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  • Professional dancer Graziano Di Prima holding celebrity partner Zara McDermott.

    Fresh crisis at ‘toxic’ Strictly as ex-staff claim they faced sexualised comments and cruelty

    Production workers at Strictly Come Dancing allege BBC refused to take their complaints seriously
  • Angela Rayner wearing a hard hat and a his-vis jacket

    Angela Rayner unveils sweeping plans to tackle ‘scandal’ of Tory housing legacy

News

  • Gracie Abrams performs on NBC's Today show at Rockefeller Plaza on Friday, June 28, 2024, in New York. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)

    Chic, sexy, elegant: the classic bob is back as the haircut of the summer

  • Nadsy Qurban standing in a street between two rows of houses

    ‘We got failed by the police’: how veterans of Leeds riots stepped in to defuse disorder

    A group of Muslim men put themselves in danger to calm unrest in Harehills over children being taken into care
  • Nadia Mohd-Radzman, with glasses and in a headscarf and cotton jacket, stands in front of vegetable market stalls holding a bunch of broad beans and grinning

    Broad beans could be the cure to Britain’s blues, says Cambridge research scientist

    Sustainable and nutritious, fava beans are being hailed by Nadia Mohd-Radzman as vital for the UK’s mental health

  • Roadtesting the Olympics: ‘You think you know this city? You don’t’

  • GPs warn of surgery closures in England and fear similar fate to NHS dentistry

  • Call to ban gambling sponsors from UK sport as hidden harms are revealed

  • The two-child benefit cap: what is it, does it work and how much would it cost to scrap it?

  • ‘Will the kids eat or not?’ In Keir Starmer’s constituency, families struggle with poverty

  • Wealth taxes could raise £10bn to help plug Tory budget hole, say economists

  • Patel accuses rivals of waging ‘personal vendettas’ as she launches Tory leadership bid

  • Team GB is fast out of the blocks to celebrate early Olympic silver and bronze medals

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World

  • Thousands of Venezuelans wait Edmundo Gonzalez to arrive at the closing campaign rally in Las Mercedes, eastern Caracas, Venezuela, on 25 July 2024.

    Venezuela votes in election that could end 25 years of socialist rule

    Edmundo González Urrutia could upset Nicolás Maduro’s run for a third term – but several obstacles can prevent a regime change
  • A turbo-prop aircraft floodlit behind a high fence, while two figures in the foreground, hidden in darkness, observe.

    ‘Nada cambia’: Mexican drugs lord ‘El Mayo’ has been captured, but does targeting kingpins work?

  • A very old white man with a mostly bald head and dark-rimmed glasses, wearing an orange lanyard and suit without a tie, looks up from his phone and appears to listen to something likely very far away from where he is sitting.

    Rupert Murdoch goes to war with his children over his media empire

  • A Brazilian woman with charred field

    ‘Morally, nobody’s against it’: Brazil’s radical plan to tax global super-rich to tackle climate crisis

  • A woman with supporters holding banners in Chinese outside a court in Beijing

    Professor sacked over abuse claims in rare win for China’s #MeToo movement

  • Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

    ‘She is one of our heroines’: reviled, now revered, Winnie Mandela wins over young South Africa

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In focus

  • A marble bust of Costanza Piccolomini

    Slashed with a knife: the tender sculpture that hides a shocking but common crime against women

    Costanza Piccolomini was physically disfigured by her lover, the Baroque sculptor Bernini: 400 years later her story can finally be told
  • Illustration of a man handing sunglasses to a woman.

    Voters to choose between two starkly different candidates in US ‘Armageddon election’

  • Rowan Moore

    Historic British seaside hotels are glorious white elephants, but perhaps they can have new lives

    Rowan Moore
  • Scarborough’s Grand hotel opened in 1867 as ‘Europe’s largest and handsomest hotel’.

    Faded no more: the return of British seaside resorts’ grand hotels

  • Jude Law as Henry VIII with Alicia Vikander as Catherine Parr.

    Royal stinker: how Henry VIII changed from heroic to hideous on our screens

  • Carole Cadwalladr

    This is a misogyny emergency. A huge outpouring is coming in the runup to the US election

    Carole Cadwalladr
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Comment

  • Will Hutton

    Rupert Murdoch’s secret succession drama is a warning to rein in the super-rich

    Will Hutton
  • Andrew Rawnsley

    Why Rachel Reeves wants everyone to know that the Tories left the Treasury brassic

    Andrew Rawnsley
  • Martha Gill

    Shoplifting, tax evasion... If UK politicians break the rules, why shouldn’t the rest of us?

    Martha Gill

  • James Baldwin taught us that identities can help us to locate ourselves. But they trap us too

    Kenan Malik

  • The perfect feelgood TV, did Strictly’s sparkle blind it to flaws in its format?

    Sonia Sodha

  • Chris Riddell on Rachel Reeves’s shock at finding a black hole in the nation’s finances – cartoon

  • Maeve Boothby-O’Neill’s harrowing case highlights clashing NHS narratives on ME

    Alastair Miller

  • What I learned about Kamala Harris over our Oscars dinner

    Henry Porter

  • Last Tango in Washington: how sad, sidelined Joe Biden may yet have the last laugh

    Simon Tisdall

  • Phrygian around: Paris is awash with Olympic paraphernalia

    Pamela Druckerman

  • Can Britain really keep the rise of the populist right at bay? History tells us it can

    David Kynaston
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Editorials & Letters

  • Women holding 'Kamala Harris for president' placards.

    The Observer view: Kamala Harris has risen above doubters, now she must stay on high ground

  • 'Just Stop Oil' Protest ActThe Just Stop Oil protest on the M25 on 10 November 2022.

    Bursting the bubble of Just Stop Oil

    The group scored an own goal if their intention was to influence public opinion
  • Rachel Reeves poses outside the door to 11 Downing Street.

    The Observer view: sticking to fiscal rule will imperil Labour’s future

    Cutting public spending to satisfy an arbitrary financial rule conceived in opposition will confine the UK to sluggish growth
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Business & Cash

  • Valerie Labi holding a smartphone with an image of a Wahu ebike on the screen

    Ebike entrepreneur Valeria Labi: ‘If I see a problem and I think it can be solved, I follow that thread’

  • Retirement homes being built by by McCarthy Stone.

    We have been left cold and wet in our leaking retirement home

  • A huge painting visitors can add to at the Tate Modern.

    How to find cheap (or free) days out for the kids, come rain or shine

  • An E.ON sign in red, yellow and blue.

    E.ON took direct debits from my son’s account after it was told of his suicide

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Sport

  • Noah Lyles is aiming for four gold medals at the Paris Olympics

    USA’s Noah Lyles: manga geek, alpha male and very, very fast

  • Kenya runners

    Revealed: how a Kenyan runner turned undercover agent to lift the lid on dopers

    Special report A meeting in a New York coffee shop helped US investigators get the inside track on a network of doping and the agents that prey on vulnerable athletes
  • Tom Daley and Noah Williams during training

    Noah Williams inspired by teaming up with Tom Daley in Olympic diving

    After watching the poster boy of London 2012 as a kid, Williams now has the chance to compete alongside him in Paris

  • Paris diary: Macron’s dog, testy traffic cops and a damned beautiful show

  • China’s swimmers dive in to toxic atmosphere and hum of distrust

  • Titmus shrugs off pressure to win gold as Peaty sets up Qin Haiyang showdown

  • Spain’s dream team of Alcaraz and Nadal dig deep to advance in Olympic doubles

  • ‘I’ll be a little gutted in a few days’: Smith upbeat despite missing century

  • No regrets for Antoine Dupont as he delivers redemption on biggest stage

  • A century ago, Andrade and Uruguay made the Paris Olympics a global first

    Jonathan Wilson

  • Dazzling Antoine Dupont and France storm to gold in Olympic rugby sevens

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Reviews

  • Deniz Celiloğlu and Musab Ekici as Samet and Kenan in About Dry Grasses.

    About Dry Grasses review – rich, engrossing Turkish epic with a twist

  • Peter Kennard. The Gamble, 1986 by Peter Kennard.Photomontage, gelatin silver prints and ink on card 83 x 53 x 5.8 cm

    Peter Kennard: Archive of Dissent review – definitive protest images that go beyond words

  • The Pet shop Boys perform at the Royal Opera House, London.

    Pet Shop Boys review – still never being boring

  • Imelda Staunton leads a curtain call after the opening night performance of Hello, Dolly!

    The week in theatre: Hello, Dolly!; The Hot Wing King; Fangirls – review

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New Review

  • Clockwise from top left: Noel and Liam Gallagher of Oasis, Lauryn Hill of the Fugees, Olivia Newton-John and John Travolta in Grease, DJ Jazzy Jeff (right) and the Fresh Prince (AKA Jeffrey A Townes and Will Smith).

    CDs sales are growing. How I wish I hadn’t given my beloved collection away

    Compact discs provided the soundtrack to his life. Then came streaming and he couldn’t get rid of them fast enough. As CDs enjoy a renaissance, our writer looks back at what he lost
  • Joshi Herrmann of Mill Media for Observer Review feature

    Straight to your inbox: meet the journalists shaking up local UK news

  • crop of a portrait of Paapa Esseidu wearing a sky blue jacket and holding a long-stemmed white rose

    Paapa Essiedu: ‘Is this part harder than Hamlet? Yeah, it’s different gravy, mate’

  • The Mary Wallopers photographed this month in Dundalk, Ireland by Bríd O’Donovan for the Observer New Review. L-r: Ken Mooney, Charles Hendy, Andrew Hendy, Róisín Barrett, Seán McKenna, Finnian O’Connor.

    ‘People of all ages get very emotional at our gigs’: how ‘trad punk’ folk band the Mary Wallopers became a live sensation

  • Ibrahim Nash'at photographed in London by Phil Fisk for the Observer New Review, July 2024.

    Documentary-maker Ibrahim Nash’at on filming the Taliban: ‘The secret service asked to see my footage. I left the same day’

  • a woman stands in her garden in ukraine, a new roof on her small bombed house

    Who’s on the 2024 RA Dorfman prize shortlist? A lingerie factory turned weekend home, Ukrainian volunteer roofers – and more

  • The end is nigh. For insects, bats, protest, the planet…

    Stewart Lee

  • The big picture: precarious lives and playfulness in a London square

  • Philospher Peter Godfrey-Smith: ‘To some extent, our planet would be better off without humanity’

  • Pat Barker and Benjamin Myers in conversation: ‘I’m absolutely intolerable when I’m not writing’

  • One man’s mission to revive a forgotten, life-saving cancer drug

  • My new iPhone symbolises stagnation, not innovation – and a similar fate awaits AI

    John Naughton

  • On my radar: Evie Wyld’s cultural highlights

  • One to watch: Loose Articles

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Magazine

  • Josh Hartnett sitting barefoot on a fur rug

    ‘I didn’t want to be swallowed up’: actor Josh Hartnett on swapping Hollywood for Hampshire

    On track for megastardom, the actor turned down the part of Superman (twice) and turned his back on Hollywood. Now living in rural Hampshire, he talks about choosing fulfilling projects, his hippie childhood, the perils of stalkers – and the fun of owning pygmy goats
  • Furry tales: attendees at the Midwest FurFest gather for a group photo in the Chicago suburb of Rosemont, Illinois.

    ‘Why are people always pointing the finger at furries?’: inside the wild world of the furry fandom

  • Luke Turner sitting at a kitchen table with a vase of flowers

    ‘I felt as if my sperm had let me down’: one man’s IVF journey

  • Australian mother of two young children in her family home participating in domestic life activities<br>Posed by models Single Mother with her daughter and son at home playing, working and involved in domestic duties.

    I’m angry that my mum was always so absent. How can I find peace?

  • OM Nigel Replacement Chicken Leeks Lemon Tarragon

    Nigel Slater’s recipe for chicken with leeks, lemon and tarragon

  • Wellbeing Ranking Friends WEB

    Ever thought of ranking your friends in silly, random categories?

  • Rediscovering Dubrovnik: the pearl of the Adriatic

  • Nigel Slater’s recipes for broad bean toasts and cheesecake tart

  • Notes on chocolate: a stylish start-up from Rotterdam

  • My young son has the makings of a marvellous actor…

    Séamas O’Reilly

  • Women’s prisons have served their time. They should be abolished

    Eva Wiseman

  • Sunday with Maria Sharapova: ‘If I need gardening help, my mother takes over’

  • A celebration of the genius of the early photographer Nadar, 1976

  • Hooyos Somali Cuisine, Luton: ‘Rather lovely’ – restaurant review

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Observer Food Monthly

  • 20 best easy summer salads

    The 20 best easy summer salad recipes

    From Nigella Lawson’s lemony prawns and Nigel Slater’s noodles with pickled ginger to classics such as potato and pasta salads, these dishes are pure summer
  • Friends toasting at dinner party<br>Group of friends toasting and laughing while having dinner outside

    Refreshing, thirst-quenching, distinctive: 20 best wines for the summer

  • OFM Nigel Beetroot Watercress Crab Toasts Nigel Slater Observer Food Monthly OFM July 2024

    Nigel Slater’s recipes for salads to share

  • Food and music illustration Observer Food Monthly OFM JULY 2024

    My search for the perfect veg – from my greenhouse to the Cotswolds and even into orbit

  • Sarit Packer, Itamar Srulovich, Honey Spencer and Ravinder Bhogal Set design and styling: Victoria Twyman Hair and makeup (Ravinder) and Grooming (Itamar): Neusa Neves at Arlington Artists using Lisa Eldridge makeup and Aveda hair care. Hair and makeup (Sarit and Honey): Juliana Sergot using Bobbi Brown &amp; Kiehl's OFM Summer Taste Test 2024 Observer Food Monthly

    Welcome to July’s Observer Food Monthly

  • Baked Bass, Fennel, Courgette and Tomato Gratin, Tapenade Dressing Nathan Outlaw Cornish Summer Recipes Food and prop styling: Polly Webb-Wilson Observer Food Monthly OFM July 2024

    Baked bass, saffron rice, cherry fool – Nathan Outlaw’s Cornish summer recipes

  • Angela Hartnett’s secret ingredient – peperoncino

  • Asma Khan: ‘Food is deeply political. Who eats and who doesn’t? Who owns the land?’

  • Summer picnic taste test: ice-creams, gelato, cones and sorbets

  • Summer picnic taste test: rosés, cremants and pet nats

  • Summer picnic taste test: quiche, olives, sausage rolls and more

  • This changeable weather is playing havoc with my appetite, so I’m eating summer-winter food

    Rachel Cooke

  • Comedian Fern Brady: ‘I went to get hypnotised out of eating bread’

  • I know how to improve the Olympics. First up, the burger-stacking contest

    Jay Rayner
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