If political parties with digitally savvy staffers can’t keep people with dodgy online records from getting through their nets, what hope for the eternally analogue Church of England, asks Kat Brown

As a new poll shows a majority of Londoners think the mayor should call it a day, Ava Vidal agrees it’s time he ruled himself out of running for a fourth time in 2028 – and reveals who Labour should r...

A decade after she left US legal drama ‘Suits’, the Duchess of Sussex is said to be returning to acting, with a role that requires her to relocate to the UK. Forget ‘Casualty’ and ‘EastEnders’ – Kat B...

The UK-led joint statement on illegal West Bank settlements is a welcome diplomatic intervention – and a big win for the new foreign secretary. But, says Sean O’Grady, lasting success will require the...

Britain is laughing at Count Binface, but it may not be laughing for much longer, says Dan Higgins. Japan has already shown what happens when masked entertainers enter public office

Sixty years after London’s first Pride march, WorldPride would give us the chance to celebrate the extraordinary progress we’ve made, says Sadiq Khan

Heatwaves, wildfires and climate warnings should have delivered the Green Party its greatest political opportunity. But under Polanski, the Greens have neglected their one unique brand value – the env...

From David Beckham to Jeff Bezos, famous men and celebrity culture have turned the hyper-muscular male body into the ultimate status symbol. But for many women, today's perfectly sculpted "musclosexua...

The Green Party leader hoped to lead a political revolution on the left – but his handling of repeated controversies raises serious questions about whether he has the judgement needed for power, says ...

After 173 years, Halifax is being wiped from the nation’s high streets. Good, says James Moore – the bank had a chequered history and a rotten reputation among its customers

The latest episode of the long-running BBC political debate featured AI-generated guests from history – for which it has been widely ridiculed. But, says John Rentoul, a few more innovations might be ...

As Keir Starmer publishes a 1,500-word rebuttal to the Labour heavyweights who criticised in writing his government’s failures, Andrew Grice argues that – with Whitehall already engulfed in a blame ga...

The tentative ceasefire agreement between Washington and Tehran has revealed a belligerent president reduced to bargaining to end the war he started – and it is a measure of how far he is from claimin...

The president’s casual menacing of a long-standing Gulf ally may yet be a turning point for US relations with the several Middle East states – including Israel, says Mary Dejevsky

To deal with the end of their 30-year marriage, Deborra-Lee Furness asked to be introduced to Jackman’s glamorous, younger partner. But that’s a one-way ticket to humiliation rather than healing, says...

Immigration has become a proxy for wider anxieties and, in turn, international students have become a proxy for immigration, writes UCL president Dr Michael Spence. As long as they are caught in the p...

Recent political leaders have largely been spared from the gun violence plaguing America, writes Mark Almond, but history shows a return to the economic rage that plagued the 1890s and which ultimatel...

Inflation rises in the UK may be troubling, but I saw for myself how the Argentinians still managed to enjoy life while in thrall to triple digit rises, writes Gary Nunn

With the UK approaching its lowest real-terms aid spending since 1970 and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz preventing food and fertiliser from getting to its recipients, it has rarely looked more b...

The Marathon is an inspiring reminder that the only right way to exercise is to be determined enough to do so, writes Kat Brown

Zack Polanski’s party will make stunning gains in the English local elections next month, writes John Rentoul, but it will then face many of the same problems afflicting Nigel Farage and Reform

Michael Jackson should have been cancelled long ago, writes Charlotte Cripps. The new biopic is only sanitising his reputation – and if no one else will boycott his music, I will

Marks & Spencer’s chairman has laid the blame for an epidemic of middle-class shoplifting on breaking the ‘human link’ between shops and customers – and he’s got a point, says James Moore

The US president is making a mockery of everything we fought to protect, says veteran Simon Weston

Editorial: It would be horrifying – and self-defeating – if the Americans were to help the Argentinians plot another attempt at forcibly acquiring the islands. We must hope that next week’s royal visi...

The sheer stupidity of the president’s bombastic blunder is clouding his critics’ judgment on what his coming off worse in this war would mean for the rest of us, writes Sean O’Grady