The singer-turned-spy is just one of many 20th-century artists who fled American racism and escaped to Europe.

It seems important to say this now because among the more obvious damage inflicted by Vladimir Putin – to Ukrainian citizens ...

Ralph Fiennes plays the hero as a warrior shamed by his deeds and suffering from PTSD.

How justice caught up with the Philippines’ brutal president Rodrigo Duterte.

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Jon Hamm’s Apple series could be a kind of cut-price update on John Updike’s Rabbit novels – if only it was braver.

One of the ironies of Brexit is that since leaving the EU, the UK has become a more European country. Tax and spending levels – once likened to the US’s – are beginning to resemble Germany’s.

Solitary bees lay their eggs on balls of pollen mixed with nectar, walling them up into separate compartments in their nest ...

The government can reverse the town’s fortunes with a long-term plan for British Steel.

In identifying a crisis in religion as the root of Western disorder, however, the right – not for the first time – is ahead ...

When my Polish great-grandfather was arrested for defying the Nazis and sent to Auschwitz, he took two things with him: his ...

Observer journalists’ regular Saturday-night haunt, the Lincoln Arms, is usually closed on Easter Saturday, but has agreed to ...