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
From Canada
via Global News
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.
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
Thousands of Canadian auto workers could secure three per cent wage increases every year for the next three if they agree to a new labour contract.
Canada
Amber Alert issued for missing 11-year-old vulnerable child in Calgary
Police also released new images from CCTV footage of Parker, 11, who went missing from the neighbourhood of Thorncliffe on Thursday.
Weather
Tornado warnings lifted for southern Ontario communities
Tornado warnings were briefly issued for parts of southern Ontario on Saturday, but have since been lifted.
Canada
Doug Ford visits Thunder Bay as northern Ontario fires force evacuations
There are nearly 200 wildfires burning in the province, sending thick smoke across Ontario and into parts of the United States.
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
Sports
Trump won’t hesitate to postpone World Cup final over Canadian wildfire smoke: U.S. ambassador
Canada
Accused Bishnoi gang associate agrees to deportation order
Crime
Convoy organizer Pat King guilty of intimidation, Appeal Court rules
Canada
Trump says he’ll be ‘holding Canada responsible’ for wildfire smoke
More headlines
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