The Labour leader’s critics and even his fans have misunderstood his appeal

Jeremy Corbyn is inspiring, passionate and cares about the people he represents – unlike Theresa May

Let's all get behind Britain's most determined sportsman

One of their main activities is granting divorces to wives trapped in bad marriages

Why the lady’s slipper makes life seem worth sticking around for

The world's most famous diarist would have scorned the ‘celebs’ of reality TV

How a visit to an ‘idiot’ asylum inspired the founder of L’Arche

It starts as soon as I arrive. In Den Haag Centraal railway station, the kiosks, windows, lift shaft, piano and…

Now the EU cannot weaken its Brexit opponent by driving a wedge between England and Scotland

Also in Portrait of the Week: Corbynmania at Glastonbury; EU fines Google €2.42 billion

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Also in Barometer: which foreign country has the most nationals locked up in British jails?

Homer and Cicero have lessons about duty for the reluctant royal

Also in Letters: Potterverse perversion; Uncle James’s unreasonable fear; children of the parsonage; London is no Qatar

Also in Notes: Corbyn’s terrible consistency; Brexit and the Reichenbach Falls; bucket lists

She needs to reshuffle her team to give everyone who will run for leader a serious frontline job

What happens to its projections when the taxpayers of the world tire of being milked to subsidise renewables?

Is the Labour leader more likely to be the next PM because 100,000 people in a field cheered his platitudinous speech?

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Clare Mulley describes the courage and ingenuity of Hanna Reitsch and Melitta Schiller, Nazi Germany’s star female pilots

It’s undeniably authentic, but wordy and ponderous. The Nobel prizewinner’s prose may in fact prove more enduring

Activated almonds and spirulina extract are a big con. And yet we continue to spend fortunes on such pseudoscience

George Prochnik goes in search of the 20th-century intellectual Gershon Scholem and his work on the Kabbalah manuscripts

Geoffrey West’s fascinating Scale covers this, bridges, shipbuilding, the BMI measure, safe dosages of LSD and much else

Alexandra Marzano-Lesnevich interweaves her own experiences with the tragic case of a six-year-old boy from Louisiana

It’s like being trapped in a lift with a drunken pedant telling you how his day might have gone differently

The ravages of Alzheimer’s and death by freak accident or suicide are on offer — but the tone is generally cheery

John J. Binder knows where the bodies are buried in his lurid history of Chicago’s Prohibition gangsters

The Idiot’s narrator worries constantly about love, literature and language in this warm portrayal of 1990s university life

A superb retrospective at IWM North makes no apology for the painter, poet, publisher and picker of fights

Bringing back the human factor is the main challenge facing the new chairman Nicholas Serota

And on BBC4 the Japanese girls making middle-aged men swoon

The once cutting edge band are now no different from Kiss: hugely enjoyable but utterly predictable

The play’s author Branden Jacobs-Jenkins would profit from seeing Rotterdam at the Arts Theatre, a great drama in which the characters are damaged but kind-hearted

Edgar Wright’s latest claims to reinvent the car-chase movie – but it doesn’t reinvent it nearly enough

James Graham’s Ink is riveting and, if they cut it by 30 minutes, even Sun readers might be tempted to pop along

Plus: is the Jonas now too big a star to embody anything but himself? Otello at the Royal Opera House reviewed

In this roundup of shows from the commercial galleries, Martin Gayford is thrilled by the untrammelled fantasy of Philip Guston’s satires of Richard Nixon at Hauser & Wirth

The so-called blundering fool has played a blinder, but nobody except a few insiders knows about it

Can it be true that I am descended from that temperamental, war-mongering monarch who had 14 children by a cousin?

Everyone round here votes for them, apparently, because they they are so brilliant at blocking development
nationally for immigration

This depleted, beleaguered existence has become a way of life but I am optimistic that the forthcoming elections will bring change for the better

I’ve just returned from two weeks playing in the European Open Championships in Montecatini in Italy, and I’m so whacked…

Can chess and bridge be considered sports? According to a European Court of Justice judgment earlier this month, bridge is…

White to play. This position is from Caruana–Carlsen, Paris 2017. Can you spot White’s winning coup? Answers to me at…

In Competition No. 3004 you were invited to submit an extract from Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Trumpland. As I was…

Seven clues contain a redundant word, each defining one unclued light. These seven unclued lights all undergo partial 1 across…

Extra letters in clues gave SAM GOLDWYN, to whom are attributed I’LL GIVE YOU (5) A DEFINITE (8) MAYBE (1A),…

Right-wing politics and the British aristocracy exercise a weird fascination for the Harry Potter author

To reverse the monstrous iniquities the property market has created, we need to experiment more

Also in Dear Mary: How to stop house guests using your laptop and invading your kitchen

How extraordinary that Tory morale is now much higher in Scotland than in England

The link between figs and offal, plus ‘Oh, Jeremy Corbyn’ and the ingenuity of football chants