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 ...

Brazil is leading the resistance to Trump’s imperial “Donroe” doctrine By James Schneider “American dominance in the Western Hemisphere will never be questioned again,” the US State Department ...

Did the Green Party top up its deputy leader’s wages with public money? Leeds City Council will review the allocation of £5,800 to Mothin Ali By Megan Kenyon The Green Party has been accused of using ...

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 ...

How did the online right fall for neoconservatism’s greatest enemy? By Travis Alexander In April, Tucker Carlson unleashed a viral condemnation of Donald Trump’s threat that Iran would be “in hell” if ...

Behind every headline was a human being: a son, a brother, a colleague and a teacher By Simon Woolley The millions of people around the world who encountered Professor Jason Arday through the deluge ...

Dogs were bred to hunt and protect. Now they are pampered outlets for our anxieties By Finn McRedmond There is a lot of suffering in the world, but not much of it goes on at the annual Belgravia Dog ...

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 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 ...

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 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 ...