Earlier this year, International Criminal Court prosecutor Karim Khan sought arrest warrants for two Israeli and three Hamas leaders on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity during the ...

For skiers Canada may be known for its magnificent powder snows, stunning scenery and exciting downhill runs. But it is fast becoming infamous for an entirely different type of slippery slope: what ...

In the late 1970s, when many of my contemporaries were pogoing to the Sex Pistols, others of the same age—all public schoolboys—were being beaten on the bare buttocks until they bled, in the name of ...

In the wake of Donald Trump’s re-election, parallels are being drawn to George W Bush’s victories. Bush won his first presidential election in 2000 narrowly, losing the popular vote but winning just ...

MPs voted in favour of legalising assisted dying for the terminally ill, by 330 to 275 ...

Europeans have fretted about the return of Donald Trump to the White House for over a year now. After the European parliament election last summer, I reflected here on what the implications of a ...

Donald Trump likes to talk up his links to Britain, his Hebridean mother and Scottish golf courses. But the appreciation has largely been one way: David Lammy’s description of the president elect as a ...

Four years ago, Angela Merkel could do no wrong, retiring in a blaze of glory after an apparently stupendously successful 16 years as German chancellor. Then came Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine ...

After weeks of guesswork, Alan and Lionel are joined by the man behind Tortoise Media, James Harding, and journalist Carole Cadwalladr, to get the inside scoop on Tortoise’s bid for the Observer After ...

In 2016, when Donald Trump won his first US election and Britons voted for Brexit by a narrow margin, both results were understood as part of a backlash against the iniquities of neoliberal economics.

The Labour government is already being dismissed as a standard tax and spend administration, as if raising taxes and public spending were some kind of socialist novelty. The verdict is a couple of ...

Jasmin, who is 31 and from Honduras, sits on the floor of a crowded migrant shelter watching her three-year-old daughter, Brindi, eat instant noodles out of a plastic pot. The heat in the city of ...