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

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 ...

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

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

The BBC reporter talks courting Putin, playing piano with Gorbachev, and the rising tensions of a nation at war.

In identifying a crisis in religion as the root of Western disorder, however, the right – not for the first time – is ahead ...

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

There are still knock-backs – witness the outcry over Nice’s refusal to endorse Leqembi, a drug that can, at enormous cost, ...

One of the ironies of Brexit is that since leaving the EU, the UK has become a more European country. Tax and spending levels ...

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

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