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 ...

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 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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

My university must reject the racist narrative that this is the tip of the iceberg By Nicholas Guyatt It seems grimly fitting that the Jason Arday affair would take place during the hottest summer on ...

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 ...

It is now a Westminster rite of passage that, once in every political reporter’s life, they must go to Clacton, the seaside town that drowns in newspaper ink. On the train ride down, a few days before ...