Too nice: do Arsenal lack the grit and tenacity to end WSL title drought?
Renée Slegers’ team have the technical ability, but doubts remain over the nastiness needed to rival Manchester City and ChelseaArsenal, 10 points adrift of the Women’s Super League leaders, are poised to undertake a “big review” of their season during…
Unemployment and the rise of the Nazis | Letter
John Plowright reflects on how unemployment was viewed by Germans and the fear the KPD sparkedPhilipp Ruch believes that the impact of the 1929 Wall Street crash cannot explain the Nazi breakthrough at the 1930 Reichstag election, as the full effects of…
Don’t mention the Iron Dome: comedy genius Kemi on warpath at Tory conference | John Crace
‘It’s a Britannia Shield’ announcement proves no one does farcical improv better than the Conservative leaderJust another day in Crapland. It’s amazing what you can get used to. You can’t say the Tories haven’t put a lot of thought into their party…
‘We live in grief-phobic societies’: experts on how to get more comfortable with death
We are all going to die, and so is everyone we know. So how can you not be terrified?For most people, death is not a standard conversation topic. Once, at lunch, a friend began talking about her mother’s death several years earlier. Her voice caught…
Tell us: are you a young person in the UK struggling to find work?
We would like to hear from young people in the UK about their experiences of looking for workAbout 1 million 16- to 24-year-olds in the UK are not in employment, education or training (Neet), according to a report published in May, which warned that the…
Stop worrying about my AI, says multibillionaire Sam Altman. So we bear the risks and he keeps the money | Chris Stokel-Walker
OpenAI’s CEO seems to want to privatise his company’s huge financial gains while making all of us pay for any negative consequencesTech bros’ messianic streaks can show up in subtle ways. But one of Sam Altman’s flaws is that he often lacks that…
The Register that shatters the myth of Britain’s role in profiting from enslavement
In this month’s newsletter: for Caribbean scholars, the evidence of how deeply slavery shaped Britain’s wealth has never been in doubt. Plus, heritage walks in Manchester• Don’t get Cotton Capital delivered to your inbox? Sign up hereWelcome to this…
Pedro Sánchez is a master of the political comeback. But calling a snap election in Spain may be a gamble too far | Paolo Gerbaudo
A thriving economy, a model green transition, social advances – Spain’s PM shouldn’t be in trouble. Yet he is, and it’s a lesson for progressives everywhereTo progressives across the west, Spain has been a rare glimmer of hope in a world where far-right…
‘My poetry won me asylum’: Cecilia Vicuña on exile life in ‘sad’ Britain after Pinochet’s coup
Five decades after convincing judges she’d be killed if she returned to Chile, the artist is back with a politically charged retrospective in the country she grew to loveCecilia Vicuña was 24 when she first arrived in London. She had come from Santiago…
South Africa in running to stage Africa’s first Olympics as 2036 race hots up
Qatar frontrunners of bidders, with India and HungaryTurkey, Germany and Korea to present to IOC next monthSouth Africa is in the hunt to stage Africa’s first Olympics after it was named as one of seven countries that will formally present its case to…