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  • Keir Starmer standing with his right hand stretched out

    Starmer’s promise to voters: ‘I will relight the fire of optimism’ in Britain

    Writing in the Observer, the Labour leader vows to restore the bond of trust with politics if his party wins Thursday’s general election
  • Alister Jack and Rishi Sunak in Aberdeenshire last year.

    Tory minister who placed three bets on election date in line for Sunak peerage

News

  • Gareth Southgate with his arms raised as he claps, standing alone on the pitch in a huge stadium

    Golden boy to whipping boy: how England turned on Gareth Southgate

  • The Wethersfield Airbase where a new centre for asylum seekers has been set-up. 44 asylum seekers have been moved to the facility this week. The home office intend for up to 1700 people to be housed here once building works and infrastructural upgrades are complete. Wethersfield, Essex. Photograph by David Levene 21/7/23

    Hunger strikes and suicide attempts as asylum seekers claim Essex site is ‘like prison’

    Helen Bamber Foundation report finds ‘growing feelings of desperation’ among camp’s 600 residents
  • Ball boys and girls form a long line in front of a building at Wimbledon.

    Ballkids? No thanks, we’ll stick to boys and girls says Wimbledon

    Change comes slowly at the All England Club, which will not follow the other Grand Slams by scrapping the gender-specific titles

  • Wider use of physician associates will increase inequality, say UK doctors

  • Farage on track from Clacton pier to a parliament pulpit

  • Tories cling to hope that wipeout polls are wrong as gallows humour kicks in

  • ‘A deeply unfair and unequal country’: report warns of unprecedented far-right gains in UK

  • ‘History shows that all Labour victories are hard earned’: campaign chief’s iron formula

  • The Hartlepool headteacher trying to find beds for 10,000 sleep-deprived pupils

  • Lib Dems step up frantic tactical voting effort to oust Conservatives in blue wall

  • Botanist tells how nettles helped solve Soham murders

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World

  • Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh in the commentary box for a hurling final between Waterford and Limerick

    Ireland says farewell to Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh, ‘bard of the ballgames’

    The voice of Gaelic football and hurling for half a century, RTÉ Radio commentator’s wry, deadpan remarks were sporting folkore
  • Factor Druk printing house, after being destroyed by a Russian missile in May

    ‘They burned books, like the Nazis did 80 years ago’: Russia’s deadly attack on Ukraine’s biggest printing house

  • Bolivian president Luis Arce outside the government palace in La Paz after the confrontation

    Bolivia’s president accused of plotting coup against himself to boost popularity

  • Trump supporters at a rally in Chesapeake, Virginia, on the day after the presidential debate.

    American media heavyweights tell president: it’s time to quit

  • Joe Biden with Jill following the debate on Thursday.

    Is Jill Biden the only person who could persuade the president not to run again?

  • Thibaud van der Steen, co-founder of No Waste Army, says Dutch farmers are struggling in the face of extreme weather.

    ‘It’s not beautiful, but you can still eat it’: climate crisis leads to more wonky vegetables in Netherlands

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In focus

  • Nick Clegg and David Cameron, both in suits and ties, stand at podiums with microphones in the garden of 10 Downing Street and look at each other, Cameron gesturing with his right hand

    The 14 long and wasted years of Tory Britain

    Before the Conservatives were elected in 2010, David Cameron set out his vision of a prosperous, secure country that would care for all. On every metric, by every yardstick, his party has failed
  • Keir Starmer

    Labour needs a clear mandate. If you want change, vote for it

    Keir Starmer
  • British artist Leonora Carrington in her house in Mexico in 2000.

    Long ignored, at last the surrealist art of Leonora Carrington is getting the attention it’s due

  • Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer in Southampton last week.

    ‘It will be a very big moment’: can Labour revisit Brexit – and heal bitter divisions with Europe?

  • General Election campaign 2024<br>Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer and shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves visit Ocean Gate container terminal at Southampton docks where they saw trains being loaded with goods from around the world and later held a Q&amp;A with workers. The two were campaigning in the south of England for next month’s General Election on July4. Picture date: Monday June 17, 2024. PA Photo. See PA story POLITICS Election Labour. Photo credit should read: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire

    A Norway deal? Rejoining? What are Labour’s options for forging closer ties with Europe?

  • Kylian Mbappe wears a face mask to protect his broken nose on 20 June.

    French football v the far right: how Mbappé and Les Bleus stood up to extremism

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Comment

  • Martha Gill

    Britain is on the brink of an opioid crisis. Punishing addicts won’t work

    Martha Gill
  • Will Hutton

    Labour needs billions to fund its plans – and I know where it can be found

    Will Hutton
  • Andrew Rawnsley

    Sir Keir Starmer’s pledge to clean up politics will come back to mock him if he doesn’t deliver

    Andrew Rawnsley

  • Julian Assange is free, but his case is a grim reminder of the fragility of press freedom

    Kenan Malik

  • Is a slimmed-down monarchy really such a ‘foolish idea’? We subjects seem to be surviving just fine

    Catherine Bennett

  • My own childhood was secure, but a generation are being robbed of theirs

    Jonathan Pryce

  • Gender, poverty, violence: all matter to women, and all must matter to Labour

    Natasha Walter

  • Chris Riddell on the Donald Trump v Joe Biden presidential debate – cartoon

  • America’s big problem is not Biden, it’s the menace to democracy posed by Trump

    Simon Tisdall

  • Following in the footsteps of David Nicholls’ characters turned out to be good for our soles

    Rachel Cooke

  • Woke capitalism is not to be sneered at. Gen Z is a mighty force for change

    Martha Gill
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Editorials & Letters

  • A Labour poster for change.

    The Observer view on how a Labour government can make Britain a fairer and greener place

  • Blackpool beach last week.

    Come on in – the water’s full of sewage

    The irony of publicising a seaside supplement next to a headline about effluent in the sea was not lost on readers

  • For the record

    Letter from Gaza | Mark Power | Seaside supplement
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Business & Cash

  • Heather Stewart

    If workers’ rights are a bit French, as the Tories suggest, then vive la révolution

    Heather Stewart
  • A young woman in a Surfers Against Sewage wetsuit paddling a surfboard while wearing a gas mask

    Will rising debt cause Thames Water to sink under a Labour government?

  • Shani Gonzales in a dsenim jacket smiles for a portrait sitting on a sofa

    ‘Songwriters deserve a bigger piece of the pie’: the music publishing boss on the threat of AI

  • A row of houses sitting in the middle of floodwater, with their gardens underwater, seen from an aerial view

    Why has the cost of home insurance suddenly gone through the roof?

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Sport

  • Campbell Johnstone poses at Distinction Hotel in Christchurch on 31 January 2023

    Campbell Johnstone: ‘My story has rekindled people’s love for rugby’

  • Lamine Yamal, the 16-year-old winger, playing for Spain

    Lamine Yamal back where it all began as he plots last-16 victory over Georgia

    Teenage star leads Spain’s new generation against the Georgia team who suffered on his debut just nine months ago
  • Kai Havertz slides on his knees after scoring the opening goal against Denmark.

    Kai Havertz repays Germany’s faith as Danes decide to laugh not cry

    Teary forward shows his value in game of inches despite clamour for Nagelsmann to replace him with Füllkrug

  • All eyes glued to show: Southgate’s shared agonies have felt vivid and real

  • Southgate offers England players a shield before storm of Slovakia test

  • Harry Kane’s fighting talk: ‘We trust the process – the rest is just noise’

  • Germany’s Havertz and Musiala shrug off storm delay to sink furious Denmark

  • Liverpool keen on Gordon but Newcastle ease worries with Minteh deal

  • Djokovic the underdog for Wimbledon with Sinner and Alcaraz shining

  • ‘England are worth €1.5bn, we are worth 10 times less,’ insists Slovakia coach

  • South Africa’s search for absolution continues as Kohli finds formula

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Reviews

  • This image released by Searchlight Pictures shows Emma Stone, foreground left, and Jesse Plemons in a scene from "Kinds of Kindness." (Atsushi Nishijima/Searchlight Pictures via AP)

    Kinds of Kindness review – Yorgos Lanthimos reunites with Emma Stone for overlong but admirable triptych

  • The Breeders led by Kim Deal in concert at the Troxy.

    The Breeders review – effortless pop gems from the grunge era

  • Francis Alÿs, Children’s Game #22: Jump Rope, Hong Kong, 2020 In collaboration with Rafael Ortega, Julien Devaux, and Félix Blume

    Francis Alÿs: Ricochets; Anthony McCall: Solid Light – reviews

  • Deborah Warner Season, Echo and Narcissus, Ustinov Studio<br>Production photo of ‘Echo and Narcissus’ in Deborah Warner's Season at Ustinov Studio, Theatre Royal Bath, featuring the choreography of Kim Brandstrup, lighting design by Chris Wilkinson, sound design by Eilon Morris, and performances by dancers Laurel Dalley Smith, Seirian Griffiths, Jonathan Goddard, Archie White. Photo - © 2024 Foteini Christofilopoulou.

    Echo and Narcissus review – third of Kim Brandstrup’s mini-masterpieces

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New Review

  • Illustration by Julia Allum.

    Beach books at the ready: authors pick their essential summer reads

    From newly published novels to timeless classics, Elizabeth Strout, Caleb Azumah Nelson, Irvine Welsh, Tessa Hadley and other writers choose their holiday favourites
  • A young Johny Pitts backstage at Starlight Express in Japan.

    Capitalism, optimism and diversity: how 80s musical Starlight Express changed my life

  • Anna Soubry at her home near Loughborough.

    ‘A lot of people haven’t stood up to the forces of darkness’: Anna Soubry on her mission to make Starmer PM

  • ray kurzweil in a room at singularity, the university he co-founded in mountain view, california

    AI scientist Ray Kurzweil: ‘We are going to expand intelligence a millionfold by 2045’

  • Simon McBurney

    On my radar: Simon McBurney’s cultural highlights

  • David Mitchell

    Against all odds, it seems we hate to see bookmakers losing

    David Mitchell

  • The big picture: Abdulhamid Kircher reflects on his traumatic family history

  • Maggie Nelson: ‘I was overwhelmed with grief when Prince died’

  • Closing the Stanford Internet Observatory will edge the US towards the end of democracy

    John Naughton

  • One to watch: Cruza

  • Streaming: the best of the Brat Packers

  • DJ Jamz Supernova: ‘I’d always seen Glastonbury as a kind of debaucherous party’

  • Are you 80% angry and 2% sad? Why ‘emotional AI’ is fraught with problems

  • ‘The first few nights were punishing’: how sleep restriction cured my lifelong insomnia

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Magazine

  • Kevin Bacon, in a pale blue shirt, arms and hands resting on a table next to his black-framed glasses

    ‘You have to get over the me thing’: Kevin Bacon on money, marriage – and learning to live with himself

    Kevin Bacon, Hollywood’s great survivor, first set hearts fluttering in the 1984 classic Footloose. Now 65, he’s back on the big screen again. Here, he talks about his band, politics, family, embracing change and, most of all, learning selflessness…
  • Take the plunge: curves and beige shades in the pool area and hammam of the Hôtel Pilgrim.

    Retro Paris: stepping back into the 70s

  • Portrait of angry businessman outdoors on the phone

    My rather sweet Father’s Day joke got the men’s rights activists raging

    Séamas O’Reilly
  • Cox &amp; Co 25g Flowrap Lineup

    Notes on chocolate: small bars are the perfect pick-me-up

  • Eva Wiseman

    We need more than trompe-l’oeil to fix our housing crisis

    Eva Wiseman
  • Steve Backshall for Observer Magazine Photographed at his home in Cookham

    Sunday with Steve Backshall: ‘The kids’ capacity to consume pancakes blows my mind’

  • Travel minis: 10 of the best

  • The British experience of the Mediterranean, 1976

  • My in-laws think Keir Starmer is ‘an idiot’. Should I pick a fight?

  • Two into one: a dramatic harbourside apartment in Sydney

  • Fran Lebowitz: ‘I am very angry. I’m angry almost all the time’

  • Nigel Slater’s recipe for cherry, ginger and ricotta toasts

  • Feeling exhausted? Here’s how to fight the weariness

  • Maybe baby: could a fertility coach help you make an easier parenting decision?

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Observer Food Monthly

  • Observer Food Spread (1)

    Curry tasting in Fife, oysters on Exmoor: expert tips for foodie holidays around Britain

    If you’re planning a visit to the holiday hotspots of the West Country, Kent or the Edinburgh area – make these food and drink destinations the highlights of your trip
  • Illustration of woman holding huge bowl of food

    Aubergine caviar, post-Soviet kebab kiosks: what Ukraine’s food culture taught me 30 years ago

  • José Pizarro’s prawn pil pil tortilla. Food and prop styling: Polly Webb-Wilson

    ‘Spain is much more than patatas bravas’: José Pizarro’s summer recipes

  • Grilled halibut, basil butter

    Grilled sardines, baked hake, baked haddock: Nigel Slater’s easy fish recipes

  • The Pig near Canterbury in Kent

    Welcome to June’s Observer Food Monthly

  • vegan nutritional yeast flakes in bowl

    Richard Bainbridge’s secret ingredient: nutritional yeast

  • Conservationist Isabella Tree: ‘Rewilding is vital for the UK’s agricultural future’

  • Comedian Allan Mustafa: ‘I love banh mi. I geek out on being able to eat history’

  • Wake up and smell the yorkshires – Sunday lunch is back!

    Rachel Cooke

  • Farming is risky and vital – it needs to be on the next UK government’s priority list

    Jay Rayner

  • Pancetta tarts, vegan ginger slice, onion flatbreads – Nigel Slater’s recipes for all-day bakes

  • Welcome to May’s Observer Food Monthly

  • Lamb kofta, sea bream puttanesca, potato cakes – 20-minute recipes from Anna Haugh

  • Ruby Bhogal’s secret ingredient – ginger, in all forms

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