Climate
Welcome to the Pyrocene
This summer has proved that some people would rather watch things burn than inconvenience capitalism
Comment
Inside Scottish Labour’s civil war
Mario Vargas Llosa’s demons
A new book plumbs the autobiographical wells of his fiction
Culture
American classicist Daniel Mendelsohn calls The Odyssey a blueprint for all comedy
The Bard College professor and New York Review of Books editor brings levity and moral gravity to his new Penguin Classics translation of Homer.
Art & Design
Photographing the world’s “young, rebellious scum”
Culture
Christopher Nolan's Odyssey brings Hollywood spectacle to Homer's epic
The director's new adaptation sparks casting debate while the original poem remains untouched.
Culture
Frank Cottrell-Boyce’s canon for children
Culture
George Cottrell's U.S. money-laundering case and ties to Nigel Farage
The British operative pleaded guilty to U.S. wire fraud charges before resurfacing in London with Nigel Farage.
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Sports
Prime Minister Carney says he has no confidence in FIFA president Infantino
The prime minister’s comments add to growing calls for Infantino’s resignation following an abandoned plan to sell off commercial rights to the World Cup to private investors.
U-s-news
Marine One carrying Trump had close call with plane near D.C. airport
Officials were investigating what happened after a commercial jet took off from Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport on Tuesday just as Marine One was approaching.
Canada
Carney says possibility of jets at Billy Bishop airport not nixed ‘forever’
Prime Minister Mark Carney's government rejected Ford's vision last month following a consultation largely opposed to the idea of jets.
Crime
Mexican influencer Cesar Gastelum shot dead during livestream
Gastelum, who had nearly 600,000 followers on TikTok and was best known for posting comedy skit videos, was streaming outside a fast food restaurant when he was shot.
Sports
Carney joins criticism of Infantino as FIFA leader after sell-off plan
Carney said keeping the now-abandoned World Cup sell-off plan a secret from senior FIFA staff was a 'fatal' move on Infantino's part and 'not how you run any business.'
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SpaceX rocket crashed on the moon, scientists say: ‘100% confidence’
Once imaging is returned, scientists say it will confirm what NASA predicted: that the rocket’s upper stage unintentionally slammed into the moon, carving out a large crater.
Canada
Carney says Canada involved ‘from the start’ in NATO intern spying case
Crime
Kaylee Goncalves’s sister speaks out for 1st time on Idaho student murders
Health
GLP-1 drugs are driving higher sales for Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk
Canada
Most Jewish students say they experienced antisemitism on campus: survey
Entertainment
Tate McRae responds to MAGA rumours: ‘I think it’s pretty obvious’
Sports
Toronto Raptors sign guard Andre Jackson Jr.
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Culture
Loyalist exodus shaped Canada after American Revolution
Andy Burnham is the Green Party’s biggest threat yet
Donald Trump is searching for a legacy
The Ceuta crisis will strengthen “Fortress Europe”
World
Putin's offensive stalls as Ukrainian drones hit Russian fuel, testing NATO resolve
Europe’s age of fire
The new nuclear terror
The responsibility of scientists
Culture
Rolling Stones' latest album feels familiar to North American fans
Andy Burnham’s shtick won’t work on Donald Trump
The betrayal of the South African dream
Andy Burnham must not bow to Trump
Business
The next SEO battle is not rankings. It is AI citations
Politics
Before Count Binface, there was Catmando
Reform vs Restore
Even the Royal Navy can’t save Nigel Farage
Comment
The revenge of Old Labour
World
The Russian design bureau at the centre of Europe's shadow-fleet investigation
British Politics
Kemi Badenoch is the Conservative Party’s only hope
The Weekend Report
The battle for Birmingham’s flags
British Politics
Labour retains the Manchester mayoralty
Society
The Bonehill-Paine affair leaves the Tories with questions to answer
Aftermath
Europe failed Spain in Ceuta
Silver Spoon
What we owe to bread
TV
In praise of crap daytime TV
Theatre
Sarah Kane’s Cleansed leaves you feeling anything but
Film