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.

They are, however, two of the most significant and consequential figures in public life. Roy and Boyle are the people’s brain ...

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.

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 ...

Swift is a self-made billionaire and the most profitable live musician in history. What can her ascendance teach us?

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

Trump’s tax hike was so extensive that a group of uninhabited volcanic islands off the coast of Antarctica was included. Yet ...

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