The case has unleashed an avalanche of personal stories from struggling mothers and reckless conspiracies By Jill Filipovic Closing arguments began on Thursday 27 August in the trial of Lindsay Clancy ...

The Canadian prime minister thinks America’s hostility is now permanent By Freddie Hayward The most interesting aspect of Mark Carney’s speech on 22 August, which he delivered with dour resolve having ...

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 ...

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 ...

Nobody writes about drink, drugs and dissolution like Lawrence Osborne does By Clement Knox Following literary careers is a bit like watching a tightrope walker on a high wire. At first you’re ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The political fury over the early release proposals should be directed at our dangerous reoffending rates By Rachel Cunliffe The early-release scheme – the first big test of Andy Burnham’s nascent ...