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Never mind a gnome, no other garden at this year’s Chelsea flower show can boast a Barbara Hepworth sculpture like the RHS gold-award-winning Tate...
Rachel Reeves’s announcement of a series of cost of living measures this week shows a government trying to prove it still has agency and relevance....
Relief at this week’s news that police are sending files to the Crown Prosecution Service, recommending charges against 77 individuals and...
The most shocking revelation in files released on Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s appointment as Britain’s trade envoy isn’t that he loves golf or...
The Democratic Republic of the Congo has faced the deadly threat of Ebola 16 times since the virus was discovered there in 1976, with a 2018-20...
The spectacle of a prime minister clinging to power while his party grows increasingly desperate for a replacement is painfully familiar from the end...
Domestic workers are used to hard graft for minimal reward. But in Indonesia, more than two decades of activism has finally paid off. Last month, the...
Recommendations from the government-backed Pensions Commission are not due until next year. But its interim warning that at least 15 million Britons...
Established in the aftermath of the 2024 riots triggered by the Southport murders, the Independent Commission on Community and Cohesion set itself...
The Indian prime minister’s call for sacrifice last week marks a fundamental shift. He urged the country’s 1.4 billion people to consume less...
While the world watched the pomp of Donald Trump’s trip to Beijing, the US was turning up the pressure thousands of miles away. Its oil blockade has...
The £950,000 fine imposed by Ofcom on a US-based suicide forum that is implicated in over 160 UK deaths marks an intensification of the regulator’s...
Virgina Woolf declared Middlemarch “one of the few English novels written for grown-up people”. Henry James said that some of its scenes were the...
“American strength back on the world stage,” crowed the White House social media post: a curious remark, when the attached video showed the stars...
The transformative impact of Péter Magyar’s historic election victory over Viktor Orbán is already being felt in Brussels. On Monday, two days...
In politics, opportunities for supreme power are rare and fleeting. Yet rather than making challengers to Sir Keir Starmer more ruthless, this truth...
“Authoritarian regimes do not always need an executioner’s rope,” the Iranian Nobel peace laureate Narges Mohammadi observes in a forthcoming...
Ending 14 years of Conservative rule was supposed to bring an end to dysfunctional government. In the speech that launched his 2024 general election...
Is it really news that the arts are good for you? On one level, the findings of a new study about the health benefits of engaging with music, dance...
It was said of John Major, the Tory prime minister fatally damaged by party infighting, that he was “in office but not in power”. Sir Keir Starmer...
In What Money Can’t Buy, his 2012 critique of a world where everything is for sale, Michael Sandel laments what he calls “the skyboxification of...
The clock is ticking on Sir Keir Starmer’s leadership of the Labour party. He had begun Monday morning with a speech designed to save his...
The Covid-19 pandemic did deep and lasting damage to the international political system. Countries in the global south are keenly aware that the...
When the Scottish and Welsh assemblies were created on the eve of the millennium, the then Labour government in Westminster believed that it had...
“Retirement is the ugliest word in the language,” Ernest Hemingway said. Writers, like artists in general, aren’t the retiring sort. And what...
If you are Sir Keir Starmer, the results of the local and devolved elections make for grim reading. Thursday’s ballot gave almost two-thirds of...
It is a familiar story. Extravagant claims are made on behalf of novel computerised tools. The public are told that this or that digital application...
The meaning of the term “ceasefire” should be self‑evident. Yet Israel’s strikes have killed scores of people in Lebanon since it agreed a...
Late in 1928, the Guardian made plans to give its readers a weekly cryptic puzzle. At the time, crosswords were considered a waste of time; other...
Some results in local council and devolved elections this week can be forecast with confidence, but none with precision. Labour will have a torrid...
The defining trend in British housing in recent decades has been towards private renting. The sector in England nearly doubled in size between 2004...
In the late 19th century, after Reconstruction, US federal protections for Black voters began to erode. Southern states sought to reshape their...
Energy has not been a prominent subject for discussion in the run-up to Thursday’s UK elections. In England this is logical enough, since the big...
As Donald Trump’s second term has become overshadowed by plunging poll ratings and an illegal, ill-advised war in the Middle East, European...
The two-year decline in healthy life expectancy in Britain, set out in new analysis from the Health Foundation thinktank, is devastating. In a wealthy...
China senses opportunity when Donald Trump visits later this month. A nakedly transactional US president in need of a trade deal, and hoping that...
Launched by King George VI on 3 May 1951, the Festival of Britain was conceived as a “tonic” for a nation battered by war, debt and rationing. At...
When the Bank of England warned this week that food inflation could reach 7% by the end of the year, it revealed how little stands between a...
Donald Trump’s war on science has been vicious and hugely damaging, but it is worth noting that he has lost some of its biggest battles. Last year,...
The stabbing of two men in north-west London on Wednesday by an attacker described as seeking anyone “visibly Jewish” would be horrifying under...
The prorogation of parliament on Wednesday signals the end of the road for the terminally ill adults (end of life) bill. The proposal to allow some...
Opec appears to be the latest casualty of the Iran war. On Tuesday, the United Arab Emirates announced that it was leaving the oil cartel after...
Péter Magyar’s historic defeat of Viktor Orbán in Hungary’s recent election was rightly celebrated in progressive circles and beyond. For the...
Whether a prime minister misled parliament is a serious matter. The pattern of statements made by Sir Keir Starmer about appointing Lord Mandelson as...
A new law banning mobile phone use in schools in England, which ministers reluctantly agreed to last week, is on one level the result of political...
When King Charles’s mother became the first British monarch to address the United States Congress in 1991, she spoke in the aftermath of the US-led...
It is unlikely that events this week at the foreign affairs select committee will deliver a knockout blow to Sir Keir Starmer over his appointment...
Forty-five years ago, John Hinckley Jr attempted to assassinate Ronald Reagan as he left the Hilton hotel in Washington, injuring the US president and...
Five years on from the delayed Tokyo Olympics, one of its less obvious legacies is probably the highest-spec public toilets in the world. Seventeen...
When Donald Trump hosted Sanae Takaichi, the Japanese prime minister, last month, he could not resist a gratuitous reference to Pearl Harbor. The US...
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