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  • Conservative party candidate Andy Street speaks after losing the race to be re-elected as West Midlands mayor.

    Stunning Labour triumphs in London and West Midlands leave Sunak reeling

    Keir Starmer says the prime minister has no option but to call a general election

News

  • Kevin Spacey

    Kevin Spacey hits back at fresh allegations in new Channel 4 documentary

  • Author Bernardine Evaristo has criticised the ‘amputation’ of the Black British literature master's course at Goldsmiths University.

    UK university courses on race and colonialism facing axe due to cuts

    Academics warn loss of higher education arts and humanities courses will harm understanding of racism and imperial history
  • A blurred out view of hospital staff on an NHS ward

    ‘Cuts will result in patient deaths’: hospitals shed medical staff after being told to balance the books

    As more NHS trusts in England report budget deficits health leaders warn that waiting lists will rise

  • Peruvian steak and Yorkshire pudding with mint? How the British Sunday roast went global

  • Cop29 summit to call for peace between warring states, says host Azerbaijan

  • Prisons ‘sleepwalking into crisis’ as inmates forced to share single cells

  • Revealed: key files shredded as UK government panic grew over infected blood deaths lawsuit

  • Unite warns it will hold back funds if Labour weakens plan on workers’ rights

  • Ofcom accused of ‘excluding’ bereaved parents from online safety consultation

  • Sadiq Khan’s win ‘bucks trend’ of Muslim voters rejecting Labour over Gaza, say party figures

  • Desperate Tories left in disarray as Labour celebrates seismic swing

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World

  • Dozens of statues by a park path, will father and toddler walking

    ‘Ghostly’: Taiwan park dotted with hundreds of statues of late dictator as row rages over their fate

    Tributes that were removed from public spaces after the end of Chiang Kai-shek’s brutal rule in 1975 now crowd a site west of Taipei
  • An audience listen to a sound archive by Ateef al-Jaffal during the 2023 festival.

    Doing the Baghdad walk: art tour highlights creativity in the heart of Iraq

  • Older white man, dark suit, aviator sunglasses, waves as he departs a white building.

    The Democrats lost the White House in 1968 amid anti-war protests. What will 2024 bring?

  • Cardi B in a spectacular red dress with a long, wide, ruffled train making her way up the steps to the gala.

    The Big Apple blossoms: from red carpet to Trump courthouse, New York lives again

  • People with goggles and gas masks wrapped in Georgia flags

    ‘I’m in awe of our young people’: How Georgia’s Gen Z are taking on teargas, rubber bullets and the threat of arrest

  • Maj Maksym Taran of Ukraine's national guard said that it would ‘take 100 years’ to win the war without western weapons.

    Putin on our doorstep: Ukrainians watch as the frontline edges closer

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In focus

  • Andrew Anthony

    Why sportspeople should stick to the pitch and stay out of politics

    Andrew Anthony
    Former England cricketer Monty Panesar is to stand for parliament, but he doesn’t seem to know what his own policies are
  • Some teenagers were angry adults dodged uncomfortable conversations about sex.

    From doomscrolling to sex: being a boy in 2024

  • Fish and chips takeaway in a box.

    Britain’s most overrated food? No chance … fish and chips is a marvel

    Tomé Morrissy-Swan
  • 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
  • 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

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Comment

  • Sonia Sodha

    Sometimes our take on human nature trumps our political allegiances. Good

    Sonia Sodha
  • Will Hutton

    So empire and the slave trade contributed little to Britain’s wealth? Pull the other one, Kemi Badenoch

    Will Hutton
  • Catherine Bennett

    With a bit of Saudi topspin, tennis fans can overlook its brutal repression of women

    Catherine Bennett

  • Unfair jail sentences – one more example of demonising society’s ‘morally unfit’

    Kenan Malik

  • After the local election rout, will the panicked Tory herd now stampede over Rishi Sunak?

    Andrew Rawnsley

  • Spending cuts are often false economies that end up costing society dearly

    Torsten Bell

  • Chris Riddell on Rishi Sunak, sitting in no-chance saloon after local elections drubbing – cartoon

  • Live concerts have the power to delight – let’s try to forget about our phones

    Martha Gill

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

    Bidisha Mamata

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

    Simon Tisdall

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

    Sonia Sodha
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Editorials & Letters

  • A demonstrator holds a Georgian national and EU flags during an opposition protest against "the Russian law" in the center of Tbilisi, Georgia, on Friday, May 3, 2024. The parliament of Georgia has cancelled its plenary session following massive protests against a proposed law that critics fear will stifle media freedom and endanger the country's bid for membership in the European Union. (AP Photo/Zurab Tsertsvadze)

    The Observer view on Georgia protests: as police fire teargas in Tbilisi, the EU must show Putin it means business

  • Keir Starmer with Dan Poulter at the Francis Crick Institute in London.

    Dan Poulter’s defection won’t fix an unequal NHS

    The health service took a turn for the worse under David Cameron and Keir Starmer has said nothing of improving the nurses’ lot

  • For the record

    Hounslow say no to Ulez | Breonna Taylor | Richard Tice | Bristol West
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Business & Cash

  • A Lumo train at London Kings Cross

    Why Labour leapt on board with private open access train providers

  • Two soldiers walk past burnt-out blocks of flats with rubble strewn around them.

    Europe must find a way to help fund the fight against Putin – for its own sake

    Phillip Inman
  • 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?

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Sport

  • Jak Jones lines up a shot during his 17-12 victory over Stuart Bingham.

    Jak Jones attacks ‘pathetic’ rivals after booking world snooker final with Wilson

  • Runners begin their training session in Kaptagat, Kenya, at dawn

    ‘We’re looking at losing 20% of Olympic nations’: how the climate crisis is changing sport

    Athletics Kenya is worried about how the climate might shape the future of its country, let alone its sport. And it is not alone
  • Youngster Jarell Quansah celebrates with Luis Díaz after the Colombia star netted against LASK in the Europa League back in November 2023.

    Jarell Quansah finds solace from Liverpool sealing top four after title pain

    Young defender has enjoyed a breakthrough season at Anfield and is looking forward to dining at European football’s top table

  • Max Verstappen storms to Miami GP pole after earlier sprint success

  • Iga Swiatek wins three-set duel against Aryna Sabalenka to take Madrid crown

  • Blair Kinghorn: ‘The mentality at Toulouse is that we win trophies’

  • Erling Haaland is ‘back to business’ for Manchester City, says Pep Guardiola

  • Mature Foden and brutal Haaland rev up City’s relentless winning machine

  • Erik ten Hag’s Ming the Merciless act has given United only flashes of glory

    Jonathan Wilson

  • Lowe fires Leinster into Champions Cup final despite Northampton’s late rally

  • Four-star Haaland shines as Manchester City sink Wolves in title pursuit

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Reviews

  • Michelangelo’s Epifania, 1550-3 (detail). © The Trustees of the British Museum. Funding for the conservation of the Epifania was generously provided through a grant from the Bank of America Art Conservation Project.

    Michelangelo: The Last Decades review – feels close to a religious experience

  • Dua Lipa.

    Dua Lipa: Radical Optimism review – a banger-filled missive from dating land

  • Le nozze di Figaro Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Opera buffa in vier Akten [1786] Libretto von Lorenzo Da Ponte, basierend auf der Komödie La Folle Journée, ou le Mariage de Figaro von Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais Musikalische Leitung: James Gaffigan Inszenierung / Bühnenbild und Kostüme: Kirill Serebrennikov Co-Bühnenbild: Olga Pavlyuk Co-Kostümbild: Tatyana Dolmatovskaya Choreographie: Evgeny Kulagin Dramaturgie: Julia Jordà Stoppelhaar, Daniil Orlov Chöre: Jean-Christophe Charron Licht: Olaf Freese Video: Ilya Shagalov Foto: Monika Rittershaus

    The week in classical: Le nozze di Figaro; Larmes de couteau/ Full Moon in March review – all shook up

  • Kristen Stewart and Katy O’Brian leaning against a pick-up.

    Love Lies Bleeding review – Kristen Stewart keeps it real in deliciously lurid outlaw romance

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New Review

  • Josh O'Connor in a striped top, holding one hand to his head

    ‘I love work but I also love tending to my plants’: actor Josh O’Connor on gardening, reluctant stardom and getting ripped for Challengers

    The ​British actor ​stars as a cocky US tennis pro in Guadagnino’s new hit film. But, he says, he was happiest living off grid in a van for his next film, La Chimera
  • 1980s airbrush-style illustration of a man catching a drink can against a California landscape in silhouette

    ‘Every Dylan song could be improved’: is perfection possible, or even desirable?

  • Prisoner Polaroids all untitled / no captions. These are Sean's favourites / 5 are exclusive

    ‘My role was to be a truthful witness’: photographer Jack Lueders-Booth’s Polaroids of American female prisoners

  • A mayor with a question mark for a face

    From mayoral elections to Rwanda removals, Sunak won’t let the truth jeopardise his mission

    Stewart Lee
  • A brown hen and an egg isolated on a white background

    Chicken or egg? One zoologist’s attempt to solve the conundrum of which came first

  • Cara Delevingne attends the Emporio Armani fashion show during the Milan Fashion Week Womenswear Spring/Summer 2024 on September 21, 2023 in Milan, Italy. Photo by Marco Piovanotto/ABACAPRESS:COM Credit: Abaca Press/Alamy Live News<br>2RX0AGH Cara Delevingne attends the Emporio Armani fashion show during the Milan Fashion Week Womenswear Spring/Summer 2024 on September 21, 2023 in Milan, Italy. Photo by Marco Piovanotto/ABACAPRESS:COM Credit: Abaca Press/Alamy Live News

    Cara Delevingne: ‘It’s a lot easier now I’m not the new hot young thing’

  • The big picture: author Paul Auster in his element

  • Rebecca F Kuang: ‘I like to write to my friends in the style of Joan Didion’

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

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Magazine

  • Jennifer Connelly

    ‘I get a little stir-crazy’: Jennifer Connelly on David Bowie, working with family and going back to college

    Growing up on set put Oscar-winning actor Jennifer Connelly on the fast track to Hollywood fame. But despite her success, one of her lasting regrets was not finishing college – and, she says, it’s still on her to-do list…
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    Read me a story: why reading out loud is a joy for adults as well as kids

  • A man stands in the Thames by Tower bridge, he is holding a bucket

    ‘I see cocaine in wild shrimp in Suffolk’: meet the scientist who analyses our wastewater

  • ‘I felt like a failure… when others seemed to find it easy’: Danyah Miller.

    Being diagnosed with dyslexia has made me happier

  • The Plumicorn at The Tawny - James Andrew Photography

    10 UK stays that take tranquillity to the next level

  • The view from the bedroom to a ‘junglette’ balcony.

    ‘It was a one-way journey’: the couple whose flat changed with their life

  • Joe Trivelli’s recipes for gnocchi with asparagus, sorrel soup, hake and radishes, and baked apricots

  • Living opposite my son’s school has its advantages

    Séamas O’Reilly

  • Notes on chocolate: buttons without the panto

  • Baby Reindeer and how a compelling TV drama reflects the stalkers in us all

    Eva Wiseman

  • Sunday with Lou Sanders: ‘A fireside pub table for games – Bananagrams, Scrabble’

  • Be sun safe: 10 of the best moisturising SPFs

  • Family shopping at the garden centre

  • I have no children and have started to fear for my legacy. What can I do?

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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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