In today’s newsletter: As questions mount over transparency and accountability in the ambassadorial appointment process, the political fallout continues to spread across Keir Starmer’s government Good ...

An epic poem about the Trojan war is merged with the domestic heartbreak of the scholar who discovers it in this ambitious, structurally problematic novel In Yann Martel’s fifth novel, a Canadian ...

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The comedians are back with a fifth series of their Weirdo’s Book Club. Plus, a fascinating look into some stories filed away in America’s National Archives If IRL book clubs can feel a little twee ...

Argentinian director Sofía Petersen’s self-conscious film tries for the weight of slow cinema, but is formless, inert and hibernating within its own heavy unlit gloom Argentinian director Sofía ...

He said he was forcibly stopped from picking it up and promptly issued with the fixed-penalty notice My son was fined £500 after dropping a cigarette butt in Southwark, London. He says the enforcement ...

Visitors dressed as miners simulate the work of cutting logs 350 metres underground in the Guido coal mine, founded in 1855 by the wealthy German Guido Henckel and closed in 1960. Today it is a ...

Newspaper broke embargo on confidential briefing note about the royal couple’s movements five days before they arrived in Melbourne for their Australia visit The Daily Mail’s “aggressive” approach to ...

Band shows montage of leaders whose death or ousting the CIA has been proven or suspected to have been part of US band the Strokes have used their Coachella set to make a stark political statement ...

For the first instalment of Young at art – a new series on the delights and dangers of introducing small children to art – Chloë Ashby weighs up whether it’s worth the effort ...

End of war ‘can’t come soon enough’, treasurer says, as inflation expected to rise above 5% in Australia with global supply chains buffeted ...

A rare sight in Cornwall, it was bigger than a mistle thrush, rusty pink against the grass ...