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  • Rishi Sunak

    Conservatives slam ‘bonkers’ plot to topple Rishi Sunak before election

    Senior Tories have rallied around the PM amid claims that some party MPs are plotting to replace him with Penny Mordaunt
  • Social media apps on an iPhone

    Leading adviser quits over Instagram’s failure to remove self-harm content

  • Ed Davey at the Lib Dem Spring Conference Arrivals and Rally in York

    Low-profile Lib Dems are flatlining in the polls – but don’t write them off

  • Female standing on weighing scales in a dark room

    Obese teens can crash diet safely if monitored by a dietitian, study finds

    Fears over the effect of rapid weight loss on physical and mental wellbeing of young people said to be unjustified
  • Maggie Maurer with robot baby at Schiaparelli's Paris show in January

    Why fashion must get hip to needs of its working mothers

    Many cite difficulties of juggling a family with job demands and a lack of industry support
  • Starmer’s team coached for government over dinners with top Whitehall figures

  • ‘Sneaky’ social media ads are luring young into gambling, say campaigners

  • ‘It’s an excuse to overreach’: families’ anger over UK police restraint deaths blamed on disputed condition

  • Revealed: disputed medical terms used to explain dozens of deaths after police restraint in UK

  • ‘Just when we need them most’: Britain’s car share clubs face closure as last insurer pulls out

  • Sainsbury’s and Tesco resolve technical issues that disrupted deliveries

  • Revealed: Sunak flown to Leeds for private tour of Frank Hester’s office weeks after £5m donation

  • Ed Davey: ‘We need a cross-party agreement on social care’

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  • People at an outdoor cafe beside a canal in Amsterdam.

    Europe’s champion sitters: even the sporty Dutch are falling victim to ‘chair-use disorder’

    Long hours spent at desks and sofas leads to 21,000 deaths a year in the Netherlands from cardiovascular disease, diabetes and cancer
  • A Cadus trauma stabilisation point in Khan Younis.

    Severely injured patients trapped in Gaza’s hospitals as evacuations are halted

  • A group of Muslim women sitting with food laid out in front of them

    Gaza ceasefire hopes rise after Hamas abandons key demands

  • A health worker administers polio vaccine drops to a child during a door-to-door vaccination campaign in Peshawar, Pakistan.

    Global eradication of polio ‘tantalisingly close’ with UK urged to keep up funding

  • Men and women wait outside embassy building

    Scramble at the border as DR tightens security amid surging Haiti turmoil

  • André Ventura talks to the media in a street outside a polling station

    Portugal’s far-right Chega party eyes kingmaker role as country goes to polls

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  • Rishi Sunak Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party<br>Secretary of State for Scotland Alister Jack introduced Rishi Sunak Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party Keynote address at the Scottish Conservatives Annual Conference 2024, Followed by a question and answer session with Douglas Ross MSP at P&amp;J Live – Aberdeen, Scotland UK 01/03/2024 © COPYRIGHT PHOTO BY MURDO MACLEOD All Rights Reserved Tel + 44 131 669 9659 Mobile +44 7831 504 531 Email: m@murdophoto.com STANDARD TERMS AND CONDITIONS APPLY See details at http://www.murdophoto.com/T%26Cs.html No syndication, no redistribution. A22U4Y, sgealbadh, A22R4S

    ‘Our chances? Zero – and getting worse’: inside a Tory death spiral

    Frank Hester, Lee Anderson, an unpopular budget … as the catalogue of Conservative disasters piles up, discipline seems to be breaking down, and any hope of election victory fading
  • Digitally altered picture of Princess of Wales with her children

    ‘People question everything now’: how Kate’s photo scandal rips up the rules for royals and the media

  • John Major looks pensive during the 1997 general election.

    Like it’s 1997? Major’s lot weren’t so pointless, poisonous or loathed

    Tim Bale
  • David Challen

    Race of truth: F1 needs to double down on diversity if it wants to put the Horner saga behind it

    David Challen
  • Joe Biden

    Democrats are angry over media coverage of Biden. Is it a distraction?

  • A middle-aged Black and South Asian woman wearing a dark gray suit and large gray pearls, with shoulder-length copper hair, is seen speaking into a microphone with a clear blue sky behind her.

    Harris is reaching Democrats where Biden isn’t – on abortion and Gaza

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  • Will Hutton

    Ignore the rightwing moaners. We don’t have 9m shirkers – they just want better work

    Will Hutton
  • Andrew Rawnsley

    Rishi Sunak’s refusal to give up the Frank Hester gold proves his principles have a price point

    Andrew Rawnsley
  • Martha Gill

    Britain is great in a crisis, but useless in a slump. Just take a look at the NHS

    Martha Gill
  • Austerity doesn’t just damage public services, it destroys faith in the future

    Torsten Bell
  • In the name of anti-elitism, Arts Council England has declared war on opera and excellence

    Catherine Bennett
  • Plundered and corrupted for 200 years, Haiti was doomed to end in anarchy

    Kenan Malik
  • Creatives are leaving London, and for the first time I understand why

    Barbara Ellen
  • Rishi Sunak in the dustbin of incompetence – cartoon

  • Fast fashion: the French are bringing Shein and Temu to heel. Can Britain follow suit?

    Tiffanie Darke
  • Birmingham council has just cut services to the bone, but its citizens can’t read all about it in print

    Tim Adams
  • How will the Ukraine war end? Only when Vladimir Putin is toppled

    Simon Tisdall
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Editorials & Letters

  • The archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby.

    The Observer view: Michael Gove’s definition of extremism will shut down vital debate

  • Vladimir Putin votes online in the presidential election in a residence outside Moscow.

    The Observer view on Russia’s election: insecure, weak Putin craves the popular vote, but uses violence to guarantee it

    This parody of an election will be remembered for the cynically methodical manner in which he and his cronies stole the people’s right to freely choose Russia’s leader
  • A ‘wheels for wellbeing’ ride in London

    The key to happiness is equality

    How should economists address the climate crisis? By focusing not on growth but on the redistribution of wealth
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  • Starling bank app on a mobile phone

    Starling bank refused a £10,000 scam refund for my grieving, ill husband

  • A church yard and house in East Sussex

    Church of England accused of ‘acting like a loan shark’ over vicar’s widow falling £313,000 in debt

  • Passersby walk in front of the brightly lit windows of an Admiral slot machine arcade on a shopping street

    Masters of spin – how slot machine operators are taking over UK high streets

  • Two women in their 40s stand outside a branch of a slot machine arcade with the Merkur name and sun logo displayed

    In the grip of slot machine addiction: ‘I’d keep loading £20s in. I could be in a daze’

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  • Kyogo Furuhashi scores Celtic’s opening goal against St Johnstone.

    Celtic return to top of table as Kyogo Furuhashi sparks win over St Johnstone

  • Former footballer Jari Litmanen photographed in Tallinn, Estonia for Michael Butler interview.

    Jari Litmanen on Ajax, Barça and a wrist that ‘broke into eight pieces’

    The best footballer Finland has ever produced talks to Michael Butler about the highs and lows of his career and his anonymous life today in Estonia
  • St Helens celebrate with their fans after beating Leeds in the 2022 grand final.

    Women’s rugby league season kicks off with money doing the talking

    The game has made great strides forward in recent years with St Helens the latest club to make match payments to players
  • ‘Huge strides’: Jamie George and Steve Borthwick bullish despite France loss

  • Schauffele takes Players Championship lead but progress slow on Saudi talks

  • England under Borthwick on the upslope for first time in a long time

  • European football: Harry Kane breaks goalscoring record but suffers injury

  • France 33-31 England: Six Nations player ratings from Lyon

  • Klopp trusts youth amid injury chaos as farewell tour arrives at Old Trafford

  • Marcus Rashford faces battle to secure place in Southgate’s Euro 2024 plans

  • ‘Save the season’: Ten Hag challenges United before FA Cup tie with Liverpool

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Reviews

  • Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood at Arnolfini, Bristol.

    Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood review – all of life starts here

  • a CGI of the proposed Phoenix neighbourhood of Lewes, the South Downs beyond.

    The Phoenix, Lewes: a new riverside neighbourhood that sounds almost too good to be true

  • Hinata Hiiragi (Yori) and Soya Kurokawa (Minato) in Monster, seen from behind looking through a window giving out on to sunlit vegetation

    Monster review – multifaceted mystery from Hirokazu Kore-eda

  • Mark Le Brocq as Aschenbach, with Antony César as Tadzio in Death in Venice.

    The week in classical: Death in Venice; Giant; Angela Hewitt review – five-star Britten and more

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  • Image of Big Ben

    ‘This place is utterly dysfunctional’: MPs on why they’re leaving parliament

    Almost 100 MPs will stand down at the next election – and for many it won’t come a moment too soon. Here, Harriet Harman, Charles Walker, Caroline Lucas and others talk about what life inside Westminster is really like
  • Charles Spencer as a boy before going to Maidwell Hall as a boarding pupil.

    ‘I don’t think I developed emotionally’: Earl Spencer on the pain of boarding-school abuse

  • Musician Adrianne Lenker photographed in New York for the Observer New Review by Mike McGregor, February 2024

    Big Thief’s Adrianne Lenker: ‘I hit a wall – I had just been going in survival mode’

  • an illustration of a pixelated goldfish on the screens of a cloud of smartphones

    Scroll on: why your screen-time habits aren’t as bad as you think they are

  • Ryan Calais Cameron photographed at the Garrick theatre, London by Amit Lennon for the Observer New Review, March 2024.

    ‘Black men are conditioned not to articulate our emotions’: Ryan Calais Cameron on his hit play bringing new audiences to the West End

  • A composite image of Canterbury Cathedral floodlit at dusk and the Milky Way photographed from Mount Olympus in Greece.

    Cosmic cleaners: the scientists scouring English cathedral roofs for space dust

  • Cabbies have given me some great lines, but they have nothing on Frank Hester

    Stewart Lee
  • The big picture: George Hoyningen-Huene’s mysterious Divers

  • The Rev Richard Coles: ‘I think my CV looks like the work of a fantasist’

  • TikTok may be on borrowed time in the US, but it still holds a Trump card

    John Naughton
  • On my radar: Nicole Flattery’s cultural highlights

  • One to watch: Nemzzz

  • ‘We are all mixed’: Henry Louis Gates Jr on race, being arrested and working towards America’s redemption

  • Jeremy Hunt’s budget mixtape is no match for Brexit’s greatest hits

    Stewart Lee
  • Susan Smilee Susan Smillee, Sardengna, Italy

    ‘A strangely singular freedom’: losing and finding myself at sea

    After a break-up, disillusioned with work and lonely in London, the writer Susan Smillie found a companion in her small boat, Isean, and together they set off for an adventure of a lifetime
  • Theo James wears blazer, sequinned shirt and trousers, all from amiparis.com

    ‘You can’t always win in this industry’: Theo James on fame, Guy Ritchie and the actor’s hustle

  • A portrait of Corey Keys at his home in Hayesville, NC on Friday, March 1, 2024.

    Feeling empty inside, one sociologist found answers by exploring his own traumatic childhood

  • Dr Kate Cherrell

    Who you gonna call? Meet the real ghostbusters

  • A room with a fireplace, tables and sculpture

    Brownstone story: art and culture merge in a family home in Brooklyn

  • Elevated view across Reykjavik, Capital Region, Iceland<br>GettyImages-1268467286

    Sagas and geothermal swimming pools – Reykjavík moves to a different rhythm

  • Nigel Slater’s recipes for potatoes with mussels and dill, and filled with cauliflower cheese

  • My two-year-old daughter suddenly finds she has to sort

    Séamas O’Reilly
  • Notes on chocolate: a drink to soothe a troubled soul

  • Live to 120? I’d rather go for quality not quantity of life …

    Eva Wiseman
  • Sunday with David Harewood: ‘I sit with a sneaky beer, watching the world go by’

  • Root cover-ups: 10 of the best

  • Springtime on the allotment

  • Everything’s fine but somehow I feel I can never settle

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  • 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?

  • 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

  • Tom Kerridge
Easter 2024
Styling: Andie Redman
Observer Food Monthly
OFM March 2024

    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

  • Welcome to February’s Observer Food Monthly

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