The Guardian Articles

Rachel Reeves is seeking a “deeper, more mature relationship” between Britain and the EU: this was her central message to the bloc’s finance ministers in Brussels a fortnight ago.

In her

brief speech

Workers are considering legal action against a swathe of upmarket London restaurant owners including Harrods, the Savoy Grill, the Ivy and the Wolseley that add a cover charge to diners’ bills that does not go to workers.

Legislation that

came into force in October

Police in Germany have said a man suspected of killing at least five people and injuring hundreds more after he drove a car at speed

through a crowded Christmas market

In the central town of Magdeburg, where the attack happened …

Last Christmas, the Sinaloa cartel made a show of sending branded gifts to children’s hospitals. This year, a bloody war between rival factions of Mexico’s notorious drug mafia has cast a shadow over the holiday, leaving Culiacán’s Christmas fair nearly empty, and the city silent at night.

Sinaloa has always …

Born in Baglan, south Wales, in 1965, Rob Brydon’s father was a car salesman and his mother a teacher. He attended the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama but left aged 20 to work for BBC Radio Wales. Jobs followed on regional TV, shopping channels and advert voiceovers, before …

Lina Nielsen remembers the moment she had the idea. She was sitting around the Olympic Village in Paris with her sprinting teammates – and she was bored. “I said to Yemi Mary John: ‘I’m gonna make this TikTok’,” Nielsen recalls. She took herself to her bedroom, got out the flip …

For many of the residents of Mar House, the past year has been spent in perpetual twilight.

The seven-­storey block in Colindale, north London, is cloaked in blue netting and scaffolding that shroud its rooms in shadow in the middle of the day. The netting is for work to replace …

Mozambique is on edge ahead of a ruling expected on Monday to determine the final results of October’s disputed elections, after allegations of rigging

triggered weeks of protests

The opposition presidential candidate Venâncio Mondlane has threatened “chaos” if …

Furious victims of the

infected blood scandal

Campaigners say they have been “disengaged” by the Labour government …

The sight of other world leaders toadying up to the US president-elect – the criminal Donald Trump – and his henchman Elon Musk is distasteful enough, but in the world of realpolitik they probably feel they have no option.

The great American journalist HL Mencken did not live to see …