In August last year, a library was burned down in Liverpool. Just days earlier, three children had been murdered in a frenzied knife attack by a second-generation teenaged migrant a few miles up the ...

If America ever stops being the world’s leading power, then the dollar would also cease being the global reserve currency.

After a bin strike that has run for weeks, rubbish and rats are consuming Birmingham. Have we forgotten our second city?

The defector Andrea Jenkyns is running for mayor of Greater Lincolnshire – and dispirited Tories are watching closely.

In this dark and fearful spring, they just carry on. By Helen Macdonald Blank skies, a blanker mood. It’s a grey March morning, and I’m taking a short cut through a park to Cambridge city centre. The ...

How justice caught up with the Philippines’ brutal president Rodrigo Duterte.

Tove Jansson’s beloved stories, which turn 80 this year, are not cute: they are angry tales of apocalypse and breakdown.

New-Fist sets up a school that teaches “fish-grabbing-with-the-bare-hands”, “woolly-horse-clubbing” and ...

Observer journalists’ regular Saturday-night haunt, the Lincoln Arms, is usually closed on Easter Saturday, but has agreed to ...

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