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  • French maritime police allegedly pushing migrant boats back to shore

    Revealed: UK-funded French forces putting migrants’ lives at risk with small-boat tactics

    Exclusive: newly obtained footage and leaked documents show how a ‘mass casualty event’ could arise from aggressive tactics employed by border forces
  • People gather at a makeshift memorial to the victims of the shooting attack set up outside the Crocus City Hall concert venue in the Moscow region, Russia.

    Moscow terror attack: Putin says all four gunmen held as death toll reaches 133

  • A row of To Let signs outside houses in London

    Thousands of London long-term rental properties at risk from holiday lets plan

  • Michaela Hall was murdered by her partner Lee Kendall.

    ‘They signed her death warrant’: how probation service failings left a violent man free to kill

    The father of Michaela Hall, the charity worker killed by her partner in Cornwall after he was wrongly assessed as only ‘medium risk’ says lessons must be learned
  • Shoppers in Salford.

    Lung disease patients waiting up to 10 years for diagnosis in poorer areas of England

    A better testing regime is required as official figures show deaths from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is three times higher in deprived parts of the country
  • Princess of Wales’ diagnosis: cancers in young are rising, but so are survival rates

  • UK ministers knew of ‘significant’ synthetic opioids threat two years ago

  • ‘Truth behind the myths’: Amazon warrior women of Greek legend may really have existed

  • Playground bullies do prosper – and go on to earn more in middle age

  • On a garden bench, amid a sea of daffodils: how Kate dropped her bombshell news

  • Hard-up English councils ration access to special needs tests

  • Apologies for Kategate – but will the spirit of restraint on social media last?

  • Britain’s slimmed-down monarchy has been left vulnerable in wake of cancer diagnoses

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  • Cosmo Jarvis (with rope) as John Blackthorne with cast members in Shōgun

    Shōgun: why the English samurai’s life and legacy still grip Japan 400 years on

    Epic new TV adaptation of the 1975 novel reignites interest in the exploits of the Kent sailor William Adams
  • British Foreign Secretary Cameron meets Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu in Jerusalem<br>epa10990811 A handout photo made available by Israel's Government Press Office (GPO) shows Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) with Britain's Foreign Secretary David Cameron during a meeting in the Knesset in Jerusalem, 23 November 2023. Cameron is on an official visit to Israel. EPA/GPO/KOBI GIDEON HANDOUT HANDOUT EDITORIAL USE ONLY/NO SALES HANDOUT EDITORIAL USE ONLY/NO SALES

    David Cameron, the ‘prime minister for external affairs’, gets tough on Israel

  • A boy holding empty plastic water containers above his head

    ‘There will be no day after’: hopes fade to end war in shattered, traumatised Gaza

  • A statue of the prophet Jeremiah being put into place on the palace last week

    ‘We are dealing with fundamentalist rightwingers’: Berlin statues are latest battleground in Germany’s culture wars

  • FILE PHOTO: Former U.S. President Trump hosts a campaign rally, in Rome, Georgia<br>FILE PHOTO: Republican presidential candidate and former U.S. President Donald Trump reacts during a campaign rally at the Forum River Center in Rome, Georgia, U.S. March 9, 2024. REUTERS/Alyssa Pointer/File Photo

    ‘It’ll be bedlam’: how Trump is creating conditions for a post-election eruption

  • Nadifa Ismail arrives in Chad with her five surviving children.

    ‘Here, there is no future’: ethnic cleansing and fresh atrocities drive exodus of thousands from Darfur

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  • Portrait of Brigitte Höss. She died in October 2023, and was the last person to remember what life was like in the villa at Auschwitz.

    ‘Mum knew what was going on’: Brigitte Höss on living at Auschwitz, in the Zone of Interest family

    Her father was Rudolf Höss, the camp’s commandant. He was arrested by the Jewish great-uncle of the writer Thomas Harding, to whom Brigitte gave this, her final interview – and confession
  • The new first-past-the-post voting system adds to pressure on Sadiq Khan’s campaign for a third term as London mayor

    ‘It’s not going to be a landslide’: how will Sadiq Khan fare in the battle to be London mayor?

  • An electric Bumble Bee taxi, used in London between 1897-99, on display in the gallery

    Is Science Museum’s green power gallery tainted by fossil-fuel cash?

  • Young white man in suit, big curly brown hair, seen beyond the shoulders of two men standing in front of him.

    The rise and fall of Sam Bankman-Fried: an unrepentant ex-mogul faces down decades in prison

  • 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

  • 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

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  • Rishi Sunak.

    Like Barbie, there are many Rishis. Which is the real Sunak is beyond even his supporters’ grasp

    Isabel Hardman
  • Will Hutton

    For the birds? Far from it. At last Rachel Reeves has given Britain a plan for economic liftoff

    Will Hutton
  • Catherine Bennett

    Thanks, chaps, for trying to reform the Garrick from within. We’re OK without

    Catherine Bennett
  • We think loneliness is in our heads, but its source lies in the ruin of civil society

    Kenan Malik
  • Royal duty should never include the cruel obligation to bare all about illness

    Rachel Cooke
  • Free speech warriors take note, if film censors can move with the times, you can too

    Martha Gill
  • In the political ethics of eyesores, a lumpen London office block trumps clean energy

    Rowan Moore
  • Rishi Sunak ‘bounces back’ – cartoon

  • Lies, ideology and repression: China seals Hong Kong’s failed-state fate

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

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

    Andrew Rawnsley
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Editorials & Letters

  • Breakfast club laid out on school table. A growing number of parents struggle to afford to feed their children properly.

    The Observer view on deprivation: poverty data is a mark of shame for Tory rule

  • Shoppers in Birmingham Open Market

    Birmingham’s future is our future. Of course we care about it

    The city’s citizens are worried about where the impending cuts will fall, but why do so few in power wish to listen?
  • For the record

    Royal College of Physicians / BMA | Martin Pel | Giant redwoods | Gary Grant | Royal grandchildren
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  • Alex Cresswell

    ‘I’m not profiting from misery. I’m averting more’ – Thales’s UK boss on making missiles for Ukraine

  • Kelly Robinson-Key, AKA 'Kelly The Poet'.

    It’s daylight e-robbery: how entrepreneurs feel powerless as their work is ripped off

  • Hoardings around Euston station in London, where work has been put on hold for two years.

    Loose ends in London and Birmingham raise new fears over HS2’s route – and future

  • Deputy prime minister Angela Rayner

    A minimum wage alone can’t fix the UK poverty scandal

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  • Adam Peaty by a pool in Tenerife

    Adam Peaty: ‘It takes huge wisdom to feel grateful for what we have’

  • An artist's impression of the Prince Mohammed bin Salman Stadium, which Saudi Arabia plans to build on a cliff near Qiddiya for the 2034 World Cup.

    Ten years to go: key questions facing Saudi Arabia’s 2034 World Cup

    Fifa and the presumptive hosts face significant challenges over human rights, worker protections and the scale of construction
  • Brazil's Endrick celebrates his goal at Wembley

    Endrick lights up Wembley in latest instalment of career on fast forward

    The Brazilian teenager – who could have been a Chelsea player – made history and heads to Real Madrid this summer
  • Conor Gallagher scurries his way into England’s Euro 2024 midfield plans

  • Andy Murray claims best win of year against Etcheverry at Miami Open

  • ‘I’m not down’: Southgate praises England’s new boys in Brazil defeat

  • Germany raise Euro 2024 hopes as Wirtz and Havertz shock France in Lyon

  • Lewis Ferguson challenges wounded Scotland to play with ‘fire in our bellies’

  • Molly Caudery: ‘There’s a natural chaos that’s just part of me’

  • Brazil starlet Endrick scores only goal to dent England’s Euro 2024 buildup

  • Premier League title race hinges on Etihad collision and the force is with Arsenal

    Jonathan Wilson
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Reviews

  • Ade Adepitan in Extremist Adventure.

    The week in TV: Whites Only: Ade’s Extremist Adventure; 3 Body Problem; Palm Royale; Jordan North: The Truth About Vaping – review

  • Dog holding Robot's hands in a park.

    Robot Dreams review – bittersweet buddy movie is one of the best animations in recent years

  • Beth Ditto lying on her side with the two other band members behind her in semi-shadow

    Gossip: Real Power review – a welcome return that could be braver and weirder

  • Francesca Woodman, Self Portrait at 13, 1972.

    Francesca Woodman and Julia Margaret Cameron: Portraits to Dream In review – an intriguing double act

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  • Isabelle Huppert

    Isabelle Huppert: ‘I was never the woman behind the man… the only place I could take was the main place’

    As she prepares to play Mary, Queen of Scots, the French actor talks about her extraordinary career, and why she’d love to make a film in the UK – or play a Marvel villain
  • A line of people walking across sand dunes

    ‘I wanted to humanise those lost in the statistics’: four directors on their new movies depicting refugee journeys

  • Illustration of young people sitting on cube-shaped stools, looking at their phones

    Generation Anxiety: smartphones have created a gen Z mental health crisis – but there are ways to fix it

  • Illustration by David Foldvari of a ski map with comedy venues on the mountaintops.

    Which will melt away first, the snow or the arts?

    Stewart Lee
  • Soft drink cans with notes and coins spilling from them

    ‘The cost of dealing with disease is growing all the time’: why experts think sugar taxes should be far higher

  • Tamara Lawrance.

    Actor Tamara Lawrance: ‘Less and less do I relish playing hyper-disturbed characters’

  • The big picture: life in the shadow of a Teesside ironworks by Graham Smith

  • Mat Osman: ‘I wanted to write about a dirty, dangerous, working-class London’

  • Neurology professor Lisa Mosconi: ‘Menopause is a renovation project on the brain’

  • Ireland opens its arms to tech titans, yet shuts its eyes to failing public services

    John Naughton
  • On my radar: Frank Tallis’s cultural highlights

  • One to watch: Balming Tiger

  • Streaming: All of Us Strangers and the best films that revisit childhood

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

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  • Gillian Anderson

    ‘I get into trouble’
    Gillian Anderson on being brave, her resting face and much anticipated book of sexual fantasies

    Her uncanny portrayals of famous women have brought her legions of fans. Now, as she prepares to play Emily Maitlis in the pivotal Prince Andrew interview, the actor talks to Eva Wiseman about acting, soft drinks and ‘side hustles’
  • Greg Wise sitting in front of a book case

    ‘I’m kinder and more compassionate’
    Actor Greg Wise on men and grief

  • Beneath the surface: what’s been washed away, and what we can learn from them?

    Children of the flood
    What can lands lost to rising waters tell us?

  • Abigail (right) and Ruth.

    Self and wellbeing
    A friendship dating back to teenage years is one to treasure, especially during a crisis

  • OM Nigel Rhubarb Custard Sundae

    Nigel Slater’s recipe for rhubarb and custard sundae

  • Missoma founder Marisa Hordern

    Hidden gem: a jeweller’s remodelled terrace in west London

  • Nigel Slater’s recipes for salmon and spinach gratin, and dark chocolate muffins

  • My son has learned a lot from YouTube, but he loves the screaming, blaring videos best

    Séamas O’Reilly
  • Notes on chocolate: Baci, sweet as a kiss in Parma

  • My 80-year-old mother lives an avant-garde life

    Rhik Samadder
  • Off-grid Cyprus: luxury yurt retreat shows off another side to the island

  • Skip salons for hi-tech home treatments

  • Sunday with Vick Hope: ‘I’ll never say no to a game of Scrabble’

  • Doing time: interviews with repeat offenders, 1969

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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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