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Observer EditorialThe Guardian |
The ceasefire in Gaza, due to begin tomorrow, will bring welcome relief from daily violence but amounts, at present, to little more than a fragile,...
The devastating wave of wildfires that has reduced thousands of Hollywood homes to ashes could not have afflicted the US at a more telling moment....
The FBI says the man who drove a speeding truck into a crowd on Bourbon Street, New Orleans, early on New Year’s Day, killing 14 people, acted...
Just over a decade ago, with the publication of an independent inquiry, Britain confronted the horror of the sexual abuse of children that had...
For some, it will be enough merely to re-read Persuasion, and thence to cry yet again at Captain Wentworth’s declaration of utmost love for Anne...
A downside of living in a country with an extraordinarily one-sided media is that it becomes ever harder not to be affected by the...
Great teaching is the most powerful lever schools have to improve children’s education, according to the Education Endowment Foundation. So, how...
Next week churches, chapels and cathedrals across England will be celebrating Christmas in traditional style. Congregations doubled, the pews will...
One struggle ends, another begins. Revolution begets counter-revolution. Hopes soar, disappointment and disillusion follow. Is this what the future...
In a puritanical age of wellness, non-alcoholic drinks and going to the gym, an unlikely sport is thriving: darts. On Sunday the World Darts...
Achieving the fastest sustainable growth in the G7 was the Labour party’s highest-profile pledge going into the general election last July....
There can rarely have been such a meeting of political jeopardy and artistic genius as in Florence in 1504. After the violent overthrow of the...
Donald Trump’s unexpectedly clearcut victory in last week’s US presidential election is a wake-up call for the progressive left in America and...
The first Labour budget in 14 years introduced some much-needed honesty on the requirement for higher taxes and borrowing in an ageing society...
Tomorrow’s first anniversary of the 7 October Hamas terror attacks on southern Israel in which more than 1,200 people were killed and about 250...
After 17 months of civil war, the very last thing Sudan needs is another bloody battle. Yet that is exactly what its unfortunate people got last...
The Middle East crisis has reached an extremely dangerous juncture. That’s a statement made many times since the Hamas terrorist attacks on Israel...
Rachel Reeves had some sobering news last week about the UK economy and how much it grew in July. The message from the Office for National...
The huge waves of lethal Russian missile and drone attacks on Ukrainian cities last week had three main aims. One was to re-terrorise a civilian...
Last Monday, three girls under the age of 10 were killed at a dance workshop for primary schoolchildren in a horrific knife attack that left eight...