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 ...

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

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

Councils have begun calling for a climate statutory duty themselves. The Local Government Association’s Local Infrastructure & Net Zero Board voted to endorse the principle of a climate statutory duty ...

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.

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

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