Letter: Gerald Holtham suggests that it time to cut the 3.75% that the Bank of England pays out on the lenders’ reserves

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Our new book tracks the growth over nearly eight decades, of the most powerful foreign policy lobby in US history

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US tariff threats against Brazil over payments platform Pix provoke a political storm ahead of elections

Jacob Wulfson’s fellow airmen decided his fate after a court martial at RAF Lakenheath – a distressing week for Sarah Steele, the academic he assaulted

Elon Musk’s amplification of anti-immigrant sentiment in Belfast, Southampton and beyond cannot be explained by ideology alone

The party received £7m from two overseas British crypto billionaires earlier this year, figures show

Exclusive: Union body finds workers describing themselves as ‘gambling’ because wages felt like the outcome of chance rather than work

This warmly-spiced vegetable stew, sweet with parsnips and carrots and tangy with preserved lemons and dried apricots is the perfect winter warmer. I should probably change its name, as it is Moroccan...

Competing demands on our attention are undermining our ability to focus

Insufficient details about the US data intelligence company’s recent contract have been made public

He can sack who he wants to protect himself, but all roads currently lead back to the prime minister, says Peter Geoghegan of Democracy for Sale

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Award-winning author and writer Ian Fraser explores how and why Scotland’s banking industry, much admired by Adam Smith, fell from […]

After months of community resistance, the president backed down. Leadership from below succeeded when politics as usual failed, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

Institutional investor landlords are on the rise in the UK private rental sector. Their focus on profit maximisation threatens to exacerbate the housing crisis.

It took an FOI request to bring this national security assessment to light. For ‘doomsayers’ like us, it is the ultimate vindication, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

Nearly 100 UK newspaper editorials opposed climate action in 2025, a record figure that reveals the backlash against net-zero in the right-leaning press

Every month, surveys around the world ask people to tell them what they are really thinking. The results are at times reassuring, some-times chilling and often unexpected. In The Next Crisis, leading ...

On 2 December 2025, the Bank of England’s Financial Policy Committee announced it would be lowering the capital requirement for UK banks. This column argues that higher macro-financial risk and sharply reduced fiscal capacity point to a need for higher rather than lower bank capital requirements. The most likely practical effect of this weakening of resilience will be higher payouts to bank shareholders, rather than increased lending to the real economy.

There are many excuses for failing to tax the ultra-wealthy. The truth is that governments don’t tackle the problem because they don’t want to, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

Two friends from South Sudan are walking the length of the British mainland, raising money to build a school in a refugee camp.

The Icelandic government has declared the possible collapse of a major Atlantic Ocean current (AMOC) a national security risk.

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