The Guardian Articles

Reform UK is celebrating “an extraordinary sense of momentum” north of the border, as Scotland’s top polling expert predicts the populist right party could end up deciding the next Holyrood government.

The deputy leader, Richard Tice, said his party’s mood was

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Not every Welsh valley can reverberate with choral singing and declaimed poetry, despite the stereotype. But leading figures in Welsh culture are warning that a different environment is looming: “An alien who landed in the country today would look around and think, “Wow, there do seem to be an awful …

Helen Lecointe answers the phone sounding frazzled. As the senior manager of the

Woodside Animal Welfare Trust

The UK government has been accused of undermining the foundations of the economy with its

autumn budget,

The Institute of Directors’ economic confidence index, which measures business leader optimism in prospects …

It is the summer of 1265. I am bottling leeches in an open-air apothecary as a medical apprentice of the church. Minstrels tune their musical instruments and soldiers sharpen their swords. Gloucester has just been captured by Prince Edward, and royal forces are growing in the west of England. The …

Voting is under way in parliamentary elections in Romania, with voters still unsure whether the shock result of last week’s presidential first-round ballot will stand amid continuing allegations of electoral fraud and foreign interference.

Far-right parties are forecast to make significant gains in Sunday’s parliamentary vote, with polls showing the …

Bassist Alex James, along with Damon Albarn, Graham Coxon and Dave Rowntree, formed Blur in 1988. In 2023, Blur brought out their ninth studio album,

The Ballad of Darren

She has been hailed as a national treasure, the queen of stage and screen with a damehood to match. But Dame Judi Dench has revealed that her pet parrot has a rather less polite name for her: “Slut”.

The Academy Award-winning actor, who turns 90 next week, said everyone should …

The writing was on the wall for many of the prisoners incarcerated in the

Tower of London

Hundreds of graffiti texts scratched into the historic stone walls by prisoners as they awaited their fate have come to light …

In the opening of her autobiography, Freedom, Angela Merkel is clear: she couldn’t have written it without one key person. Neither her sister, Irene Kasner, warmly acknowledged at the close of her book for having helped bring “memories of my childhood and youth back to life”, nor her husband, Joachim …