Our Armed Forces and Defence Industries are staring down a financial barrel. They need a 10-year plan now to protect our country from clear and present threats.

Prime Minister Andy Burnham has broken ten years of establishment omertà over Putin’s plot to get Britain out of the EU, reports Peter Jukes

Peter Jukes tracks Vladimir Putin’s long war against the West and the allies he has found in the pro-Brexit establishment in the plot to derail Britain

Writing So I Don’t Scream.

Trump declares war on mosquitoes, threatens journalists and California, imaginary penguins arrive in Greenland and musicians remind Earth what humanity means

An attack on water supplies this winter would cross a new line in the war, with consequences that would stretch from Russia to Iran

As wildfires become more frequent and severe, the UK’s national parks are changing how they prepare for and manage the risk

Closer ties with Europe require Britain to abandon exceptionalism and understand what being outside the EU means

Trump rejects a deal, AI gets a makeover, Mars turns purple and Eric Schmitt discovers that dramatic gotchas can go spectacularly wrong

In which Mr Pecksniff lays before his readers for their approval certain observations and speculations reflecting on the political life

Global capital is threatening a takeover of the essence of football – but it’s that essence that makes the sport such a commodity, writes @jamesbloodworth.bsky.social

Christopher Harborne and Ben Delo gave a record £36 million each over the weekend to Nigel Farage's party, but a new law means they may have to take it all back

In which Mr Pecksniff lays before his readers for their approval certain observations and speculations reflecting on the political life

The Prime Minister misunderstands exactly why four decades of neoliberalism have failed the UK, writes Simon Nixon

Foreign secretary says Sir Ephraim Mirvis wrong to suggest measures against Israeli settlements will make British Jews less safe

Letter: Areas will remain excluded, and nothing is gained from making local government units larger and more anonymous, write Steve Leach and Colin Copus

Ben-Gvir did not come into power in a vacuum: he was helped into his position by an international community that has afforded Israel complete impunity

Ben-Gvir did not come into power in a vacuum: he was helped into his position by an international community that has afforded Israel complete impunity

People with persistent predatory personalities cause an inordinate amount of pain. Recently, our shared understanding of them has grown – and it could help protect us

New research suggests depleted North Sea oil and gas fields could store green hydrogen, helping Britain make better use of its abundant wind power

The long read: Hundreds of millions of pounds of dirty money are being deposited at post offices every year. So why are the police reluctant to investigate the scale of the problem?

Legacies by Jonee

In these sweet end-of-summer days, the Burnham Bump is a tempting lure to complacency.

Fortunately, the company had a policy of checking source code on GitHub first

The giant, coordinated movement against them is not enough. Just ask these extremely credible experts.

The media's coverage of the academic's life was fuelled by the campaign of an established far-right network

As Nigel Farage and Reform UK lash out under scrutiny, Jay Griffiths considers their year of riding on hatred

What a smashed Toshiba boombox can teach us about Trump, transshipment and the mysterious hidden routes of world trade

First responders, residents and environmental groups say military dropping flares to destroy forests and crops

For World Beer Day, one beer lover asks what happened to our favourite brews and raises a glass to independent brewing

Same technology, same physics – just running in reverse. Notes on becoming an unlikely hero of the anti-net-zero crowd

Professor Mike Berners-Lee, chair of the National Emergency Briefing, sets out the ‘civic moment’ he is working to create as extreme weather events show no sign of slowing

In which Mr Pecksniff lays before his readers for their approval certain observations and speculations reflecting on the political life

Yesterday I criticised journalists for just letting right wing bigots mouth off on impossible fascist fantasies without bothering to look up, and put, simple facts to them.

Conventional economics says that governments can only do what they can pay for. Trump’s war proves its not true

UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions.

Activists under threat from Beijing are facing strange difficulties with UK immigration. Their safety must not be traded for warmer relations with China, says pro-democracy activist Nathan Law

Nigel Farage's criminal funder runs a Montenegro company whose corporate advisors work for a Belgrade Russian-arms dealer and individuals tied to Russian state-linked enterprises

This is the story of how an obscure sneaker that didn't even carry the logo of the company that made it, helped to change the world - in ways we're still reckoning with even today...