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  • Dan Poulter, sitting at a table with two red Labour mugs on it, signs a form as Ellie Reeves watches

    Top Tory MP defects to Labour in fury at NHS crisis

    Ex-health minister Dan Poulter, who also works as a hospital doctor, says Conservatives have become ‘nationalist party of the right’
  • Demonstrators hold placards related to the NHS infected blood scandal and Bayer-owned Cutter Laboratories warned the presence of virus in its commercial blood product Koate 'should be assumed'.

    Revealed: UK government was warned of infected blood risks in 1970s

News

  • Seven men, some in soldiers' uniforms, watch as Commandant Oberst Schwalm talks to Brigadier Alfred Ernest Snow, surrendering on Alderney on 16 May 1945 next to a metal bunker with an open door

    Inquiry into Nazi camps on Alderney to examine if there was British cover-up

  • Michelle Johnstone walking down a path through a park or wood with Fergus, a toddler, walking beside her, holding her hand

    Warning over asthma drug after 500 neuropsychiatric reactions reported in young children

    UK medicines regulator says information on boxes of montelukast will alert users to risk of mood and behaviour changes
  • Leo Jacobs, who died of a drug overdose, should have been seen by a nurse every two weeks.

    NHS mental health trust failings linked to more than 30 deaths in Norfolk and Suffolk

    Campaigners are calling for public inquiry into high number of patient fatalities over a decade at crisis-hit service

  • Tories may drop autumn statement pledging more tax cuts before election

  • Vulnerable teenagers ‘dumped and abandoned’ in hotels by councils in England

  • ‘Indefensible’: UK prisoner jailed for 23 months killed himself after being held for 17 years

  • Threat of summer poll a tactic to ward off Sunak revolt, say senior Tories

  • ‘Almost beyond belief’: axing of teacher recruitment scheme will worsen crisis, say critics

  • Tory staff running network of anti-Ulez Facebook groups riddled with racism and abuse

  • SNP split from Greens boosts Keir Starmer’s election chances, say Labour insiders

  • Rageh Omaar says he was ‘determined to finish’ after becoming unwell on air

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World

  • Heinrich XIII Prince Reuss is led away after dawn raids by police in December 2022.

    The prince, the plotters and the would-be putsch: Germany to try far-right coup gang

    Ex-soldier, conspiracy theorist, astrologer and anti-vaxxer among the first of 27 people on trial for trying to violently topple the German government – led by Heinrich XIII Prince Reuss
  • a person holds a sign that reads "free Palestine" with a drawing of a watermelon slice

    Echoes of Vietnam era as pro-Palestinian student protests roil US campuses

  • Posters showing councilwoman Marielle Franco, whose murder has inspired a generation of journalists to probe Rio’s underworld and its ties to police and politicians.

    ‘My hands went cold’: Rio’s reporters risk death to reveal criminal ties between police, politicians and mafia

  • Two totally burnt out cars, one upside down, illuminatewd with orange light, form part of an exhibit

    ‘We are showing the world what people do’: grim relics of Hamas attack go on display in New York

  • An Atlantic salmon on a petri dish.

    From petri dish to plate: meet the company hoping to bring lab-grown fish to the table

  • Begoña Gómez preparing to cast a vote with Pedro Sánchez standing behind her

    Spain’s PM Sánchez could quit after far-right attacks on wife and bid to ‘politically kill’ him

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In focus

  • A stag surveys the land in Glencoe, Scotland.

    The SNP may be laid low but the call of Scottish independence is loud and clear

    Neal Ascherson
    Polls saying the nationalist cause is no priority among voters are misleading. The aspiration to once again be a sovereign European state has only been strengthened by devolution
  • Members in camp - 1924 Mount Everest Expedition, Back row (left to right) - Andrew Irvine, George Mallory, Edward Norton, Noel Odell and John Macdonald. Front row (left to right) - Edward Shebbeare, Geoffrey Bruce, Howard Somervell and Bentley Beetham, Tibet, China, Mount Everest Expedition 1924. (Photo by J.B. Noel/Royal Geographical Society via Getty Images)

    Heroism, sacrifice, defeat? The enduring mystery of George Mallory’s final Everest attempt

  • The bar at Ministry of Sound nightclub

    ‘I know my limit’: how gen Z became Britain’s ‘sober-curious’ generation

  • A family walks along the Southbank in the rain with The Palace of Westminster, home to the Houses of Parliament, in the background, in London

    Red walls and green dreams: what are the key battlegrounds in England’s local elections?

  • A Labour party rosette.

    ‘It would be seismic to win in Sunak’s backyard’: is Labour about to paint England red?

  • James Righton drinking from a tall mug of beer next to Jamie Reynolds with his mouth on a beer bottle and Simon Taylor-Davis of Klaxons at a bar

    It’s 20 years since the UK hit ‘peak booze’. The hangover is still with us

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Comment

  • Bidisha Mamata

    A successful woman in her 40s with a toyboy pop star? Great on screen in The Idea of You, scary in reality

    Bidisha Mamata
  • Simon Tisdall

    Giorgia Meloni and Ursula von der Leyen, the double act that is steering the EU ever rightwards

    Simon Tisdall
  • Sonia Sodha

    Some are born lucky, so the left shouldn’t flinch from giving others a helping hand

    Sonia Sodha

  • Keir Starmer needs to have a frank conversation with voters about the price of security

    Andrew Rawnsley

  • For migrants, ‘deterrence’ doesn’t deter. It’s cruelty, not compassion, Mr Sunak

    Kenan Malik

  • Jacob Rees-Mogg is just posing as a GB News anchor, but Ofcom doesn’t care if we’re confused

    Catherine Bennett

  • Lost civilisations make good TV, but archaeology’s real stories hold far more wonder

    Flint Dibble

  • Tony Blair had it, Boris Johnson too... the quality that wins Angela Rayner support despite her gaffes

    Martha Gill

  • It’s immoral to push children into poverty, but that’s what the benefits cap does

    Torsten Bell

  • Chris Riddell on how one-word Ofsted assessments would apply to the Tory party – cartoon

  • Did five frightened horses bolting through London really mean the end was neigh?

    Michael Hogan
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Editorials & Letters

  • Tents at Everest base camp.

    The Observer view on overtourism: sometimes, the planet’s hotspots are best left unvisited

  • Medical staff wearing PPE on a ward for Covid patients at King's College Hospital, London, in December 2021.

    We must learn the lessons of Covid before another deadly disease strikes

    Why has so little been done to make indoor spaces safer, to stop the spread of airborne viruses?

  • For the record

    Kate Andrews | Toheeb Jimoh | Culinaris deli
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Business & Cash

  • pylons against sunset

    Capacity crunch: why the UK doesn’t have the power to solve the housing crisis

  • A photograph from a low angle of the impressive pillared facade of the Bank of England, with spring flowers in the foreground

    Should the Bank of England cut interest rates with Britain’s economy in bloom?

  • Tom Bradshaw smiling over farm gate

    ‘It’s pretty gloomy out there’: new NFU chief Tom Bradshaw fights to give food producers a better deal

  • Preprepared meals for the week ahead in containers

    ‘Meal prepping’ is booming – but beware the health dangers

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Sport

  • Notable Speech canters to victory ridden under William Buick with Rosallion and Haatem following in second and third respectively

    Notable Speech wins 2,000 Guineas as favourite City Of Troy slumps

  • Declan Rice scores Arsenal’s third goal against Bournemouth.

    Declan Rice drives Arsenal past Bournemouth to maintain title push

    Goals from Bukayo Saka, Leandro Trossard and Declan Rice eased leaders Arsenal to a 3-0 win over Bournemouth
  • Adam Armstrong celebrates after scoring Southampton’s first goal against Leeds.

    Southampton add to Leeds’ misery as pair land in Championship playoffs

    Southampton ensured Leeds’s season ended in another loss as two first-half goals gave them a 2-1 win at Elland Road – both sides now enter the playoffs

  • Birmingham’s win over Norwich not enough to avert relegation

  • Ipswich seal stunning promotion to Premier League as Huddersfield drop

  • MK Dons’ Dean Lewington: ‘If I’m playing well and I’m 41, who cares?’

  • ‘An incredible journey’: Fran Kirby to leave Chelsea at end of the season

  • Inside anti-doping’s civil war: anger and suspicion spill into the open

  • ‘It’s not like I lost it’: Geraint Thomas on the Giro, crashes and a last Olympic hurrah

  • Gallagher rescues draw at Aston Villa but Chelsea fume over disallowed goal

  • Bukayo Saka: ‘The hunger to win keeps me going, that’s why I keep getting up’

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Reviews

  • A drone’s eye view of the northern section of the redeveloped King’s Cross site, 2023.

    ‘Nervous of its own boldness’: the (almost) radical rebirth of King’s Cross

  • Mike Faist, Zendaya and Josh O'Connor in Challengers, sitting on a bed smiling

    Challengers review – Zendaya holds court in absurdly sexy three-way tennis romance

  • Gabriele Münter, Listening (Portrait of Jawlensky), 1909. detail

    Expressionists: Kandinsky, Münter and the Blue Rider review – bringers of joy

  • Lucia di Lammermoor directed by Katie Mitchell, staring Nadine Sierra

    The week in classical: Lucia di Lammermoor; Nash Ensemble; Anthony McGill and Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective – review

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New Review

  • Billy Bragg.

    Billy Bragg: ‘There’s nothing like going out there singing your truth. That ain’t changed’

    The activist singer-songwriter on fighting for trans rights, his 40 years in the music business and his forthcoming tour with his son
  • Clockwise from left: Tom Hanks, Rosie O’Donnell and Madonna in A League of Their Own (1992), Robert De Niro in Raging Bull (1980), Bend It Like Beckham (2002), Hoop Dreams (1994), Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait (2006).

    Game, set and match: the 20 best sports movies

  • Peggy Guggenheim with her Lhasa Apsos terriers.Palazzo Venier dei Leoni; Venice, 1973 Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, Venice, Photo Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche, Gift, Cassa di Risparmio di Venezia, 2005

    ‘She was trying to find herself’: the untold story of Peggy Guggenheim, Hampshire homemaker

  • The BAFTA Tea Party Presented by Nina Hoss.Delta Air Lines And Virgin Atlantic - Portraits<br>BEVERLY HILLS, CALIFORNIA - JANUARY 14: Nina Hoss attends the BAFTA Tea Party Presented by Delta Air Lines and Virgin Atlantic on January 14, 2023 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Amy Sussman/BAFTA/Contour by Getty Images)

    German actor Nina Hoss: ‘London is more driven. In the theatre, people are full of positive energy’

  • Illustration by David Foldvari of a film reel containing pictures of a person being quoted

    Context is vital. That’s why I’m filming everything I say and do from now on

    Stewart Lee
  • An illustration of a heart made of jigsaw pieces, with a missing piece and a hand holding a smartphone

    ‘The science isn’t there’: do dating apps really help us find our soulmate?

  • The internet is in decline – it needs rewilding

    John Naughton

  • Pivot podcast host Scott Galloway: ‘Tech bros conflate luck with talent’

  • On my radar: Andrew O’Hagan’s cultural highlights

  • One to watch: Fat Dog

  • Mark Kermode on… Danny Boyle, a director who defines British pop culture

  • The big picture: Lydia Goldblatt’s reflection on family and absence

  • ‘Eugenics on steroids’: the toxic and contested legacy of Oxford’s Future of Humanity Institute

Magazine

  • Actor Daniel Mays photographed by Alun Callender for the Observer Magazine at The Mildmay Club, London.

    ‘I was always able to get away with things’: Daniel Mays on playing bent coppers, acting opposite Michael Douglas, and working-class bias

    It’s a huge leap from playing a bent copper in Line of Duty to starring in the musical Guys & Dolls, but if anyone can make a role work, it’s actor Daniel Mays
  • Observer Magazine<br>Lauren Bensted pictured with her baby - her story of a bowel disease triggered after child birth.

    ‘I felt myself split into before and after’: how giving birth triggered a life-changing illness

  • HI Res Dr Lisa Kaltenegger 1Q2A9195-Enhanced-NR-4

    ‘We live in a golden time of exploration’: astronomer Lisa Kaltenegger on the hunt for signs of extraterrestrial life

  • Senior woman sitting on the bench<br>Lonely senior woman is sitting on the bench in park

    I’ve lost contact with my brother. Is it too late to reach out?

  • Adele Roberts<br>Adele Roberts

    Adele Roberts: ‘My GP told me I was too young for cancer. She sent me for tests anyway and saved my life’

  • Spelt patties and marinated tomatoes.

    Nigel Slater’s recipe for spelt, ricotta and basil patties

  • That yearning feeling: why we need nostalgia

  • Turkey’s melting pot: a foodie break in Istanbul

  • Nigel Slater’s recipes for green vegetable stew with basil pesto toasts, and asparagus with melted cheese

  • A family ferry trip across to Dublin has its fair share of drama

    Séamas O’Reilly

  • Notes on chocolate: we all have a favourite

  • Shelf life: why are toy shops full of horrors these days?

    Eva Wiseman

  • Sunday with Fay Ripley: ‘I’m a feeder – breakfast, brunch, snacks, roast’

  • Eyebrows that hit a high note

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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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