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  • A girl sitting with her head on her knees in a living room

    Revealed
    Hundreds of vulnerable children sent to illegal and unregulated care homes in England

    Observer investigation finds that private companies made £105m despite not being registered with Ofsted
  • Ashlee Good

    Australia
    Woman killed in Sydney stabbing attacks was trying to save her baby

News

  • woman holds household implements surrounded by rubble

    Gaza death toll passes 34,000 as Israel and Iran missile strikes grab global attention

  • Mark Menzies and Rishi Sunak

    ‘You can’t rule out a complete panicked meltdown’: Tories fear wipeout after another disastrous week

    Infighting, suspensions and bizarre allegations have dogged efforts to
    restore order as the party prepares for May’s byelections
  • Protesters marching accompanied by police officers

    ‘Outdated and offensive’: police in England and Wales barred from blaming restraint deaths on ‘excited delirium’

    The pseudoscientific term, made notorious by George Floyd’s murder in the US, will no longer be used by the police watchdog

  • Tory MP from slave-owning family set to gain £3m from sale of former plantation

  • Scientists’ experiment is ‘beacon of hope’ for coral reefs on brink of global collapse

  • Next pandemic likely to be caused by flu virus, scientists warn

  • ‘Grownup’ leaders are pushing us towards catastrophe, says former US climate chief

  • The disease-busting hybrids that could bring back the majestic English elm

  • ‘We’ve been taken for granted for too long’: equal pay strikes by women spread across Scotland

  • Leak reveals Tory plan to cut cold weather cash for disabled people

  • ‘Give an X’: YouTubers join Michael Sheen in urging young Britons to vote

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World

  • 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

    The IDF is embroiled in simultaneous conflicts with Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran and in the West Bank – but hadn’t reckoned on the social and political divisions this would cause
  • 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

  • head and beak of a flamingo rises up from a base of blue and purple delphiniums inside a warehouse

    ‘Ban them until we know they’re safe’: Dutch flower growers urged to stop using pesticides

  • Students at a degree ceremony at Harvard University in Massachusetts.

    Chinese students in US tell of ‘chilling’ interrogations and deportations

  • Semi-uniformed men fire their AK-47 assault rifles in the air in a city

    UK Foreign Office holding secret talks with Sudan’s RSF paramilitary group

  • A fishing cat in Peam Krasop wildlife sanctuary

    ‘We found 700 different species’: astonishing array of wildlife discovered in Cambodia mangroves

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In focus

  • 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

    With his final masterpiece on show in London and his influence all over Ripley with Andrew Scott on Netflix, the troubled painter’s appeal endures
  • Emily Blunt Devil Wears Prada Mary Poppins Sicario

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

  • 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

  • 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?

  • 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

  • The exterior of No 10 Downing Street

    Labour’s first 100 days: what is their grand plan for government?

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Comment

  • A snail in the pathway of being trodden under a boot.

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

    Chris Sherwood
  • Rowan Moore

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

    Rowan Moore
  • Simon Tisdall

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

    Simon Tisdall

  • Thanks to Cass, evidence not ideology will be used to guide children seeking gender advice

    Sonia Sodha

  • Don’t despair. History shows Labour even cash-strapped governments can be radical

    Andrew Rawnsley

  • Riz Ahmed’s Defiance: how the visceral racism of 70s Britain gave way to a new era of identity politics

    Kenan Malik

  • Secret’s out, Harold Wilson had another affair. There’s nothing sweet about that, boys

    Catherine Bennett

  • After Iran’s attack on Israel, further escalation must be stopped

  • We don’t do our best work just before lunch, and it’s not much better afterwards

    Torsten Bell

  • One thing stops us from prising teens from their phones: peer pressure

    Martha Gill

  • Chris Riddell on the nightmares disturbing Rishi Sunak’s beauty sleep – cartoon

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Editorials & Letters

  • Hospital sign for The Tavistock Centre

    The Observer view on the Cass review: children were catastrophically failed by the medical profession

  • A UK voter carrying a passport

    My ID card makes life so much easier

    Living in Belgium, identity cards are part of everyday living. What’s the problem, Britain?

  • For the record

    Darcus Howe | Lindsay Hoyle | Northern Line/Battersea Power Station Development Company | Bardo Martinez/Eduardo Arenas
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Business & Cash

  • Workers installing solar panels

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

    Phillip Inman
  • A man and a woman walking a dog walk past a branch of Lloyds on a street corner

    Even a ‘rate shock’ for British mortgage borrowers may not help the banks

  • A telecoms engineer repairing lines at the top of a telegraph pole

    Still offline? Are you missing out on compensation for failed broadband in the UK?

  • Cris Miller, managing director of Viagogo

    Viagogo boss Cris Miller: Carrying on ticketing, despite the controversy

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Sport

  • Macdermott and jockey Danny Mullins jump a fence on the way to victory at the Scottish Grand National.

    Scottish Grand National: Willie Mullins’ Macdermott takes thrilling win on line

  • England's Ellie Kildunne scores her second try of the Six Nations match against Ireland.

    Dow and Kildunne hat-tricks fire 14-try England to Six Nations rout of Ireland

    Megan Jones and Jess Breach also added two tries each in England’s 88-10 win against Ireland in a Women’s Six Nations match at Twickenham
  • Joe Hart

    Hart’s spot-kick redemption seals Celtic win over Aberdeen in classic semi-final

    After missing the chance to win it, Joe Hart saved the decisive penalty after Celtic’s thrilling 3-3 draw with Aberdeen in the Scottish Cup semi-finals

  • Women’s London marathon will be ‘tougher race to win than Olympics’

  • Jamie Vardy rises to occasion against West Brom to send Leicester top

  • Erin Cuthbert gives Chelsea stunning win in first leg of Barcelona semi-final

  • Norris worried fans will be turned off F1 by Verstappen’s ‘boring’ dominance

  • Chinese swimmers won Olympic golds after testing positive for banned drug

  • Mikel Arteta hopes fit Arsenal squad will not repeat last season’s run-in

  • Tiger Woods makes unwanted Masters history while Scheffler edges into lead

  • Different strokes of Ludvig Åberg and Matthieu Pavon tell their stories

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Reviews

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New Review

  • Robbie Williams standing in front of one of his artworks, a large canvas with anxious thoughts such as 'I'm getting on so well with this person it's draining me' and 'I like this one but we have nothing in common' written in many bubbles

    ‘I spend less time self-sabotaging’: Robbie Williams and Joe Lycett on making art

    The pop star and comedian discuss their artwork, social media and how Williams came of age in a classic Birmingham club
  • Azeem Choudhry and Ibrahim standing on their plot. Ibrahim is holding a child's spade, and his bike is in the foreground

    ‘The courgettes were so good last year, I got a tattoo of one’: life on a Birmingham allotment

  • An illustration in tones of blue, grey and red, of people connected with Birmingham arranged around some of its landmark buildings

    Has it come to this? We must act now to save Birmingham’s culture from cuts

  • Munya Chawawa photographed by Suki Dhanda for the Observer New Review.

    Comedian Munya Chawawa: ‘I want to be the Swiss army knife of TV shows – I’m up for all of it’

  • Katherine Ryan sitting on an antique sofa in an elaborate red, yellow and orange gown

    On my radar: Katherine Ryan’s cultural highlights

  • The Dexmo force feedback glove from Dexta Robotics.

    ‘Smell is really important for social communication’: how technology is ruining our senses

  • ‘Another layer of pigment needed adding to the canvas’: artist John Akomfrah on changing the narrative, from Windrush to colonialism

  • ‘Why wouldn’t you, if you can run faster?’: the unstoppable rise of the carbon-fibre super shoe

  • Actor Luke Thompson: ‘It turned out the coughing was someone vomiting in the dress circle – over other people’

  • ‘The surreal dislocation of the everyday’: how Japanese photographer Akihiko Okamura captured the Troubles as never before

  • ‘Working with the landscape is a more sensible way of managing our rivers’: should we dismantle the UK’s dams?

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

    John Naughton

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

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

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Magazine

  • museum stealing

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

    At least 2,000 items from the British Museum were reported missing, stolen or damaged last year, and it now faces a massive overhaul. But it’s not the only institution that finds it hard to keep hold of its collections – and when that happens, who do they call? Meet the art detectives
  • Claudia Jessie

    ‘I did all the things an actor shouldn’t’: Bridgerton’s Claudia Jessie on class, big breaks – and houseboats

  • Caroline Crampton

    ‘I go from rude health to dying in minutes’: a day in the life of a hypochondriac

  • Senior Woman with Walker in a Care Home<br>A senior woman walking down a corridor with the assistance of a walker. view from rear

    I was abused as a child, but now my mother needs care

  • Francesca Mills

    ‘Expect more from me’: actor Francesca Mills on Shakespeare and shifting expectations

  • ‘Bringing the “social” back to social media is important to me’: Shabaz Ali.

    Are you rich and ridiculous? TikTok comedian Shabaz Ali has you in his sights

  • Huey Morgan: ‘I’ve learned there’s really nothing to be scared of’

  • Nigel Slater’s recipe for aubergine, mint and cucumber yoghurt

  • New York v Norwich: what my move across the Atlantic taught me

  • Nigel Slater’s recipes for lemon and spinach linguine, and wild garlic cheese pudding

  • My walking, talking little girl has just turned two…

    Séamas O’Reilly

  • Notes on chocolate: a kind thought and an old-time favourite

  • Sulphate-free shampoos: 10 of the best

  • Retreat to Crete: why the Greek island is a perfect escape

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Observer Food Monthly

  • Benjamina Ebuehi sits with a wooden hammer surrounded by smashed Easter eggs

    Easter egg taste test: will our baking queen love them to bits?

    Benjamina Ebuehi tastes and rates 2024’s batch of high street chocolate treats
  • Danny Wallace Memoir illustration

    The smell of frying onions is the scent of home – and a passport to a world of cooking

    Danny Wallace
  • The Sportsman pub in Seasalter in Kent has had a Michelin star since 2008. Run by Head chef Shephen Harris, his brother Phil (outside the window) and co-chef Dan Flavell, the team have been together for many years including -chef's Mollie Francis, Russell Baker, Sam Jones, Tim Evan and Teresa Harris and front of house Lauren Harte, Catherine Ayres, Bella Croly, Paul Nolan and Lucy Clarke. Photograph by Amit Lennon Date: 29 Feb 2024

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

  • Rachel Cooke

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

    Rachel Cooke
  • Esme Young Life on a Plate Hair and makeup: Juliana Sergot using Lancôme &amp; Tigi Observer Food Monthly OFM April 2024

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

  • John Dory, Sandgate

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

  • 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

  • Helen Rebanks: ‘Everyone in farming families knows how important the farmer’s wife is’

  • Poppy O’Toole’s secret ingredient – ’nduja

  • Richard Corrigan: ‘St Patrick’s is a get together day for humanity. We Irish know how to celebrate’

  • I didn’t eat proper risotto till I was nearly 30. And now drought may take it off menus for ever

    Rachel Cooke
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