure? By Tom McTague In his later life, travelling on the train home one day, the former Conservative Party leader Alec Douglas-Home was approached by an elderly lady ...

Nigel Farage is facing his biggest challenge since he became an MP two years ago after a string of revelations about his ...

Culture change will require some “heads on spikes”, as one insider puts it By Ailbhe Rea Tony Blair had some advice for his younger self this week, speaking at his eponymous institute’s glitzy summer ...

Uniting capital and labour is easier in rhetoric than in government By Vladimir Bortun After weeks of growing scrutiny over the £5m gift received from the Thailand-based billionaire Christopher ...

After Exeter’s announcement that it will cut 150 academic jobs, is there any hope for higher education? By Ella Dorn The sleepy city of Exeter has become the locus of the country’s fraught battle over ...

How can the UK protect its critical national infrastructure from cyberattacks? Ransomware, hostile state actors and AI-enabled attacks are changing the threat landscape Cyberattacks on the UK’s ...

The Reform leader framed the contest as the “people vs the establishment” By Ethan Croft Nigel Farage has triggered a by-election in his Clacton constituency as he attempts to outrun press questions ...

As Andy Burnham changed Labour politics with one by-election, so Farage hopes to do the same By Andrew Marr One crucial element of the Clacton by-election ignited by Nigel Farage is that it sharpens ...