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Sangita Myska: Over 2000 British citizens have served in the IDF during the Gaza war. Our government doesn't want to know

A cross-party open letter demands the UK government upholds its obligations to screen returning dual-nationals for their links to potential war crimes

Sangita Myska

Billionaire Christopher Harborne donated millions to Farage and Johnson. Then the pro-crypto announcements began. Is there a connection?

The crypto investor’s £5m gift to Reform’s leader coincided with the party’s new-found advocacy for digital assets – part of a pattern of significant political donations that also included £1m to the former Tory prime minister. Report by Charlie Young and Lucia Osborne-Crowley

The Harborne Receipts

Banger racing, big hats and the beach: photographer Sophie Green celebrates British subcultures and social rituals

Ahead of a new exhibition, the acclaimed documentary photographer shares the stories behind her vibrant images of gatherings, traditions and “the eccentric lengths to which the British will go” when having fun

Culture

The Recommender: Rene Matić

The Turner-shortlisted artist, who this month won the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation prize, shares some of their current cultural favourites

Recommender

Stewart Lee: Streeting? Burnham? Who cares? Just get after Farage while he’s vulnerable

Labour has chosen the precise moment when the Reform leader is in trouble to ... have a massive navel-gazing spat about leadership. Still, it’s not like the stakes are high or anything

Stewart Lee

Review of the Week: The Color of Rain by Aja Monet

The American blues poet’s new album moves from neo-soul to spiky social commentary in a thrilling, sonically inventive mix, writes Jude Rogers

Reviews

Honey & Co’s herby chicken burgers

The restaurateurs and life partners Itamar Srulovich and Sarit Packer share a fresh, summery dish for a sunny weekend

Weekend Dish

Farage's £5m problem: do any of his defences hold up?

Nigel Farage has offered a succession of explanations for failing to declare a £5m gift he received in 2024 from crypto-billionaire Christopher Harborne. Ex-MP and professor of law David Howarth examines whether any of these match what the rules actually say

The Harborne Receipts

‘It costs less than we think to stand up for truth’: author Yassmin Abdel-Magied on the power of ‘wilful women’

The Sudanese Australian writer, a former oil rig engineer, talks to Lucia Osborne-Crowley about her new novel featuring a female outsider trying to stop a Deepwater Horizon-type disaster – and being a writer on Emmerdale

Q&A