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.

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

But if Donald Trump insists on fighting one, the Chinese leader might well draw encouragement from the fact that he is up ...

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

If the former archbishop of Canterbury hoped his self-abnegation on the BBC might salvage what was left of his reputation, he ...

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

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

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

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Clarion, England’s largest social landlord, houses 360,000 people in 125,000 homes. Of those, 18 per cent have gone without ...

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