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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

  • Baked bean ice cream from Anya Hindmarch’s Ice Cream Project summer shop in London.

    Blue cheese or caviar? Ice-cream toppings get weird and wacky

  • Amelia Williams in a holiday snap, leaning on railings with a sunny seaside city below

    ‘I want Keir Starmer to have a sudden massive personality change’: gen Z on their hopes for a Labour government

    Anyone under 32 has lived their entire adult life under the Tories. What do they make of the new political landscape?
  • UK General Election - Election count in London<br>epa11458193 Jeremy Corbyn (C) gives a speech after being declared winner of the North Islington Parliamentary seat, in London, Britain, 05 July 2024. Britons went to the polls on 04 July 2024 to elect new members of Parliament following the call by Britain's Prime Minister Sunak for a snap election. EPA/JON ROWLEY

    How the left fared in the UK election and where they go from here

    Independents win votes over Gaza and Greens add MPs but left wing parliamentary hopes may rest on Labour failure• General election 2024 – live

  • What is on the immediate to-do list for six key new cabinet ministers?

  • HMRC withheld offshore tax avoidance figures for UK’s wealthy during election

  • ‘The entire clown show caught up with us’: Tory infighting erupts after defeat

  • Forget ‘stop the boats’, Starmer wants to ‘smash the gangs’ – but will it work?

  • ‘She wasn’t sure how to get off the stage’: Liz Truss’s ungracious count retreat caps political humiliation

  • King Charles ruffles feathers as he drops royal patronage for pigeon racing

  • From exit poll to swing seats: 10 key moments to watch as election results roll in

  • Could the UK soon have the most working-class cabinet of all time?

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World

  • A group of Palestinian men and young children standing amid the ruins of bombed-out building

    Fears of long war in Gaza as new chapter opens and ‘intense fighting’ eases off

    Israel’s ground offensive is nearing its conclusion amid the threat of indefinite occupation and a continuing insurgency
  • Oliver Waack-Jürgensen of the Berlin Cannabis Club High Ground said: ‘The situation with the authorities is totally unclear.’

    Cannabis legalisation hampered by most German of substances: red tape

  • Jaqueline, outside her family’s home in Colombier-Saugnieu on the outskirts of Lyon. She is among 54% of voters there who cast their ballot for the National Rally (RN) party.

    ‘We want our peace’: why is France’s far-right support such a rural affair?

  • 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’

  • 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

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In focus

  • Jimmy Somerville of Bronski Beat in the video for Smalltown Boy

    Why Bronski Beat’s anthem of gay culture resonates 40 years on

    What it is about the the haunting classic, Smalltown Boy, that still compels teens to join older generations on the dancefloor?
  • 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

  • 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?

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Comment

  • Tim Adams

    Is it time to turn the British Museum into the world’s great lending library?

    Tim Adams
  • 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

  • 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
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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

  • Jonathan Reynolds in Downing Street last Friday before his appointment as business secretary.

    Thames, Tata, Shein – it won’t be business as usual for Labour’s Jonathan Reynolds

  • Amit Gudka stands smiling for a photograph in a hi-vis vest outdoors, with two banks of electrical equipment behind him

    ‘I totally understand why people are sceptical’: the co-founder of collapsed energy giant Bulb on his new venture

  • Graham and Lisa stand with their arms round each other with their dog on the driveway of. a brick bungalow

    The no-deposit mortgage that lets tenants buy the home they live in … with a gift from the landlord

  • Babies in a hospital nursery. In 2022 the fertility rate across England and Wales fell to 1.49 children per woman.

    The baby bust: how Britain’s falling birthrate is creating alarm in the economy

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Sport

  • Cameron Norrie had four set points in the third set tie-break but failed to convert

    Cameron Norrie goes down swinging to imperious Zverev at Wimbledon

  • Wanty's Biniam Girmay crosses the finish line to win stage eight

    Girmay sprints to Tour stage win but day overshadowed by Drege’s death in Austria

    Biniam Girmay took his second stage win in the Tour de France but events were overshadowed by the death of Norwegian Andre Drege during stage four of the Tour of Austria
  • Lando Norris during a press conference at Silverstone Circuit in Northamptonshire on 4 July 2024

    In-form Norris keen to give home crowd spectacle to savour at Silverstone

    McLaren star’s humble beginnings keep him in check as he continues to etch his mark on modern Formula One

  • Injured Joe Marler a doubt for second Test as England rue missed chance

  • Andy Murray’s Wimbledon career over as Raducanu pulls out of mixed doubles

  • France set up Spain semi but Mbappé and Griezmann issues remain

  • Rugby league in need of international rescue after nadir of French farce

    Aaron Bower

  • England left kicking themselves after agonising defeat against All Blacks

  • Jimmy Anderson still has magic 21 years after England pin-up’s Test debut

    Vic Marks

  • David Richards: ‘There’s not a single driver I haven’t fallen out with’

  • Goodbye, Andy Murray: how the fiery kid I once watched became a Wimbledon hero

    Kevin Mitchell
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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

  • James Corden and Anna Maxwell Martin in The Constituent at the Old Vic

    The week in theatre: The Constituent; Kyoto; Mean Girls – review

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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

  • Gulu Town<br>Since 2006 Northern Uganda is quite peaceful. Former war-torn area around Gulu develops well and people stay out after dark and enjoy nightlife. Gulu is becoming the second largest town of Uganda.

    Meet Mercy and Anita – the African workers driving the AI revolution, for just over a dollar an hour

  • James Muldoon, Mark Graham and Callum Cant: ‘AI feeds off the work of human beings’

  • Microsoft’s climbdown over its creepy Recall feature shows its AI strategy is far from intelligent

    John Naughton

  • On my radar: Mark Leckey’s cultural highlights

  • Janelle Monáe review: a masterclass in progressive showbiz spectacle

  • One to watch: Berlioz

  • Fifty years on, how Lucy, the mother of humanity, changed our understanding of evolution

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

    David Mitchell

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

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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…
  • Clare Fernyhough, Daisy Greenwell and Joe Ryrie of Smartphone Free Childhood

    ‘We wanted to change the norm on smartphone use’: grassroots campaigners on a phone-free childhood

  • Emma and Nicole sitting on a sofa

    ‘We now feel proud to be mixed’: the blessings and biases of being biracial

  • Solo writing retreat

    How a solo retreat helped relight my creative fire

  • Ron Arad’s house - London

    House of curiosities: at home with Ron Arad

  • Roisin Murphy performing at the Brixton Academy in London, 2021.

    Róisín Murphy: ‘I think our culture is too hedonistic’

  • Nigel Slater’s recipe for courgettes, butter beans and ’nduja

  • Nigel Slater’s recipes for carrot and cucumber pickle, and gooseberry flapjacks

  • Retro Paris: stepping back into the 70s

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

    Séamas O’Reilly

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

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

    Eva Wiseman

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

  • Travel minis: 10 of the best

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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

  • Lunch With Isabella Tree Observer Food Monthly OFM June 2024

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

  • Richard Bainbridge’s secret ingredient: nutritional yeast

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

    Rachel Cooke

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

  • 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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