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For most of the postwar period, the state of Baden-Württemberg was both a bastion of German conservatism and – as the home of Mercedes-Benz and...
Soaring prices at the pump, the scrapping of mortgage deals, and the prospect of higher prices for everything from food to smartphones. The US-Israeli...
This week 250 years ago, Adam Smith published An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations – and invented economics. The...
Britain is one of many countries that would benefit from the replacement of brutal theocracy with democratic government in Tehran. The Iranian people...
When European leaders were blindsided in January by Donald Trump’s unilateral abduction of Venezuela’s president, Nicolás Maduro, their immediate...
What should Britain do when war in the Middle East sends energy prices soaring? If the strait of Hormuz were blocked for the month of fighting that...
New analysis from Cancer Research UK, revealing a 29% drop in the rate of people dying from cancer compared with 40 years ago, is a vital counterpoint...
The future of electric cars arrived this week in China. The world’s biggest car seller, BYD, unveiled a new battery giving its latest electric...
The recommendation that the names of MPs’ staff should be removed from a decades-old register, made by the House of Commons standards committee, is...
A World Book Day question: which children’s author is name-checked in Stormzy’s song Superheroes (and appears in the video for Mel Made Me Do It)...
“Never in the future will we move as slow as we are moving now,” the UN secretary-general, António Guterres, warned this week, addressing the...
Launching a review into unemployment and economic inactivity among young people in December, the former health secretary Alan Milburn described the...
There will be no quick or easy wins – even on US and Israeli terms. They have celebrated assassinating Iran’s supreme leader; their offensive has...
There is truth to Donald Trump’s declaration earlier this week that the UK-US relationship is “not what it was”, although there is no indication...
The latest report from the UK anti-slavery commissioner, Eleanor Lyons, is a call to action on websites used to advertise sex workers – some of whom...
The war in the Middle East has sent oil and gas prices soaring – and Britain remains deeply exposed to global energy markets. If the shocks persist...
The home secretary, Shabana Mahmood, is expected this week to press ahead with plans to make it harder for migrants to gain settled status, extending...
Heavily trailed reforms to special educational needs and disabilities (Send) education dominated coverage of last week’s schools white paper. But...
In the Commons on Monday, Sir Keir Starmer was clear that Britain will not join offensive action against Tehran. It is wise not to join an illegal...
“Do women have to be naked to get into the Met Museum?” the feminist art collective Guerrilla Girls asked in their famous 1989 poster. It pointed...
The killing of Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, by a US-Israeli strike is a targeted assassination of a head of state. It also marks a...
Donald Trump has spent much of his second term at war with science and scientists. He is cutting staff at institutions such as the Environmental...
The Greens have every reason to celebrate their victory in the Gorton and Denton byelection. From a standing start in a Manchester constituency,...
Speaking last October at his party’s annual conference, Plaid Cymru’s leader, Rhun ap Iorwerth, raised the biggest cheer when he laid out the...
Perhaps the most dismaying thing about the interim maternity care report commissioned by the health secretary, Wes Streeting, is how little of it is...
MPs and peers face a looming choice: stay put or move out to allow billions of pounds of urgent repairs to the crumbling Palace of Westminster. That...
The impulse to post on social media often overwhelms judgment of what is appropriate to share. Knowing when not to succumb to that urge, exercising...
Local authorities are experiencing some of the highest temporary accommodation bills on record. Councils in England spent £2.8bn last year on...
When the US supreme court voted 6-3 last Friday to strike down Donald Trump’s tariffs, he was incandescent. Two judges he had elevated – Neil...
Four years after Vladimir Putin launched the biggest conflict on European soil since the second world war, the human cost of his revanchist ambition...
With its education white paper, the key section of which concerns support for children with special educational needs and disabilities (Send), the...
At Scottish Labour’s spring conference last year, Sir Keir Starmer bullishly addressed mounting discontent at his government’s performance,...
“The National Gallery is doing a great job isn’t it?” David Hockney reflected in 2024. “Everything in the collection is good, every single...
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The granting of Grade II-listed building status to the brutalist concrete Southbank Centre, comprising the Queen Elizabeth Hall, Hayward Gallery and...
In Gaza, aid still trickles in at levels relief agencies say are far below what is required. Temporary shelters are scarce. Reconstruction materials...
The arrest of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor the king’s brother, should be the moment deference ends and accountability begins – a correction long...
When the European Union launched its green deal in 2019, putting into law the goal of climate neutrality by the middle of the century, it showed...
For Vladimir Putin, peace talks with Ukraine are war pursued by other means. That is why progress has been so slow in negotiations, which resumed in...
Rough sleeping in Scotland has risen by 106% over the past three years. Record numbers of children are now living in temporary accommodation, official...
Being forced to abandon plans to delay local elections in England with fewer than three months’ notice is not just another policy U-turn by the...
Hours before she hanged herself in 2023, Katie Madden spoke on the telephone with her abusive former partner, Jonathon Russell, who had been banned...
For most of January and February, Britons have endured relentless, record-breaking rain, often accompanied by a biting wind. But in recent days many...
The high court ruled last week that the British government’s proscription of Palestine Action is unlawful and disproportionate. Its judgment,...
Hardly a month passes without an AI grandee cautioning that the technology poses an existential threat to humanity. Many of these warnings might be...
Devastating wildfires, flooding and winter storms were among the 23 extreme weather and climate-related disasters in the US which cost more than a...
“The programmes will neither be very interesting nor very good,” said the then BBC director general John Reith, when he launched its Empire...