The Guardian Articles

Keir Starmer is striking a delicate balancing act on the world stage by trying to maintain a good relationship with Donald Trump while giving his full-throated support to Ukraine and pursuing closer ties with the EU.

But the prime minister faces increased domestic pressures when it comes to Trump, whom …

The US envoy to Ukraine, Gen Keith Kellogg, has praised Voldymyr Zelenskyy as “the embattled and courageous leader of a nation at war”, striking a dramatically different tone from Donald Trump who

has called Ukraine’s president a “dictator”

Kellogg left Kyiv on Friday after a three-day visit. …

Keir Starmer is to urge Donald Trump to recognise that a US rejection of Mauritius’s legal claim to own the Chagos Islands including the strategic US military base at Diego Garcia may stoke tensions similar to those in the South China Sea.

Starmer is due to meet Trump next Friday …

Israelis and Palestinians are bracing for another tense hostage, prisoner and detainee exchange on Saturday amid uproar in Israel over allegations that two child hostages were “brutally murdered” by Hamas, and the group’s failure to deliver the body of their mother, instead returning the corpse of an unidentified woman.

The …

In recent years, a string of academic reports have shown in stark terms just how elitist the arts have become over the last four decades. The proportion of working-class actors, musicians and writers has

shrunk by half

Parliament’s standards watchdog has launched an investigation into Andrew Gwynne, who was

sacked as a minister

The MP was also suspended from the Labour party after messages were revealed in which he said he hoped a pensioner who did …

Is Donald Trump a feminist?

There was a time when anyone asking such a question could reasonably expect to be laughed out of the room. Yet, just three weeks into Trump’s second term, the man responsible for stripping women in the US of the right to an abortion was declared …

Elon Musk has become embroiled in a heated row with a Danish astronaut who criticised the

tech billionaire

Andreas “Andy” Mogensen accused Musk of lying when he claimed …

The Australian rules community survives on habit. More than a century old, the VFL and now AFL counts more than 1.3m club members, and hundreds of thousands fans prove their commitment each week by attending matches. Millions more watch on television, and increasingly on smart TVs, computers and phones. But …

Halfway to a billion journeys, and it’s only just begun. Amid the recent gloom, struggles and doubts besetting Britain’s railway there is a bright beacon of hope: the Elizabeth line.

Now accounting for one in seven national rail journeys, the east-west cross-London railway has smashed forecasts and remoulded the travel …