Comments from Paul Johnson of Institute of Fiscal Studies come as Downing Street hints at delay to work on second phase of rail link Paul Johnson, the director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, has ...

A 12-year-old girl has apparently become the youngest person in the UK to be found drink driving after she was caught while nearly double the legal alcohol limit on Christmas Day. The case was ...

The Stand – the original version of it, something I'll talk about later – was published in 1978. I read it 16 years after that. I can remember the time and place: on holiday in Turkey with my family.

It’s the supporting cast who shine brightest in the opener of this Netflix thriller, which promises twists galore Last night I dreamt I went to Parminster again … That’s where Doctor Foster lived with ...

Football in Northern Ireland plunged into a sectarian crisis last night after the team captain Neil Lennon was forced to pull out of the squad's friendly match with Cyprus after receiving death ...

George Bush is to defy White House tradition and official Chinese anger by joining the Dalai Lama on Capitol Hill tomorrow, where the spiritual leader will receive America's highest civilian honour.

The people leading the NHAP are brave and daring. They feel like pioneers of a new sort of politics, just as Labour’s original pioneers were after becoming disillusioned with the Liberals. They are ...

At the turn of the year miserablism is in the air. Pessimism, disgust with everything, ennui, cynicism, all these are enemies of progress: thirst for improvement requires optimism and belief. Yet the ...

Murray Armstrong: Morning conference: the London art market is expected to break European records this week. Where is all the money coming from? James Fenton finds that new details add depth to old ...

Saudi Arabia banned the sale of yesterday's issue of the pan-Arab daily Al-Hayat. A member of Al-Hayat's management in Saudi said: "It is true that the government stopped the distribution of Al-Hayat ...

America’s first memorial to lynching victims opens today in Montgomery, Alabama. The Guardian is on the ground to cover a historic moment In a passage reminiscent of late-career Martin Luther King, ...

Sign up here to get the Media Briefing emailed to you by 9am. If you have any difficulty subscribing or unsubscribing, THE GUARDIAN A high court judge has thrown out ...