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 ...

Letters: Readers reflect on Louis de Bernières’s dislike of imprecise and redundant speech ...

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 ...

If he wins Makerfield byelection, Greater Manchester mayor faces a number of scenarios in his bid to replace Keir Starmer ...

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 ...

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

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

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