It is not enough now for war to kill, it must eradicate a people’s cherished and precious heritage too, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

In the 1960s, Lebanese society was divided between those who saw armed resistance against Israel as a national duty and...

In the 1980s, Labour-controlled London built 52,000 council homes. During the Tony Blair decade, just 280. It’s brought this local-election catastrophe on itself, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

Energy company hails ‘exceptional’ contribution of oil trading operations as profits hit $3.2bn in the first quarter

The suggestion has been branded ‘extremely concerning’

I actually don’t want to make my work easier. We should demand authenticity if we care about the sort of society that comes out the other end of this so-called revolution

For all its various forms of sophistication, the ultimate motive of gay history is often a search for people like us,...

If we imagine Gustave Caillebotte’s paintings as depending on what we might call a ‘cruising eye’ – one that...

Keir Starmer’s dismal decision to block the Greater Manchester mayor has bought him time, but it won’t change his fate, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

From territorial overreach to deportations, the current president is not as much of an anomaly as he might seem

The world will be anxious, and rightly so. For a man so bent on a peace prize, Trump appears to revel in conflict, writes Simon Tisdall

Kidnapping heads of state in the name of democracy reveals what the “rules-based order” really is, and why we must resist it.

You may not wish to commit yourself ontologically to some thing called the ‘unconscious’, and you may reasonably...

We can still call off this week’s strike – if the health secretary meaningfully addresses job shortages, real-terms pay cuts and the ongoing exodus, chair of the BMA’s UK resident doctors committee

Five-day strike to start on Wednesday as Wes Streeting’s offer is rejected by BMA members in online ballot * UK politics live – latest updates Resident doctors in England will strike as planned this week after they voted to reject the government’s latest offer to end the long-running pay and jobs dispute. Resident – formerly junior – doctors will strike for five days starting on Wednesday after refusing to accept the deal in a survey by their union, the British Medical Association. Continue reading...