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It is almost three years since Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin declared a friendship with “no limits” – weeks before Russia’s invasion of...
The British government’s 10-year health plan is still some months off. So is the multi-year spending review that will set the parameters around...
Rachel Reeves’s enthusiasm for the City of London – the “crown jewel in our economy” – raises concerns. Economists were worried enough to...
When Konrad Adenauer and Charles de Gaulle signed the 1963 Elysée treaty of friendship between France and Germany, it was a moving milestone on the...
Next November marks 40 years since the US president Ronald Reagan and the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev declared that “a nuclear war cannot be won...
In November 2020, shortly after Donald Trump’s defeat in the US presidential election, Barack Obama observed that America risked entering...
Next year, the remaining hereditary members of the House of Lords will finally lose their right to sit in the upper house. When that happens, a...
Shocking homelessness figures, showing that primary‑school children are the worst-affected age group in England, are a reminder of how gravely...
In the introduction to a new, seasonal compilation of his speeches on hope, Pope Francis reflects on the legacy of the great German theologian Johann...
In his 2018 book The Social Edge, the prominent public health researcher and author Anthony Costello writes that social trust and the conditions that...
Diplomacy is often known as the art of making the impossible possible. If so, Ahmed al-Sharaa, Syria’s de facto leader, has proved a master of...
There is nothing new about stars trying their hand at children’s fiction (Julie Andrews published Mandy back in 1971). But the announcement in...
Wars in Gaza, Sudan, Ukraine and elsewhere have made 2024 a brutal and bloody 12 months. For this year’s Guardian and Observer appeal, in aid of...
It is often said that Britain has no written constitution. The lack of one is sometimes invoked by critics to attack – and occasionally by defenders...
Gisèle Pelicot, a 72-year-old woman who had retired to a small village in provincial France, has become a heroine not only to compatriots but to...
A few years ago, it would have sounded fantastical to suggest that massed North Korean soldiers would fight on a European battlefield – as a...
Under most circumstances, a British politician seeking cash from a foreign oligarch would make the approach discreetly. Recipient and donor would...