Geopolitics
The global crises Andy Burnham cannot escape
The PM-in-waiting will find himself stretched between Manchester, Westminster and the international stage
The Sketch
In the cult of Kemi, nothing is real
The downfall of the Oxbridge don
British academic life was not prepared for the shocks of student protests and Thatcherism
Business
The next SEO battle is not rankings. It is AI citations
As Google, ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity reshape online discovery, brands are discovering that visibility now depends on whether AI systems can understand, trust and cite them.
Mythos
The avengers of the Odyssey
World
The Russian design bureau at the centre of Europe's shadow-fleet investigation
PKB Petrobalt rarely features in discussions of Moscow's naval power. Now the EU is examining its role in designing the civilian vessels Western officials fear are mapping undersea cables and pipelines.
Film
Rosebush Pruning delights in its own bad taste
Politics
Carney's ‘AI for All’ is a pro-worker plan that forgot the workers
The Prime Minister has bet more than $2bn on artificial intelligence and 250,000 new jobs. But a strategy with no duty to retrain — or even to warn — is straining the limits of his pro-worker branding.
Britain must now unite behind Count Binface
A court without fools is a dangerous place
Four things we learned from PMQs
From Canada
via Global News
Trending
Florida’s West Palm Beach airport is now named after Donald Trump
The renaming of the airport, which is minutes from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in West Palm Beach, was projected to cost upwards of US$5.5 million, according to Politico.
Fire
‘A wound that cannot be repaired’: Two fallen N.W.T. wildfire fighters identified
Two of the three people who died after a plane fighting wildfires in the Northwest Territories went down last month have been identified.
Crime
Suspect arrested in Coney Island shooting that left 8 injured, including 4 children
The suspect has been charged with eight counts of attempted murder with multiple victims and eight counts of attempted murder, according to the NYPD.
Entertainment
Katie Couric reveals bout of temporary amnesia syndrome
Episodes can last from one to 24 hours and often occur later in the day. Once resolved, symptoms rarely recur, though it is not impossible, the National Institutes of Health said.
Canada
Turkish president gifts personalized guns to Carney, other NATO leaders
A placard in the gift box says this was the first type of revolver manufactured in Turkey in the 1990s and that the commemorative firearms were made by Turkish firm MKE.
Entertainment
Justin Baldoni breaks silence on Blake Lively legal battle: ‘We didn’t want to add to the noise’
'If you've ever been through something traumatic, you know that healing isn't linear,' Justin Baldoni said in an Instagram video alongside his wife Emily.
Weather
Heat wave could push humidex to 45 in Manitoba, Saskatchewan
World
U.S. and Iran exchange fire as interim peace deal unravels
Politics
Anand calls Iran’s attacks on Gulf ships ‘unacceptable’ and ‘unjustified’
Canada
Carney lands in Saudi Arabia, set to meet Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman
Entertainment
‘Total Eclipse of the Heart’ singer Bonnie Tyler dead at 75
Consumer
Why an anchovy shortage will make your next slab of salmon more expensive
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Culture
Canada's World Cup superfans are betting savings, sleep and sanity on a home tournament
Nigel Farage aims to scramble the narrative with his by-election gamble. It won’t work
Inside Britain’s Muslim Brotherhood
“This is the Nato summit of reactionary nationalism”
Comment
The shop window is being rebuilt in data — and Canada is dangerously unprepared
In Hong Kong, I saw the coming Chinese century
Mehdi Hasan: No one in America cares about the UK
No party in this USA
Business
The Bank of Canada is quietly running out of room — and Carney knows it
Benjamin Netanyahu hasn’t lost the battle yet
“I’m Palestinian, it’s impossible to look away”
Last gambit
Nigel Farage resigns, triggering Clacton by-election
Politics
Canada Football 2026: A nation's confidence test
Education
Government mis-sold student loans to a generation, report finds
British Politics
How to solve the Neet crisis
British Politics
Who will be Labour’s next general secretary?
A struggle to the death
Your Party, an autopsy
Northern Soul
Real devolution is a vision worth fighting for
The Burnham Project
The Productive State: A framework for Manchesterism
The Weekend Essay
Lawless in Gaza
Strike back
Britain’s next leader must be ready for war with Russia
US
Americans love queuing even more than we do
Culture
Ludovico Einaudi repeats himself
Theatre
To Kill a Mockingbird proves that America has regressed
TV
Larry David, honorary Englishman
The Hillbilly Gospel