The Church of England is dying. More than a third of congregants are over 70; in some dioceses that age group makes up more than half of worshippers. But as the Church ebbs, a reactionary, ...

The Canadian prime minister thinks America’s hostility is now permanent By Freddie Hayward The most interesting aspect of Mark Carney’s speech on 22 August, which he delivered with dour resolve having ...

A young man has died. Where was the possibility of absolution? By Rowan Williams A young man who has lived with different kinds of disadvantage all his life is elevated to a position of influence and ...

The deportations and offshoring that Nigel Farage advocates are becoming facts of European politics By Alexander Etkind As the world heats up, Nazi wrecks are rising from the depths. Record-low water ...

They’re giving up on finance as well as romance By Pippa Bailey The growing divergence in political sensibilities between young men and young women has been well catalogued in recent years. The more ...

Can a large language model learn literary judgement? By Phoebe Pascoe When Erin Hoover, the poet laureate of Cookeville, Tennessee, was getting her PhD in creative writing, her professor used to ask ...

The response from Pyongyang to the US president’s overtures has been silence By Katie Stallard Donald Trump appears to be trying to get Kim Jong Un’s attention. On 16 August, as the US military was ...

The Reform leader now looks like the one who can’t take a joke By Jonn Elledge The traditional choice after winning an overwhelming victory in a by-election you triggered yourself would be to do some ...

Her new album Lost Weekend intertwines heartbreak and new love with grieving her father’s death By Hannah Ison Phoebe Bridgers is a motorbike-riding elf queen in the music video of “Lost Boys”, the ...

Simon Winder is an author and a publishing director of Penguin Press. His books include Germania, Danubia and Lotharingia (Picador). Also this week: rediscovering a lost diary, and trying to complete ...

The Reform leader didn’t turn up to his own by-election By Anoosh Chakelian Nigel Farage has won the Clacton by-election, in a contest boycotted by every other major party. But in the end, even he ...

The following are selected answers from Yanis Varoufakis’s appearance on The Exchange with Oli Dugmore. Oli Dugmore: Last year, reflecting on 2025, you identified three upsets in the foreign policy ...