Timothée Chalamet might win Oscars, but ballet is noble in its irrelevance

The Green's leader isn't a radical. He's our most normal politician.

With unemployment rising and the student loans scandal deepening, job fairs have become a dark joke

Jeremy Corbyn sets out why his movement can still be a force in British politics

Was René Redzepi born like this or did the kitchen make him this way?

Is the world heading for recession?

Key questions remain unanswered by the first tranche of files

This was exactly what the government were hoping for.

The Mandelson files reveal anxiety over the ambassador's appointment

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A new adaptation of the Nobel-winning writer’s first novel is too faithful to the book – and to its flaws

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Called before MPs, tech execs display their constant vigilance against threats

If the war is about oil, why hasn’t the president targeted Iran’s most important facility?

In a memoir of his years at Oxford, the former broadcaster recounts how he left his poorer, northern origins behind

Also this week: rainy Irish summers and too much sport on TV

The war in Iran loomed large among shoppers at London's biggest supermarket

The Fourth Great Disruption is here

Zack Polanski is torn between rethinking or quitting the alliance

In his latest album, Make Up Is A Lie, the singer's strange and sinister sentiments shine through – yet he continues to fill arenas

Malcolm Offord became the devolved Reform leader two months ago. Now he's drafting the manifesto turn Scotland turquoise

The US's strikes on Iran’s main oil export hub signal a threat to significantly escalate the war

Lindy West's new memoir, Adult Braces, unleashed a storm of speculation about her throuple. Was it worth it?

The courageous people of Dunblane made us all safer

The man who campaigned on security has made Israel the most dangerous place to be Jewish

He's no Winston Churchill

The biggest shakeup of the justice system since the 1970s.

Zack Polanski has taken the party away from its ideological foundations.

The Mandelson files reveal the former Washington ambassador ultimately received a settlement package of £75,000

The final Milan derby in that storied stadium is indicative of broader, destructive forces

It is time to retrieve the playwright we thought we knew – the man who asks universal questions – from the theorists

Around 18,600 dogs passed through the NEC last weekend

AI doesn't look set to replace the sommeliers anytime soon

A new poem by Janet Murray

The West is in a dependent relationship with Middle Eastern oil

Also: hunting for spies in North London, and our erosion of the Royal Navy

In Trump’s era, the historic bond between the US and the UK counts for nothing

The Defence Secretary on Iran and leadership ambitions

The announcement is bittersweet for bereaved Sussex families still waiting for a review

Donald Trump's unprovoked war against Iran is denaturing my country

A long neglected social injustice is threatening to explode

From the Hitler Youth to “constitutional patriotism”, how Habermas became one of the most important German philosophers of the 20th century.

A war is being fought around an island-colony we half-remember

The Vikings: Immersive exhibition in London deploys old and new technology to entertain, if not to educate

On this week's episode of The Exchange, we speak with the Deputy Prime Minister.

If you’ve ever taken a random walk around the block to push your step count to 10,000… rushed through a lesson on Duolingo to keep your streak alive… or checked a post one more time to see if the likes have ticked up – you’ll know the quiet power of the score. Philosopher C. Thi …

Labour is losing the voters it used to count on, a new study reveals.

The union's members voted to cut its Labour affiliation budget by 40 per cent

July 1974: Claire Tomalin on the publication of a newly discovered diary by the poet

What with my ex-MP and the internet, I feel connected again

Asako Yuzuki’s latest novel offers clues about what is behind the vogue for Japanese fiction

A biography of the spiritual jazz musician reveals the tension between her devotion to John and to a higher calling

The right is coming for dating apps

What do two politicians’ memoirs reveal about the changing fortunes of British Muslims in public life?

The social consequences of pornography are becoming too nasty to ignore

The Tory leader wanted to talk about fuel duty and not about her party’s “screeching U-turn”

Can Britain's frowning documentarian defeat – or even comprehend – the new masculine underground?

Frustration with the government could encourage the backbenches to oppose the reforms

Britain’s nightclubs are disappearing - casualties of planning failures, punitive business rates and a policy framework that neglects the night-time economy.

Backing Donald Trump over the UK isn’t popular