The Tories see culture as something that needs to be protected, but it’s a shifting landscape transformed by each generationThe culture war, much like the war on drugs or the war on terror, is a metaphorical state that seems fated to go on for ever. Th…
West Midlands mayor tells PM: ‘Red wall voters want to see delivery’
Andy Street says the region’s new Tory voters need concrete policies to match Boris Johnson’s ‘levelling up’ pledgeBoris Johnson has been urged by one of the most senior Conservative figures outside London to match the symbolism of his “levelling up” p…
‘I’m not a news robot reading an Autocue’: Clive Myrie on politics, personality and Mastermind
The BBC newsreader takes over the venerable quiz show next week. He discusses fighting for viewers, dealing with online abuse – and making his parents proudThere is one correct way to start an interview with the new host of Mastermind: turn the tables …
UK net zero delay has left room for sceptics’ attacks, says government climate adviser
Lord Deben says he is ‘pressing very hard’ to get details of strategy published as Cop26 approachesBoris Johnson’s delay in publishing the net zero emissions strategy has left a space for climate sceptics to “complain, attack and undermine” on cost gro…
Gordon Brown hits out at EU’s ‘neocolonial approach’ to Covid vaccine supplies
Former UK prime minister calls on western leaders to convene summit to address Africa’s vaccine deficitGordon Brown: the world is making billions of Covid vaccine doses, so why is Africa not getting them?Gordon Brown has accused the EU of adopting a “n…
日本政府とメディアはなぜ「台湾有事」をあおり続けるのか。隠された「3つの政治的意図」
専門家によれば、アメリカ国内では台湾をめぐる中国との衝突を回避すべきとの論調も出てきている。しかし、日本の政府とメディアは米中衝突、台湾有事をあおり続ける。なぜなのか。
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Is time up for the ‘Blackboy clock’? Racism row divides Cotswolds town
Campaigners pushing to remove Stroud’s 240-year-old figure are accused of trying to erase history by the local Tory MPMuch of Dan Guthrie’s life has been haunted by a disturbing mechanised figure resembling a tethered black slave boy, which is supposed…
The Observer view on the fall of Afghanistan | Observer editorial
The Taliban’s rapid advance is chilling but a united response can still avert catastropheThe fall of Afghanistan to fundamentalist Taliban forces is a disaster foretold. Although the capital, Kabul, remains in government hands, the scale and speed of t…
UK can’t fight climate crisis with austerity, warns expert
Author of government study says Treasury resistance to green spending programmes could halt progress to net zero Imposing “premature austerity” again will undermine the fight against climate change and stop poorer households going green, one of the wor…
‘‘Shooting has broken our hearts,’ says shattered Plymouth as city mourns its children’s innocence
Keyham’s tight-knit community says the government has ‘big questions’ to answer about gun controlFive-year-old Evie-Rae left her grandmother Terri’s side and carefully placed a pink candle and a teddy bear on the growing pile of tributes at the foot of…