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The Observer
It's not easy being green: high energy costs threaten UK's net zero business endeavours
Missed decarbonisation targets, high prices and political uncertainty are seeing Labour's bid to make the nation a clean utility 'superpower' drift off into the ether.
6 min |
November 23, 2025
The Observer
My lost afternoon with Elisabeth Lederer
I will come on to the eye-watering price shortly, but let's start with the art. Is the painting any good?
1 min |
November 23, 2025
The Observer
The Lords they are a-leaping as vandals in ermine do their damnedest to frustrate ministers
Andrew Rawnsley
4 min |
November 23, 2025
The Observer
300 Catholic children kidnapped in latest school abduction
More than 300 schoolchildren and 12 teachers are thought to have been abducted by gunmen from a Catholic school in central Nigeria, making it one of the country’s worst mass abductions.
1 min |
November 23, 2025
The Observer
We need a new temperance movement to beat our addiction to screens
Walk into any cafe today and you'll see it: heads bowed, eyes glazed, fingers flicking endlessly. We've quickly become used to this image, but from a historian’s perspective it’s astounding how quickly it happened - a radical transformation in the way we relate to one another.
3 min |
November 23, 2025
The Observer
Prioritise happiness as a small act of rebellion
Sometimes tuning out the world is the only way to stay positive, writes Melanie Reid
2 min |
November 23, 2025
The Observer
forecasts shouldn't make the weather for the chancellor
Budget Responsibility (OBR) since 2010. That means we no longer need to worry about the Treasury fudging the forecast when it is politically advantageous. Instead, we've ended up in a world where OBR's minor forecasting judgments are having an outsized impact on policy. This is not a good place to be.
2 min |
November 23, 2025
The Observer
Marjorie Taylor Greene
One of the defining characteristics of radical or extremist politics is the head-spinning speed with which devout loyalists are recast as dangerous heretics.
5 min |
November 23, 2025
The Observer
Competition challenges lie ahead for Mail’s Telegraph bid
Lord Rothermere’s Daily Mail and General Trust (DMGT) is in exclusive talks to buy its rival, the Telegraph, in a deal that would create the most powerful right-leaning media group in Britain.
1 min |
November 23, 2025
The Observer
MPs prepare to quiz BBC board over competence and conflict of interest
After the resignation from the governing body of 'the guy who most took on' Robbie Gibb, a select committee will tomorrow seek clarity on the political appointee's agenda, writes Ceri Thomas
3 min |
November 23, 2025
The Observer
Forty years on: Radiohead stick to principles to delight the cognoscenti
Radiohead's singer Thom Yorke doesn't speak much during the band's long-awaited return to the UK stage on Friday. But when he does, it's to chivvy along whoever should be raising the electronic panels encasing the band.
3 min |
November 23, 2025
The Observer
'The Klimt, caller, is yours...
A painting that saved its sitter's life – and may save the art market - hit a record price of $205m. But who bought it?
3 min |
November 23, 2025
The Observer
Ticket touting ban may backfire
Ed Sheeran and Harry Styles, among other musicians, welcomed the government's new policy on ticket touting, announced last week.
1 min |
November 23, 2025
The Observer
Algeria's protest poet will need more than awards to avoid a life in prison
When the protests in Algeria began in 2019 - protests that would bring down the president, but not the regime - Mohamed Tadjadit was a fruit seller who wrote poems in his spare time.
3 min |
November 23, 2025
The Observer
Irish stouts do battle for a space at the bar
Anyone for a 'creamy Beamy?' Guinness is no longer the only dark beer in town. By
2 min |
November 23, 2025
The Observer
'Amateur diplomat' Steve Witkoff has swallowed Putin's line
Marco Rubio has many jobs in the second Trump administration. He is secretary of state, national security adviser and even chief archivist, having also until recently been the administrator of USAID.
3 min |
November 23, 2025
The Observer
We knew full well that the bodies were going to pile high around us
\"It's frightfully easy to come up with an inquiry after the event, looking back with hindsight,\" opined Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown, the Conservative MP and chair of the public accounts committee, on Times Radio last week. \"I think it's just rewriting history.
4 min |
November 23, 2025
The Observer
More MEPS investigated in Russian bribe probe
Nathan Gill, the former leader of Reform UK in Wales and ex-MEP, was sentenced on Friday at the Old Bailey to 10 and a half years after pleading guilty to bribery for taking money to make pro-Russian statements in the European Parliament.
1 min |
November 23, 2025
The Observer
Crypto president needs to make bitcoin great again
Trump, pump, dump: three words to sum up the past year for bitcoin.
1 min |
November 23, 2025
The Observer
UK set to raise prices of drugs in US agreement
Proposed medicine hikes are 'necessary', says science minister Patrick Vallance, to continue attracting investment in UK pharma, writes Barney Macintyre
2 min |
November 23, 2025
The Observer
Trump tries to scrub away his 'blackest mark', the Capitol riot
The president's threat to sue the BBC is part of an attempt to rewrite his role in the 2021 siege. Hugh Tomlinson reports from Washington
5 min |
November 23, 2025
The Observer
Madrid clubs kick off elite football's investors search
Where Real Madrid leads, other clubs tend to follow both on and off the pitch. But for once it is its city neighbour, Atlético, who appears to be setting a trend.
2 min |
November 23, 2025
The Observer
Climate summit ends in anger as Cop30 deal fails to mention oil, coal or gas
A tentative plan setting out steps for the world to transition away from fossil fuels was announced at UN climate talks yesterday - but only after language relating to oil, coal and gas was stripped out of the official agreement.
3 min |
November 23, 2025
The Observer
Eyes in the sky: gamers called up as army bets on march of the drones
Years honing games console skills have paid off for soldiers chosen to fight a virtual battle on Salisbury Plain
3 min |
November 23, 2025
The Observer
Brussels relaxes Al rules as Trump plays up to tech titans
If artificial intelligence ends up doing humanity more harm than good, last week may be seen as a significant turning point.
1 min |
November 23, 2025
The Observer
Freemasons' PR drive is a sign of panic
After centuries of secret handshakes, the society is seeking to rebrand itself in a bid to halt falling membership in the UK
4 min |
November 23, 2025
The Observer
The BBC should stand up to Trump's bullying
Instead of behaving like a bunch of headless chickens (“So just who led the BBC into its darkest hour”, News, last week) I suggest that the board should counter sue Donald Trump over his press secretary's assertion that the BBC is “100% fake news”.
1 min |
November 23, 2025
The Observer
I screamed, I clapped, I found my perfect game
In her bid to find a sport to fall in love with, Marie Le Conte is won over by ice hockey
2 min |
November 23, 2025
The Observer
Goldman seeks funds for expansion of Gail’s
The year 2019 was an annus horribilis for Luke Johnson.
2 min |
November 23, 2025
The Observer
Unmasked
Thousands of deaths were avoidable. Remember that
3 min |