The Guardian Articles

Donald Trump will not block the appointment of Peter Mandelson as British ambassador to the US, according to a London-based ally of the president-elect, as ministers brace for a turbulent four years of British-American relations.

Greg Swenson, the head of the UK branch of Republicans Overseas, told the BBC on …

Australia is allowing thousands of imports from Chinese companies blacklisted by the US over alleged links to forced Uyghur labour, including a supplier of parts to Sydney Metro vehicles, government documents have revealed.

In 2021 the Biden administration passed the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act, and from the following year …

A Nato flotilla likened to “the security camera of the Baltic” has assembled off the coast of Estonia as the military alliance seeks to protect European undersea cables and pipelines from sabotage.

In a move that ratchets up a struggle with Russia over the seabed that has remained largely covert …

TikTok users posting videos of cats or dancing do not pose a security threat to the UK, a cabinet minister has said, as he defended the government’s decision not to ban the Chinese-owned video platform.

The government has allowed the app to continue running in Britain, as it stopped working …

A group of MPs has withdrawn a controversial report into Bangladesh after complaints that it was biased in favour of the ousted government of Sheikh Hasina.

The all-party parliamentary group (APPG) on the Commonwealth issued a report on Bangladesh last November that criticised the current regime in Dhaka but was …

This year’s week-long gabfest in the Alpine resort of Davos, which kicks off on Monday, will be held under the banner: “A Call for Collaboration in the Intelligent Age”.

Given that it will open as Donald Trump is inaugurated with a promise to jack up import tariffs, trash the Paris …

Windfarms, train lines, science labs – when policymakers think about the ingredients for kickstarting the UK’s sagging economy, they tend to imagine tangible bits of infrastructure. But two of the UK’s most eminent public economists have banded together to urge Rachel Reeves to reconsider another dimension of the UK’s makeup: …

Myths and suspicions have swirled around Unity Mitford ever since she decided to move to Munich to pursue her infatuation with Adolf Hitler. Were they lovers? Did she have his baby? Why was MI5 forbidden from speaking to her when she returned to Britain?

Now, after extracts from the socialite’s …

Rachel Reeves was given a

warning this month

Calm has been restored, for the time being, but the lingering effect has been to increase the UK government’s cost of borrowing.

It’s a scenario that would make Tesla’s founder, Elon Musk, shudder: a future where self-driving cars are the norm but a catastrophic electronic breakdown traps thousands of people inside them.

This dystopian vision of the future was one sketched out by science fiction writers at an event this week where …