The ‘disappearance’ of Sir Ranulph Fiennes and the Mental Capacity Act 2005

President Vladimir V. Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with President Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of inter...

Zack Polanski's strategy as a new leader delivered success at the start of 2026 - but has the bubble burst? This is the fourth in a series reviewing the polling and electoral performance of the partie...

This is a bit off my usual line (though 1930s middlebrow women writers are very me) . A couple of weeks ago my local book group was discussi...

It’s easy to be cynical, but it would be false. Something extraordinary is happening here.

Conor J. Kelly and Colin Murray discuss what would happen next if one of the major parties pulled out of the Stormont...

Young men punched in the street, mosques attacked: Britain badly needs an anti-racist uprising. Let 70s Asian youth movements provide the inspiration, says Taj Ali, author of Come What May, We’re Here...

Baptisms, schools, church services – how ordinary families navigated love and marriage across taboo lines.

The Belfast Agreement sets out rules for calling a unity referendum, but is vague on some details

I worry that the immigration debate is going far beyond arrival numbers

Film-maker Jamie Roberts follows a Sussex man’s journey into the far right. If it wasn’t so horrific, parts could feel like they’d been written by Chris Morris

Rights groups express support for directors of Guardian-produced film facing threats from Israeli ministers and far-right activists • ‘They know the house they are bombing is full of children’: NAZA’s directors on their devastating film about Israeli intelligence Threats by the Israeli military, government ministers and far-right activists have intensified against the Oscar-winning Israeli directors of NAZA, a documentary about the country’s mass killing of civilians in Gaza, as 43 local human rights organisations expressed their support for the pair. NAZA, which was produced by the Guardian, is named for an acronym used euphemistically by Israel’s intelligence service to indicate how many civilians it expects to die in an airstrike on Gaza. The film builds on revelations first published by the Israeli-Palestinian publication +972 Magazine, the Hebrew-language outlet Local Call and the Guardian between 2023 and 2025. Continue reading...

Local authorities have the knowledge and expertise to manage falling pupil numbers, but government backing will be crucial to help limit the disrup...

A majority of justices decided not to make the coming election needlessly more chaotic than it already is.

It’s the end of the road for this particular bill.

The president’s chaotic schemes of aggrandizement, from Venezuela to Iran, have no larger rationale

The political thinker became famous for declaring the triumph of liberal democracy. Thirty-seven years on, he explains what he really meant and why he made the rare journey from right to left

Dr Kathryn Rix looks at the House of Commons chamber in use until the fire of 1834.

Nigel Farage’s Reform UK has stood to gain financially from the crypto connections linking it to Donald Trump’s administration, DeSmog can report. Trump’s Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has been accused of shaping laws that have benefitted Tether, a firm that issues the most traded cryptocurrency in the world. Lutnick’s family owns Cantor Fitzgerald, which holds […]

USAID funding has significantly contributed to the reduction in adult and child mortality across low-income and middle-income countries over the past two decades. Our estimates show that, unless the a...

People say they’ve been secretly filmed in their own home, at concerts and at work. Are the wildly popular smartglasses the final nail in the coffin of personal privacy?

Amid the grief and rage at a tragic loss, it’s right to differentiate between those who fought a culture war and others who just sought the truth, says Hugh Muir, executive editor, Opinion

As teaching staff face job loss, their bosses have netted pay rises and bought advice from a “vampiric” management consultancy, writes Prof. John Heathershaw of the University of Exeter

US court agrees with emergency stay requested by lawyers acting for president’s investment trust

In advertising, Meta describes their AI glasses as 'iconic style meets Meta AI'. However, online backlash against these glasses has been swift. Watch as Guardian columnist and Opinion editor Kirsty Major dives into why fears of surveillance and 'creepy men' mean Meta can never convince her to love the glasses

The Kremlin has charged Telegram's founder with assisting terrorism - after years of Russian agents using the app to recruit spies and terrorists