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  • Rishi Sunak speaks to journalists at Redcar racecourse as launches the Conservative campaign bus on Saturday.

    Sunak suffers poll blow as levelling-up cash-for-votes row erupts

    New poll gives Labour its biggest lead since Liz Truss meltdown as ‘Tory towns’ gain most from new funds
  • Benjamin Netanyahu

    Benjamin Netanyahu insists on Hamas ‘destruction’ as part of plan to end Gaza war

News

  • Seated woman clinician examining mammogram on a digital tablet with mammogram x ray on a computer screen in background<br>2BNPYHN Seated woman clinician examining mammogram on a digital tablet with mammogram x ray on a computer screen in background

    Predictive blood test hailed as ‘incredibly exciting’ breast cancer breakthrough

  • The king met Beckham at his home in Highgrove last month.

    King turns to David Beckham to rebuild charity hit by cash-for-honours scandal

    Former England captain will become ambassador for foundation that was embroiled in controversy when Charles was Prince of Wales
  • Uranus from Voyager 2 spacecraft. One image is in true colour and the other in false colour. The unmanned Voyager 2 space probe was launched by Nasa in August 1977.

    ‘Once in a lifetime’: UK and European space scientists urged to join Nasa mission to Uranus

    Astrophysicists call for international cooperation on ambitious probe, amid growing interest in the mysterious planet

  • Record number of NHS mental health patients kept in hospitals longer than necessary

  • Starmer must introduce wealth tax after Labour wins election, top Blair aide says

  • Whether the vote goes red or blue, baby boomers will win the general election

  • ‘More than my weekly wages’: London’s Paddington attraction and the growing cost of kids’ days out

  • Lib Dems vow to abolish use of voter ID at polling stations

  • Rishi Sunak’s Rwanda admission sparks legal action from detained asylum seekers

  • ‘It doesn’t make any sense’: new twist in mystery of Mount Everest and the British explorers’ missing bodies

  • A glorious summer of sport won’t stop voters raining on Rishi Sunak’s parade

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World

  • A supporter holds a poster showing some of the 47 activists on trial at the West Kowloon court

    ‘We refuse to disappear’: the Hong Kong 47 facing life in jail after crackdown

    Last week’s conviction of dissidents came in the biggest case since the introduction of a new national security law
  • US President Joe Biden looking sombre after announcing the ceasefire proposal last week.

    Biden’s ‘non-starter’ Gaza ceasefire deal only demonstrates his lack of influence

  • A man in a suit in front of a US flag speaks into a mic.

    Minnesota Democrat Dean Phillips calls on New York governor to pardon Trump

  • A staff member of the Independent Electoral Commission works at the National Results Operations Center in Midrand, South Africa

    South Africa to embark on new political path after ANC loses majority

  • VINCENT VAN GOGH DETAIL The Starry Night, Arles, 1888 Oil on canvas, 73 × 92 cm Donation subject to usufruct Mr and Mrs Robert Kahn-Sriber, in memory of Mr and Mrs Fernand Moch, 1975 © Musée d’Orsay, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / Patrice Schmidt

    Vincent van Gogh’s Starry Night Over the Rhône returns to Arles for the first time in 136 years

  • Prime minister Giorgia Meloni during a campaign meeting of the far-right Brothers of Italy party.

    ‘She just says blah blah’: why Italy’s downtrodden believe Meloni is doing nothing for them

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In focus

  • TikTok ads for the Conservatives and Labour

    ‘The first TikTok election’: are Sunak and Starmer’s digital campaigns winning over voters?

    The Tories and Labour are forking out more than ever on social media ads, but going viral isn’t easy. We speak to influencers and strategists about the messages and memes
  • Social media phone apps.

    Labour is already dominating the online general election campaign

  • Rear view image of a woman sitting alone on a bed in bedroom

    Domestic abuse drove our daughters to suicide, say families. So what stops coroners acknowledging that?

  • Man stands wearing his medals and leaning on a stick with sand and beach in background

    What the last veterans can teach us all as D-Day fades from memory

  • Keir Starmer launches Labour's election pledges at on 16 May, 2024.

    Reassuring, serious, a sense of duty: who is Keir Starmer really?

  • Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola on the touchline during Saturday’s FA Cup final

    ‘It was everything we wanted to be’: why Barcelona has given Manchester much more than Pep and fine food

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Comment

  • Martha Gill

    Filthy lucre is everywhere, but book festivals are an easy target for protesters’ fury

    Martha Gill
  • A diminutive Donald Trump on the Lincoln Memorial with a sign saying 'guilty'.

    Chris Riddell on Donald Trump trying, and failing, to fill Abraham Lincoln’s boots – cartoon

    The former US president, convicted on 34 counts, pales into insignificance beside the former great
  • Rachel Cooke

    A century after his death, Kafka still sums up our surreal world

    Rachel Cooke

  • Who can afford the expensive gamble of going to see a play that you might not like?

    Tomiwa Owolade

  • Whatever happens next, the Donald Trump effect will continue to stain politics the world over

    Simon Tisdall

  • My family has fled Rafah for yet another ‘safe’ area. By now we know there is no such thing

    Mohammed Al Khatib

  • Cheer up, Tory MPs. Quitting a job turns out to be a good thing for your wellbeing

    Torsten Bell

  • Divisive, ugly, gloomy: when will the City of London see the light on tall towers?

    Rowan Moore

  • Rishi Sunak’s summer election gamble is already backfiring on the Tory leader

    Andrew Rawnsley

  • It is foolish and self-indulgent for the anti-Starmer left to split the Labour vote

    Sonia Sodha

  • Biohazards, Putin, extremism… we’ll need more than a few tins of beans

    Martha Gill
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Editorials & Letters

  • For the record

  • A young protester holding a placard saying 'A felon in the White Houe? Um... NO'

    The Observer view on Donald Trump: utterly unfit for office, he should quit the race for the White House

    Teflon Don has become Felon Don, but the US constitution has no objection to him holding the highest office
  • Golden Rice is a genetically modified crop which helps the body produce vitamin A.

    The Observer view: When modified rice could save thousands of lives, it is wrong to oppose it

    The green movement’s attempts to block the cultivation of a grain enhanced with vitamin A is misguided
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Business & Cash

  • Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelenskiy

    Europe must splash the cash (and seize it) to save 2024

    Phillip Inman
  • Tents used by asylum seekers line the Grand Canal in Dublin.

    Finding a job in Ireland is easy. Finding a place to live is the hard bit

  • Japanese-style chicken karaage and fried rice delivered as a meal kit.

    Revealed: how ‘convenient’ recipe boxes really measure up on price

  • Eurostar passengers at St Pancras International

    Why travelling on Eurostar from the UK is about to become much trickier

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Sport

  • Daniil Medvedev celebrates his victory against Tomas Machac.

    Medvedev marches into fourth round as Zverev edges French Open thriller

  • Carlo Ancelotti is thrown in the air by his Real Madrid players after winning the Champions League final against Borussia Dortmund at Wembley.

    ‘It seems like a dream but it is reality’: Real Madrid win delights Ancelotti

    Carlo Ancelotti said: ‘We are not going to sleep!’ after Real Madrid’s winning mentality helped them survive a major scare against Borussia Dortmund
  • Jadon Sancho cuts a dejected figure as he collects his Champions League runners-up medal

    Dortmund try to outrun reality before sipping from cup of sadness again

    Runners-up find out that playing well is often not enough against Madrid after spurning chances and gifting goals away

  • Real Madrid play the waiting game and are victors by stealth once more

  • Borussia Dortmund 0-2 Real Madrid: Champions League final player ratings

  • Champions League final disrupted by pitch invaders in major security failure

  • Real Madrid win Champions League final as Dortmund rue missed chances

  • Bad vibes and VAR: waiting game leaves fans frustrated over marginal calls

    Jonathan Wilson

  • Fired-up Bairstow can add Caribbean twist to England’s World Cup defence

  • Sabalenka and Badosa friendship a sign of shifting dynamics on WTA tour

  • Derby trading on past glories as public interest dwindles beyond bubble

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Reviews

  • David Cronenberg in Cannes last month for the premiere of his latest film, The Shrouds.

    Mark Kermode on… David Cronenberg, master of gore as a metaphor for our deepest anxieties

  • kyle walker strikes three cheery poses

    The week in audio: You’ll Never Beat Kyle Walker; The Artificial Human; The Case of the Tiny Suit/Case; The Beauty of Everyday Things – review

  • Jake Long stands in the centre of a darkening city street against a blue sky.

    Jake Long: City Swamp review – mesmerising spiritual jazz channels Miles Davis and William Blake

  • Daisy Ridley as swimmer Trudy Ederle in Young Woman and the Sea

    Young Woman and the Sea review – handsome if formulaic 1920s swimming biopic

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New Review

  • a double exposure photograph of a woman apparently suffering from anxiety

    Can psychedelics treat depression? Maybe, and you might not even have to take a trip

    The use of the drugs in treating low mood has sparked debate, not least about the necessity of a hallucinogenic experience. But a new discovery may provide an answer
  • Author Rose Tremain, at home. 22/5/24 Norwich Ali Smith for The Guardian

    Rose Tremain: ‘Sex scenes are like arias in opera. They have to move the story forwards’

  • John Naughton

    Sure, Google’s AI overviews could be useful – if you like eating rocks

    John Naughton
  • Kevin Barry.

    On my radar: Kevin Barry’s cultural highlights

  • Charlotte Day Wilson leaning backwards out of a car window

    One to watch: Charlotte Day Wilson

  • Alvaro Barrington photographed in his east London studio by Suki Dhanda for the Observer New Review.

    ‘Biggie, Tupac, Ghostface – those guys saved my life’: Alvaro Barrington on hip-hop, carnival and his Tate show

  • ‘It is worse now’: The Bookseller of Kabul author Åsne Seierstad on returning to Afghanistan 20 years on

  • In a world derailed, do we dare to have hope?

    AL Kennedy

  • BookTok star Jack Edwards: ‘I got to interview the Gruffalo last year. They say don’t meet your idols’

  • Spas, bars and luxury hotels: how Britain’s historic buildings are being sold off to the highest bidder

  • ‘Freedom was around the corner’: how UK activists helped the exiled ANC to defeat apartheid

  • The big picture: Dhruv Malhotra’s open-air sleeper in night-time Delhi

  • Anne Enright: ‘Give me Moby-Dick over Persuasion anytime’

  • If Scarlett Johansson can’t bring the AI firms to heel, what hope for the rest of us?

    John Naughton
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Magazine

  • basket of goods

    Did you pay for that? What is driving the massive rise in shoplifting?

    High streets across the UK are struggling with an epidemic of stealing. What’s behind this sudden crime wave and can anything be done to stop it?
  • Writer and broadcaster Jon Ronson photographed in New York City for the Observer New Review by Mike McGregor, 8th May 2024.

    Jon Ronson: ‘It’s getting harder to be optimistic’

  • OM Nigel Papardelle Pepper Sauce

    Nigel Slater’s recipe for pappardelle with peppers and pine kernels

  • Manuela PinkMartini

    Turin retreat: a home full of intimate spaces

  • Illustration of a woman, in pink leggings, a white vest and with bare feet, bouncing off a giant speaker, with sound waves coming from it, as if it's a trampoline

    Music helps you get fit – but the right mix will keep you coming back…

  • woman with elctric mountain bike in the Dolomites<br>nice and active senior woman riding her electric mountain bike on the high plateau of Pratto Piazzo in the three peaks Dolomites , rocky silhouette of Mount Cristallo in background, South Tirol, Italy

    How to keep your cool cycling up Italian mountains with a teenager in tow

  • ‘It was my gateway drug to self-harm’: a writer’s journey to finding the joy in makeup

  • Nigel Slater’s recipes for asparagus and feta rolls, and cream cheese and herb biscuits

  • ‘Entire evenings of my life have been shaped by the internet’s review culture’: why we’re obsessed with rating systems

  • A crime has been committed, but don’t blame the dog

    Séamas O’Reilly

  • Notes on chocolate: contrasting bars for when you can’t decide

  • Pillows, playlists and a gentle push… My birth plan was a joke

    Eva Wiseman

  • ‘Politicians? They’re mugs, all of them’: Paul Weller on music, style and the state of the nation

  • Sunday with Harlan Coben: ‘New York City is a great city for walking’

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Observer Food Monthly

  • Illustration of man baffled by menu

    Verjus, top pesto, umeboshi: are restaurant menus becoming more baffling?

    Whether the descriptions are long and verbose, or short and opaque, there’s a fair chance you’ve suffered from ‘menu overwhelm’. What lies behind the changing language?
  • Chef Sally Abé

    ‘The insults and screaming took their toll’: the worst time of my life as a chef

  • Lunch With Dr Chris Van Tulleken

    Academic and doctor Chris van Tulleken: ‘Ultra-processed products are food that lies to us’

  • Sea bream puttanesca.

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

  • OFM Nigel Butternut Rosemary Tart

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

  • Ravneet Gill Crisps Taste Test Observer Food Monthly OFM May 2024

    Welcome to May’s Observer Food Monthly

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

  • Chef Sally Abé: ‘It’s only when I go into a male-dominated kitchen that I notice the friction’

  • Why is social media getting all churned up about cottage cheese?

    Rachel Cooke

  • Nish Kumar: ‘Nando’s is the only thing uniting this increasingly fragmented nation’

  • Crisp taste test: ‘What’s this flavour? Oh my God, so weird’

  • Have you tried eating in a city centre hotel room recently? My advice – don’t

    Jay Rayner

  • Salmon pie, pork in cider, fig tart – Nigel Slater’s one-pot dinners

  • Right up your street: favourite local shops in the UK, chosen by chefs and food writers

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