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The Observer
It's not all Stonehenge and white beards, say today's TikTok druids
Women now make up half of the ancient movement. And yes, they still wear robes...
2 min |
June 22, 2025
The Observer
'This isn't a leader. This is a man in hiding': the myth of Khamenei is over
In Tehran, even under a rain of missiles, people find each other. That's the image emerging on Iran's fractured, unstable internet.
3 min |
June 22, 2025
The Observer
History's women have more to tell us than their fashion choices
Kate Maltby
1 min |
June 22, 2025
The Observer
Keir Starmer faces his greatest test in foreign policy – one that could define his premiership
In 1950, amid some wild talk in America about how far the US might go to prevail in the Korean War, Clement Attlee left Number 10 in haste to fly to Washington to caution Harry Truman about the use of nuclear weapons. In 1990, when Saddam Hussein ordered Iraq's army to invade Kuwait, Margaret Thatcher sought to stiffen the spine of George H Bush by telling that US president: \"Remember, George, this is no time to go wobbly.
4 min |
June 22, 2025
The Observer
People smuggling replaces drugs at top of NCA caseload
Britain's top law enforcement agency is investigating more cases of people smuggling than any other crime, amid pressure from the government over small-boat arrivals.
2 min |
June 22, 2025
The Observer
A caring society does not suggest death as an answer
In considering the scenarios of the third reading of the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) bill, I thought long and hard about what this moment would be like.
2 min |
June 22, 2025
The Observer
How can we change the culture of cover-ups?
First, accept that they are the norm Martha Gill
4 min |
June 22, 2025
The Observer
Lena Dunham
The creator of the TV blockbuster Girls is back but avoiding the limelight, writes Barbara Ellen
4 min |
June 22, 2025
The Observer
Iran's Berlin moment
Israel's allies cannot afford to waste it
3 min |
June 22, 2025
The Observer
Chancellor faces U-turn on tax rules after non-doms take fright
Mounting evidence that super-rich non-doms are quitting the UK after changes to how they are taxed may push Rachel Reeves into an embarrassing U-turn.
2 min |
June 22, 2025
The Observer
Trump keeps Nato allies on edge over pledge to increase defence spending
As summit looms and global tensions rise, podcast's exposure of UK forces' weakness is a prescient warning
3 min |
June 22, 2025
The Observer
New York mayor race goes to the wire as Democrats face a generational choice
A 33-year-old socialist's bid to beat a billionaire-backed ex-governor could upset the Big Apple cart in Tuesday's primary. Ed Helmore reports from New York
3 min |
June 22, 2025
The Observer
Duty done: K-pop's top boyband is reunited
The rapper Suga, below, became the seventh and final member of the K-pop mega group BTS to finish his mandatory South Korean military service on Saturday, marking the end of the band's hiatus while serving their country.
1 min |
June 22, 2025
The Observer
To live a happier life be more ostrich-like
Advance medical tests sully happiness today with distant misery, writes Melanie Reid
2 min |
June 22, 2025
The Observer
Antarctic scientists' midwinter chill-out
Scientists at the British Antarctic Survey marked the shortest day of the year in the southern hemisphere yesterday with a midwinter feast, a message from royalty and their traditional viewing of John Carpenter's 1982 ice station horror, The Thing.
1 min |
June 22, 2025
The Observer
Dig starts at Irish home where 796 infants died
Preparatory excavations have begun at the site of the unmarried mothers' home in Tuam, County Galway, where the remains of 796 babies and young children are believed to be buried in a mass grave.
1 min |
June 22, 2025
The Observer
It's right we are reminded of the evidence of his IRA membership, lest this post-truth age claims another historical scalp
I'm an IRA volunteer. The course I take involves the use of physical force...\" - again, something Adams strongly denied in the witness box.
3 min |
June 22, 2025
The Observer
There's time to stop an exodus
Since the tax changes came in, we have hosted informal gatherings with around 100 non-doms, prominent UK-based families and business owners.
1 min |
June 22, 2025
The Observer
Green vs orange: business and activists battle Trump on climate
Some 2,000 business leaders, investors, policymakers and civil society representatives are expected to fill Guildhall in the City of London this Wednesday and Thursday for the Climate Innovation Forum.
1 min |
June 22, 2025
The Observer
Who v Beatles: the original nepo baby causing a big s-s-s-sensation
The Who keep firing drummer, Zak Starkey — and his irked Beatle dad doesn't want him to get fooled again
4 min |
June 22, 2025
The Observer
150 Labour MPs ready to rebel against welfare reforms
As many as 150 Labour MPs are threatening to rebel against the government's welfare reforms next month, raising the prospect of Keir Starmer's first Commons defeat since becoming prime minister.
1 min |
June 22, 2025
The Observer
People now have the right not to suffer at the end of life
At last. How profoundly relieved I am that the bill has finally been passed. How grateful I am to British democracy - with its ancient, creaky, slow-grinding wheels - which after so many days of impassioned debate, after so much often infuriating repetition and amendment, and in the face of propaganda and hostility from much of the media, has finally done the right thing. People will now have the right not to suffer needlessly.
2 min |
June 22, 2025
The Observer
People now have the right not to suffer at the end of life
At last. How profoundly relieved I am that the bill has finally been passed. How grateful I am to British democracy - with its ancient, creaky, slow-grinding wheels - which after so many days of impassioned debate, after so much often infuriating repetition and amendment, and in the face of propaganda and hostility from much of the media, has finally done the right thing. People will now have the right not to suffer needlessly.
2 min |
June 22, 2025
The Observer
Grooming gang victims want justice, not yet another inquiry
As specialists review hundreds of closed cases, exploitation and abuse are 'still going on'
3 min |
June 22, 2025
The Observer
From a pub chat to the supreme court – meet the woman who beat big oil
Sarah Finch, newly named as campaigner of the year, tells David Taylor how her group's long fight against fracking in Surrey has huge implications for fossil fuel projects in the UK
3 min |
June 22, 2025
The Observer
Green vs orange: business and activists battle Trump on climate
Some 2,000 business leaders, investors, policymakers and civil society representatives are expected to fill Guildhall in the City of London this Wednesday and Thursday for the Climate Innovation Forum.
1 min |
June 22, 2025
The Observer
Clock ticks on RedBird deal to take ownership of Telegraph
Not long after The Daily Telegraph ran a piece in February which decried the number of stopped clocks as a “symptom of Britain's decaying public spaces”, the enormous digital clocks above the paper's newsroom, showing the time around the world, also broke down.
4 min |
June 22, 2025
The Observer
New York mayor race goes to the wire as Democrats face a generational choice
A 33-year-old socialist's bid to beat a billionaire-backed ex-governor could upset the Big Apple cart in Tuesday's primary. Ed Helmore reports from New York
3 min |
June 22, 2025
The Observer
International law does not permit regime change in Iran
Philippe Sands
4 min |
June 22, 2025
The Observer
It's right we are reminded of the evidence of his IRA membership, lest this post-truth age claims another historical scalp
I’m an IRA volunteer. The course I take involves the use of physical force...” — again, something Adams strongly denied in the witness box.
3 min |