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Expecting to escape scrutiny over that £5m donation was a huge blunder – and a gift to Burnham

The horribly murdered politician wrote the playbook of the right wing populism that Andy Burnham must now confront

The Reform leader is seen as incompetent, untrustworthy and not on the voters’ side

A new documentary captures the conundrum of the ultimate individual in a team sport

AI firms have been hiring philosophers to deal with the moral questions thrown up by their platforms. But are they just window-dressing?

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Expecting to escape scrutiny over that £5m donation was a huge blunder – and a gift to Burnham

Typing on a keyboard is fast and convenient, but it puts your brain in neutral. Scientists have found that writing by hand can have very different effects

The problem for the hip outsider is that, if you suddenly become the most powerful person in the country, your old ways don’t look the same any more

Starmer didn’t do much for disabled people. It’s time for his successor to bring the changes we need – and if the next PM gets it right, everyone will feel the benefit

Open warfare between supporters of the far right rivals has turned the National Rally party into an episode of Succession

Germans used to be against air conditioning. Not any more

Norway has always been a hotbed of enemy spies, but most of them have always been Russian. The new threat is from the Chinese

The extremist thug, agitator and convicted fraudster has somehow managed to get his show on to Spotify. If his first episode is anything to go by, it’ll be a downpour of race-baiting poison

Disruption has failed – and America looks diminished and declining

Keir Starmer deserved to go - but the machinery of government can’t withstand another implosion in No 10

The horribly murdered politician wrote the playbook of the right wing populism that Andy Burnham must now confront

The Reform leader is seen as incompetent, untrustworthy and not on the voters’ side

They picked Graham Platner as a candidate in Maine because he was a bit like Joe Rogan. But it didn’t work. In fact, it was a complete catastrophe

Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the European Union… it’s the feel-bad movie of the summer!

Not even the president’s ego and Fifa’s greed have managed to stop the joy of this World Cup

Great art should be able to exist without modern moral judgment

Biographer Sathnam Sanghera on our unresolved problems with the late singer

Can books still change the world? At the Venice Biennale, the Irish artist contrasts Renaissance dreams with our current crisis

A new documentary captures the conundrum of the ultimate individual in a team sport

Leona Carrington painted Villa Pilar after receiving shock therapy – then gave it to her doctor

Gene Roddenberry’s franchise understands ageing, loss and friendship in ways George Lucas’s never has

For two weeks, I told everyone about the book I was reading – including an older lady on a train. And then I read one of its stories…

The problem is that it’s impossible to separate what a brain does from what it actually is

Our greatest film writer’s new book says that Hollywood has made us all complicit in populism’s rise and intellectualism’s fall

The martial arts star wrote down his philosophies and hopes as a means of enacting them

The Reform leader is to deliver the keynote speech at a conference with a ‘strategic partnership’ with the Bitcoin Collective

The Daily Mail’s Craig Hope must be haunted by a comment piece he wrote calling for England’s standout World Cup star to be dropped

The Telegraph columnist lashed out at Adam Boulton for calling Ann Widdecombe a ‘spinster’ – but reserved the right to use similar language herself

The Conservative Party is seeking a new head of media – but is cagey on what the salary for the impossible job might be

More than half of senior council managers think councillors’ standards of behaviour are getting worse

The pet name Andy appeared in the 1920s – and became widespread from the 1980s

I thought supporting both teams would be a win-win. It stopped feeling like one shortly after kick-off