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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

  • Protesters marching accompanied by police officers

    ‘Outdated and offensive’: police in England and Wales barred from blaming restraint deaths on ‘excited delirium’

  • Richard Drax standing outdoors on a sunny dayduring a two minute's silence

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

    Caribbean historians want Richard Drax to pay reparations – but now Barbados plans to buy his land for homes
  • Steve Backshall, the naturalist, scuba dives on the reefs of the Maldives for the BBC’s Our Changing Planet.

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

    Recordings of healthy fish are being transmitted to attract heat-tolerant larvae back to degraded reefs in the Maldives

  • 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

  • Senior Tories fear Johnson and Truss will sabotage Sunak’s election campaign

  • ‘Guilty men have got away with it’: fears over rise of ‘sexsomnia’ defence in rape cases

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World

  • 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

    Exclusive: Rights groups denounce negotiations with Rapid Support Forces, accused of ethnic cleansing and war crimes
  • A fishing cat in Peam Krasop wildlife sanctuary

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

  • The fire at Notre Dame Cathedral on 15 April 2019.

    ‘Miraculous’: exquisite paintings saved from Notre Dame fire back on view

  • Children stand amid the rubble of a building hit by an Israeli air strike in the centre of the Gaza Strip.

    ‘Chronic traumatic stress disorder’: the Palestinian psychiatrist challenging western definitions of trauma

  • A military helicopter hovering over a cargo vessel

    World waits anxiously for Iranian response to Israel’s killing of top general

  • neon-lit hotel

    From Bond to bust: a Sin City hotel’s closing mirrors the new face of Vegas

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In focus

  • 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

    A region known as ‘God’s land’ offers a glimpse of the future if Indian prime minister’s BJP party retains its power
  • The exterior of No 10 Downing Street

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

  • The door of 10 Downing Street in London

    My time in Downing Street: humbling, good for the soul, but painful

    Polly Mackenzie
  • a bike, a tennis racket, a stone and a ball and graphene

    Wafer-thin, stretchy and strong as steel: could ‘miracle’ material graphene finally transform our world?

  • OJ Simpson after he is found not guilty of murdering his wife, Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman, 1995

    The day they set OJ Simpson free – and left America in turmoil

  • Painterly swathes of colour at Pensthorpe Nature Reserve gardens in Norfolk by Piet Oudolf.

    ‘It will blow people away’: Dutch superstar gardener redesigns RHS flagship Wisley garden

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Comment

  • Sonia Sodha

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

    Sonia Sodha
  • Andrew Rawnsley

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

    Andrew Rawnsley
  • Kenan Malik

    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

  • Jail for holding a placard? Protest over the climate crisis is being brutally suppressed

    Natasha Walter

  • A nagging doubt plagues world leaders wooing India: whose side is Narendra Modi really on?

    Simon Tisdall

  • If you’re seeking a good old British farce, look no further than Liz Truss’s memoirs

    Tim Adams
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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

  • 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

  • William Keegan

    Even Europe’s far-right firebrands seem to sense Brexit is a disaster

    William Keegan
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Sport

  • Ben White (left) and Emile Smith Rowe during a training session at the Emirates Stadium on Saturday.

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

  • Tiger Woods struggles during his third round at Augusta

    Tiger Woods makes unwanted Masters history while Scheffler edges into lead

    A third-round score of 82 is Tiger Woods’s worst at Augusta, while Scottie Scheffler leads on seven under, with Collin Morikawa on six under going into the final day
  • Sweden's Åberg lines up his putt on the green on the 10th hole as Matthieu Pavon of France looks on during the third round of the Masters

    Different strokes of Ludvig Åberg and Matthieu Pavon tell their stories

    The Swede has shown the easy confidence of a young man while the French golfer has nerves of an older pro during their Masters tournaments to date

  • European football: Bayern sink Cologne to delay Leverkusen’s coronation

  • Jason Day asked to remove garish sweater by Augusta officials

  • Ramm inspires nine-try Northampton to emphatic victory against Bulls

  • How Xabi Alonso finally found the antidote to Bayer’s Neverkusen jibes

  • ‘Incredible to be here’: Guardiola targets Premier League title after Luton victory

  • Vintage Grand National enough to make Willie Mullins lose his voice

  • Ryan Reynolds celebrates ‘ride of our lives’ as Wrexham seal promotion

  • Who needs perfection? Why flawed City, Arsenal and Liverpool bring the drama

    Jonathan Wilson
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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?

  • Streaming: High & Low: John Galliano and the best films about fashion

  • I value Brummie art, but who else does?

    Stewart Lee

  • Sunjeev Sahota: ‘I’ve always been in labour movements – but I’m critical of identity politics’

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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

  • 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

  • Sober as I currently am, let’s raise a glass to having a drink

    Eva Wiseman
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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?

  • Jay Rayner

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

    Jay Rayner
  • Lemon drizzle cake

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

  • Tom Kerridge, doffing his top hat in the style of a ringmaster

    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

  • No one likes my home cooking more than me (sorry, not sorry, son)

    Jay Rayner

  • Nigel Slater’s winter pasta and noodle recipes

  • Five ways with chicken – recipes from Moro’s Sam and Sam Clark

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