
The next chancellor?
Even Labour voters are nervous about Ed Miliband
Rising energy bills matter a lot more to the public than net zero

Comment
Nigel Farage doesn’t care about Clacton

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.

How to stop agitators such as Tommy Robinson exploiting child grooming trials
Together, our courts and our press should make sure that justice is not only done, but seen to be done.

From the NS archive: Brüning and Hitler
From Canada
via Global News

Canada
Conservatives fear fundraising slump amid sagging polls, infighting
A Global News analysis of fundraising data suggests Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has attended just seven major fundraisers so far in 2026.

Canada
Canada Post paid $30.8M in 2025 for bonuses: ‘We understand the optics’
The mail carrier reported in April that it lost a record-breaking $1.57 billion before tax in 2025, citing labour uncertainty and barriers to modernization.

Canada
What to do if you lose power or air conditioning in a heat wave blackout
A Feb. 2025 Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) report states that "prolonged periods of extreme heat events can strain the power grid."

Health
U.S. FDA approves new breast cancer drug that could slow disease significantly
Revtorpyk is intended to treat patients with advanced breast cancer whose tumors have low levels of a protein called HER2 and no mutation in a gene called PIK3CA.

Entertainment
Taylor Frankie Paul says she admits ‘wrongdoing’ in MomTok feud with co-stars
'I never felt so betrayed and abandoned by so many people I would have stood by no matter how exhausted,' the 32-year-old reality star wrote of the ongoing MomTok feud.

Environment
How extreme heat and humidity fuels more dangerous storms — and tornadoes
As heat waves blanket parts of Canada, experts say the extreme heat and humidity can also 'fuel' severe thunderstorms — and even tornadoes.
Entertainment
‘Miracle on the Hudson’ pilot Captain ‘Sully’ reveals Alzheimer’s diagnosis
Entertainment
‘Bachelorette’ star Joe Amabile reveals ‘early stage’ brain tumour diagnosis
Trending
Ivy League economics professor suspects half his students cheat using AI
Investigations
Jeffrey Rath fought for First Nations. Now former clients are fighting him
Entertainment
Britney Spears defends photos of her hanging out of sunroof on L.A. freeway
U-s-news
E. Jean Carroll paid $5.8M following Trump sex abuse and defamation case
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Culture
Canada's World Cup superfans are betting savings, sleep and sanity on a home tournament
Sam Neill Q&A: “The world has been run far too long by dull white men“
The assassination of Charlie Kirk
Nigel Farage aims to scramble the narrative with his by-election gamble. It won’t work
Comment
The shop window is being rebuilt in data — and Canada is dangerously unprepared
Inside Britain’s Muslim Brotherhood
The global crises Andy Burnham cannot escape
“This is the Nato summit of reactionary nationalism”
Business
The Bank of Canada is quietly running out of room — and Carney knows it
In Hong Kong, I saw the coming Chinese century
Mehdi Hasan: No one in America cares about the UK
No party in this USA
Politics
Canada Football 2026: A nation's confidence test
Benjamin Netanyahu hasn’t lost the battle yet
The Weekend Essay
The transcendence of Thomas Tuchel
British Politics
Man arrested over Ann Widdecombe death
Comment
Rupert Lowe, podcast bro?
Cleverly vs Lammy
Four things we learned from PMQs
Take back control
Britain must now unite behind Count Binface
What is Nigel's game?
Nigel Farage, the confidence trickster
Education
How to kill a university’s reputation
Life
Could “Pride!” convert my Tory husband to musical theatre?
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
