The Great Con

Nigel Farage aims to scramble the narrative with his by-election gamble. It won’t work

Close supporters are worried the pressure will not relent, whatever happens in Clacton

Americans love queuing even more than we do

Donald Trump’s 4 July parade was an assault on the senses

Britain’s next leader must be ready for war with Russia

If a Nato ally is subject to armed attack and seeks our help, British forces must be committed

The housing crisis has turned young people into peasants

Will Andy Burnham dare to contemplate a wealth tax to fix it?

The global crises Andy Burnham cannot escape

The PM-in-waiting will find himself stretched between Manchester, Westminster and the international stage

Inside Britain’s Muslim Brotherhood

The international group may be diminished, but it still exerts a powerful hold over the imagination of the right

The downfall of the Oxbridge don

British academic life was not prepared for the shocks of student protests and Thatcherism

The avengers of the Odyssey

Homer’s audience delighted in violence and bloodshed. Can modern readers stomach his story?

Which god does JD Vance kneel to?

Even if the vice-president is a Christian, he’s still a jerk

Ludovico Einaudi repeats himself

Everyone has heard the music of the most streamed classical artist of all time. What explains his persistent appeal?

Rosebush Pruning delights in its own bad taste

The family trait inherited by every member in the would-be satire is unredeemed nastiness

Larry David, honorary Englishman

Stunned by his country’s pretension, pomposity and arrogance, David is an American hero

To Kill a Mockingbird proves that America has regressed

The return of Aaron Sorkin’s play highlights how racial relations have soured under Donald Trump

Ice cream is so hot right now

It’s a serious business

Beer and sandwiches: the Old Bookbinders Ale House, Oxford

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Could “Pride!” convert my Tory husband to musical theatre?

“Paint the Revolution Pink” will go down in theatre history

I’d return to some old lovers like a shot, but never to London

I once had my own seat at the Coach and Horses’ bar

This is the best I’ve seen England play since 1966

Football brings the world together

October 1978: Two books on, respectively, Hemingway and Fitzgerald reveal how different the heroes of American literature were