Essays & Opinion

Fear of a global environmental apocalypse will prompt children to revert to patterns of behaviour that their parents rejected

Labour's Deputy Leader prominently campaigned ahead of the Brexit referendum, but nobody is challenging him about whether he is still campaigning for the same reforms now

People love inspiring quotes, but they should not. They get shared widely because they seemingly resonate with millions, but this widespread regurgitation only...

If you only focus on what you want, you cannot properly see what you will get. A portion of the UK population is so concerned with reversing the Brexit referendum decision that they have not contemplated what would happen if they prevailed.

How do you know if you let the wrong person pick you as a friend? Here are some telltale signs.

We are so wrapped in our own deceit that we can no longer even admit it to ourselves.

If publishers of teen magazines and lawyers for civil rights bodies really wanted to change our language for the better then it would help if they actually followed the new rules they tell others to adopt.

The Observer's restaurant critic has an opinion about international supply chains. It is as trivial as you might imagine.

They get fined for not paying their taxes, they broke the law on dividend payments and their top director enjoys an enormously excessive pay package, but Lush is a luxury cosmetics empire that thinks justice requires them to engage in crude and divisive political campaigning to the detriment of thousands of public servants.

Sometimes it is easiest to thank people without letting them know.

New research on social mobility is suggestive of a relationship with voting behaviour in the referendum on the UK's membership of the European Union.

BBC journalist Nick Robinson argues for more alternative opinions to be broadcast, but the best way to encourage alternatives is through many narrowcasters, not one broadcaster pretending to be all things to all people.