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The Observer
Battle to become the global leader in defence tech gets heated
In a world riven by conflict, Germany's Helsing and US-based Anduril are piling on value as order books bulge.
4 min |
September 14, 2025
The Observer
The lion
We lions are philosophers. We get a lot of time for thinking; it’s in our nature.
2 min |
September 14, 2025
The Observer
How Syria's stolen children were used to break the hearts and minds of their parents
A campaign of child abduction carried out in collusion with a western charity was used by the Assad regime as a weapon of war against the families that opposed him.
10+ min |
September 14, 2025
The Observer
Britain can become one of the world's top tech economies - if it takes the risks
It's time to change the subject. A programme of mass deportations and leaving the European Convention on Human Rights is not going to deliver either growth or prosperity.
9 min |
September 14, 2025
The Observer
Misinformation and myth: the UK's phoney war over human rights
The debate over the future of the European Convention on Human Rights will shape conference season and beyond, writes political editor Rachel Sylvester
6 min |
September 14, 2025
The Observer
Assassination of Charlie Kirk strips Maga of the man who brought the youth vote to Trump
The first family mourns the White House insider whose extremist views reflected the Republican party's major shift to the right
5 min |
September 14, 2025
The Observer
Mandelson saga and Epstein links cast shadow over Trump's UK trip
When Donald Trump touches down on UK soil in Air Force One on Tuesday, a two-day period of peril for the US president and British prime minister Keir Starmer will begin.
3 min |
September 14, 2025
The Observer
The UN must get back in the ring and fight Mark Malloch-Brown
A recent Reuters headline noted: “UN report finds United Nations reports are not widely read”.
5 min |
September 14, 2025
The Observer
Prepare for revolution now, Elon Musk tells London rally as police come under attack
US tech billionaire calls for downfall of Labour government in speech to 110,000 marchers at Robinson's Unite the Kingdom protest
4 min |
September 14, 2025
The Observer
Big pharma's cash pull-out lands blow on UK economy
Slowly, then all at once. That's how the government's “vision” for life sciences came to the brink of disaster in the space of a week.
1 min |
September 14, 2025
The Observer
Puzzle over motives of alleged shooter who 'confessed to his dad'
It was a manhunt across Utah with a $100,000 reward on the table, the FBI under fierce scrutiny and a political blame game erupting in Washington as America reeled from one of the most significant political assassinations in years.
3 min |
September 14, 2025
The Observer
Don't dismiss the daylight between us. It's where we find common ground
A British colleague once complained to me, “we used to be innovators, now we're just regulators”. But that misses the point.
3 min |
September 14, 2025
The Observer
My tip for Ken's return to the RSC —keep your shirt on
Kate Maltby
1 min |
September 14, 2025
The Observer
Ellison the Almighty, 81, sets his sights on Oxford
“God doesn't think he’s Larry Ellison” is the punchline to an old Silicon Valley gag about the difference between the creator of the universe and the creator of the software company Oracle.
1 min |
September 14, 2025
The Observer
US cash turned Tommy Robinson into the poster boy of UK far right
Outside the Old Bailey in 2018, a reinvented Tommy Robinson flashed his perfect new teeth to 2,000 diehard supporters at a “free Tommy” rally on a stage that blocked the street.
2 min |
September 14, 2025
The Observer
Evaristo's new prize for older female writers closes book on dispute at RSL
A new writers' prize for older women, launched this weekend, is intended to turn the page on a troubled chapter for the Royal Society of Literature (RSL).
1 min |
September 14, 2025
The Observer
'Accessible' new builds: visit, but don't move in
After a suitable council home for a wheelchair user? Prepare to wait 47 years, says Melanie Reid
2 min |
September 14, 2025
The Observer
Gabriele Finaldi
The National Gallery director's ambition has attracted £375m in donations, writes Vanessa Thorpe
5 min |
September 14, 2025
The Observer
Harry Potter teacher needs pension magic
I taught JK Rowling A-level English literature 40 or more years ago and am now retired.
2 min |
September 14, 2025
The Observer
Troubled Starmer 'reeks of defeat' after Mandelson fiasco
Pressure mounts on the prime minister as Epstein scandal reaches the doors of No 10
2 min |
September 14, 2025
The Observer
Worth keeping it in the family
Family feuds have had a big week.
1 min |
September 14, 2025
The Observer
Have we reached peak veganism? The future feels flexitarian
High prices and health fears about ultra-processed food are turning many Britons off plant-based 'meat'. But perhaps we have just come to prefer a more flexible diet, writes Rachael Healy
3 min |
September 14, 2025
The Observer
Et tu, Kamala? Harris's political memoir will be a rude awakening for Sleepy Joe
Barbara Ellen
1 min |
September 14, 2025
The Observer
Brazil's frail democracy puts the shining city upon a hill in the shade
Brazil's capital was built with democracy in mind.
3 min |
September 14, 2025
The Observer
Operation Ingratiate takes more risks with Starmer's embattled reputation
Ronald Reagan, winner of the Cold War, was content with just the one. Barack Obama, who bagged a Nobel Peace Prize, was likewise happy with a single. So at the beginning of the week in which Donald Trump will be lavished with the pomp and pageantry of an unprecedented second state visit to the UK, it is worth asking why we are going to be put through such a toe-curling spectacle of flummery and fawning.
4 min |
September 14, 2025
The Observer
Mandelson came to praise Brexit. Merck just buried it
When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.
2 min |
September 14, 2025
The Observer
Charlie Kirk killing puts America to the test over the freedom to disagree
There’s a risk that political violence becomes a weapon in the culture wars
4 min |
September 14, 2025
The Observer
David Baltimore
'Giant discoveries' in molecular biology won him a Nobel prize and a stellar reputation among US scientists
3 min |
September 14, 2025
The Observer
Starmer can forget Mandelson and his flaws but not what he stood for
Rachel Sylvester
4 min |
September 14, 2025
The Observer
Eli Lilly joins big pharma fallout over drug prices
Select committee calls emergency meeting as CEOs 'livid with the UK' after talks with government crash over NHS rebates, writes Barney Macintyre
3 min |