Tove Jansson’s beloved stories, which turn 80 this year, are not cute: they are angry tales of apocalypse and breakdown. By Frances Wilson “I could vomit over Moomintroll,” Tove Jansson confided in ...

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 ...

There are few words that capture the carnage already caused by Trump’s hubris. The tariff panic in global markets vapourised ...

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

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

They are, however, two of the most significant and consequential figures in public life. Roy and Boyle are the people’s brain ...

Solitary bees lay their eggs on balls of pollen mixed with nectar, walling them up into separate compartments in their nest ...

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

Ralph Fiennes plays the hero as a warrior shamed by his deeds and suffering from PTSD.

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After a bin strike that has run for weeks, rubbish and rats are consuming Birmingham. Have we forgotten our second city? By Harry Clarke-Ezzidio There’s been a lot of trash talk about Birmingham ...

Araghchi has stated that the first agreement needs to be that there can be no “military option”, let alone a “military ...