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Ukraine

The forgotten war

After four years of conflict, Ukraine has fought Russia to a standstill. On the frontlines east of Kharkiv, drones, money, and hard-won expertise have given the Ukrainians a strategic edge

By Jen Stout

Makerfield

Under pressure

Devastating floods have hit the constituency twice in 10 years, leaving fertile ground for Reform. Now Labour voters tell Ceri Thomas they fear Andy Burnham could be swept away in this month’s byelection

Child safety

Dangerous DMs

Tech firms will be forced to install software that makes it impossible for children to take or share nude images. But it comes too late for families of those who have already been groomed, Rachel Sylvester reports

Football

The gilded games

The World Cup is a vanishingly rare, communal experience – and no matter what the moneymen do to it, it exerts an incomparable hold on the global imagination, Rory Smith writes

For today

Musk ‘a threat to democracy in Britain’, says Wes Streeting after Southampton disorder

Nowak case

Catherine Neilan

Musk ‘a threat to democracy in Britain’, says Wes Streeting after Southampton disorder

‘Are we doing a story? My God I’m alive again!’ Despite his Alzheimer’s, I was still Jon’s editor

Jon Snow

Ben de Pear

‘Are we doing a story? My God I’m alive again!’ Despite his Alzheimer’s, I was still Jon’s editor

EM Forster’s stolen nameplate comes home to King’s after 55 years

The longest journey

Donna Ferguson

EM Forster’s stolen nameplate comes home to King’s after 55 years

I Dua, I Dua: star joins the double wedding set with city ceremony and Sicily celebration

I do, I do

Caitlin Macdonald

I Dua, I Dua: star joins the double wedding set with city ceremony and Sicily celebration

Relationships

Why Gen Z has fallen in love with monogamy

Despite the rise of polyamory and dating apps, in a chaotic world, zoomers are increasingly embracing sexual exclusivity

World Cup

Sir Geoff Hurst, a living monument to English football’s greatest day

Interview

George Simms

Sir Geoff Hurst, a living monument to English football’s greatest day

England

Paul Hayward

Spirit of ’66 still strikes a chord as England expects

It’s mayhem, it’s madness, but Scots will have the best World Cup party

Scotland

Melanie Reid

It’s mayhem, it’s madness, but Scots will have the best World Cup party

The impossible search for the perfect World Cup pub

Viewing party

Joel Golby

The impossible search for the perfect World Cup pub

Culture

William Tyndale, the radical who rewrote the Bible

Religion

Rowan Williams

William Tyndale, the radical who rewrote the Bible

Olivia Laing: ‘The shame of loneliness is agonising’

Interview

Olivia Ovenden

Olivia Laing: ‘The shame of loneliness is agonising’

The Danish butterfly-spotter tracking down a natural high

Animal kingdom

Melissa Denes

The Danish butterfly-spotter tracking down a natural high

Marilyn Monroe at the National Portrait Gallery - the woman who became a masterpiece

Art

Laura Cumming

Marilyn Monroe at the National Portrait Gallery - the woman who became a masterpiece

Interview

Exit, The Bear

Ahead of the final season of the era-defining TV show, its star Ebon Moss-Bachrach talks to Megan Nolan about his Broadway debut, and why in order to work, he needs to live a little