Education quiz: how much do you remember about 2016?
Endless U-turns, the return of grammar schools and a leather trouser scandal. Test your knowledge of last year’s education news
Our favourite global development stories of 2016
From refugees to aid worker safety, leaving no one behind to localising aid, it’s been a busy year for humanitarians and development folk. Catch up our coverage
Beyoncé to Black Mirror; the culture that defines 2016
The year's top development stories: 2016 in review
Australia in 2016: the year leaders flailed as populism sailed
Malcolm Turnbull only just won an election and struggled with a rightwing surge, while allegations of mistreatment of the vulnerable peppered a bleak 2016. Thank heavens for Crowded House and Helen Garner, writes Katharine Murphy
Steve Bell on his best cartoons of 2016 – ‘The Danes demanded an apology’
How do you capture the events of an extraordinary year? Start with a condom, a clown and a Nazi …
‘Get that lie off your bus’: the year’s best slapdowns
The 2016 Donald Trump tasting menu: racist Skittles and silver-service KFC
The fakest people of 2016: from ‘spokesman John Miller’ to Keith Vaz’s ‘Jim’