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Co-writer Maxine Peake stars as an am-dram actor playing the former Commons speaker in Sarah Frankcom’s end-of-the-pier-style production

What good is goodwill, say the Conservatives, if it can’t be monetised?

Shirley Lawson has blasted the governments who haven't delivered on pay promises.

Our Observer, Kwajo Tweneboa, lived in appalling conditions in a London council house for years, along with his dying father and two sisters. But he has turned this difficult experience into a powerful drive for change. Today, he travels up and down the UK visiting substandard homes and documenting the…

Liam Payne recently revealed he spent 50 hours on an oil painting of Queen Elizabeth II, a follow up to his painting of Prince Philip.

Don’t believe Rishi Sunak or other Tory union-busters, says the Guardian columnist Owen Jones

Editorial: The prime minister should be like his political idol and award inflation-proof pay rises to end industrial strife by key workers

The former Soviet leader’s longtime translator remembers an optimist who wanted to achieve his goals by persuasion, not force, and understood that he was a man of history

Businessman who served in Margaret Thatcher’s cabinet in the 1980s and was regarded as one of her favourite ministers

Boy George and Matt Hancock had some confrontations in the jungle and still seem to be feuding outside the I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! camp after their exits

Welsh ex-miner Emlyn Davies, 77, could not scrape together the £2,900 needed to bury his wife and lives with his daughter because he only receives £61 a week after 26 years down the pits