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In Ian McEwan’s Atonement (2001), aspiring writer 13-year-old Briony Tallis glimpses a world of opaque “adult emotion”. Holding a pen and blank paper before her, she feels a powerful impulse to write in order to impose order and meaning on adulthood’s slippery uncertainties.

Exclusive: New figures reveal the scale of Chinese investment in presitigious UK universities, amid concerns bout Bejing’s influence

Declassified files from Britain's National Archives reveal the double lives of Cambridge spies Anthony Blunt and Kim Philby, their espionage activities, an...

From a major UK film star to the Queen’s senior courtier – declassifed documents tell a new story about British spies

Fascism in power in the 1930s brought the world to genocidal war. But memories have faded, as has the stigma attached to the far-right – and that’s dangerous, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

Queen Elizabeth was left in the dark for almost a decade over the full scale of the treachery of one of her most senior courtiers, according to…

Documents indicate monarch was informed Anthony Blunt was Soviet agent in 1973, though he confessed in 1964

Newly-declassified files show the Queen was only told the full story a decade after royal courtier confessed to spying for the KGB.

Scientists to examine if humans’ and dogs’ brains synchronise when they interact in a way similar to parents and babies