Man vs bin
Nigel Farage wants to be humiliated
An operator like Farage surely can’t have found his way into this by-election mess by accident
The Weekend Report
Under siege on the Gaza flotilla
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.
Britain must now unite behind Count Binface
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.
From Canada
via Global News
Canada
‘It’s looking good’: Carney chats pipelines while mingling at Calgary Stampede
Carney said he's optimistic the pipeline will get done and that polling across the country shows it has majority support.
Weather
More heat and air quality warnings issued across Canada as baking temperatures continue
Heat warnings and air quality alerts from Environment Canada stretched on Sunday from Regina through Winnipeg, across northern and southern Ontario, and into Quebec.
Crime
Salsa on St. Clair festival cancelled in aftermath of deadly shootings
Toronto police say the fatal shooting Saturday night at the Salsa on St. Clair festival appears to have been from two men in the crowd firing at each other, not a random shooter.
U-s-news
US strikes Iran over latest ship attack and Tehran responds by hitting Arab states
The fighting raised new questions about the interim deal Iran and the U.S. reached on June 17, beginning a 60-day period aimed at reaching a permanent end to the war.
Canada
Ford and Unifor strike tentative deal for three-year labour contract
The tentative agreement covers roughly 5,000 workers at five plants in southern Ontario and one in Alberta.
Politics
Trump ally Sen. Lindsey Graham dies after brief, unexpected illness, his office says
Sen. Lindsey Graham was one of President Donald Trump's closest allies in Congress and traveled the globe to advocate for a more aggressive U.S. foreign policy.
Crime
2 dead, 4 injured after ‘exchange of gunfire’ in the middle of Toronto street festival
Weather
Tornado warning ends for parts of Manitoba
Weather
Heat wave fuels record-tying 10 tornadoes in Saskatchewan
Fire
Veteran pilot killed fighting N.W.T. wildfire was a trusted leader and patient mentor
Consumer
New gene technology could help Canadian canola cope with extreme weather
World
Trump and Iran’s supreme leader trade threats as mediators try to save their crumbling deal
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Culture
Canada's World Cup superfans are betting savings, sleep and sanity on a home tournament
The global crises Andy Burnham cannot escape
“This is the Nato summit of reactionary nationalism”
In Hong Kong, I saw the coming Chinese century
Comment
The shop window is being rebuilt in data — and Canada is dangerously unprepared
Mehdi Hasan: No one in America cares about the UK
No party in this USA
Benjamin Netanyahu hasn’t lost the battle yet
Business
The Bank of Canada is quietly running out of room — and Carney knows it
British Politics
Man arrested over Ann Widdecombe death
What is Nigel's game?
Nigel Farage, the confidence trickster
Last gambit
Nigel Farage resigns, triggering Clacton by-election
Politics
Canada Football 2026: A nation's confidence test
Teflon man
Is there any scandal that can stop Nigel Farage?
Education
Government mis-sold student loans to a generation, report finds
The Burnham Project
The Productive State: A framework for Manchesterism
The Weekend Essay
Lawless in Gaza
International Politics
ECHR derangement syndrome
The Weekend Essay
Apartheid fetishism
The Weekend Essay
“How the World Declared War on America”
Food & Drink
Ice cream is so hot right now
Film
Rosebush Pruning delights in its own bad taste
The Weekend Interview
Ludovico Einaudi repeats himself
Theatre
To Kill a Mockingbird proves that America has regressed
TV
Larry David, honorary Englishman
The Hillbilly Gospel