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When the US slashed its foreign aid budget a fortnight ago, David Lammy called it a ‘big mistake’. He was right – and it’s a mistake for the UK to do it now, says Guardian columnist Larry Elliott

Times are tough and funding remains below the historic average, but in key areas there are welcome signs of hope, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

Editorial: A new report makes a convincing case for outlawing strangulation imagery – and putting the home secretary in charge

Editorial: Abdullah Öcalan’s call for fighters to disarm is an important moment. But a lasting resolution will require greater rights for Kurds

Just down the road from me there is a blue plaque commemorating the foundation in 1897 of that excellent organisation, The Distressed Gentlefolks’ Association, since rebranded as something more egalitarian. The gist of it was that ladies and gentlemen could become poor too when their circumstances changed but unlike the…

As Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk alter US media, the connections between wealth and power are in plain sight

Fresh out of jail, does it matter that his 2017 festival was one of the biggest social-media-driven deceptions of our time? Not a bit, says Guardian columnist Zoe Williams

The cautious phrase was such a red-rag that I’ve tried hard not to say it to my own kids. It hasn’t always worked

It was a by-election that caused a political earthquake. In 1981, Shirley Williams changed the temperature in Westminster when the new Social Democratic Party triumphed in the once true blue seat of Crosby. Months before, her fellow Gang of Four member Roy Jenkins had come tantalisingly close to winning a…