An anti-Johnson plot?
Theresa May’s put-downs leave some muttering darkly
Gaffe-prone Boris Johnson always looked an odd fit for foreign secretary and some Tory backbenchers are growing suspicious of the prime minister’s motives
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Guardian and Observer charity appeal 2016
Providing practical and effective help and support to child refugees
Please help us help child refugees survive the winter. The political solutions to the crisis may be complex, but that does not mean we should abandon our humanity, writes Katharine Viner
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Where is the world’s most ‘godless’ city?
It’s not what people believe that shapes a place, but how beliefs are put into action
Norwich has the highest proportion of residents describing themselves as having no religion, while Berlin has been called the ‘atheist capital of Europe’. But what about the rest of the world? And is such an assessment meaningful?
Made in Chelsea's aspiring pop stars
The blinkered bliss of reality TV’s toffs
Call them greedy and vacuous, but the TV show’s legion of would-be musicians has produced songs of heartbreak, courage and perseverance. And, like, when you like someone, but do you, like, actually like them?
The ‘lost decade’ of the 1860s
‘A landscape of exhaustion and moral decay’
You’d need to go back 150 years to find the last time wage growth was this stagnant, according to the governor of the Bank of England. But even then, there were a few reasons to be cheerful
I was sacked from my first job
‘No human being has ever been as bad at anything as I was at that job’
Being knocked off a straightforward career path forced me to find my own way through the woods and taught me that the world doesn’t owe me a living, says Daisy Buchanan
The misery of weird phobias
‘I was too terrified to leave the house’
Having a fear of buttons may sound hilarious, but in reality it can be debilitating. Patients with phobias need to be taken more seriously, by both the media and doctors, say experts
Christmas tree, oh Christmas tree ...
Take an aerial tour and see what’s happening down on the tree farm
More than 8 million real trees are bought over the festive period in the UK. Graeme Robertson heads to Scotland with his drone to see the harvest at Edenmill Christmas tree farm, and follows one tree to its new home
Shake Shack and Five Guys reviewed
‘Teenagers have terrible taste in food’
Restaurant critic Marina O’Loughlin returns to two teen-favoured burger joints – this time ably assisted by some actual teenagers – to try to discover the allure of these big US players on our high streets
