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The Observer
Was it the courts, was it the cops, was it the Sun? So who killed Just Stop Oil?
As the climate activists stage their farewell protest, David Taylor talks to veteran campaigners about why they did it, what they achieved - and where they are going next
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April 27, 2025
The Observer
Crucial choice facing the next pope: reform or alienate a new generation
Francis shook up the Catholic church to acknowledge the gulf between its ways and the ways of the world. Now it falls to his successor to bring about change, argues
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April 27, 2025
The Observer
Valentin-Yves Mudimbe
Philosopher, poet and novelist who challenged 'Heart of Darkness' clichés about the African continent
3 min |
April 27, 2025
The Observer
Action on rogue asylum advisers
Sham lawyers and banned advisers have been increasingly identified acting as middlemen in the immigration system, according to the Home Office.
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April 27, 2025
The Observer
Super-charged surgery cuts lists
NHS waiting lists have been cut by almost 50,000 in deprived areas by running operating theatres like Formula One pit stops.
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April 27, 2025
The Observer
'Despite all the adversity she faced, she was the light that lifted so many'
The life of Virginia Giuffre, and her battle to expose the financier Jeffrey Epstein as a child sex trafficker, was commemorated with tributes after her family announced yesterday the 41-year-old had died at her home in Australia.
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April 27, 2025
The Observer
Petal power: farmers turn to wildflowers to save their crops
Farmers seeking to protect their orchards from one of the most “devastating” pests in nature are cultivating a new weapon: flowers.
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April 27, 2025
The Observer
Talk of Generation K is moral panic - but why is ketamine use on the rise?
Reports of an epidemic are overblown but increased abuse reflects the habits of young people in danger of becoming lost to the drug
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April 27, 2025
The Observer
Drama, politics, intrigue... Electing a pope is the stuff of novels - and Amen to that
I lost my journalistic virginity at the age of 29 in the back of Michael Heseltine's limousine, travelling north with him on a visit to Liverpool. It was 1987.
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April 27, 2025
The Observer
Nick Clegg The EU must reinvent itself... or die
Seventy-five years ago the idea of the European Union was born with these words.
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April 27, 2025
The Observer
An offer to Europe
The world has changed. Britain can renew the EU and be a part of it
3 min |
April 27, 2025
The Observer
Orange-tip butterfly
A week in the life? That's a laugh. More like a life in the week. If I make it to four weeks I'll be one of the luckiest orange-tip butterflies that ever took wing. Though I'm not inclined to measure success in number of days. Number of females more like. One would be good.
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April 27, 2025
The Observer
'When I am out training, I feel I'm with Elsie': the Southport dad in the race of his life
David Stancombe is running in the London Marathon to raise money in memory of his daughter, one of the three girls killed in the attack on a dance class last year. He and his wife Jenni talk to Paul Hayward
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April 27, 2025
The Observer
After I broke my neck my husband looked after me – now I care for him
In the first of a new fortnightly column Melanie Reid explains how a riding accident changed her life, and the challenges of being a carer now
4 min |
April 27, 2025
The Observer
Part-LA, part-Dubai: Vietnam today, five decades after the fall of Saigon
Each day at 9am sharp, the low rumble began. Russian-made Mig fighter jets screamed over Ho Chi Minh City last week, followed swiftly by Vietnamese air force helicopters. Below, soldiers in fatigues marched past artillery crews firing mock shells from canons pointed across the Saigon River.
2 min |
April 27, 2025
The Observer
Karoline Leavitt
If you want to work for Donald Trump, you have to be loyal, unflappable and television-ready, with a look straight out of \"central casting\". Being rich also counts.
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April 27, 2025
The Observer
Winners in the fight for Africa's democracies are getting hard to find
When the Sudanese telecoms billionaire Mo Ibrahim launched the Ibrahim Prize for African Leadership in 2007, he hoped the prestige and the $5m cheque would give democracy on the continent a much-needed boost. Leaders were eligible if they had been democratically elected, strengthened their country's human rights and prosperity, and - crucially - had stepped down when their time in office came to an end.
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April 27, 2025
The Observer
The IMF and World Bank need US leadership – just not from Trump
The world's financial leadership, leavened with a sprinkling of civil society activists, gathered in Washington DC last week for the spring meetings of the IMF and World Bank. Usually, the two sorts of visitors are at odds on the future of the twin institutions. On this occasion there was an anxious unanimity; both shared a similar concern. Were the two organisations next in President Trump's firing line? Might the US even withdraw from them?
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April 27, 2025
The Observer
E-scooter casualties soar as children 'are given speeds they can't handle'
Critical care doctors are calling for urgent regulation of private electric scooters after three children were killed this year.
3 min |
April 27, 2025
The Observer
This unholy alliance between the bond markets and the forecasters will ruin us
Economic forecasters and the bond markets are locked in a dysfunctional embrace that increasingly rules our lives.
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April 27, 2025
The Observer
Exit of Davos high priest opens door for WEF reform
Klaus Schwab’s surprise resignation leaves a huge vacuum at the top of the World Economic Forum, best known for its annual gathering of the global elite in Davos. Quitting to clear his name following allegations of financial and other improprieties was not the end Prof Schwab would have wanted to his 54-year reign at the organisation he founded as a conference for academics and business leaders. Although he relin-
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April 27, 2025
The Observer
The enemy of nonsense begins a new chapter
The Observer, the world’s oldest Sunday newspaper is also the newest
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April 27, 2025
The Observer
Milan: the new Monaco for rich Britons
After concluding the new tax treatment of non-doms makes Britain too expensive to call home, the private jet set are rushing elsewhere.
1 min |
April 27, 2025
The Observer
UK lawyers threatened with Trump sanctions
The Foreign Office has warned some of Britain's top human rights lawyers they are at risk of being sanctioned by Donald Trump and could have their entire worldwide assets frozen.
3 min |
April 27, 2025
The Observer
It's grim all over: voters' sorry verdict on politics
Asked to sum up Britain in one word, the voters in four focus groups held across the country last week were brutal.
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April 27, 2025
The Observer
'We all felt he was our grandfather': crowds throng Rome for final farewell
As the faithful lined the streets for a solemn if sometimes festive spectacle, cheers met mentions of Francis's concern for refugees,
3 min |
April 27, 2025
The Observer
Injured Gazan children to be allowed into UK for treatment
Children wounded in Gaza will be allowed into the UK to receive treatment in what charities have described as \"a historic first\".
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April 27, 2025
The Observer
£45m to bring home the World Championships?
It doesn’t have to be a marathon effort
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April 27, 2025
The Observer
Purpose in the deep freeze
Ice-cream is a seasonal business — except if you're the CEO of Unilever, in which case it’s year-round.
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April 27, 2025
The Observer
Now US defence chief Hegseth leaves mobile number online
The former Fox News host in charge of an $850bn-a-year war machine is likely to still be in post this week, but not for want of reasons to fire him.
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