The Weekend Interview
Gary Stevenson: Ballooning billionaire wealth is a cancer
The economist on wealth inequality, Dan Neidle and the next prime minister
This England
Aunt Sally, Oxfordshire’s secret addiction
Books
What did women want?
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.
Green Party plan to attack Shabana Mahmood revealed by internal memo
Zack Polanski’s party will take aim at her immigration reforms should she be appointed chancellor
Count Binface is the establishment at its worst
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
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.
Zelensky hands Putin an unexpected gift
Large crowds in Ukraine are protesting the decision to fire the country’s popular defence minister Mykhailo Fedorov
Under siege on the Gaza flotilla
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World
U.S. strikes Iran over troop deaths as campaign against Tehran continues
Step by step, the U.S. and Iran have returned closer to all-out war as last month's interim deal meant to permanently end the fighting has crumbled.
Crime
Tate brothers arrested in Miami as U.K. seeks extradition: U.S. Marshals Service
British prosecutors announced Saturday that they were seeking the brothers’ extradition on charges alleging they raped and trafficked women between 2010 and 2017.
Health
Canada temporarily bars foreign nationals who visited Congo amid Ebola risk
Ottawa is launching a temporary ban on foreign nationals entering Canada if they have visted DRC, the site of an ebola outbreak, 21 days before coming to this country.
Sports
Canada’s months-long World Cup party comes to an end with final
The championship match, expected to draw a global television audience of nearly two billion viewers, closes the first 48-team men's World Cup and Canada's role as a host.
Canada
Calgary police to use Disney music to help in search for missing child
An Amber Alert was issued on Saturday for Parker, with the province issuing an exemption to the alert for a vulnerable missing child.
Politics
Conservative MP Dane Lloyd named party’s Alberta ‘referendum lead’
Albertans will vote this October on whether to hold a future referendum on separation from Canada, with Lloyd expected to work to listen to Albertans and address their concerns.
Canada
Unifor releases details on tentative agreement with Ford
Canada
Amber Alert issued for missing 11-year-old vulnerable child in Calgary
Weather
Tornado warnings lifted for southern Ontario communities
Canada
Doug Ford visits Thunder Bay as northern Ontario fires force evacuations
Canada
Fears are widespread about data centre impacts on Canada’s water, environment: poll
Politics
Hoekstra says Trump serious about tariff threat over wildfire smoke
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Culture
Loyalist exodus shaped Canada after American Revolution
The global crises Andy Burnham cannot escape
“This is the Nato summit of reactionary nationalism”
In Hong Kong, I saw the coming Chinese century
World
Putin's offensive stalls as Ukrainian drones hit Russian fuel, testing NATO resolve
Mehdi Hasan: No one in America cares about the UK
No party in this USA
Politics
Andy Burnham: This is the biggest political change in 40 years
Culture
Rolling Stones' latest album feels familiar to North American fans
British Politics
Burnham’s Labour left allies call for a “progressive chancellor”
Constitution climbdown?
Andy Burnham is already under pressure over electoral reform
Comment
Violence has infected our politics
Business
The next SEO battle is not rankings. It is AI citations
Editor’s Note
Andy Burnham knows our nostalgia
Politics
Labour’s iron discipline
We hardly knew ye
PMQs review: A farewell to Starms
World
The Russian design bureau at the centre of Europe's shadow-fleet investigation
The Burnham Project
The Productive State: A framework for Manchesterism
The Weekend Essay
Lawless in Gaza
International Politics
ECHR derangement syndrome
Politics
Strangers in our midst
TV
Diane Morgan’s very human robot
Book of the Day