Join our racing writers for Friday’s action, with the Commonwealth Cup and Coronation Stakes the feature races ...

Result expected around 3am as Labour’s Greater Manchester mayor hopes a win over Reform UK will help force the prime minister to step aside ...

Academic and author who specialised in the works of the psychoanalyst Ronald Fairbairn ...

Andy Burnham’s resounding win in the Makerfield byelection has set the stage for a leadership showdown with Keir Starmer. Annie Kelly speaks to political correspondent Alexandra Topping ...

Makerfield shows the challenges Reform is facing, from Restore and tactical voting to questions over that £5m gift ...

Letters: Harriet Gibson recalls an eye-opening encounter with the artist, while Andrew Keeley talks about the influence of California on his work, and Christine Hayes recalls his ‘letter’ to the Guard ...

Letters: Dr Carole Gavin says if the government fails to act it will bear the responsibility for yet more avoidable deaths, while Sarah Brown describes her mother’s experience ...

Closing time for McSweeney | Soap solutions | Cool cities | Two-day marathon ...

Letters: Readers respond to the decision by the court of appeal to uphold the British government’s ban on the movement ...

Letter: Never make the mistake of conflating the actual people of a country with those who govern it, says Eric Jansson ...

Letters: Dr Matthew Dryden praises an astute doctor and the value of teamwork across continents. Plus a letter from Dr Brian Jones ...

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