It is generally agreed that being the archbishop of Canterbury is an impossible job. In modern times, tenures can begin with ...

Last month, the UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy paid a low-key, two day visit to China, in the hope, according to the Foreign Office (FCDO), of bringing consistency to the bilateral relationship.

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 ...

Walking over the bridges of the Turia river into the southern suburbs of Valencia is to cross a threshold from the present into a disquieting future. The centre of Valencia’s old city looks much as it ...

In 2016, when Americans elected Donald Trump president, it was common speculation that many voters didn’t know what they had gotten themselves into. After a tumultuous presidency featuring two ...

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.

For some Americans, the motive behind their vote was best expressed in a poster, visible in the western Pennsylvania countryside last week, which read “Trump, God and Guns”. But for many others, the ...

Just days before the opening of this year’s COP29 climate conference in Azerbaijan, and towards the end of a year marked by climate disasters and the highest global temperatures in human history, ...

There was a wide gender gap in this US election, just as there was in 2016 and 2020. Kamala Harris enjoyed a 10-percentage point lead over Donald Trump among women voters, according to the exit polls.

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 ...

As I half-walked, half-ran to the first Saturday morning class for my master’s degree at the University of Athens, sweat poured from my forehead. At 9am the temperature was already more than 20°C. I ...

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 ...