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  • A polling station.

    Labour shifts poll tactics to target fearful Tory over-65s

    Alarm grows over possible pension cuts as research suggests Jeremy Hunt tax cut announcement was ‘blunder’
  • A protester and her two children sitting on steps while holding up a heart-shaped placard

    Thousands of children strip-searched by police in England and Wales last year

News

  • Fire Exit watch from William Wood costs £1,495.

    Trending on tick-tock: why British watches have hit the big time

  • Sunak delivering his speech on benefits last week.

    Help for disabled people in England and Wales to get jobs is axed amid benefits crackdown

    Closure of Work and Health Programme comes hard on heels of Rishi Sunak’s bid to end the UK’s supposed ‘sicknote’ culture
  • Manteca in east London serves half a pig’s head, slow cooked for 14 hours, on its menu.

    ‘Everyone wants roast pig’s head’ ... UK chefs put offal centre stage with ‘confrontational’ dishes

    Restaurants are serving more unusual cuts of meat, with animal heads staring up at diners to teach them about their food

  • ‘No dividing line’: consultants advising private water companies also work for their regulator, Ofwat

  • UK children bombarded by gambling ads and images online, charity warns

  • Outgoing Tory MPs take lucrative second jobs and ‘swan off on jollies’

  • Alarm at growing number of working people in UK ‘struggling to make ends meet’

  • Sex offender banned from using AI tools in landmark UK case

  • Medical device companies pay millions to NHS while pushing products, says study

  • US House approves $61bn in military aid for Ukraine after months of stalling

  • Being Jewish ‘should never be seen as provocative’, says Home Office

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World

  • Colorized engraving shows a portrait of British poet and writer George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788 - 1824), early 1800s. (Photo by Stock Montage/Getty Images)

    Two centuries on, Greece loves Byron more than ever

    200 years after the revolutionary Romantic poet’s death, Greeks are celebrating his place in their national pantheon
  • A close-up of ice-cream being scooped into a cup

    ‘Do they realise what they’re doing?’ Milan takes on ice-cream sellers in war on ‘wild nightlife’

  • Netiwit Chotiphatphaisal

    Thai conscientious objector risks jail in rare refusal of military service

  • A soldier with a carnation on his rifle in the foreground amid crowds of people in the street below him

    How Portugal’s 1974 Eurovision entry toppled the country’s fascist regime

  • Three young men walk along a rubble-strewn street past a low two-storey building, the upper floor of which has been completely destroyed

    Israel is fighting on four fronts – but the defeat may come at home

  • Sheep pass cars torched by Israeli settlers at the Palestinian village of al-Mughayyir in the West Bank

    ‘Nowhere is safe’: Fear and mourning inside the West Bank villages where Israeli settlers went on the rampage

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In focus

  • US tennis doubles partners Helen Wills, left, and Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman in action during the 1924 Olympics.

    The 1924 Paris Olympics saved the Games. Can this year’s event repeat that success?

    Faced with competition from rival sporting events, the future of the Games hung in the balance. A century on, new hurdles are looming, writes David Goldblatt
  • Tom Ripley (Andrew Scott) wonders at Caravaggio’s masterpiece The Seven Acts of Mercy in the Pio Monte della Misericordia in Naples.

    Rule-breaker for the ages: why Caravaggio is our screen age’s art superstar

  • Emily Blunt Devil Wears Prada Mary Poppins Sicario

    Art meets action: how Emily Blunt became Britain’s biggest Hollywood star

  • The Paris 2024 design decorates the steps of the Sacré-Coeur.

    ‘I don’t dare consider what it will be like’: with 100 days to go until the Olympics, is Paris ready?

  • High school students gather in memory of the victims of the tragedy at Columbine High School in 1999.

    It’s 25 years since Columbine. This is why I can’t leave the story behind

  • India’s prime minister Narendra Modi at a pilgrimage site in Uttarakhand in the Himalayas

    ‘I was told I’d be killed if I didn’t leave’: Himalayan state is a testing ground for Modi’s nationalism

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Comment

  • Martha Gill

    Mental health is a measure of success, not a reason for politicians to sneer

    Martha Gill
  • Will Hutton

    Britain was wise to cleave to Europe as the empire began to disintegrate. It’s time to do it again

    Will Hutton
  • Andrew Rawnsley

    The Tories are playing a risky game with their relentless pursuit of Angela Rayner

    Andrew Rawnsley

  • Left silences right, right silences left. But censorship stops us pushing for change

    Kenan Malik

  • David Cameron is making great strides. No, he really is, you can watch them on video

    Catherine Bennett

  • When royals marry among themselves, it brings an unexpected peace dividend

    Torsten Bell

  • So Sydney Sweeney’s not pretty and can’t act? Such insults by a woman play into men’s hands

    Barbara Ellen

  • Chris Riddell on the zombie Tory government falling apart at the seams – cartoon

  • Call us woke if you like, but all animals deserve the RSPCA’s protection

    Chris Sherwood

  • Saudi Arabia’s 105-mile long Line city has been cut a little short – by 103.5 miles

    Rowan Moore

  • In breaking their fragile truce, Israel and Iran have opened a Pandora’s box

    Simon Tisdall
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Editorials & Letters

  • Rescue worker and a sniffer dog search through rubble in Chernihiv.

    The Observer view: as the world dithers, Ukraine’s plight grows ever more precarious

  • The Tavistock Centre in London

    We are ashamed of the role psychology played in gender care

    Sixteen senior psychologists reveal how their profession failed young people at Gender Identity Development Service clinics

  • For the record

    Aukus/Australia | Rod Dreher | Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service/GMC | Steve Rotheram | Las Vegas/NBA | Gulab jamun
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Business & Cash

  • Posed picture, dramatically lit, of a man in a dark suit knocking on a door

    Unregulated ‘identity tracers’ harass people for debts they do not owe

  • Hand posting a letter with a barcoded stamp into a red letterbox

    Counterfeit barcode stamps furore carries echoes of Horizon scandal

  • cooling towers on nottinghamshire site

    Powering down: end times for the UK’s final coal-fired station

  • Workers installing solar panels

    A heedless dash for net zero will waste cash and, later, votes

    Phillip Inman
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Sport

  • Xavi consoles Raphinha after the defeat by Paris Saint-Germain.

    Barcelona must beat Real Madrid in Xavi’s last clásico to keep season alive

  • Jessica Pegula, Coco Gauff, Victoria Azarenka and Beatriz Haddad Maia on the 2023 doubles final podium

    Land of the dinosaurs: baseline of sexism overshadows tennis in Madrid

    This year offers a fresh chance to do right by women players at an event with a reputation for making them feel second class
  • The Arsenal manager, Mikel Arteta, reacts during Arsenal’s win against Wolves.

    ‘It is not right. Let’s protect the players’: Arteta blasts schedule after Wolves win

    ‘It’s not about Pep or myself, it’s about the wellbeing of players,’ Mikel Arteta said when asked about Arsenal’s busy fixture schedule

  • Manchester City 1-0 Chelsea: FA Cup semi-final player ratings

  • ‘I’ve never had my favourite team on the pitch’: Ten Hag defends United tenure

  • Leandro Trossard proves himself Arsenal’s sharpshooter to rely on

  • Arsenal return to top spot after Trossard and Ødegaard see off Wolves

  • Guardiola slams semi-final scheduling: ‘I don’t understand how we survived’

  • Everton’s and Forest’s deduction derby is a deeply flawed relegation six-pointer

    Jonathan Wilson

  • Coventry’s street-smarts key to Huckerby’s stunner against United

  • Chelsea misuse Pochettino’s tools against lethargic Manchester City

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Reviews

  • Black and white portrait of Taylor Swift

    Taylor Swift: The Tortured Poets Department review – a whole lotta love gone bad

  • Exterior view of the space in which to place me (Jeffrey Gibson’s exhibition for the United States Pavilion, 60th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia), April 20 – November 24, 2024. Forecourt sculpture: the space in which to place me (2024).

    Armed guards, reparations and the lives of others: Venice Biennale 2024 – review

  • Daisy Ridley as Fran in Sometimes I Think About Dying, standing uneasily in a doorway, looking at other people having a laugh Plot: Fran, who likes to think about dying, makes the new guy at work laugh, which leads to dating and more. Now the only thing standing in their way is Fran herself. Ref: LMK110-J10392-141223 Supplied by LMKMEDIA. Editorial Only. Landmark Media is not the copyright owner of these Film or TV stills but provides a service only for recognised Media outlets. pictures@lmkmedia.com<br>2TD7TE2 USA. Daisy Ridley in a scene from the (C)Oscilloscope new movie : Sometimes I Think About Dying (2024). Plot: Fran, who likes to think about dying, makes the new guy at work laugh, which leads to dating and more. Now the only thing standing in their way is Fran herself. Ref: LMK110-J10392-141223 Supplied by LMKMEDIA. Editorial Only. Landmark Media is not the copyright owner of these Film or TV stills but provides a service only for recognised Media outlets. pictures@lmkmedia.com

    Sometimes I Think About Dying review – Daisy Ridley excels as shy office worker in offbeat comedy

  • CGI depicting proposed South East Faversham development

    Is Kent ready for the Duchy of Cornwall’s next Poundbury?

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New Review

  • Images of film stars and sets superimposed on an English landscape with a road sign for Dagenham in the centre

    Barbie, Bridgerton and billions of pounds: how streaming – and tax breaks – fuelled the UK’s ‘Brollywood’ screen boom

    Great locations, experienced crews and juicy incentives have made UK studios increasingly attractive. But with budgets falling, could the bubble be about to burst?
  • Lauren Mayberry photographed in London by Suki Dhanda for the Observer New Review, February 2024.

    Chvrches’ Lauren Mayberry: ‘I was fixated with death… I needed to live in reality’

  • Iain Sinclair sitting on a red bench amid some shrubs

    ‘All of them were drunk’: Iain Sinclair on Freud, Bacon and the postwar Soho arts scene

  • Professor Corinne Fowler in Grasmere, along the route of the 'East Indian Company Walk’

    ‘I’m not afraid of anybody now’: the woman who revealed links between National Trust houses and slavery – and was vilified

  • Illustration by David Foldvari of an explosion with the words ‘nothing to see here’ overlaid.

    Andrew Neil needs to be more Vorderman, less Voldemort

    Stewart Lee
  • Anna Readman in a studio filled with framed prints and memorabilia

    The Faber/Observer/Comica graphic short story prize 2024 – enter now!

  • The big picture: Gueorgui Pinkhassov’s shadow play in a 90s Tokyo hotel

  • Physicist Claudia de Rham: ‘Gravity connects everything, from a person to a planet’

  • Jo Hamya: ‘Could I just write one massive grey area?’

  • The big tech firms want an AI monopoly – but the UK watchdog can bring them to heel

    John Naughton

  • ‘Like a film in my mind’: hyperphantasia and the quest to understand vivid imaginations

  • On my radar: CMAT’s cultural highlights

  • One to watch: Annie-Claude Deschênes

Magazine

  • Tidying and cleaning feature studio shoot

    Clean like you mean it: the ultimate guide to spring cleaning your home

    Blitz your wardrobe! Scrub that keyboard! Shine your teaspoons! It’s time for a brutal spring clean – so roll up your sleeves and follow our 43 expert tips from cleaning and decluttering gurus
  • Molly Roden Winter shot for OM

    ‘I wanted sexual adventures, I didn’t want to fall in love’: Molly Roden Winter on her astonishing memoir of an open marriage

  • David Nicholls shot for OM

    David Nicholls: ‘I don’t think I’ll write another love story’

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    As an immigrant I’m undervalued, and my wife has no sympathy

  • museum stealing

    The big steal: how do ancient treasures from museums end up for sale on the internet?

  • ‘Perfection is overrated’: Vadis Turner and family in their kitchen.

    Putting on the pizzazz: a no-holds-barred home in Nashville

  • ‘I now know that anything is possible’: from a women’s shelter to Cambridge University

  • Nigel Slater’s recipes for tenderstem with garlic hollandaise, and blueberry yoghurt cake

  • My five-year-old son is learning to play chess…

    Séamas O’Reilly

  • Notes on chocolate: a seriously intense 70% dark choc

  • Ladybirds are meant to be lucky, but lucky for who?

    Eva Wiseman

  • Lyme Regis: a real taste of the Dorset coast with an exciting new food scene

  • Sunday with Shirley Manson: ‘I impersonate my mother by making a chicken dinner’

  • Luxe lipsticks: 10 of the best

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Observer Food Monthly

  • George Jones (left) and Nick Kelleher at IJ Mellis Cheesemonger, Morningside, Edinburgh.

    Right up your street: favourite local shops in the UK, chosen by chefs and food writers

    Fuchsia Dunlop, Dan Smith and Melissa Thompson tell us where they buy Chinese vegetables in London, heritage produce in Kent, and the best chicken you’ll ever eat
  • Lunch with Simon Reeve Observer Food Monthly OFM April 2024

    Simon Reeve: ‘At a Russian school the headmaster greeted us with a bottle of vodka. It wasn’t yet 9am’

  • John Dory, Sandgate

    ‘We’re trying to make it more inclusive’: the rise of Britain’s new wine bars

  • Baklava Cheesecake Georgina Hayden Greekish

    Sticky aubergine tart, sea bass with pistachio pesto, baklava cheesecake – Greekish recipes by Georgina Hayden

  • Baked tomatoes with chickpeas and curry leaves.

    Salmon pie, pork in cider, fig tart – Nigel Slater’s one-pot dinners

  • Our Favourite shops Observer Food Monthly OFM April 2024

    Welcome to April’s Observer Food Monthly

  • Gill Meller’s secret ingredient: smoked paprika

  • I eagerly await the English asparagus season, from tender start to woody finish

    Rachel Cooke

  • Esme Young: ‘I got Mini Cheddars in the green room when I started on Sewing Bee. Still do’

  • Food crazes make me want to roll my eyes. But first, pass me a crookie

    Jay Rayner

  • Lemon drizzle, pistachio and blood orange, egg-free date – Tarunima Sinha’s spring bakes

  • Welcome to March’s Observer Food Monthly

  • Hats off! It’s Tom Kerridge’s Easter recipes: shoulder of lamb, onion tart and a hot cross bun bread and butter pudding

  • Right place, long time: what are the secret ingredients that help a restaurant last for years?

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