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  • Three children.

    Archbishop of Canterbury urges Starmer to ditch ‘cruel’ two-child benefit cap

    Head of Church of England Justin Welby tells Observer that ending policy would lift thousands of children out of poverty
  • British chancellor of the exchequer Jeremy Hunt.

    Jeremy Hunt urged to honour pledge on infected blood compensation payouts

News

  • children sitting on bench

    Schools in England send police to homes of absent pupils with threats to jail their parents

  • The Flood Resilient Garden at RHS Chelsea

    ‘Embrace the bog’: Chelsea flower show expert champions flood-proof garden

    As the prestige flower event begins, horticulturalists are shown how a waterlogged patch can help counter climate crisis
  • Cedric Alvarez in a wheelchair with Paris in background

    Eurostar reverses wheelchair policy that left user stranded, after Observer campaign

    Passengers were left abandoned and humiliated after operator banned staff from providing assistance

  • Rishi Sunak faces cabinet backlash over plans to curb foreign student visas

  • Heart patients forced to wait over a year for treatment in England

  • ‘Modern death is clinical, antiseptic’: the festival that wants to revive the Irish wake

  • Israeli minister vows to quit war cabinet if PM fails to agree new Gaza plan

  • ‘Clean water is a basic right’: protesters against sewage in seas and rivers gather across the UK

  • £4 Dominos and £5 KFC: health fears as fast food lunch becomes ‘workplace appropriate’

  • ‘Is this what people wear now?’ Sewing Bee host criticises M&S jumpers and socks

  • ‘Once you take choice away, there’s nothing left’: assisted dying edges closer in Jersey, but can they protect against a ‘duty to die’?

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World

  • Giorgi Kandelaki with the statue of Stalin in Mukhrani last week.

    ‘Shouldn’t we be proud?’: new Stalin statues symbolise Georgia’s battle to control the past as well as the present

    Trend is being linked to Kremlin-inspired ‘foreign influence’ bill that has led to huge street protests
  • Bashar al-Assad, in smart jacket and trousers, leads a group of soldiers in helmets and camouflage

    Assad officials face landmark Paris trial over killing of student and father

  • men stand by their belongings by water

    Fresh floods in Afghanistan kill at least 60 after heavy rain brings devastation

  • Policemen guard the area as they wait for the suspect in the shooting of Slovakia's prime minister, Robert Fico, to be brought to court in Pezinok, Slovakia.

    Suspect in court as Putin’s friends capitalise on shooting of Slovakian PM Robert Fico

  • A mural depicting author Gabriel Gárcia Márquez in Aracataca.

    Netflix’s One Hundred Years of Solitude brings fame to Gabriel García Márquez’s Colombian hometown

  • Leonid Volkov watches a session of the European parliament in Strasbourg, France

    Navalny ally says he will ‘never give up’ in fight against Putin

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In focus

  • Composite picture of Paula Vennells, with short hair and wearing a matching suit jacket and dress, grinning, next to a postbox, stamped letters and a sign reading "Post Office"

    Post Office scandal: how did Paula Vennells, an ordained priest, fall so far and so fast from grace?

    The former chief executive and archbishop’s confidant appears at the Horizon IT inquiry this week to explain her role in the affair that wrecked the lives of so many of her staff
  • Gordon Brown at a multibank warehouse in Fife

    ‘People haven’t woken up to the scale of this’: Gordon Brown on the UK’s child poverty scandal

  • Children's playground elephant in Glenrothes Housing Estate, Fife, Scotland, UK.<br>2JN7RYM Children's playground elephant in Glenrothes Housing Estate, Fife, Scotland, UK.

    We can easily end child poverty in the UK. Here are five things to know

  • Adam Driver in Francis Ford Coppola’s passion project Megalopolis.

    The Fall Guy to Megalopolis: is 2024 the year of the box-office megaflop?

  • Artist Jonathan Yeo and King Charles III at the unveiling of Yeo's portrait in Buckingham Palace

    Too bald, too mad, too red … How royal portraits get it so wrong

  • Britney Spears performs during the Now! 99.7 Triple Ho Show 7.0 at SAP Center in 2016 in San Jose, California.

    #FreeBritney movement resurges after star’s hotel fight sparks conservatorship fears

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Comment

  • Torsten Bell

    US voters are increasingly polarised over politics, but Brits are far less stubborn

    Torsten Bell
  • Will Hutton

    We’ve got the talent and the tech. So why can’t Britain grow its own world-beaters?

    Will Hutton
  • Martha Gill

    Grinding our bums, flashing our boobs: the internet is making juveniles of us all

    Martha Gill

  • Jürgen Klopp brought not only victories but a fan’s passion for the game

    Kenan Malik

  • Rishi Sunak’s scare tactics aren’t going to work against a soothing Keir Starmer

    Andrew Rawnsley

  • Meet Becky, aged 14, suicidal, alone and unwanted. Victim of a cruel, uncaring state

    Louise Tickle

  • Chris Riddell on Russia’s advance on Kharkiv – cartoon

  • You think Parisians grumble a lot? Don’t get them started on the Olympic Games

    Robert McLiam Wilson

  • I’m passionate about the future of Glasgow School of Art’s glorious Mackintosh building, not just its past

    Rowan Moore

  • Nato’s failure to save Ukraine raises an existential question: what on earth is it for?

    Simon Tisdall

  • Brexit Britain may export lots of services, but selling things it makes is harder

    Torsten Bell
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Editorials & Letters

  • Yoav Gallant, wearing headphones, gazes at a tank and boxes of supplies near the border between Israel and Gaza.

    The Observer view: it’s up to Israel’s allies to persuade Netanyahu to stop standing in the way of peace

  • A Salvation Army band

    Of course faith has a place in our society

    Keir Hardie and many others were inspired by their religion

  • For the record

    Elephant and Castle | John Gould folios
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Business & Cash

  • A train moving through countryside beneath chalk cliffs

    UK rail faces fight to stay on track as climate crisis erodes routes

  • Jeremy Hunt smiles as he talks to staff in a supermarket during a visit

    Inflation in the UK is about to tumble. But how far – and for how long?

  • Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping review a guard of honour in Beijing on 16 May.

    If Putin wins in Ukraine, the British economy will be in the firing line

    Phillip Inman
  • A gardener is seen through a gap in flowering shrubs

    UK’s garden centres hope sunshine and Chelsea flower show will help them rebound from the rain

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Sport

  • Gaël Monfils.

    Gaël Monfils: ‘I’m getting a little bit old. People forget that I still have it’

  • Jimmy Anderson.

    The making of Jimmy Anderson: ‘Like a golden nugget falling into your lap’

    A phone call from an impressed parent helped ignite the storied career of England’s greatest ever fast bowler
  • Manchester City fans at Craven Cottage on 11 May 2024.

    Premier League 2023-24 fans’ verdicts, part two: Liverpool to Wolves

    Fans review the season with one game to play: the stars, the flops and the moments that made them smile

  • Premier League 2023-24 fans’ verdicts, part one: Arsenal to Fulham

  • Morikawa and Schauffele end third day of US PGA at top as Lowry equals record

  • Bigger, yes, but better? Pep Guardiola tweaks template for latest City kick to line

    Jonathan Wilson

  • Manchester United in better position than last year, says Erik ten Hag

  • Guardiola had not heard of Stefan Ortega before Manchester City move

  • Arsenal should have no crisis of faith if they miss out on title

  • Jürgen Klopp’s Liverpool rescued the league from brand-busting monotony

    Barney Ronay

  • Emma Hayes ‘hasn’t got another drop to give’ after Chelsea WSL title triumph

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Reviews

  • Omar Sy, Hirokazu Kore-eda, Ebru Ceylan, Nadine Labaki, Lily Gladstone, Greta Gerwig, Juan Antonio Bayona, Eva Green and Pierfrancesco Favino taking a photograph on a boat.

    Cannes 2024 week one roundup – the jury’s out, the sun isn’t…

  • Billie Eilish at the Hit Me Hard and Soft album release listening party.

    Billie Eilish: Hit Me Hard and Soft review – could have hit even harder

  • Melanie Reid with Liz Carr in Better Off Dead?

    The week in TV: Better Off Dead?; Bridgerton; The Gathering; The Big Cigar – review

  • 12 dancers in black trousers and white t-shirts, some jumping, arms raised, others knees bent, arms down

    Rambert: Analogue review – close encounters on the dancefloor

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New Review

  • Richard Hawley photographed in Sheffield by Gary Calton for the Observer New Review.

    Richard Hawley: ‘If I stopped what I’m doing the songs would still come’

    On a tour of his home city that begins ‘at the crack of midday’, the singer discusses his new album, how his musical, Standing at the Sky’s Edge, has hit a nerve, and his main hope for Keir Starmer
  • Judy Chicago photographed in her New Mexico studio by her husband, the photographer Donald Woodman.

    ‘My time has come!’: feminist artist Judy Chicago on a tidal wave of recognition at 84

  • Illustration of a detective at an urban crime scene

    A night with the Murdle squad… and hundreds of crime writers

  • Megan Nolan

    I haven’t tried Ozempic but I know how it feels

    Megan Nolan
  • Illustration by Observer Design of a woman and the Zoe nutrition app.

    ‘Personalising stuff that doesn’t matter’: the trouble with the Zoe nutrition app

  • Andrea Michelli photographed in Victoria Park, London by Sophia Evans for the Observer New Review.

    Prof Andrea Mechelli: ‘People who live near green space are less likely to struggle with mental health issues’

  • Boiling Point star Vinette Robinson: ‘Sometimes when dinner’s ready, I’ll shout Service!’

  • The big picture: Dorothy Bohm on the streets of Lisbon

  • Sam Taylor: ‘Translating is like X-raying a book. You get a deep tissue read’

  • What would Steve Jobs think of Apple’s culture-crushing advert?

    John Naughton

  • On my radar: Claire Messud’s cultural highlights

  • One to watch: Myles Smith

  • ‘Despite appearances, I finally realise I am not able-bodied’: novelist Daisy Lafarge on her hypermobility disorder

  • ‘I want to be where the energy’s at’: photographer Ryan McGinley on youth culture, creativity and being collected by Elton John

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Magazine

  • Stephen Merchant shot for OM

    ‘It’s all been preposterous’: Stephen Merchant on fame, standup and the pressures of cancel culture

    From The Office sidekick to standup legend and a serial killer, the multitalented Stephen Merchant is impossible to pin down. He talks about cancel culture, why pubs are more interesting than outer space and hanging out with Christopher Walken
  • Lucy Khan and Chris Cartlidge, standing side by side wearing scrubs, in an operating theatre.

    ‘It was smart to marry the competition’: meet the ‘power couples’ who work together

  • Hannah Hall

    Young pigeon fanciers: meet the new kids on the flock

  • Observer Magazine<br>SELF - Author Harriet Tyce,at home in London. Writes about her relationship with alcohol adn how it plays out in her novels.

    ‘I was 49 when I had my last drink’: Harriet Tyce

  • Jenny Brandt Grönberg on the stairs in her home, a wall of pictures behind her.

    Colour fast: bright paints to refresh a family home

  • Spices at the souk, Essaouira.

    Medina date – a cookery course in Morocco

  • Nigel Slater’s recipes for roast spring vegetables, tarragon and lemon dressing, and chicory with basil and honey vinaigrette

  • A toy globe bursting with information is a great tool…

    Séamas O’Reilly

  • Notes on chocolate: a glorious gelato in touristy Venice

  • Are you a LAT couple enjoying living apart together?

    Eva Wiseman

  • Sunday with Deborah Meaden: ‘The cats get me up about 9.30am by tapping my face’

  • Moisturising lip balms: 10 of the best

  • Casting a spell: meeting three witches in 1968

  • My husband finds life easy, and ‘corrects’ me because I don’t

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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

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

    Welcome to May’s Observer Food Monthly

  • Ginger

    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

  • Sticky aubergine tart, sea bass with pistachio pesto, baklava cheesecake – Greekish recipes by Georgina Hayden

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